American Music Awards 2013: Fans the real winners

The American Music Awards 2013 was held last Sunday at Nokia Theater and it was very easy figuring out who are the real w9inners were.

“This is about the fans tonight,” Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds said as the band collected for favorite alternative rock artist.



Winners naming Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake and One Direction who brought home several  trophies during the night knew whom they owed it to.



It was the fans that received the most impassioned gratitude amongst pop stars, there were even no academy thanked but still label brass and glam squads got shout outs and of course God was acknowledge.

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Award buddies such as the American Music Awards, the MTV Video Music Awards and the Billboard Music Awards to rely on the public to choose the night’s winners as a counter to the prestigious industry inclusiveness of the Grammys, this has a long been tradition for the awards shows.



Apiece of the declared telecasts has morphed into painfully unsurprising ordeal in the past years.



While it is still driven by the fans, shows aspiring to grip the age of social engagement have incorporated digital social engagement — Tweeter, YouTube/Veve views, Facebook — to dictate nominations — and winners.



And as a result the process has taken away what’s left of the element of surprise.



The madness that rang out among the audience at just the announcement of names like that of One Direction, Timberlake, Miley Cyrus and Swift, hurriedly predicted the night.



Taking home four trophies was Swift winning big.  Timberlake and One Direction both performed and also awarded multiple wins.  Every appearance they drove panic to the teenage girls in the audience.



The boys of One Direction fawned over those fans who probably spent hours logging their votes online and through Twitter, and on Sunday they were rewarded but Swift, Rihanna and Miley Cyrus were their heroines while Timberlake still pulled heartstrings.



But finally that rampant fandom sucks the joy out of these shindigs.



“I cannot thank you enough. This validates that if you voted for this that we are heartbroken the same way and we fall in love the same way and we are happy the same way,” Swift said as she won artist of the year. “If you decided on something as wonderful as this, we are pretty much in this together, aren’t we?” Well played.

MusicGarage Relocates

New Building Is a “Musicians Resource Center”



Once more, the air conditioning went kaput at the MusicGarage’s previous location on 1700 South in the middle of July this year, the sweltering heat was enough to make program founder/director Steve Auerbach seek out some new digs due to the blazing-hot glory of summer that made a major bummer



The MusicGarage now is located at 250 W. 1300 South, it began in 2009 as an after-school program housed in a 12-foot-by-12-foot room at the Utah Arts Alliance, and it is just west of the 1300 South Trax station.  “This place had more lint in the ducts than you can ever imagine,” Auerbach says.  Its prior use as an appliance-repair store might seem like a far cry from anything music-related, but with its spacious layout and convenient location, it’s perfect for the big plans he has in mind for the space.

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Describing it as a multifunction, multipurpose music venue and “musicians resource center,” Auerbach says the newly renovated 190-capacity, 2,700-square-foot building features a full sound system, a digital light system, a stage, a production/green room and several other rooms than can be divided into areas for local teachers to hold individual music lessons.  The whole space can also be rented out for private events like the bar service is available by request or to those who needs a spot to host a wedding reception or wanting to shoot a high-quality video of a live performance by their band without a crowd of strangers jostling the camera.



Auerbach says he’d also like to open the stage to more than just music acts, including comedy, theater and spoken-word performances, as well as feature local art in the foyer—complete with gallery-style track lighting.



Regardless of all the changes and despite the fact that the MusicGarage is still a music-education program at its core it is devoted to providing accessiblehigh-quality, creativity-nurturing musical instruction through a sliding-scale fee system and scholarship fund. Each and every genres of music are taught, and the group sessions endorse collaboration.  At the same time as MusicGarage is popular for teaching kids, adults are also welcome to come and learn.  Auerbach opens to start next year, future classes like the adult jam session and the rock & roll choir, which will start in January and be open to all ages.



To celebrate the grand opening of the new building, a private party/concert was held at the MusicGarage on Friday, Nov. 22, featuring local bands Minx and Cavedoll and MusicGarage graduate bands The Departure and Cosmic Aeroplane.



Auerbach says the MusicGarage is essential to the students’ musical development, and gives the kids “a place where they can fit in, a place where they can belong. And all of this becomes like sacred ground for them.”

What will be the Music Trends this 2013?

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Let’s predict the future by analyzing culture and trends today.  Last year has been the year for the solo female pop vocalists like Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, etc.  Solo male vocals were also hit last year like Psy, Eminen, Bruno Mars, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, etc.  These guys churning out all Top 20 hits all over the world.  There has been much collaboration with featured singers, with all the rapping, dub step and dance music.  But what genre or style of music will be dominant this 2013.

If 2012 meant to the dub step it is not the case this year because 2013 cannot come quick enough.  Although it will just be a passing phase this year because the lasting strong points of the year seem to be turning to the indie alternative gone pop.  It seems that 2013 will focus more on the artist which made 2012 only its transition.

Some made the prediction that guitar music may return to radio playlist in the near future.  It is expected that new guitar music is to be a fusion of something that will be playing in the radio stations this year.  This is actually already been starting.  More attention seems to be leaning towards the young singer-songwriter who plays the instrument and the hot tween pre-made dance talent is slowly vanishing.

This could mean Justin Bieber may be on his way out sooner than expected.  May this be a warning for him so that he can mature in terms of his music.  Songs like his built trend for the next wave and pop music could use some wake-up call wit more artist that could make a mainstream impact.

90’s R&B will go even more mainstream, this is due to almost every artist feels compelled to reel off their R&B influences.  When you go night out, you will never fail to endure repeated plays of R Kelly's She's Got That Vibe.  With many artists sprouting in every corner, attention span grows short regarding the choice or artist that listeners will listen to.  Those who cannot reinvent themselves will be quick to fall of the radar.

The charts below are the albums that are to be released this year.

January

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Producer	Notes	Ref.
January 8	Hollywood Undead	Notes from the Underground	Rap Rock,Rap Metal,Alternative Rock	A&M/Octone/Polydor/Universal Music Australia/Universal Music Group	Griffin Boice, Danny Lohner,S*A*M & Sluggo	Third studio Album
	Black Veil Brides	Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones	Glam Metal,Hard Rock,Heavy metal	Lava/Universal Republic	John Feldmann
January 13	Asking Alexandria	To be announced	heavy metal,metalcore				[citation needed]
January 14	Everything Everything	Arc	Art rock,indie pop,indie rock	Sony RCA	David Kosten	Second studio album	[citation needed]
January 14	Modestep	Evolution Theory (album)			debut album
January 15	Free Energy	Love Sign	indie rock,rock,alternative rock	Free People	A$AP ROCKY  Long. Live. A$AP hip hop/rap Debut album	Second studio album	[citation needed]
January 21	The Joy Formidable	Wolf's Law	alternative rock, indie rock	Atlantic Records	The Joy Formidable	Second Studio Album
	Adam Ant	Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter	Rock, pop rock, post-punk	Blueblack Hussar	Adam Ant, Boz Boorer		[1]
January 22	American Hi-Fi	To be announced	Pop rock,pop punk	Goomba Music	John Fields	Follow up album afterFight the Frequency, Fifth studio album	[citation needed]
	Foxygen	We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic	Psychedelic rock,Experimental rock, Indie rock	Jagjaguwar		Second studio album
	Bad Religion	True North	Punk rock,melodic hardcore,hardcore punk	Epitaph	Joe Barresi	Sixteenth studio album; might be their last one[2]	[3]
	Ra Ra Riot	Beta Love	indie pop	Barsuk Records		Third studio album	[citation needed]
	Darius Rucker	True Believers	Country	Capitol Nashville	Frank Rogers	Fourth studio album, third country album	[citation needed]
	Voivod	Target Earth	Heavy metal,progressive metal,thrash metal,speed metal			First studio album since 2009'sInfini; first release with Daniel Mongrainon guitar and Blackyon bass since 1991'sAngel Rat	[4]
	Gary Allan	Set You Free	Country	MCA Nashville	Gary Allan, Greg Droman,Jay Joyce, Mark Wright	Ninth studio album	[5]
January 28	Biffy Clyro	Opposites	Alternative rock	14th Floor	Garth "GGGarth" Richardson	Sixth studio album; Double album.	[citation needed]
	Delphic	Collections	Alternative dance	Polydor		Second studio album.	[6]
	The Mavericks	In Time	Country	Valory Records		First studio album since splitting in 2003.	[citation needed]
January 29	Tegan and Sara	Heartthrob	Indie rock,Indie pop	Sire	Greg Kurstin, Mike Elizondo	Seventh studio album.	[citation needed]
	Local Natives	Hummingbird	Indie rock,Indie folk,Psychedelic folk	Frenchkiss Records		Second studio album
	Colton Dixon	A Messenger	Alternative rock,Christian rock, CCM	19/EMI CMG/Sparrow	TBA	Debut studio album	[7]

 

 

*above charts from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_albums_scheduled_for_release_in_2013

Warning: do not buy pirated CDs.  This will affect the music industry.  How we listen and how we purchase will affect these artists and the future trends.