Monday, February 11, 2008

2008 Grammy Recap

The evening's musical highlight was Kayne West's "Stronger" which featured the first television performance by Daft Punk of their 14 year career...



So, is Amy Winehouse now too pop to be indie? With 5 Grammys under her belt, I'm gonna have to ponder whether she should be getting airplay, eh?

Anyway, it was a pretty good night for the Musical Justice artists who won the following awards:

Record Of The Year
Rehab
Amy Winehouse
Mark Ronson, producer; Tom Elmhirst, Vaughan Merrick, Dom Morley, Mark Ronson & Gabriel Roth, engineers/mixers
Track from: Back To Black
[Universal Republic Records]

Song Of The Year
Rehab
Amy Winehouse, songwriter (Amy Winehouse)
Track from: Back To Black
[Universal Republic Records; Publisher: EMI Music Publishing]

Best New Artist
Amy Winehouse

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Rehab
Amy Winehouse
Track from: Back To Black
[Universal Republic Records]

Best Pop Instrumental Album
The Mix-Up
Beastie Boys
[Capitol Records]

Best Pop Vocal Album
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
[Universal Republic Records]

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
Radio Nowhere
Bruce Springsteen
Track from: Magic
[Columbia]

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
Icky Thump
The White Stripes
Track from: Icky Thump
[Third Man/Warner Bros.]

Best Hard Rock Performance
The Pretender
Foo Fighters
[Roswell/RCA Records]

Best Rock Song
Radio Nowhere
Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)
Track from: Magic
[Columbia; Publisher: Bruce Springsteen]

Best Rock Album
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Foo Fighters
[Roswell/RCA Records]

Best Alternative Music Album
Icky Thump
The White Stripes
[Third Man/Warner Bros.]

Best Rap Solo Performance
Stronger
Kanye West
Track from: Graduation
[Roc-A-Fella Records]

Best Rap Album
Graduation
Kanye West
[Roc-A-Fella Records]

Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album
Washington Square Serenade
Steve Earle
[New West Records]

Best Recording Package
Cassadaga
Zachary Nipper, art director (Bright Eyes)
[Saddle Creek]

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
Mark Ronson
• Back To Black (Amy Winehouse) (T)
• Littlest Things (Lily Allen) (T)
• Rehab (Amy Winehouse) (T)
• Version (Mark Ronson) (A)
• You Know I'm No Good (Amy Winehouse) (T)

Best Short Form Music Video
God's Gonna Cut You Down
Johnny Cash
Tony Kaye, video director; Rachel Curl, video producer
[American Records/Lost Highway Records]


Other nominated MJ artists included:
Feist, Plain White T's, Corinne Bailey Rae, U2, Beastie Boys, Chemical Brothers, Mika. LCD Soundsystem, Shiny Toy Guns, Beck, Lucinda Williams, Green Day, Queens of the Stone Age, Wilco, Lily Allen, Arcade Fire, Bjork, The Shins, Allison Moorer, Doyle Bramhall, Bettye LaVette, Peter Case, Patty Griffin, Tom Waits, Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, T-Bone Burnett, Eddie Vedder, Chris Cornell, Menomena, The Flaming Lips, Gnarls Barkley

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