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    February 15, 2013

    The Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

    Friday, February 15 Foxygen ECHOPLEX If you add up the ages of Foxygen's 20-something Sam France and Jonathan Rado, then subtract it from the current year, you will verge on the era from which the duo's album, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic, takes its cues. There isn't a '60s ... More >>

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    February 14, 2013

    Turtle Island Quartet With Tierney Sutton

    Friday, February 15 Foxygen ECHOPLEX If you add up the ages of Foxygen's 20-something Sam France and Jonathan Rado, then subtract it from the current year, you will verge on the era from which the duo's album, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic, takes its cues. There isn't a '60s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2013

    The Best Grammy 2013 Swag, Including a Vagina Steamer

    I don't know who won the Grammys, and I don't really care. What interests me is what people had in their swag bags. Luckily, as a reporter I was invited to cover the Official Backstage Talent Gift Lounge, where I was chaperoned like a 13-year-old at a Bar Mitzvah. See also: Our Best Tweets From the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2013

    Deadmau5, Kylie Minogue, and Timbaland - House of Blues - 2/10/13

    Nero, Deadmau5, Kylie Minogue, and Timbaland House of Blues 2/10/13 A crew of electronic artists and pop stars performed last night as part of a Grammy afterparty that was also a benefit for Children's Hospital of Los Angeles Orthopedic Center. (Tickets started at $250.) But the cost didn't deter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2013

    Queztal and Los Cojolites - The Breed Street Shul - 2/9/13

    Queztal and Los Cojolites The Breed Street Shul 2/9/13 Better than: A Hollywood Grammy red carpet party Saturday night's celebration of some of the year's Grammy nominees in the Latin category brought the sounds of Son Jarocho music to Boyle Heights. Before doors opened at 8 am, the line for the f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2013

    How Grammy Winners Are Chosen: Highly Confidential Documents Revealed

    In the days of yore, you needed but a shoeshine and a smile to get a Grammy. You'd walk down to your local Grammy-grocer's and fork over a few wooden nickels, and the proprietor would even wrap your new award in butcher paper so it wouldn't get scratched on the way home. *Al Walser: Our Interview ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2013

    Om'Mas Keith Helped Make Frank Ocean's Album. He's Far Out

    A native of Hollis, Queens, NY and current resident of Los Feliz, producer Om'Mas Keith broke through with Ice-T signees Raw Breed in 1997, and has since accumulated production and mixing credits on Jay Z's Kingdom Come, Erykah Badu's New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War and Rick Ross' Rise To Power. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2012

    Jason Bentley: Al Walser's "Embarrassing" Grammy Nomination the Result of Manipulating the System

    Al Walser-gate continues. After the Hollywood-via-Lichtenstein DJ somehow snagged a Grammy nomination for best dance recording last week -- alongside much more famous folks like Aviici and Skrillex -- many suspected fraud. In our interview, Walser got defensive and posited that simple good old-fas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2012

    Al Walser: Our Interview With a Beguiling Grammy Nominee

    Since the Grammy nominations were announced Wednesday, folks have been wondering how the hell someone named Al Walser was able to swing a nomination for best dance recording. The DJs also nominated in his category -- Avicii, Calvin Harris, Swedish House Mafia and Skrillex -- are quite famous, but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Dave Grohl "Clarifies" Grammy Speech After We Call Him Out For Sounding Like an Anti-EDM Geezer

    Jena Ardell​Guess we hit a nerve when we called out Dave Grohl for his anti-EDM Grammy Awards acceptance speech. Besides tons of hate mail (our favorite told us to " ... go eat a bag of dicks") and some support (Moby's former manager noted we were there when that real punk rocker went electro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Why the Grammys Stink

    See also: *2012 Grammys: The Best, the Worst and the Weirdest *Deadmau5, Rihanna - House of Blues - 2/13/12 *Dan Wilson: From "Closing Time" to Adele's "Someone Like You" So, our Grammy credentials were fairly limited last night. In fact, we were trapped in a room for eight hours, with journalists ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    2012 Grammys: The Best, the Worst and the Weirdest

    Rebecca HaithcoatDrake's after-party​See also: *Why The Grammys Stink *Deadmau5, Rihanna - House of Blues - 2/13/12 *Dan Wilson: From "Closing Time" to Adele's "Someone Like You" Adele won everything. Kanye didn't show. Nicki Minaj out-Gaga'ed Gaga by showing up with a Pope imitator as her e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Deadmau5, Rihanna - House of Blues - 2/13/12

    Deadmau5, Rihanna House of Blues 1-13-12 See also: *Why The Grammys Stink *2012 Grammys: The Best, the Worst and the Weirdest Better than... The Grammy telecast's attempts to showcase EDM. Skrillex may have won three Grammys, but it was Deadmau5 who ultimately impacted the celebration, its red c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Dave Grohl: His Grammys Speech About Electronic Music Was Bullshit

    See also: Dave Grohl "Clarifies" Grammy Speech After We Call Him Out For Sounding Like an Anti-EDM Geezer We like Foo Fighters. They're the Samuel Adams beer of pop -- solid, familiar, a good call in a one-jukebox town. But innovators they're not. Quite the opposite: If one could feed off a dying ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2012

    Whitney Houston Found Dead in Beverly Hills: Police Investigating, But No Foul Play Suspected So Far

    ​Updated at the bottom: Reports indicate Houston might have been found underwater in a tub. First posted at 6:02 p.m. Saturday. Pop music icon Whitney Houston was found dead in a room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where she was to appear tonight at a Grammy pre-party with music industry execut ... More >>

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    February 9, 2012

    Los Amigos Invisibles, La Vida Boheme

    ​Updated at the bottom: Reports indicate Houston might have been found underwater in a tub. First posted at 6:02 p.m. Saturday. Pop music icon Whitney Houston was found dead in a room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where she was to appear tonight at a Grammy pre-party with music industry execut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Lawsuit: If You Bought Grammy Tickets from Western States Ticket Service, You're Screwed

    ​The folks who run the Grammy Awards want to remind you, dear readers, that you are not important or glamorous enough to score a ticket to the big show that airs every February. So don't even try. For if you do, you will be treated like a common intruder and tossed out on your ass.

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Frank Gehry's Grammy Awards Poster: A Transparent Attempt at High-Brow Legitimacy? Not So Fast

    ​Last week saw the release of the official poster for the 54th Grammy Awards, which was designed by the patron saint of L.A. architecture, Frank Gehry. At first, the poster seems to be another flailing attempt by the Grammys to maintain their relevance in a world where the value of music, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Hell No, We Won't Go: Musicians Protest Grammy Decision to Eliminate Latin Jazz Category

    ​Things have been rough at NARAS, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. You probably couldn't tell, not with their two big buildings and a brand new museum and certainly the Awards telecast with all its rock stars and movie stars and high priced commercials. That thing alone loo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Serene Branson Grammy Trip-Up Caused by Extreme Headache, Says UCLA Doc

    CBS2Serene Branson had the world's most-public headache.​That strange on-air episode of jumbled language uttered by CBS2's Serene Branson during a Grammy Awards report Sunday night wasn't a minor stroke, as some had surmised. Nope. According to her doctor, it was a case of a "complex migraine ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Why Esperanza Spalding Matters (Sorry, Justin Bieber Fanatics--She Does)

    TheGrio​ [Here at LA Weekly, we're honored to count with the services of LA's Top Jazz Journalist, the inimitable Brick Wahl. We asked Brick to weigh in on the Esperanza Spalding Grammy upset. Brick has been an Esperanza fan from way back, and he was happy to put it all in context for us (and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    Grammy Party Report #2: Model DJs at Colony, MSTRful Turntablism at Roxbury, and an Un-Friendly Reception at Paramount

    Lina LecaroDance floor fatales at Colony​ One of the best things about Grammy Party Weekend? Getting to check out the velvet roped dens du jour one might not frequent in Hollywood in fell swoop. Most pre-Grammy events this year were at the newest and nicest swankpits in town (Roxbury, Supper ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    Serene Branson's CBS2 Grammy Coverage Ends With Paramedics Checking Her Out (Video)

    CBS2Serene Branson.​L.A. news hounds were abuzz Monday over CBS2 reporter Serene Branson's stand-up meltdown outside the Grammy Awards at Staples Center. Her wrap-up Grammy report for the station, caught on video (after the jump), ended with a jumble of nonsensical words. Gawker on Monday sur ... More >>

  • Music

    February 10, 2011

    Dance Club Pick: Bashing the Grammies

    CBS2Serene Branson.​L.A. news hounds were abuzz Monday over CBS2 reporter Serene Branson's stand-up meltdown outside the Grammy Awards at Staples Center. Her wrap-up Grammy report for the station, caught on video (after the jump), ended with a jumble of nonsensical words. Gawker on Monday sur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    Top 20 Most Ridiculous Grammy 2010 Nominations: Still Ridiculous after All These Months

    Grammys: they're nuts!​ [Originally published December 2010] It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Top 10 Under-the-Radar Grammy Artists You Should Know

    ​Sure, you may secretly dance to Justin Bieber in your Wonder Woman undies or fantasize about Drake making you a hot fudge sundae, but there's a lot more talented, relatively unknown musicians hiding in the Grammy nominee list. The Grammys, on the most part, are about the awards gifted to peo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Bet You Can't Guess Who the Two Singers in the Picture Are

    Photo: Bobby Bank/WireImage.com via Grammys.com​ This picture was taken this past January 22. Can you guess who these two singers are? You'll be shocked (especially by the buff blonde).

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    December 16, 2010

    MS. GRIFFIN AND HER BIG CHRISTMAS BALLS

    Photo: Bobby Bank/WireImage.com via Grammys.com​ This picture was taken this past January 22. Can you guess who these two singers are? You'll be shocked (especially by the buff blonde).

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Top 20 Most Ridiculous Grammy 2010 Nominations

    Grammys: they're nuts!​It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago as "the best music of the year." Yup-- ... More >>

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    October 21, 2010

    An Evening with Hans Zimmer

    Grammys: they're nuts!​It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago as "the best music of the year." Yup-- ... More >>

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    September 2, 2010

    COME ON AND TAKE A TRAIN RIDE

    Grammys: they're nuts!​It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago as "the best music of the year." Yup-- ... More >>

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    April 8, 2010

    Latin Music Concert

    Grammys: they're nuts!​It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago as "the best music of the year." Yup-- ... More >>

  • Music

    February 5, 2010

    BOOM, BOOM, OW! SURVIVING GRAMMY WEEK IN L.A.

    Grammys: they're nuts!​It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago as "the best music of the year." Yup-- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    The Grammy Awards, As Seen from the Staples Center Press Room

    Last year we came down pretty hard on the numbskulls journalists in the press room at the Grammys, but would like to officially recant last year's unfair judgment. Specifically, for the record, this is what we said about what awaits the lucky Grammy winners backstage: ...their audience, a bunch of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Grammys' Social Media Rock Star Summit: Music Fans at the Forefront of Digital Culture

    Melissa Jun RowleySocial Media Rock Stars: Digg's Kevin Rose and Mashable's Pete Cashmore​For more than half a century the Grammy Awards have been the pinnacle institution of American music. (But that doesn't mean the tone of the show and the brand itself have to be institutional.) While the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Grammy Winners Meet Jersey Shore

    Grammy Winners Meet Jersey Shore: Hypothetical Jerzification

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    January 28, 2010

    Hawaiian Music

    Grammy Winners Meet Jersey Shore: Hypothetical Jerzification

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2010

    John Mayernaise and Celine Dijon: Creating Food for Grammys No Easy Task

    N. GalutenEdibles in the Grammy luxury suites​As Woody Allen's character in Annie Hall once said, upon arriving in Los Angeles, "What's with all these awards? They're always giving out awards. Best Fascist Dictator: Adolf Hitler." This city does love to give out awards, and when we do, there a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Notes on the Grammy Nominations: Excuse Us While We Puke

    ​What follows are a few random notes on LA-based nominees for the 2009 Grammys, which were announced yesterday in downtown LA. If you're looking for thoughts on the big-ass pop categories, go elsewhere; we're going to try and wade through the rock and lesser known categories without throwing u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    And The Nominees For The 52nd Grammy Awards Are ...

    Grammy Awards​Here's a running count of some of the more interesting nominees for the 52nd Grammy Awards, which were being announced Wednesday night at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Song of the Year: "Poker Face," Lady Gaga. "Pretty Wings," Maxwell "Single Ladies," Beyonce "You ... More >>

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    September 3, 2009

    Tequila Tasting

    Grammy Awards​Here's a running count of some of the more interesting nominees for the 52nd Grammy Awards, which were being announced Wednesday night at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Song of the Year: "Poker Face," Lady Gaga. "Pretty Wings," Maxwell "Single Ladies," Beyonce "You ... More >>

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    August 20, 2009

    An Evening with Terence Blanchard

    Grammy Awards​Here's a running count of some of the more interesting nominees for the 52nd Grammy Awards, which were being announced Wednesday night at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Song of the Year: "Poker Face," Lady Gaga. "Pretty Wings," Maxwell "Single Ladies," Beyonce "You ... More >>

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    February 17, 2009

    Lil Wayne Announces Springtime Gibson Amphitheatre Show

    Hopefully it'll be with the New Orleans musicians he gigged with at the Grammys, but we're not holding our breath. Just as long as its not Lil Wayne's "rock project." The date is Sunday, March 29. Tix go on sale Saturday, Feb 21 at 1 p.m., but they're through Ticketmaster, so it's not like you hav ... More >>

  • Music

    February 12, 2009

    Katy Perry Unpeeled — and Other Signs of Life in the Dead of the Grammys PressRoom

    Including the buzz over Rihanna and Chris Brown, and revelations from Natalie Cole on heroin addiction

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Behind the Scenes at the Grammys: In the Press Room, A Quiet Night Jolted Alive by Chris Brown/Rihanna Allegations

    When you tell an outsider that you're "covering the Grammys," it sounds pretty swank. Before I did it for the first time, I imagined glamor, some rubbing shoulders, and, above all, a lot of music. But the reality is different. Those of us not covering the red carpet are planted in a hotel-confere ... More >>

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    January 22, 2009

    Dig In

    When you tell an outsider that you're "covering the Grammys," it sounds pretty swank. Before I did it for the first time, I imagined glamor, some rubbing shoulders, and, above all, a lot of music. But the reality is different. Those of us not covering the red carpet are planted in a hotel-confere ... More >>

  • Music

    February 15, 2007

    Grammy Shmammy

    When you tell an outsider that you're "covering the Grammys," it sounds pretty swank. Before I did it for the first time, I imagined glamor, some rubbing shoulders, and, above all, a lot of music. But the reality is different. Those of us not covering the red carpet are planted in a hotel-confere ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2007

    Why I Wore Flip-flops to the Grammys

    Ok they weren't really flip-flops, more like comfy black slides with rubber soles, and they were hidden under an entirely appropriate long and billowy 70s halter dress. But still I felt pretty earthy and under-dressed sauntering amidst all the Manolos and Choos that flooded the Staples Center last n ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 3, 2005

    O Brother, Where Art Thou Screening?

    Ok they weren't really flip-flops, more like comfy black slides with rubber soles, and they were hidden under an entirely appropriate long and billowy 70s halter dress. But still I felt pretty earthy and under-dressed sauntering amidst all the Manolos and Choos that flooded the Staples Center last n ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 12, 2004

    Dark Shadows

    Ok they weren't really flip-flops, more like comfy black slides with rubber soles, and they were hidden under an entirely appropriate long and billowy 70s halter dress. But still I felt pretty earthy and under-dressed sauntering amidst all the Manolos and Choos that flooded the Staples Center last n ... More >>

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