Article: PLAYING IT SAFE GRAMMYS GO FOR ECLECTICISM, BUT NOTHING TOO OUT-THERE.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)

Byline: Mark Brown

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

Mark Brown is the popular music critic. Brownm@Rocky MountainNews.com

or (303) 892-2674.

The biggest surprise in a rather ho-hum year for the Grammy Awards was the announcement this week that the host of Sunday night's star-studded show will be . . . no one.

That makes this year's Grammys a near-perfect if unintentional metaphor for the music industry - no one at the helm, no one to keep it together. And like the fractured U.S. music scene, it will bounce from rock to hip-hop, jazz to comedy.

Sunday's awards - still the most prestigious in music - reflect the uncertainty and ...

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