Why do I kick myself?
So yesterday my sixth solo album came out! Not a biggie 😉 I actually had released the songs as singles for my followers on my blog and my Bandcamp page. But the traditional music release format is hard to let…
Author: J.P. Kallio
Quick tip 210 Excitement is infectious
Do you ever feel like no one cares about your music, or art? How can you make sure other people get exited about what you do? How can you light up the fire in other people? The answer is much…
New album “I Believe In You”
Today I have not only the usual Friday new song day, which you can check HERE, for you guys, but also a new album 🙂 I have been working bit differently this year. Last year I had a new album…
Winter Months
Winter Months by J.P. Kallio This weeks song “Winter Months” kind of deals with two things. First of all there is the constant struggle off a musician, that raises its head all the time. As a musician playing live shows…
Quick tip 209 Make noise
As an artist we tend to think in terms of getting signed to a label or getting a manager as smoking of starting block in the business. It’s like we are not in the business until we have been validated…
Here is why I will have my bacon
When World Health Organisation releases a report on cancer related subjects the world listens. They are just after putting “processed meat” into same risk category as cigarettes and asbestos. They also rated red meat as “probable” carcinogenic. When the news…
Quick tip 208 Go off the topic
No body wants to hear you scream about your new album over and over again. It’s fine, we know you are exited about it and at the same time scared as the sales figures are not going through the roof….
Vlog 10 Coffee beans
Few people asked me this in the past few weeks, so I thought to share it on a new Vlog. I’ll talk you through my favourite coffee beans and my everyday beans. I’ll also talk about the one thing I…
Quick tip 207 Don’t trust everything you read
A completely unrelated issue making big news this week got me thinking about how easily we read something and take it for a fact. Newspapers were always in the business of selling ad space and shifting units, the importance of…
On songwriting part 13 Visualise your story
Would you like to be able to tell more visual story in your song? Bob Dylan is a master at painting pictures with words. But also as we study his work inevitably we end up trying to replicate something similar,…
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