Our Team of Authors

Alison Stolpa

Alison Stolpa is a Blogger, Publicist, and Music Writer. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, where she worked at the award-winning student station, Radio K, and a graduate of the University of Westminster's Music Business MA program. She has worked at Amoeba Records and Electric Fetus Records and interned at Atlantic Jaxx/Accidental Records. More

Caleb J. Murphy

Caleb J. Murphy is a Songwriter/Producer based in Austin, TX. He is the founder of Musician With A Day Job, a blog to help part-time musicians succeed. He is also a contributor to CD Baby's DIY Musician blog, Sonicbids, and Bandzoogle. His work has been shared by ASCAP, Hypebot, and Music Think Tank. More

Darren Schneider

Darren Schneider currently serves as the Course Director of Advanced Recording at Full Sail University. Over the past 27 years, Darren has worked as a Producer/Engineer on RIAA-certified Gold, Platinum, and Diamond projects by artists like Deep Purple, Tye Tribbett, Patti La Belle, Steve Miller, Aerosmith, & Snow Patrol. Darren has done audio for broadcast on A&E channel, Dick Clark Productions, Fox Network, ABC in Concert, and MTV. Darren is also an accomplished Songwriter. More

Hugh McIntyre

Hugh McIntyre is an NYC based freelance music journalist. He mostly writes for Forbes, where he publishes several stories per day, on average. He has also written for Noisey, Billboard, MTV, Noisey, Mashable, Huffington Post, The Hollywood Reporter, Mic, Hypebot, Sonicbids, Fuse, Tunecore, Symphonic Distribution, and many more. More

Karen D. Goodman

Karen D. Goodman, Professor Emerita, Music, Montclair State University, Montclair, N.J. is a seasoned Music Therapy Educator, Author, Editor, Clinician, and Supervisor in the field of national and international music therapy. She offers consulting services in editing, clinical supervision, mentoring for educators, guest lecturing, continuing education in music therapy, academic writing support, and career guidance: Karen D. Goodman Consulting Services, LLC. More

Louis Anthony deLise

Composer Louis Anthony deLise has worked as an orchestral/studio musician alongside Tony Bennett, Bob Hope, Diana Ross and Luciano Pavarotti. He produced, arranged and conducted recordings on the CBS, EMI, Mercury, Centaur, Vanguard, and Def-Soul labels. Louis was arranger/conductor on a #1 hit album by Grammy-winner Patti LaBelle. He is the author of the book The Professional Songwriter. More

Robin Vincent

Robin Vincent is the founder of Molten Music Technology Ltd. His Molten YouTube channel has passed 4.5 million views and gathered 35,000 subscribers. He writes reviews and features for Sound On Sound magazine, the world's premier audio recording technology magazine and is a regular columnist focusing on PreSonus Studio One. He is the synthesizer correspondent for news website Gearnews.com. More

Steve Lipman

Steve Lipman is one of the country’s leading experts on contemporary music education and college admissions. He is the founder of Inside Music Schools, a music school admissions consultancy based near Boston, MA. Lipman spent more than forty years at Berklee College of Music, serving as Director of Admissions, Assistant Dean of Students, and Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs. More

Tom Stein

Tom Stein is a Senior Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He is a visionary musical entrepreneur, music producer, artist development consultant, arranger, bandleader and performer. Tom is the author of The Business of Music Management: How To Survive and Thrive in Today’s Music Industry, the founder of TheTopMusicSchools.com and a member of the US State Department's Fulbright Specialist Roster for global entertainment and music industry. More