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The Met brothers, Adam, Jack, and Ryan (hence the band name, AJR), got their start busking on the street in NYC and self-releasing music before landing deals with Warner and later S-Curve Records. The Ivy League indie-pop trio has released five EPs and five albums, toured with Demi Lovato, Train,…
Create Better Songs by Painting With Sound
It takes a keen ear to understand how to produce tracks that have warmth, depth and above all, layers of color, as if the finished product were a painting rather than a recording. In director Matthew Longfellow’s 2010 documentary on the making of Damn the Torpedoes, Mike Campbell, sidekick to…
Indie Spotlight: AJR
An indie-pop band of brothers with an Ivy League pedigree, AJR stands for Adam, Jack and Ryan Met, a Columbia University alum, junior and freshman, they’re packing rooms across the country with their contagious energy and irresistible songs. They got their start a decade ago busking in the streets of…
The Song or the Studio: Which Comes First?
It’s a debate that has raged since the advent of multitracking: should a studio be seen as a workshop to craft new material on the spot, or, by contrast, do you wait until you have an inventory of fully fleshed-out song ideas? Actually, there are merits to both, and in…
Celebrate Italian Heritage Month With BMI
We all know that Italians have greatly contributed to world culture - through art, cinema, fashion, literature, technology, cuisine, even sports cars - but what would pop music be without them? October, also known as Italian Heritage Month, is the perfect time to ponder this question. Here at Broadcast Music,…