A couple of wins – and several losses – for Atlanta Grammy contenders…so far

Laura Story won the first of her five Dove Award nominations when “Blessings” scored Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year. Story, a worship leader at Perimeter Church in Johns Creek, beat fellow ...

Laura Story is up for five Dove Awards. Laura Story is having a kudos-filled month. Slightly more than a week after nabbing her first Grammy Award for best contemporary Christian music song for ...

Atlanta’s Laura Story is two-for-two. Her song, “Blessings,” just won for Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year, a short while after her album of the same name won the Pop/Contemporary Alb ...

Of course Adele is happy - she just swept the Grammys! Photo: Matt Sayles (AP). Even if you follow music only casually, there’s no way you could have been surprised at Adele’s sweep. And a well ...

Adele scored six Grammy nominations. Photo credit: Courtesy Sony Music Careful, Grammy…you might hurt yourself trying to demonstrate your hipness this year. Bon Iver? Mumford & Sons? Skrillex? ...

Another transplanted Atlantan, Lecrae, won his first Dove Award for Rap/Hip-Hop Album of the Year for “Rehab: The Overdose.” The lanky rapper, sporting glasses, a black ensemble and an L.A. Kin ...

The current Queen of Hip Hop Soul, Mary J. Blige was the hottest ticket in town Friday night at the sold out Tabernacle.  Mary J. earned her GED in 2010.   > > > (from Wiki) Mary Jane Blige was ...

Jamie Grace and her mom, Mona, pose on the red carpet at the Dove Awards. Photo credit: Raymond Hagans The ever-charming Jamie Grace just won her first Dove Award and was suitably overcome with ...

Kimberly Perry will be joined by her brothers as the Band Perry performs a free show at Atlantic Station Friday, Dec. 23. She's shown here at the Grammy Nominations Concert in Los Angeles in No ...

Kandi at a party last year at Shout to promote her Bedroom Kandi toy line. CREDIT: Rodney Ho/rho@ajc.com Kandi Burruss in 2000 received a Grammy co-writing TLC’s hit “No Scrubs.” Earlier this w ...

It seems the GMA Dove Awards are getting comfortable at the Fox Theatre.  The show – the biggest in Christian/gospel music – will return to Atlanta’s historic theater for the second year on Apr ...

Despite a crazy rumor circulating just before kickoff, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band walloped the opening of the 54th annual Grammy Awards with their new “We Take Care of Our Own” and ...

Grammy-winning Atlanta musician Monica joins the eight marching bands at the annual Honda Battle of the Bands at the Georgia Dome Jan. 28. Photo: Brian Dowling / Picture Group It’s known as “th ...

Banjo-playing singer-songwriter Abigail Washburn plays Eddie's Attic Jan. 13. TODAY Abigail Washburn It’s a measure of singing banjo player Washburn’s talent that the musicians who have passed ...

Who says you can’t go home? Atlanta’s own country music duo Sugarland did just that Saturday night before a nearly sold out crowd at Philips Arena. For a little under an hour and a half, Jennif ...

Cee Lo Green hit an L.A. studio with producer Paul Epworth last week. The Atlantan won two Grammys during the pre-show. (Stephanie Diani/The New York Times) Cee Lo Green might have lost Best Po ...

The Beach Boys reunion show will launch Chastain's summer series. A Beach Boys reunion, some disco ball action and the return of a pop icon highlight the Chastain Park Amphitheatre season. Tick ...

Diana Ross received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy last month. Photo credit: AP If all you wanted from your Diana Ross experience was a brisk parade of hits sung well and performed by a tight ba ...