An American Songwriter feature picks out three 1990s songs it argues will win over any fan of singer-songwriter music, spanning pop, folk-rock and jam-band styles. The piece highlights how genre boundaries blurred during the decade, allowing artists with strong lyrical and vocal craft to cross into the mainstream, and it frames each selection as a…

Tampa straight-edge hardcore band Contention have surprise-released a new EP, “Nuclear Summer,” dropping it at midnight without prior warning. The release follows their appearance at Sound And Fury, the major Los Angeles hardcore festival, and comes hot on the heels of similar surprise drops from fellow hardcore acts Haywire and God’s Hate in the festival’s…

Farm Aid will return to CNN for a second consecutive year, with the 2026 edition of the long-running charity concert airing live on Saturday, 26 September at 7pm. Founded in the 1980s by Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp to support American farmers, the festival has raised more than $85 million for the Good…

Nickelback have released “Leave Me Behind”, the third single from their forthcoming album Everything Under the Sun, due out on 30th October. The mid-tempo rock track carries an emotionally weighty theme, continuing the band’s rollout of material ahead of the record’s release and giving fans another preview of its sound and lyrical direction. Frontman Chad…

Cleveland alt-country band Napsack have announced a new album, More Mountains, due out in October via the label Just Because. The band, formed in Chicago by singer Sarah Cuturic and drummer Will Cuneo before relocating, have not yet revealed much about the record’s full tracklist or themes, but they have shared a preview song alongside…