The 54th Annual Grammy Awards are almost upon us! Hey, we'd love to help you with your office pools and living room side-bets with some sure-thing Vegas-ready odds. However, we always seem to be dead wrong (fucking Esperanza Spalding). So here are some completely arbitrary, critical decisions on who should win the nine biggest categories, just in case you want to know who we're rooting for on the SPIN couch. Everything You Need to Know About the 54th Grammy Awards Nominations Record of the Year Adele - "Rolling in the Deep" Bon Iver - "Holocene" Bruno Mars - "Grenade" Mumford & Sons - "The Cave" Katy Perry - "Firework" Who Should Win: Adele Why: This one goes to the producers, engineers, and performer for making the total pop package. Bon Iver and Mumford are a little to insular, Bruno and Katy a little too eager. Adele somehow lives right in between, both muted and bombastic, rockist-pleasing "authentic" and poptimist-pleasing immediate. It’s the "Heart Shaped Box" of a new generation. We had it all! Album of the Year Adele - 21 Foo Fighters - Wasting Light Lady Gaga - Born This Way Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans Rihanna - Loud Who Should Win: Lady Gaga Why: It did rank the highest of these five albums on our Top 50 Albums of 2011 list , and we can’t exactly give the award to Fucked Up, can we? Writes our own Mikael Wood: "Beneath the hair and makeup and arena-razing disco-metal grooves, Born This Way delivers a message that old glamazon Pete Seeger could dig: She thinks pop can still move policy, and she might be right." Song of the Year Kanye West - “All of the Lights” (songwriters: Kanye West, Jeff Bhasker, Really Doe, & Malik Yusef) Mumford & Sons - “The Cave” (songwriters: Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford & Country Winston) Bruno Mars - “Grenade” (songwriters: Brody Brown, Claude Kelly, The Smeezingtons & Andrew Wyatt) Bon Iver - “Holocene” (songwriter: Justin Vernon) Adele - "Rolling in the Deep" (songwriters: Adele & Paul Epworth) Who Should Win: Adele Why: This one goes to the songwriter, and naturally we'd want to give it to the co-writer of our No. 1 single of 2011 , a blown-out blowback of relationship bluster and that high D that can drown out car alarms. Best New Artist The Band Perry Bon Iver J. Cole Nicki Minaj Skrillex Who Should Win: Skrillex Why: Before you Bon Iver fans tear us limb from limb in the comments section, let us clarify. Although we clearly love Bon Iver's extra-naked, sensitive, '80s AM gold take on folk rock, our guyliner-and-glasses pal is essentially helping reinvent a new musical language of bowel-busting bass and whirring industrial noise. Bon Iver's forbear Bruce Hornsby already won this very award in 1987, while an electronic artist has never taken one home. Let's hear it for drawing new blood. Best Rock Album Jeff Beck - Rock ‘n’ Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul) Foo Fighters - Wasting Light Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown Red Hot Chili Peppers - I’m With You Wilco - The Whole Love Who Should Win: Foo Fighters Why: Because exactly one album on this list actually "rocks." Best R&B Album Chris Brown - F.A.M.E. El DeBarge - Second Chance R. Kelly - Love Letter Ledisi - Pieces of Me Kelly Price - Kelly Who Should Win: R. Kelly Why: An underrated classic of throwback soul in the Raphael Saddiq vein, Kells proves he can pretty much do it all. Best Rap Album Jay-Z & Kanye West (The Throne) - Watch the Throne Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV Lupe Fiasco - Lasers Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Who Should Win: Kanye West Why: Not only is it the most meticulously constructed, labored over rap album in the history or time; not ...

For the next several weeks, film buffs are going to spend a lot of time arguing about whether The Artist is a great film or merely a tribute to great films. This debate hinges (at least a little bit) on how much credit The Artist deserves for reviving a moribund cinematic form and making it relevant for contemporary audiences. It’s a compelling idea—though I’m not interested in discussing it in the context of silent movies concocted by an evil partnership between the French and the Weinstein brothers. I’d rather talk about how it applies to a ...

2011 yılında yayınladığı ‘What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?’ adlı ilk albümüyle başarılı bir çıkış yakalayan Batı Londra’lı dörtlünün solisti Justin Young grubun yeni albümünün 2012 sonuna doğru raflarda yerini alacağını onayladı.. Belçika’da Mart ayında stüdyoya girecek The Vaccines yeni albümünde Ryan Adams, Laura Marling, Kings of Leon gibi isimlerden de tanıdığımız prodüktör Ethan Johns ile çalışacak.

According to NME, The Vaccines have revealed that they will be heading into the studio in March to record their second album and that Ryan Adams/Kings Of Leon producer Ethan Johns will be at the controls. The band, who are currently touring...

Okay, haven't actually looked at these yet, but I'm going to guess that the key theme of this year's NME shortlist will be 'please like us, Lana Del Ray's people'. Here's the shortlist in full : Best British Band (supported by Sonos) Arctic Monkeys Bombay Bicycle Club The Horrors Kasabian Muse Best International Band (supported by T4) Fire">Arcade Fire Foo Fighters Justice Odd Future The Strokes Best Solo Artist (supported by Rekorderlig) Adele Florence + The Machine Frank Turner Laura Marling Miles Kane Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Best New Band (supported by Boxfresh) Foster ...

The Vaccines have taken time off from touring Australia to speak to NME about life, and they revealed some new album details. The band will be entering a studio in March, they’ll be working with Ethan Johns on production (he’s worked with Kings of Leon… careful guys) , and the location is Belgium. Must be all that lovely chocolate. (You see, we didn't do a waffle joke. Oh.) This means that, in their words: “it'll definitely be out this year, without a doubt.” We're holding you to this guys, but that’s a solid work ethic ...

Is Kings Of Leon's Caleb Followhill the luckiest bloke ...

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The Daily Swarm : There’s a certain kinda hate that just tickles our fancy: when an actual indie band goes after a faux-indie band. Does the “real” indie band have the kind of cool cred that they can use to club their arena-playing rivals? Or is the bigger band the triumphant gorilla? As such, this week No Age went at Kings of Leon for apparently bogarting a t-shirt design… Read and comment. From thedailyswarm.com.

• Welcome to the end of the week that killed Lana Del Rey's career made Lana Del Rey an even bigger Internet star. SNL , you are a cruel mistress. • Also dramatic — SPIN's first trip to Sundance! Phoebe Reilly ran down her 20 most anticipated films , and then headed off to Park City, where she'll be filing dispatches for us starting tonight! • No Age got into a scrap with the Kings of Leon, while Elton John and his husband got into a disagreement with reality . • SPIN spoke to Azealia Banks about landing a record deal and chatted with Amanda ...

Scarlett Johansson is getting back into the music business, but she's not getting behind the microphone. Instead, Scar Jo has directed the video for "Hurry Hurry" by her friend Jessie Baylin, who is also the wife of Kings of Leon drummer Nathan Followill. Baylin was psyched to work with Scar Jo,

As the news spread that Etta James had passed away this morning, famous fans took to the Internet to pay tribute to the legendary soul singer. James had been suffering from terminal leukemia, kidney disease, hepatitis C and dementia. She was 73. Nile Rodgers of Chic writes on Twitter: “When I was a kid, I remember walking all the way [...]

Within hours of the news of Etta James's death, her famous fans paid tribute on Twitter, with their thoughts collated here Legendary blues and soul singer Etta James has died aged 73 . James, who will be remembered for timeless songs such as At Last, All I Could Do Was Cry and Tell Mama, had been rushed to Parkview Community Hospital in Los Angeles on Thursday night and died the following morning. Some of her famous fans paid tribute on Twitter. Here's what they said. . Etta James Lil Wayne Katy B Jessie J Kings of Leon Blues Soul R ...

The soul singer passed away this morning at a California hospital

General Music News : No Age have hit out at Kings Of Leon after claiming that they have ripped off their T-shirt designs.