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  Grammy Reflections: The Great White Wash

  February 18, 2011 – Country music, and yes, indie rock, were the big winners at this past Sunday's 53rd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. But you know what lost? Black music. The slight wasn't much of a surprise, really; the Grammys are notoriously out of touch. But this year's ceremony felt actively dismissive, with hip-hop and R&B, inarguably African-American strains of music, getting pointedly whitewashed. The subtle digs at hip-hop started early. …
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  11 Random Thoughts About the Random Grammys

  December 2, 2010 – The Grammy nominations were announced last night, with their perplexing, annual variety of laudable choices (see: Arcade Fire, the Black Keys, Florence & the Machine), surprising omissions of chart-topping acts (Ke$ha, Alicia Keys, Train) and stellar albums (LCD Soundsystem), random old people (Jeff Beck, Herbie Hancock -- again!), and people you'd never heard of (Esperanza Spalding for Best New Artist, for example). Here, we weigh …
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