Here are the winners in the rock categories for the 2022 Grammys, which were handed out Sunday during the pre-show Premiere Ceremony:
Foo Fighters won all three Grammys they were up for: Best Rock Album for Medicine at Midnight, Best Rock Song for “Waiting on a War,” and Best Rock Performance for “Making a Fire.” The Foos were also scheduled to perform during this year’s awards, but Rolling Stone reports that they canceled the appearance due to the tragic unexpected death of drummer Taylor Hawkins on March 25.
Meanwhile, Dream Theater‘s “The Alien” won Best Metal Performance, while St. Vincent‘s Daddy’s Home won Best Alternative Music Album.
Outside of the dedicated rock categories, Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media alongside Jon Batiste for their work on the Disney/Pixar movie Soul, and Linkin Park‘s Mike Shinoda earned Best Remixed Recording for his remix of Deftones‘ “Passenger.”
The official Grammy ceremony begins Sunday at 8 p.m. ET.
Miley Cyrus has canceled a Grammy night performance because she’s tested positive for COVID-19.
“Traveling around the world, playin for a 100,000 people a night & meeting hundreds of fans a day, the chances of getting Covid are pretty high,” Miley tweeted. “I have Covid now but it was definitely worth it.”
She then announced that she’s canceled her scheduled performance at Steven Tyler‘s Grammy Awards Viewing Party in LA, which will benefit Janie’s Fund, a charity that provides protection and counseling for young female victims of abuse. It’s named after Tyler’s 1989 hit with Aerosmith, “Janie’s Got a Gun.”
“Unfortunately because of this I’m missing out on Janie’s Fund which sucks because it’s a charity that’s super important to me & my friend Steven Tyler,” Miley tweeted. “I am feeling fine so don’t worry about me! Sorry Steven! We’ll have to ‘Walk This Way’ another time!”
On Friday, Miley released her live album, ATTENTION.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the legendary Swedish pop group ABBA, special screenings of a digitally remastered version of the 1977 film ABBA: The Movie will be held on May 12 and May 14 at over 400 theaters in the U.S. and Canada.
The film stars ABBA’s four members — Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog — and captures the band during their 1977 tour of Australia. ABBA: The Movie was directed by acclaimed Swedish filmmaker Lasse Hallström, whose credits also include My Life as a Dog, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and Chocolat.
The flick captures ABBA performing and backstage during the trek, and also features a lighthearted fictional subplot focusing on a naïve radio DJ who struggles to score an interview with the famous group.
Among the songs ABBA performs in full during the film are “Dancing Queen,” “Tiger” and “Name of the Game.”
Tickets for the ABBA: The Movie -– Fan Event screenings go on sale this Wednesday, April 6, at 9 a.m. ET at ABBAMovie.com.
“This will be such a fun event for fans to come together and experience ABBA on the big screen for the first time since the 1977 release,” says Trafalgar Releasing executive Kymberli Frueh. “We hope everyone will dig deep into their closets to find vintage 70s outfits to wear in celebration with us!”
The film event is scheduled just a couple of weeks before the May 27 premiere of ABBA Voyage, the concert experience featuring a performance by digital avatars of the band’s four members taking place at the specially built ABBA Arena at London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
It’s been almost 10 years since Patti Smith released her most recent studio album — 2012’s Banga — but the legendary singer/songwriter known as the “Godmother of Punk” has now revealed that she’s planning to make another one…and it may be her last.
In a new article published in U.K. newspaper The Guardian, Smith answered a variety of questions submitted by fans, including if she was planning a follow-up to Banga.
“I do have plans and I’ve written a lot of songs,” Patti said. “I’d like to do one more album and my record company, Columbia, has very generously left the door open.”
Another fan asked Smith to name her favorite album, and she chose Banga.
Patti explained, “‘Constantine’s Dream,’ the long improvised piece at the end, touched a lot of things that concern me — art, the future of mankind, climate change, the horrors done to our indigenous people, and love.”
She added, “I love the cover, which was shot on the fly by my friend Stephen Sebring. That record feels like me, like [my 1975 debut album] Horses feels like me.”
Besides her music, Smith’s an acclaimed poet and author. Asked about her unrealized dreams, she said, “There’s nothing I love more than books. I’ve written some and I’m really happy with them but I just want to write at least one that I feel deserves to be in the canon of books to endure. I basically want to write something as good as Pinocchio and, yes, I’ve started it.”
Smith has a variety of concerts lined up for 2022, with her next shows scheduled for May 6 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and May 7 in Austin, Texas. Check out her full itinerary at PattiSmith.net.
Fresh from their stint on the 2022 Flower Power Cruise, The Zombies kick off their first North American tour since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic tonight in Orlando, Florida.
The famed British Invasion band’s trek, dubbed the Life Is a Merry-Go-Round Tour, features a total of 49 dates and is broken into spring and summer legs.
The springtime outing, which visits mainly East Coast venues, is scheduled through a May 1 show in Fall River, Massachusetts. The summer leg, which is dominated by concerts in Canada and the Western U.S., begins on June 21 in Belleville, Ontario, Canada, and wraps up with a three-date stand, July 28-30, in Park City, Utah.
The Zombies will be playing plenty of hits and fan favorites on the tour, along with some brand-new tunes. The band also will be selling a new CD/DVD package, Live from Studio Two, exclusively at the concerts. The release documents the group’s special 2021 performance at London’s Abbey Road Studios that premiered as a livestream event.
From hardcore rap records to cute relationship tracks, check out this week’s New Music Friday for the culture’s latest & greatest in music.
— City Girls ft. Fivio Foreign, “Top Notch” — Hip hop’s favorite Miami duo pull out the glitz, glam and bars on the New York drill-inspired track. JT & Yung Miami link up with Brooklyn’s own Fivio to seal the deal.
— Nicki Minaj ft. Fivio Foreign, “We Go Up” — The new hardcore rap track shows that Fivio Foreign is just getting started, and Nicki delivers her vicious and unforgettable style on the new drill track.
— Wiz Khalifa, “Iced Out Necklace” — The Taylor Gang rapper delivers two minutes and 35 seconds of quick and explicit lyrics on his latest track. Earlier this week, he released the documentary Still Rolling Papers, featuring never-before-seen footage of the rapper’s journey to stardom.
— A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie ft. Ella Bands, “Playa” — The New York rapper released not one but two tracks for the latest single. Rising star Ella Bands lends her vocals to one and Grammy-winning artist H.E.R joins A Boogie on the other.
— Freddie Gibbs ft. Rick Ross, “Ice Cream” — Twitter has been loving this Freddie/Rozay collab. The fiery rap anthem samples Raekwon‘s 1995 iconic song of the same name.
Justin Harris, known by his stage name Saucy Santana, is an up-and-coming openly-gay rapper from Florida. He first rose to music fame due to his association with the rap duo City Girls and is now making a name for himself. His breakthrough anthem, “Walk,” garnered extreme popularity in 2020.
After being postponed from January 31, the 2022 Grammy Awards ceremony finally takes place this Sunday. Here’s a rundown of many of the veteran artists who will vie for honors:
AC/DC was nominated for three Grammys, while Paul McCartney received two nods.
The Australian hard rockers and the former Beatles legend both will compete for the Best Rock Album prize, for Power Up and McCartney III, respectively.
AC/DC also was nominated for the Best Rock Performance honor for “Shot in the Dark,” while the song’s video scored a nod in the Best Music Video category. McCartney also is in the running for Best Rock Song, for “Find My Way” from McCartney III.
Other veteran artists receiving Grammy nominations this year include ABBA, Jackson Browne, Los Lobos, Police drummer Stewart Copeland, Carole King, Steve Cropper and ex-Talking Heads frontman David Byrne.
ABBA is up for the Record of the Year for their new song “I Still Have Faith in You.” Browne and Los Lobos will vie for the Best Americana Album trophy for their respective records Downhill from Everywhere and Native Sons.
Copeland’s collaborative album with Ricky Kej, Divine Tides, is nominated for Best New Age Album. King received a Best Song Written for Visual Media nod for “Here I Am (Singing My Way Home),” which she co-wrote for the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect.
Cropper’s Fire It Up will compete for the Best Contemporary Blues Album honor.
Check out the full list of nominees at Grammy.com.
The Grammys airs live from Las Vegas at 8 p.m. ET on CBS, although many winners will be announced during the “Premiere Ceremony” event, which begins at 3:30 p.m. ET and will be streamed on the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel and on Live.Grammy.com.
How diverse is the list of stars who could take home a Grammy Sunday, might you ask? Let’s take a look at some of the Black artists nominated, some of whom will be new to the Grammy stage, others who are looking to add to their collection.
Louisiana superstar Jon Batiste is the most nominated artist of any this year, with 11 nods. Kanye West could take home five golden gramophones, adding to his collection of 22. Saweetie, Tems, Baby Keem,Jimmie Allen and Jazmine Sullivan — the latter of whom’s been nominated 15 times, including this year’s three nods, but hasn’t yet won — could all take home their first-ever award.
Winners will be announced at the 64th annual Grammy Awards, which will be broadcast live on Sunday, April 3 at 8:00 p.m. ET on CBS.
Here’s an overview of some of the artists nominated in top categories:
Record of the Year
Jon Batiste — “Freedom”
Giveon (w/ Justin Beiber) — “Peaches”
Doja Cat ft. SZA — “Kiss Me More”
Lil Nas X — “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)”
Silk Sonic — “Leave the Door Open”
Album of the Year
Jon Batiste — We Are
Doja Cat — Planet Her (Deluxe)
H.E.R. — Back of My Mind
Lil Nas X — Montero
Kanye West — Donda
Song of the Year
Alicia Keys (& Brandi Carlile) — “A Beautiful Noise”
H.E.R. — “Fight for You”
Doja Cat ft. SZA — “Kiss Me More”
Silk Sonic — “Leave the Door Open”
Lil Nas X — “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)”
Giveon (w/ Justin Beiber & Daniel Cesar) — “Peaches”
Best New Artist
Jimmie Allen
Baby Keem
Arlo Parks
Saweetie
Best R&B Song
H.E.R. — “Damage”
SZA — “Good Days”
Giveon — “Heartbreak Anniversary”
Silk Sonic — “Leave the Door Open”
Jazmine Sullivan — “Pick Up Your Feelings”
Best Rap Performance
Baby Keem ft. Kendrick Lamar — “Family Ties”
Cardi B — “Up”
J. Cole ft. 21 Savage & Morray — ”My Life”
Drake, ft. Future & Young Thug — “Way Too Sexy”
Megan Thee Stallion — “Thot Shit”
Best Rap Song
DMX ft. Jay-Z & Nas — “Bath Salts”
Saweetie ft. Doja Cat — “Best Friend”
Baby Keem ft. Kendrick Lamar — “Family Ties”
Kanye West ft.Jay-Z — “Jail”
J. Cole ft. 21 Savage & Morray — ”My Life”
Best Rap Album
J. Cole — The Off-Season
Drake — Certified Lover Boy
Nas — King’s Disease II
Tyler, the Creator — Call Me if You Get Lost
Kanye West — Donda
Best Gospel Album
Jekalyn Carr — Changing Your Story
Tasha Cobbs Leonard — Royalty: Live at the Ryman
Maverick City Music — Jubilee: Juneteenth Edition
Jonathan McReynolds & Mali Music — Jonny X Mali: Live in LA
CeCe Winans — Believe for It
Honorable mentions to Spice, nominated for Best Reggae Album, Wizkid for Best Global Music Album, Tems (w. Wizkid) for Best Global Music Performance, Mickey Guyton for Best Country Album & Solo Performance, Hit Boy for Producer of the Year, and LeVar Burton, Don Cheadle, J. Ivy, Dave Chappelle & Barack Obama, all nominated for Best Spoken Word Album.
Judas Priest was been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for a third time this year. And while frontman Rob Halford believes that the band will be inducted “eventually,” he’d like it to happen sooner rather than later.
The Metal God tells The Boston Globe, “We’re keeping our fingers crossed that we do get in. Personally, I’d love it. I think there’s nothing wrong in celebrating each other’s achievements. Because we all do the same thing. It doesn’t matter whether we’re in a country and western band or a soul band or a rapper, we all do the same thing. There’s a connectivity in the craft that we make.”
Adds the 70-year-old rocker. “We’ll wait and see. I think it’s gonna happen eventually. When I’m alive, please, would be nice.”
Judas Priest is currently out on its delayed 50th anniversary tour: The actual anniversary was 2020, but of course, nobody was touring then.
“Everybody’s been very cool about stretching out the timeline of the 50th anniversary,” Halford notes. “We’re focusing on a band that has been in the heavy metal world for 50 years, which is an extraordinary event anyway. So why shouldn’t we keep celebrating it?”
The band’s next show takes places this Saturday, April 2, in Mashantucket, Connecticut.
Jimmie Allen’s been pursuing a variety of fun activities and appearances outside his musical career lately, and his latest venture is as a guest star on the classic television show Let’s Make a Deal.
The show tweeted some pictures from his appearance on set, where he hung out with audience member contestants and even brought along his acoustic guitar for a quick musical interlude.
Jimmie is versatile on camera: He’s guest-hosted the Today Show, signed on as an executive music producer for the Netflix series Titletown High, and competed on Dancing with the Stars.
Of course, that’s not counting Jimmie’s many musical accomplishments, which are only growing: he’s nominated in the all-genre Best New Artist category at the 2022 Grammy Awards, which take place this weekend.
