Audiobook — Available Now
Learning to Be a Popular Music Producer: An Educational, Entrepreneurial and Personal Guide for Aspiring Music Producers
This audiobook is a coaching manual for anyone serious about music production. It brings together the best of real-world professional experience and the kind of deep knowledge that universities spend years developing — and makes it accessible to every musician, everywhere. It doesn't just tell you how to produce — because how you produce is shaped by deeper, more critical questions: why you make music at all, and what kind of artist, or person, you want your music to represent. From there, this coaching manual helps you work out how to produce in service of the song, how your role as a producer may change from artist to artist, and how to recognise your own music production path. Written and narrated by internationally acclaimed music producer Brendan Anthony — readable, relatable, and understandable by anyone, regardless of where you are, who you are, or where you've come from. This is the guide the music industry never gave you.
100% of audiobook proceeds support independent music education.
Print Edition — Available September 2026
The definitive academic and practical guide for aspiring music producers. Published by Routledge — one of the world's leading academic publishers — this book takes everything the professional music world and higher education have to offer and puts it in one place, in language anyone can understand.
What industry leaders and educators are saying
“Brendan's book is a game-changer. A comprehensive guide that distils his international industry experience and academic expertise into a coaching manual accessible to musicians of all levels. I wish I'd had access to this resource when I started out. Welcome to Show Business!”
“Brendan does not instruct the reader on how to produce, he asks ‘how will you produce, what type of producer will you be?’ Easy to read with the rigour of academia informed by the realities a music producer faces in practice. The value lies in unpacking the social relationships, soft skills, creative and psychological actions necessary in the recording studio.”
“If you are learning to be a music producer, you must read this book! Unlike other books, Brendan explains how readers can start to strategically develop their own experiences and successes as music producers. This book will make you want to get out there and get going.”