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Ani DiFranco Comes Clean With New and Unprecedented Sh!t
Over a span of 22 full-length releases, the uncompromising artistry of activist, songwriter, and performer Ani DiFranco has always spoken to a creed of inclusion, autonomy, and freedom. The fiercely ... -
Kane Brown: The Changing Face of Country Music
Photos by Angelea Presti Tattooed, pierced, multi-racial: Kane Brown is an eminent arena-packing music sensation blazing his own path to country music fame. First emerging on social media singing covers, ... -
Q&A with Jenny Lewis
Photos by Bobbi Rich Headlining coast-to-coast shows with her Joy’All Ball, joining the Beck and Phoenix Summer Odyssey tour, and in performances from Madison Square Garden to The Hollywood Bowl ... -
Q&A with Miranda Lambert
Las Vegas Spotlights and Tall Tales A tough talking trailblazer, a tequila-tippling Texan, and a remarkable storyteller with a repertoire of indelible songs. As the most awarded artist in the ... -
Q&A with FINNEAS
As MC goes to press on the cusp of Grammy season, producer, songwriter, and performer Finneas O’Connell, née FINNEAS, is nominated in four major categories: Best New Artist, for his ... -
Q&A With Diane Warren
Since her first breakout chart successes in the mid-‘80s, songwriter Diane Warren has sustained an extraordinarily enduring career, penning colossal chart hits and contributing signature songs to epic Hollywood films. ... -
Songwriter Profile: BAO
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers,” wrote author James Baldwin. In the creative consciousness of songwriter, producer, recording, and ... -
Songwriter Profile: Jessie Jo Dillon
A perusal of Jessie Jo Dillon’s titles in the BMI repertory names her as a writer on 907 songs. As listed alphabetically, first is “10,000 Hours,” a massive global hit ... -
Songwriter Profile: Dan Penn
With classics like “Dark End of the Street” (James Carr); “Do Right Woman” (Aretha Franklin); “The Letter” (The Box Tops), and “I’m Your Puppet” (James and Bobby Purify), among hundreds ... -
Songwriter Profile: Jono Dorr
The touchstones in a conversation with singer-songwriter Jono Dorr are vast and varied, and might include discourses on Southern field hollers and prison songs, the Russian Revolution and truths told ...
