Ronan Keating to host BBC One’s New Year’s Eve celebrations

Singer Ronan Keating is to host this year’s New Year’s Eve celebrations on BBC One. Ronan Keating And Friends: A New Year’s ...

'Nothing was quite the same after that': Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan relives 30 years of 'Mellon Collie'

Inspired by Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” Sonic Youth’s distortion, Black Sabbath’s symbolic lyricism and layered instrumentals, ...

What Do Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath Have in Common? A New Book Offers an Answer.

It’s impossible not to recall 2015 when reading Nelson’s latest , The Slicks, a very slim volume—more of a long essay, really ...
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Ring in the New Year with Ronan Keating & Friends on BBC One

Special guest performers will be announced soon. Ronan joins an impressive lineup of past BBC One New Year’s Eve headliners, ...
American Songwriter

The Agonizing Lyric That May Have Hit Too Close to Home for Tom Petty

Tom Petty unloaded all his relationship angst into "Echo". Perhaps too much so, because he didn't want to revisit the song.

“John said we were the best stuff he'd heard since the Beatles”: Davey Johnstone on Elton John’s collab with John Lennon

How a visit from John Lennon during the sessions for Elton John’s 1975 masterpiece Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt ...
American Songwriter

3 Addictive Rock Hooks From 1974 You Won’t Be Able To Get Out of Your Head

These addictive rock hooks from songs released in 1974 really pulled in listeners, and they're still making fans today.