American Songwriter: What made you decide to enter American Songwriter’s Song Contest? Lauryn Marie: I had an assignment in my songwriting class with Victoria Banks at Belmont University to enter a ...

Released Oct. 15, 2021, “Easy on Me” was Adele’s first release in seven years since her third album 25, and was written during a very turbulent period in her life, as the British singer was navigating ...

Lorna Shore's "To the Hellfire" is Loudwire's 2021 Song of the Year. We literally heard thousands and thousands of new songs this year, but when it came time to nominate this year's best track, that ...

One of the biggest songs of 2021 was technically released in 2020 — so it can't be included on lists of the year's best music. NPR's Bobby Carter shouts out the song "Essence" by Wizkid. * All month, ...

2021 is in the rearview, and we’ve already made a list of our our favorite albums of the year, as well as separate lists focused on punk/hardcore/emo/etc, screamo, ska, jazz, rap, the Indie Basement ...

It's hard to argue there was a more important — and surprising — musician in 2021 than Olivia Rodrigo. She went from relative unknown to complete superstar, and she did it using, in part, the revived ...