Feeling Groupie

Obviously, there were several massive news stories and events that occurred in the world of music festivals over the past few years.  While several received massive headlines (including the pandemic changing the world, Astroworld, and Fyre Fest), even more didn’t get the attention I expected (such as Woodstock 50 not occurring and the inaugural Blue Ridge Rock Fest dealing with all sorts of issues), and others largely only getting attention from me (especially a tornado going through Epicenter).  There is one story that I find fascinating that doesn’t seem to be getting a ton of attention:  Stevie Nicks being a massive name at festivals.  She has been booked for several big-name festivals over the past few years, including Sound on Sound, Austin City Limits, Bonnaroo, BottleRock, Ohana Festival, and Governor’s Ball, being near the top of the billing of each.  A few reasons this is intriguing is because she wasn’t promoting an album (her last studio album was rel...

This past week on my podcast Groupie and Harmony, I predicted the winners of several awards for the Grammys.  This is a recap post that includes every award I predicted.  While I don’t give background regarding why I have certain acts winning, I also do have ranking from most likely to least likely to win for every nominee of the awards I’m predicting. Two things to note:   first, the rankings are not predicting where I think they will finish in the voting, but which I think is most likely to win (while it might not seem like a major difference, I do deem it to be notable).   Second, for each nomination, I only listed the performing artist as the nominee.   In reality, there are several nominees for each release that are not the artist.   While I didn’t list them on here for ease of reading and viewing the nominees, I do just want to acknowledge that the nominations would not have been possible without everybody who was nominated and many who were not, no...