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Grammy Awards 2010: Who Will Win Album Of The Year?
Fri Jan 29 2010 by Robbie Daw
Now that we've thrown our money into the office Grammy pool for who will clinch Best New Artist, Song and Record Of The Year (not to mention which artists will walk away a golden phonograph in the Pop categories), there's just one more loose end to tie up: Album Of The Year. In the E.N.D., will it be fearlessness, fame or fierceness that wins out?
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Green Day, Pink, Lady Gaga Set To Rock The Grammy Stage
Tue Jan 5 2010 by Robbie Daw
Last month it was announced that Beyonce and Taylor Swift, the artists with the most Grammy nominations this year, would be performing at the awards show ceremony on January 31. Now news comes that five more acts will be taking the stage, all of whom are 2010 Grammy nominees: Green Day, Lady Gaga, Pink, Zac Brown Band and Dave Matthews Band.
Given the fact that the Black Eyed Peas were already slated to perform, all five nominees in the Album Of The Year category (BEP, Beyonce, DMB, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift) will now be in attendance and belting out their material live come Grammy night. Who do you think is going to win?
Given the fact that the Black Eyed Peas were already slated to perform, all five nominees in the Album Of The Year category (BEP, Beyonce, DMB, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift) will now be in attendance and belting out their material live come Grammy night. Who do you think is going to win?
Crabby Columnist Would Like You To Get Off His (City Park’s) Lawn
Tue Oct 6 2009 by Maura
Some crankypants Austin American-Statesman columnist took in his first music festival this weekend, when he attended the Austin City Limits Festival, his hometown’s muddy three-day extravaganza that featured Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, and a slew of other bands. Most festival reportage tends to gloss over the hinkiness of events like these—the gradual deterioration of the venues’ PortaPotty army, the dust-flecked food, the shirtless bros who turn their favorite bands’ sets into a campfire singalong—but Ken Herman went right into the mud, and wound up slinging some of his own! More »
Jay-Z’s First-Week Sales: Not Quite Eminem-Level, But Not Bad By Any Stretch
Wed Sep 16 2009 by Maura
Unsurprisingly, Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 debuted atop today’s Billboard 200, thanks to sales of 476,000 copies in the time that elapsed between its release last Tuesday and Sunday night. But how did Jay’s first-week numbers fare in the more rarefied arena of No. 1 debuts? I crunched a few numbers to figure out just how all of the albums that topped the charts in their first week of sales fared, and came away slightly surprised! More »
Well, Slap Me Silly And Call Me A Lamestain: Gen X Radio Debuts
Fri Sep 4 2009 by Maura
Clear Channel has flipped one of its Louisville stations to a format called “Louie,” which the bigwigs are actually saying is the first firmament in what will be come to known as “Gen X radio.” Yes, the generation that inspired so much Boomer disdain is finally getting a format to call all its own, although the music associated with it may not be what you necessarily think of when you think of slackers and Singles. Quoth CC market president Bill Gentry: “It’s focused on a musical experience… [that] crosses cultures from grunge, hip-hop, hair bands, boy bands and more.” And another CC higher-up has this to say: “[Louie will] capture how 30-somethings listen to music, and it ignores genres and categories.” Sounds sorta Jack-y to me, but then again, perhaps that ill-conceived marketing will inspire further nostalgia for those 30somethings who remember all too well being ineptly pandered to back in the day. The playlist of Louie’s inaugural hour after the jump. More »
Ten Bands That Should (And Ten Bands That Shouldn’t) Grace Us With A Cover Of “Yakety Sax”
Wed Aug 19 2009 by Maura
I don’t know about you, but the dog days of August are making me long for some levity. And what better way to bring in some hilarity than to think about the late Boots Randolph’s delightful “Yakety Sax,” a.k.a. “that Benny Hill Show song,” a.k.a. the best way to make any YouTube clip hilarious? Noted “Yakety Sax” enthusiast Jess Harvell and I put together a pair of lists related to the song—namely, a top 10 countdown of artists who need to cover the song soon, and a counterpoint list of 10 artists who should never get within a 25-mile radius of its implied hilarity, for fear of ruining it for all time. The countdowns after the jump. More »
The Dave Matthews Band Throw A New Orleans Funeral Parade
Tue Jun 2 2009 by Maura
Our look at the closing lines of the week’s biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to the seventh studio album by the Dave Matthews Band, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, which arrives in stores today: More »
Austin City Limits To Party Like It’s 1997
Tue Apr 28 2009 by Maura
Pearl Jam, the Dave Matthews Band, the Beastie Boys, and Kings of Leon are at the head of the 130ish-artist lineup for the Austin City Limits Festival, which takes place in the Texas capital’s Zilker Park from Oct. 2 to Oct. 4. Tickets are $185; the genre-spanning bill also includes Lily Allen, the Supersuckers, Daniel Johnston, a bunch of blog bands, and the Jack White/Allison Mossheart superishgroup The Dead Weather. And the Toadies! Full lineup after the jump. More »
Dave Matthews Continues “Cutting Out The Middleman” Trend
Tue Apr 14 2009 by Maura
Dave Matthews announced the free availability of… More »
Pearl Jam To Take It Outside
Mon Apr 13 2009 by Maura
Since they’ve been a hot topic around here lately, you might like to know that Pearl Jam has been tabbed as one of the headliners of the Outside Lands Festival, a three-day festival taking place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in late August. The lineup is, to say the least, eclectic: Tom Jones, the Black Eyed Peas, Raphael Saadiq, the Dead Weather, Incubus, M.I.A. and the Dave Matthews Band are also on the bill. Something for everybody, I guess. Full lineup after the jump!
