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The R. Kelly-penned title track from Whitney Houston’s comeback effort I Look To You has been offered up as a download from the big-voiced singer’s official site, for the price of an e-mail address. Also coming along with the track is the news that the album will now be out a day earlier than originally planned: It’s coming out on Monday, Aug. 31, just in time for it to be eligible for next year’s Grammys. (Recall that they’re now closing their eligibility period for next February’s ceremony on that absurdly early date.) Here’s the song, for those of you who can’t wait to get your e-mail from whitneyhouston@arista.com: More »
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The Grammys Will No Longer Hippety-Hop For The Year’s Best Polka Recording
Fri Jun 5 2009 by Maura
Sure, the Grammy Awards have been accused of being stodgy and out of touch with the way people consume music in the recent past, a charge that was perhaps fortified when the National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences announced that its cutoff date for next year’s awards ceremony would be a month earlier than this year’s, thus setting the stage to allow albums released on Sept. 1, 2009 to be flogged by the ceremony in early 2011. Perhaps as a way to offset this change, the Academy has decided to shake up some of the niche categories–and among those changes is the elimination of the Best Polka Album category, which was last won by Jimmy Sturr’s Let The Whole World Sing. The full list of changes, which will reduce the number of awards being given out on Grammy Night 2010 to 109, after the jump. More »
