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BMI Brings a Global Rock Scene To Its Lollapalooza Stage
BMI has announced its lineup of performers at its 2007 Lollapalooza stage. On August 3-5 in Chicago, IL, at Grant Park’s Hutchinson Field, BMI’s stage will kick off performances at 11:15 a.m. each day and finish at 6:15 p.m. Presenting acts from the U.S. and abroad, BMI will showcase an array of rising rock, pop and singer/songwriter acts. From the blues rock of the Isle of Man’s
Brit Awards Announce 2007 Nominees
The best of BMI's U.K. songwriters and artists topped the list of nominees for the 2007 Brit Awards. Winners of Britain's most prestigious music awards will be announced Wednesday, Feb. 14 during a live ceremony airing on British television network ITV 1.
BMI Hosts Film Music Panel, Showcase at 7th Annual Woodstock Film Festival
BMI will host two events at the 7th Annual Woodstock Film Festival, being held Oct. 11-15 in Woodstock, N.Y. BMI's 7th annual Film Music panel will take place on Oct. 14 at 10:30 a.m. at the Utopia Studios; tickets are $12. BMI and WACBIZ will also co-present a "See It Hear First" showcase with World of O.T.I.S. and the Rosewood Thieves on Friday, Oct.…
BMI’s Podcast Series Rocks on With #12
BMI continues to share tomorrow's hottest music today with its groundbreaking "See It Hear First(tm)" new artist podcast series - the first of its kind in the music industry. Available at bmi.com/podcast, BMI podcast #12 showcases a sundry mixture of moody pop rock. Artists Oh No! Oh My!, God or Julie, Justin Nozuka and O.T.I.S.…
O.T.I.S.

Pop, punk, country, emo, indie, blah blah blah. How do you describe the music of worldofotis? It’s like trying to describe an emotion. It’s happy, it’s sad, it’s carefree, it’s raw. It’s the whimsical nature of the Flaming Lips, mixed with the melancholy of Coldplay. They convey what they believe: life isn’t always easy, but don’t take it too seriously. The band itself…
Neptunes, Evanescence Top List of BMI Grammy Nominees
BMI songwriter/artists are once again at the top of the nominees list for the 46th Annual Grammy Awards, announced December 4 at a press conference held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Pharrell Williams of red hot production duo, The Neptunes, leads the BMI pack with six nods including three individual and three with partner Chad Hugo, who himself earned…
BMI’s Norah Jones Dominates The 45th Annual Grammy Awards
Come Away With Me, the debut album and single by 23-year old Norah Jones, was the big winner in February 23’s Grammy Awards Presentations at NYC’s Madison Square Garden. Jones’s sultry vocals and piano styling led her first CD to grab the coveted Recording Academy Gramophones in the top categories of Record of the Year, Album of the Year, best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album.…
Flaming Lips

Oh, what a long strange trip it’s been for the Flaming Lips. The band sprang up in Norman, Oklahoma-area in the mid-’80s as a Replacements/Butthole Surfers-style punk band. Eleven albums later, the group’s (guitarist/singer/songwriter Wayne Coyle, bassist Michael Ivins and drummer, guitarist, keyboardist and generally go-to-it-guy Steven Drozd) current album is the amazing concept-ish, electronic-ish, pop-tinged rock album Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots.…
Sheryl Crow, Eminem, Norah Jones Top Grammy Nominees List
BMI songwriter/artists Sheryl Crow, Eminem and Norah Jones lead the list of nominees for this year's Grammy Awards with five nods each. Nominees were announced today (1/7) at a press conference at New York's Madison Square Garden. The 45th Grammy Awards will be held on February 23 at the Garden, and will be broadcast live on CBS from 8-11:30 (ET/PT).
Jay Farrar

ThirdShiftGrottoSlack is the far-out title of Jay Farrar's second and most recent solo release. It's not exactly a name that rolls effortlessly off the tongue. But there is plenty of logic, as well as fetching music, behind this quirky moniker. "Third shift is sort of a reference to the fact that we recorded the songs from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.," Farrar said prior to the…
