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BMI Shows ‘Who’s Next’ at ‘Writers on the Rise’ Event in N.Y.
BMI’s New York Writer/Publisher Relations department hosted its first “Who’s Next: Writers on the Rise” event on Tuesday, Feb. 20 at the Redeye Grill in Manhattan. The packed media reception featured Josiah Bell, Dave Katz, Claude Kelly, Lady GaGa, Lanz, Matthew Mayfield, Curtis Richardson, Steven Sater, Duncan Sheik, Brent Smith of
Shinedown

Pounding out over 200 concerts a year is probably one of the quickest ways for a group to either make it or break it: You’re either demonstrating some pretty solid chops as a band to be reckoned with, or you’re exposing yourselves as never-will-be’s. For the four members of melodic hard-rock band Shinedown, life on the road has definitely landed them in the former category. Indeed, after…
Shinedown Heads Up to BMI NY Office
Shinedown frontman Brent Smith stopped by the BMI New York office recently to say hello and talk about the band's latest Atlantic Records release, Us and Them. The follow-up to their 2003 platinum debut Leave a Whisper, the new album's first single "Save Me" is currently #1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and #3 on the Modern Rock chart.
