VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW   Musician:  JANET ROBIN Music Video: “View From Above” JANET ROBIN Web-Exclusive Interview with M Music & Musicians magazine publisher, Merlin David   How did the idea of “View from Above” come to you? I was feeling a little depressed at the time I wrote it, and instead of doing something negative—I put it into a song, trying to lift myself up and look at things from a positive... 

UNPLUGGED & ON FIRE Ed Sheeran pushes acoustic boundaries to find new musical territory He arrived on the mainstream music scene three years ago with a massively successful debut album of delicately crafted acoustic ballads. So it might have been understandable if the world had gotten used to thinking of Ed Sheeran as a laid-back, reliable balladeer. But the 23-year-old troubadour has since emerged as a pop phenom, a creative dynamo whose varied... 

Songwriter Doug Strahm says “‘Leaving It Behind’ is a song for our U.S. Servicemen: for everyone who has sacrificed … everyone.” After over 11,000 views on YouTube, people have responded by saying “Wait for the ending of this powerful music video about a US serviceman who is deployed and missing the one he loves who is back home.” Strahm’s song is from his new album Everything Has Changed recorded at Sweetwater Studios in Fort Wayne,...