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The Recording Academy has announced the date and venue for the 2023 Grammy Awards. The ceremony is currently slated to take place on Sunday, February 5, 2023 at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena. The Grammys last took place at the venue formerly known as Staples Center in 2020. And the show last occurred on a February date in 2019. The 2023 ceremony will broadcast live on CBS and stream live on Paramount+. The 2022 Grammy Awards took place this past April at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Recording Academy had initial planned for the 2022 Grammys to occur in January, but pushed back the ceremony due to concerns about the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The previous year, the Grammys took place in March after also being postponed from a planned January date. The 2021 Gramm...

Ian Sweet, the project the Los Angeles–based artist Jillian Medford, has released the new Star Stuff EP. In addition to the previously released track “Fight,” it includes the new single “Die a Million Times.” Watch the video for the track, and listen to the full EP, below. “‘Die a Million Times’ is about being stuck in a negative thought loop that you know you could escape from if you really tried but you’re not willing to let go yet,” Medford said in a statement. “A thought loop that is so painful and destructive to your brain but yet you want to keep replaying certain memories over and over. I was living in a fantasy world about a relationship that didn’t end up working out and kept inviting in the thoughts and memories that I knew would continue to destroy me but I wasn’t ready to...

Hyd, the moniker of interdisciplinary artist and PC Music associate Hayden Dunham, has shared a new song called “Afar.” Caroline Polachek produced and co-wrote the track. “Afar” also comes with a music video directed by Rose Schlossberg and Hyd, in which the artist bathes in hot steam clouds. Check it out below. “Afar” was written during a period in which Hyd temporarily lost their eyesight. “Caroline and I started ‘Afar’ in Santa Monica and finished it at her house in Brooklyn. The productions are distilled to feel like a vapor den,” explained Hyd in a statement. “The voice in the song is meant to emanate from an imagined guardian—a presence without a body, an angel next to me. My vision was gone and I had to steam my eyes regularly with hot water vapor, which was the predominant element ...

The Polaris Music Prize, an annual award for Canada’s best album of the year, has announced its short list of nominees today. Destroyer, Charlotte Day Wilson, and Pierre Kwenders all made the cut, as did Ouri and Hubert Lenoir. For the first time since 2019, the winning album will be revealed live at the Polaris Gala in Toronto on September 19. The artist who wins will receive a $50,000 prize with the honor. See the full list of nominees below. A 197-member jury consisting of writers, programmers, and broadcasters considered 223 albums for this year’s Polaris Music Prize. The previously announced 2022 long list of nominees spanned 40 albums in total, including records by Arcade Fire, the Weeknd, Destroyer, Tanya Tagaq, Orville Peck, PUP, Julie Doiron, and 2020 winner Backxwash. Last year, ...