Performance of the Week: Grace Potter and the Nocturnals at Vh1 Divas Salute the Troops

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 -------------If you watched Vh1 Divas Salute the Troops on Sunday night, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry and Keri Hilson made over-the-top performances that fit their superstar personas. Good for them, but there was one other diva who stopped the show without parachutes and back-up dancers.

   Grace Potter & the Nocturnals. The New York Daily News called it a "hair-raising" performance. In a good way, of course, considering now they've topped The Beatles on the Itunes Rock Charts. No big deal.

  And following their performance they got so many hits on their website that it crashed. Also, no big deal.

  Watch It Here

  If you have only a few minutes, take a look at Grace's duet with Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart singing "Crazy on You." 

  

Song of the Day

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Grace Potter & the Nocturnals - Paris (Ooh, La) Acoustic
----------------------If you haven't heard of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals yet, you will soon. Rolling Stone called the amazon blonde's band one of the best new artists of 2010 and they're bound to headline festivals within the next summer concert season. They'll be making a quite unusual but exciting appearance in Boone, NC this Tuesday in a little venue called Legends. It only holds a thousand or so, the perfect size for an intimate concert. It's the best time to hear them, and you can start by listening to the hotel-room version of "Paris (Ooh La)." The drummer uses an ice bucket and the bassist hits everything within the tiny room. Check out the video and hopefully you'll dish out the ten bucks to see them Tuesday night.

And by the way, any chick who handles a 12-string the way Potter does deserves the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d--Q3CgXXsU