The indie band’s frontman on creating their two-chord, Phil Spector-produced hit single, and how easy it is to sing drunk!...
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A true student of popular music, this New York songwriter invites us to learn a thing or two about love...
The pop-rock band’s frontman explains how their debut hit took two years of tweaking and “dicking around on the piano”...
The punk and folk singer-songwriter reveals the inspiration and craft that went into a track about an 1800s vaudeville star...
The Glaswegian frontman talks about piecing together their precipitative breakthrough hit single in the arid climes of Israel and Spain...
The Northern Irish frontman recalls how a song he wrote as a 16-year-old schoolboy became the rock band’s breakthrough hit...
The English pop-rockers’ songwriter tells us how their debut single managed to blend an uplifting melody with a darker lyric...
British songwriter Emma King takes us through her new mini-album which was inspired by her surroundings in Memphis and Nashville...
Brendon Thomas takes apart his band’s new song which was inspired by the plight of children in his US homeland...
The singer-songwriter-producer explains how insomnia, a new synth and Blink-182 inspired a multi-platinum single that topped charts across the globe...
The lead guitarist, songwriter and singer of the influential English 60s rock band tells of his classic track’s haunting origins...
25 years after ‘Throwing Copper’ went global, we learn the story of the song that helped it on its way...



























