Since "Just Dance" was nominated for Best Dance Recording last year at the Grammys, Lady Gaga is ineligible for the Best New Artist award this year, despite being quite the breakout hit-maker in 2009. So who else should win? I'd...
Country music icon George Strait, better known as King George in these parts, will inaugurate the new Cowboys stadium concert stage, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones announced this afternoon. Strait performs June 6 with his trusty Ace in the Hole band...
Gwyneth Paltrow, I so beg to differ. Radiohead is not one of the most influential bands of all time, as you pronounced in your introduction of the art rockers. The Beatles are one of the most influential bands of all...
Well alright, this pairing isn't half bad. That's because the Foo Foos are essentially backing up Sir Paul. This isn't a duet. They are merely his backing band. Plus, it's cool to hear "I Saw Her Standing There" with a...
Yup, with the record of the year win, she now has 25 Grammy Awards. There's no way Aretha Franklin, who has 18 of them, can catch up now. She won't live long enough to pass her....
Interesting. She was hardly the highest profile of the nominees, which also included the Jonas Brothers, Duffy, Lady Antebellum and Jazmine Sullivan. I did not expect her to win. I'm not upset about it. She's good. But she isn't one...
OK, how rude is this? Kanye West gets introduced to perform, but not Estelle. They do "American Boy" together, which is HER song. And yet, her name was never mentioned. How downright rude!...
Watching and listening to Stevie Wonder and the Jonas Brothers, not long after seeing Justin Timberlake with Al Green, makes me scream: NO MORE PAIRINGS! Do the Grammy people not realize that by pairing these young whippersnappers with legends you...
She, with duet partner Robert Plant, has picked up three Grammy Awards so far tonight. So her total number is now 24. That's just astounding. She's unbeatable. Without a doubt the most Grammy rewarded female artist ever....
Jennifer Hudson's performance of "You Pulled Me Through" with a full choir behind her was poignant and heartfelt. I'm giving her lots of love tonight. I think she's looking good, holding it together well and showing plenty of grace under...
It only took Texan George Strait more than 20 years to win a Grammy. Yes, folks, he picked up his first Grammy Award earlier today for his elegantly homespun Troubadour in the best country album category. Long, long, LONG overdue!...
I'm OK with this. Not so much because I felt Coldplay merited the honor, but because I wasn't particularly passionate about any of the nominees. Didn't dislike any of them, didn't love any of them. So...whatever......
Deserved! Sugarland's "Stay" remains one of the rawest, most potent country songs of the last decade. That award was so warranted. I also thought Jennifer Nettles was funny at the mike. She was trying to play it cool but she...
Carrie, go pop, please! Do it! Go ahead, step over the line, that's it, one foot in front of the other. Cause what you sing isn't remotely country. That "Last Name" song is totally pop-rock. Please! Leave the authentic country...
That's just wrong! That's all I have to say....
Justin Timberlake got his Al Green on, in what was definitely flattery for the soul man but kind of a little bit of torture for the rest of us. Though plenty of notes were missed between the pair, it's always...
I'm so glad Jennifer Hudson won R&B album for her debut disc. Yes, the victory was probably largely fueled by sympathy considering all the tragedy she's been through. And it's not a great album to start with. Still, she was...
Yes, Whitney Houston looks great! But, um, is there something a bit too melodramatic, slow and measured about her speech, her actions? Get the impression Diva Houston had to study everything she did and said on that stage? Hmm...the comeback...
Even though tonight's 51st annual Grammy Awards show doesn't start until 7 p.m. (on CBS), some of the fun has already started. Over on the Shopping blog DMN fashion critic David Ninh is blogging on who's wearing who along the...
The 51st annual Grammy Awards are Sunday night. Our music staff will be here on Playlist blogging throughout the show, so drop in and join the conversations and our takes on the winners and performances. Just to hold you over...
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