55th Annual GRAMMY Awards

nomination list: http://www.grammy.com/nominees?year=2013&genre=All

Frank Ocean got six nominations

so happy for the "Adorn" nod.

Mumford & Sons is Americana now?

lol I just noticed that McCartney's album is named Kisses On The Bottom. What?

http://www.mapsofworld.com/images/world-countries-flags/liechtenstein-flag.gif

http://www.spin.com/blogs/al-walser-edm-grammy-nomination

lol the Minnesota Orchestra, which is currently in one of the nastiest lockout contract negotiations ever got nommed for a Grammy

article if you are interested in this sort of thing:

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/182295061.html?refer=y

as a plus, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra is also now in the same situation, so basically if you dig classical music, move somewhere else.

Apparently this was Grammy nominated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJEdy301yVo

Uh.

http://www.spin.com/blogs/al-walser-edm-grammy-nomination

Oh sorry Ludo, I see you already covered it.

Cut the Bull Entertainment's logo, by the way, is a cartoon bull, glimpsed from behind, with an oversized pair of scissors snipping through a neat, froyo-like swirl of feces. The bull looks angry; his anus is dilated.

http://www.cutthebull.us/

Best Grammys ever

Oh sorry Ludo, I see you already covered it.

np. the more the merrier. Go Liechtenstein! (insane story)

the hazy looking chick in the Run DMC shirt is the best thing about it, i think.

The lists of first-ballot options for the dance/electronic categories are very short. Most labels/artists and other academy members don't know/care to submit, it seems -- so the categories are especially prone to "weirdness."

This is the third year in a row that a song from Megadeth's Th1rt3en has been up for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance. "Sudden Death" in 2011 (back when it was a non-LP track for a video game soundtrack), "Public Enemy No. 1" in 2012, "Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)" in 2013.

in less ludicrous news, I know the dude who was nominated for conducting Handel's "Israel in Egypt" pretty well; I've sung with him a few times and we have a shit-ton of mutual friends

On that tip, Alabama Shakes are from the next town over from my hometown. I do not know any of them, but we have mutual friends/acquaintances.

The Walser thing is so excellent

love this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Z-SV1oSv0

lol i'm loving al walser, crossing my fingers that he'll defy the odds and snag the gold

here's how he did it, apparently.

http://www.elitaste.com/blog/2012/12/how-al-walser-snagged-a-grammy-nomination/

A thing I have heard about the Grammys from people who work directly with people who have Grammys on their shelves: getting nominated involves direct lobbying. You let everybody know (or your manager does; the artist is probably not even aware of this much of the time), even sometimes when the album's being made, that you are aiming for the Grammy. Getting nominated involves going to LA or NY or SXSW or wherever else and giving private-party concerts (like, in hotel suites) for members of NARAS where they can hear from your people that you think you're really in Grammy territory with your latest. And then your people keep calling, emailing, whatever, making sure the people you met gave the album a listen, it's not lobbying in terms of "do you think you'll give us the Grammy?", it's classic old-school music-biz "Did you give the music a listen? Amazing, right? Let me know if you need anything" (nb this is a thing biz people say and I still don't know what they mean). Aerosmith told anyone who cared to listen that we were "going for the Grammy" as soon as we'd put our latest to tape, but evidently nobody in our families are members of NARAS, so I got a big old middle finger for the NARAS posse, come and get it you assholes, you know our shit is better than fuckin' Fun, step off that trash and give me my damn Grammy

it's classic old-school music-biz "Did you give the music a listen? Amazing, right? Let me know if you need anything" (nb this is a thing biz people say and I still don't know what they mean)

I assume that's code for "I have a truck full of coke waiting around the corner, just say the word"

they say it all the time, and I have tried every angle short of "do you mean cocaine?", and yet they never actually break out the 8-ball

handjobs

^^ that is actually the word they are looking for, drop that and it's snow city

man anybody who's seen me strum knows what's up, I wish these people would have let me know earlier, all these years without a Grammy or any coke when it was all right there for the taking

so that's how Rumours won!

Congratulations to Timex Social Club

whispering about handjobs and coke

The man of the moment speaks: http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/12/al_walser_grammy_nominee_edm.php

He chose the right outlet.

I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40's and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to -- they like commercial music.

The one honest man!

this dude needs his own thread

http://open.spotify.com/track/1TVe2kEvFUAG8MmV3GhOgW

None of those film scores are in top 5 territory IMO but at least 2 of them are well above average so that's something.

that is terrible news about the Minnesota Orchestra seeing as they've been artistically on unbelievable form under Vanska.

AL WALSER

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Mumford & Sons: "Well, back to the old drawing board."