10+ hour, 21+ min ago  (542+ words) Written across Oslo, Copenhagen and Berlin, the record balances intimacy with wider societal anxieties, drawing on improvisation, spoken word, and groove-driven arrangements. In the following feature, Sanyu examines the origins of album standout Future Display, a striking meditation on radioactive…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (312+ words) This article was first published in Songwriting Magazine Summer 2025 "I just don't do well with boredom. After two weeks of lockdown, I was like, "Okay, I can't do this. I have to make music. I have to write songs.' What…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (546+ words) Plain White T's' Tom Higgenson: "All I really knew about her was that she was pretty and she went to school in New York City." First published in Songwriting Magazine Winter 2023 issue Released: 9 May 2006 Artist: Plain White T's Label: Hollywood,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (433+ words) The Cranberries" Dolores O"Riordan: "Linger came around that "fatal love" kind of stage in my life, when it was all drama." In these interviews, O"Riordan and Hogan looked back on the band"s earliest days, from their first…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago  (214+ words) Will Carpenter: Grand prize winner of the USA Songwriting Competition in 2023 Previous entrants have come from countries including Australia, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Germany, South Africa and the USA, underlining the contest's international reach. Last year's overall winner was acclaimed Tulsa…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1860+ words) The Online Recording Studio's Joe Wadsworth: "I remember how exciting it was when it was all starting up " connecting with so many artists who genuinely cared about their songs." For many songwriters, the gap between a rough voice memo and…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1981+ words) Yellow Days: "Especially nowadays, you've got to say what's going on." Read more interviews with renowned songwriters The press material for the new album talks about you having the "lost years." How did that period of dislocation shape the songwriting…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (798+ words) Gary Barlow in Songwriting Magazine: "It was never just a songwriting ambition for me, it was the whole thing." Now, Gary Barlow OBE is considered one of Britain's greatest songwriters, after penning 14 No 1 singles, landing 24 Top 10 hits, winning six Ivor…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (382+ words) A four-time Grammy nominee and former Billboard Songwriter of the Year, Veltz first made her name in Nashville with defining hits including Dan + Shay's Speechless, before expanding her reach far beyond Music City. Alongside her songwriting, she has emerged as…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago  (604+ words) D: Ream's Peter Cunnah and Al Mackenzie: "You can't work in a messy environment. Well, we can't." More than 30 years on from their breakthrough No 1 hit Things Can Only Get Better, D: Ream remain a band that honours their past while pushing…...