Tonight at 10p.m., CBS airs the Grammy Awards Nomination Concert, a splashy special co-hosted by Taylor Swift (whose album Red, despite having come out in 2012, won’t be recognized this year due to the eligibility calendar). So who will be nominated? We have a few minimally educated guesses: Read More
In an instance of digging one’s own hole yet deeper, Dave Grohl has issued a statement on his Grammy speech of last weekend. At the Grammys, the Foo Fighters lead singer implicitly criticized many of the other acts nominated for their overreliance on technology:
Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and Read More
With this past weekend’s Grammys, producer Scott Rudin became the latest entertainer to earn the ugly, ineffective title of “EGOT”–having won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. (His new Grammy was for The Book of Mormon.) He’s one of only eleven such winners–and the first in a decade. We demand yet Read More
March 2012: “Chris Brown Meets With Nelson Mandela, Who Thanks Him for Service to Mankind”
April 2012: “Nicki Minaj To Record Note-for-Note Cover of ‘Like a Prayer’ Featuring Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne”
August 2012: “Rihanna Releases Seventh Album”
September 2012: “Lady Gaga To Release Album of Standards Sung A Capella, No Longer Wear High Read More
The Grammys—and the subsquent flood of questions like “Who Is Arcade Fire?” and “Who Is Esperanza Spalding?”—may be a distant memory at this point, but Steve Stoute, a former music executive based in New York, and now an advertising executive with Translation, hasn’t forgotten. On Sunday, he placed an open Read More
A number of interesting things happened today. But the devil’s in the details. Let’s see if you were paying attention!
Which 1990s TV star is going to come back with a reality show about her macadamia nut farm?
What is Nicole Kidman’s favorite pop song?
Who should newly minted Read More
An eagle-eyed Twitter user caught Us Weekly in an embarrassing mix-up last night–a story about Lady Gaga’s acceptance speech shout-out to Whitney Houston was illustrated with a photo of last night’s performer Yolanda Adams. The trouble may stem to a mislabeled Getty Images photo of Adams–one photo was inadvertently labeled “Whitney Read More
