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10:45 pm
Feb. 11, 2012
Whitney Houston, R.I.P. Whitney Houston, the big-voiced belter who dominated radio in the 1980s and '90s and whose cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" spent 14 weeks at the top of the Hot 100, passed away t... More >>

Sound of the City

4:00 pm
Feb. 10, 2012
Oddsmaking: Will Mumford & Sons Upset "Rolling In The Deep" In The Grammys' Record Of The Year Race? Every year, when I get involved in Grammy debates with my cooler friends, I tell them the problem with the awards isn't that they reward mass-appeal schlock. If the National Academy of Recording ... More >>

Sound of the City

3:00 pm
Feb. 10, 2012
Oddsmaking: Will Louis C.K. Or Lonely Island Overtake "Weird Al" And Win Best Comedy Album? Throughout the award's history, Grammy voters have tended to bestow Best Comedy Album upon trusted favorites: Bill Cosby closed out the 1960s with six straight victories; Richard Pryor took home ... More >>

Sound of the City

2:00 pm
Feb. 10, 2012
Oddsmaking: Will Thom Yorke Dance Away With The Short-Form Music Video Grammy? Unlike MTV's Video Music Awards, which usually reward some combination of pop excellence, symbolic audacity, and likelihood of being controversial, the Grammys' short-form music video category is... More >>

Sound of the City

12:00 pm
Feb. 10, 2012
How Not To Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide Maybe it's all that misguided Year of the Woman chatter that dominated year-end roundups, or the slow, agonizing creep of Fashion Week, or the coming apocalypse, but hoo boy has there been a lot ... More >>

Sound of the City

11:00 am
Feb. 10, 2012
Q&A: Four Tet's Kieran Hebden On Having Music Around Him At All Times, Remixing Opera, And Sticking With Vinyl Springy electric-socket hair, dark droopy eyes—Kieran Hebden looks like a man who has spent untold time tinkering in front of a glowing computer screen late into the night. The depth of his... More >>

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10:30 am
Feb. 10, 2012
Oddsmaking: Is Bon Iver Or Foster The People Alt-But-Not-Too-Alt Enough To Win At This Year's Grammys? The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences introduced the Best Alternative Music Performance category in 1991 in anticipation of punk breaking later that year (and permanently renamed th... More >>

Sound of the City

10:00 am
Feb. 10, 2012
Guess The Tweet: @LanaDelRey Or @Horse_Ebooks? Say what you will about Lana Del Rey—and boy, have you ever, Internet—even her most devoted fans would be hard-pressed to call her "profound." Amidst the embarrassing-for-everybody co... More >>

Sound of the City

9:30 am
Feb. 10, 2012
Let's Stay Together: The Messages Of Barack Obama's Re-Election Playlist Yesterday, President Barack Obama's team released a Spotify playlist for his 2012 re-election campaign, announcing it via every form of social media imaginable. According to an announcement that... More >>

Sound of the City

9:00 am
Feb. 10, 2012
Q&A: Das Racist's Dapwell On Tibetan Independence And Playing Carnegie Hall Every day this month, Sound of the City has been publishing pieces about Philip Glass turning 75 years old, in conjunction with the Voice's cover story on the composer. Naturally, of course, this... More >>

Sound of the City

5:00 pm
Feb. 9, 2012
Oddsmaking: Best Country Solo Performance, Where Ludacris's Stamp Of Approval Makes A Difference As part of this year's larger reduction in genre-specific awards, 2012 will see the country portion of the Grammys streamlined to just four categories: Best Solo Performance (which swallows Male ... More >>

Sound of the City

4:00 pm
Feb. 9, 2012
So Beautiful? So What: Why The Grammys Shoved Paul Simon Aside And Embraced Skrillex A good while back, I was envisioning a Grammy-night dogfight between what, at that point, were my two favorite albums of 2011: Lady Gaga's Born This Way and Paul Simon's So Beautiful or So What. ... More >>

Sound of the City

3:30 pm
Feb. 9, 2012
Last Night: Vice Goes To The Dogs To Celebrate Fashion Week Vice's Fashion Week Party Westway Wednesday, February 8 Better than: Not getting into the secret Skrillex show. Last night, the line to get into West Village's middle-of-nowhere dance club We... More >>

Sound of the City

3:30 pm
Feb. 9, 2012
Live: Jack's Mannequin Make Themselves At Home At Irving Plaza Jack's Mannequin w/Allen Stone, Jukebox The Ghost Irving Plaza Wednesday, February 8 Better than: The $7 Bud Lights on sale, marketed generically and dimensionally as "12oz beer." Cool story, Ir... More >>

Sound of the City

3:00 pm
Feb. 9, 2012
Live: Howlin Rain Roll Through Brooklyn Bowl Howlin Rain Brooklyn Bowl Wednesday, February 8 Better than: Any California jamband since Garcia died. A great rock guitarist needs a signature affectation. Ethan Miller's happens to be an abr... More >>

Sound of the City

1:00 pm
Feb. 9, 2012
Oddsmaking: Should The Grammys Just Give The Album Of The Year Award To Adele Now? For the last twenty years, the award for Album of the Year, the biggest Grammy honor of them all, has tended to go to two types of people: young women and old men. Female solo artists under 30 (L... More >>

Sound of the City

12:15 pm
Feb. 9, 2012
Help Me, Drs. Jay And Ye: Six Images I Saw In The Rorschach Test That Is The "Paris" Video The video for Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Paris" has finally come out, and it's probably not surprising that the setting is one of the giddy live performances of the track that closed the Watch The T... More >>

Sound of the City

11:00 am
Feb. 9, 2012
Q&A: Vernon Reid On Artificial Afrika, Playing With Photoshop, And Creating An Afrodelic Experience Guitarist Vernon Reid is best known as the leader of the hard rock/metal band Living Colour. Before that, though, he was a fixture on the New York avant-garde scene, blending rock, jazz and nois... More >>

Sound of the City

10:00 am
Feb. 9, 2012
Oddsmaking: Will The Grammys Declare Sum 41 To Be More Metal Than Megadeth And Mastodon? The 54th Grammy Awards mark the combination of the Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Metal Performance awards into the single category Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance, which is why Mastodon an... More >>

Sound of the City

9:30 am
Feb. 9, 2012
Live: Bill Callahan Brings The Countryside To Lincoln Center Bill Callahan American Songbook @ Lincoln Center Wednesday, February 8 Better than: Trying to catch a cab outside of Lincoln Center. First, a confession: I had never been to Lincoln Center in m... More >>

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By By Steven Thrasher, Photograph by Steve Pyke

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