Articles tagged "grammys"

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What Grammy got right — and wrong

by Chris Macias [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[13.Feb.08] :. That collective gasp coming from the Staples Center and living rooms around the country on Sunday night? It was just the reaction to the 50th annual Grammy Awards. Just when it looked as if Amy...

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Hancock win latest in right artist, wrong year category

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[12.Feb.08] :. With his Grammy Award for album of the year Sunday, Herbie Hancock joins a long list of venerated musicians who have won music’s biggest prize decades after releasing their best...

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Dead Grammy Walking

by Terry Sawyer

[12.Feb.08] :. The Grammys are a tradition whose bottom has fallen out, a relic still standing only because people are too bored to say otherwise.

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Trophy Case: The 2008 Grammy Awards

by Evan Sawdey

[12.Feb.08] :. Somehow, Kanye West was able to make the entire evening about himself. Surprise, surprise...

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Amy Winehouse, Kanye West, Herbie Hancock top Grammy winners

by Dan Deluca [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[11.Feb.08] :. Amy Winehouse and Kanye West were big winners at the 50th annual Grammy awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles Sunday night, while jazz pianist Herbie Hancock pulled an upset, winning best album...

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With the Grammys turning 50, we offer some highlights (and lowlights)

by Jim Harrington [The Oakland Tribune (MCT)]

[10.Feb.08] :. There’s only one sure bet for this year’s Grammy Awards: It’s going to be more fun to watch than the Golden Globes. The union for striking Hollywood writers, which forced the...

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Grammy’s wacky moments

by Rafer Guzmán [Newsday (MCT)]

[8.Feb.08] :. Glen Campbell over The Beatles? Coolio over 2Pac? Jethro Tull for best hard rock/metal performance ... in 1989? Even more fun than watching the Grammys is playing armchair quarterback, critiquing...

 

The Grammys at 50 are showing their age

by Glenn Gamboa [Newsday (MCT)]

[8.Feb.08] :. Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse is the perfect poster girl for the current state of the music industry. Music isn’t her problem. Everything else is. That’s exactly the same...

 

Grammy Awards: Who will win, who should win, and who got shafted

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[6.Feb.08] :. More than 18,000 members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences vote on the Grammy Awards each year. The academy says it’s out to reward “artistic excellence,” but...

 

The Grammys are the next endangered awards show

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[16.Jan.08] :. I am seriously trying to produce a column with no mention of the Hollywood writers strike, but events keep unfolding (I hate events) and now, it seems, we may have problems with the Grammys. The...

 
 
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