Are the Grammys Obsolete?
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A lot of great music was released in the fourth quarter of 2006. But as usual, none of it is being considered for Sunday's Grammy Awards.
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Striking Hollywood writers have decided against picketing the upcoming Grammy Awards, but the Writers Guild of America's board of directors has yet to grant the music industry show a waiver that would allow its members to work on the ceremony, the guild said Tuesday.
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"Oldies" music remains popular among many generations, which could present a window of opportunity for record companies in Europe to take advantage of royalties terms expiring after 50 years. Today, the EC may be looking to shut that window.
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R&B singer Alicia Keys edged past  Ray Charles to claim the lead at the midway mark of the Grammy  Awards with four prizes, but leading nominee Kanye West stole  the show shortly after being snubbed in one of the biggest  shocks in the event's recent history.
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Skip those large music companies that don't care about your music. Doing it yourself is easier and more affordable than ever.
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With the year's top album and single, Usher doesn't have to worry about getting left out when Grammy nominees are announced Tuesday. The question simply is how many nominations the R&amp;B crooner will get.
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The Grammy Awards achieved Sunday nightâs top ratings despite falling almost two million viewers short of the showâs audience a year ago. According to Nielsenâs estimates, 18.2 million tuned in to CBSâs broadcast of âThe 50th Annual Grammy Awards,â down from 20.1 million a year ago. Although the awards show outpaced all other programming for the night among adults 18 to 49, the preliminary overnight numbers suggest that it may be the lowest-rated Grammy show in more than a decade. CBS finished No. 1 for the night over all, leading the 7 oâclock hour before the awards show with â60 Minutesâ (13 million). ABC ranked second for the night, thanks to a two-hour âExtreme Makeover: Home Editionâ at 8 (15.8 million), followed by âBrothers & Sistersâ at 10 (8.6 million). Fox was third with coverage of the National Football Leagueâs Pro Bowl, followed by a lineup of comedy repeats and a new episode of âKing of the Hillâ at 8:30 (6.1 million). NBC finished fourth with reruns of âAmerican Gladiatorsâ at 7 (3.6 million) and 8 (3.7 million), followed by a two-hour special â100 Most Outrageous Momentsâ (8.2 million).
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Is the iPod more essential than the paper clip? And is the venerable No. 2 pencil obsolete or worthy of a career award?
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As the Grammy Awards are approaching, we can finally get our hands on the complete list of Grammy nominees, announced Tuesday in Los Angeles.
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When the Grammy Awards  telecast bursts into full-throated song on Sunday night, live  from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, it will mark the awards  show's 50th year. But there will be another milestone to  celebrate as well -- the Grammys' 35th year on CBS.
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Sure, it's old and revered -- but it's also critically flawed. Consider ignoring it.
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VH1 has lost its way over the years. It has turned into a dull pageant of entertainment filler about &quot;The Maxim Hot 100&quot; and celebrity workouts and diets -- anything, it seems, but music. And so ...
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LOS ANGELES  - The Recording Academy is  hosting flashbacks to previous years' Grammy Awards ceremonies,  letting music fans relive the event in three-minute montages.  The shorts are among the expanded features on  http://www.Grammy.com, the official home of Sunday's event.
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This is not original reporting. The following information has been gathered from Grammy.com&#39;s list of Grammy nominees and from the story titled &quot;47th GRAMMY Nominees Announced.
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LOS ANGELES  - Now that 300 crew  members have taken down 150 tons of gear from the rafters of  the Staples Center and switched off 13,000 amps of power, the  site of Sunday's Grammy Awards can return to its main role as  the home of basketball's Lakers, Kings and Clippers.
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In one of the most competitive Grammy categories, two slightly hunched, long-since hip music veterans bested the likes of Mary J. Blige, U2, Nelly Furtado and Timbaland.
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In the coming weeks and months you'll probably see me writing about issues of podcatchers here, because I'm working on one. It's the third one I've written, so this time maybe I'll get it right.  A lot of things have changed since I wrote my first podcatcher back in 2001. 1. Back then there were no podcasts, so it was a proof of concept, a chicken without an egg (or an egg with no chicken), a step in a bootstrap. Today there are lots of podcasts. An embarassment of riches. 2. Back then implementing a podcatcher was simple, there was exactly one format to support, RSS 2.0 with enclosures. Today, luckily, it's still fairly simple, as far as the format goes. The only variability is the iTunes namespace, which complicates things, just a little.  3. Today there are enough users to make it possible to support lists of podcasts published by fans, and instead of just subscribing to the podcast feeds, you can subscribe to lists of feeds. I will publish one of these lists, in OPML 2.0 format, as a proof of concept.  4. The first version of this new podcatcher will run in the OPML Editor because that's where all my software runs at first. But the goal is to port it to run in other environments, some with millions of users. I want to provide a popular alternative to the one that Apple publishes which currently dominates the market. (Note: I'm generally pleased with the way Apple dominates, they've been very fair about allowing users to export their subscription lists. But if we want to create the opportunity for others to innovate in the area of podcast players, there has to be choice at the podcatcher level. That's my main motive for revisiting this area.) There probably are some other changes, and I'll write about them as the project moves forward. Now.... To people who say that Apple has the market sewn up, I say Bah! I think iPods are great, but they're designed to play music, not podcasts. Every bit of music is something you want to keep forever, a podcast loses almost all its value after you've listened to it once. You have to pay for music (in theory at least) but podcasts are free.  Podcasts beg to have a player that can download them without synching with a desktop computer. Okay that's something podcasts have in common with music.  I buy Apple products all the time. I've gone from resenting Apple so much that I wouldn't buy their products, as recently as 2005, to today when not only do I only use Macs, but I'm constantly telling people why they'd be better off using Macs. I can't help but evangelize the products, I think they're that much better than Windows PCs.  But as much as I love Apple (can't believe I actually said that) I still don't trust them with a whole medium. We need them to have competition. The rest of the tech industry seems to think they're immune to it, that creates a huge opportunity with someone with enough chutzpah to think they can do it. Yours truly, Dave Winer