songwriting

The last thing I remember was lying on the operating room table staring at all these lights shaped like UFOs on the ceiling like a scene out of ER...

I’d never heard of Stone Jack Jones before, and that’s why I wanted to write about his album. Talkhouse managing editor Michael Tedder reached out...

I can go on and on about songwriting and the coming end of our civilization (15 years from now). I have killed countless conversations with self...

I know very little about Eric Church, or country music, for that matter. I decided to write about Church's new record because I thought my....

Most people will be familiar with Neil Finn through his work in the '80s with Crowded House. A few years after their release, I began to appreciate...

This record moves me deeply. So does the previous Sun Kil Moon record, 2012's Among the Leaves, and the two records under Mark Kozelek's..

Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son is a good name for a record that spins like a top shooting sparks. The production is enormous: lots...

I’m not a music writer. I don’t really know how to distill songs and sounds into descriptive language. A great music critic can make you really...

I had never heard the Irish artist James Vincent McMorrow before signing on to write about his second album Post Tropical, but I did see...

To me, Mutual Benefit's debut Love’s Crushing Diamond is foremost about the constant passage of momentary time and the recognition of this...

Barry McCormack’s songs are gritty short films that deeply and sensitively evoke the dark, damp streets of modern Dublin. It feels like it's been...

I was rather late to the game of songwriting. I recorded my first album when I was 30 and, as with most first attempts, it was, at least to me...