music education

Berklee offers a pretty kickass way for high-schoolers to spend their summer: at its Five-Week Summer Performance Program, based in Boston. A summer spent at the college is a taste of what it’d be like to attend Berklee. It’s also an opportunity to join the ranks of music industry professionals who have been at the […]

Sleeping With Sirens are the latest artists to participate in our MI Conversation series where AP Senior Editor Ryan J. Downey goes in-depth with the band in front of a live audience. Each member of the band talks about their musical origins: early influences,  introductions to music, how they started playing, first bands, old local scenes […]

When Ty Acord, aka Scout, joined Issues, he got a reality check. Up until that point, he had been making music for fun on his own time, but Issues gave him a reason to crank out quality work on a deadline. Watch Scout talk about joining the band, working at Staples, and how he went […]

Our friends at LessonFace have paired with AP to bring you a three-part video music lesson series in rock composition, taught by Duane Denison of the Jesus Lizard and Tomahawk. In our first video, Denison taught you the basics of composing a rock song. In part 2, dive deeper into the elements of composition and actually creating a song.  LessonFace is […]

Our friends at LessonFace have paired with AP to bring you a three-part video music lesson series in rock composition, taught by Duane Denison of the Jesus Lizard and Tomahawk. Sometimes the hardest part of creating is finding a place to start. In lesson one, Denison guides you through practical questions you can ask yourself […]