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Presenting The 67th Grammy Award Nominations For Rock and Metal
The 67th Annual Grammy Award nominations were announced today via a YouTube Video and while we didn’t watch this rundown in person are happy to share with you the nominations for the Rock, Metal & Alternative Field. The full list of nominations will be posted over on “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken” website later on today but that one does take some time to edit and make look nice. We don’t do anything haphazardly after all. Here now are you nominees in those categories.
Best Rock Performance
“Now and Then” – The Beatles
“Beautiful People (Stay High)” – The Black Keys
“The American Dream Is Killing Me” – Green Day
“Gift Horse” – Idles
“Dark Matter” – Pearl Jam
“Broken Man” – St. Vincent
Best Metal Performance
“Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)” – Gojira, Marina Viotti [fr] & Victor Le Masne
“Crown of Horns” – Judas Priest
“Suffocate” – Knocked Loose featuring Poppy
“Screaming Suicide” – Metallica
“Cellar Door” – Spiritbox
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Live Nation Announces “When We Were Young” Festival In October
The fine folks over at Live Nation have just announced a massive Emo-themed festival that will take place in October in Las Vegas. It also features more bands than you can shake a stick at but why would you do that to some talented musicians anyway. Here is their brief press copy along with the poster. I’ve taken the time to type up the whole list for you in case the poster is a little hard to see on the website.
The Press Release:
Festival to feature epic lineup of emo and rock artists from the past two decades, including My Chemical Romance, Paramore, A Day To Remember, The Used, Taking Back Sunday, Avril Lavigne, Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World, Alkaline Trio, The All American Rejects and dozens more. Special presale starts Friday, Jan. 21 at 10 am PT for fans who sign up for early access to passes online at whenwewereyoungfestival.com (linked below)
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Presenting The 2021 Grammy Award Nominations for Rock and Metal
Earlier today the nominees for the 2021 Grammy Awards were announced and I always like to dissect that lengthy summary to spotlight what has been nominated for the music that we are more in tune with here on the PiercingMetal website. That means I am taking the Rock, Metal and Alternative out of the pile and putting it on the side for your edification. Here now are the Grammy nominations for these categories which I culled from their resources directly.
Best Rock Performance – For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative rock recordings.
SHAMEIKA – Fiona Apple
NOT – Big Thief
KYOTO – Phoebe Bridgers
THE STEPS – HAIM
STAY HIGH – Brittany Howard
DAYLIGHT – Grace Potter
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Deftones Announce Summer Headlining Tour
The Press Release:
Multiplatinum, Grammy® Award-winning alternative rock band Deftones have announced that they will hit the road for a headlining tour this summer with special guests Gojira and Poppy. Produced by Live Nation, the tour kicks off on July 27th in Portland and travels across North America before wrapping up in Denver on September 5th at the Pepsi Center. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday, February 14th at 1:00pm local time. Purchase your tickets here.
Citi is the official presale credit card of the Deftones Summer Tour 2020. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning Tuesday, February 11th at 12pm EST/9am PST until Thursday, February 13th at 10pm local time through Citi Entertainment®. For more information, click here.
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