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Last October, when I started making a list of Louisiana adventures I could do for my Tuesday column (in its 30th iteration this week), "help write a song" was on the list. Jodi James jumped to the top ...

The New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli met with Taylor Swift in Los Angeles to talk about the craft of songwriting. The New York Times Magazine polled more than 250 music insiders and gathered six ...

Songwriting is an especially powerful tool used by music therapists. It opens a path to access, verbalize, and express feelings that are otherwise often difficult to process. It harnesses creativity, ...

Mr. Lindgren is the editor of the zine Let’s Start a Band. In the spring of 1982, six friends got together in an East Village apartment to start a country-punk band. They had a guitar, a bass and some ...