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Presenting the 10th winner of our songwriting competition in association with musicians network ReverbNation – a pop-R&B songstress from Trinidad...
The former Everything But The Girl man and sometime house producer on why he’s going back to his acoustic roots...
This month, our regular columnist Lisa looks at the different challenges that are involved in writing songs to a commission...
The Wytches have applied their musical alchemy to crafting songs that are doomy, dangerous and more than a little infectious...
The Scouse singer-songwriter talks about playing in The La’s, the tale of Britpop heroes Cast, and “writing that eternal song”...
We catch up with Brighton folk singer-songwriter Carrie Tree and find out just why her second album took so long...
We meet a rising singer-songwriter and ukelele player from Brighton and discover that she really is a ‘Silent Cynic’ underneath...
We catch up with Songwriting’s first ever interviewee as her second album of jazz-, blues- and folk-influenced balladry hits stores...
A five piece act with a gift for anthemic indie-rock, that draws from the canons of both C86 and grunge...
Our latest songwriting competition winner is an eclectic singer-songwriter from Japan, mixing rock with elements of R&B, hip-hop and electro...
The legendary producer who reputedly ‘invented the Eighties’ reveals he’s an “awful engineer” and often didn’t take any songwriting credits...
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