When a songwriter writing about death gets it right, as Jackson Browne did on "For a Dancer," the results can be revelatory, heartbreaking, and uplifting all at once. Inspired by the death of someone ...
The fight against profane music has taken a new twist, and has now entangled the regulatory authorities, politicians and musicians. When the Uganda Communications Commission announced its ban of two ...
Describing the decision to remove the performances of nominated songs as "just another example of the devaluation of music, and its creators," SCL president Ashley Irwin asks "for even abbreviated ...
The Society of Composers and Lyricists, the main organization representing film and television composers and songwriters, has asked the Motion Picture Academy to reconsider its decision to drop the ...