Because I use pop lyrics in my poems and review records for SPIN and elsewhere, people sometimes ask me whether I think of song lyrics as poetry. Looked at in certain ways, they obviously are; in ...

Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize has reignited the debate about whether song lyrics can ever be considered literature. Is it time to finally tear down these cultural barriers? Every now and then an esteemed ...

Now almost 40 years old, rap burst out of the Bronx to become one of the dominant musical and cultural forces in this country. A new book, The Anthology of Rap, tracks the development of the genre -- ...

It’s that rare, beautiful week of the year when two of the nation’s best indie artistes have new albums out: Ten Stories by Shillong-based Soulmate and The Scene by Bangalore-based Thermal and a ...

Writing songs started for me at the age of six or seven. It was always like chasing a unicorn in that every song I wrote seemed to satisfy for a moment and then I would glimpse a hint of some other ...

It’s National Poetry Day! To celebrate, we’ve trawled through our favourite artists’ best wordplay to find actual poetry they’ve fused with their lyrics. From Arctic Monkeys messing about with John ...

SINGAPORE – Tucked away on the third floor of a building along Syed Alwi Road, some 400 migrant workers in Singapore gathered on Sunday (Jan 07) for an evening of song, dance and poetry. Believed to ...

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