BY TER STAFF
Throughout the day, nominations for the 57th Annual Grammy Awards are rolling through (with more categories yet to be announced), and so far among the big winners for nominations are Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift.
1989 is the fifth studio album from singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Over the past few years, Swift went from one of the biggest names in country to the biggest name in music. This isn’t just another Taylor Swift album, though. This album is pretty noteworthy not just for being the first album released in 2014 to go platinum, in one week nonetheless, its noteworthy as Swift has made the complete transition from country to pop. This isn’t a country album, or a country album with pop influences, it is a bonafide pop album. It was a predictable progression, and it was a progression I have been waiting on for a while because I’ve always found Taylor to be talented, but I just wish that she didn’t choose country to display those talents (as that somewhat limited her), until now of course.
BY DAN GARCIA
Watsky, known best for his raps made famous on the internet and his spoken word poetry, is much more than a rapper/poet. A man who constantly pushes his own limits due to his fear of being pigeon-holed, George Watsky is an artist who cannot be put into just one category. Watsky and I sat down shortly before his performance for a sold out crowd at The Metro in Chicago to talk about a number of different topics, from fellow Bay Area rapper Lil B to more deep topics within the music and entertainment world, specifically his views on the price of music (which has been a hot topic in music for the past month).
BY DAN GARCIA / HOPE GARTNER
For our Hate It or Love It series we take a current hot topic in music news that polarizes reasonable minds in the music and entertainment world, and we have one of our writers advocate for one side of the argument and have another one of our writers advocate for the other side (trying our best to always stay fair and balanced). One of the biggest topics in music news this past month is Taylor Swift’s decision to pull her music off the popular streaming service Spotify. While Swift issued an op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal stating “Music is art” that should be paid for, Spotify’s CEO agreed, but noted that they have paid artists over $2 billion dollars in royalties.
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BY TER STAFF
Trying to be cool, The Huffing Post posted an article on the Supreme Court and described them as giving a ‘Kanye Shrug’ to gay marriage. Nothing wrong with a good Ye reference, but they made one big mistake.
Continue reading HuffingtonPost Doesn’t Quite Understand the ‘Kanye Shrug’ Reference
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Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt hasn’t seen Taylor Swift’s new video “Shake It Off”, but he does not like it.
Continue reading Earl Sweatshirt Takes Issue with Taylor Swifts New Video
The Early Registration 