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The 55th Annual Grammy Award Nominations have been announced and with genres ranging from Alternative to World everybody has been catered for. The nominations were announced at “The GRAMMY Nominations Live!! — Countdown To Music’s Biggest Night” on December the 5th in Nashville.
The Grammy’s will be held on the 10th February 2013, 8/7 central time. So mark your date and time!!
* The complete list of nominees can be found on the Official Grammy website
Have you heard the official Olympic song? It’s by British alternative rock band Muse and it’s nothing like their previous work. I love Muse, but I think I will have to let the song grow on me and with how many times it will probably be played during the Olympics, I think it just might.
One Direction is a group of 5 young men from Britain and Ireland that were the X-Factor finalists from 2010. They were signed to Simon Cowell’s record label, Syco Records and then signed to Columbia Records in North America. One Direction’s debut single “What makes you beautiful” was an all out hit, with their album, Up All Night debuting at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, making One Direction the first UK group in history to debut at number one with their first album. [Read more...]
“Somebody that I used to know” is Belgian-Australian artist Gotye‘s single, released in July 2011. Since then it has been played by radio stations around the world, and now it has been remixed by club giant, DJ Tiësto. As the only official remix of the track, this has all the hallmarks of a club anthem in the making.
San Marino have just announced their first ever entry into the Eurovision Song Contest, sung by Valentina Monetta and called “Facebook Uh Oh Oh“. Unfortunately the entire song refers to Facebook, and one of the Eurovision rules is, no commercial references in music. Hard luck on your first try San Marino!
Smirnoff and Swedish House Mafia, have created a Facebook app where you can remix the new Swedish House Mafia track, Greyhound. After the success of “One”, the trio have appeared on shows around the world. I love Swedish House Mafia and I think I could learn to love vodka if it made me look anything like those ladies.
The Absolut Remix is available through Facebook
If you find you are listening to a certain artists constantly and loving all their albums, maybe you should try Drinkify.
South West Airlines seems to have found a way to intrigue their customers into coming back again and again. Their Flight Attendants sing! Everything from Rap to R&B to complaints about their fellow attendants, these guys do it all.
David is my favourite but you can see the rest on Business Insider
Ever wonder what Pi sounded like? Anyone who has done Euclidean geometry would know that Pi is equal to 3.14, approximately. But what if the number that make up Pi were assigned musical notes? This kind of thing appeals to the little geek in me, how about you?
You can get more geeky questions answered at College Humor
For the first time ever, Beatles fans around the world will be able to download the Beatles’ chart topping UK and the US songs as ring tones for their phones.The 27 UK and US #1 hits are also from the band’s album, The Beatles 1, which debuted digitally in September 2011 in the iTunes store.
The songs available as ring tone are the following:
