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February 21, 2013 – Frank Ocean is pop's golden boy. Taylor Swift is one of its most divisive artists. The crossover in their fan bases is minimal and Ocean — hunched over his piano in his apartment in the L.A. clouds — only finds himself in the tabloids when squabb...

February 11, 2013 – Sunday evening I had the privilege to attend the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, at Los Angeles' mighty redoubt of professional sports and Alicia Keys concerts, the Staples Center. I had to go stag, which was exciting, because think about it: when do you ...

February 11, 2013 – After years of more or less increasing out-of-touchness, the Grammy Awards' biggest asset remains their very institutional nature. So the cluelessly conservative dress code for last night's awards show makes sense: This is supposed to be like the Osc...

February 11, 2013 – There is no church in the wild, but there are sure as shit no atheists on the red carpet. At the 55th installment of the Grammys at Los Angeles' Staples Center, we are fox-holed amongst fellow journalists, camera goons and microphone-grippers and it ...

February 11, 2013 – Taylor Swift brought an insane clown posse. Rihanna brought a jackass. Nobody brought a freaking snare drum. SPIN separates Music's Biggest Night into its wildly entertaining moments and unfortunately painful embarrassments....

February 10, 2013 – Hope you're happy, America. Mumford & Sons walked away with Album of the Year at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards Sunday night (February 10). The English four-piece's Babel beat out SPIN's Album of the Year, Frank Ocean's channel ORANGE, which had t...

February 10, 2013 – Here we are! The SPIN staff is ready to blog music's biggest night and Twitter's most unbearable night: the 55th Annual Grammy Awards! Who will take home the little gold record player thingies that can't even play an MP3 or anything? Who will Chris B...

January 23, 2013 – Last year's Academy Awards ceremony skipped over musical performances altogether. This year, none other than Adele will take the stage to sing her Oscar-nominated theme song from Skyfall, the show's organizers have announced.The British soul-pop...

January 23, 2013 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has turned to some familiar faces to help introduce the eclectic Class of 2013 this spring.Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl — he of Sound City documentary fame — and Taylor Hawkins, both fresh off helping make Led Zepp...

November 19, 2012 – Brandy plays World of Warcraft and Justin Bieber is kind of amazing. Oh, and EDM "is the hottest new thing in music," if you didn't know. Devote your pre-Thanksgiving Sunday to the 40th Anniversary American Music Awards, and this is the sort of knowl...