songwriting

This might be the only piece about Luke Bryan that compares him to Keith Sweat or to Pharrell Williams wielding an axe while doing a two-step.

On Sufjan Stevens’ spare, lo-fi and brilliant new album, joy wages epic battle with desperation and mortality. Spoiler alert: joy wins.

Freedy Johnston bows to no one living as a creator of songs of lasting value — intimate, strange, universal. His latest album is no exception.

Filled with songs that are a mysterious amalgam of the personal and the universal, the legendary Rickie Lee Jones' new album is one of her best.

Two great songwriters from two different generations sit down in an Austin hotel room and compare notes and stories.

The Tallest Man On Earth’s Dark Bird Is Home is a lush meditation on movement and emotional pathfinding.

Grammy-winning songwriter Van Hunt says My Morning Jacket has made a soft couch for aching bones.

The former Texas Is the Reason member contemplates the legacy of Mac McCaughan and Superchunk, secret emo progenitors.

The weary songwriter finds relief from a troubled world on Passion Pit’s nostalgic new album.

They’re not shy about their influences, but Built to Spill remain American originals.

How to explain the wonder that is Wire, the iconic post-punk band now on their 13th album? Perhaps they are like a Japanese game show.

With its wit and melancholy, Speedy Ortiz’s new album is the sound of a woman stomping the sad feelings and then wearing them like a badge of honor.