
While still basking in the glory of the Lakers victory over the Cavaliers, I did something that I don't believe I've ever done before...I watched the Grammys. Very aware of the corporate, lip-synched, auto-tuned bullshit that I was about to witness, I begrudgingly flipped to CBS and sunk into my couch with the cynical and pretentious attitude that you might expect from someone who writes for a music blog. However, there were definitely some guilty music gems amid the incessant rambling of Neil Portnow, who randomly implored our President to appoint a secretary of the arts to his cabinet, as [...]
That's all I saw, so that's all I can really comment on. First of all, let's give it up to State Street's and Michigan Ave's finest, making their Grammy appearance (3:33 mark): Big ups!! Anyway, the actual awards left me disappointed as usual. I mean, I get all The Carter III love, but all the Coldplay/Robert Plant & Allison Krauss nominations?? M.I.A. coming up empty (for a 2007 album and single, by the way)?? And I'm glad Daft Punk won something, but for a live recording [...]