What are your Grammy wishes for next year?
 

Who would you like to see win the next time? List your categories and the respective winners for your “ideal” Grammy Award Ceremony ~ pretend you’re in charge of the whole ceremony…!

Tool and Nine Inch Nails for everything, plus a re-grouping of Faith No More to play a reunion tour, kicking it off at the ceremony. Yeah, that would rule.

My Grammy wishes for next year:

- Lifetime award and sincere industry apology to Napster founder Shawn Fanning

- Lifetime award to the folks who started Winamp

- New categories for awards: Best New Technology (Recording), Best New Technology (Distribution), Best Independent Label, Best Independent Artist

- Clear Channel execs banned at door, roughed up by security

- Similar treatment for Mariah Carey

- Triumph the Insult Comic Dog must be sole presenter for all awards where Eminem is nominated

That's a good idea, Tony - FOR ME TO POOP ON!

UT, could we at least have Mariah get naked first?

Man, I've been in love with her for almost 13 years...

The white one or the black one?

The one with teeny lil teets or the one with real big 'uns?

When she broke out in 1990, she was 19 or 20 and I was 14. And we grew...together. What was once a timid young girl is now a fine-ass looking woman.

(What the fuck do you think Sheppsie?! I want the sexpot!)

I see we have some grammy fans here. Keep the suggestions coming. Maybe we can sort out the people who pick the awards once and for all. I just don't like the way the fall in love with one artist and give them EVERYTHING! Also, what category of music is sorely lacking support at the Grammy's.

Well, I don't watch but I'd like to see Nickel Creek tear off another nice album, while leaning a little more toward the jazz end of their sound. we now return you to your previously scheduled hijacking

The Grammy Awards, like any of the 'major' awards show, has less to do with the quality of the product than it has to do with the amount of promotion related to the need of a particular artist (and I use the term very loosely here) to have a Grammy. Or American Music Award. Or Oscar. Or Emmy. Ad Infinitum.

Nickel Creek has come a long way from their bluegrass roots. I saw them twice at the Winfield Festival in the mid-90's when they were a bunch of kids with somebody's dad/manager/something playing standup bass for them.

I don't see much of it from their videos, but these kids can freaking play like nobody's business. Their sound has moved toward the middle of the road, but they are fresh and original as they go down that middle lane.

Where can I hear some of Nickel Creek's music. I personally haven't hear dof them. I've been getting into some really cool trip hop mellow stuff like hooverphonic and Weekend Players. Cool music, nice voices. http://www.ffrr.com/weekendplayers I'm sure most of you have hear dof Hoover but WP was a band I discovered last December at the Wiltern. The opened for Lazy Dog (Ben Watt). Really good stuff!

Now you're speaking my language! -- couple of weeks ago I said as much on a thread here, angling for Hooverphonic and EBTG (and dave poked at us all with lyrics from "Missing", which went briefly over my head there dude).

And listening to this sample track from Weekend Players, I'm on board, this is right up my alley now... sold.

Maybe I'm tired, but I'm totally lost on this "Missing" thing... ?

Didn't you write And I miss you... like the deserts miss the rain ?

You did! Was it a fluke?

http://cellar.org/showthread.php?s=&...0&pagenumber=8

Oh yeah!

I forgot. :)

Thats the hard part. I think they get most of their play on country stations and I don't no 'bout you but I can't listen to commercial country. Try online maybe an Americana format. I found out about them while searching for fresh mandolin music. Chris Thile despite being a young punk is just about the hottest player going. Thile has a solo album with Bela Fleck and some others that is really something special. They played a local hockey arena and I was hooked.

How about ...

Album of the Year: And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead "Source Tag & Codes"

:D

I think one of those guys is my neighbor. He's got a bit of a sneering attitude, so I really don't feel like approaching him with it.

Whoa, really? Maybe you could break the ice by telling him his band kicks total fucking ass? (/fanboy)

I saw them for the first time when they opened for Queens of the Stone Age. I recognized the guitarist as the guy that lives two doors down -- with his sister. How unrock is that?!
They're okay. I saw some of the footage from one of their first shows at a local club/restaurant. Funny stuff. From the sound of the interviews, the club owner had no idea what they were like. Towards the end of the second song, he gets up to ask the singer if they could turn it down a little. They declined, so he turned it down for them. They turn it back up just before the first note of the next song, and then the owner got a little pissed. He tried to grab the guitar (which didn't work too well), then decided to pull apart the drum kit. The drummer got a little pissed, and started pulling back. Then they started smashing their shit. The diners weren't too sure what to think of a band that only played 3 partial songs before they broke their stuff.

While living with your sister is totally un-rock, refusing to turn it down at the request of the club owner is rock x 100.

These guys fucking rule.

Who the hell are we talking about?

Fleetwood Mac and Radiohead
 

I heard the leaked version of "Hail To The Thief" and it is amazing! The new Fleetwood Mac is pretty great too. It sounds just like their Rumors-era stuff. Check out this link I found to hear the whole album.
http://www.repriserecords.com/fleetwoodmac/player/