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BMI Songwriters Dominate Mojo’s “100 Records That Changed The World”
Mojo, the prominent and influential British music magazine, has selected a list of “100 Records That Changed The World” in their June issue.. The list is described as “The most influential and inspirational recordings ever made, they changed music – the way it was played, bought or even imagined.” A group of prominent songwriters and performers – which include such BMI veterans as Chuck…
From News, posted 7.03.07
B.B. King, Sonic Youth Added to Library of Congress List
The Library of Congress has announced the fourth annual selection of 50 sound recordings to be preserved in the National Recording Registry. The news conference, held April 11 in Washington, D.C., featured a wide variety of outstanding spoken and musical recordings that span the years 1903 through 1988. This year's selections include such renowned BMI songwriters and composers as Dave Brubeck (Time Out),…
From News, posted 4.17.06
David Bowie Continues Pushing the Envelope
There’s a delightful irony in the fact that David Bowie’s most recent album is called Reality . After all, he’s the artist who came to fame in the early 1970s as the master of many musical guises such as Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and The Thin White Duke. Of course, from the hindsight of a quarter-century later, we all know that whatever form the artist or…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.11.04
Laurel Parton Joins BMI
Los Angeles native Laurel Parton, frontwoman and songwriter for Nashville-based garage-punk outfit Trauma Team, has joined BMI for performing rights representation. Drawing comparisons to Sonic Youth, The Pretenders, The Fall and The Who, Trauma Team's self-titled debut has been completed and will be released March 2004. The record was produced by the band with Todd Tidwell (Ladycop, The Lone Official), mastered by Jim…
From News, posted 1.14.04
Sonic Youth Rocks in Hollywood
BMI band Sonic Youth headlined the recent Don't Knock The Rock Film and Music Festival in Los Angeles with a show at the El Rey Theater on August 17. The seminal New York art-punk band is featured in Dave Markey's dreamy experimental homage to underground music entitled 1991: The Year Punk Broke, which was shown during the last day of the festival. The film,…
From News, posted 8.28.03
Sonic Youth83
On their 16th album, Murray Street, seminal New York art-punks Sonic Youth deliver some of their most distinctive music to date, striking an artful balance between the band's trademark excursions and conventional verse/chorus song structure. The album is also the band's first as a quintet, with influential indie composer/musician/producer Jim O'Rourke joining the longstanding band lineup of guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, bassist Kim Gordon and…
From MusicWorld, posted 11.13.02
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