Seattle Times:
Congratulations to Olympia’s Kimya Dawson for last night’s Grammy win! The Juno soundtrack, which heavily featured Dawson’s songs, won for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. Check out The News Tribune’s Q&A with Dawson at thenewstribune.com for her take on newfound fame. Other Northwest artists nominated for Grammy awards include Death Cab for Cutie, Eddie Vedder, Bill Frisell, Winston Ma, Gerard Schwartz, and artist Don Clark.

Seattle Weekly:
In late October, Eddie Rodriguez and his band, Los Volcanes, were in their label’s home base of Corpus Christi, Texas, performing tejano music on Spanish-language television. Save for a handful of suburban clubs, tejano is an afterthought in the 42-year-old Rodriguez’s hometown of Seattle (he’s a Brownsville, Texas native). But in South Texas, which boasts an enormous Latino population, conjunto, the accordion-heavy subgenre of tejano music that Los Volcanes specializes in, is huge. A couple of weeks after returning home to Normandy Park, a suburb near the airport, Rodriguez, who sings lead and plays accordion in Los Volcanes, received a call on his cell phone marked “private.” Typically, Rodriguez lets private calls go to voice mail, but this time he picked up. The caller asked Rodriguez to identify himself. He did, and in turn the man on the other end of the line identified himself as Neil Diamond.