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The first annual Prom for Hope will take place Thursday, April 5 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles. Presented by Hope’s Music and Entertainment Industry Group and Future Hope, the dance party will raise funds for cancer research and is proudly supported by BMI. 3OH!3 will deliver an anticipated DJ…
Queen, the Script, Andrew Frampton, Fraser T. Smith & more honored at 2011 BMI London Awards
BMI celebrated Europe and Asia’s premier songwriters, composers and music publishers tonight during its annual BMI London Awards. Guests filled London’s Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane to toast the past year’s most-performed songs on U.S. radio and television. Songwriters and composers honored at the event are members of European and Asian…
Tracie Verlinde Promoted to BMI Executive Director, Writer/Publisher Relations
BMI has promoted Tracie Verlinde to Executive Director, Writer/Publisher Relations, Los Angeles. The announcement was made by Barbara Cane, Vice President & General Manager, Writer/Publisher Relations, Los Angeles. Verlinde will continue to report to Cane, and will share oversight of the Los Angeles Writer/Publishers Relations department with her. She was…
Benny Blanco Fills in the Blanks
Benny Blanco, the 22-year-old songwriter and producer with a string of hits to his credit, is driving through Los Angeles talking about how he has always loved music. Since he was a kid growing up in suburban Virginia—pulling out the stereo in the middle of his parents’ dinner parties to…
3OH!3 Ride High on ‘Streets of Gold’
Nathaniel “Nat” Motte and Sean Foreman, the duo who make up 3OH!3, have come a long way since the days when they were fellow students at the University of Colorado, hanging around the Boulder hip-hop scene and making their first recordings in Nat’s “creepy” basement. They’ve been riding a wave…
BMI Offers Bold Breakout Performers During Lollapalooza
BMI is proud to present the performers on its 2010 Lollapalooza stage. Running August 6, 7, and 8 at Grant Park’s Hutchinson Field in Chicago, IL, BMI’s stage will kick off performances at 11:15 a.m. each day, setting the pace at the mammoth music festival. The BMI/Lollapalooza stage, a superstar…
3Oh!3’s Music Thing
According to 3Oh!3 rapper/beatmaster Nathaniel Motte, the whole “music thing” started out as just a hobby. About four years ago, Motte met Sean Foreman in a physics class at the University of Colorado. Discovering shared tastes in music, the duo began composing original tracks, honing a bawdy live act that…