Month: February 2024

The 2024 Grammys are just as nerve-wracking for musicians as it is for the team that makes the ceremony possible. Unfortunately, considering that it is music’s biggest, there is no margin for era. Sadly, the poor social media manager over at The Recording Academy is learning this the hard way.

As the rap categories were being announced, the organization’s social media team got one coveted winner wrong. In a screengrab captured by Pop Crave, The Recording Academy announced Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice’s “Barbie World” as the winner of the Best Rap Song. The only problem is, as the ceremony was being broadcast, Killer Mike was the actual winner.

Minaj’s die-hard fans, the Barbz, have already begun to slam The Recording Academy online for the mix-up. Some have even started conspiracy theories that Roc Nation pulled strings to get the win pulled due to Minaj’s ongoing beef with Megan Thee Stallion.

Although the record, which was featured on the Barbie movie soundtrack, the compilation has already pulled in other wins, including Best Song Written for Visual Media (for Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” and Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Music’s biggest night is here. The 2024 Grammys are proving to be a night to remember. So far, the ceremony has been filled with stunning performances and long-deserved wins. One of the lucky musicians taking home a coveted gramophone is Killer Mike.

But he isn’t taking home just one trophy. Killer Mike will be going home with three in total. That’s one for every category he was nominated for, including Best Rap Album for Michael, Best Rap Song for “Scientists & Engineers,” and Best Rap Performance (again for “Scientists & Engineers”).

During his final acceptance speech, Killer Mike didn’t play modestly. Instead, he leaned into the significant accomplishment, bragging about the feat. “That’s a sweep,” screened Killer Mike after taking the stage for the last time. The line was echoed by Silk Sonic at the 2022 ceremony.

Killer Mike’s last win at the Grammys was over 20 years ago. During the 45th annual ceremony, Killer Mike took his first Grammy in 2003 for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group (“The Whole World”).

Killer Mike’s Michael was one of this year’s most nominated rap projects. Others nominated in the rap category included Drake, Doja, and Lil Durk.

View Uproxx’s complete coverage of the 2024 Grammys here. Or the full list of winners here.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The 66th Annual Grammy Awards have arrived, and a lot of artists have a lot on the line this year. SZA racked up nine nominations to lead all artists, while Phoebe Bridgers and Victoria Monét are tied for second with seven nods apiece. After them, all with six nominations each, are Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Brandy Clark, Jon Batiste, and Jack Antonoff.

If you’re wondering why a certain artist isn’t nominated, one thing to remember is that to be eligible for this year’s awards, a work must have been released between October 1, 2022 and September 15, 2023. (Or, maybe they were eligible but just got snubbed. Sorry!)

Whatever the case, as for who actually won what, check out our list of all the 2024 Grammy winners below, updated as the victors are revealed.

Record of the Year

Billie Eilish — “What Was I Made For?”
Boygenius — “Not Strong Enough”
Jon Batiste — “Worship”
Miley Cyrus — “Flowers”
Olivia Rodrigo — “Vampire”
SZA — “Kill Bill”
Taylor Swift — “Anti-Hero”
Victoria Monét — “On My Mama”

Album of the Year

Boygenius — The Record
Janelle Monáe — The Age of Pleasure
Jon Batiste — World Music Radio
Lana Del Rey — Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
Miley Cyrus — Endless Summer Vacation
Olivia Rodrigo — Guts
SZA — SOS
Taylor Swift — Midnights

Song of the Year

Billie Eilish — “What Was I Made For?”
Dua Lipa — “Dance the Night”
Jon Batiste — “Butterfly”
Lana Del Rey — “A&W”
Miley Cyrus — “Flowers”
Olivia Rodrigo — “Vampire”
SZA — “Kill Bill”
Taylor Swift — “Anti-Hero”

Best New Artist

Coco Jones
Gracie Abrams
Fred Again..
Ice Spice
Jelly Roll
Noah Kahan
Victoria Monét
The War and Treaty

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Daniel Nigro
Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II
Hit-Boy
Jack Antonoff
Metro Boomin

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical

Edgar Barrera
Jessie Jo Dillon
Justin Tranter
Shane McAnally
Theron Thomas

Best Pop Solo Performance

Billie Eilish — “What Was I Made For?”
Doja Cat — “Paint the Town Red”
Miley Cyrus — “Flowers”
Olivia Rodrigo — “Vampire”
Taylor Swift — “Anti-Hero”

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

Labrinth Featuring Billie Eilish — “Never Felt So Alone”
Lana Del Rey Featuring Jon Batiste — “Candy Necklace”
Miley Cyrus Featuring Brandi Carlile — “Thousand Miles”
SZA Featuring Phoebe Bridgers — “Ghost in the Machine”
Taylor Swift Featuring Ice Spice — “Karma”

Best Pop Vocal Album

Ed Sheeran — – (Subtract)
Kelly Clarkson — Chemistry
Miley Cyrus — Endless Summer Vacation
Olivia Rodrigo — Guts
Taylor Swift — Midnights

Best Dance/Electronic Recording

Aphex Twin — “Blackbox Life Recorder 21f”
Disclosure — “Higher Than Ever Before”
James Blake — “Loading”
Romy & Fred Again.. — “Strong”
Skrillex, Fred Again.. & Flowdan — “Rumble”

Best Pop Dance Recording

Bebe Rexha & David Guetta — “One in a Million”
Calvin Harris Featuring Ellie Goulding — “Miracle”
David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray — “Baby Don’t Hurt Me”
Kylie Minogue — “Padam Padam”
Troye Sivan — “Rush”

Best Dance/Electronic Music Album

James Blake — Playing Robots Into Heaven
The Chemical Brothers — For That Beautiful Feeling
Fred Again.. — Actual Life 3 (January 1 — September 9 2022)
Kx5 — Kx5
Skrillex — Quest for Fire

Best Rock Performance

Arctic Monkeys — “Sculptures of Anything Goes”
Black Pumas — “More Than a Love Song”
Boygenius — “Not Strong Enough”
Foo Fighters — “Rescued”
Metallica — “Lux Æterna”

Best Metal Performance

Disturbed — “Bad Man”
Ghost — “Phantom of the Opera”
Metallica — “72 Seasons”
Slipknot — “Hive Mind”
Spiritbox — “Jaded”

Best Rock Song

Boygenius — “Not Strong Enough”
Foo Fighters — “Rescued”
Olivia Rodrigo — “Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl”
Queens of the Stone Age — “Emotion Sickness”
The Rolling Stones — “Angry”

Best Rock Album

Foo Fighters — But Here We Are
Greta Van Fleet — Starcatcher
Metallica — 72 Seasons
Paramore — This Is Why
Queens of the Stone Age — In Times New Roman…

Best Alternative Music Performance

Alvvays — “Belinda Says”
Arctic Monkeys — “Body Paint”
Boygenius — “Cool About It”
Lana Del Rey — “A&W”
Paramore — “This Is Why”

Best Alternative Music Album

Arctic Monkeys — The Car
Boygenius — The Record
Gorillaz — Cracker Island
Lana Del Rey — Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
PJ Harvey — I Inside the Old Year Dying

Best R&B Performance

Chris Brown — “Summer Too Hot”
Coco Jones — “ICU”
Robert Glasper Featuring Sir & Alex Isley — “Back to Love”
SZA — “Kill Bill”
Victoria Monét — “How Does It Make You Feel”

Best Traditional R&B Performance

Babyface Featuring Coco Jones — “Simple”
Kenyon Dixon — “Lucky”
PJ Morton Featuring Susan Carol — “Good Morning”
SZA — “Love Language”
Victoria Monét Featuring Earth, Wind & Fire & Hazel Monét — “Hollywood”

Best R&B Song

Coco Jones — “ICU”
Halle — “Angel”
Robert Glasper Featuring Sir & Alex Isley — “Back to Love”
SZA — “Snooze”
Victoria Monét — “On My Mama”

Best Progressive R&B Album

Diddy — The Love Album: Off the Grid
Terrace Martin and James Fauntleroy — Nova
Janelle Monáe — The Age of Pleasure
SZA — SOS
6lack — Since I Have a Lover

Best R&B Album

Babyface — Girls Night Out
Coco Jones — What I Didn’t Tell You (Deluxe)
Emily King — Special Occasion
Summer Walker — Clear 2: Soft Life EP
Victoria Monét — Jaguar II

Best Rap Performance

Baby Keem Featuring Kendrick Lamar — “The Hillbillies”
Black Thought — “Love Letter”
Coi Leray — “Players”
Drake & 21 Savage — “Rich Flex”
Killer Mike Featuring André 3000, Future and Eryn Allen Kane — “Scientists & Engineers”

Best Melodic Rap Performance

Burna Boy Featuring 21 Savage — “Sittin’ on Top of the World”
Doja Cat — “Attention”
Drake & 21 Savage — “Spin Bout U”
Lil Durk Featuring J. Cole — “All My Life”
SZA — “Low”

Best Rap Song

Doja Cat — “Attention”
Drake & 21 Savage — “Rich Flex”
Killer Mike Featuring André 3000, Future and Eryn Allen Kane — “Scientists & Engineers”
Lil Uzi Vert — “Just Wanna Rock”
Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice Featuring Aqua — “Barbie World”

Best Rap Album

Drake & 21 Savage — Her Loss
Killer Mike — Michael
Metro Boomin — Heroes & Villains
Nas — King’s Disease III
Travis Scott — Utopia

Best Spoken Word Poetry Album

Aja Monet — When the Poems Do What They Do
J. Ivy — The Light Inside
Kevin Powell — Grocery Shopping With My Mother
Prentice Powell and Shawn William — For Your Consideration ’24
Queen Sheba — A-You’re Not Wrong B-They’re Not Either: The Fukc-It Pill Revisited

Best Jazz Performance

Adam Blackstone Featuring The Baylor Project & Russell Ferranté — “Vulnerable (Live)”
Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding — “But Not for Me”
Jon Batiste — “Movement 18′ (Heroes)”
Lakecia Benjamin — “Basquiat”
Samara Joy — “Tight”

Best Jazz Vocal Album

Cécile McLorin Salvant — Mélusine
Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding — Alive at the Village Vanguard
Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke — Lean In
Nicole Zuraitis — How Love Begins
Patti Austin Featuring Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band — For Ella 2

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Adam Blackstone — Legacy: The Instrumental Jawn
Billy Childs — The Winds of Change
Kenny Barron — The Source
Lakecia Benjamin — Phoenix
Pat Metheny — Dream Box

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

ADDA Simfònica, Josep Vicent, Emilio Solla — The Chick Corea Symphony Tribute — Ritmo
The Count Basie Orchestra Directed by Scotty Barnhart — Basie Swings the Blues
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society — Dynamic Maximum Tension
Mingus Big Band — The Charles Mingus Centennial Sessions
Vince Mendoza & Metropole Orkest — Olympians

Best Latin Jazz Album

Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band — Vox Humana
Eliane Elias — Quietude
Ivan Lins With the Tblisi Symphony Orchestra — My Heart Speaks
Luciana Souza & Trio Corrente — Cometa
Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo — El Arte del Bolero Vol. 2

Best Alternative Jazz Album

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily — Love in Exile
Cory Henry — Live at the Piano
Kurt Elling, Charlie Hunter, SuperBlue — SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree
Louis Cole — Quality Over Opinion
Meshell Ndegeocello — The Omnichord Real Book

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Bruce Springsteen — Only the Strong Survive
Laufey — Bewitched
Liz Callaway — To Steve With Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim
Pentatonix — Holidays Around the World
Rickie Lee Jones — Pieces of Treasure
Various — Sondheim Unplugged (The NYC Sessions), Vol. 3

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, Featuring Rakesh Chaurasia — As We Speak
Ben Wendel — All One
Bob James — Jazz Hands
House of Waters — On Becoming
Julian Lage — The Layers

Best Musical Theater Album

Kimberly Akimbo
Parade
Shucked
Some Like It Hot
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Country Solo Performance

Brandy Clark — “Buried”
Chris Stapleton — “White Horse”
Dolly Parton — “The Last Thing on My Mind”
Luke Combs — “Fast Car”
Tyler Childers — “In Your Love”

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

Brothers Osborne — “Nobody’s Nobody”
Carly Pearce Featuring Chris Stapleton — “We Don’t Fight Anymore”
Dierks Bentley Furingeat Billy Strings — “High Note”
Jelly Roll With Lainey Wilson — “Save Me”
Vince Gill & Paul Franklin — “Kissing Your Picture (Is So Cold)”
Zach Bryan Featuring Kacey Musgraves — “I Remember Everything”

Best Country Song

Brandy Clark — “Buried”
Chris Stapleton — “White Horse”
Morgan Wallen — “Last Night”
Tyler Childers — “In Your Love”
Zach Bryan Featuring Kacey Musgraves — “I Remember Everything”

Best Country Album

Brothers Osborne — Brothers Osborne
Kelsea Ballerini — Rolling Up the Welcome Mat
Lainey Wilson — Bell Bottom Country
Tyler Childers — Rustin’ in the Rain
Zach Bryan — Zach Bryan

Best American Roots Performance

Allison Russell — “Eve Was Black”
Blind Boys of Alabama — “Heaven Help Us All”
Jon Batiste — “Butterfly”
Madison Cunningham — “Inventing the Wheel”
Rhiannon Giddens — “You Louisiana Man”

Best Americana Performance

Allison Russell — “The Returner”
Blind Boys of Alabama — “Friendship”
Brandy Clark Featuring Brandi Carlile — “Dear Insecurity”
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit — “King of Oklahoma”
Tyler Childers — “Help Me Make It Through the Night”

Best American Roots Song

Allison Russell — “The Returner”
Billy Strings Featuring Willie Nelson — “California Sober”
Brandy Clark Featuring Brandi Carlile — “Dear Insecurity”
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit — “Cast Iron Skillet”
The War and Treaty — “Blank Page”

Best Americana Album

Allison Russell — The Returner
Brandy Clark — Brandy Clark
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit — Weathervanes
Rodney Crowell — The Chicago Sessions
Rhiannon Giddens — You’re the One

Best Bluegrass Album

Billy Strings — Me/And/Dad
Michael Cleveland — Lovin’ of the Game
Mighty Poplar — Mighty Poplar
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway — City of Gold
Sam Bush — Radio John: Songs of John Hartford
Willie Nelson — Bluegrass

Best Traditional Blues Album

Bobby Rush — All My Love for You
Eric Bibb — Ridin’
John Primer — Teardrops for Magic Slim Live at Rosa’s Lounge
Mr. Sipp — The Soul Side of Sipp
Tracy Nelson — Life Don’t Miss Nobody

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Bettye LaVette — LaVette!
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram — Live in London
Larkin Poe — Blood Harmony
Ruthie Foster — Healing Time
Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton — Death Wish Blues

Best Folk Album

Dom Flemons — Traveling Wildfire
Joni Mitchell — Joni Mitchell at Newport (Live)
The Milk Carton Kids — I Only See the Moon
Nickel Creek — Celebrants
Old Crow Medicine Show — Jubilee
Paul Simon — Psalms
Rufus Wainwright — Folkocracy

Best Regional Roots Music Album

Buckwheat Zydeco Jr. & The Legendary Ils Sont Partis Band — New Beginnings
Dwayne Dopsie & The Zydeco Hellraisers — Live At The 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Lost Bayou Ramblers & Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra — Live: Orpheum Theater Nola
New Breed Bass Band — Made in New Orleans
New Orleans Nightcrawlers — Too Much to Hold
The Rumble Feature Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr. — Live at the Maple Leaf

Best Gospel Performance/Song

Erica Campbell — “Feel Alright (Blessed)”
Melvin Crispell III — “God Is”
Kirk Franklin — “All Things”
Stanley Brown Featuring Hezekiah Walker, Kierra Sheard & Karen Clark Sheard — “God Is Good”
Zacardi Cortez — “Lord Do It for Me (Live)”

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

Blessing Offor — “Believe”
Cody Carnes — “Firm Foundation (He Won’t) (Live)”
For King & Country Featuring Jordin Sparks — “Love Me Like I Am”
Lauren Daigle — “Thank God I Do”
Lecrae & Tasha Cobbs Leonard — “Your Power”
Maverick City Music, Chandler Moore & Naomi Raine — “God Problems”

Best Gospel Album

Erica Campbell — I Love You
Maverick City Music — The Maverick Way
Jonathan McReynolds — My Truth
Tasha Cobbs Leonard — Hymns (Live)
Tye Tribbett — All Things New: Live in Orlando

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

Blessing Offor — My Tribe
Da’ T.R.U.T.H. — Emanuel
Lauren Daigle — Lauren Daigle
Lecrae — Church Clothes 4
Phil Wickham — I Believe

Best Roots Gospel Album

The Blackwood Brothers Quartet — Tribute to the King
Blind Boys of Alabama — Echoes of the South
Becky Isaacs Bowman — Songs That Pulled Me Through the Tough Times
Brian Free & Assurance — Meet Me at the Cross
Gaither Vocal Band — Shine: The Darker the Night the Brighter the Light

Best Latin Pop Album

AleMor — Beautiful Humans, Vol. 1
Gaby Moreno — X Mi (Vol. 1)
Maluma — Don Juan
Pablo Alborán — La Cuarta Hoja
Paula Arenas — A Ciegas
Pedro Capó — La Neta

Best Música Urbana Album

Karol G — Mañana Será Bonito
Rauw Alejandro — Saturno
Tainy — Data

Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album

Cabra — Martínez
Diamante Eléctrico — Leche de Tigre
Fito Paez — EADDA9223
Juanes — Vida Cotidiana
Natalia Lafourcade — De Todas las Flores

Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano)

Ana Bárbara — Bordado a Mano
Flor de Toloache — Motherflower
Lila Downs — La Sánchez
Lupita Infante — Amor Como en las Películas de Antes
Peso Pluma — Génesis

Best Tropical Latin Album

Carlos Vives — Escalona Nunca Se Había Grabado Así
Grupo Niche y Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia — Niche Sinfónico
Luis Figueroa — Voy a Ti
Omara Portuondo — Vida
Rubén Blades con Roberto Delgado & Orquesta — Siembra: 45° Aniversario (En Vivo en el Coliseo de Puerto Rico, 14 de Mayo 2022)
Tony Succar, Mimy Succar — Mimy & Tony

Best Global Music Performance

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily — Shadow Forces
Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain Featuring Rakesh Chaurasia — Pashto
Burna Boy — Alone
Davido — Feel
Falu & Gaurav Shah (Featuring PM Narendra Modi) — Abundance in Millets
Ibrahim Maalouf Featuring Cimafunk & Tank and the Bangas — Todo Colores
Silvana Estrada — Milagro y Disastre

Best African Music Performance

Asake & Olamide — Amapiano
Ayra Starr — Rush
Burna Boy — City Boys
Davido Featuring Musa Keys — Unavailable
Tyla — Water

Best Global Music Album

Bokanté — History
Burna Boy — I Told Them…
Davido — Timeless
Shakti — This Moment
Susana Baca — Epifanías

Best Reggae Album

Buju Banton — Born for Greatness
Beenie Man — Simma
Burning Spear — No Destroyer
Collie Buddz — Cali Roots Riddim 2023
Julian Marley & Antaeus — Colors of Royal

Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album

Carla Patullo Featuring Tonality and The Scorchio Quartet — So She Howls
David Darling & Hans Christian — Ocean Dreaming Ocean
Kirsten Agresta-Copely — Aquamarine
Omar Akram — Moments of Beauty
Ólafur Arnalds — Some Kind of Peace (Piano Reworks)

Best Children’s Music Album

Andrew & Polly — Ahhhhh!
DJ Willy Wow! — Hip Hope for Kids!
Pierce Freelon & Nnenna Freelon — Ancestars
Uncle Jumbo — Taste the Sky
123 Andrés — We Grow Together Preschool Songs

Best Comedy Album

Chris Rock — Selective Outrage
Dave Chappelle — What’s in a Name?
Sarah Silverman — Someone You Love
Trevor Noah — I Wish You Would
Wanda Sykes — I’m An Entertainer

Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording

Meryl Streep — Big Tree
Michelle Obama — The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Rick Rubin — The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Senator Bernie Sanders — It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
William Shatner — Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

Daisy Jones & the Six — Aurora
Various Artists — Barbie The Album
Various Artists — Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Music From and Inspired By
Various Artists — Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3: Awesome Mix, Vol. 3
“Weird Al” Yankovic — Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (Includes Film and Television)

John Williams — The Fabelmans
John Williams — Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Ludwig Göransson — Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Ludwig Göransson — Oppenheimer
Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt — Barbie

Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media

Bear McCreary — God of War Ragnarök
Jess Serro, Tripod & Austin Wintory — Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
Peter Murray, J Scott Rakozy & Chuck E. Myers “Sea” — Hogwarts Legacy
Sarah Schachner — Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
Stephen Barton & Gordy Haab — Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

Best Song Written for Visual Media

Billie Eilish — “What Was I Made For?” (From the Motion Picture Barbie)
Dua Lipa — “Dance the Night” (From Barbie the Album)
Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice Featuring Aqua — “Barbie World” (From Barbie the Album)
Rihanna — “Lift Me Up” (From Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Music From and Inspired By)
Ryan Gosling — “I’m Just Ken” (From “Barbie the Album”)

Best Music Video

The Beatles — “I’m Only Sleeping”
Billie Eilish — “What Was I Made For” (From the Motion Picture Barbie)
Kendrick Lamar — “Count Me Out”
Troye Sivan — “Rush”
Tyler Childers — “In Your Love”

Best Music Film

David Bowie — Moonage Daydream
Kendrick Lamar — Live From Paris, the Big Steppers Tour
Lewis Capaldi — How I’m Feeling Now
Little Richard — I Am Everything
Tupac Shakur — Dear Mama

Best Recording Package

The Arcs — Eletrophonic Chronic
Brad Breeck — Gravity Falls
Caroline Rose — The Art of Forgetting
Dry Cleaning — Stumpwork
Ensemble Cadenza 21′ — Cadenza 21′
Leaf Yeh — Migration

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Bo Burnham — Inside: Deluxe Box Set
Lou Reed — Words & Music, May 1965 — Deluxe Edition
Neutral Milk Hotel — The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel
Ngọt — Gieo
Various Artists — For the Birds: The Birdsong Project

Best Album Notes

Howdy Glenn — I Can Almost See Houston
Iftin Band — Mogadishu’s Finest: The Al Uruba Sessions
John Coltrane — Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy (Live)
Various Artists — Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971
Various Artists — Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos

Best Historical Album

Bob Dylan — Fragments — Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17
Lou Reed — Words & Music, May 1965 — Deluxe Edition
Various Artists — The Moaninest Moan of Them All: The Jazz Saxophone of Loren McMurray, 1920-1922
Various Artists — Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971
Various Artists — Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Bokanté — History
Boygenius — The Record
Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
Feist — Multitudes
Victoria Monét — Jaguar II

Best Engineered Album, Classical

Gustavo Dudamel, Anne Akiko Meyers, Gustavo Castillo & Los Angeles Philharmonic — Fandango
Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra — Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Schulhoff: Five Pieces
Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, George Lernis & A Far Cry — Sanlikol: A Gentleman of Istanbul — Symphony for Strings, Percussion, Piano, Oud, Ney & Tenor
Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra — Contemporary American Composers
Shara Nova & A Far Cry — The Blue Hour

Producer of the Year, Classical

Brian Pidgeon
David Frost
Dmitriy Lipay
Elaine Martone
Morten Lindberg

Best Remixed Recording

Depeche Mode — “Wagging Tongue (Wet Leg Remix)”
Gorillaz Featuring Tame Impala & Bootie Brown — “New Gold (Dom Dolla Remix)”
Lane 8 — “Reviver (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Remix)”
Mariah Carey — “Workin’ Hard (Terry Hunter Remix)”
Turnstile & BadBadNotGood Featuring Blood Orange — “Alien Love Call”

Best Immersive Audio Album

Alicia Keys — The Diary of Alicia Keys
Bear McCreary — God of War Ragnarök (Original Soundtrack)
George Strait — Blue Clear Sky
Madison Beer — Silence Between Songs
Ryan Ylyate — Act 3 (Immersive Edition)

Best Instrumental Composition

Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain Featuring Rakesh Chaurasia — “Motion”
John Williams — “Helena’s Theme”
Lakecia Benjamin Feuringat Angela Davis — “Amerikkan Skin”
Ludwig Göransson — “Can You Hear the Music”
Quartet San Francisco Featuring Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band — “Cutey and the Dragon”

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

Hilario Duran and His Latin Jazz Big Band Featuring Paquito D’Rivera — “I Remember Mingus”
Just 6 — “Angels We Have Heard on High”
Ludwig Göransson — “Can You Hear the Music”
The String Revolution Featuring Tommy Emmanuel — “Folsom Prison Blues”
Wednesday Addams — “Paint It Black”

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

Cécile McLorin Salvant — “Fenestra”
Maria Mendes Featuring John Beasley & Metropole Orkest — “Com Que Voz (Live)”
Patti Austin Featuring Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band — “April in Paris”
Säje Featuring Jacob Collier — “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning”
Samara Joy — “Lush Life”

Best Orchestral Performance

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra — “Scriabin: Symphony No. 2; The Poem of Ecstasy”
Los Angeles Philharmonic — “Adès: Dante”
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra — “Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Four Pieces”
The Philadelphia Orchestra — “Price: Symphony No. 4; Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony”
San Francisco Symphony — “Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring”

Best Opera Recording

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus — Blanchard: Champion
Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Odyssey Opera Chorus — Corigliano: The Lord of Cries
The Dime Museum; Isaura String Quartet — Little: Black Lodge

Best Choral Performance

The Clarion Choir — “Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil”
The Crossing — “Carols After a Plague”
Miró Quartet; Conspirare — “The House of Belonging”
San Francisco Symphony Chorus — “Ligeti: Lux Aeterna”
Uusinta Ensemble; Helsinki Chamber Choir — “Saariaho: Reconnaissance”

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Anthony McGill & Pacifica Quartet — “American Stories”
Catalyst Quartet — “Uncovered, Vol. 3: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still & George Walker”
Roomful of Teeth — “Rough Magic”
Third Coast Percussion — “Between Breaths”
Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax & Leonidas Kavakos — “Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastorale’ and Op. 1, No. 3”

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Andy Akiho — “Akiho: Cylinders”
Curtis Stewart — “Of Love”
Louisville Orchestra — “The American Project”
Robert Black — “Adams, John Luther: Darkness and Scattered Light”
Seth Parker Woods — “Difficult Grace”

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Reginald Mobley, soloist; Baptiste Trotignon, pianist — Because
Julia Bullock, soloist; Christian Reif, conductor (Philharmonia Orchestra) — Walking in the Dark
Karim Sulayman, soloist; Sean Shibe, accompanist — Broken Branches
Laura Strickling, soloist; Daniel Schlosberg, pianist — 40@40
Lawrence Brownlee, soloist; Kevin J. Miller, pianist — Rising

Best Classical Compendium

Aaron Diehl & The Knights — Zodiac Suite
Andy Akiho, Omaha Symphony & Ankush Kumar Bahl — Sculptures
Chick Corea & Orchestra da Camera della Sardegna — Sardinia
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, Anne Akiko Meyers & Gustavo Castillo — Fandango
Peter Herresthal, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, James Gaffigan, Arctic Philharmonic & Tim Weiss — Missy Mazzoli: Dark With Excessive Bright
Various Artists — Passion for Bach and Coltrane
Wild Up & Christopher Rountree — Julius Eastman Vol. 3: If You’re so Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Andy Akiho, Ankush Kumar Bahl & Omaha Symphony — “Akiho: In That Space, at That Time”
Awadagin Pratt, A Far Cry & Roomful of Teeth — “Montgomery: Rounds”
Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic — “Adès: Dante”
Peter Herresthal, James Gaffigan & Bergen Philharmonic — “Mazzoli: Dark With Excessive Bright”
Roomful of Teeth — “Brittelle: Psychedelics”

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

When two people marry, they bring not only each other into their lives, but also any children from previous relationships. It’s been a growing wedding trend for grooms to also give vows to these children, offering them unconditional love, support, protection and ultimately pledging to be a parental figure in their lives.

Recently a groom named Eldridge Buchanan gave some special vows to his new seven-year-old-son Kayden during his wedding to Asia Green Buchanan.

The touching moment, captured and shared to Instagram by the wedding’s photographer and videographer Daka David and A Love Experience, shows Buchanan stands in front of little Kayden, as tears begin flowing.

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“I want you to know, Kayden, that we’re going [to] have fun. We’re definitely going to do homework,” Buchanan says. “But I want you to know that with everything in my body, Kayden, I’m going to pour into you to make sure that you grow up to be a young Black king that you are.”

As he continues, his voice gets more choked up.

“I’m gonna teach you how to be a leader. I’m gonna teach you how to be a man of integrity, a man of respect, a man that values himself. And most importantly, I’ma show you every single day what it looks like for a man to love a woman and to love his family and to lead his family so that when you grow up, you will know exactly what that looks like and you’ll know exactly what that feels like. So I vow to you from this day forward that I’m gonna love you, I’m gonna teach you, I’m gonna guide you and I’m gonna pour into you because you are a king. And you’re my king. I love you, man.”

Watch it all unfold below. You might wanna grab a tissue:

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In an interview with “Good Morning America,” Buchanan revelad that the entire exchange was a spur-of-the-moment idea, one that came to him mere minutes before he walked down the aisle.

“It was just kind of a heartfelt moment, a reiteration of things that we talk about on a daily basis,” Buchanan told GMA. “I just really wanted him to know in that special moment not only was I going to give a vow to his mom, but I was giving a vow to him as well—as my son.”

The sincerity of the impromptu speech was felt by nearly 46,000 viewers online, many of who commented on how beautiful it was to see, and how important that kind of influence will be to Kayden as he grows up.

“Words every boy needs to hear from a father,”one person wrote.

Another added, “he is going to watch this video when he’s older and finally understand everything he said to him.”

Indeed Buchanan seems more than ready to step into his role as a father. And it’s wonderful to see. Congratulations to the entire family.

17 seconds. That’s how long it took for Caitlin Clark to deliver on the promise of a show unlike anything else in women’s college basketball — one that brought nearly 18,000 people to College Park, Maryland on a Saturday night.

On Iowa’s opening possession, Clark caught the ball on the left wing and drifted out to the G where it reads “Gary Williams Court” before rising up to drill a 28-footer.

A few thousand of those that made the trek to College Park weren’t even in their seats yet, but luckily for them Clark is happy to play the hits over and over for 40 minutes. Traffic was backed up for a couple miles in either direction as folks flocked to the Xfinity Center to see Clark and the No. 3 Hawkeyes in action, causing parking lots to overflow and fans to scramble for seats together, as they just sell general admission tickets for women’s games. Those tickets, initially $25, were going for over $200 in the week leading up to the game, as even one of the largest arenas in college hoops couldn’t withstand the demand to catch a glimpse of Clark in perhaps her final season at Iowa.

After cutting our losses and parking a mile away, my wife and I made our way up to a block of empty seats near the back wall of the arena 15 minutes before tip, sitting eye level with Greivis Vasquez, Juan Dixon, and Steve Blake’s banners hanging in the rafters. The Clark Effect was impossible to miss on the walk in, as 900 miles from Iowa City the crowd was scattered with Clark jerseys and t-shirts, from little girls in special homemade outfits for the occasion to grown men donning officially licensed Nike jerseys.

The majority of the crowd were Terrapin faithful, though, who couldn’t help but be curious to see Clark in action and how Maryland’s squad, having a down year in the Big Ten, would hang with the third-ranked Hawkeyes. The answer to that question was “quite well,” as the Terps did more than just hang around, jumping out to an early lead as Iowa struggled after the initial Clark three. The crowd was electric, energized by each Hawkeye mistake, which included a pair of early travels on Clark as the Terps hounded her.

However, the challenge of facing Iowa is sometimes as simple as a math problem. Maryland attacked downhill, taking advantage of having bigger guards who could muscle their way into the paint, but trading twos for threes against Clark and company thins the margin for error to effectively zero. Clark, unsatisfied with her earlier effort from the front of the logo, upped the ante by drilling a three from the back of it to seize control back to Iowa, sending Gus Johnson on the call for Fox into hysterics in the process.

Iowa would go on to open up a 14-point lead at the break, with Clark hitting a late layup to move her point total to 23 in the half, seemingly putting to rest any notion of an upset in the making. However, the Terps would come out re-energized in the third quarter and hit back. Led by Jakia Brown-Turner and Bri McDaniel, Maryland would rip off a 23-3 run to take a 63-61 lead.

The energy in the building was electric, the crowd erupting for every Terp basket and Iowa miss. One of those was a fading three by Clark that missed everything, leading to the student section chanting “AIR-BALL” in full voice at Clark every time she touched it for the next three minutes.

For many, the gaze of 18,000, with at least a few thousand of those aggressively booing and chanting against you every time you touched it, would create too much pressure. For Clark, it seems to bring out her best. Ever the show-woman, she responded to lead a late Iowa run to restore order and push the Hawkeyes in front by 7 again going into the fourth quarter — including one more bomb from deep to hush the student section.

Maryland would not fade away in the fourth though, tying the game again at 76-76 midway through. The Xfinity Center was rocking, a signature win in a difficult season appeared in play. But as was the case all game, the Hawkeyes had an answer thanks to the playmaking of their star. Clark hit a three to regain the lead, and then assisted on the next three Iowa buckets, taking advantage of the attention she commands to find open teammates, like Sydney Affolter in the corner, who stay ready to knock down shots when Clark entrusts them with the moment.

That late flurry from Iowa was finally enough to wrestle control of the game away from Maryland, and even though the Terps lost, you’d be hard pressed to find any of the near-18,000 in the building that left unsatisfied.

That is part of the magic of the Caitlin Clark show. Despite the immense pressure and attention on her, she steps into the spotlight each night and always delivers. She’s scored 30+ in 12 of her last 16 games, including each of the last six, and hasn’t scored fewer than 21 in a game this season (and that was in just 26 minutes of action against FGCU). There is a remarkable consistency to Clark and Iowa’s performance, with the real variable being whether the opponent can step up to match that level. A lot of nights that’s too big of an ask over four quarters, but when a team does like Maryland did on Saturday, it is a recipe for a sensational atmosphere.

I haven’t seen something like that atmosphere for a road game since Stephen Curry broke out early in his NBA career. There’s such a unique mixture of people they bring to the arena. You have families flocking in because kids are obsessed with them, diehards hoping their team can be the one to take them down, and folks who might not go to another game all year wanting to see what all the fuss is about and being enraptured by it all. Their presence makes a game a destination event, but the only way that can be sustained is if they deliver every night in every town.

Clark does that, and if her show is coming to a city near you, I can’t recommend it enough.

In 2016 Ann Coulter published a book entitled In Trump We Trust. Maybe she meant that then. Perhaps she was just caving into pressure, like so many in her party did then. Whoever changed, her or Trump, she’s no longer on the MAGA train. She’s now one of his fiercer critics (and occasional Biden praiser), and his improbable reversal of fortune over the last year hasn’t coaxed her to relent. Indeed, it’ll be hard for her to kiss the ring after her latest pronouncement.

Per The Daily Beast, someone on Twitter/X last summer wondered aloud about what Coulter, who they wrote “has been right about Trump in the past,” thinks he should do to “help us take America back.”

Her answer was blunt: “Maybe he could die?”

No doubt Trump won’t like that one, much as he hasn’t liked her many past comments against him. Last fall the former president called her “washed-up” and a “Stone Cold Loser.” In response she called him a “GIGANTIC P*SSY,” alleging that he’d “begged” her to go to his golf course in Bedminster but only if they could record a Substack together. Instead he was “too afraid” of her, she said, and decided to attack her on his rinky-dink Twitter clone.

What are some other things Coulter has said about Trump? Well, she’s called him a “liar and con man,” a “very stupid girl,” a “gigantic baby” who can “barely speak English.” She’s even called him out for not paying his taxes, pointing out that’s not a very conservative position.

Mind you, none of this makes her part of the resistance. Indeed, some in the resistance views her with deserved suspicion.

https://twitter.com/BettyBowers/status/1754190053180399670

Others still can’t feel comfortable agreeing with the author of How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), which turns 20 this year.

https://twitter.com/BettyBowers/status/1754190053180399670

(Via The Daily Beast)

There is a growing backlash against people who film themselves in public for social media content, whether dancing in an airport, posing in a crosswalk, or lip-synching in the middle of a retail store.

One place where influencers love to film themselves is the gym. Some people will briefly film themselves to ensure they have the proper form. But so many people are filming themselves for TikTok and Instagram videos that gyms are starting to ban filming equipment.

People who film themselves at the gym are a distraction and they make people uncomfortable because they don’t want to be filmed, especially without consent. A study out of the UK found that people who film themselves working out and post to social media are likely to be narcissists.

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“Narcissists more frequently updated about their achievements, which was motivated by their need for attention and validation from the Facebook community,” the study said according to Elle.

The rising annoyance with gym influencers came to a head recently and a Reddit user named NoPomegranate4794 shared it on the Petty Revenge subforum.

“Now, I was at my local gym and it was pretty busy. I had managed to find an empty bench where the dumbbell racks were. Another woman had also set up shop on a bench, but rather than using the bench for its intended purposes, she was using it to hold her things,” she wrote.

The influencer set up her camera in front of the rack and the woman who posted the story was in her shot, which was “really annoying.”

“I was about to go to the front desk and tell an employee when I see a man walk in front of her camera to put his weights down,” she continued. “The woman got a disgruntled look on her face, stopped lifting, walked over to the camera, and I guess she stopped recording and restarted it. She started lifting again when the same man walked in front of the camera and that’s when I noticed he purposefully went out of his way to walk in front of her camera.”

The influencer then turned to the man who disrupted her and said, “Could you not? You can see I’m recording.” To which he responded, “Could you not? You can see people are trying to actually work out.”

Despite the man’s request, the influencer continued to film herself and then multiple people in the gym began to walk intentionally between her and her camera.

“I joined in too, adding an overly polite ‘Excuse me’ along with a smile when I did so,” the poster wrote.

The influencer finally gave up and stormed out of the gym.

“Another case of so-called entitled “influencers” inconveniencing others to get their content. If she wanted to get an uninterrupted recording she could do it at home. This has become so prevalent in public spaces it’s an epidemic,” Bigstachedad wrote. “It’s a fitness center, not a closed sound stage,” one_tarheelfan added.

The gym goers might have been a little petty for walking in between the woman and her camera, but the man asked her to stop filming and she didn’t. The influencer shouldn’t have expected the whole gym to put up with her filming without asking anyone around her or management. Sometimes, people have to take situations into their own hands and the folks in the gym did the right thing by doing it peacefully and with a grin.

Babies are really adaptable. The same can be said for baby animals and it’s likely because they just don’t know any other way of life so they just go with it. But even knowing that, it’s still hard to imagine a kitten getting around with no front legs.

Cats essentially use everything from their whiskers to their tails to balance, so how would one walk without two of it’s four legs? The answer is, carefully at first. Duck is a kitten that had to have both of her front legs completely amputated after she was rescued and while she was wobbly at first, she quickly adapted.

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Duck’s human, Cody shares her daily shenanigans on his Instagram page aptly named Purrasic Duck. But recently he told Duck’s story to The Dodo revealing her rescue story and the kitten’s quick moves. If you’re having a hard time picturing a two-legged cat on the run, it looks a lot like a furry velociraptor chasing a laser pointer.

“I ended up naming her Duck because she kinda waddled. She’d kinda take it slow, she waddled trying to figure out her balance,” Cody tells The Dodo.

Before long though, Duck was off to play with her much larger dog brothers. Her pug brother even offers her a little assistance in the face cleaning area since Duck doesn’t have paws to do it herself. No worries, she returns the favor by cleaning his face too. It’s an adorable relationship but if you want to see a furry velociraptor chase after cat toys, you’ll need to watch the video below.

This article originally appeared on 11.15.23

“How on earth can one person do it all?”

This is a question so many mothers ask themselves. Especially after giving birth, when life seems to expect them to take care of their newborn, get their body back, return to work and keep a clean house all at the same time.

It’s a question that had completely overwhelmed Monica Murphy, only one month into welcoming her third child, while still recovering from a C-section and taking care of her other children, who were also nursing, according to Today.com.

Luckily for Murphy, her mom had the perfect piece of advice to ease her troubled mind. And luckily for us, it was all caught on the family’s doorbell cam.

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In a now-viral Instagram post, Murphy wrote her formidable to-do list, which included:

Working

Staying present on social media

Maintaining a clean home

Tandem breastfeeding

Being present with my kids

Eating a nutritious diet

Making time for my husband

Keeping in touch with friends

Making time for myself

Planning activities for kids

Frick decorate for Christmas

Followed by that burning question: “How on earth can one person do it all?”

Of course, Murphy hadn’t expressed any of these stresses to her mom, who had been visiting. But still, her mom knew something heavily weighed on her daughter’s mind.

So, as she was walking out, Murphy’s mom left her with these words of wisdom:

“They aren’t gonna remember a clean house, they are gonna remember how much you loved them and hung out with them.”

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Murphy told Today.com that she “broke down” crying after her mom had left, and was instantly inspired to share the video for other moms who needed similar encouragement.

Indeed, the message struck an emotional chord with thousands of viewers.

“The way I would’ve just bawled if she said that to me,” one person commented.

Another added, “I needed to hear this today.”

Some shared how it was a sentiment they sadly would never hear from their own mothers, and how they are now re-parenting themselves.

“My mom would just nag I’m lazy and how am I supposed to leave my house a mess. So I’m just easing my anxiety with gentle words from other people’s mothers. As I’ve been doing my whole life. Clean house was above happy children,” one person wrote.

It can be so easy for moms to lose themselves in the never ending cycle of responsibilities and, frankly, unrealistic societal expectations. But hopefully this sweet message can help moms everywhere go a bit easier on themselves, and actually enjoy the time they have with their kids. That’s part of what family is all about, after all.

This article originally appeared on 11.15.23

Moving into a new neighborhood or a new building can be daunting. Getting used to a new space, meeting new people, growing accustomed to the vibe or culture of the neighborhood—it can feel like a lot, especially if people don’t reach out in a welcoming way.

But as a viral video on Reddit/MadeMeSmile shows, sometimes a warm welcome could actually be a war welcome…with Nerf guns, that is.

In footage from a Ring camera on the front door of an apartment, we see a man in the hallway holding a Nerf gun. He says, “I notice you just moved in. The guy that used to live here, him and I were big into Nerf.”

He then holds up the Nerf gun, saying, “I’m gonna leave it. Don’t feel any pressure, but if you want to, hey.” Then he laughs as he sets the gun down in front of the door.

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After that, we see the across-the-hall neighbors engaging in ambush, trickery, deceit, semi-breaking-and-entering—with the help of “Jack,” whoever that is—and all manner of silly antics in their battles to shoot one another first.

It’s adorable, delightful and a great example of how someone might reach out to a new neighbor in a creative way and see what happens. Watch:

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As some folks in the comments clarified, these videos were acted out by two guys who are already friends and who pretend to meet in all sorts of unique ways. But the idea of introducing yourself to a new neighbor this way is a solid one, regardless.

People loved seeing the battles raging in the hallway.

“‘Jack let me in’ was my favorite part. Props to Jack, whoever he is,” wrote one commenter.

“For a second he thought that things went too far. How the hell you get in my apartment you stalker!!!

Oh Jack let you in. Not fair,” wrote another.

“Turncoat! I’d be sleeping with that nerf gun close to my chest,” shared another. “Honestly though my favorite was ‘did you really think that was gonna work?’…. ‘Maybe.'”

Let’s use this entertaining video as inspiration to go out and meet our own neighbors if we haven’t already…and maybe take a Nerf gun with us, just in case.