Grammys vs. Pazz & Jop vs. Heart on a Stick

“…Yet out of this morass of often contradictory special interests a consensus of sorts has formed around one album: Kanye West’s ‘Late Registration.’

Already, the critics have spoken: For the second year in a row, according to the nationwide Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll, West has made the year’s best album.

What’s more, a poll of Internet blogs and other Internet sources that cover music compiled on the Heart on a Stick Web site has made ‘Late Registration’ one of the only major-label releases to warrant mention inside its top 20, which is dominated by indie-rock artists such as Sufjan Stevens and Wolf Parade.

All of which means next to nothing when the music industry weighs in at the Grammys, to be broadcast nationally at 7 p.m. Wednesday on CBS-Ch. 2….” [Chicago Tribune]

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