Konstantin Stanislavski remarked that "there are no small parts, only small actors." How many times have you heard that? If you're an actor you've probably heard it here and there as you and your acting career attempt to achieve liftoff.

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Filmmaker and actor, Jon Cryer, requested my song "Lost Point" in his feature film.  It complimented the main character's struggle and ended the film.  Original score by Midge Ure from Ultravox! Check it out: Watch "Went to Coney Island on…

1992 in my Upper West Side railroad apartment at 100 W. 83rd street I was sauteing salmon in butter and lemon while the side dishes simmered alongside in my micro kitchen.  I was preparing to receive my friends for what…

2007. I was in London working for the motion picture camera company, PANAVISION.  I did about five weeks over there both times staying at the Hotel Kempinski in Oxford Circus.  This was the old magistrate building where Keith Richards…

Robin and I wrote "Hold Me Close" after our album Girlfriend,  "The New Me" was released.  It was the summer of 1998 and we were driving up to play at A Day in the Garden, Woodstock '98…

Funny how things never turn out the way you think they should.

My song, "Help Myself", is a reflection of life in the gutter.  Desperate for change and redemption...desperate for true love.  Attempting to fill that God shaped…

Acting is an interesting job.  I was hungry for gigs when I was actively pursuing the craft in New York City and Los Angeles.  It was 1994 and I auditioned and booked this job in NYC to portray convicted and…

Update post event on 10/22/2018 by Phil Hyland

Now that you’ve recorded your album (or single) and released it...did you factor in a marketing and touring budget? 

Is everyone in your band REALLY…

The weather has been so extreme from fire to rain.  One day there is chaos and a deluge and then 24 hours later I wake up to an incredible sunrise and a day of calm.

It is no wonder…

I recorded a new version of my classic song Lost Point.  It's called Lost Point (Out of Time).

I was challenged by my producer and co-writer, Jon La Croix, on this new version to come up with a…

"Don't Fade Away"...I walked over to Straus Park early one evening looking for inspiration.  I was living with Robin on West End Avenue which is a beautiful neighborhood.  I remember when we met she said she lived on W. 103rd…

Like Liv Tyler's character, Arwen, in The Lord of the Rings, Catherine would show up and then quickly disappear.

She was a free spirit and liked to hang out downtown with us Open High School kids.  Open High…

Celebrate National Girlfriend Day with this top Girlfriend track, "Girlfriend" written by Robin & Phil (drums, Dale May, Bass, Pemberton Roach, Guitar, Phil Hyland, Vox, Robin Hyland)!  Produced by John Morand, Exec. Producers Nancy Shefts & James Simon, Photo: Dale…

Philz Phormative Jamz is a loose ever-changing Spotify Playlist featuring musicians 
that influence(d) me.  Some I lived with, like Jeremy Toback back in my 
Laurel Canyon days, Dominic Carpin of the Cashmere 
Jungle Lords (from my days growing up in…

Stream it on Spotify


When I sat down to write this song in New York, Robin and I were loosely modeling our band, Girlfriend, on a British band called Everything But the Girl and Latin bands like Brasil '66.  …

UPDATED:  Special thanks to Pacific Longboarder Magazine for publishing some of this blog on July 13th 2016!

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EXT. [Establishing shot:  MALIBU, California USA COASTLINE]
 
Ominous waves crash on the shore.  A young rugged surfer enters the water. 

Cutaway…

The man in the background.  He was always there.  In no particular order:  he had me baptized Roman Catholic, took me to church every Sunday (whether I liked it or not), educated me, disciplined me when necessary, helped me memorize…

I just used @LANDR_music to master this .wav file of my song "Lost Point".  Man...I wrote "Lost Point" after a particularly bad break up.  The majority of the songwriting took place in one sitting in my railroad apt. at 100…

I recently did a photo shoot with Steve Dole (I play some gigs with Steve and do some songwriting with him too).  We were being shot by http://www.jessieandjamesphoto.com/ on a side street just off Ventura Blvd in Sherman Oaks CA…