Songwriting News--4.11.12

Award-Winning Songwriter to Perform Acoustic Showcase in Poway Patch.com The free event features songwriter Harold Payne performing a variety of acoustic, soul and folk songs. By Regina Ip It's difficult not to drop names when it comes to describing Harold Payne's work as a multi-platinum, award-winning songwriter, ... See all stories on this topic »

Singer-songwriter M. Ward shines on new album 'A Wasteland Companion' The Daily Athenaeum By Justin Lesko While you may not instantly recognize the name M. Ward, you may have heard the singer-songwriter before. He played with the popular indie band Bright Eyes, the supergroup Monsters of Folk, and alongside actress and singer Zooey ... See all stories on this topic »

Lotus Plaza Hides Weak Songwriting Behind a Filter of Fuzz Harvard Crimson Similarly, behind all the layers of electronic fuzz and distorted guitars on Lotus Plaza's new album lie dull songwriting and an unskilled, unadventurous musician who consistently confuses loudness with complexity. It may be a pretty album from time to ... See all stories on this topic »

Cymbals Eat Guitars speak about influences, songwriting UT The Daily Texan Has the pressure to live up to those expectations affected your songwriting process at all? Matt Whipple: I think we're our own biggest critics when it comes to songwriting. I don't think anything about that has really changed with attention from the ... See all stories on this topic » UT The Daily Texan

Nate Sacks of Norfolk takes prize in Sea Level songwriting contest Daily Press (blog) certainly applies to Nate Sacks, a young Norfolk songwriter who over the weekend triumphed at the Sea Level Singer-Songwriter Festival's Emerging Artist contest. For the final round of the competition, 10 singer-songwriters were asked to perform their ... See all stories on this topic »

Mastic Scum Working On New Album Metal Underground However, the new release will be for sure a progression from the songwriting and sound production points of view. "Some of the songwriting is already done, but we still have work to do! The new material so far is fucking brutal, combining shredding ... See all stories on this topic » Metal Underground

Neil Sedaka Bringing Hits to Wildwood Cape May County Herald (press release) By Jack Fichter WILDWOOD — Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka has had three careers stretching from the earliest days of rock n' roll through the 70's and 80's. He told the Herald one of his first shows may have been in Wildwood over 50 years ago. See all stories on this topic » Cape May County Herald (press release)

Rod MacDonald featured in Concert Conversations April 17 The Rock River Times Rod MacDonald will be the featured artist at a special Concert Conversations event presented by Snapshotmusic at 6 pm, Tuesday, April 17, at Emerson House, 420 N. Main St. An American folk singer/songwriter, MacDonald was a big part of the 1980s folk ... See all stories on this topic » The Rock River Times

In the Jukebox: Jim Lundy Charleston City Paper by Jared Booth Local poet and songwriter Jim Lundy has done the unthinkable. He has filled an album of 12 songs, many of them quite long, with only his guitar and his voice. Very few people can carry a song with just words, as Lundy does several times ... See all stories on this topic »

Hoodie Allen Goes Pro With Debut EP, 'All American' Billboard by RJ Cubarrubia, NY | April 10, 2012 2:45 EDT In two years, rapper/singer-songwriter Hoodie Allen has gone from Google employee to an internet hip-pop star behind two successful mixtapes and constant social media interaction. With his debut EP, ... See all stories on this topic » Billboard