Jacob Tender
Day Jobs: The lives of musicians & creatives in the workforce
The day job: a time-consuming soul sucker that financially fuels the creative person. Many of us commit ourselves to 20 to 40 hours a week of work that can leave us creatively stifled, as well as offer little leftover time to actually pursue these artistic endeavors...
4 steps to ensure your social media past doesn’t come back to bite you
A few weeks ago, a tweet by PVRIS guitarist Alex Babinski was discovered. It’s hard to establish who first dug up the tweet from 2011, but as it often goes on the Internet, there it was—retweeted, quoted, and passed around as screenshot, begging for an answer from the author, now four years older. And an ans
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Bands Need Mentors
Art by Alexis Howick
I'm frustrated, and the source of my frustration is our scene. Here we have this amazing community of artists, writers and fans built by our shared love of alternative music—squandered by entirely preventable actions. Destructive t
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Calling It Quits, Moving On and Staying Creative
Growing up, those who support you most will encourage you to find what it is you love to do. From there, it’s your responsibility to make it your life. Making ends meet by means of a passion is the dream for most. So few make that dream a reality. For
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