Pictured: Your reaction

I can't think of anything witty to say, so I'll update this when I inevitably come crawling-back in a handful of months.

Cheers,
PB

If you have at least one ear and $17, you need to buy this album. Hell you don't even need the ear. The 31-song tracklist reads like a P4K wet dream, and it's all in support of the Red Hot Organization, a charity dedicated to fighting AIDS. Full track list:

THIS DISC
1 Knotty Pine – Dirty Projectors + David Byrne
2 Cello Song (Nick Drake) – The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez
3 Train Song (Vashti Bunyan recorded, written by Alasdair Clayre) – Feist + Ben Gibbard
4 Brackett, WI – Bon Iver
5 Deep Blue Sea – Grizzly Bear
6 So Far Around the Bend – The National (arrangement by Nico Muhly)
7 Tightrope – Yeasayer
8 Feeling Good (popularized by Nina Simone) – My Brightest Diamond
9 Dark Was the Night (Blind Willie Johnson) – Kronos Quartet
10 I Was Young When I Left Home (Bob Dylan) – Antony + Bryce Dessner
11 Big Red Machine – Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner
12 Sleepless – The Decemberists
13 Stolen Houses (Die) – Iron and Wine
14 Service Bell – Grizzly Bear + Feist
15 You Are The Blood – Sufjan Stevens

THAT DISC
1 Well-Alright – Spoon
2 Lenin – Arcade Fire
3 Mimizan – Beirut
4 El Caporal – My Morning Jacket
5 Inspiration Information (Shuggie Otis) – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
6 With A Girl Like You (The Troggs) – Dave Sitek
7 Blood Pt 2 (based on original song "You are the Blood" by the Castanets) – Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti)
8 Hey, Snow White (Destroyer) – The New Pornographers
9 Gentle Hour (Snapper) – Yo La Tengo
10 Another Saturday (traditional song) – Stuart Murdoch
11 Happiness – Riceboy Sleeps
12 Amazing Grace (traditional song) – Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues
13 The Giant Of Illinois (Handsome Family) – Andrew Bird
14 Lua – Conor Oberst + Gillian Welch
15 When the Road Runs Out – Blonde Redhead + Devastations
16 Love vs. Porn – Kevin Drew

Wonder no longer, because the 51st Grammy Awards were on tonight!

The Grammys are the closest thing we have to proving the existance of alternate dimensions. Where else could you possibly hope to, much less actually see Coldplay win the award for "Best Rock Album" over Radiohead roughly an hour before Radiohead -- after being introduced by Chris Martin's better half Gwenyth Paltrow, no less -- performs "15 Step" with the goddamn USC marching band?

What's even worse is that this year had potential. Radiohead were nominated for a small army's worth of awards. MIA had a couple of nominations (and could have potentially given birth on national TV!). Hell even No Age were up for one (even if it was only for best packaging). Sure we already knew Robert Plant and Allison Krauss would (and did) win every single award, but there was a chance, wasn't there? (For the record, no there wasn't.)

For a complete recap of the event, take a look at Stereogum's hillarious liveblog.