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BMI Indie Spotlight: brakence

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From News, posted 9.22.21 It’s not hard to tell that brakence, the alt/emo pop project of 18-year-old Randy Findell, is fascinated by words. The multitalented Columbus, OH native has released uniquely titled projects with names like hypnagogia (“a state halfway between being asleep and being awake”) and bhavana (“spiritual cultivation”), and even his own… Read more...


BMI Indie Spotlight: almost monday

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From News, posted 3.30.20 The guys of almost monday—Cole Clisby, Dawson Daugherty, and Luke Fabry—formed their band in 2015 and have gone from performing in the back room of a local surf shop to collaborating with Mark Needham (The Killers, Imagine Dragons) and earning praise from The Kollection. On January 24, “parking lot view”… Read more...


BMI Congratulates its 2018 GRAMMY Nominees

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From News, posted 11.28.17 BMI is very proud to congratulate our many talented affiliates on their prestigious GRAMMY nominations, which were announced this morning by the Recording Academy. The 60th GRAMMY Awards, to be held in Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday, January 28, 2018, will salute a wide array of… Read more...


BMI Composer Junkie XL Launches New Video Tutorial Series

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From News, posted 6.30.15 BMI composer/artist Tom Holkenborg, also known as Junkie XL, renowned for his collaborations with Depeche Mode, Justin Timberlake and Coldplay, his video game music, and scoring films such as Mad Max: Fury Road, 300:Rise of an Empire and Divergent, recently launched a web tutorial series for aspiring musicians,… Read more...


P!nk Receives President’s Award at 63rd Annual BMI Pop Awards

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From News, posted 5.13.15 Broadcast Music, Inc, honored dynamic singer-songwriter P!nk with the BMI President’s Award for her outstanding achievement in songwriting and global impact on pop culture and the entertainment industry at the Company’s 63rd annual Pop Awards, held last night at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The event also… Read more...


A Conversation With ‘Still Alice’ Composer Ilan Eshkeri

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From News, posted 12.16.14 The reviews alone about Ilan Eshkeri’s music in Still Alice, a new heartbreaking drama starring Julianne Moore, make a compelling argument to see the movie. Critic comments such as, “Eshkeri wisely keeps the music from manipulating the emotions on screen (sometimes removing the music all together), allowing the characters to… Read more...


The MAGIC! of BMI Songwriter Nasri

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From News, posted 10.16.13 More than a decade ago, the voice of GRAMMY-winning songwriter and producer Nasri – born Nasri Tony Atweh – could be heard all over Canadian radio stations. Likewise, his videos were getting play on Canada’s most popular music video channel, Much Music. That’s because at 19, the Toronto native walked… Read more...


The Top 5 Lyric Pitfalls

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From MusicWorld, posted 9.23.13 I’m in my eighteenth year of teaching BMI’s Nashville Songwriters’ Workshop. In those classes I’ve listened to 40 to 50 songs at least 10 times a year. I did some math: I’ve reviewed more than 8,000 songs—and that does not include the songs I critiqued in the master classes,… Read more...


Sandy Relief On the Way: 12-12-12 Concert Live Tonight on bmi.com

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From News, posted 12.12.12 Corporate giant Chase is helping to launch a huge-scale Hurricane Sandy relief effort by presenting a live concert at Madison Square Garden tonight that is not to be missed. The line-up of musical giants giving their time and talents at this unsurpassed event includes among many others BMI songwriters Eric… Read more...


10 Questions: Keith Urban

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From MusicWorld, posted 12.11.12 Born in New Zealand, raised in Australia and a Nashville native since the early ‘90s, Keith Urban has been on the go for the better part of the last decade. The one place you could safely assume to find him was at the top of the charts. A husband, father… Read more...


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