Morgan Enos is a former Staff Writer at GRAMMY.com. His features, essays, and interviews, which encompass jazz, classic rock, hip-hop, and other spheres, have also appeared in Fortune, Billboard, JazzTimes, uDiscover Music, and other platforms. Morgan also makes music as Other Houses and writes essays about how music factors into his lived experience. morganenos.com
Editor’s Note: This article was updated and republished on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025 to reflect information about First Round Voting for the 2026 GRAMMYs. The 2026 GRAMMYs will air live on CBS and Paramount+ on Sunday, Feb. 1. Watch highlights from the 2026 GRAMMYs on live.GRAMMY.com. The annual GRAMMY Awards voting process is more transparent than it's ever been. Every…
Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Aug. 2, 2023, prior to Mark Volman’s death. Most remember the Turtles as straight-laced hitmakers of the mid-'60s, full stop. But breeze through YouTube, and it's abundantly clear: there was manic energy under the hood ready to blow. Take their TV performance of their signature song "Happy Together" — the one viewed…
This article was originally published in 2024 and has been updated to reflect new album release information. Legendary Virginia Beach rap duo Clipse have mostly been on ice since 2009's Til the Casket Drops — and that decade and a half off ends now. Let God Sort Em Out arrives July 11 via Roc Nation. Its 12 tracks are led…
This story was originally published in 2023 ahead of "A GRAMMY Salute To The Beach Boys." It has been partially updated to reflect Brian Wilson’s passing. Pardon the non-oceanic metaphor, but imagine the Beach Boys' original sound as a pot of stew. There's a mess of various ingredients, but the taste is unified and comforting. Generally speaking, you don't enjoy…
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2022 and lightly updated in 2025 to reflect Turnstile’s new album release and their four GRAMMY nominations to date, as well as the ongoing influence of Turnstile and Code Orange on the hardcore scene. When it comes to hardcore's intersection with the mainstream, it's hard to remember a stretch quite like this.…
Motherhood — and having a mother — aren't one-dimensional concepts, and anyone born of a woman knows that. Some view their moms through the lens of unconditional love, respect and reverence; others feel oppositely. In between is an entire spectrum of shifting feelings, meanings, from grief to resilience to reconciliation and beyond. And that in-betweenness — which defines everything about…
At the end of 2019, Dr. Dog decided they'd had enough of the touring grind. After all, the many-hued, many-styled psychedelic band had been going hard for two decades. "It just got tiresome, and the other guys in the band had kids," Eric Slick, their drummer since 2019, tells GRAMMY.com. "I think there was just this conscious decision to be…
GRAMMY Camp is almost a wrap — but the musical memories will last a lifetime. On Saturday, July 19, the weeklong summit for students interested in music careers will wrap after six enlightening days. Held at the Village Recording Studios in Los Angeles, GRAMMY Camp's faculty of music professionals — along with guest professionals — have offered precious insight to…
Remember the atmospheric river of 2024? Glass Animals' Dave Bayley thought he'd drown in it. He'd holed up in a cheap Airbnb to write his band's latest album, I Love You So F—ing Much — and soon realized why it was so cheap. "When I got there, I realized why. It was one of those stilt houses, hanging off the…
Get a load of "Last Resort," the final song on BLK ODYSSY's new album, 1-800 FANTASY, and one where he goes for broke. Therein, frontman Juwan Elcock toggles between a mind-bending array of genres — it's like moody alt-rock meets rubbery R&B meets vistas of negative space. As it gains steam, he stutters, pants and screams. He meant the thudding…
It’s officially awards season! Today, the nominees for the 2024 Emmys dropped — and, happily, the 2024 GRAMMYs telecast received a whopping five nominations. At the 2024 Emmys, the 2024 GRAMMYs telecast is currently nominated for Outstanding Variety Special (Live), Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special, Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Special, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a…
It's been decades since Maren Morris first attended GRAMMY Camp all the way back in 2005 — nearly 20 years ago. Still, she remembers precisely how she felt then and how much of a "rare opportunity" it was. She met luminaries like Jimmy Jam and Paul Williams, and the setting made the then-15-year-old feel legitimized and creatively elevated. "I learned…
In a landmark victory for songwriters, the U.S. Copyright Office issued a new rule on July 10 that ensures songwriters who reclaim their works from their publishers will also receive streaming royalties for those works through The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC). Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. spoke on the ruling: "After years of engagement and activism on this issue,…
How can you write a song, when you have nothing to sing about? One trusty well to return to is life on the road; the musical canon is filled with odes to whizzing highway dividers, beds in strange places and, on occasion, a deteriorating home life. The buzzy and prolific singer/songwriter Remi Wolf just folded these experiences into Big Ideas…
Elliott Smith released five studio albums within his lifetime, and each is a worthy gateway. Bristling, sometimes harrowing folk? 1995's Elliott Smith. Sgt. Pepper's-scaled splendor? 2000's Figure 8, with 1998's XO as his Revolver. Want to split the difference? 1997's Either/Or. Then, there's his raw, undiluted 1994 debut — released on Cavity Search, before he was even on Kill Rock…
As the train of Beatles remixes and expansions — solo or otherwise — chugs along, a fair question might come to mind: why John Lennon's Mind Games, and why now? When you consider some agreed-upon classics — George Harrison's Living in the Material World, Ringo Starr's Ringo — it might seem like it skipped the line. Historically, fans and critics…
Speed once felt inert. When the Sydney hardcore heroes started, there seemed to be no path forward to a full-fledged livelihood. "Within the realm of possibility, we didn't see any way of investing into the band full time and that not just leading to feeling disenfranchised," says guitarist Josh Clayton. "Because we saw every single band that we witnessed around…
Throughout his ongoing Got Back tour, Paul McCartney has reliably opened with "Can't Buy Me Love." It's not the Beatles' deepest song, nor their most beloved hit — though a hit it was. But its zippy, rollicking exuberance still shines brightly; like the rest of the oldies on his setlist, the 82-year-old launches into it in its original key. For…
On July 9, the Recording Academy, in coordination with the National Independent Venues Association (NIVA), participated in the Fix the Tix Day of Action, which aims to ban fake tickets, deceptive marketing, and hidden costs. This joint push mobilized industry organizations, professionals and fans alike to urge lawmakers to pass the Fans First Act. Backed by the Recording Academy and…
The Warning have been around for over a decade, with three previous albums under their belt — but they've never hit with gale force quite like their single "S!CK." Get a load of them on a recent "Kimmel" performance below; when singer/guitarist Daniela "Dany" Villarreal Vélez screams the title, her bandmates — her sisters, bassist Alejandra "Ale" Villarreal and drummer…
