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Taylor Swift Performs ‘Hunger Games’ Single “Safe and Sound” In Nashville
Fri Jan 13 2012 by Guest Editor
Last night, the up and coming Joy Williams and John Paul White of the band The Civil Wars were performing to a sold-out crowd at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. Halfway through their concert, Williams jokingly introduces a guest performer who “hasn’t had much time on stage" and “is really new at writing songs.” And out came Taylor Swift for the first live performance of "Safe and Sound", their collaboration for The Hunger Games soundtrack. Watch below.
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New Grammy Rules: Fewer Awards For Everybody!
Wed Apr 6 2011 by Becky Bain
All awards shows are pressured by naysayers and critics to keep revitalizing the show to keep the interest of the viewing public, and the Grammy Academy is caving in to make some serious changes. The Grammys will be cutting over 30 categories altogether and combining others, including some major ones. Get ready for artists to get even more competitive than they already are! More »
Grammys Change Best New Artist Rules One Year Too Late For Gaga
Wed Jul 7 2010 by Becky Bain
Likely due to Lady Gaga's snub last year in the Best New Artist category, the Grammy Academy has changed the eligibility rules when nominating new artists. So how does this effect next year's race? More »
Miley Cyrus, Ke$ha, Justin Bieber To Present At The Grammys
Thu Jan 14 2010 by Robbie Daw
The 52nd annual Grammy Awards ceremony is finally coming together. Nominations? Check. Slew of nominees booked to belt out their tunes live? Got it. First time performers Bon Jovi tangled up in an online-voting promotional campaign? Covered.
All that's really left are the presenters, and the first wave of those were announced this morning. See who will be handing out Grammy gold to the lucky winners after the jump! More »
All that's really left are the presenters, and the first wave of those were announced this morning. See who will be handing out Grammy gold to the lucky winners after the jump! More »
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?
Breaking Down The 2010 Grammy Nominations
Thu Dec 3 2009 by Robbie Daw
LL Cool J hosted the The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!!—Countdown To Music’s Biggest Night on CBS last night, while Nick Jonas debuted new song “Who I Am” and the Black Eyed Peas, Sugarland and Maxwell all performed in between nomination announcements. (Hey, wait—BEP, Sugarland and Maxwell all got Grammy nods, too. What a coincidence!)
Hop below to check out a few observations and key points about the 2010 Grammy nominees. More »
2010 Grammy Nominees Predictions And Wish List
Tue Dec 1 2009 by Robbie Daw
We’re down to just one day before the announcement of the 2010 Grammy nominations, and before the academy makes it all official we figured we’d weigh in with some thoughts on who’s likely to be singled out. (For the love of God, no “Boom Boom Pow”!) The lucky nominees will be announced tomorrow night during CBS’s LL Cool J-hosted The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!!—Countdown To Music’s Biggest Night telecast, which is slated to include performances from the Black Eyed Peas, Nick Jonas, Sugarland and Maxwell.
Right off the bat, we’ll go out on a short limb and acknowledge that Beyonce, Green Day and Taylor Swift are probably all shoe-ins for numerous nominations. Also, it’s already clear that it’s a no-go for Lady Gaga in the Best New Artist category. Still, we’re crossing our fingers that the Recording Academy will throw a curve ball or two this year, if for no other reason than to stand out from some of the more recent yawn-inducing awards show choices.
Below are our predictions for who’s probably going to make the ballot in the four main categories of the Grammy fest’s general field, based on such scientific data as the strength of our gag reflex when we review lists of the various tunes radio programmers jammed down our throats during the past 12 months. But screw the obvious! We also included our own wish list of picks for who ought to receive nods for Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Record Of The Year and Best New Artist. More »
Whitney Houston Will Probably Feel The Grammy Love Next February
Tue Jul 28 2009 by Maura
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 »
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 »
Inside The Grammy Pressroom: Despair, DSL, And Bodacious Bananas
Tue Feb 17 2009 by Maura
Randall Roberts’ piece on being inside the Grammy press room for the first time was a somewhat intriguing slice-of-journalists’-mundane-lives take on interviewing the winners of the Feb. 8 awards show, with tidbits about access ($400 for a DSL hookup?!) and quotes that didn’t make it out to the wires (including a few from the owner of reissue haven Dust-to-Digital, whose Art of the Field Recording Vol. 1: nabbed the Best Historical Album trophy) sprinkled throughout. It even engendered a thoughtful response from Variety scribe Phil Gallo, who lightly swatted Roberts on the nose while adding a bit of historical perspective to his notes on what he termed “a dying industry covering another dying industry.” Too bad, then, that it all had to go sour at the end, when Roberts popped a banana about Katy Perry’s trip to Fruitopia that night:
