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everybody's a winner

BET Awards Honor The Young, The Old, The Dead, And The-Dream

The list of winners from last night's BET Awards is full of fascination and surprise for any nerd who can't help but care. Did the right "feat. T-Pain" win Best Collaboration? (Yes.) Is Missy Elliott doing better than any female artist who actually released an album in the last year? (Lil' Mama was robbed!) Did UGK deserve "Best Group" and "Best Video" more than Playaz' Circle and Ashanti or was it just a tribute to the passing Pimp C? (Both.) Kanye over Lil' Wayne? (Weezy will have to settle for Viewer's Choice.) Chris Brown over Ne-Yo? (A tragic tear under a tilted hat.) More »

3:45 PM on Wed Jun 25 2008
By Anthony Miccio
244 views, 8 comments

Latest by n/a: So how exactly does one make the Video of the Year, and NOT be named Video Director of the year? more »

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"Mojo" Takes The Idea Of Everyone Being A Winner Very Seriously

The UK magazine Mojo loves to look back as it looks forward, so it's probably no surprise that its Mojo Honours, the reader-generated awards given out last night, were led by Duffy's "Mercy," a cauldron of throwbacks that flounced away with the evening's Song Of The Year Award. In addition to a few cursory nods in the direction of new-ish music (Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! won Best Album, while Led Zeppelin got the Best Live Act nod for its one show earlier this year), a bunch of seemingly interchangeable laurels went to Mojo staples. More »

12:30 PM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Maura Johnston
218 views, 5 comments

Latest by anawolken: I'd love to see Duffy... oh wait. She cancelled her Austin City Limits appearance. DOH! more »

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Eurovision Gets Timbalanded


It could be residual inspirational song ear-cheese from last week's American Idol finale, but on first listen I was pretty convinced that Dima Bilan's "Believe," which won the 2008 Eurovision song contest on Saturday night, was an amalgam of this country's Lite-FM staples of the past 12 years—the Enrique Iglesias opening, the bits of Lonestar's "Amazed" and Mariah Carey's various mid-'90s ballads that are strewn throughout. (Although the yoga-ish dancing is, uh, quite original.) Finding out that the recorded version of the track was produced by Timbaland was merely the icing on my "this song would not exist without the songs it is made up of" cake, and it should serve as an ominous sign that the iconic producer has moved on from simply ripping himself off to taking "inspiration" from the songs that his earliest productions provided a radio respite from. More »

9:00 AM on Tue May 27 2008
By Maura Johnston
266 views, 3 comments

Latest by n/a: Wow, that first song/performance is so incredibly horrible in every way that it makes me warm inside that such a thing could actually get both played and lauded on TV. more »

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Kenny Chesney Is Not All That Impressed By The Wisdom Of Crowds

Sure, Kenny Chesney may have won his fourth straight Entertainer Of The Year Award at last night's Academy of Country Music Awards, but he's not all that happy with it! Why? Because he feels like the newly introduced element of fan voting has turned the award "into a sweepstakes to see who can push people's buttons the hardest on the Internet," instead of recognition from the winner's peers. If he'd added in "and a gimmick to cheaply drive up traffic to whatever Web site is hosting the awards for future purposes of advertising pitches," I would be in 100% agreement with him! More »

2:45 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Maura Johnston
516 views, 7 comments

Latest by n/a: "I love them boys"??? Nah,too easy. Anyway,the fact that they both are so popular really make me sad. The Waylon Jennings song "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?" come to mind. more »

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Miranda Lambert Is The Academy Of Country Music Awards' Kind Of Crazy

Miranda Lambert's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend took home the Album Of The Year prize at last night's ACM Awards, which were held in Las Vegas. Sugarland, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, and Kenny Chesney each won two awards on the evening; among Chesney's hardware was the Entertainer Of The Year Award, which was voted on by some half-million fans in the first year that the ACM opened the award-giving floodgates to the masses. Lest you think that Chesney's win was some sort of margarita-lubricated fluke, know that this is actually the fourth straight year he's won the award. Because everybody loves a party! Full list of winners after the jump. More »

8:53 AM on Mon May 19 2008
By Maura Johnston
413 views, 11 comments

Latest by noliebro: I was so exctied that Miranda Lambert was recognized for that album..she is one of the best/least known artists currently...she is one of the better country artists in my lifetime more »

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The Mojo Honours Help A Lazy Blogger Break Through

While I'm a good boy about keeping up with the pop singles chart, when it comes to classier, indie-oriented stuff I tend to focus on the familiar. Last night I hunkered down with Sun Kil Moon's April, The Gutter Twins' Saturnalia, and Portishead's Third, all great albums from artists who made their biggest impression well over a decade ago. So it's not a total surprise that I hadn't heard any of the five nominees for the Mojo Honours' Breakthrough Act Of 2008. But it gave me an excuse to get familiar with singles from Duffy, Foals, Bon Iver, Pete Molinari, and the Last Shadow Puppets. More »

10:45 AM on Thu May 1 2008
By Anthony Miccio
408 views, 11 comments

Latest by n/a: I dig Bon Iver, but I feel like most of his fan base is either people (like myself) that are from Western Wisconsin, or people who found his Unabomber-esque press release captivating. more »

As if she hasn't been battling herself enough these days, Amy Winehouse will face off against Amy Winehouse in the "Best Song Musically & Lyrically" category of this year's Ivor Novello Awards, which are given to UK songwriters and composers who pass muster with their peers. Going up against "Love Is A Losing Game" and "You Know I'm No Good" is the very Rod Stewarty "Let Me Out" by Ben's Brother, which could win if Winehouse splits the vote, Lord help us. Other nominees include Kate Nash, Klaxons, a band named Cherry Ghost that could pass for Coldplay in a blind taste test, and that awful ringtoney Beyonce/Shakira collaboration. Click on Amy for the list of nominees that have been announced so far.

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The CMT Awards Take "One-Hit Wonder" Jokes To An Uncomfortable New Level

Last night's CMT Music Awards—the country-music television network's version of its sister network MTV's Video Music Awards—veered into "a little more than slightly excruciating" territory when co-host Miley Cyrus tripped her way through a Taylor Swift intro in which she talked about texting the glittery-guitar-hoisting country protege incessantly, an endless setup to what would be one of many "ha ha, Dad, I'm paying your bills!" zingers that the Hannah Montana star sent in the direction of her father/svengali, "Achy Breaky Heart" singer Billy Ray Cyrus. (Yes, he performed the line dance that sent him and his mullet to stardom back in 1992, the same year his cash cow was sired.) The opening skit, in which Trace Adkins and his really greasy mop tried currying favor with everyone from Donald Trump to the three remaining Presidential candidates in order to get passes to the show, also mined that route; its final punchline was that Billy Ray was making extra scratch by scalping tickets, which were of course hot properties because of his daughter's presence. That girl is going to be so messed up in three years. Full list of winners—which includes three awards for Kellie Pickler, two for Taylor Swift, and one for that super-creepy video where Jon Bon Jovi and Leann Rimes make out—after the jump. More »

9:15 AM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,266 views, 11 comments

Latest by Silverfuture: @Clevertrousers: You're obviously out-of-touch and elitist. more »

Bob Dylan was awarded a "special citation" from the Pulitzer Prize committee today, only the 38th person to receive such an honor in the 92-year history of the prize. "With Dylan we are recognizing a body of work," prize administrator Sig Gissler told the Columbia Spectator. "The Citation also reflects the effort of the Board over the last four years to broaden the scope of the music prize," which was given to Bang On A Can founder David Lang this year and which discovered the genre of jazz sometime around 1996. At this rate, Radiohead will win the music Pulitzer by 2045! If the awards still exist, that is. [Columbia Spectator]

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Feist Feels The Weight Of Toting Around Five Juno Statues

Starbucks fave and allegedly swoonworthy singer-songwriter Feist was the big winner at last night's Juno Awards—you know, the Grammys of Canada?—sweeping the Single of the Year, Album of the Year, and Pop Album Year categories and taking home the awards for Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year as well. But the fans were not having any of it, handing Michael Bublé his only award of the night through voting on the Juno Web site. Yeah, you tell them what side of the smooth-music coin you like, people of Canada! Full list of winners—which is absent of the words "Avril," "Lavigne," and "Celine," but does have Finger Eleven and Ozzy Osbourne—after the jump. More »

9:15 AM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Maura Johnston
454 views, 13 comments

Latest by MrStarhead: @tigerpop: And I want to know when Tanya Donelly started rapping! more »

Vitamin B12 aficionado Justin Timberlake will be hosting the ESPY Awards on July 20. "I'll do my best to deliver a great show, as I do not want to be roughed up backstage by these athletes who are bigger, faster and stronger than me," said Justin. Rrrrrright. [AP]

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"NME" Attempts To Establish Its Brand In US By Piggybacking Off Other Brands

The NME—which has taken to branding itself as "The World's Fastest Music News Service," which I guess is their way of sidestepping allegations about its accuracy—will hold the American version of its Shockwaves Awards on April 23 in Los Angeles, and you aren't invited. But don't worry! You can stream the whole thing on MySpace, thanks to one of those partnership deals that press releases trumpet as "exclusive" and jaded eyes read as "last-ditch attempts to make people on this side of the pond care about a brand that doesn't really mean much to them unless they're really into overly breathless prose and/or Billy Childish." More »

11:30 AM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Maura Johnston
260 views, 1 comment

Latest by CarsmileSteve: hurray for linking to 8 year old FT pieces ;) unfortunately the link from there doesn't work, will have a dig round see if i can find an update... more »

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The PLUG Awards Give The Kids One More Chance To Honor The Arcade Fire

Last night, the PLUG Independent Music Awards—the only awards show in town where having categories honoring "Album Of The Year" and "Indie Rock Album Of The Year" seems both indulgent and redundant—were presented at Terminal 5, in a ceremony that was hosted by Patton Oswalt, apparently ditched last year's dumb skits, and culminated in a Nick Cave show. While there weren't many surprises in the list of honorees (apparently, many people who vote in Internet music polls like the Arcade Fire and live in New York City), I'd like to give a special shout-out to Online Record Store Of The Year iTunes, who proved that the right combination of canny song placement and driving the labels crazy with your success can give you bucketloads of cred among the indie cognoscenti. Full list of winners after the jump. More »

1:00 PM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Maura Johnston
384 views, 7 comments

Latest by Dickdogfood: You reffed Alex in NYC! more »

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NME To Bring Its Incessant Arctic Monkeys Lauding To The US

Hot on the heels of its Alex Turner-loving, George Bush-hating awards show last week, the NME has decided that it's going to bring a version of the NME Awards to the United States, and that said awards will be "in recognition of great American alternative talent past, present and future." The voting process—which is going on right now, and which will allow the magazine to harvest even more e-mail addresses in its attempt to become a force in the American "alternative/independent" music scene, even though the precise definition of that slashed term is still a bit dodgy thanks in part to the past few years' watercolor-like runniness between "indie" and music that is actually, y'know, independent—will culminate in a private ceremony held in Los Angeles next month. (What, you thought that voting would get you in? Silly kids! That's not how pseudo-event-styled democracy works!) The full list of categories that you can nominate artists for, after you offer up your name, address, year of birth, and blood type to the mag's publishers, is after the jump. More »

11:20 AM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Maura Johnston
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The big winners at tonight's Brit Awards: the Arctic Monkeys (Best British Group, Best British Album), Take That (pictured; Best Live Act, Best British Single), and the Foo Fighters (Best International Group, Best International Album). Also, Amy Winehouse performed twice, although her collaboration with Mark Ronson lost in the Best British Single competition to, yes, Take That. Boy bands will never die! Full list of winners after the jump. [Photo: AP]

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The Kids Choice Awards: More Songs About Girls

In the shadow of the Grammys and their tributes to the aged come the nominations for the Kids Choice Awards, the Nickelodeon-sponsored awards for tween faves that have somehow been around for 21 years. While the four music-related categories do include single nods to Disney stars Miley Cyrus (Best Female Singer; she's also up for Television Actress) and the Jonas Brothers (Best Music Group, where they're up against Boys Like Girls, Fall Out Boy, and Linkin Park), the true winner is somehow Fergie, who is up against Cyrus in the Best Female Singer category and whose "Big Girls Don't Cry" is a nominee for Best Song, a category where three of the four nominees have the world "Girl" in them. Full list of music nominees after the jump. More »

10:15 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Maura Johnston
391 views, 3 comments

Latest by the rich girls are weeping: Something seems really ... off here, just in general -- esp. the song nominations. Was this list generated like, six months ago? more »

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Michael Jackson To Stand On Stage For A To-Be-Determined Length Of Time This Sunday

With the Grammys only five days away—can you taste the excitement?—more news of who's going to appear on the Sunday night telecast has crossed the transom:

• Michael Jackson will appear onstage at Sunday night's ceremony, but he has apparently "won a stare-down" against the producers, who wanted him to perform a medley of reworked Thriller hits. So instead, he'll just... stand around? Wave his glove in the air? Who knows. The upside: The chance of an Akon appearance just dropped by about 66%. [Rush & Molloy]
• In news that is sure to excite the Oprah crowd, Andrea Bocelli and Josh Groban are going to duet on a Celine Dion song. Also, Fergie is performing with John Legend and John Fogerty is going to share a stage with Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis. [Centre Daily]
• Amy Winehouse went to the US embassy in London yesterday in order to secure a visa for travel to the States; while her dad doesn't want her to perform because of her fragile state, her label and Grammy organizers are hoping she'll show up. Because they care that much. (NB: I don't think reporting this bit of news breaks our Winehouse embargo; Jess disagrees.) [E!]
[Photo: AP]

10:00 AM on Tue Feb 5 2008
By Maura Johnston
979 views, 3 comments

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The Grammys: The User-Generated Excitement Sort Of Continues


The Grammys have picked the people who are going to perform on stage with the Foo Fighters—in a John Paul Jones-conducted orchestra—during next week's telecast, and judging by the 15 people picked the orchestra is going to be heavy on the strings and trumpets, and light on pretty much everything else. Three of the finalists will then compete for a "featured" slot, and judging by the view counts on the videos—none of which have broken the magic 100,000 viewed mark—said slot will likely go to a violin player. Above, the audition of one of the chosen, 18-year-old Chicago resident Andrew Pearson. It's pretty straightforward, thus further cementing the fact that we won't be witnessing any Robyn Troup-being-ogled moments during this year's ceremony—which is probably why the committee rejected a flutist named Charmian, whose performance of "The Pretender" made me think that she was going to bust into "Hips Don't Lie" at any moment: More »

9:30 AM on Fri Feb 1 2008
By Maura Johnston
168 views, 3 comments

Latest by Jon Can Dance: What's with all the wrist accessories? more »