"When I Look At You" by Miley Cyrus, co-written and produced by John Shanks, wins a Teen Choice Award for Choice Music: Love Song!

Paul Buckmaster has composed several string arrangements for Taylor Swift’s forthcoming album “Speak Now”.

Miley Cyrus' highly anticipated new album "Can't Be Tamed" is produced by John Shanks. The album will be available everywhere June 22nd.

Cincinnati electro-rock duo Bad Veins will release a 4-song EP Outliers on June 15th through Dangerbird Records, the band's first follow up to their highly-praised self-titled debut. The disc features four rarely-heard B-sides, including constant live favorite "Fake Baby." The EP will be available digitally with physical copies sold exclusively during their upcoming whirlwind summer tour with Thrice, also featuring Kevin Devine and The Dig. “The band's secret is Davis’ knack for writing yearning, fuzzed out pop songs that straddle the murky divide between glum rockers the National and the nervous energy of the Strokes.” — MTV.com “Band You Should Know” “Cinematic indie pop that is lavish and grandiose, but completely accessible.” — CMJ.com "A dark, early ‘80s post-punk dance party." - AOL Spinner

The hit show "Glee" features several of Billy Steinberg's biggest hits including "Like A Virgin", "Alone", and "I'll Stand By You."

Diana Vickers' new single "The Boy Who Murdered Love" is co-written by Chris Braide.

MTV's "The Hills" closed the premier of the new season with "Alive" by Leona Lewis. The song was co-written by John Shanks and Danielle Brisebois and produced by John Shanks.

Colbie Caillat's "Fallin' For You" wins big at the BMI Pop Awards. The song was co-written by Rick Nowels and co-produced by Rick Nowels and John Shanks.

Boyzone's new album "Brother" debuts and stays at #1 in the UK for six weeks. The album features the hit single "Love Is A Hurricane" co-written by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois.

The Natasha Bedingfield hit Pocketful Of Sunshine scooped two of the big prizes at last night’s annual BMI London Awards dinner. It won the Robert S Musel award for song of the year as well as taking the college song of the year prize at the event, which is held by the US performing right society to honour some of its most successful UK and European songwriters, composers and music publishers. The awards given recognise the most-performed songs on US radio and television over the past year. Written by Bedingfield and Danielle Brisebois and published by EMI, Pocketful Of Sunshine became one of the biggest UK-sourced hits in the US last year when it reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and it has gone on to sell more than 2m units globally.

From MTV.com: Jersey icons Bon Jovi take over the top spot on next week's Billboard albums chart with their latest, The Circle, which sold about 163,000 copies according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan.

Colbie Caillat's new album "Breakthrough" debuted number one on the Billboard 200 based on the strength of the single "Falling For You" co-produced by John Shanks and Rick Nowels.

Precisely 35 seconds into the opening track of 16 Frames’ debut album, the clouds part and a monumental chorus breaks through. “Then you wake up to the big change/To the breakup done at close range,” sings bandleader Steve Sulikowski, climbing upward through a dense forest of guitars to the top of his range. “And that love is such a cruel thing,” he continues, as he relives this heartbreaking moment, “What you want, you got/But you can’t hold on anymore.” At once intimate and overwhelming, it’s a breathtaking passage, one the listener isn’t prepared for, not only because it happens so quickly, but also because such transcendent moments are so uncommon in 21st century rock. As it turns out, conjoined musical and emotional crescendos are plentiful on Where It Ends, the album in question (released March 24 on Verve), produced by the veteran Matt Serletic (Matchbox 20, Santana’s “Smooth”). Take the album’s first single, “Back Again,” where the lyrics trace the aftermath of a break-up, contemplating the emptiness left behind, while the widescreen musical payoff captures not only the sense of loss, but the fullness of the love affair that has come to an end. Or consider “Coming Home,” its vivid narrative carried along by a cruising groove evoking miles flying by on the interstate, the chorus acting as a door opening to reveal faces from a life left behind. Other tracks, like “My History” and the title song, erupt out of intimate, acoustic essences, the former buoyed by shimmering harmonies redolent of L.A. circa 1972. Then there’s the pivotal “Daylight,” recorded quickly as a demo following the completion of the album, swelling up from a loping, jangly opening to a thrilling goosebump chorus. It was added to the album in its original form, because it was just that good . Every inspired musical touch is there for one reason: to serve the song. Some bands function as democracies; others are shaped around a single-minded sensibility. L.A.-based 16 Frames is wholly the product of Sulikowski’s vision, and his talented bandmates—guitarist Josh Dunahoo, drummer Daniel James and bass player Dylan Wilson, the most recent addition to the lineup—are dedicated to the task of bringing that vision to life. The band name, referring to the rate at which film runs through a projector, isn’t arbitrary. “I think of writing a song as being like making a little movie, with a beginning, middle and end,” Sulikowski explains. “It’s exciting and satisfying to get something that feels complete, even if I’m playing it on an acoustic guitar. I get this high when I come up with a melody, and I chase it, but I beat myself up over these lyrics. I wanted them to make sense, to tell a story—something meaningful to me, so that when I sang a song night after night I could draw from it. I love performing live and I love recording songs—although in the end I’m never really happy with anything I do.” At this he smiles uneasily, not wanting to come off like a tortured artist but unable to play down what he describes as “a weird ordeal.”