Eight local songwriters, including Roger Cook and Beki Bondage, tell the stories behind some of our home city’s classic songs...
How I wrote ‘What A Beautiful Day’ by The Levellers
Interview: Tori Amos
Jenna Andrews’ tips on getting the most out of a publishing deal
Diary Of A Songwriter: George Montague
Principles Of Modern Songwriting
The Album That Changed Everything
Interview: P.P. Arnold
Interview: Eels’ Mark Oliver Everett
How to come up with 100 new song ideas
How I wrote ‘Is It Any Wonder?’ by Keane’s Tim Rice-Oxley
Judith Owen: how to find your own truth in other people’s songs
Chris Gantry’s Songwriting Survival Kit
How I wrote ‘Underdog (Save Me)’ by Turin Brakes’ Olly Knights
Dear songwriter (are you in a boredom funk?)
Interview: Isobel Campbell
Interview: Jonathan Wilson
5 Minutes With… Judy Collins
Interview: Kelvin Jones
How I wrote ‘Farewell To The Fairground’ by White Lies’ Charles Cave
Frankie Cosmos’ Songwriting Survival Kit
Want to see Songwriting Magazine in print?
Interview: Garbage’s Shirley Manson
5 minutes with… Midland’s Mark Wystrach
How I wrote ‘Enola Gay’ by OMD’s Andy McCluskey
Fink’s top 10 songwriting tips
Diary Of A Songwriter: Serafina Steer
Bruce Soord of The Pineapple Thief’s Songwriting Survival Kit
How I wrote ‘Rhythm & Blues Alibi’ by Gomez’s Ben Ottewell
Songwriting Magazine
Articles
The punk-folk-rock band’s lead singer, Mark Chadwick, tells us how the rousing, mid-90s anthem took just three minutes to write...
Though classically trained, Tori is a musician who has always sought alignment with cosmic forces. We learn a little more...
As a songwriter, producer and publishing company head, we can be pretty sure Jenna knows her way around a deal....
A budding local musician tells us how he challenged himself to write 10 completely new songs in just 10 days...
Experienced session guitarist Jake Gakovik takes us through the basic elements of song craft: form, lyrics, melody, harmony and rhythm...
Some of our past interviewees reveal the iconic albums that have inspired and influenced them the most over the years...
Five decades after becoming a 60s icon, the first lady of soul talks about her life of highs and lows...
After making his own distinctive brand of music with Eels for over 20 years, E has come a long way...
Author of ‘The Art Of Songwriting’ Ed Bell suggests how to decide what to write about and become more prolific...
Comments
I woke up this morning planning to write a song. I was inspired by this a few years ago after I heard Glenn Frye of […]
SONG WRITTEN BY LINDSEY ARLENE BROWN AKA LINSABELLA ARIELLA Don't you hear that sound it echoes like a drum, Can't you feel that joy rising from deep […]
I fell in love with Ms. Ian after I heard Socities Child, the song touched me because I was kind of living it. Fast […]
I really like to learn more inputs from Dear songwriters, I try my one of positive passions to keep writing and try my best to
I have all Chip’s “Friday” disks and love his music. His Mama told my wife that when he was about to start “Nashville”, the studio […]
I love this song, I was about 21 when this song came out. I was head over heals with this guy, we dated for about […]