Songwriting Magazine

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Songwriting MagazineScenesInterview: Leroy Clampitt The songwriter and producer behind some of pop’s biggest records on the instinctive process behind new solo album ‘Get Happy’...

11.12

Songwriting MagazineScenesInterview: Lady Nade From family patterns to genre freedom, the acclaimed Bristol artist searches for her truest self across her fourth studio album...

11.09

Songwriting MagazineScenesInterview: Janet Devlin From The X Factor to Nashville: the unexpected lessons, influences and instincts that continue to shape a modern pop songwriter...

11.08

Songwriting MagazineScenesSong-by-Song: ‘Looking For Love’ by Arborist The new album from Belfast’s Mark McCambridge finds inspiration in the beauty, fascinating characters, and dark corners of his hometown...

11.03

Songwriting MagazineScenesInterview: Blair Dunlop A new album gives us a chance to take a deep dive into the lyrical world of this eminent troubadour...

10.30

Songwriting MagazineScenesSailing Stones’ Songwriting Survival Kit From inspiring chord charts to Tarot cards, Jenny Lindfors reveals the tools, books, and creative rituals behind her new album...

10.25

Songwriting MagazineScenesSong-by-Song: ‘Put On A Record Tommy’ by Tom A. Smith On this deluxe release, Sunderland’s finest tackles rockstar expectations, dancefloor wizards, extended mixes, and his enduring love of Talking Heads...

10.21

Songwriting MagazineScenesInterview: Martin Simpson Celebrating 50 years since his debut, the folk icon discusses a new album that draws on a lifetime of music...

10.17

Songwriting MagazineScenesSong Deconstructed: Spell Songs’ ‘Bells Fall Still’ by Karine Polwart How a simple melody and the imagery of birds shaped one of the most important songs on ‘In Thin Air’...

10.15

Songwriting MagazineScenesSongwriting Magazine Issue 44 David Porter, Michelle Branch, Lukas Graham, Carly Pearce, Jim James, Janet Devlin, Arthur Brown, Everlast, Halloween Song Starters, and more...

10.12

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.