This year’s GRAMMY Awards® will showcase a special electronic music dance segment featuring Foo Fighters, Lil Wayne, Deadmau5, Chris Brown, and David Guetta. The performance will be the first of its kind and will be held outside the Staples Center in a tent filled with 1,000 fans with Foo Fighters and Deadmau5 coming together for a live remix of “Rope.”

Up next you can listen to the Deadmau5 remix of “Rope” which appeared as a bonus track on last year’s Wasting Light.

Listen to Deadmau5 do Foo Fighters.

Bon Iver

This year’s field of Alternative Music GRAMMY Nominees is host to a wide range musical styles. From My Morning Jacket‘s hard hitting riffs to Bon Iver‘s ethereal melodies, this year’s nominees have a bit of everything. Check out who we’re picking as our top bets to win Album of the Year, plus grab a free download of Bon Iver‘s single “Calgary”!more

This week we added 3 new songs to the KROQ playlist: The Black Keys “Gold On The Ceiling,” Red Hot Chili Peppers “Look Around” and The Shins “Simple Song.”

The Chili Peppers’ “The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie” made it’s way back into the top spot, knocking Gotye‘s “Somebody That I Used To Know” down to #4. Rise Against‘s “Satellite” found itself back in the top 5, alongside The Black Keys “Lonely Boy” and Foo Fighters‘ “Walk” at #2 and #3 respectively. Coldplay‘s “Charlie Brown” entered the most-played list at #23, while Bush‘s new single “Baby Come Home” climbed from #19 to #11.

Listen to the new tracks and see the full list.

[Photos] OC Music Awards Showcase Series…

Photos from night 6 of the OC Music Awards Showcase Series at the Continental Room in Fullerton featuring Mandie & Ruby, Foxxhound, Danny Maika, Parker Macy, & Tully James Wilkinson.

So when Sluggo asked me what my all-time favorite KROQ songs are, at first I thought, “are you kidding me?” What an impossible question. Impossible mainly because the answers were endless.

However, I have a few KROQ songs that I have loved my entire life and these are the songs that I pledge an eternity of devotion to for no other reason than I absolutely love the way they make me feel.Watch the videos here

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Few musical artists have been as scrutinized even before their debut album came out as 25 year-old Lana Del Rey. When her video for the song “Video Games” hit the internet a few months ago she seemed poised to be an overnight success.

Where, we all wondered, did this beautiful nobody come from, fully formed with that sultry look and that mesmerizing song? The buzz got so big so fast that network TV’s tastemaker show “Saturday Night Live” even booked Del Rey as the musical guest last month, unheard of for a new artist without an album out.

With only a few small club shows under her belt, her television debut was underwhelming to some, a disaster to many. She barely moved onstage and weakly projected the lyrics to the two songs she performed. She looked like she was somewhere between sedated and overwhelmed.

See SNL’s hilarious repsonse to her haters.

2012 is shaping up to be a huge year for The Shins. Frontman James Mercer has an all-new backing band for Port of Morrow, Mercer’s first new music under his band’s moniker in five years. And The Shins are high up on the Coachella bill — playing both Saturdays of the sold-out mega-festival.

Hopefully you’ve already heard the power-pop jangle of lead single “Simple Song” — now get ready for the B-side, “September”. The single is out Feb. 14, but The Shins dropped an amazing lyric/artwork video to accompany the old-school love song/classic rock vibe, along with a sort-of album trailer.Check out ‘September’ and the behind the scenes video!

Quite a few really good albums came out in 2011, and this week we’re hooking you up with some of the best!

Take this week’s KROQ music survey and you could win a copy of the Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ I’m With You, The Black Keys‘ El Camino or Cage The Elephant‘s Thank You, Happy Birthday. Aside from possibly scoring one of these awesome albums, you’ll also be influencing what we play on-air. Make your voice heard!

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This week’s survey ends at 11:00pm on 2/12/12. Contest is open to anyone who resides in the SoCal zip codes and has completed the KROQ music survey.

[Photos] OC Music Awards Showcase Series…

“ Ruby has sort of the same standpoint in music as I do...I listen to how she plays and then my singing influences her style sometimes and vice versa...We feed off each other really well. Finding a good writing partner is actually hard to do.
” Mandie from Mandie & Ruby Celebrating its 11th anniversary, the OC Music Awards kicks off on January 3rd with seven weeks of free showcases at different venues across the county. 35 local artists will compete for the titles of Best Live Band or Best Live Acoustic and a performance slot at the 2012 OC Music Awards, March 3 at the Grove of Anaheim. And, the voting is open now!

“I met Mandie in high school, we were in this little punk rock/sort-of ska band. She was the singer and we wrote music all through high school,” said Ruby, one-half of Orange County acoustic-duo, Mandie & Ruby.

The pair, who have played together officially since October 2010, but have known each other for about nine years, were entered in the OC Music Awards based on the merit of their live performances at places like coffee shops, private events, and the Downtown Fullerton Art Walk and are thrilled by the crowd response.

Although the two have been in and out of other bands throughout their lifetime, the two hold down artistic day jobs (Ruby is a chef at Disneyland’s exclusive Club 33 and Mandie is a designer for her retro-styled clothing business Heartbreaker Fashion) and admit to having not connected so readily on the musical front with other people as much as with each other.

Mandie elaborated: “With Ruby, it’s really easy. She comes over. We drink a bottle of wine. It’s like, ‘Alright. Let’s write this. Let’s do this.’”

“Ruby gave me the opportunity to sing a different style,” Mandie continued, referencing her past singing career in “indie rock” group 1518. “I’m finding it’s much better suited to my style of voice. My style of singing. Ruby has sort of the same standpoint in music as I do…I listens to how she plays and then my singing influences her style sometimes and vice versa…We feed off each other really well. Finding a good writing partner is actually hard to do.”

Learn more about Mandie & Ruby!

The new video for The Black Keys‘ song “Gold On The Ceiling” shows footage of their album release show for El Camino at Webster Hall in New York City, mixed with some shots of them performing in the studio as well.

It’s a pretty cool video for fans to check out what a Black Keys show is like. You can check out The Black Keys on Friday, April 13th and 20th at Coachella 2012 – enter to win tickets here.

Watch the video here.