Songfight is a website wherein, once a week, one is given a title, one writes and records a song around the title by the end of that week, sends in an mp3, and then the internets vote on who made the best song. There are currently two titles/fights each week. Clicking the above link will take you randomly to one of the fights currently underway; you can click the other color tab to go to the other one.

I can't really figure out if this is a good thing or a bad thing, or if it will improve my music to participate. But at least it is causing me to make songs again, which I haven't been doing for months. I finally got it together recently and this week my first entry is in the running, for the title "Too Far Away" on the 'black' page. It's a crowded field, with 25 songs total. I'll be pretty surprised if anyone reading this is willing to listen to all 25 and cast a vote. But I urge you not to simply vote for me as a general show of support (as I'm sure hundreds of readers were already rushing to do...). At least part of the reason for doing this is to get honest feedback on my songs from strangers.

Impressions of the songfight scene so far: impressive range of styles. I've heard hard rock, indie rock, solo acoustic, electronica aplenty, noise, rap, jazzy if not quite jazz. Recording quality varies from ultra-lo-fi to major-label-studio-slick. The most common deficiencies are in vocals and lyrics. But I'm just a Johnny-come-lately, the site has been going for 5 years.