Daft Punk and Lorde win top honours at 2014 Grammy awards

Daft Punk celebrate on stage at the 56th Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The big winners at the 56th annual Grammy awards on Sunday night turned out to be couples as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Daft Punk took home four awards apiece and a few dozen people were married on stage.

The robot-uniformed French electronic duo Daft Punk bested Lorde and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis to take home the album and record of the year. Pharrell Williams, who is featured in Daft Punk’s Get Lucky, delivered the thank you speech for the lanky performers that do not speak in costume, or at least can’t be heard.

"Well, I suppose the robots would like to thank…" said Williams, who won non-classical producer of the year. "You know honestly, I bet, France is really proud of these guys right now."

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won best new artist and received three awards in the rap field before the show began with best rap album for The Heist and best rap performance and best rap song for Thrift Shop. During their performance of Same Love, 33 couples were married on stage. Queen Latifah officiated the ceremony and Madonna joined the musical performance, while wearing an all-white pantsuit and cowboy hat.

Lorde and songwriter Joel Little, winners of the award for song of the year for Royals 

Speaking to the press after the ceremony, Queen Latifah said: "To be able to do something special for people, to change someone's life is what I was able to do tonight. I took it very seriously, I didn't enter into it lightly. It's not about TV or ratings, this was something real for me."

Clutching their gongs after the show, rapper Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis said they were overwhelmed by their achievement, the Press Association reported.

Lewis revealed his sister and her partner were among the couples who got married during the ceremony.

"You never think you are going to win a Grammy," he said. "It is that thing that is so distant, it's the pinnacle, it's the apex, to be able to celebrate same love. My sister getting married tonight was so personal, I still have chills now."

Macklemore said of the song: "It is a message of equality, tolerance and compassion to end homophobia, fear and hatred that has been an institution here in America.

Lorde’s Royals won the song of the year and best pop solo performance, making the 17-year-old the third-youngest Grammy winner in history. LeAnn Rhymes and Luis Miguel hold the top two spots for the awards they won at age 14.

 

Beyonce and Jay Z opened the show with a performance of her new track Drunk In Love, off Beyonce’s self-titled album which was released without warning in December. The night’s other performances maintained the tradition of non-tradition as rapper Kendrick Lamar performed with alt-rockers Imagine Dragons, Robin Thicke sang alongside rock band Chicago and Stevie Wonder took the stage with electronic duo Daft Punk.

Aside from the rap category, the main genre winners went as expected. Daft Punk took home the best dance/electronica album award. Kacey Musgraves won best country album for her Same Trailer Different Park. Best rock album was awarded to the controversial nominee Led Zeppelin’s Celebration Day, which was recorded at a 2007 concert.

Cyndi Lauper presented most of the awards at the pre-telecast ceremony in Los Angeles, including. The most recent James Bond Film, Skyfall, took home two awards for best score soundtrack and best song written for visual media. Gipsy Kings' Savor Flamenco tied with Ladysmith Black Mambazo's Live: Singing For Peace Around The World for the best world music album award.

LL Cool J hosted the show for the third consecutive time on Sunday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Daft Punk Is (Finally!) Playing at Our House

Even for robots, eight years between albums is a long time, and now everything on the radio sounds like Daft Punk did nearly a decade ago. How are the gods of digital planning to get ahead of the global EDM wave they helped create? By going analog—new album, new sound, new collaborators. But have no fear: The helmets remain the same

They are rusty at being Daft Punk. They've been gone for a long time. Since their last proper studio release, 2005's Human After All, they've done just a handful of interviews—three, maybe four, tops—and they're badly out of practice. They're still answering questions like Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, instead of like Daft Punk, which is a problem, because they'd prefer that you not think of them as people at all.

That's partly what the robot helmets are for. It's why you've never seen their faces.

"I remember when I was a kid, I would watch Superman, and I was super into the feeling of knowing that Clark Kent is Superman and no one knows," Bangalter says. "We always thought as we were shaping this thing that the fantasy was actually so much more exciting than the idea of being the most famous person in the world."

It's a Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, and the two men are seated, sans disguises, outside at a café on La Brea. They're talking about their kids (two each), the vagaries of the California wildlife that haunt Bangalter's house up in the hills (deer and coyotes, mostly, though recently he lost a night of sleep to the hooting of what he's pretty sure was an owl), and a bunch of other things they'd really rather not discuss—a bunch of things they will later try to take back—because finally, after eight years, there is a new Daft Punk record.

It's called Random Access Memories—they whisper the title across the table, because it's February and no one else knows this yet, and because with Daft Punk nearly everything is a secret. The record is only Daft Punk's fourth in sixteen years, not counting the soundtrack work they did on Disney's 2010 sequel to Tron, and the first that the two men, who recorded their first three albums at home (two in Bangalter's bedroom, one in his living room), have made in a proper studio. It's a big and lush and opulent '70s-disco record, glamorous in places and almost mournful in others, like something a heartbroken vacuum cleaner might drive around to at night in Detroit. It's got choirs and flutes and some of the same guys who played on Thriller and Off the Wall, and Panda Bear from Animal Collective, and Nile Rodgers from Chic, and a gang of other collaborators—Italian disco god Giorgio Moroder, "Rainbow Connection" guy Paul Williams, pianist Chilly Gonzales, house titan Todd Edwards, the Strokes' Julian Casablancas, Pharrell Williams singing about sex and ancient Greek mythology. It sounds like it cost about a million dollars to make, if not more, an estimate they don't deny but also won't confirm.

More to the point, Random Access Memories is a calculated departure from past Daft Punk records, even for Daft Punk, a band that, over the course of its lengthy reign as the most well-known and critically revered dance-music act on the planet, has made a point of never making the same record twice. Only a handful of people have heard the album so far, but the two men already seem resigned to the possibility that no one will like it.

"In Scream 2, they have this discussion about how sequels always suck," Bangalter says. In this scheme, Random Access Memories might as well be Scream 4. "The thing we can ask ourselves at some point is like: We're making music for twenty years. How many bands and acts do you have that are still making good music after twenty years? It always sucks—almost always, you know?"

And de Homem-Christo, who has said maybe a few dozen words up to this point, most of them about salad and directed at our waitress, peers over the golden top edge of his sunglasses and says: "So our new album is supposed to really suck."

Since you're probably wondering: They look not unlike a couple of guys in a rock band. Bangalter, 38, is tall, slightly rumpled, bearded, hair thinning, handsome in a cinema-studies-professor kind of way—he's funny, good with eye contact, palpably eager to make himself understood. Today he's wearing fashionable motorcycle boots, black jeans, an unstructured suit jacket, and a big drapey scarf, perfectly tied, framing a neat Daft Punk pyramid of bare chest. De Homem-Christo is one year older, and a lot shorter. He has long stringy metal-guy hair and weary pale eyes, and his black boots have gold spurs. Everyone calls him Guy-Man.

Bangalter talks a lot—about art, and technology, and blockbuster movies like Star Wars, which he loves. De Homem-Christo barely talks at all, which is disconcerting at first and then sort of fascinating. Later I'll give the two of them a ride home in my car, and from the backseat, de Homem-Christo will break character to beatbox the hard-hitting percussion break in Montell Jordan's "This Is How We Do It" when it comes on the radio, a sublime and unexpected moment, like watching a goat yell like a man. It's always been like this: Bangalter is the guy who generates the raw material, the one who more often has his hands on the actual instruments; de Homem-Christo is the group's editor, its taciturn enforcer.

They met in the eighth grade in Paris, and for years would do anything but play music together. They'd go to movies, museums, the library, argue about Warhol and Kubrick and Kraftwerk. Bangalter's father is Daniel Vangarde, the French songwriter who wrote the supremely annoying Ottawan hit "D.I.S.C.O."; de Homem-Christo's parents were in advertising but had a thing for music, too. His dad listened to stuff like "Led Zeppelin and 'Hotel California' every Sunday," he says. De Homem-Christo's accent is so fantastically Parisian that when he says "Hotel California," it sounds like "O-tell Cal-e-forn-ya"—like another, better, more magical song. "That's what I still listen to."

Nelson, Kristofferson and Haggard Resurrect the Highwaymen at Grammys

Blake Shelton joins country legends for hits medley

"One of the best parts of my life has been the guys who are my real heroes are my closest friends," Kris Kristofferson told the AP before the Grammys. Kristofferson joined his buddies Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard and young(er) chart-topper Blake Shelton onstage for a medley including "Highwayman," the signature song from the Highwaymen (the supergroup featuring Nelson, Kristofferson, the late Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash), Nelson's "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and Haggard's 1969 hit "Okie from Muskogee."

"Willie is the closest friend I have," said Kristofferson, who also received a Grammy lifetime achievement award in a ceremony alongside the Beatles yesterday. "And Merle, the first time I met him in Nashville, people told me to stay away from him because I had a beard and the hair. I was supposed to be one of them long-haired hippies, and we were friends from the moment we met."

And while Shelton may have seemed like a bit of a wildcard in the mix with the aforementioned country legends, Haggard was happy to have him: "He's the big dog right now," he said.

Kristofferson, Haggard and Nelson have all been close since meeting in Nashville in the Sixties before all hitting major stardom. Nelson and Haggard have collaborated on hits including 1983's "Pancho & Lefty" and traveled the world with Last of the Breed tour in 2007; Kristofferson and Haggard  have played shows in recent years.

Taylor Swift Performing at Grammy Awards 2014!

Great news – Taylor Swift has just been announced as a performer for the 2014 Grammy Awards!

The 24-year-old singer is nominated in four categories this year: Album Of The Year, Best Country Album for Red, Best Country Duo/Group Performance for “Highway Don’t Care” (along with Tim McGraw and Keith Urban), and Best Country Song for “Begin Again.”

New performers also announced include John Legend, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Kacey Musgraves, Keith Urban, and Beatles’ Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Previously announced performers include Katy Perry, Lorde, Metallica, Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke, Blake Shelton, Pink and Nate Ruess, Kendrick Lamar with Imagine Dragons, Sara Bareilles, and Stevie Wonder with Daft Punk.

Tune into the 2014 Grammys on Sunday, January 26!

Justin Bieber: Beliebers Camp Outside Hotel

Fans show their devotion to Justin Bieber who is charged with driving under the influence of drink or drugs and resisting arrest.

Hundreds of fans of the pop star Justin Bieber have set up camp outside a Miami hotel where the singer has stayed since his release from jail.

So-called Beliebers showed their devotion to the troubled teenage singer was undimmed after he was bailed on charges including driving under the influence of drink or drugs and resisting arrest.

Bieber, who could face up to six months in prison if found guilty, told officers he had been drinking, smoking marijuana and taking anti-depressants, according to police.

Justin Bieber pictured after he was arrested. Pic: Miami Beach Police

But one adoring fan outside Bieber's hotel told Sky News: "It makes me want to support him even more, and defend him even more.

"I am worried about how he's going to be after this because everybody's pressuring him."

However, many have taken to Twitter to question those supporting the star, pointing to the victims of drink-driving.

Bieber's booking form after his arrest

Canadian-born Bieber was stopped by Miami police after apparently drag racing. He was clocked in a rented yellow Lamborghini doing around 60mph in a 30mph zone.

It has been reported that the singer's father was with him at the time.

The 19-year-old was arrested and taken to jail from where he made his first court appearance via videolink.

He was also charged with driving with an expired licence and bail was set by a judge at $2,500 (£1,500).

The singer waves to fans after he was released from jail

After he was released from jail, Bieber, wearing a hooded black top, sat on top of a waiting SUV for a few seconds and waved to his fans.

Bieber failed a sobriety test during his arrest, according to authorities, and he swore at officers when he was stopped, according to a copy of the arrest report.

An officer claimed the Canadian singer had "bloodshot eyes" and added he could smell alcohol on his breath.

Police said two SUVs had blocked the road in a residential area of Miami Beach so the 19-year-old star could race a friend, identified as R&B singer Khalil Sharieff, who was driving a rented Ferrari.

The van transporting Bieber to jail

Miami Dade state attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle told Sky News: "We take cases like this very seriously. It could have been the recipe for a tragedy."

Bieber told police he was returning from a studio recording session and repeatedly asked why he had been stopped and arrested.

"Why did you stop me?" he asked, according to the report. "Why do you have to search me?"

Bieber posted this graffiti photo on Instagram just hours before his arrest

Speaking at a news conference, Miami Beach Chief of Police Raymond Martinez said the singer had resisted arrest although he had done so "without violence".

Mr Martinez said the 19-year-old Canadian had been "belligerent" and had used some "choice words" when he was arrested.

He said Bieber had been very cooperative once he got to the station.

The star, who reportedly earned $58m (£35m) last year, arrived at Miami-Dade County Jail where he had his mugshots and fingerprints taken.

Khalil Sharieff was also charged with driving under the influence

The van with blacked-out windows transporting the singer was trailed by squad cars.

Miami-Dade Police spokesman Sergeant Bobby Hernandez told WSVN in South Florida that officers saw two cars racing at 4.09am.

Mr Hernandez said two vehicles apparently had been used to block off an area on Pine Tree Drive and 26th Street for the race.

He said the second car was a red Ferrari, and that the driver, Khalil, was also arrested. Khalil was later charged with driving under the influence, and his bail was set at $1,000 (£600). Both cars were towed away.

Bieber promoting his film Believe in December

ieber was pictured in the car with a woman, named in some reports as model Chantel Jeffries, in the driving seat before his arrest.

The teenager has been in Florida for the past few days and has been spotted in nightclubs and at a skate park.

He posted photos on Instagram of him performing tricks on his skateboard and spraying his initials onto a wall at the park.

He is also alleged to have spent thousands of dollars at a strip club called the King of Diamonds.

A first conviction could bring a fine of between $250 (£150) and $1,000 (£600), depending on the level of alcohol, as well as community service and possibly a jail sentence.

 

Bieber's arrest comes just a week after the singer's California home was raided by police over claims that he pelted his neighbour's house with eggs, causing thousands of dollars of damage.

In that case, authorities arrested one member of Bieber's entourage, rapper Lil Za, on suspicion of drug possession.

Last year in the UK, the singer disappointed thousands of fans by showing up to gigs late, which meant many of his young followers had to leave his performances only moments after he started performing to catch trains home.

He was also involved in a scuffle outside his hotel in London during his visit.

The Word: Does Justin Bieber have a new girlfriend ??

Justin Bieber and his fellow pop sensation Selena Gomez may have called it quits, but he gets to console his broken heart in ways most 19-year-olds can only dream of: indoor skydiving with the beautiful women of Vegas.

Justin and his crew hit the indoor skydiving joint (you know, one of those) on June 16, and the singer apparently spent the evening very close to a new friend: Jordan Ozuna, a Las Vegas waitress. ”In the waiting room area, she was sitting on his lap and they were kissing,” a source told E! Online. “Little pecks and kisses.”

Later, while his friends were indoor skydiving, Justin lay down with his head in Ozuna’s lap while she stroked his hair. Aww. Indoor skydiving makes me sleepy too.

Closer to home, Justin’s neighbors are so fed up with he and his friends’ reckless driving in their gated Calabasas, Calif., community that they’ve asked the police to intervene, according to E! News.

There’s also been an emergency homeowners association meeting planned to address the issue. “It has been escalating for the past six months. He has begun to flip over to a really dark side,” a neighbor says of Justin’s “aggressive, reckless” behavior. “They have sent him warnings. He’s out of control. Everyone has a Bieber white Ferrari story. God Forbid someone gets hurt by that car. He just feels like he is above the law.”

Justin Bieber arrested on drunken driving, resisting arrest charges

Justin Bieber was charged with drunken driving, resisting arrest and driving without a valid license after police saw the pop star street racing early Thursday morning, Miami Beach police said.

"What the f*** did I do? Why did you stop me?" Bieber asked the police officer who pulled him over just after 4 a.m., according to the arrest report.

Bieber, 19, was released from a Miami jail an hour after he made a brief appearance through a video link before a Miami judge, who set a "standard" $2,500 bond Thursday afternoon.

He strutted out of the jail dressed in black, with a baggy hoodie covering his head. His pants appeared to be baggy leather. Bieber briefly sat on top of a black Cadillac Escalade, where he waved to screaming fans, before he was chauffeured away.

 

At the bail hearing, the singer, dressed in an orange jail uniform, stood silently with his lips sometimes pursed as attorney Roy Black represented him in the hearing earlier.

Black told Judge Joseph Farina that he had been retained by Bieber's manager. He said his partner had been denied access to Bieber in jail before the hearing.

Bieber was booked into a Miami jail after failing a sobriety test, Miami Beach Police Chief Raymond Martinez told reporters Thursday.

Bieber "made some statements that he had consumed some alcohol, and that he had been smoking marijuana and consumed some prescription medication," Martinez said.

A Miami Beach officer saw Bieber driving a yellow Lamborghini in a race against a red Ferrari in a residential area of Miami Beach, Martinez said. The cars were speeding at about 55 to 60 mph in a 30 mph zone, he said.

The officer pulled Bieber's car over, but the singer was "was not cooperating with the officer's instructions," Martinez said.

"At first, he was a little belligerent, using some choice words questioning why he was being stopped and why the officer was even questioning him," he said.

He allegedly ignored a police officer's request to keep his hands on the car while he did "a cursory patdown for weapons," the report said.

"I ain't got no f***ing weapons," the arresting officer quoted Bieber as saying. "Why do you have to search me? What the f*** is this about?"

The arrest report describes Bieber as having a "flushed face, bloodshot eyes, and the odor of alcohol on his breath."

Bieber failed a field sobriety test, Miami Beach Police Sgt. Bobby Hernandez told CNN.

Two black SUVs blocked the traffic at 26th and Pine Tree Drive, which "facilitated an open road" for the two cars to race on Pine Tree, the report said.

The Ferrari's driver, identified as 19-year-old Def Jam recording artist Khalil Sharieff, was also arrested on a drunken driving charge, police said.

Sharieff posted a photo on his Instagram account of Bieber in the yellow Lamborghini with a woman behind the wheel early Thursday. "U know bizzle brought that lambo out," he wrote in the caption.

Another posting showed a photo of a Ferrari steering wheel with the caption: "Miami nights ridin thru yo city in that hot wheel."

A tweet posted Wednesday evening on Sharieff's verfied Twitter account linked to a video of him playing basketball with Bieber.

Bieber flew to Miami on Monday.

Other complaints

Another police department in the Miami area is investigating a report that some of its officers escorted Bieber's caravan between Miami strip clubs this week without authorization.

Opa-Locka Assistant City Manager David Chiverton told CNN affiliate WSVN-TV that "at some point, the escort took them at least to two locations that we know of."

"The police administration had no knowledge of this escort, and it is not the norm for those things to occur without the chief and his administration authorizing such escorts," Chiverton told the TV station.

Thursday's incident marks the first time the teen singer has been arrested, although he is under investigation on allegations of egging his California neighbor's home.

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies used a felony search warrant last week to raid Bieber's mansion in the felony vandalism investigation. They seized Bieber's iPhone and the security camera system, which detectives have been examining for clues about who tossed eggs over a fence that splattered onto the next-door house, causing an estimated $20,000 in damage.

Deputies have also investigated reports by Bieber's neighbors that he raced his expensive sports car down the streets of the exclusive Oaks community of Calabasas, California, but no charges ever resulted.

One neighbor accused Bieber of spitting in his face during a heated confrontation last March. Deputies have responded to complaints about loud parties at Bieber's place.

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office concluded it couldn't prove the spitting or speeding cases in court, so it declined to prosecute.

Prosecutors also rejected a misdemeanor battery complaint from a photographer who accused Bieber of attacking him in the parking lot of a Calabasas shopping center as he was taking photos of Bieber and his then-girlfriend, Selena Gomez, in May 2012.

"We didn't do this search warrant to send a message," Sheriff's Lt. David Thompson said last week. "That's not what we do, but we hope maybe that understanding the gravity of this will change some of the behavior."

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