2014 BRIT Award Winners List

The BRIT Awards have called it a night and all the winners of this evening’s award show can be seen below. This year’s winners include Bruno Mars for International Male Solo Artist, Bastille for British Breakthrough Act, Lorde for International Female Artist and many more.

The full list of winners can be seen below and we’ll be posting videos from the performances as soon as they start making their way onto the internet, like Beyoncé’s performance.

2014 BRIT AWARD WINNERS:

British Female Solo Artist: Ellie Goulding

British Male Solo Artist: David Bowie

British Breakthrough Act: Bastille

British Group: The Arctic Monkeys

British Single: “Waiting All Night,” Rudimental feat. Ella Eyre

British Video: “Best Song Ever,” One Direction

International Female Solo Artist: Lorde

International Male Solo Artist: Bruno Mars

International Group: Daft Punk

Global Success: One Direction

Critic’s Choice: Sam Smith

MasterCard British Album of the Year: AM, The Arctic Monkeys

MTVU Woodie Award Nominees Released

The MTVU Woodie Award nominees have been revealed and yes, some Top 40 radio did happen to leak onto the college radio oriented award show.

The 10th annual event honors those tracks and musicians that are spun at your local college radio station on repeat and will once again happen in Austin during the South by Southwest Music Festival. For those not able to make it to Austin for SXSW, the half-an-hour 2014 Woodie Awards Special will air on March 16 at 8 p.m. on MTV.

The Arcade Fire, Lorde, Daft Punk, Beyoncé, Drake, Jay Z, Pharrell, Imagine Dragons, Bastille, Disclosure, the 1975, Chance the Rapper and A$AP Rocky are just some of the nominees that are up for several nominations including ‘Best Video Woodie’ and ‘Best Performing Woodie.’

We know, so many sexual innuendos, so little time.

The full list of nominations and their respected categories can been seen below.

2014 MTVU WOODIE AWARD NOMINEES:

Woodie of the Year:
Imagine Dragons
Lorde
Pharrell
Drake
Zedd
Disclosure

Breaking Woodie:
Bastille
Martin Garrix
The 1975
Jhene Aiko
Sam Smith
Mack Wilds

Best Video Woodie:
Disclosure, “Grab Her”
Passion Pit, “Carried Away”
Chance the Rapper, “Everybody’s Something”
Iggy Azalea, “Bounce”
Arcade Fire, “Afterlife”

Did It My Way Woodie:
Beyoncé — Released her new, self-titled album without any prior promotion.
Kanye West — Created an interactive music video experience for Yeezus
Arcade Fire — Creatively utilized social media, street art and pop-up performances to launch the Reflektor album.
Childish Gambino — Hosted impromptu album listening sessions in public parks for Because the Internet.
Bob Dylan — Created a 16 channel interactive music video for “Like a Rolling Stone.”

Performing Woodie:
Tyler the Creator
Ed Sheeran
Jay Z
Arcade Fire
The National
The XX

Best Collaboration Woodie:
A$AP Rocky and Skrillex — “Wild For the Night”
Avicii and Aloe Blacc — “Wake Me Up”
Just Blaze and Baauer featuring Jay Z — “Higher”
Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons — “Radioactive (remix)”
Daft Punk and Pharrell — “Get Lucky”
James Blake and Chance he Rapper — “Life Round Here”

College Radio Woodie (Best College Radio Station):
Ball State University (WCRD)
Boston University (WTBU)
East Stroudsburg University (WESS)
Eastern Illinois University (WEIU)
Indiana University (WIUX)
Texas State University – San Marcos (KTSW)
University of California – Berkeley (KALX)
University of Illinois – Champaign Urbana (WPGU)
University of South Carolina (WUSC)
William Paterson University (WPSC)

The 56th Annual Grammy Award Winners

The Grammys are now officially underway with the red carpet arrivals, interviews, fashion and of course those pre-telecast winners. Beginning now, we will be live updating the winners list as the awards are handed out or received.

Keep checking in as we will try our hardest to keep the list of winners up to date.

2014 GRAMMY WINNERS:

Album of the Year: Daft Punk, Random Access Memories

Record of the Year: Daft Punk feat. Pharrell and Nile Rodgers, “Get Lucky”

Song of the Year: Lorde and Joel Little, “Royals”

Best Country Album: Kacey Musgraves, Same Trailer, Different Park

Best Pop Vocal Album: Bruno Mars, Unorthodox Jukebox

Best Pop Solo Performance: Lorde, “Royals”

Best Rock Song: Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic & Pat Smear, “Cut Me Some Slack”

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Jay-Z feat. Justin Timberlake, “Holy Grail”

Best Pop Duo or Group Performance: Daft Punk feat. Pharrell and Nile Rodgers, “Get Lucky”

Best New Artist: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Best Rock Performance: Imagine Dragons, “Radioactive”

Best Rock Album: Led Zeppelin, “Celebration Day”

Best Alternative Music Album: Vampire Weekend, “Modern Vampires of the City”

Best Rap Performance: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz, “Thrift Shop”

Best Rap Album: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, The Heist

Best Rap Song: Ben Haggerty & Ryan Lewis, songwriters (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Wanz), “Thrift Shop”

Best Country Solo Performance: Darius Rucker, “Wagon Wheel”

Best Country Song: Shane McAnally, Kacey Musgraves & Josh Osborne, songwriters (Kacey Musgraves), “Merry Go ’round”

Best Metal Performance: Black Sabbath, “God is Dead?”

Best Country Duo/Group Performance: The Civil Wars, “From This Valley”

Best Music Video: Justin Timberlake featuring Jay Z, “Suit & Tie”

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Michael Bublé, To Be Loved

Best Pop Instrumental Album: Herb Alpert, “Stepping Out”

Best Traditional R&B Performance: Gary Clark Jr., “Please Come Home”

Best Urban Contemporary Album: Rihanna, “Unapologetic”

Best R&B Album: Alicia Keys, “Girl on Fire”

Best R&B Song (A Songwriters Award): James Fauntleroy, Jerome Harmon, Timothy Mosley & Justin Timberlake, songwriters (Justin Timberlake), “Pusher Lover Girl”

Best New Age Album: Laura Sullivan, Love’s River

Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Terri Lyne Carrington, Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue

Best Improvised Jazz Solo: Wayne Shorter, soloist, “Orbits”

Best Jazz Vocal Album: Gregory Porter, Liquid Spirit

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Randy Brecker, Włodek Pawlik Trio & Kalisz Philharmonic, Night In Calisia

Best Latin Jazz Album: Paquito D’Rivera And Trio Corrente, Song For Maura

Best Gospel Album: Tye Tribbett, Greater Than (Live)

Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance: Tasha Cobbs, “Break Every Chain [Live]” and Tye Tribbett, “If He Did It Before… Same God [Live]”

Best Gospel Song: Tye Tribbett, songwriter (Tye Tribbett), “If He Did It Before… Same God [Live]”

Best Contemporary Christian Music Song: David Garcia, Ben Glover & Christopher Stevens, songwriters (Mandisa), “Overcomer”

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: Mandisa, Overcomer

Best Latin Pop Album: Draco Rosa, Vida

Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album: La Santa Cecilia, Treinta Días

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano): Mariachi Divas De Cindy Shea, A Mi Manera

Best Tropical Latin Album: Pacific Mambo Orchestra, Pacific Mambo Orchestra

Best Americana Album: Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, Old Yellow Moon

Best Bluegrass Album: Del McCoury Band, The Streets Of Baltimore

Best Blues Album: Ben Harper With Charlie Musselwhite, Get Up!

Best Folk Album: Guy Clark, My Favorite Picture Of You

Best Regional Roots Music Album: Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience, Dockside Sessions

Best Reggae Album: Ziggy Marley, Ziggy Marley In Concert

Best World Music Album: Gipsy Kings, Savor Flamenco

Best Children’s Album: Jennifer Gasoi, Throw A Penny In The Wishing Well

Best Spoken Word Album: Stephen Colbert, America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren’t

Best Comedy Album: Kathy Griffin, Calm Down Gurrl

Best Musical Theater Album: Kinky Boots

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media: Sound City: Real To Reel

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media: Thomas Newman, composer, Skyfall

Best Song Written For Visual Media: Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth, songwriters (Adele), “Skyfall” from Skyfall

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: Simon Earith & James Musgrave, art directors (Paul McCartney and Wings), Wings Over America (Deluxe Edition)

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Pharrell Williams, “BBC” (Jay-Z), “Blurred Lines” (Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell), “Happy” (Pharrell Williams), “I Can’t Describe (The Way I Feel)” (Jennifer Hudson featuring T.I.), “Nuclear” (Destiny’s Child), “Oceans” (Jay-Z featuring Frank Ocean), “Reach Out Richard” (Mayer Hawthorne), “The Stars Are Ours” (Mayer Hawthorne)

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: Cedric Gervais, remixer (Lana Del Rey), “Summertime Sadness” (Cedric Gervais Remix)

Best Music Film: Paul McCartney, Jonas Akerlund, video director; Violaine Etienne, Aron Levine & Scott Rodger, video producers, Live Kisses

Grammy Performers List Released

The Grammys have finally given viewers what they have been waiting for; a list of performers for the award show.

Last month, it was announced that Daft Punk would be taking the stage at the Grammys to perform and today, it was officially confirmed that they would be taking the stage with a number of guests including Pharrell, Nile Rodgers, Chris Caswell, Nathan East, Omar Hakim, Paul Jackson Jr.,and the Random Access Memories session players.

Lorde, one of 2013’s biggest breakouts will also be taking the stage to perform. The New Zealand singer was nominated for a total of four award including both Song of the Year and Record of the Year for her hit song, “Royals” as well as Best Pop Vocal Album for her album, Pure Heroine.

Katy Perry is another radio mainstay with the power to garner two nominations at this year’s event and sing (hopefully) during the live show. Her empowering anthem, “Roar” was nominated for both Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

And while his song might be one of the most controversial song of 2013, it didn’t stop if from being the biggest song of the year. Robin Thicke and his “Blurred Lines” will also be taking the stage at the show. The song may have earned him “Sexist of the Year” by a British organization, but it didn’t stop him from earning three Grammy nominations for it.

But while the list includes some of the biggest names in pop music at this moment, one of the biggest shocks was the addition of metal gods, Metallica. Metallica will be taking the stage for the first time in 23 years. Their Metallica Through the Never (Music From the Motion Picture) soundtrack has been nominated for Best Recording Package. That means if they win, the actual band wouldn’t win; the award would go to the art directors.

Impressive, a little bit of everything for those with different tastes. The Grammys air live on Sunday, January 26 from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on CBS.

Surprise Performers Confirmed for the Grammys

The Grammys have revealed some of the performers that will be taking the stage at the annual music award show, but the biggest surprise on the list comes courtesy of some French DJs who like to wear helmets.

Can you guess who it is?

Well, we aren’t going to give you enough time to guess because the biggest shock on the list is that Daft Punk will be taking the stage to perform. This will be the first time in six years that the electronic duo will be performing on live television; the last time they performed on the show was in 2008 with Kanye West.

Since the release of Random Access Memories, the duo really haven’t done any public performance even though they did appear briefly on stage during the MTV Video Music Awards, but it was just to promote their newest single “Lose Yourself to Dance.” The Recording Academy is billing Daft Punk’s appearance as an “exclusive” one, so who knows, maybe it is. 

Also confirmed to take the stage is Kendrick Lamar who is nominated for seven awards including “Album of the Year” for Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, “New Artist” as well as “Best Rap Performance” for “Swimming Pools (Drank).” Imagine Dragons who are fresh from performing a killer mash-up of their songs on the American Music Awards will once again be hitting the stage for the Grammys where they are nominated for two awards one of which is “Record of the Year.”

Grammy veteran P!nk will also appear on the award show to perform what we assume is her Grammy-nominated song, “Just Give Me a Reason” with fun. frontman, Nate Ruess.

There will also be a special Grammy Moment performance by country artists Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson and Blake Shelton. The performance has been described as a tribute to the Texas and Oklahoma roots of the artists.

LL Cool J will once again be returning for hosting duties during the live broadcast of the show which will take place on January 26, from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. CBS will be airing the event live starting at 8 p.m. EST.

Watch the Statue Love Story Unfold in “Instant Crush”

Yesterday, a clip from Daft Punk’s music video for “Instant Crush” made its way onto the internet after premiering on some show in France.  The clip featured a statue version of The Strokes’ frontman, Julian Casablancas, who happens to also lend his vocal as well as a guitar solo to the track.

The video tells the story of a love affair, from a far, between two statues in a history museum one which is, of course Casablancas. If you pay close attention to when the Casablancas statue gets moved to the basement, you can make out the Daft Punk helmets in the storage area.

The song comes off Daft Punk’s critically acclaimed and probably one of your favorite albums of 2013, Random Access Memories. “Instant Crush” is the third music video to come off the hit album right behind “Get Lucky” and “Lose Yourself to Dance.”

Check out the video below.

Store in the UK Makes Applicants Dance During Interview

Did you ever think you’d see the day when a grown man is asked to dance around to an electronic song during a job interview?

Well, that’s exactly what happened to a University of South Wales graduate who was applying for a job at Currys, a U.K. retailer. Alan Bacon, the 21-year-old interviewee was ready for an interview at the Cardiff branch of the retailer when he was asked to dance to Daft Punk’s 1997 hit song, “Around the World.” Bacon said that it was a dance-off the interviewers had set up against the eight applicants to see who would come out on top with the position at the store.

“I think everyone initially thought it was a joke,” Bacon told British paper, The Mirror. “But they were serious. All professionalism went out of the window. I’d spent the past week researching the company and looking forward to being able to express myself and talk about what I love doing. But I just felt so embarrassed and uncomfortable. I ended up dancing to ‘Around the World’ by Daft Punk, doing rubbish robotics in my suit in front of a group of strangers.”

The potential employee continued b saying, “”It was so degrading, but I am desperate for work, so I just smiled and got on with it. I told my dad it was like a scene out of The Office. I’ve been to quite a few job interviews and have never had to do anything like it before. Another middle-aged guy looked really upset as he danced to a rap song.”

No matter how hard he tried to impress those that we’re interviewing him, Bacon received a phone call revealing that he in fact did not get the position he “danced” for. A spokesperson for the retailer did come out and confirm that the store had in fact made the applicants dance as part of their interview and that “the store in question did not follow our official recruitment processes on this specific occasion.”

They continued the statement with, “We are very sorry to those interviewees impacted on this occasion and would like to invite them back to attend an official interview where they will be given a proper opportunity to demonstrate how they can contribute to our business.”

Sesame Street Do Daft Punk

We all pretty much expected and were right that Daft Punk’s newest release, Random Access Memories was going to be a full-blown hit and to no shock, we were.

Get Lucky has been a massive hit invading both the radio waves, televisions even condoms now. The song has been such a hit that even Sesame Street has gotten in on the action. That’s right, you read that correctly, there’s video of Grover and his many friends dancing along to the top 100 song. And yes, we have to keep in mind that there are some lyrics of the song that are very “dirty.” Oh, Grover.

Anyways, if your curiosity has gotten the better of you then you can check out the video below.

‘Get Lucky’ Remixed

We know that you’ll probably never get tired of hearing Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, especially with all the remixes that are making their way online (remember Darkside’s remixes we posted last week?), but now you can hear one of the remixes done exclusively by the duo themselves.

Before the album made its way onto people’s iPods (do we still use those) and other modes of listening to music, the French-duo revealed that they would be making their own remixes of each of the songs on the album. Today, we have received their remixed version of first single, “Get Lucky.”

The ten-minute long song can be heard below courtesy of Spotify.

So tell us, is the remixed version better or just decent compared to the original?

Darkside Take on Daft Punk

Remember when we told you that Daft Punk would be taking it upon themselves to remix their own songs from their new hit album, Random Access Memories? Well, it looks as if that time has come, but they have asked fans that if they wanted to contribute, that they would be more than welcomed.

Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington also known as Darkside, have taken on the task of remixing every single track on the album (14 if any of you were wondering). But before you think this would be a catastrophe like some random mixing done by your sweet sixteen’s DJ, Jaar most recently, remixed Brian Eno and Grizzly Bear and his remix of Cat Power was voted one of Spin Magazine’s 40 Best Songs of 2012, so we know they mean business.

If you still feel a little unsure, that’s fine, you can check out all the remade album titled, Random Access Memories Memories, below.