We often discuss what attributes make a song or an album great, but how do you go about actually writing a great song or a great album? In this podcast, Velocities In Music’s very own Tom Hummer is put on the spot to tell his story of how he started writing music and the process he goes through when writing and recording material. From there, Tom gives us his personal take on how and why he writes music as he walks us through his personal discography.

March saw a lot of great new album releases as 2016 is starting to pick up. Here are the albums we cover in this podcast:

Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered
Robert Pollard - Of Course You Are
Ray LaMontagne - Ouroboros
Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
Lapsley - Long Way Home
M. Ward - More Rain
The Coral - Distance Inbetween
Miike Snow - III
Loretta Lynn - Full Circle
Violent Femmes - We Can Do Anything
Polica - United Crushers
Wussy - Forever Sounds
Heron Oblivion - Heron Oblivion
Aurora - All My Demons Greeting Me As a Friend
Flatbush Zombies - 3001: A Laced Odyssey
Into It. Over It. - Standards
Emmy the Great - Second Love
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
Glenn Jones - Fleeting
Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future
Damien Jurado - Visions of Us on the Land
Primal Scream - Chaosmosis
Lucy Dacus - No Burden
The Range - Potential
Anna Meredith - Varmints
Thug Entrancer - Arcology
Thao & the Get Down Stay Down - A Man Alive
RJD2 - Dame Fortune
The Thermals - We Disappear
Bob Mould - Patch the Sky
Open Mike Eagle - Hella Personal Film Festival
White Denim - Stiff
Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter