Watch The Brits Tomorrow Night

The Brit's are on tomorrow night.  MuchMusic in Canada are broadcasting them.

Here are The Vaccines with "If Ya Wanna" from their album What Did You Expect From The Vaccines.  They're nominated for British Breakthrough Act.


This is a cool song from Ed Sheeran called "The A Team".  It's up for British Single.


Florence + the Machine are up for British Female Solo Artist and MasterCard British Album of the Year.  Here's "No Light, No Light".


And from a Canadian point of view, Feist is up for International Female Solo Artist and Bon Iver (Bonny Bear?!?) is up for International Male Solo Artist and International Breakthrough Act.

Here's Feist's "How Come You Never Go There?"


And Bon Iver's "Holocene"

The Grammy's part deux

I watched the second half of the Grammy's last night. Highlights for me were:

• Civil Wars thanking their "opening acts" and their cool, one-minute version of "Barton Hollow".
• Kate Beckinsale's legs.
• Katy Perry put on a cool, switch-a-roo performance with what I can only assume is her "kick him to the curb" song for her ex, Russell Brand.
• Adele was triumphant in an "under the microscope" performance. In a world that often wants artists to fail - like Lana del Rey on SNL - she put on a flawless performance that demonstrated why she deserved to sweep the Grammy's.
• Glen Campbell not falling off the stage
• Bon Iver not insulting the Grammy's, while remaining honest about the conflicted feelings he holds.
• And more Foos! And duelling guitars!

I don't write about the things I don't like so you won't get all that dirt and insulting, condescending attitude from moi.  No way, Jose.

The Grammy's didn't suck?!?

Is it just me or did the Grammy's not suck too badly last night?  The highlights for me were:

• Bruce Springsteen bringing a good performance that had a lot of energy. I still can't help from seeing Little Steven as Sil in the Sopranos, though.
• I do appreciate Bruno Mars' live performances when I've seen him on the awards shows. He shows obvious influences from vintage R&B and James Brown in particular.
• Bonnie Raitt and Alicia Keys' tribute to Etta James.  Man, can Bonnie sing and play that guitar with 10 tonnes of soul.  Nice!
• Jack Black getting a dig in on Bon Iver for "indie cred" while introducing the Foo Fighters who brought the rawk as they always do. And then the Foos won a well-deserved Grammy for Best Rock Performance.
• Rihanna is a guilty pleasure, so it's always good to hear and see her.
• And there's the new drinking game where you have to drink every time someone says or sings "Whitney". Too soon?

And I haven't even seen the second half yet.

Too bad the Juno nominations were so vanilla.