[new video] Mumford and Sons – Whispers in the Dark

English folk rock band, Mumford and Sons, recently released a music video for their track, “Whispers in the Dark,” the new single off their highly acclaimed album, Babel.

In the new video for “Whispers in the Dark,” Mumford and Sons reveal some of their pre-show rituals. With the band-mates readying themselves in various ways before one of their performances, four different stories simultaneously take place in a boxed panel. Read more here: http://bit.ly/WFmFDj

 

How Did Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore Record A Song With Frank Ocean?

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During a recent interview, Depeche Mode lead singer Dave Gahan revealed that vocalist Frank Ocean has collaborated with the band’s main songwriter, Martin Gore.

“We were in the studio in New York, and we were filming and recording some live tracks toward the end of the session. I was singing, Martin [Gore] on guitar, a few of the other guys,” Gahan told Entertainment Weekly about a session for Depeche Mode’s forthcoming new album, Delta Machine.

“Suddenly in the doorway, I sensed this presence, and I realized there was this guy standing there just watching,” Gahan continued. “An assistant came up to me in between songs and said, ‘Do you mind? Frank Ocean is here working in another studio and really wants to meet you guys.’ I wouldn’t have thought he would have even known who we are, but it turns out he’s a big fan.”

Read more here: http://bit.ly/126pyiP

Depeche Mode’s Delta Machine is scheduled for release on March 26, followed by an extensive world tour. North American dates have yet to be announced.

-Scott T. Sterling, CBS Local

 

Alabama Shakes on ‘SNL’: Watch ‘Hold On’ and ‘Always Alright’ (VIDEO)

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Last night, Alabama Shakes played “Saturday Night Live” for the first time. The rootsy rockers performed their breakout hit “Hold On” and “Always Alright,” which was written for the “Silver Linings Playbook” soundtrack. And even though host Christoph Waltz messed up their name in his monologue (“Alabama Shake is here!”) the band made the most of their big late-night moment. Check out videos of the performances below.

Alabama Shakes on ‘SNL’: Watch ‘Hold On’ and ‘Always Alright’ (VIDEO) – Spinner.

 

 

Justin Timberlake has released the entirely black-and-white video for his comeback single “Suit & Tie” featuring Jay-Z.

Justin Timberlake has released the entirely black-and-white video for his comeback single “Suit & Tie” featuring Jay-Z, as reported by Stephanie Sharp for pastemagazine.com

With recent rumors of a collaborative summer tour with Hova and a similarly-styled Grammy Awards performance, Timberlake channels his inner Sinatra and somewhat returns to his boy-band dance days in the new music video. The video was directed by David Fincher, who directed Timberlake before in The Social Network.

His first album since 2006, Justin Timberlake will release The 20/20 Experience on March 19.

Watch the official video for “Suit & Tie” below.

 

Grammys 2013: Jack White Drops F-Bomb During ‘Love Interruption’ Performance

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Jack White appeared to drop an F-bomb on the Grammys on Sunday night, but CBS claims he didn’t.

White sang what sounded like the F-word during his performance of “Love Interruption” with Ruby Amanfu during the show, which aired live from the Staples Center on the East Coast. While the lyrics to their song don’t include the words “f— me,” it appeared that White and/orAmanfu added them in during their live performance.

Many Grammy viewers immediately took to social media to note the apparent utterance of the swear word.

Click to watch the video: Jack White – Love Interruption & Freedom At 21 – Grammys 2013 – Video Dailymotion.

But Martin Franks, executive vp planning, policy and government affairs at CBS, insists that the F-word was not sung during White and Amanfu’s performance and that the network’s editors have listened to the performance multiple times on state-of-the-art equipment to verify that. He says the word that was sung was “fight.”

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[new song] Justin Timberlake – Mirrors. Listen.

 

Justin Timberlake is wasting no time making his comeback. Just a few hours after he brought sexy back to the Grammy stage, he released the newest single “Mirrors” from the upcoming album “The 20/20 Experience.” Timberlake’s team promised a surprise for fans post-Grammys in a tweet. They fulfilled their promise debuting “Mirrors” on YouTube. The track — produced by rapper Timbaland — is slightly over eight minutes and embraces Timberlake’s old-school, slow jam vibe heard in the previously released singles from the album.

Read more here: http://on.mash.to/WF6eF5

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2013 Grammy Awards Winners: The Complete List

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The 55th Annual Grammy Awards are being handed out this afternoon, and many of them before this evening’s telecast from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Alyssa Toomey and Rosemary Brennan from eonline.com updating all the winners here as they’re announced:

Best Jazz Vocal Album: Radio Music Society, Esperanza Spaulding

Best Improvised Jazz Solo: “Hot House,” Gary Buron & Chick Corea

Best New Age Album: Echoes of Love, Oakram

Best Comedy Album: Blow Your Pants Off, Jimmy Fallon

Best Spoken Word Album: Society’s Child: My Autobiography, Janis Ian

Best Children’s Album: Can You Canoe?, The Okee Dokee Brothers

Best Reggae Album: Rebirth, Jimmy Cliff

Best Contemporary Classical Composition: “Hartke, Stephen: Meanwhile – Incidental Music To Imaginary Puppet Plays,” Stephen Hartke

Best Classical Compendium: “Penderecki: Fonogrammi; Horn Concerto; Partita; The Awakening Of Jacob; Anaklasis,” Antoni Wit

Best Classical Vocal Performance: “Poemes,” Renee Fleming  

Best Producer of the Year, Classical: Blanton Alspaugh

Best Orchestral Performance: “Adams Harmonielehre and Short Ride In A Fast Machine,” Michael Tilson Thomas

Best Opera Recording: “Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen,”James Levine and Fabio Luisi

Best Engineered Album, Classical: Life & Breath, Tom Caufield and John Newton

Best Tropical Latin Album: Retro, Marlow Rosado Y La Riqueña

Best Regional Mexican or Tejano Album: Pecados Y Milagros, Lila Downs

Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album: Imaginaries, Quetzal

Best Latin Pop Album, Rock or Urban Album: MTV Unplugged Deluxe Edition, Juanes

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: Eye on It, TobyMac

Best Gospel Album: Gravity, Lecrae

Best Contemporary Christian Music Song: “10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord),” Matt Redman (Writers: Jonas Myrin and Matt Redman) & “Your Presence is Heaven,” Israel and New Breed (Writers: Israel Houghton and Micah Massey)

Best Gospel Song: “Go Get It,” Mary Mary (Writer: Erica Campbell, Tina Campbell and Warryn Campbell)

Best Gospel Contemporary Christian Musical Performance: “10,000 Reason (Bless the Lord)” Matt Redman

Best Surround Sound Album: Modern Cool, Jim Anderson, surround mix engineer; Darcy Proper, surround mastering engineer; Michael Friedman, surround producer (Patricia Barber)

Best Remixed Recording, Non Classical: “Promises” (Skrillex & Nero Remix) Skrillex, remixer (Nero)

Best Engineered Album, Non Classical: “The Goat Rodeo Sessions,” Richard King, engineer, Richard King, mastering engineer (Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile)

Best Historical Album: The Smile Sessions (Deluxe Box Set), Alan Boyd, Mark Linett, Brian Wilson & Dennis Wolfe, compilation producers; Mark Linett, mastering engineer (The Beach Boys)

Best Album Notes: Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles, Billy Vera, album notes writer (Ray Charles)

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection, Fritz Klaetke, art director (Woody Guthrie)

Best Recording Package: “Biophilia” Michael Amzalag & Mathias Augustyniak, art directors (Björk)

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist: “City of Roses” Thara Memory & Esperanza Spalding, arrangers (Esperanza Spalding)

Best Instrumental Arrangement: “How About You” Gil Evans, arranger (Gil Evans Project)

Best Instrumental Composition: “Mozart Goes Dancing” Chick Corea, composer (Chick Corea & Gary Burton)

Best Long Form Music Video: “Big Easy Express” Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros & Old Crow Medicine Show

Best Short Form Music Video: “We Found Love” Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris

source: eonline.com

Grammys’ Best New Artist Farce: Why Some Acts Don’t Deserve the Award

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Imagine you’re at a car dealership and you ask the salesman to show you the best new models. You’re checking them out, giddy to see this year’s cream of the crop, and — surprise! — you realize he’s trying to sell you on a pre-owned car from 2008.

“What gives? That’s not new,” you say. “Buddy,” he says, putting a reassuring hand on your back, “you might know that, but lots of other people haven’t even heard of that model before. That’s new enough for us.” As reported by Dan Reilly for spinner.com

That, in essence, is the Grammys‘ stance on the Best New Artist award, an honor designed to catapult the winner to new heights of stardom.

There’s been some scrutiny over previous years’ selections — Evanescence over 50 Cent, Milli Vanilli over real singers, Starland Vocal Band over anything that makes sounds — but our biggest issue is how talented nominees like Bon Iver, Esperanza Spalding, Shelby Lynne and Lauryn Hill can be called “new” when they’re precisely the opposite, a betrayal of the award’s reason for existing.

To clarify, here’s how the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences describes the category: “A new artist is defined as any performing artist who releases, during the eligibility year, the recording that first establishes the public identity of that artist as a performer.”

This is where things get murky. Bon Iver, the indie-rock band nominated this year, independently put out their debut, ‘For Emma, Forever Ago,’ in 2007. Though it wasn’t a runaway commercial success, it received great reviews from outlets like Pitchfork and the New York Times, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, had several of its songs placed in television shows and ended up on a slew of critic lists of best albums of the year and, later, the decade. That acclaim led to frontman Justin Vernon collaborating with Kanye West on ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,’ which in turn played some immeasurable part in Bon Iver’s self-titled second album debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard album charts.

Previous year’s nominees and winners have been worse than that not-quite-sensation.Esperanza Spalding, the 2011 victor who surprisingly beat out Florence and the Machine, Mumford and Sons, Drake and Justin Bieber, was five years removed from her debut album — and was personally selected by President Obama to perform at the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. But hey, nobody pays attention to that little event, especially not the Bieber fans who threatened to kill her.

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But here we are again, with Bon Iver taking the spot of a deserving new artist who could really benefit from all the buzz a nomination brings. Until then, all we can do is hope they finally get it right (and that the ceremony doesn’t top the four-hour mark).

Grammy Awards 2013: Nominations & Our Winner Predictions

Event Details: 55th Annual Grammy Awards, February 10, 8pm EST, CBS (check your local listings)

We are happy for all of this year’s Grammy nominees but especially Frank Ocean, and Jack White with his debut album, Blunderbuss. All of whom have been featured on this site.  The Grammy Awards may be politically charged at times, but it is still the preeminent award show for music and attracts a global audience and hosts some of the most memorable performances in music history.  As such, we are very excited to present this year’s nominees and our predictions. (our picks are BOLD)

Record Of The Year

• Lonely Boy – The Black Keys
• Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) – Kelly Clarkson
• We Are Young – Fun. Featuring Janelle Monáe
• Somebody That I Used To Know – Gotye Featuring Kimbra
• Thinkin Bout You – Frank Ocean
• We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together – Taylor Swift

doodledandy:  We Are Young is going to be an anthem for the youth in the future. A song that will last long. Though it’s a lil bit forgettable, isn’t it? Glee also helps the song to get good airplay.

Album Of The Year

• El Camino -The Black Keys
• Some Nights – Fun.
• Babel – Mumford & Sons
• Channel Orange – Frank Ocean
• Blunderbuss – Jack White

doodledandy:  I love Jack White’s Blunderbuss. But Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange stole the whole plot. Frank got the momentum.

Song Of The Year

• The A Team – Ed Sheeran, songwriter (Ed Sheeran)
• Adorn – Miguel Pimentel, songwriter (Miguel)
• Call Me Maybe – Tavish Crowe, Carly Rae Jepsen & Josh Ramsay, songwriters (Carly Rae Jepsen)
• Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) – Jörgen Elofsson, David Gamson, Greg Kurstin & Ali Tamposi, songwriters (Kelly
• Clarkson)
• We Are Young – Jack Antonoff, Jeff Bhasker, Andrew Dost & Nate Ruess, songwriters (Fun.Featuring Janelle Monáe)

doodledandy:  We Are Young is going to be an anthem for the youth in the future. A song that will last long. Though it’s a lil bit forgettable, isn’t it? Glee also helps the song to get good airplay.

Best New Artist

• Alabama Shakes
• Fun.
• Hunter Hayes
• The Lumineers
• Frank Ocean

doodledandy: This is one of the toughest category. Frank actually has a shot at this one. But Channel Orange is his second album.  Some Nights also Fun’s second album.  Alabama Shakes brings back the root of the blues to where it belongs. Our vote for Alabama Shakes.

Best Pop Solo Performance

• Set Fire To The Rain [Live] – Adele
• Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) – Kelly Clarkson
• Call Me Maybe – Carly Rae Jepsen
• Wide Awake – Katy Perry
• Where Have You Been – Rihanna

doodledandy:  Adele or Katy? Katy or Adele? Katy it is. Adele has enough awards last year. But she still will have another one at Oscars.

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

• Shake It Out – Florence & The Machine
• We Are Young – Fun. Featuring Janelle Monáe
• Somebody That I Used To Know – Gotye Featuring Kimbra
• Sexy And I Know It – LMFAO
• Payphone – Maroon 5 & Wiz Khalifa

doodledandy:  It’s a subjective category for me. I want Flo to win this one. Nuff said.

Best Dance Recording

• Levels – Avicii
• Let’s Go – Calvin Harris Featuring Ne-Yo
• Bangarang – Skrillex Featuring Sirah
• Don’t You Worry Child – Swedish House Mafia Featuring John Martin
• I Can’t Live Without You – Al Walser

doodledandy:  It’s Skrillex because my friend told me he’s good. And i don’t listen to other nominees.

Best Dance/Electronica Album

• Wonderland – Steve Aoki
• Don’t Think – The Chemical Brothers
• > Album Title Goes Here < – Deadmau5
• Fire & Ice – Kaskade
• Bangarang – Skrillex

Our vote for Deadmau5. I think Trent Reznor would agree with me.

Best R&B Performance

• Thank You – Estelle
• Gonna Be Alright (F.T.B.) – Robert Glasper Experiment Featuring Ledisi
• I Want You – Luke James
• Adorn – Miguel
• Climax – Usher

Best Traditional R&B Performance

• Lately – Anita Baker
• Love On Top – Beyoncé
• Wrong Side Of A Love Song – Melanie Fiona
• Real Good Hands – Gregory Porter
• If Only You Knew – SWV

doodledandy:  No further explanation needed.

Best R&B Song

• Adorn – Miguel Pimentel, songwriter (Miguel)
• Beautiful Surprise – Tamia Hill, Claude Kelly & Salaam Remi, songwriters (Tamia)
• Heart Attack – Benjamin Levin, Rico Love & Tremaine Neverson, songwriters (Trey Songz)
• Pray For Me – Antonio Dixon, Kenny Edmonds, Anthony Hamilton & Patrick “jQue” Smith,
• songwriters (Anthony Hamilton)
• Refill – Darhyl “DJ” Camper, Elle Varner & Andrew “Pop” Wansel, songwriters (Elle Varner)

doodledandy:  Miguel should take this even though the competition is stiff.

Best Urban Contemporary Album

• Fortune – Chris Brown
• Kaleidoscope Dream – Miguel
• Channel Orange – Frank Ocean

doodledandy:  If it brings me to my knees listening “Bad Religion”, well.. we couldn’t agree more.

Best R&B Album

• Black Radio – Robert Glasper Experiment
• Back To Love – Anthony Hamilton
• Write Me Back – R. Kelly
• Beautiful Surprise – Tamia
• Open Invitation – Tyrese

Best Rap Performance

• HYFR (Hell Ya F***ing Right) – Drake Featuring Lil’ Wayne
• N****s In Paris – Jay-Z & Kanye West
• Daughters – Nas
• Mercy – Kanye West Featuring Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz
• I Do – Young Jeezy Featuring Jay-Z & André 3000

doodledandy:  Jay-Z & Kanye West is very dangerous. Give it to them, niggas!

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

• Wild Ones – Flo Rida Featuring Sia
• No Church In The Wild – Jay-Z & Kanye West Featuring Frank Ocean & The-Dream
• Tonight (Best You Ever Had) – John Legend Featuring Ludacris
• Cherry Wine – Nas Featuring Amy Winehouse
• Talk That Talk – Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z

doodledandy:  Jay-Z, Kanye West and Frank Ocean. How can you resist them NARAS?

Best Rap Song

• Daughters – Nasir Jones & Ernest Wilson, songwriters (Patrick Adams, Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer & Paul Leka, songwriters) (Nas)
• Lotus Flower Bomb – Olubowale Akintimehin, S. Joseph Dew, Jerrin Howard, Walker Johnson & Miguel Jontel Pimentel, songwriters (Wale Featuring Miguel)
• Mercy – Sean Anderson, Tauheed Epps, Stephan Taft, James Thomas, Terrence Thornton & Kanye West, songwriters (Denzie Beagle, Winston Riley & Reggie Williams, songwriters) (Kanye West Featuring Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz)
• The Motto – Dwayne Carter, Aubrey Graham & Tyler Williams, songwriters (Drake Featuring Lil’ Wayne)
• N****s In Paris – Shawn Carter, Mike Dean, Chauncey Hollis & Kanye West, songwriters (W.A. Donaldson, songwriter) (Jay-Z & Kanye West)
• Young, Wild & Free – Calvin Broadus, Chris Brody Brown, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Peter Hernandez & Cameron Thomaz, songwriters (T. Bluechel, M. Borrow, T. Griffin, K. Jackson, N. Lee & M. Newman, songwriters) (Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa Featuring Bruno Mars)

doodledandy:  Lyrics alone, we are going with Nas.

Best Rap Album

• Take Care – Drake
• Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, Pt. 1 – Lupe Fiasco
• Life Is Good – Nas
• Undun – The Roots
• God Forgives, I Don’t – Rick Ross
• Based On A T.R.U. Story – 2 Chainz

doodledandy:  It was clearly 2Chainz’s year. The mid-30′s rapper who rebranded himself and got down with a dope crew really made a splash this year. I guess.

Best Blues Album

• 33 1/3 – Shemekia Copeland
• Locked Down – Dr. John
• Let It Burn – Ruthie Foster
• And Still I Rise – Heritage Blues Orchestra
• Bring It On Home – Joan Osborne

Best Short Form Music Video

• Houdini – Foster The People
• No Church In The Wild – Jay-Z & Kanye West Featuring Frank Ocean & The-Dream
• Bad Girls – M.I.A
• We Found Love – Rihanna Featuring Calvin Harris
• Run Boy Run – Woodkid

Best Long Form Music Video

• Big Easy Express – Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros & Old Crow Medicine Show
• Emmett Malloy, video director; Bryan Ling, Mike Luba & Tim Lynch, video producers
• Bring Me Home – Live 2011 – Sade
• Radio Music Society – Esperanza Spalding
• Get Along – Tegan & Sara
• From The Sky Down – U2

doodledandy: You’d agree with my vote if you have seen the video

Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance

• I’m Alive – Anthrax
• Love Bites (So Do I) – Halestorm
• Blood Brothers – Iron Maiden
• Ghost Walking – Lamb Of God
• No Reflection – Marilyn Manson
• Whose Life (Is It Anyways?) – Megadeth

doodledandy: I don’t know but Megadeth always has a place in my heart. Dave Ellefson is back. It’s a good album since Countdown To Extinction.

Best Rock Song

• Freedom At 21 – Jack White
• I Will Wait – Mumford & Sons
• Lonely Boy – Black Keys
• Madness – Muse
• We Take Care Of Our Own – Bruce Springsteen

doodledandy: My blues hero is now Jack White since John Mayer has too much dramas in his life.

Best Rock Album

• El Camino – The Black Keys
• Mylo Xyloto – Coldplay
• The 2nd Law – Muse
• Wrecking Ball – Bruce Springsteen
• Blunderbuss – Jack White

Best Alternative Music Album

• The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do – Fiona Apple

• Biophilia –

  Björk

• Making Mirrors –

  Gotye

• Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming –

  M83

• Bad As Me –

  Tom Waits

Best World Music Album

• Folila – Amadou & Mariam
• On A Gentle Island Breeze – Daniel Ho
• Jabulani – Hugh Masekela
• Traveller – Anoushka Shankar
• The Living Room Sessions Part 1 – Ravi Shankar

doodledandy: RIP Master of World Music. This one is for you, Mr Ravi Shankar. I know George Harrison is smiling right now in heaven.

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media

• The Descendants – Various Artists
• Marley – 
  Bob Marley & The Wailers
• Midnight In Paris –
  Various Artists
• The Muppets
  Various Artists
• Rock Of Ages –

  Various Artists

doodledandy: To celebrate his birthday: It’s Marley!

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media

• The Adventures Of Tintin – The Secret Of The Unicorn – John Williams

• The Artist –

  Ludovic Bource, composer

• The Dark Knight Rises –

  Hans Zimmer

• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo –

  Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

• Hugo –

  Howard Shore, composer

• Journey –

  Austin Wintory, composer

Best Song Written For Visual Media

• Abraham’s Daughter (From The Hunger Games) – Arcade Fire
• Learn Me Right (From Brave) – Mumford & Sons
• Let Me Be Your Star (From Smash) – Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman
• Man Or Muppet (From The Muppets) – Bret McKenzie
• Safe & Sound (From The Hunger Games) –  Taylor Swift

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[new video] Bruno Mars – When I Was Your Man

When Bruno Mars called his debut album “Doo Wops and Hooligans,” it was clear this was a young artist with a strong sense of the musical history that had gone before him.

His music has borne that out, no more so than on the beautiful piano ballad, “When I Was Your Man,” the fourth song released from “Unorthodox Jukebox,” out Dec. 11.

Read more here about the video by Melinda Newman from hitfix.com http://bit.ly/WQtbBF