Fifty years ago, an angry young man with attitude to spare stepped up to a microphone and screamed: “Something better change!

While they eventually pivoted away from overtly Islamic references in their music, they never stopped being political, with ...

The Ivors Academy is lobbying for fairer pay and protections for songwriters and composers following comments made from Raye ...

The loss of Irv Gotti, who died last week at the age of 54, is immense. The Hollis, Queens native was a relic from an era when being a hip-hop multi-hyphenate wasn’t about diversifying your portfolio ...

After a seven-year wait for a new album from indie pop hitmakers Foster the People, Friday night’s crowd at the Hollywood Palladium enthusiastically proved that absence does indeed make the ...

Songwriters representing all five of the compositions nominated for best original song at the 2025 Academy Awards got together virtually for a Songwriters Hall of Fame discussion that is premiering ...

Kendrick Lamar’s history-making Super Bowl LIX halftime performance wowed the crowd on Sunday night. As the first solo hip-hop artist to headline the show, he brought out Samuel L. Jackson ...

By Dan Ouellette In officially opening the Hamptons JazzFest’s winter season, composer and environmental sound artist Mary ...

This week's beaten foe included Fortune Teller Blues by Joe Bonamassa and Sammy Hagar and Master by The Last Internationale, as well as five other songs we're not going to mention because we don't ...

Rajiv Joseph’s “King James,” at TheaterWorks Hartford through March 2, is a night well spent watching a couple of nice guys ...

Drake and Lil Wayne earn their first No. 1 singles on Billboard's TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart as "She Will" rises to the ...

Christian Hayes made his Grand Ole Opry debut the first weekend in February. He talks about that and more with American Songwriter.