Recent Articles in Awards
Phoenix Plot Spring Tour
Fresh off their unsurprising (and much-deserved) Grammy win for Best Alternative Album for Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix have just announced another round of Stateside tour dates for the Spring. Kicking off April 17th in Santa Cruz, CA, and with stopovers at Coachella and Bonnaroo…
The Dead Weather, Death Cab for Cutie, Matt and Kim Set for mtvU Woodie Awards
mtvU has just confirmed several of the acts that are set to perform at the 2009 mtvU Woodie Awards, taking place at New York’s Roseland Ballroom on November 18th.
2009 Mercury Prize Nominations Announced; Winner on September 8
The nominations for the 2009 Mercury Prize have just been announced and the surprise here is that there really isn’t a surprise as much-talked about artists such as Bat for Lashes and La Roux made the list. Winners will be announced on September 8. Elbow took home the honor last year for The Seldom Seen Kid.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Plug Awards @ Terminal 5, NYC, 3.6.08
After a glorious montage of brilliant Birthday Party and Bad Seeds live clips and videos amped the capacity crowd, the dark, sharp-dressed man himself took the stage to accept his dangerous-looking PLUG Impact Award. In what was perhaps his best joke of the evening, comedian Patton Oswalt pointed out, “This is what thirty years of [...]
Shortlist Music Prize Finalists Announced
The ten finalists for the Seventh Annual Shortlist Prize were announced today, with the assumed contenders: Arcade Fire, Burial, Feist, Justice, LCD Soundsystem, M.I.A., Spoon, Stars, Wilco and Working for a Nuclear Free City. Well, Working for a Nuclear Free City and Burial might, arguably, be surprising to some out there. Right? If you don’t [...]
Brit Awards Nominations Announced!
On Monday, the nominations for the 2008 Brit Awards were announced, and a heaping helping of Sentimentalist’s favorite artists of the past year were recognized for their wonderful achievements! We’re talking Bat for Lashes, Mark Ronson, the White Stripes, PJ Harvey, Arctic Monkeys, Jamie T, the Kaisers, and more. Look for winners to be [...]
Sentimentalist Magazine’s 2007 Staff Picks… The Year’s Best
Madeline Virbasius-Walsh (Editor): PJ Harvey – White Chalk Blonde Redhead – 23 Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver Jarvis Cocker – Jarvis Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future Interpol – Our Love to Admire The White Stripes – Icky Thump Queens of the Stone Age – Era Vulgaris [...]
Grammy Noms Announced; Mark Ronson, Foos Get Lucky in Major Categories
Say what you will about the farcical aspects of the Grammy Awards, (seriously now, must an artist always win immediately after they perform? Suspense please, thanks!) the nominations always illuminate a slow news day with plenty of chuckles and incredulity; for us, that is, because we can’t necessarily speak for the artists involved. However, when [...]
Nominees Announced for 2008 Plug Awards
On Thursday, March 6, 2008, the annual Plug Awards will be given out in New York City to artists nominated in 30 categories across such genres such as hip-hop, ‘cool’ indie rock, Americana, electronica and metal, and even categories such as Best Festival and Venue. Some right competition is in store for Battles and Of [...]
Kaisers, Killers, Arctics and Muse Up for Major Q Awards
Surprise, surprise, or maybe not so much, but Mercury Prize darlings Klaxons won’t be the head honchos going into the annual Q Awards on October 8 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Love was spread to four massive bands tonight as the nominations were announced, and when the smoke cleared, the Kaiser Chiefs, the [...]
