[youtube]EgQCLeUCvmE[/youtube] One of the silliest of the many silly things about the Grammy Awards is its calendar. Rather than running from January to December the way that, say, the Oscars do, the Grammy year starts on October 1 and runs through September 30. That in itself isn’t terrible. If the year ended on September 30, …
Not that anybody cares, really, but the Grammys are coming up on Sunday. Pretty much every musician born after 1873 is performing and/or presenting (Miley Cyrus! One of the Four Tops! Paul McCartney and Dave Grohl, together as one!) and with 100 awards to slog through, just about everybody you can name is nominated as …
[youtube]GcaOSDS7jaw[/youtube] The Swedish Grammi* Awards were held last night. Most of the awards went to people I don’t know,** like Anna Ternheim (Best Album, Best Female Artist), EMD (Best Song) and Afasi & Filthy (Best Dance/Soul/Hip-Hop Artist). The totally dull yet amazingly popular Hakan Hellstrom won Best Male Artist, the annoyingly overrated Robyn got Best …
Tonight is the 50th anniversary of the Grammy Awards. On the schedule is a special tribute to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band which I’m sure will be ghastly. All hope of a spontaneous unscripted moment was abandoned years ago… but wait… there’s hope. CBS is teasing a live feed from London featuring Amy Winehouse! …