The Grammys still have a long way to go — just ask pretty much any current hip-hop artist, or have a chat with Ariana Grande, who skipped music’s biggest night. But considered as pure spectacle, the overstuffed 2019 awards ceremony was the most entertaining “of the post-LL Cool J era,” …
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Some of the big winners from Sunday night’s Grammy Awards are seeing a sizable sales bump today, as many of their albums return to the top of the charts. As of press time, “Album of the Year” winnerKacey Musgraveswassitting at Number One on the iTunes chartwith Golden Hour (originally released …
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Travis Scott took the stage at the 2019 Grammy Awards to perform a couple of songs off his Grammy-nominated albumAstroworld during the 61st annual ceremony in Los Angeles. He performed “Stop Trying to Be God” with one of the collaborators on the song, Philip Bailey, and its cowriter, James Blake, …
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Before Shakira belly-danced her way from barefooted rockera to multi-lingual pop powerhouse, and Juanes rode his sneering alt-rock kiss-offs to global acclaim, Aterciopelados championed Colombian rock during the height of the rock en español explosion. For more than a quarter-century, the now-legendary pair — comprised of frontwoman/guitarist Andrea Echeverri and …
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