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Majority of 2012 BRIT Award Nominations Go to BMI Songwriters
BMI’s international songwriting family earned a commanding 55% of the nominations for the BRIT Awards 2012, the celebration of the year’s best popular music in the U.K. and around the world. Many of the nominees are members of British performing rights organization PRS for Music, but choose BMI to represent them in the United States. 2011 belonged to Adele, and her soulful reign is reflected in nominations…
From News, posted 1.23.12
BMI @ SXSW: 25 Years and Counting
In 1986, BMI found a kindred spirit in a baby music festival with big ideas. 25 years later, the SXSW Music and Media Conference sets the industry standard, and anchor sponsor BMI is still one of the festival’s most dedicated supporters. At its core, SXSW’s and BMI’s relationship is one of shared values. SXSW has long-since perfected the marriage of raw musical thrill and real-stakes business machine—the same balance of…
From News, posted 1.19.11
Indie Spotlight: The Orbans
The Orbans combine do-it-yourself indie attitude with a unique style of pop music that isn’t afraid to show a little twang. Their highly anticipated full-length debut, When We Were Wild, was produced by Adam Lasus (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Yo La Tengo, Clem Snide) and recorded live at Cedar Creek Recording in Austin. The Orbans draw comparisons to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Big Star, Dr.…
From News, posted 8.25.10
Tim McGraw’s ‘Southern Voice’
When Tim McGraw first arrived in Nashville 20 years ago, he was just one more gung-ho foot soldier in the city’s perpetually teeming ranks of country music aspirants, battling it out on nightclub stages and facing tremendous odds against ever making any headway. Yet within several years, the Louisiana-born singer-guitarist had established himself as Nashville royalty. Despite his mind-bendingly successful track record, with sales topping 40 million…
From MusicWorld, posted 12.21.09
Erin McCarley Proves She’s More Than Pop’s Pretty New Face
It’s not surprising that Erin McCarley might occasionally need to divide her attentions during an interview. “I kind of forgot about this interview, so I’m sitting in a pedicure chair,” she confesses. “It’s my only day home, so I’m getting all these girl things done that I haven’t done in a while.” In a little over a year, McCarley’s career has accelerated from unknown, independent singer-songwriter to…
From MusicWorld, posted 2.04.09
Marc Broussard
As pop music phenomenons go, it's a convergence of almost cosmic proportion. Like a platinum-fueled assembly line, the music industry is all-of-a-sudden churning out funky pop-soul sensations like John Mayer, Jason Mraz and Jack Johnson, among others. But even among this rarefied company, Louisiana wunderkind Marc Broussard stands out. His major label debut album, Carencro (Island Def Jam), introduces a diverse singer/songwriter with a…
From MusicWorld, posted 3.09.05
Musicians Take BMI Stage at 3rd Annual ACL Music Fest
BMI will host a singer/songwriter stage at the 3rd Annual Austin City Limits Music Festival, to be held September 17-19 in Austin's Zilker Park (2100 Barton Springs Road). Writers featured on this year's expanded stage will include J.T. Van Zandt, Samantha Stollenwerck, Marc Broussard, Jason White, Kacy Crowley, the Honorary Title, Davis Raines, Bobby Bare, Jr., Monte Montgomery, Willie Mason, Trish Murphy,…
From News, posted 8.11.04
Beth Orton
"This album was initially an experiment, one of embracing the excitement of making music rather than going into it with fear," Beth Orton says of her new album Daybreaker. Orton's prior releases, Trailer Park and Central Reservation, featured an organic fusion of pastoral acoustic pop and trip-hop beats that's been embraced by folk fans and club kids alike. Daybreaker raises the emotional stakes…
From MusicWorld, posted 11.13.02
Counting Crows: In It for the Long Haul
"I'm a songwriter, and I want to engrave my songs on other people's heads," says Adam Duritz, lead singer of Counting Crows. He needn't worry about whether that goal has been achieved. From the first moments of the band's emergence in 1993, Duritz and Counting Crows etched themselves into the public pop music consciousness with such numbers as "Round Here" and "Mister Jones" from the band's debut…
From MusicWorld, posted 9.30.02
Ryan Adams Finds Room to Breathe
"There's something really sexy about sad," Ryan Adams recently told Elle, and he ought to know. The much-touted 26-year-old troubadour has won reams of acclaim lately by plumbing the depths of hurt, heartbreak and healing to make resonant music that seems likely to win him the commercial breakthrough that was long predicted for his former band, the North Carolina roots-rock combo Whiskeytown. The singer/songwriter/guitarist's first solo effort,…
From MusicWorld, posted 1.09.02
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