His status cemented as one of Aotearoa's most significant songwriting voices, scooping away the 2025 APRA Silver Scroll award for 'Aua Atu Rā', Marlon Williams (Kāi Tahu, Ngāi Tai) has wisely declared ...

Melbourne’s wokest council – which became the first in the country to not recognise Australia Day – has has rejected calls to fly the national flag on January 26. City of Yarra councillor Andrew ...

One of the bonuses of making "Song Sung Blue" filled with Neil Diamond songs is how astonishingly prolific the globally beloved singer-songwriter was during his five decades of recording and ...

Before he was the guy leading stadiums full of fans through the chorus of "Sweet Caroline," Neil Diamond was a kid in Brooklyn writing song lyrics while bored in class. Diamond's expansive songwriting ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

Memphis filmmaker Craig Brewer's new movie, "Song Sung Blue," opens in theaters in Memphis and across the U.S. and Canada on Christmas Day. Here's some information that might be helpful or interesting ...

In 2024, the song of the year was so undeniable and inescapable that we don’t even have to bother naming it. This year, the landscape is much trickier. Twenty twenty-five hasn’t produced a ...

Whether you’re an aspiring songwriter, just starting out, or an old pro, it’s helpful to look at the parts of a song and how best to arrange them. Playing with structure requires both sides of the ...

“I did feel that the day was going to come eventually, but it’s not a song I ever wanted to sing,” Julian Lennon told me in 2022, when asked about the experience of covering his father’s 1971 modern ...

Even a casual music fan knows exactly when to expect the emotional upswing in Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” the confident refrain of Megan Thee Stallion’s “Hiss,” and the explosive chorus laid down in ...