Newsic Music November 26th – December 2nd: Grammy Nom Week, Lady Gaga, and Green Day

This week is basically all about the Grammy nominations. Also: Lady Gaga’s unsurprising weekly cameo in Newsic Music and Green Day goes, well, green, for the holidays.

Bruno Mars
Multiple Grammy nominee Bruno Mars. | Photo by Brothers Le via Wikimedia Commons.

Grammy Noms Announced

Not “noms” as in food (as in “nom nom nom”), but nominations for the 2012 Grammys. There were few huge surprises this year, aside from Kanye West getting snubbed on an Album of the Year nom and Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday release date deeming her fair game for the Best New Artist category (it came out on November 19, 2010). Bruno Mars, Adele, Mumford and Sons, and Lady Gaga are among some of the Recording Academy’s favorites, along with a totally random nod to Skrillex in Best New Artist. View the full list of nominees here.

Lady Gaga Drops “Marry The Night” Video

After a cryptic teaser of her fifth Born This Way single, Lady Gaga officially released her “Marry the Night” video on Thursday night. The 14-minute video shows Gaga going through what she told MTV News was “one of the worst days of [her] life” – getting dropped from her contract with Def Jam early in her career. Needless to say, the superstar has moved on to bigger and better things, but “Marry the Night” is a noble nod to her past struggles.

The Black Keys
The Black Keys are hitting the road in 2012. | Photo by Music54 via Wikimedia Commons.

Green Day Goes Green for the Holidays

The pop-punkers are urging fans to “go green” when shopping for gifts this holiday season. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong is teaming up with the Natural Resources Defense Council to plug the organization’s Green Gifts Guide, where shoppers can find “gifts that won’t end up broken but will actually put the world back together again.”

The Black Keys Announce First Headlining Arena Tour

Mark your calendars: the Black Keys will be hitting Boston on March 7! Their new album, El Camino, drops this Tuesday, and you can hear the offering’s first single on the band’s official YouTube channel.

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Nee-Sa Lossing is a broadcast journalism major at BU. She's a music writer for The Quad and only wears black and white.

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