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The Grawemeyer Music Award is the most prestigious composition award in the world, and it carries the largest cash prize. The 2010 winner was recently announced, and AMG takes a look the Grawemeyer, its illustrious honorees, and their work.
It's one of the ironclad rules of show biz - put a guy in a giant ape suit and you have comedy gold. Whether it's a dumb '60s movie (like the cinematic classic Bikini Beach), a silly kids' TV show or a music video; just get that giant ape running amok and everything is going to be awesome. Case in point, the video for this track by the Art Museums. The song itself is good enough, a bright little pop trifle that perfectly balances the twee, retro-mod sound of '80s groups like the Television Personalities with the lo-fi buzz of the Woodsist/Captured Tracks contingent. It's even better when accompanied by a giant ape wearing a Jam parka, riding a scooter and delivering a mixtape to a cute shop assistant. The song isn't on the band's soon to be released debut album, Rough Frame, but nine other songs that are just as catchy and fun do appear.
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Arriving a year after the British Invasion kick-started and two years before the Summer of Love, 1965 sometimes gets overlooked among the great years of the '60s, but a convincing case could be made that it showcases how creatively fertile the decade was almost better than any other year. That's because 1965 isn't about one style or sound: every genre produced timeless music, whether it was Miles Davis settling into his second classic quintet, Motown's hit machine not slowing down, Bakersfield electrifying country music, B.B. King captivating at the Regal, or American rock & roll bands pounding out responses to the British Invasion from their own garages while the Who made their debut. And, of course, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, and the Byrds all released multiple classic albums, including Rubber Soul, Highway 61 Revisited, Out of Our Heads, Today!, and Mr. Tambourine Man -- records that defined just what rock & roll could do. If that doesn't make a contender for the greatest year of the '60s, then what does?
