The guitar has become a textural instrument rather than a lead instrument. And I think that's probably a good thing. | | | | Stormzy performing at the Brit Awards, Feb. 21, 2018.
(Dave J Hogan/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “The guitar has become a textural instrument rather than a lead instrument. And I think that's probably a good thing.”
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| | rantnrave:// The GRAMMY AWARDS' white roses crossed the ATLANTIC in time for Wednesday's BRIT AWARDS, which gave its first award to DUA LIPA, who promptly called for "more women on these stages, more women winning awards, and more women taking over the world." Alas, a rose is a rose, and what Dua Lipa couldn't have known is that she'd wind up being the only woman to win all night in a category in which voters had the option of voting for a man. Keep trying, voters of the world. The "NEW RULES" singer ("my love, he doesn't love me") did win twice, and Grammy-ignored LORDE took home a trophy, too, so points for trying. The night's other big winner was STORMZY, who grabbed two of the top awards in what the GUARDIAN's ALEXIS PETRIDIS proclaimed "The Year the Brits Stopped Ignoring Grime." Onstage meanwhile, a LAMBORGHINI was MICHAEL JACKSON'd during KENDRICK LAMAR's performance, LIAM GALLAGHER saluted MANCHESTER, and Stormzy took on PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY like a high-schooler taking on MARCO RUBIO... A rise-above pop song written and performed by the MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA CLUB was an odd way for CNN to end Wednesday night's combative town hall on gun control, as if the network was trying to force an uplifting, even happy, ending on a raw, angry story that has barely begun. Everything.Must.Be.Packaged. But god bless every one of those singers and every one of their classmates who stood up to their elected officials and the gun lobby on live TV and refused to give an inch. May we all harmonize with that... I have a thing for 78rpm records, and this is amazing. Don't click unless you're prepared to give up the rest of your day... VICKY CORNELL on husband CHRIS's battle with addiction—and his prescription-drug-fueled relapse. Don't click unless you have Kleenex nearby... The amazing U TALKIN' U2 TO ME? podcast has suddenly morphed into an RU TALKIN' R.E.M. RE: ME? podcast. While the new name is objectively terrible and the podcast suffers the all-too-common malady of nothing happens until around 15 minutes have elapsed (why podcasters, why?), it remains a delight for fans of the '80s-college-rockers-turned-pop-superstars the two hosts named SCOTT obsessively podcast about. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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