Songwriting News--4.16.12

Market Value: A Q&A With Leftover Salmon American Songwriter We asked founding member Vince Herman about songwriting, his ecological concerns, the new album and more. Also, check out the live video of the album track "Walking Shoes" below. My songwriting heroes are varied. Jackson Browne's writing really works ... See all stories on this topic »

Performers salute songwriting genius Buxton Advertiser A MUSICAL celebration of the songwriting genius of Stephen Sondheim comes to Buxton's Pavilion Arts Centre Studio later this month. From Page To Stage Theatre Company present Something Familiar, Something Peculiar on Friday April 27 and Saturday April ... See all stories on this topic » Buxton Advertiser

Dar Williams American Songwriter We asked Williams about her new album, the words and rhymes she tends to avoid, and how she got into the songwriting game to begin with. Shawn Colvin and Larry Campbell guest on this album. What was it like working with them? See all stories on this topic »

Dar Williams In the Time of Gods slantmagazine That isn't a poor aesthetic decision in and of itself: Williams does confessional folk songwriting better than just about anyone, but the album isn't enhanced by a loosely defined concept, and her writing suffers from a few uncharacteristic lapses in ... See all stories on this topic »

Kraftwerk Diary Day Five: 1981's 'Computer World' Invents Electronic Funk RollingStone.com The Man-Machine may have more timeless songwriting, and Trans-Europe Express may have more breadth and diversity, but Computer World has some of the most irresistibly funky grooves ever divined. In the early Eighties, Detroit radio DJ the Electrifying ... See all stories on this topic » RollingStone.com

Auds still hungry for Rice Variety Indeed, he has 13 of the British songwriting honors. All of which may have been fairly unimaginable to the man who first found success writing a show based on a Bible story for youngsters at a West London school. It lasted 20 minutes, ... See all stories on this topic » Variety

Backbeat Coachella: Swedish House Mafia's Sebastian Ingrosso, One Republic's ... Billboard.biz Biz caught up with him and Swedish House Mafia's Sebastian Ingrosso at Coachella before their set ato talk about their collaborative single "The Calling" which was the EDM anthem at this year's Miami Music Week and also got the scoop on songwriting in ... See all stories on this topic » Billboard.biz

Rufus Wainwright Wants a Hit with 'Out of the Game' Daily Beast Wainwright still crafts intricate, unpredictable melodies—the kind that inspired Elton John to describe him as the "greatest songwriter on the planet." A handful of tracks boast baroque arrangements that would have sounded at home on his most ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Beast

Q&A: Chris Difford of Squeeze SoundSpike It's an art form that has changed completely like songwriting. Songwriting used to be revered as something very special -- Carole King, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Jackson Browne. Those kinds of people would write songs and they wouldn't really think ... See all stories on this topic » SoundSpike

Stream: Tom Williams & The Boat - Teenage Blood ClashMusic.com The ongoing wave of folk-textured songwriting has produced more than its fair share of anaemic, dungaree-clad wannabes. Tom Williams & The Boat are not amongst them. Hailing from Tunbridge Wells, the band's music has plenty of acoustic whims but ... See all stories on this topic » ClashMusic.com

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MusicNSW » triple J Unearthed & APRA/AMCOS Present: Adalita ... By scarlett Eight lucky Australian songwriters will have the chance to be take their song writing skills to a whole new level thanks to triple j Unearthed and SONG SUMMIT. They are teaming up again this year to present an exciting career opportunity for ... MusicNSW

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Interview: Slash Talks Songwriting, New Album and Fave ... Where do we begin with musician, songwriter, record + film producer (plus killer axe shredder) Slash? Born Saul Hudson in London, England, he moved with his ... www.metrolyrics.com/.../interview-slash-talks-songwriting-ne...

Mrs. Lirette's Learning Detectives: Songwriting & Poetry Collection ... My students learned a lot about rhymes and near rhymes from this songwriting experience. Speaking of poetry, I wanted to share with everyone a collection of ... mrsliretteslearningdetectives.blogspot.com/.../songwriting-poet...