“Songwriting,” said Sting, “Is much like trying to catch a wild animal. Only you cannot kill the beast – you have to somehow trick him into being captured. And you can never use the trick twice.” He ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with songwriter Amy Allen, who is shortlisted for the non-classical Songwriter of the Year Grammy Award for a second straight year.

So many songwriting duos through the years have made some of the greatest songs of multiple classic rock eras. The following four pairs, though, are the cream of the crop. Let’s look at some dynamic ...

The United States Copyright Office recently issued new guidelines regarding copyright applications for works created with artificial intelligence tools. The new rules ...

Nearly 60 years after writing such counterculture classics as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Like a Rolling Stone," Bob Dylan has sold his entire songwriting catalog — more than 600 songs — to Universal ...

When it comes to songwriting, if you possess basic keyboard skills, you’re already 10 steps ahead of most music-makers. The fundamentals of piano playing are easy to pick up, while the piano itself is ...

Business leaders love to talk about innovation. But for all the energy poured into frameworks and strategy decks, most teams rarely experience what innovation actually feels like. Real innovation is ...

Music icon Dolly Parton opened up this week about her struggles with songwriting following her husband’s death. The country singer’s husband, Carl Thomas Dean, died in March at the age of 82. Parton, ...

Everyone knows that Taylor Swift writes her own songs — including a former boyfriend who criticized her “cheap songwriting.” He took issue with one of her tracks in particular. He also refused to talk ...

On a recent mid-spring morning in Tennessee, Alex Kline is learning to live again in her Nashville home. A week earlier, Tenille Arts’ “Somebody Like That” — a pulsing, pop-friendly debut that Kline ...