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Presenting The 65th Annual Grammy Nominations For Rock and Metal

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The Grammy Awards nominations were revealed earlier today and while this is an extremely lengthy list we are only going to laud the noms for the Rock, Metal and Alternative categories here on the website. A full rundown will be on “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken” website after some considerable editing. When we look at this in Word its more than thirty pages but I digress, here now are the nominations of the categories we focus on at the PiercingMetal Media Command HQ.

** Rock **

Best Rock Performance (For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative rock recordings).
“So Happy It Hurts” by Bryan Adams
“Old Man” by Beck
“Wild Child” by The Black Keys
“Broken Horses” by Brandi Carlile
“Crawl!” by Idles
“Patient Number 9” by Ozzy Osbourne Featuring Jeff Beck
“Holiday” by Turnstile
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Governors Ball Music Festival @ Randall’s Island Park

The Governors Ball Music Festival is back for the musical attack on Randall’s Island Park for three days. Day Two features the following performers: Florence and The Machine, Major Lazer, The 1975, Kacey Musgraves, Zhu, Vince Staples, Lord Huron, Ty Dolla $ign, Playboi Carti, King Princess, Denzel Curry, Clairo, Ravyn Lenae, Saba, Elohim, Sunflower Bean, U.S. Girls, Calpurnia, Dreamers, Suzi Wu, Easy Life Tobi Lou – Check their website for set times and scheduling changes.

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The 2016 Grammy Nominees Rock Rundown

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The list of nominees for the 2016 Grammy Awards are in and while there are so many more categories than what I’ve presented below, I am limiting this topic to the Rock and Alternative categories since that is where our readership pays the most attention. Let’s take a look and then I’ll discuss a little more after its all done.

ROCK CATEGORIES

Rock Performance
“Don’t Wanna Fight,” Alabama Shakes
“What Kind Of Man,” Florence + the Machine
“Something From Nothing,” Foo Fighters
“Ex’s & Oh’s,” Elle King
“Moaning Lisa Smile,” Wolf Alice

Metal Performance
“Identity,” August Burns Red
“Cirice,” Ghost
“512,” Lamb Of God
“Thank You,” Sevendust
“Custer,” Slipknot
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