Jessa Gelt is joining BMI as Associate Director, Writer-Publisher Relations, in the Los Angeles office. She will be responsible for recruiting and developing indie/alternative and ...

The Nashville startup company, TweelX, plans to sell shares of songs, in the form of a percentage of publishing royalties, to individuals, record labels and ...

Los Angeles-based songwriter Mike Schmid won the top position of the USA Songwriting Competition. Schmid won Overall Grand Prize as well as the first prize ...

John Braheny: 1938-2013 John Braheny, the man known as the “Songwriters Best Friend,” and the author of the best-selling book The Craft and Business of ...

One of Music Connection's "Favorite Signings of 2012," A$AP Rocky and his A$AP Worldwide/Polo Grounds Music/RCA Records debut album LONG.LIVE.A$AP has entered at No. 1 on ...

"Moves Like Jagger” burrows into the consciousness with multiple hooks and a maddening insistence. The chart-topping Grammy-nominated song by Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera is ...

Foo Fighters mainman Dave Grohl has made a documentary, Sound City: Real to Reel, about the legendary Sound City recording studio in Los Angeles. The movie features interviews with ...

BMI’s Los Angeles-based Urban department held a holiday mixer at the West Restaurant inside the Hotel Angeleno in Beverly Hills, CA. Guests donated used coats, hats, gloves, ...

SESAC has welcomed artist-songwriter James Otto for representation. Otto, who topped the charts with “Just Got Started Lovin’ You,” is currently in the studio working on his ...

Disney Music Publishing, Nashville has signed Melissa Peirce to its growing writer roster in a partnership deal between Disney Music Publishing and Pat Higdon’s Patrick ...