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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 ... -
Album Review: The Room by Ricky Reed (10/10)
Distributed by: Nice Life Produced by: Ricky Reed While Reed is the artist on this project, released through his Nice Life imprint, the master producer magnanimously spotlights a stellar cast ... -
Album Review: Bless My Heart by Cady Groves (10/10)
In her tragically foreshortened career, the late Cady Groves worked with a diverse array of creatives including Jim Lauderdale and Savan Kotecha, and toured with Good Charlotte and All Time ... -
Songwriter Profile: John-Robert
With his debut CD, Bailey Barely Knew Me, singer-songwriter and producer John-Robert reveals song narratives steeped in endearing authenticity and music that is much deeper than the simple sum of ... -
Q&A with Margo Price
With her third full-length studio release, That’s How Rumors Get Started, Margo Price ups the ante with a slate of killer songs, a brilliantly intuitive band, and the brutal honesty ... -
Songwriter Profile: Maggie Szabo
With an exquisitely nuanced voice and a gift for penning hook-heavy melodies, Maggie Szabo is connected to a worldwide collective of co-writers, producers and remixers. For this Canadian native, her ... -
Songwriter Profile: Troy Ramey
With millions of Spotify streams and a high-profile history as a contender on season 12 of The Voice, Troy Ramey is an independent artist with impressive visibility. While the New ... -
Album Review: Dream Songs: The Essential Hisaishi (10/10)
With a 40-year legacy as a composer for film directors Hayao Miyazaki and "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, Joe Hisaishi has scored dramas and Studio Ghibli anime classics like My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited ... -
Songwriter Profile: Ellis Miah
With their latest full-length release Map of the Soul: 7, Korean superstars BTS reconfirm their status as the most successful pop band in modern history. Entering the US charts at ... -
Songwriter Profile: Tatiana Owens
In Los Angeles from New York for a week of songwriting collaborations, under a cascading crown of curls, Tatiana Owens lights up the corner of a Sunset Boulevard coffeehouse with ... -
Songwriter Profile: Otis McDonald
With music featured on 3.5 million YouTube videos totaling 7.6 billion views, plus five million downloads from the YouTube Audio Library, the Bay Area songwriter, vocalist and instrumentalist dubbed Otis ...
