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May 6, 2013If you've been reading this whiskey-drenched, devil-horn-throwing column every week for more than a year, here's a little thank-you flashback to the beginning. In one of the first Metal Mondays installments, I talked about the Revolver Golden Gods Awards in Los Angeles--basically the heavy metal Gra ... More >>
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February 11, 2013The Grammys are a huge night for music fans. While we tend to shake our head and wonder how some of these artists won (ie. "Album of the Year"), it's entertaining to watch the live performances and keep fingers crossed for our favorite artists. fun. won big last night, sweeping up the "Song of the Y ... More >>
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October 12, 2012Country artist Shelby Lynne became something of a household name in 1999 when her album I Am Shelby Lynne dropped to immediate critical acclaim. That she had already released five albums seemed not matter to Grammy Award voters who gave her the Best New Artist award.
At this stage in her career, Ly ... More >>
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June 4, 2012There's never been a huge a market for heavy metal music videos. Praise is far and few between, and they don't garner awards like pop music videos, clips like Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance," which won seven MTV Video Music Awards in 2010, and even grabbed a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video.
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February 15, 2012Photo by Brian NevinsIf the Grammy's taught us anything, it's that despite Dave Grohl's apparent objections, electronic dance music, or EDM, has stepped boldly into the spotlight, with artists like Skrillex and Deadmau5 leading the charge toward the mainstream.
Director Amir Bar Lev's RE:GENER ... More >>
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February 13, 2012If Adele could rap, she probably would have won that Grammy as well.
Sunday night's Grammy Awards made for interesting viewing, with Adele's sweep, some amazing tributes, performances, and a downright weird and horrible showing from Nicki Minaj.
Host LL Cool J opened up with a prayer for Whitne ... More >>
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April 6, 2011The Grammy Awards committee has decided to eliminate 31 award categories. Apparently, 109 categories was finally thought to be a little excessive, according to Prefix.Not only have the categories been narrowed down, but some of them have also been combined. It's very likely that this will lead to ... More >>
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February 21, 2011Not pictured: Translation CEO Steve StouteIt looks like there's a new entry for the brilliant Who Is Arcade Fire? tumblr. Unfortunately, this one is longer than 140 characters -- by about a full page in The New York Times. Steve Stoute -- CEO of marketing company Translation and a veter ... More >>
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February 16, 2011This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week.
Here are links to those posts.
Should indie rock fans be happy Arcade Fire won a Grammy or not?What did Justin Bieber's diehard fans do to the ... More >>
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February 14, 2011Arcade Fire It's been less than twenty-four hours since Arcade Fire's amazingly good album The Suburbs won 'Album of the Year' at this year's Grammy Awards. Frankly, I'm still a little shocked that the Grammys got it right for once. When I first heard that the band was nominated I thought for s ... More >>
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Hearts across America have barely started to beat regularly again after last week's amazing finale of Top Chef Masters (congrats, Marcus Samuellson!) and now comes Season 7 of Top Chef. The time-tested Bravo standby will premiere this week, take place in our nation's capital, and, once again, feat ... More >>
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February 1, 2010Imogen Heap, who last night won the award for "Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical" at the Grammy's sported one of the most unique outfits of the night. Her dress actually incorporated an electronic Twitter feed into it. The dress showed Twitter pics sent in by fans, and Heap said that she found ... More >>
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December 3, 2009Taylor Swift may have to keep Kanye off-stage again if she wins at the Grammy'sAfter getting chummy at the 2009 Video Music Awards, Beyonc
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and Taylor Swift will go head-to-head once again at the 2010 Grammy Awards, when they compete in several categories, including Album of the Year. Swift, ... More >>
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February 11, 2009From The Daily Swarm:Independent artists and labels had a banner year at the 2009 Grammy
Awards winning 56 of the 110 awards given or just over 50% of the total
prizes.Most of this is simply major artists releasing music independently of the big four major labels. But Album of the Year and Record o ... More >>
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January 8, 2009Video may have killed the radio star, but video could also nab one Valley resident a free trip to this year's Grammy Awards at the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.
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October 30, 2008Grammy-winning PHX group fosters a youth movement
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