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Swift, Shelton, The Band Perry big winners at 45th annual CMA’s
Wednesday night at the 45th annual Country Music Association (CMA) Awards, Taylor Swift was named Entertainer of the Year for the second time, joining Barbara Mandrell as only the second female artist to win the awards twice. She was so unprepared for a victory speech that she hastily wrote the names of musicians with which she had collaborated on her arm with a marker.
2011 American Music Awards nominees announced
The 2011 American Music Awards nominees were announced Oct 11. Leading the group with four nominations is Adele. Other nominated artists include, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, The Band Perry, and Lil Wayne each have three nominations to vie for. Following close behind are LMFAO, Beyonce, Bruno Mars, and Kanye West, each receiving two nominations.
Soundscape Signals: Uncovering the Cover
These days cover artists don’t carry the same stigma like they once did as gaudy entertainers. Artists like Alien Ant Farm and Limp Bizkit were first introduced to us via covers – springboards that catapulted them into the public eye that are now haunting them like a tailgating fiend. To simply say covers are launching pads to the indie artist, or that covers are the ingenuity of lazy musicians, is very unfair. When the issue of covers and samples get fettered around idle table talk, emotions rise and the conversation immediately gets heated.
Soundscape Signals: The State of Music Journalism
When NPR’s Frannie Kelley discovered that the press release she received wasn’t your run of the mill publicity news, she did a bit of investigating and came up with some conclusive findings over the state of music journalism today. From Chuck Klosterman, the author of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs to Robert Hilburn, author of Corn Flakes with John Lennon and a music critic as well as a close look into how bad reviews literally broke Keats, read on to find more about the state of music writing today.
