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The San Francisco Bay Area native releases his third album, his first on Epitaph Records.

As previously announced, Welcome to the World a concert celebrating the music and lyrics of theatre composer Andrew Lippa will be held May 12 at Off-Broadway’s Players Theatre.

Chewing nails, developing ulcers, or going bald in anticipation of the May 13 release of Death Cab for Cutie’s Narrow Stairs ? If so, ease your ailments with live renditions of a few of the band’s new tunes , recently recorded during an exclusive Daytrotter Session, and unveiled to the public today! Download the head-bobbing rhythms and bird’s eye view lyrics of “Cath,” plus the plodding …

Seems like we’re due (overdue, probably) for another of our periodic sociological explorations of the lyrics of today’s biggest hits and what they might tell us about contemporary society today. To change up the methodology a bit, I’ll look at…

VANCOUVER-After a reception for the Chinese Spectacular on Saturday evening, the world-renowned culural show played to a captivated audience at the Bell Performing Arts Center in Surrey.Among th…

Featuring new creations (using standard progressions) and exciting lyrics set to instrumental “classics,” all drawn from Jazz Standards and the Great American Songbook.

The BCCSA has ruled on a controversial kwaito song’s lyrics.

The BCCSA has ruled on a controversial kwaito song’s lyrics.

Music has always been a powerful tool of expression but a string of controversial songs in recent years has raised questions about whether artists are crossing the line with lyrics that are racially or religiously offensive.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A bill updating the lyrics of Florida’s state song, Stephen Foster’s “Old Folks at Home,” and approving an official state anthem has passed the Florida Senate.

Matthew Ryan’s music has a startling dichotomy, his effervescent melodies acting in counterpoint to darkly themed lyrical content.

After laundering the lyrics to delete racially offensive terms like “darkeys,” the Florida Senate voted Thursday to retain the tune familiarly known as Swanee River as the official state song, and also adopted much newer work by a Broward music teacher as the state anthem.

Philadelphia’s hip-hop collective the Roots are off to a rough start at their new label.

Parramore’s Johnny Wineglass is a font of ideas. This is what it looks like inside the head of Johnny Wineglass: a baseball bat that registers the force of a batter’s swing; new song lyrics; a recipe for Cajun rice pizza; a foolproof home-security system; cartoon characters who fight crime in the inner city.

Fabula , Skyphone’s Avellaneda may be the most beautiful near-pop record of 2008. This Danish trio makes music so song-like that it could, with added lyrics and a different approach to production, easily exist in the kind of dreamy experimental post-rock terrain of Iceland’s Sigur Rs. In its seamless integration of technology and acoustic instrumentation it shares much with Norways’s Svalastog …

Lyrics Born, “Everywhere At Once” (Anti-): For his sophomore release, the Tokyo-born, Bay Area-raised rapper Tom “Lyrics Born” Shimura employs live instrumentation instead of the sample-heavy textures of his 2003 solo debut, “Later That Day …” Though hip-hop purists may wince, the musical shift only further helps Lyrics Born expand on his own genre-bending sensibility.

The three musicians in this band find what they like in the songs, letting the melodies guide them, and play in the wide-open way they like to play.

ATLANTA (AP) - Yung Joc appears on stage for a performance as an assembly of youth swarms toward his direction, screaming at the top of their lungs. Only this time, the rapper delivers a message nothing like his raucous songs “I Know You See It,” ”Dope Boy Magic,” or his smash hit “It’s Goin’ Down.

For him makes homosexual spirit,
In the movements gracious sylph-like to release,
O’ er regular ground to balance
‘Pleasure of pure Tis which all should taste
For him makes homosexual spirit,
In the movements gracious sylph-like to release,
O’ er regular ground to balance.

Lyrics Born, “Everywhere At Once” (Anti-): For his sophomore release, the Tokyo-born, Bay Area-raised rapper Tom “Lyrics Born” Shimura employs live instrumentation instead of the sample-heavy textures of his 2003 solo debut, “Later That Day …” Though hip-hop purists may wince, the musical shift only further helps Lyrics Born expand on his own genre-bending sensibility.

Witness the rebirth of Lyrics Born… On Dont Change, the opening track of Everywhere at Once, San Francisco-based rapper Lyrics Born stresses the importance of not changing who you are for anybody or anything. Its a paradoxical statement since the production on the half-Japanese rappers second-solo release is almost entirely provided by a live band….

When it comes to the state song, it looks like Florida lawmakers and Floridians will still be singing the same tune.

The 92nd Street Y?s Lyrics & Lyricists series will present ?The 1959 Broadway Songbook.?

Coachella ‘08 Performer! With fun-lovin’ boogie-down guitars and lyrics recalling trailer park tales of fast women and booze-soaked romps, at first glance Nashville, TN’s American Bang recall a certain family of Followills. But with speed-fueled punk urgency and a smorgasbord of rock influences in the fine print, American Bang plow over references with conviction.