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Sundance Film Festival goes virtual, Grammys postponed over omicron concerns

2022-01-05T17:03:17-05:00

Both the Grammy Awards and the Sundance Film Festival have changed their 2022 plans due to a rise in COVID-19 cases across the country (via CNBC and Indiewire). The Grammy Awards show has been postponed until further notice, and the Sundance Film Festival will go virtual, rather than risk an in-person event.

The Grammy Awards was postponed last year because of the pandemic

The 64th Grammy Awards ceremony was scheduled for January 31st, but as noted in a post on the Grammy Awards website, CBS and the Recording Academy have decided to push it back "after careful consideration and analysis with city and state officials, health and safety expert …

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How to watch the 2021 Grammys online

2021-03-14T12:00:00-04:00

The 63rd Grammy Awards ceremony will be held Sunday March 14th, as awards show season continues apace despite the coronavirus pandemic. The show will honor the best music of 2020 and all the performers, producers, and behind-the-scenes people who made it happen. As with most of this year's awards shows, the Grammys look a bit different this year, broadcasting from "in and around" the Los Angeles Convention Center, but without a live audience.

As is usually the case with awards ceremonies, there's some controversy around this year's Grammys. The Weeknd, whose song Blinding Lights topped music charts around the world in 2020, received zero no …

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We visited the studio that puts high-tech fashion on Billy Porter and Janelle Monáe

2020-02-05T13:55:00-05:00

There are no rules on "Freaky Friday" at Smooth Technology's Brooklyn studio. Accompanied by a robot bartender that, through facial recognition software, remembers your drink preference, a light-up demon babydoll, and a boatload of tools, the team gathers to spitball ideas. The wilder the better. And while freedom to explore the freaky is chicken soup for the innovator's soul, it's "Meticulous Monday" that keeps the team grounded in their fast-paced and pioneering ventures.

Smooth Technology designed the mechanics behind Taylor Swift's LED costume on her 1989 World Tour, Janelle Monáe's blinking eye Met Gala dress, and Billy Porter's openin …

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Neil Young says the MacBook Pro has ‘Fisher-Price’ audio quality

2020-01-28T08:51:37-05:00

Musician Neil Young and tech executive Phil Baker have been trying to push the tech industry to make it easier for consumers to listen to high-quality audio for almost a decade now. The duo's hi-res music player Pono aimed to fix problems they said plagued MP3 players like the iPod and music software like iTunes - including compressed, lossy, and low-fidelity audio files that were not similar enough to their original recordings.

But five years after the Pono was released, Young believes the tech industry has still not advanced enough for consumers to easily listen to high-resolution audio. Their new book, To Feel the Music: A Songwriter's M …

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2019 Grammys: the complete list of winners

2019-02-11T01:06:44-05:00

Does the world need the Grammy awards? Not according to Grammy-winner Drake, who the Recording Academy cut off during his spotlight moment at the 2019 awards, after he suggested the Grammys don't matter as much as viral popularity. After winning Best Rap Song for "God's Plan," Drake used his winner's speech to encourage musicians to work on their craft regardless of recognition. "All my peers that make music from their heart, that do things pure and tell the truth, I wanna let you know we're playing an opinion-based sport, not a factual-based sport," he said. "So it's not the NBA, where at the end of the year, you're holding a trophy because …

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New Aladdin trailer from the 2019 Grammys introduces Will Smith’s Genie

2019-02-10T21:01:33-05:00

A trailer for Disney's upcoming live-action adaptation of Aladdin aired during the 2019 Grammys finally gave everyone what they wanted - Will Smith's Genie.

The first teaser for the film, which debuted in October 2018, left the Genie out. New images of Smith in costume as the popular and beloved character have since been released. Entertainment Weekly spoke to Smith about the role, which was originally performed by the late Robin Williams, in December 2018. Smith also spoke about the differences between his version of the character and Williams'.

There's a little bit less mimicking - there's a James Brown piece that we do but a little bit …

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How to watch the 2019 Grammy Awards online

2019-02-10T12:00:00-05:00

The 61st Grammy Awards ceremony airs tonight at 8PM ET / 5PM PT on CBS, celebrating 2018's best music, and the artists, producers, mixing engineers, and more responsible for making it. Of course, if you're someone who enjoys watching the red carpet proceedings that usher the famous attendees into the venue, that will begin a bit earlier at 5PM ET / 2PM PT on Grammy.com. Alicia Keys, a 15-time Grammy award winner, will host this year's awards show, taking over for James Corden, who hosted both the 2017 and 2018 Grammys.

As mentioned, CBS will be televising the Grammys, and no free live stream will be made available. That's no issue for those …

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Apple’s Grammy ads feature Animoji lip-syncing to Childish Gambino and Migos

2018-01-28T20:44:55-05:00

Apple aired two Animoji ads at the Grammys tonight, highlighting the Face ID technology in the iPhone X that can make custom 3D versions of animated emoji based on your facial expressions. One ad, called "Amigos," features a dog and a poop emoji singing along to "Stir Fry" by hip-hop trio Migos, while carrot, broccoli, and cucumber emoji fly by.

The other ad features Childish Gambino's "Redbone" being sung by an alien emoji and unicorn backup singers, which spiral out into a psychedelic universe of cascading cat, panda, robot, and unicorn emoji. Both Migos and Childish Gambino have been nominated for multiple Grammys, including Gambino's Aw …

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How to watch the 2018 Grammy Awards online

2018-01-26T16:32:39-05:00

It's a milestone year for the 2018 Grammy Awards, the 60th annual ceremony celebrating the year's best songs, albums, producers, performers, and other aspects of the music industry. This year's show is particularly noteworthy because it features a far more diverse list of nominees than previous years. This is largely due to the fact that the Grammys allowed online voting for the first time, making it possible for far more of the roughly 13,000 voting members to easily sound off on nominees.

Who's the host?

Once again, James Corden will be emceeing. Corden, the host of The Late Late Show with James Corden - also known from Carpool Karaoke, an …

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Carly Rae Jepsen and Lil Yachty succeed in making me want to live at Target

2017-02-13T09:00:50-05:00

Last night's Grammy Awards were 100 hours long and rife with injustice, including an all-too-predictable Album of the Year snub for Beyoncé's Lemonade, a boy pop-punk duo taking off their pants in public, and an inexplicable zero nominations for Carly Rae Jepsen's Emotion Side B.

However, there was one bright spot that nearly alleviated the sting of the other awful stuff: a Target commercial! Congratulations to capitalism, the real winner of the night. Carly Rae Jepsen and Lil Yachty starred in an elaborate musical ad choreographed by La La Land's Mandy Moore, directed by Mozart in the Jungle creator Roman Coppola, and produced by hip-hop h …

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