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Dear listeners, Lindsay is still out, which means you’ve got me (an editor who focuses on pop culture) on a day where you may need a bit of good fortune: Tax Day. I don’t know ...

Producer and songwriter Benny Blanco is behind hit songs released by Ed Sheeran, Rihanna, Katy Perry, and others.

It’s not their song, so don’t come for them. At least, not for this. Gel just broke up due to their former guitarist Anthony Webster doing some shady shit and embezzling money for “a truly ... I ...

Underwood tied the knot with NHL player Mike Fisher on July 10, 2010. The pair met through mutual friends who arranged for ...

Some songs are secret wishes ... “You got time and I got money,” which adds lush orchestration to their hypnotic sound. “I wrote the lyrics when I got my first real grown-up job and was ...

They started as kids from West Philly just trying to make it out. Drill rap, and the pull of fame and money, left nearly a dozen dead, and others in prison for decades.

Keyboardist David Paich, who penned the track, had never even been to Africa before writing the song, instead basing his lyrics on a documentary ... of the song got randomly edited into other ...

“We’ve got a list of songs. We’re looking at them, and I’m going, ‘Which are the easy ones?’ But it’s sold out. I could go out and just play a [expletive] kazoo. I’ve made the ...

Mullingar musician and songwriter Paulie Martin has released his new single, Mind Games. We asked him the BIG questions . . . Paulie's previous releases include Rhythm of the Moon and Cherokee Rose.

By Alex Williams J.B. Moore, an advertising man from suburban Long Island who wrote the lyrics to one of ... his idea to try to scrape up money with a Christmas song. He was inspired by a ...