music career Archives

Re-Open for Business: Adjusting to Your Post-Pandemic Creative Life

Here’s how to adjust your musical goals for the “new normal” we’re about to experience, as the world slowly opens back up again.

5 Music Industry “Rules” I Broke (and You Should Too)

Here are five poisonous rules you’re bound to hear at some point in your music career that are made to be broken… Have fun with them!

How to Network in Today’s (Online) Music Industry

Without live gigs and conferences meetup events, how do musicians get to network with one another online? Here are some thoughts.

The One Thing More Important Than Success

What’s more important than finding success in music? Find out in this thoughtful OpEd written by a musician, husband, and father in 2019.

4 Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make in Your Music Career

Most mistakes Patrick McGuire sees fellow musicians make are totally avoidable, so here’s a guide to getting ahead and not sabotaging your own career.

Why “Fake It Till You Make It” Is Actually Great Advice

It may sound corny or cliché, it may sound like bad advice at first, but “fake it til you make it” is one of the core tennets of visualizing your success.