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Live-Blogging The 2009 Grammys: Where The Winners Don’t Count As Much As The Ability To Bring In Ratings
7:30 AM on Sun Feb 8 2009 by Maura
Welcome to Idolator’s liveblog of the 2009 Grammy Awards, a year in which there will be more spectacle and less award-doling than ever. Well, at least it seems that way: The 3 1/2-hour telecast will have no more than 10 brass gramophones handed out during its running time, presumably because the music industry decided that what it really needed to give it a shot in the arm was a slightly more pretentious version of the Video Music Awards. (And yes, that is Paul McCartney being That Guy—or rather, the Bret Michaels-pioneered variation on That Guy who wears a shirt advertising his own projects—above.) Full minute-by-minute coverage after the jump!
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U2 To Debut Its New Single In The Name Of Love
9:45 AM on Fri Jan 16 2009 by Maura
U2’s “Get On Your Boots,” a song title that has received some grammatical criticism from certain quarters of my buddy list, debuts this coming Monday at 3 a.m. ET on the Irish radio station 2FM. Do you think Bono is really really excited that the new U2 song is premiering on Martin Luther King Day? I know, I know, it’s debuting on Irish radio and MLK Day is a US holiday, but it has to be sorta deliberate, right?
Bono Would Like The Road To Rise Gently To Meet You (And Frank Sinatra)
9:45 AM on Mon Jan 12 2009 by Maura
So, Bono’s first New York Times column appeared in yesterday’s paper, and the topic at hand was not poverty or world peace or even losing that hat of his a few years back but Frank Sinatra’s Duets. Which just so happens to be an album that, hey what do you know, Bono himself appeared on. The overall gist of the column is about the uncertainty surrounding the present day and the duality of moments and how a true artist can bring duality and complexity out of his work. All well and good, but I couldn’t help flashing back to monologues from the 1991 film The Commitments, about an Irish soul band with lofty (some might even say Bono-like!) aspirations but only limited success, while trying to get through Bono’s slightly purple prose. After the jump, try to pick which quotes from the movie and which are from yesterday’s Week In Review section.
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What It Takes To Get A Cover Feature In The “Phoenix New Times”: Little Talent, Big Ads?
12:15 PM on Fri Jan 9 2009 by Dan Gibson
Say a band lacks a record deal, an actual fanbase, or product to purchase, yet possesses a lifespan that’s as long as the cash in the drummer’s pocket holds up. Would that be the sort of band you’d like your local alt-weekly to dedicate 4500+ words to? If you live in the greater Phoenix area, you’re in luck, because Hollywood Heartthrob, an act that can’t even get its official site on the first page of the Google search for its name, is on the cover of the Phoenix New Times this week!
