Song Talk Radio | Songwriting Tips | Lyrics | Arranging | Live Feedback

Song Talk Radio | Songwriting Tips | Lyrics | Arranging | Live Feedback


Latest Episodes

Heartfelt blues (and no trucks) with Steve Strongman
December 01, 2019

Juno-award winning recording artist Steve Strongman joined us to talk about his take on the blues.  Steve is a multiple Maple Blues Award winner, 2019 International Blues Challenge Best Guitarist (solo/duo). He’s opened for BB King, Buddy Guy,

The 2nd Annual Holiday Gift Guide
November 25, 2019

The gang gets together to share suggestions on the perfect gifts for the songwriter in your life (let’s be honest, it’s you. You’re gonna by yourself this great stuff– and so you should!). Let us know what you want for the holidays in the comments below!…

Amanie Illfated: Beats + Producer = Gold
November 17, 2019

Amanie Illfated is a South Sudanese born, Toronto based singer/songwriter working in a dynamic fusion of R&B, Reggae, Afrobeat and Trap. She was born in what is now known as South Sudan and immigrated to Saskatchewan with her family as refugees in 1992.…

6-Year Anniversary Special
November 10, 2019

We celebrated six years on Song Talk Radio with a little reminiscing, a few songwriting tips, and some random stuff. We talked about: Muse Songwriter’s Forum as a great online community for lyricists and songwriters (formerly known as the Muse’s Muse)...

The TV Theme Draft Show Extravaganza
November 03, 2019

Frank Horvatt joined in on our Favorite TV Theme Draft show, where we chose our fav TV themes of the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, 2000’s and the 2010s.…

Beige Shelter: How To Write Within A Band
October 27, 2019

Beige Shelter is an ambitious and eclectic five piece band from Toronto that brings fire, passion and a political conscience to their music. Through electrifying live performances, the band showcases both original songs and interesting twists on cover ...

Songs by the Hosts: how we wrote ’em
October 13, 2019

For this host’s show, Michael, Neel and Phil brought in a song each and discussed how we wrote and some cool approaches in the songs. AND, Vanessa was in the house!!! What a fun episode! Listen to the Episode What we talked about

Steve Koven – Play Piano, See The World
October 06, 2019

This week, SongTalk welcomed jazz pianist and teacher Steve Koven. Steve is a composer, performer, producer and educator. He has one of the longest standing trios in Canada, performing, touring and recording together for over 26 year.

Bridging classical and pop music with Alex Whorms
September 29, 2019

This week singer-songwriter and Hamilton Arts Award for Emerging Artist winner (2019) Alex Whorms joined us to talk about her sophomore EP, Burgundy, and two of the songs. We talked about: FACTOR grants and Canada’s Music Incubator (check out our epis...

The Beatles, who? Yesterday movie review with Emmanuel Lopez
September 22, 2019

Emmanuel Lopez, movie blogger and Social Media Wingman, joined Phil and Michael to talk about the latest Danny Boyle movie, Yesterday where a struggling songwriter wakes up in a world where the Beatles never happened.