Audrey Ryan talks to us about her new book, The Need To Be Heard and why most books about “making it” in the music business fail.

I’ve always felt that some of the most valuable advice you can receive falls under the category of Tough Love.  Unfortunately, this kind of advice is hard to find because it takes a lot of courage to tell someone something that they know you don’t want to hear. Lucky for us, Audrey wrote a book about her experiences as an independent musician and delivers a little over 200 pages worth of tough love.  Along the way she treats us to some revealing interviews with the likes of Ian McKaye (Fugazi), Stephen Brodsky (Cave In), Bruce Flohr (ATO Records), and a host of other music industry vets who tell it like it is.

In this weeks interview, I speak with Audrey about her new book, what she’s learned as a promoter, and we wax poetic on the idea of NOT trying to make it in the music business.

Want more? Check out Audrey’s book here: The Need To Be Heard