Recent Cake Updates
BMI to Honor Rock ‘n Roll Icons at 50th Annual Pop Awards
BMI will celebrate its 50th annual Pop Awards on May 14 at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. In honor of the milestone anniversary, rock & roll pioneers Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Little Richard will be presented with BMI ICON Awards in recognition of their many contributions to contemporary music. This is the first time the ICON…
Lisa Loeb Moves Her Music to the Front Burner

Although it's been four years since we last heard from her, Lisa Loeb has hardly been idle. The singer/songwriter, who came to fame with her song "Stay (I Missed You)" in the film Reality Bites, has relocated from New York to Los Angeles, where she has found plenty of work doing animation and commercial voice-overs as well as making guest appearances on The Nanny and The Drew…
Charlie Daniels
Blue Hat Records recently hosted a 65th birthday bash and album release party for Charlie Daniels at BMI Nashville. The Live Record, his 44th album to date, is the first live Charlie Daniels Band recording to be released without the "Volunteer Jam" moniker. Opening the festivities, BMI's Paul Corbin read a congratulatory letter from BMI President & CEO Frances Preston.…
Cake

"It's really strange to turn on the radio and hear all these huge-sounding Viking rock songs, then you hear the dinky sound of Cake coming out of the speakers," Cake's frontman and main songwriter John McCrea recently mused to Sonicnet. "It was almost disturbing the first time I heard that, but at the same time, it was really cool." That gently subversive sensibility informs the Sacramento, California-based…
Top Talent on Tap for Nadine’s Wild Weekend
Nadine's Wild Weekend (NWW), Northern California's favorite music event devoted exclusively to Northern California music, announces the band and venue lineup for this year's showcases. With just a little over two weeks until the August 16 kick-off show at the Fillmore, NWW, sponsored by BMI, is bigger than ever before and features 135 hot up-and-coming bands from Reno to Monterey in 30 shows.
Moby’s Success Story Is a Whale of a Tale

A bona fide descendent of "Moby Dick" author Herman Melville, Moby came by his gargantuan nickname naturally. But until recently, the composer's record sales fell way short of whale-sized expectations. What follows is Moby's dramatic story; a saga of creativity, redemption and controversy that rivals anything his esteemed relative ever wrote. Read on... As the year 2000 commenced, Moby's career prospects looked dim. Hailed as a techno…
