Randall Roberts' piece on being inside the Grammy press room for the first time was a somewhat intriguing slice-of-journalists'-mundane-lives take on interviewing the winners of the Feb. 8 awards show, with tidbits about access ($400 for a DSL hookup?!) and quotes that didn't make it out to the wire...

Oscar has a little problem this year, and I'm not just talking about the fact that no human being likes The Reader even though the Weinsteins bought it a Best Picture nod. Actually, that is part of the problem. This year's batch of Best Picture contenders are a moribund lot with no real consensus fa...

The Academy Of Country Music Awards are essentially the American Music Awards to the Country Music Association Awards' Grammys: Both came along a little later, and both seem to lack the prestige of their mainstream competitor. Still, even putting aside their very similar acronyms, the ACMs aren't te...

You have to feel bad for the guy, and the way his arguably more innovative digital-distribution methods keep getting lost in the shuffle over to peoples' regular Radiohead-worshiping sessions... until you realize that his rabid fanbase probably isn't going to desert him en masse just because he didn...

Winners from the 2009 Grammy Awards, presented Sunday night in Los Angeles: Album Of The Year: "Raising Sand," Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (Rounder) Rap Album: Lil Wayne, "Tha Carter III" (Universal) Male Pop Vocal Performance: "Say," John Mayer; track from "Continuum" (Columbia) Record of the Ye...

Nominations for the Juno Awards—the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' equivalent to the Grammys—were announced today, and the big winner was the Vancouver band of heshers Nickelback, who are up for five prizes including Single Of The Year and Album Of The Year; personal fa...

Nominations for the NME's annual addition to the bonfire of British awards shows, the Shockwave Awards, were announced today, with longtime darlings Oasis scoring seven nods—including a Worst Band nomination—and Arctic Monkeys/Last Shadow Puppets frontman Alex Turner amassing six. Of cou...

The nominations for Hollywood's annual tribute to itself are in and, hmm... not my favorite batch of Best Picture nominees this year (I was profoundly disappointed by The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and David Fincher's Zodiac was my favorite movie of last year!), but we're not here to talk movi...

Those of you who were wondering what song from a porno, er, pulled out a win at Saturday night's "Oscars of the adult entertainment industry," a.k.a. the AVN Awards, need wonder no longer: Ethan Kane's Portishead-gone-Skinemax track "Please," from his flick "Dark City," took home the trophy. [Previo...

So Idolator is up for Best Music Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards, which are not to be confused with the Bloggies, or for that matter with the AVN Adult Movie Awards. Since I'm trying to be more "assertive" in 2009 I'm going to use this opportunity to suggest that you click over there and vote for us,...