David Hodges (@hodgesmusic) is a multiplatinum songwriter-producer, multi-instrumentalist, BMI award recipient, GRAMMY winner and Golden Globe nominee. Hodges cut his teeth as one of the founding members of 18 million-selling Little Rock, Ark.-based legendary rock act, Evanescence. At the height of the band’s success, he left for Los Angeles to… Read more...
Just who is David Hodges? That’s a loaded question with no simple answer. Since his emergence 8 years ago, Hodges has dinned so many musical hats that one needs a scorecard just to keep up. He’s a singer, songwriter and frontman whose on-hiatus band, the Age of Information, reconciles contemporary… Read more...
Releasing a song that was written as a joke could have been a mistake. But for hard-rock outfit Seether, there’s nothing funny about “Fake It,” the infectious first single from the group’s recently released third studio effort, Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces (Wind-up Records). Frontman, guitarist and principal songwriter Shaun… Read more...
BMI and the Los Angeles Times held their second annual “How I Wrote That Song” songwriter panel in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 9 at the Key Club. The sold-out event featured an elite cross-section of established hitmakers, including Rodney Jerkins (Beyonce, Michael Jackson), Chris Daughtry, Fat Joe, Ben Moody… Read more...
Marquee Lineup Includes Rodney Jerkins, Chris Daughtry, Mos Def, Ben Moody, Polow Da Don, Anthony Hamilton and Brian Howes BMI will pair with the Los Angeles Times to present the second annual “How I Wrote the Song” panel Saturday, February 9, from 1p.m. until 3p.m., at the Key Club in… Read more...
Not since Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 smash Rumours has a follow-up album come with as much attendant melodrama as Evanescence’s The Open Door. Aside from the pressures of having to follow up their 14 million-selling debut album Fallen, Evanescence was faced with the challenge of creating a new record without founding… Read more...
Congratulations to the BMI Foundation's 2004 John Lennon Scholarship winner Andrew Horowitz and his band Tally Hall, whose song "Good Day" was recently featured on the weekly soundtrack of the Fox hit series The OC. The show's music supervisor went wild… Read more...
Legendary singing trio Crosby, Stills & Nash will be honored as BMI Icons at the performing right organization's 54th Annual Pop Awards set for Tuesday, May 16 at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. The invitation-only, black-tie dinner and ceremony, which will also honor the… Read more...
Levitating from the underground to the top of the Latin charts, the genre known as reggaetón has pumped a much-needed shot of vitality into a complex and shifting record market. In the first half of 2005, unit shipments of various formats of Latin music increased a monumental 27.7 percent, a… Read more...
BMI announced its 53rd Annual BMI Pop Awards on May 17, with top honors given to 3 Doors Down's "Here Without You" as Song of the Year, Lil Jon as Songwriter of the Year, and EMI Music Publishing as Publisher of the Year. Read more...
