Laura Mvula’s Lyrics Have No Business Being This Good.
Resistance, resilience, realness. Laura Mvula uses her lyrics to weave complex stories told with accented, melodic, and tonal perfection.
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3 Creative Ways to Mic a Vocalist
Feeling stale in your vocal production sound? Shake things up with these easy creative alternatives, and never look back!
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The Most Drama-Filled Pop Songs of 2023 (So Far)
Drama can take many forms, this year has been nothing short of splendid when it comes to the dramatic power of song. Here are our faves!
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The Biggest “Feels” Songs of 2022
A shortlist of songs that gave us major feels last year to share with you and hopefully help influence the emotive nature of your songwriting.
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6 Pop Songwriters Turned Film Score Composers
Who’s the first composer you think of when you think of film scoring? They probably started in pop music, and that says something!
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Crying in the Club: Songs Within Songs and Intertextuality in Pop Music
A lengthy, in-depth look at the self-referential nature of pop music and what that means for legality and creativity in music.
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The 6 Best Music Books of 2022 (So Far)
We’re back for another annual roundup of our favorite music books published this year. Enjoy these 6 instant classics. (We sure did!)
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The New Faces of R&B: 6 Artists Tugging Us Back Into Harmony
We took an audit of modern R&B and found 6 exciting artists pushing the boundaries of what this genre could be for futures to come!
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Thundercat Chord Theory
In this post, courtesy of Reverb Machine’s Dan Carr, we break down the chord progressions of Thundercat’s most beloved jazz-inspired songs.
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2021’s Breakout Songs That Nobody Saw Coming
Here’s our list of our favorite breakout pop songs of 2021, can you claim to have listened to all of these artists?
