Imogen Heap Wins A Grammy And Accepts It In A "Twitter Dress"

 

Imogen Heap also won a well-deserved Grammy for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical with "Ellipse".  However what everyone was talking about was her Twitter Dress which had it's own Twitter feed!  

Mashable has the full story.  Leave it to Imogen Heap to find a way to bring all her beloved fans to the Grammys with her.  She is the type of artist that is leading the way and embracing social networking and the internet to bring her art directly to her fans.

I really do worship the ground she walks on and am so happy that "Ellipse" won a Grammy.  It was beautifully engineered and produced - something that some pop fans couldn't quite digest.

EQ Top Ten Collections Of Tracks For 2009

 

"The Fame Monster" by Lady Gaga
If there ever were a perfect pop album, Lady Gaga has created this in eight perfect pop tracks. "Bad Romance" has set the bar in terms of pop mightiness - leaving other aspiring and established pop artists breathless and wishing they could attain such high levels of perfection. When EQ declared Lady Gaga "the new Madonna" early on - it was met "let's just wait until the second album shall we?". We'll it landed with the force of a thunderbolt with mighty tracks like "Alejandro", "Monster" and "Telephone" forcefully shoving those on-the-fence skeptics firmly into the wacky wardrobes adorning the Haus of Gaga. Ladies and gentlemen - we are witnessing the rise of a major pop force who has the staying power of legends - I look forward to the artistic creations that Lady Gaga will be unveiling to the world in the years to come.

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"Heartbreak On Vinyl" by Blake Lewis 
If you ask me, this album hasn't gotten nearly the amount of praise it deserves. What makes it so brilliant is the belief that Blake Lewis had in himself to produce a dance album that was truly him and not one he had to compromise to satisfy labels. It's like showing the public the real you whether they like it or not - and "Heartbreak On Vinyl" did just this. It's dance music, carefully immortalized in tracks like "Freak", "Binary Love" and "Sad Song". The title track "Heartbreak On Vinyl" couldn't have been any more perfect - an ode to the downfall of the traditional record store which captured the sadness and loss that many of us hardcore music lovers felt from the convergence of the music industry with technology. The entire album served key play-list tracks on EQ club nights with music lovers proclaiming "I love this song - who sings it?". I'm hoping that Tommy Boy sink some more money into this project and give it the proper European push it deserves as I still don't think the American majority quite get proper dance music the way us Europeans do.

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Imogen Heap To Webcast NYC Concert

 

Now here's something you don't see everyday...but you should...

Imogen Heap will be broadcasting her NYC show live on the internet on December 3rd and the best part about it - it's FREE!  All you need to do is head on over to this URL where you'll also be able to see some brand new interview footage with Billboardlive.com.

The best part of this new interview for me is when Immi talks about her realization that social networking allowed her to bypass the record companies that got in the way and allowed her to communicate directly with her fans - and that is why her fans love her and her music so much!