songwriting

As long as we have songwriters like Justin Townes Earle, there’s no reason to worry about the fate of country music.

Intimate, direct and yes, lo-fi, Karen O's solo album delves deep into the guts of this messy thing we call love.

Pallbearer bassist Joseph D. Rowland contemplates war and peace in Rome’s A Passage to Rhodesia — and in himself.

After 35 years, you might think you have Tom Petty figured out, but this portrait of modern malaise is worth spending time with.

If the lyrics to the new Gold-Bears album Dalliance are fiction, then Jeremy Underwood is a genius, because halfway through I wanted to...

A sea of 20,000 hands wave in unison like tendrils in a kelp bed when the waves force them to dance. But it's music, not the Pacific Ocean, driving...

I've been a fan of Bob Mould's music for maybe half as long as he's been making it. In the '80s when we were in junior high, skateboarding and...

My husband will, on occasion, wax lyrical about British autumn afternoons, sitting, as a toddler, next to his mother and listening to her play...

I'm not a huge lyrics person — I hear the music first. But sometimes tuning in to the words can clarify things. And when I checked out the lyric...

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...