56th Annual Grammy Awards

Music's biggest celebration is here! Tonight is the 56th Annual Grammy Awards and every genre from R&B to Pop to Country is showing up in hopes of winning that glittering, gold (heavy looking) Gramopone. Colored in red our BassLine's guess for who will win in each category, but live we will be highlighting in gold who actually took home the Grammy! Check my twitter page for live tweets during the night! Are you excited because we are! Album...

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Charli XCX When the Brit-pop star isn't posting strung out, grunge pics on Instagram she's touring around the world  promoting her 2013 hard-hitter True Romance. Anxious to put out her third studio album, due sometime this summer, she's released a fast-paced, anti-ballad cleverly titled "Allergic to Love". The intensity of the guitars and Charli nearly screaming on the track mirrors her on stage persona. If this track is featured on her...

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Iron and Wine Tour Logo: Source: ironandwine.com Supporting 2013's album Ghost On Ghost, indie-folk band Iron and Wine has announced a late winter/spring tour coexisting with some festival appearances. This tour will mainly support Ghost On Ghost, a upbeat, jazz inspired album that features jazz drummer Brian Blade. Ghost On Ghost is Iron and Wine's more experimental dabbling in R&B beats infused with his go-to use of eclectic bluegrass...

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The Californian alternative group The Neighbourhood recently hit 100k followers on Twitter and as a reward to their fans the artwork for their upcoming album #000000 & #FFFFFF was released.  source: thenbhd.tumblr.com Back in April 2013 the hip-hop influenced rockers put out their debut LP I Love You, with their hit singles "Sweater Weather" and "Afraid". Then sadly, last week The Neighbourhood announced that drummer and co-founder...

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Bombay Bicycle Club Late 2013, London natives and indie folk group Bombay Bicycle Club released two singles from their 2014 February album So Long, See You Tomorrow. They also announced a headlining tour across the US and Europe starting in early Spring. Taking a step towards catchy-pop jives with the help of singer Rae Morris--the layered percussion weaves through jubilant verses cluttered of what seems like newfound love, compared to the eccentric...

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Congratulations to Alexander Ebert, commonly known from folk group Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, on his Golden Globe win for Best Original Score tonight! Survival themed and dialogue-absent film All Is Lost stars a shipwrecked, unnamed sailor (Robert Redford) abandoned somewhere in the Indian Ocean. Eleven beautifully crafted compositions tell the sailor's story of desolate isolation and a fearsome fight for survival. Alex uses every instrument to its peaks to create idiosyncratic pieces of such depth and passion that no...

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Yeah, it's official. Coachella has announced their 2014 lineup and it is...epic! ...

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Barely two weeks into the new year and artists are dropping singles for their 2014 albums, what seems like, daily. Groups we haven't heard new music from in years and hard-hitting breakout stars alike stream their new jams via Soundcloud and YouTube for fans worldwide awaiting their highly-anticipated LP's. Common Last year, rapper Common teased that his 10th LP "Nobody Smiling" will be released sometime in 2014. The rapper collaborated with producer...

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Bombay Bicycle Club "So Long, See You Tomorrow" tour to support their album coming out in the very near future. Here are the North American stops: 04/11 Sacramento, CA - Assembly *04/13 Las Vegas, NV - Vinyl *04/14 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent *04/18 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress *04/20 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore *04/22 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom *04/23 Seattle, WA - Neptune *04/24 Vancouver, BC - Commodore *04/26 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge...