http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Sheena+Metal Entertainment Sheena Metal Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=161701&ca=Entertainment You can’t throw a rock in any metropolis on Earth without hitting someone claiming to be a manager. Where musicians go, managers follow. It’s as accepted and expected in the entertainment industry as an out-of-control cocaine habit or a failure to pay taxes. When you tell people you’re a musician, o... Entertainment Sheena Metal Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=126515&ca=Entertainment Imagine this: you’re a huge rockstar. You’re pool is filled with hotties and your bathtub with champagne. You have a coffee table made out of your signature guitar and your Cadillac Escalade has beer on tap and a flat screen high definition TV. Even with all of the expensive toys and extravagant sho... Career Sheena Metal Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=206466&ca=Career Building a music career is hard work. Every day, month and year you repeat the same grind: build the band, write the songs, record the songs, rehearse the songs, perform the songs, promote the band, advertise the band, solicit industry, publicize to the press, build the website, create the message b... Career Sheena Metal Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=206467&ca=Career Imagine this…you’re in the local hospital’s pre-op ward waiting for the removal of your pesky rupturing appendix. You wait and wait in side splitting agony while your doctor chats it up with the nurses, gathering phone numbers from the hot ones. After what seems forever, he gets you prepped and begi... Career Sheena Metal Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=206468&ca=Career They’re generous, they’re consistent, they’re giving…and most of all...they love your music. They’re your fans and they come to every one of your live shows, fork out money for cover charges, CDs and t-shirts, bring your band gifts, throw you house parties, and spread the word of your music on the i... Career Sheena Metal Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=206473&ca=Career Musicians work hard. They write for days. They rehearse like fiends. Drag heavy gear here and there. Sweat like pigs on stage. Put marathon hours in at the recording studio. Work their fingers to the bone…well, at least into some pretty gnarly calluses. But, musicians also like to play hard: booze,... Entertainment Sheena Metal Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=149904&ca=Entertainment No matter how we, as human beings, live our lives…drama happens. And the average musician has more drama than the crazy cat lady down the block has bags of used litter on her porch. At every turn, your average wannabe rockstar has a crazy squeeze, a crazier ex, a harem of would-be lovers, and a ga... Entertainment Sheena Metal Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=149900&ca=Entertainment Every musician currently living on the Planet Earth would love nothing more than to wake up tomorrow in the midst of their glorious peak of superstardom. But, as Rome wasn’t built in a day, neither is the career of any one musician. A musical career is a long, sometimes arduous journey of tiny adv... Entertainment Sheena Metal Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=176338&ca=Entertainment Every true life rock ‘n’ roll television melodrama has the same scene: the unknown artist/band gives their freshly cut 45rpm single to the local disc jockey. He spins it on his top 40 radio show…and a star is born. This legend has been passed down through the generations of wannabe popstars like an... Entertainment Sheena Metal Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=165044&ca=Entertainment For a musician, your songs are your art. They are the physical embodiment of your creative gifts. Every bit of anger, happiness, angst, joy, pain, elation, knowledge or humor goes into the story known as your song. You write and re-write it, scouring over each note and word…perfecting it for recordi...