Category: News

  • Thank you for reviewing our book, Rolling Stone magazine!

    In the most exciting news to happened in recent times, our humble lil’ Touring Manual has featured in the grand daddy of magazines, the mighty Rolling Stone!  Check out the article at Rolling Stone’s website.

  • We were thrilled to be featured by SPIN magazine

    More great press coverage of Touring & Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual came via the fab folk at SPIN. You can check out the full article here.

  • Psychotherapist Ryan Dusick (founding drummer of Maroon 5) reviewed Touring and Mental Health: the Music Industry Manual for Variety

    Psychotherapist Ryan Dusick (founding drummer of Maroon 5) reviewed Touring and Mental Health: the Music Industry Manual for Variety

    Not content with the awesome coverage we had from the industry’s finest, Ryan Dusick has raised the bar and written a brilliant article for Variety that talks about MITC and our magnum opus, Touring & Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual. Live Nation recently purchased 3,000 copies of “Touring and Mental Health: The Music Industry…

  • Pitchfork: Confronting music’s mental health crisis

    Pitchfork journalist Jenn Pelly interviews MITC’s Tamsin Embleton, and experts and artists including Santigold, Jeff Tweedy, and Denzel Curry to confront music’s mental health crisis.   Together they trace a web of pressing issues while imagining the paths forward. Click here to read the full article. 

  • Pitchfork announces Touring & Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual release date news

    Our thanks to Pitchfork for publishing news of the forthcoming release of Touring & Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual. Click here to read Pitchfork’s coverage.

  • Consequence of Sound: Touring has a mental health problem

    MITC psychotherapists Jodi Milstein and Tamsin Embleton both shared their expertise with Consequence of Sound for this article.  As multiple artists cancel their tours due to financial and mental health concerns, it’s clear that the current model is unsustainable – but what, how and who can make real change happen? Click here to read the…

  • IQ Magazine: ‘We Need to Reimagine the Way We Tour’

    Following a spate of tour cancellations due to mental health concerns, MITC psychotherapist Tamsin Embleton tells IQ how the industry can better protect its artists. Click here to read the article.

  • Dance music and mental health: what next?

    Pioneer DJ spoke to a number of mental health experts and dance music professionals to write this insightful piece which recommends several solutions to what is being called a ‘mental health pandemic’ for those in the industry.  Our founder, Tamsin, suggested a range of practical measures: “dry” dressing rooms with soft drinks and healthy snacks, signage…

  • ‘So much pressure to look a certain way’: why eating disorders are rife in pop music

    Tamsin Embleton spoke to Rhian Jones at The Guardian about disordered eating and its prevalence in pop music.  She says, “Disordered eating patterns give the illusion of being in control when everything around you feels chaotic, unmanageable, changeable.  Eating disorders manage you, not the other way around”. The Guardian: Why eating disorders are rife in…

  • VICE: Meet the therapists the professional musicians turn to

    Vice meets mental health professionals – including MITC’s Jodi Milstein and Tamsin Embleton – who know what it feels like when the van breaks down, when the booker shorts the fee, or when your drummer is just being difficult. Vice: Meet the Therapists