12.08.2005
Those ever-perplexing Grammy nominations
The Arcade Fire inject some badly needed indie cred into this year's Grammy Awards, nabbing two nominations, including one for Best Alternative Rock Album. They don't stand much chance of winning unless the voters grew amazingly hip over the past year, but it still must be nice to be honored. They face Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, Franz Ferdinand and the White Stripes in the contest. Among other worthy nominations is for LCD Soundsystem's nod for Best Dance Recording for insanely catchy "Daft Punk is Playing at My House."
Meanwhile, continuing to blur genre lines and thus make them meaningless, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young each get Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for their most folk outings in years, "Devils and Dust" and "The Painter," respectively. Springsteen's disc, Devils and Dust, however, earned a nomination as Best Contemporary Folk Album. Huh?
The jazz nominations seem particularly hip this year, recognizing Dave Holland, Dave Douglas, Wayne Shorter and Ravi Coltrane (don't worry, both Branford and Wynton Marsalis were nominated).
In unrelated news about a band that will probably never be nominated for a Grammy, Joe Pernice reports that the Pernice Brothers will enter a Connecticut studio in January to record the follow up to this year's Discover a Lovlier You. Where that previous disc continued the band's move toward more stripped-down arrangements, the forthcoming work would seem to lean more toward the orchestrated work of old: "We will be making our return to the warmer climate ofConnecticut Scud Mountain Boys' Massachusetts
That's great news for those of us who miss the more lush productions of Joe's earlier work. Looks like the "best of 2006" list has at least one entry already. That said, I'll post my "best of 2005" soon.
Meanwhile, continuing to blur genre lines and thus make them meaningless, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young each get Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for their most folk outings in years, "Devils and Dust" and "The Painter," respectively. Springsteen's disc, Devils and Dust, however, earned a nomination as Best Contemporary Folk Album. Huh?
The jazz nominations seem particularly hip this year, recognizing Dave Holland, Dave Douglas, Wayne Shorter and Ravi Coltrane (don't worry, both Branford and Wynton Marsalis were nominated).
In unrelated news about a band that will probably never be nominated for a Grammy, Joe Pernice reports that the Pernice Brothers will enter a Connecticut studio in January to record the follow up to this year's Discover a Lovlier You. Where that previous disc continued the band's move toward more stripped-down arrangements, the forthcoming work would seem to lean more toward the orchestrated work of old: "We will be making our return to the warmer climate of
That's great news for those of us who miss the more lush productions of Joe's earlier work. Looks like the "best of 2006" list has at least one entry already. That said, I'll post my "best of 2005" soon.
