The Arcade Fire win the Grammy for Album of the year. Somehow they lose to the Black Keys in best alternative album. Thats OK by me, share the love, but it does highlight the flaws in Grammy nominations and voting. It is absolutely fantastic to see indie artists acclaimed on the biggest stage, a wonderful album receive recognition and an album with less than 500,000 copies sold even get noticed in the US. The Grammy voters are getting a pasting int he US for the choice, but then again the Grammy awards have never had much credibility. Even Homer Simpson did not want his. I hope this gives Arcade Fire a platform for world domination. Given the content of The Suburbs, it is more likely to provide material for the next album. I look forward to it.Great article about the 'Never heard of them Grammys' at Vulture - click here
Today marks the release of the new Album by Mogwai - 'Hardcore will never die, but you will'. This is one of my most anticipated albums of 2011 and surely one of the best album names ever. You can always count on the Scottish lads to come up with cracking titles. I have got it, i have listened and i have loved. I will share soon enough.
Last, but in no way least is the somewhat surprise announcement last night that Radiohead will be releasing their new album 'The King of Limbs' on Saturday. The album will be available to download - costing £6 - the version you can hold in your hand will be released next month with a CD and two vinyl discs for £33. The official email from Radiohead:
Thank you for waiting
Radiohead are pleased to announce that their new album, The King Of Limbs, is now available to pre-order from www.thekingoflimbs.com. There are digital and physical versions of the album available: The digital version is available in both MP3 (320kbps) and WAV formats. The physical, 'Newspaper Album' comprises two clear 10" vinyl records in a purpose-built record sleeve, a compact disc, many large sheets of newspaper artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork, and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradable plastic to hold everything together.
The Newspaper Album also includes a digital download.
Pre-ordered digital will be available to download on Saturday 19th February.
For the next few weeks, The King Of Limbs will be exclusively available from our website,
but from March 28th it will be on general release on CD, 12" vinyl and digital download in all good record stores.
Holy Shit - I am in a state of nervous anticipation
2 comments:
Got the notice from Radiohead and shat my pants (in my mind). Can't wait and will probably splurge on the deluxe edition. Love Radioheads Artwork. For such a cruisey (& great) band Mogwai have "heavy" album titles ..."Come on Die Young" et al. maybe insecurity/ maybe sarcasm - who cares,......
Just pre-ordered King of Limbs.
Christ im excited.
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