Miranda Lambert Grabs ACM Wins in Four Categories
Sunday, 3 April 2011Miranda Lambert won in four categories at Sunday night's (April 3) Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas, but Taylor Swift claimed the entertainer of the year prize in the fan-voted category.
In addition to being named top female vocalist, Lambert's "The House That Built Me" netted wins as video, single and song of the year. Lady Antebellum received top vocal group honors and also won in the album of the year category for their triple-platinum Need You Now.
The Zac Brown Band and Alan Jackson shared the vocal event win for their collaboration on "As She's Walking Away." Brad Paisley chalked up his fifth consecutive win as top male vocalist, Sugarland grabbed their second vocal duo award and The Band Perry was crowned top new artist.
Lambert and Paisley both expressed bewilderment over their wins in the female and male vocal categories.
"I don't know why I'm up here. I feel so blessed, so humbled," Lambert told the crowd. "I love country music fans. Thanks for coming out to the shows, and thanks for believing in me. I love y'all so much."
"I'm honestly shocked," Paisley said. "This is way too many of these for me. I'm so thankful to the fans of country music for this shot to do this for a living. I'm so proud of the other nominees. I'm friends with all of you. I don't even want to know how close the voting was on this. I don't know who got paid what.
"No, I'm kidding," he laughed. "I'm kidding. It's all very fair. Thanks to the Academy. You've been so good to me."
"The House That Built Me" also provided wins for songwriters Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin, record producers Frank Liddell, Mike Wrucke and video director Trey Fanjoy and producer Trent Hardville.
In accepting the album of the year trophy, Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley joked about Lambert's string of wins.
"Thank you, Miranda Lambert, for winning this last year and not being in the category this year," he said. "That really helps a lot."
Returning to accept the vocal group award, Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott acknowledged the generosity of others.
"We'd like to thank every single artist who has ever given us the stage to open up for them -- Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Martina McBride, Jason Aldean," she said.
The success of The Band Perry's "If I Die Young" made them the favorite in the fan-voted top new artist category.
"We are a family band here in The Band Perry," Kimberly Perry said. "So first of all, my brothers and I would like to thank our fantastic parents, Marie and Steve Perry. Thank you to the beautiful fans of country music. Thank you so much for lending us your ears and hard-earned dollars. We are so humbled by this. Our songs belong to you, absolutely."
And while jokes have been made about Taylor Swift saying she never expects to win any awards, she didn't say that in accepting the entertainer of the year honor. However, she did seem genuinely surprised to hear Ryan Seacrest announce her name Sunday night.
"This is the first time I've ever won this, and I'm just losing my mind," she said. "The fact that this is from the fans makes it so beautiful. ... We just got back from Asia and Europe on tour. Thank you for this wonderful welcome home gift, and thanks for not forgetting about me. The fact that this is from the fans, you're the best thing that has ever happened to me -- ever."
This marked the first year the ACM Awards were televised from two separate venues. The main awards show took place at the MGM Grand. Hosts Reba McEntire and Blake Shelton were shuttled down the street to the nearby Mandalay Bay resort where Sugarland headlined the first annual ACM Fan Jam.
Paisley opened the show at the MGM Grand with his latest single, "Old Alabama," inspired by the music of the band of the same name. With the founding members of Alabama already announced as performers, it was no huge surprise when Randy Owen, Jeff Cook and Teddy Gentry arrived onstage to help Paisley finish the song.
Nor was it a surprise when Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles and Rihanna performed the pop star's latest single, "California King Bed." And the Zac Brown Band's collaboration with James Taylor on their latest single, "Colder Weather," and the singer-songwriter's "Sweet Baby James" had been announced in advance, too.
The shocker -- and perhaps the most exciting performance of the evening -- came when Aerosmith's Steven Tyler showed up onstage to help Carrie Underwood sing her edgy single, "Undo It." Dressed in a white, floor-length coat, Tyler underscored his reputation as one of rock music's most charismatic performers while prompting Underwood to put some additional fire in her already-soaring vocals. They followed it up with Aerosmith's "Walk This Way." It was a hard act to follow, which makes you wonder why the moment transpired so early in the show.
In one of the most eagerly anticipated segments, Ronnie Dunn offered his first televised solo performance after Brooks & Dunn's 2010 farewell tour. He made his mark with "Bleed Red," the first single from his upcoming album.
Darius Rucker was joined by a group of participants from the ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp program to perform "Music From the Heart." The young people with developmental disabilities wrote the song with Nashville-based songwriters Brett James and Chris Young.
In addition to their hosting duties, McEntire sang "When Love Gets a Hold of You" and Shelton introduced his new single, "Honey Bee." Lambert offered a spirited version of "Heart Like Mine," Sugarland delivered "Tonight" and Swift, playing a six-string banjo, got into an acoustic mood with "Mean."
The awards show also featured performances by Jason Aldean ("Dirt Road Anthem"), Dierks Bentley ("Am I the Only One"), Eric Church ("Smoke a Little Smoke"), Sara Evans ("A Little Bit Stronger"), Toby Keith ("Somewhere Else"), Martina McBride ("Teenage Daughters"), The Band Perry "If I Die Young" and Keith Urban ("Without You").
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In addition to being named top female vocalist, Lambert's "The House That Built Me" netted wins as video, single and song of the year. Lady Antebellum received top vocal group honors and also won in the album of the year category for their triple-platinum Need You Now.
The Zac Brown Band and Alan Jackson shared the vocal event win for their collaboration on "As She's Walking Away." Brad Paisley chalked up his fifth consecutive win as top male vocalist, Sugarland grabbed their second vocal duo award and The Band Perry was crowned top new artist.
Lambert and Paisley both expressed bewilderment over their wins in the female and male vocal categories.
"I don't know why I'm up here. I feel so blessed, so humbled," Lambert told the crowd. "I love country music fans. Thanks for coming out to the shows, and thanks for believing in me. I love y'all so much."
"I'm honestly shocked," Paisley said. "This is way too many of these for me. I'm so thankful to the fans of country music for this shot to do this for a living. I'm so proud of the other nominees. I'm friends with all of you. I don't even want to know how close the voting was on this. I don't know who got paid what.
"No, I'm kidding," he laughed. "I'm kidding. It's all very fair. Thanks to the Academy. You've been so good to me."
"The House That Built Me" also provided wins for songwriters Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin, record producers Frank Liddell, Mike Wrucke and video director Trey Fanjoy and producer Trent Hardville.
In accepting the album of the year trophy, Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley joked about Lambert's string of wins.
"Thank you, Miranda Lambert, for winning this last year and not being in the category this year," he said. "That really helps a lot."
Returning to accept the vocal group award, Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott acknowledged the generosity of others.
"We'd like to thank every single artist who has ever given us the stage to open up for them -- Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Martina McBride, Jason Aldean," she said.
The success of The Band Perry's "If I Die Young" made them the favorite in the fan-voted top new artist category.
"We are a family band here in The Band Perry," Kimberly Perry said. "So first of all, my brothers and I would like to thank our fantastic parents, Marie and Steve Perry. Thank you to the beautiful fans of country music. Thank you so much for lending us your ears and hard-earned dollars. We are so humbled by this. Our songs belong to you, absolutely."
And while jokes have been made about Taylor Swift saying she never expects to win any awards, she didn't say that in accepting the entertainer of the year honor. However, she did seem genuinely surprised to hear Ryan Seacrest announce her name Sunday night.
"This is the first time I've ever won this, and I'm just losing my mind," she said. "The fact that this is from the fans makes it so beautiful. ... We just got back from Asia and Europe on tour. Thank you for this wonderful welcome home gift, and thanks for not forgetting about me. The fact that this is from the fans, you're the best thing that has ever happened to me -- ever."
This marked the first year the ACM Awards were televised from two separate venues. The main awards show took place at the MGM Grand. Hosts Reba McEntire and Blake Shelton were shuttled down the street to the nearby Mandalay Bay resort where Sugarland headlined the first annual ACM Fan Jam.
Paisley opened the show at the MGM Grand with his latest single, "Old Alabama," inspired by the music of the band of the same name. With the founding members of Alabama already announced as performers, it was no huge surprise when Randy Owen, Jeff Cook and Teddy Gentry arrived onstage to help Paisley finish the song.
Nor was it a surprise when Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles and Rihanna performed the pop star's latest single, "California King Bed." And the Zac Brown Band's collaboration with James Taylor on their latest single, "Colder Weather," and the singer-songwriter's "Sweet Baby James" had been announced in advance, too.
The shocker -- and perhaps the most exciting performance of the evening -- came when Aerosmith's Steven Tyler showed up onstage to help Carrie Underwood sing her edgy single, "Undo It." Dressed in a white, floor-length coat, Tyler underscored his reputation as one of rock music's most charismatic performers while prompting Underwood to put some additional fire in her already-soaring vocals. They followed it up with Aerosmith's "Walk This Way." It was a hard act to follow, which makes you wonder why the moment transpired so early in the show.
In one of the most eagerly anticipated segments, Ronnie Dunn offered his first televised solo performance after Brooks & Dunn's 2010 farewell tour. He made his mark with "Bleed Red," the first single from his upcoming album.
Darius Rucker was joined by a group of participants from the ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp program to perform "Music From the Heart." The young people with developmental disabilities wrote the song with Nashville-based songwriters Brett James and Chris Young.
In addition to their hosting duties, McEntire sang "When Love Gets a Hold of You" and Shelton introduced his new single, "Honey Bee." Lambert offered a spirited version of "Heart Like Mine," Sugarland delivered "Tonight" and Swift, playing a six-string banjo, got into an acoustic mood with "Mean."
The awards show also featured performances by Jason Aldean ("Dirt Road Anthem"), Dierks Bentley ("Am I the Only One"), Eric Church ("Smoke a Little Smoke"), Sara Evans ("A Little Bit Stronger"), Toby Keith ("Somewhere Else"), Martina McBride ("Teenage Daughters"), The Band Perry "If I Die Young" and Keith Urban ("Without You").
The Band Perry wins ACM's best new artist award
CBS/AP) The Band Perry claimed the best new artist award at Sunday night's country music awards, moments after performing its hit song "If I Die Young."
It was the trio of two brothers and one sister's second win of the night - they took home the top new vocal duo or group award before the live ceremony began.
The group was competing with Eric Church for the new artist honor.
"We believe that country music is the people's music," Kimberly Perry said. "And it is our greatest desire to be their band."
The siblings, who began singing as children, released their self-titled album on Oct. 20, 2010. It features the singles "Hip to My Heart," "If I Die Young" (which has been certified platinum) and "You Lie."
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It was the trio of two brothers and one sister's second win of the night - they took home the top new vocal duo or group award before the live ceremony began.
The group was competing with Eric Church for the new artist honor.
"We believe that country music is the people's music," Kimberly Perry said. "And it is our greatest desire to be their band."
The siblings, who began singing as children, released their self-titled album on Oct. 20, 2010. It features the singles "Hip to My Heart," "If I Die Young" (which has been certified platinum) and "You Lie."
LCD Soundsystem — The Finale
James Murphy accepted his fate while sitting in a van outside a club, in a city he can’t remember, on a tour taking him nowhere. He was 26 and traveling as the sound man with a couple of punk acts, Six Finger Satellite and Thee Hydrogen Terrors. But on this particular night in 1996, Murphy was talking with Six Finger’s frontman when he came to a conclusion that most of us reach early and a sad few reach too late: I will never be a singer in a rock ’n’ roll band.
So when the tour was over, Murphy — having rid himself of any lingering frontman aspirations — went back home to New York City and threw himself into producing and engineering, including a record by the gleefully abrasive art band Les Savy Fav. He bonded with the drummer, Pat Mahoney, and with Murphy on bass, the two goofed around in their spare time, playing music designed for dancing rather than thrashing. Despite not venturing out of the Knights of Columbus Hall in Williamsburg where they practiced, Murphy and Mahoney cared enough about this lark to give it a name: LCD Soundsystem.
Around this same time, 1998, Murphy met an opinionated Londoner named Tim Goldsworthy, also a producer, who’d recently arrived in New York expecting to live his own 1981 downtown freakout — to step inside a Keith Haring mural; to see break dancers on every corner. Instead he went to clubs and found a gray mass of bored and boring kids dancing to faceless, feckless music. So Murphy and Goldsworthy decided they had to do something good. They’d host good parties, invite good people, play good music — spinning artistically impeccable bands like ESG and the Fall and Can — and guarantee themselves a good time. (For Murphy, this also involved gobbling heroic amounts of Ecstasy.) So they began hosting sweatily transcendent parties in their West Village office, featuring live sound precisely calibrated for maximum sonic whomp, with Murphy and Goldsworthy as D.J.’s.
Right around 2001, though, Murphy was looking for a track he couldn’t find. He wanted a sprawling disco drum concoction to help him bridge key moments in his D.J. set. By this point, they’d also started a record label—dubbed DFA, or Death From Above — so Murphy decided to put out his own 12-inch. Mahoney would play drums.
For the B-side, Murphy cooked up eight minutes of punk-funk weirdness he called “Losing My Edge.” The track consisted basically of Murphy tapping out a skittering rhythm on the cymbals while yelling a fading hipster’s anxieties into a microphone. The song was credited to LCD Soundsystem. In hindsight, it seemed slightly embarrassing to Murphy — he worried he was revealing too much of himself — but a couple of his friends really liked it, so he thought, What the hell, and released it as an A-side. After all, he wasn’t a singer in rock ’n’ roll band. What did he care?
The Rockologist On Leon Russell And Elton John
So I have to honest here. The first time I ever heard of Leon Russell was as a pre-teen kid cruising my way through the pages of Circus Magazine, where I came across an an ad for Leon's debut solo album, which was at the time still called Can A Blue Man Sing The Whites?.
Cool title, I thought.
The album was of course eventually released as Leon Russell's 1970 self-titled debut solo album by Shelter Records (not sure whatever happened to that original title), and upon the first time I heard it, I was instantly enthralled.
But to be completely honest here, the first side of this album did absolutely nothing for me at the time. It was the second side that I really liked.
I liked Leon's weathered, sand-papery voice well enough, and the production of the record, populated as it was by the then very much in vogue Muscle Shoals sound of people like Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, by way of British pop stars like Eric Clapton also went down very easy.
But to me, the songs were still kind of lacking.
The second side however? Well, that was something else entirely.
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Saturday, 2 April 2011I love my parents.They are very nice for us.They lookafter us from childhold to youngust,They are able to appreciate.
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Carry On My Wayward Hipsters: LCD Soundsystem Passes the Torch
Perhaps even more appropriate is that while LCD is burning down the house at MSG, one of Murphy’s most treasured progeny, Holy Ghost!, will be playing even further uptown, on West 56th Street, opening for Cut Copy at Terminal 5 this Friday and Saturday nights. The Brooklyn duo, consisting of Alex Frankel and Nick Millhiser, signed to Murphy’s DFA label to glowing praise from the boss - a useful form of promotion, to say the least. Their utterly infectious eponymous debut album (out 4/12) is in thrall to nothing particularly trendy. Rather, they manage to flit effortlessly between blatant disco romps ("Say My Name"), exuberant, Motown-ish pop gems ("Jam For Jerry"), cool funk ("Static on the Wire,” “Some Children") and stern but catchy electro-pop ("Do It Again").
Perhaps the hippest thing about them is how little they seem to care about how hip they are. Which, of course, reminds us a little of…well, James Murphy. Still, it’s hard to imagine these tunes not tearing up the most precociously cool dancefloors from Greenpoint to Glasgow all summer.
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