Rachel Narozniak is a contributor to Grammy.com
Genetics don’t guarantee hit records, but they can certainly set the stage for the next generation’s interest in a music career. Often, this inspiration starts at home; Latin pop stars Julio Iglesias and his son, Enrique Iglesias, are just one example of how enthusiasm not only for music but for a specific genre can be homegrown. For other famous music…
For the past two years, Anyma has told a story that transcends sound — and the boundaries of visual performance in electronic music and beyond. With his trilogy of Genesys albums, the producer has chronicled the progression of a humanoid named Eva from artificial consciousness to sentience. Through that album series and its cutting-edge live show (which sold out all…
Over the past few decades, Asian artists have steadily expanded their presence in the dance/electronic genre — but it wasn't always this way. "I remember when I first got into music in high school, the first thing I did was sing. You just didn't see Asian singers. You just didn't see Asian people in music, period, and if you did,…
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on Oct. 17, 2024, and was updated on April 10, 2025 to reflect the release of Bon Iver's SABLE, fABLE. In 2006, a solitary Justin Vernon, fresh off of a breakup and bedrest for pneumonia, mononucleosis and a resulting liver infection, retreated to his father's cabin in Wisconsin. On the secluded, 80-acre plot…
Amid grey, cloudy skies and intermittent rain rare for Southern California, a group of music professionals and creators gathered at the Recording Academy's office in Santa Monica on March 12 for "Scene and Heard," a panel and networking event produced by the Academy's Los Angeles Chapter in partnership with The Alliance of Women for Film Composers (AWFC). Eight panelists as…
The 2025 GRAMMYs, officially known as the 67th GRAMMY Awards, will air live on CBS and Paramount+ on Sunday, Feb. 2. Watch highlights from the 2025 GRAMMYs on live.GRAMMY.com. The 2025 GRAMMYs telecast will be reimagined to raise funds to support wildfire relief efforts and aid music professionals impacted by the wildfires in Los Angeles. Donate to the Recording Academy's…
"As his 5th studio album, it is Shawn at his most intimate and honest," reads the description of the Shawn vinyl on its namesake's website. Shawn Mendes' awaited answer to 2020's Wonder is an inflection point in his career that translates the trying personal experiences of recent years — heartbreak, mental health struggles, self-exploration — into stripped-down folk. Out Nov.…
At the time of our call, the release of Telos — Zedd's first studio album in nearly a decade — is just seven days away. Snug in an earthy brown crewneck, the 34-year-old musician joins the Zoom from his new home in Encino, California, with a degree of poise that some might find surprising at this point in the rollout. …
The scene on Saturday, July 13, was one mostly familiar to Dead & Company fans: Usual suspects Jeff Chimenti on keys, Oteil Burbridge on bass, Mickey Hart on drums, and John Mayer on guitar, a Silver Sky in hand. Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir dutifully approached the microphone to deliver one of the Dead’s best-known opening lyrics: "You tell me…
The title of his ninth studio album is an apt description of Steve Aoki himself. The cake-throwing DJ/producer — best known commercially for his 2012 remix of Kid Cudi, MGMT, and Ratatat’s "Pursuit Of Happiness" — can very well be called a paragon of longevity in dance and electronic music. And like his stature as one of the world’s highest-paid DJs…
Most days of the week, the GRAMMY Museum closes at 6 p.m. But on Thursday, June 6, its doors were open well into the night. As some people filtered through them, others clustered around two rollerskate-clad dancers who synchronized to Aaliyah’s "Try Again" on the sidewalk outside the museum at L.A. Live. This was Richard "Swoop" Whitebear, the professional who…
At the 2003 GRAMMYs, a 25-year-old John Mayer stood on stage at Madison Square Garden, his first golden gramophone in hand. "I just want to say this is very, very fast, and I promise to catch up," he said with a touch of incredulity. In the two decades that have followed his first GRAMMY triumph, it's safe to say that…
A dance floor just isn’t the same without a bustling crowd of attendees bobbing to the beat. Nor would electronic music be electronic music without its culture-shifting women. Women are effecting change while commanding dance floors, a duality inherent to the experience of being a woman in electronic music. Although women are becoming more visible across the genre — gracing…
Underneath much of dance music’s beat- and melody-driven landscape is shallow lyrical content — unless Camden Cox is holding the pen. The 30-year-old singer/songwriter’s philosophy — write not just from the heart, but also from the soul — is a defining aspect of her fan-first artistic identity. This deeply personal creative process has also enabled her to transcend the genre’s…
