2009 Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards are no doubt the biggest night for the music industry, which is why it was seriously surprising when both Chris Brown and Rihanna failed to show up for their scheduled performances.A publicist for Brown declined to comment, but the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that the 19-year-old singer was under investigation for felony domestic battery stemming from an incident the night before.Brown and a female companion allegedly got into a disagreement after attending Clive...Read Full Story

2009 Grammy Nominees This "album" as well as the telecast of the Grammys shows us where we are in popular music today. Great songwriters (Krauss, Plant, and Henley) dot this album and are too few and far between. The other drivel on this album is too bland with lyrics ...2009 Grammy Nominees Now!!!Read Full Story

After last year’s dismal TV audiences, the 2009 Grammy Awards captured 19.05 million households, up from 17.18 million in 2009. With a variety of artists, spanning decades of music, the 3 ½ hour CBS broadcast was able to appeal to all ages and galvanize the failing industry. Read more...Read Full Story

The following is the complete results of Grammy nominees and winners for 2009. The list of nominees and winners of the recently-concluded Grammy Awards 2009 is very long that is why I am breaking it down into 11 parts: GENERAL FIELD Record of the Year WINNER - Please Read The Letter Robert Plant & Alison Krauss T Bone Burnett, producer; Mike Piersante, engineer/mixer Track from: Raising SandRead Full Story

Grammy Winners 2009: Grammy Awards Results Part 10 FIELD 30 — CLASSICAL Best Classical Album WINNER - Weill: Rise and Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny James Conlon, conductor; Anthony Dean Griffey, Patti LuPone & Audra McDonald; Fred Vogler, producer (Donnie Ray Albert, John Easterlin, Steven Humes, Mel Ulrich & Robert Wörle; Los Angeles Opera Chorus; Los Angeles Opera Orchestra) [EuroArts]Read Full Story

Grammy Winners 2009: Grammy Awards Results Part 9 FIELD 27 — PRODUCTION, NON-CLASSICAL Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical WINNER - Consolers Of The Lonely Joe Chiccarelli, Vance Powell & Jack White III, engineers (The Raconteurs) [Third Man/Warner Bros.] Just A Little Lovin' Al Schmitt, engineer (Shelby Lynne) [Lost Highway Records] Lay It Down Jimmy Douglass, Russell "The Dragon" ElevadoRead Full Story

The Grammy Awards... my favorite! I think musicians have a lot more fun with fashion and take more risks than actors do in general when it comes to what they wear. Actor's show more refinement and elegance, but musicians define cool. Maybe it's different for me, who makes music, but I get teary eyes about 1,000 times watching the Grammy's. As far as fashion and pure entertainment value, this wasRead Full Story

Grammy Winners 2009: Grammy Awards Results Part 11 FIELD 30 – CLASSICAL (continued) Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra) WINNER - Piano Music Of Salonen, Stucky, And Lutoslawski Gloria Cheng [Telarc] In A State Of Jazz Marc-André Hamelin [Hyperion] Red Cliff Capriccio Wei Li [First Impression Music] Revolutionary Cameron Carpenter [Telarc] Strange Toys Joan JeanrenaudRead Full Story

Awesome performance by Jennifer Hudson along with the infamous West Angeles Church choir. Resource: Jason White’s courseRead Full Story

Grammy Winners 2009: Grammy Awards Results Part 8 FIELD 23 — COMPOSING/ARRANGING Best Instrumental Composition WINNER - The Adventures Of Mutt (From Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull) John Williams, composer (John Williams) Track from: Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull — Soundtrack [Concord Records] Alegria Chick Corea, composer (Chick Corea & Gary Burton)Read Full Story