Archive | Artist Features
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GRAMMY award show delivers surprises
Every GRAMMY show is as much about the awards as it is about the personalities of the stars that sit in their seats, awaiting the award announcements.
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Column: Grammys should focus on talent, not profit
If you’re of the belief that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences is living up to its website overview’s claim to “honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position,” then I ...
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Column: Katy Perry’s acting disappoints
This past Monday, Katy Perry joined the cast of the popular CBS show “How I Met Your Mother.” Perry played the cousin of Zoey, a recurring character as of late. It was not Perry’s first foray into television.
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‘Teach Me How to Dougie’ rappers living the dream
Everyone from reality star Kim Kardashian to NBA player John Wall has danced it. But where exactly did Cali Swag District, the four-man rap group from Inglewood, Calif., find inspiration for their hit song “Teach Me How to Dougie”?
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Music Interview: Ben Kweller
Singer-songwriter Ben Kweller has been making music since he was 12, first performing with the band Radish, and later building a solo career that has seen four full-length albums released. The Daily’s Dusty Somers spoke to Kweller about his musical sensibilities and his optimistic outlook.
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Interview: T.I.
Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., better known to the world as T.I., has never been a man to be held down by circumstance. Not even spending nine months at a Forest City, Ark. low-security prison could hold him back from his goals and ambitions. Only a few short months after his release from prison, T.I.
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Music Feature: The Dexateens
Robert Christgau says Patterson Hood can’t sing. How would Christgau, most eminent of first-generation rock critics, react to the bending nasal drawl of a Dexateens harmony? He would like it anyway.
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Music Interview: Ludo’s Andrew Volpe
Once a band puts out a very adventurous album, it’s hard to maintain that high level of creativity again, but Ludo front man Andrew Volpe is confident that is not the case for the St. Louis rock band.
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Music Feature: Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow Of The Posies
For The Posies 2010 might seem like several years in one. The veteran band is on the verge of dropping “Blood/Candy,” (9/28) which may in the end stand as their greatest album, at least on par critically with the much loved “Frosting On The Beater.