From heartfelt ballads to genre-defying anthems, 2025’s best songs captivate, uplift, linger, inspire, provoke, and celebrate the year in sound...
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It’s been another hugely successful year for one of Nashville’s most distinguished songwriters, just how does she keep it up?...
From a collective period of doubt emerged a triumphant anthem that united the sibling band and became their defining moment...
The English songwriter reflects on revisiting his early influences, balancing distortion and restraint, and translating memory into layered, candid songs...
Owen Gurry and Skip Curtis share the lessons, creative habits, and industry awareness needed to thrive in the sync arena...
The interview for our Autumn 2018 issue gave us a chance to explore the inner workings of this iconic artist...
The late-blooming songwriter on slow-grown ideas, tender melodies hiding sharp truths, unfinished ‘babies’, creative doubt, and finally trusting his voice...
The Surinamese / Dutch folk-pop songwriter on letting go, self-observation, clarity, and embracing the merits of critics and haters alike...
Written as a gift for his brother, this noughties classic track by James T. Slater still resonates with parents everywhere...
The five-Grammy-winning singer-songwriter sprinkled some of his brilliance over the Great American Songbook. Here, he told us all about it...
The singer-songwriter on her EP shaped by travels through Latin America, cinematic grooves, and the beauty of everyday emotional honesty...
British/Irish singer-songwriter on melody before words, the art of creative distance, and why the best songs emerge after the moment...
How I wrote 'Turning Japanese' by The Vapors' David Fenton
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How I wrote 'Zombie' by The Cranberries' Dolores O'Riordan
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How I wrote 'Luka' by Suzanne Vega
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How I wrote Art Garfunkel's 'Bright Eyes' by Mike Batt
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How we wrote ‘Big In Japan’ by Alphaville
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How I wrote 'Dakota' by Stereophonics' Kelly Jones
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How we wrote Little Big Town's 'Girl Crush' by Lori McKenna
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How I wrote 'Enola Gay' by OMD's Andy McCluskey
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How we wrote Michael Jackson's 'Man In The Mirror' by Glen Ballard
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How we wrote 'I Alone' by Live's Ed Kowalczyk
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