When is something old considered new? If you’re talking about the Grammy Awards, that’s often whoever lands in the best new artist category, easily the weirdest of the races.

Green Day's breakthrough album Dookie was still in the ARIA album top 50 and selling by the truckload when follow-up Insomniac came out. Seen by many as a disappointment compared to Dookie ...

Cyndi Lauper won best new artist in 1984 despite having released an album with the band Blue Angel four years before. Green Day were nominated after “Dookie,” but that was the trio’s third ...

The first time I met Mikaela and Helena, they were 15 and I was 18, so the age gap felt very large, and they were extremely shy. It took a couple of years to break into their inner circle. But I ...