Music played a powerful role in the Civil Rights era, providing a soundtrack for the movement and inspiring hope for change with songs like "We Shall Overcome", "A Change Is Gonna Come", "People Get ...

Learn how to create unique, fun, and professional-sounding music for your client projects—using only text prompts! In this ...

The 22-year-old pop phenom’s father is John Herndon of the post-rock band Tortoise. They chatted about songwriting, nepotism ...

The rise of streaming has no doubt shaken up the music industry. Suddenly, anyone with a cellphone has all of recorded history at their fingertips. For songwriters, however, this has come at a price.

If you've ever felt deeply moved or deeply seen by a song's lyrics, you can thank a songwriter. That's especially true in country music, where the words seem to pull on your heartstrings a little ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. One day in October 1972, ...

On the six-seventh day of Christmas, my elementary music teacher gave to me … a silly holiday song to sing by the tree. Like many of his colleagues around the country, Tyler Bishop, who teaches music ...

The Songwriters Hall of Fame has announced the posthumous induction of legendary singer-songwriter Donna Summer. Summer, who passed away in 2012 at age 63, was honored during an intimate ceremony held ...

"For her to be accepted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame I know that she’s very happy… somewhere,” Summer's husband Bruce Sudano said. By Ethan Millman Music Editor Disco icon Donna Summer has been ...

American Songwriter is giving its readers a chance to learn from the pros. In a new online class called Foundations, students will get the chance to develop a song from its inception to a ...

The use of AI in songwriting is marching forward, and that includes in Nashville, where human connection and the idea of “three chords and the truth” have always been part of the fabric of country ...

David Porter remembered his longtime Stax Records compatriot Steve Cropper as “a true member of a creative musical family that changed the world of music” in a tribute shared with Rolling Stone.