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BMI will present the Troubadour Award to ZZ Top‘s Billy Gibbon during a reception in Nashville on Monday, September 18th. The honor recognizes a songwriter who has made a profound impact on the creative community.
As his band’s main songwriter, Gibbons’s credits include “Sharp Dressed Man,“ “Legs“ and “La Grange.”
BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) was founded in 1939 to represent songwriters and protect the public performances of their music.
Led Zeppelin’s 1971 song “Stairway To Heaven” (from the band’s “Led Zeppelin IV” album) is among the National Recording Registry’s 2023 inductees – released on 4/12. The song was composed by the band’s guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant (pictured with the band’s bassist John Paul Jones on the far left with drummer John Bonham…
1. Metallica (pictured above): 72 Seasons The eleventh studio album by the group made its Billboard 200 debut at number two. It also topped the charts for vinyl albums, top rock albums, top hard rock albums, and top album sales. Key Tracks: 72 Seasons, Screaming Suicide, Lux Æterna and If Darkness Had A Son Metallica…
Visions Of Atlantis have released their ninth studio effort, “Pirates II – Armada.” The set features the tracks “Monsters” and “Armada.” Influenced by Nightwish and fascinated by the myth of Atlantis, the band was founded in ’00. Visions Of Atlantis can count 15 former members. As part of the turnover, they went through four female vocalists…
According to a recent tally by Kworb.net Linkin Park has two songs that have exceeded the billion streams mark on Spotify. “In The End” (1.7 billion streams) and “Numb” (1.465 billion streams) are the ones. “In The End” is on Linkin Park‘s ’00 debut album, “Hybrid Theory” while “Numb” is from the band’s ’03 set…
“Recording it was really fun, full of lots of dancing in the studio,” guitarist/vocalist Lucia de la Garza said in a statement regarding the band’s upcoming LP, “No Obligation,” due October 11th. The lead single is “All In My Head.” “I wrote ‘All In My Head,’ from the perspective of a book character, which kinda…
Nirvana was credited for taking Grunge to the mainstream. They also put a merciful end to “Hair Metal,” which was in a steep decline anyway. Still, the band deserved every accolade it received. But whenever there was a list of great Gunge songs you could bet “Smells Like Teen Spirit” would land at #1 with…