It’s Always About The Songs – Part 4 of 4

These days, I’m a lot more open and excited about the thought of my songs changing and evolving. I try to get a song as prepared as I can –…

Adapt Or Die – Part 3 of 4

Since I tend to write a lot of raw material, I know from experience that not all of it will make the cut. A lot of it will get passed over, or…

Songwriting After The Honeymoon – Part 2 of 4

Often, I’m very passionate about a song when I first write it. But within a week or a month, the initial high of passion and creation will wear off, and I…

Our friend and author of He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, Trish Ryan, ran a blog series called “40 Days of Faith” and used our album, The World Awaits (iTunes, CDBaby), as a bit…

I got this email from one of our friends in Idaho. Her name is Amy Lapp, and fortuitously, it was her camera-phone recording of “Oh Ellen”  that originally caught the attention of The Ellen Show. Amy and her friend Kris…

Today, Ryanhood performed at the Vineyard. A concert that showcased Ryanhood’s broad-based appeal to all.

I fell in love with Ryanhood during the 40 Days of Faith season at my church – the Greater Boston Vineyard – and I play…

Kerry Cowen of Tucson, AZ reviewed our “Live On Father’s Day” CD for her music class. She agreed to share her lovely review with all of us as an official “guest blogger”.

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LIVE ON FATHER’S DAY

Tucson’s…

In nearly every major publication I’ve read lately, I’ve stumbled on photos of U2’s current 360 stadium tour.. and every one of them makes my jaw drop. They’re legendary.

If 10% of Tucson attended our concerts, we’d be performing to…

At our recent Boston College show, we asked MIT student and writer Michael Lin to write a concert review for this blog, which he did, and more.

The following review also appears online at MIT’s The Tech.

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Ryanhood, formed…

One of Ryan’s and my goals for our blog — and our music at large — is to develop and encourage community; to develop a feeling like, “Yeah! Me too!” To that end, we thought it would be meaningful and…

The world changes.

We were at the House of Blues this week. We had a great show with the full band, Chris Giambelluca on bass and Nadim Shehab on drums. Well, I say “great,” because it was fun…

I’m at the kitchen table, rocking the laptop, calling A-list band managers while my younger brother is busy making calls to get a late-summer job.

He’s looking for work in chemistry, or perhaps as a pharmacy tech. Meanwhile I’m going…