Courtesy The Recording AcademyThe 2017 Grammy Awards air tonight on CBS, and you should expect to hear Twenty One Pilots and David Bowie's names throughout the night. The Columbus, Ohio duo and the late music icon lead the rock nominees at this year's awards ceremony, with five nods each.
Twenty One Pilots' mega-hit "Stressed Out" earned nominations for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, while "Heathens" is up for Best Rock Performance, Best Rock Song and Best Song Written For Visual Media.
Bowie, meanwhile, is up for Best Alternative Music Album for his final release, Blackstar, while its title track is nominated for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance. Blackstar also received a nod in the Best Recording Package and the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical categories.
The Best Rock Performance category also includes Alabama Shakes' "Joe," Disturbed's "The Sound of Silence" and Jack White's collaboration with Beyonce, "Don't Hurt Yourself," while Metallica's "Hardwired," Highly Suspect's "My Name Is Human" and Radiohead's "Burn the Witch" are up for Best Rock Song.
In the album categories, the Best Rock Album nominees include Blink-182's California, Cage the Elephant's Tell Me I'm Pretty, Weezer's Weezer (White Album), Panic! at the Disco's Death of a Bachelor and Gojira's Magma.
Joining Bowie in the Best Alternative Music Album category are Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool, Iggy Pop's Post Pop Depression, PJ Harvey's The Hope Six Demolition Project and Bon Iver's 22, A Million.
Finally, the Best Metal Performance nominees are Korn's "Rotting in Vain," Megadeth's "Dystopia," Periphery's "The Price Is Wrong," Baroness' "Shock Me" and Gojira's "Silvera."
Other rock nominees include Coldplay's "Up&Up" for Best Music Video and Jack White's "City Lights" for Best American Roots Song.
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