Recent Coldplay Updates
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.…
BMI Rocks the Windy City at MOBfest 2006
BMI presented a rock showcase as part of the MOBfest 2006 music festival held last month in Chicago, featuring live performances by Ivory, Cameron McGill, Matt Hoffer, Farewell, Exit the Ordinary and the Bon Mots. BMI also hosted a "Day Party" at the Bamboo/KMA Management offices with acoustic sets by McGill, Jerry Reid,…
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…
Dynamite Walls

The sound of San Diego band Dynamite Walls has been compared to everything from Coldplay to John Mayer, and from the Beatles to Van Morrison. Comprised of members Tom Pritchard (vocals, guitar), Alex Blundell (lead guitar), Doug Evans (bass) and Steve Serrano (drums), before forming, each member was struggling to find a band that expressed…
James Blunt

The quickie bio on James Blunt is short and sweet: Former soldier in the British Army gets discharged, records album with Top 10 hit. Next!But wait a sec. There is, not surprisingly, a lot more to it than that. Blunt’s family has a long military tradition, so they weren’t exactly at a loss when it came time to advise the nascent singer/songwriter on a paying profession. “Like…
NYC’s The Kin Attract Local Attention

NYC rock outfit the Kin (formerly the Harlequin) have been tearing up NYC and the Northeast lately with their commanding live performances. Co-fronted by Australian brothers, Isaac and Thorry Koren, the sound of THE KIN blends the atmospheric musical wave of old school U2 and groove pop sensibilities of Duran Duran with the vocal soul of Jeff Buckley. The Kin juxtapose dark melodies with catchy hooks and…
Snow Patrol

Flirting with "next big thing" status in its native U.K., Snow Patrol has also been gathering steam on this side of the pond with its third album, Final Straw (Universal), and its gorgeously yearning single "Run." But while the melancholy balladry of "Run" has yielded favorable comparisons to Coldplay and the introspective side of U2, there's much more to Snow Patrol's music.…
BMI Mourns Loss of Composer Michael Kamen
World-renowned BMI composer Michael Kamen died yesterday (11/18) of an apparent heart attack at his home in London. He was 55. Kamen, who was considered a visionary for skillfully fusing classical music with rock and roll, did orchestrations for a wide range of artists including Aerosmith, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, George…
Coldplay

With the release of their acclaimed debut album Parachutes, Brit-rockers Coldplay take up where The Smiths left off. Like their '80s predecessors, Coldplay writes and performs romantic, windswept pop that's as alluring as it is unfashionable. Yet for all its winning sentimentality, Coldplay's music is also informed by an enticing intellectualism. Songs like "Shiver" and "Don't Panic" feature lyrics brimming with optimism and philosophic…
