We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Danny Silvertone a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Danny , thanks for joining us today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.
My learning process was very self-driven and really boiled down to this approach:
Digital Deep Dives: I lived on the internet. If I had a specific technical question (like “how to sidechain a kick and bass”), music production blogs and forums were my first stop. They were perfect for getting specific, detailed answers from people who had faced the same problem.
YouTube tutorials were absolutely essential. Being able to watch someone route a signal in a DAW or tweak a setting was 100x easier than reading a dry manual. I found a few creators whose style I liked and pretty much watched their entire backlogs.
This was the game-changer. I made a point to speak with people who were already successful in the field. I’d reach out, ask for 15 minutes of their time, and just listen. They provided context that blogs and videos couldn’t—they told me what actually matters on the job versus what’s just online noise.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
Well, it’s been a journey. Right now, I’m splitting my time between Phoenix and Nashville I blend that dark, cinematic R&B—people mention The Weeknd or Chase Atlantic—with alternative pop and even some pop-rock.
A lot of people don’t know I actually started out as the frontman for a rock group called KURU. But just after 2020, I felt the need to go solo and really define my own sound.
My first album, `Insomnia`, dropped in 2021. That record was where I really started to set the stage for the themes I wanted to explore, like mental health and those complicated late-night romances.
Things definitely hit a new level in 2024 with my sophomore album, `Nocturnal`. I was really proud of the single from that project, like “Risk It All”. We put a lot of work into the music video for “Alone”—it had this whole dystopian theme and got some really great buzz. ‘Alone’ was a single from the previous project but I felt like it needed a video.
I’ve just tried to keep that momentum going right into this year, 2025, by dropping more singles like “Cameo” and “Up To You.”
A big part of my process is being hands-on. I’m very “DIY”—I’m heavily involved in my own production and I design all my own cover art. I’ve even mentioned before that being on the road with the band Arsenic Kitchen really influenced how I view production and my own workflow. For me, it’s all about building this unique, cinematic world from the ground up.
Have any books or other resources had a big impact on you?
Yes! I watched several videos from the ‘Hollistic Songwriting’ YouTube page, it was incredible to be able to see someone who was so knowledgeable about music and the song writing process really break down songs and explain what made them great in terms of composition. This removed some of the confusion I had arou the songwriting process.
For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?
I really like that I’m able to find people who are like me, or think like me through my music. You’ll find once you share your music with people that most of them will be very relatable to you.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.dannysilvertone.net
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dannysilvertone
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dannysilvertoneonline/
- Twitter: https://x.com/DannySilvertone
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@DannySilvertone
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/dannysilvertoneslaps
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