In this issue: Dave Simons Gives Tips on Using Studio Tools to Enhance the Sound of Live Recordings Inside Royal Studios with Soul Legend Al Green BMI Honours Ellie Goulding and Tems at 2022 BMI London Awards In Conversation with Composer Jeff…
BMI Composer Scott Healy Featured Guest at ASMAC Luncheon
GRAMMY-nominated BMI composer, producer, pianist and multi-keyboardist, Scott Healy, was the featured guest at a luncheon hosted by the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers on Wednesday, March 16, at Catalina’s Jazz Club in Hollywood. Best-known for playing in the house band for Conan O’Brien: first on Late Night in…
10 Questions With Scott Healy
The talented composer on the process and inspiration behind his debut album
BMI Songwriters Recognized by Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013
Broadcast Music, Inc. songwriter Sam Cooke, who was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, is again being recognized for his work with the 2013 Songwriters Hall of Fame Towering Song Award for “A Change Is Gonna Come.” The 44th Annual Induction and Awards Dinner on Thursday, June…
10 Questions: Jared Faber
Los Angeles-based composer Jared Faber takes a unique approach to film and television scoring: a songwriter’s. “I’ve always been a fan of great songs and songwriting. I feel like I come at my composing from that direction,” Faber explains. Indeed, strong melody lines and tight phrasing are hallmarks of Faber’s work…
Mariah Carey, Drake, Lil Wayne, EMI Music Publishing & More Honored at BMI Urban Awards
Ester Dean, Kane Beatz, Nicki Minaj and Pop Wansel also take top honors
Mariah Carey to be Named BMI Icon at Annual BMI Urban Awards
Event Honoring Top Hip-Hop, Pop & R&B Songwriters to be Held Sept. 7 in Beverly Hills
Anthony Hamilton Picks Up the Pace with ‘Back to Love’
“I haven’t been on a swing in years,” Anthony Hamilton explains as he glides on a friend’s swing in North Carolina. The Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter is taking breather as 2012 sets in, coming off the high of his recent release Back to Love. With a decade invested in music, Hamilton has…
The Bo-Keys Reclaim Memphis R&B
The late Memphis music genius Jim Dickinson theorized that the city’s spirits — from its historic musicians to the buffalo herds that once roamed the bluffs along the Mississippi River — linger on to provide inspiration for today’s seekers. If that’s true, the Bo-Keys’ leader Scott Bomar must be a medium.…
Library of Congress Announces 2010 Additions to National Recording Registry
The Library of Congress has named the 25 new additions to the ninth annual National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, which will ensure that these cultural, artistic and historical recordings are always available to the American public. Included among them are works that demonstrate the depth and breadth of…