The Lemonheads’ world tour comes to Woodstock and Photay plays Assembly Kingston. Plus, Senegalese jazz by way of New Orleans ...

Individual family stories and mythic American stories and songs help us define what a life looks like and how it should be ...

Many countries that celebrate Halloween embrace the holiday in their own unique ways, but still share the same core spirit.

New Music Friday is back, and this week's new album drops are giving fans plenty to be excited about. The albums are a mix of ...

Five years ago today, the country music world lost a celebrated songwriter and unsung hero of the Outlaw movement.

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Taylor Swift, Kenny Loggins, LL Cool J, Pink, Sarah McLachlan and Talking Heads’ David Byrne are among the impressive list of ...

"Underachiever" features a smaller sound, but it’s one that is well-suited to songwriting that captures the challenge of coping with a largeness of feeling.

Taylor Swift, LL Cool J, and Talking Heads’ David Byrne have all been nominated for the 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame. They ...

Taylor Swift, Kenny Loggins, LL Cool J, Pink, Sarah McLachlan and Talking Heads’ David Byrne are among the list of nominees ...

Taylor Swift the celebrity is such a magnet for attention, she can distract from Taylor Swift the artist. But Swift was a songwriter before she was a star, and she’ll be a songwriter long after she ...