Foo Fighters (photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

Year after year after year I recall going to work the Monday following the GRAMMYs and talking about how once again, alt-rock was snubbed, yet again. But this year, I feel like we had some bright spots worth talking about. Foo Fighters, Adele, Skrillex and Bon Iver made me feel like our voices are at last being heard. (Although Adele is now considered a world-wide sensation, she was first embraced by alt-rock radio.)

Foo Fighters taking home a whopping five GRAMMYs is pretty frickin’ huge.

As the band accepted the award for Best Rock Performance, Dave had this to say before they dimmed the lights on him;

“To me this award means a lot because it shows that the human element of making music is what’s most important. Singing into a microphone, learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing for people to do. It’s not about being perfect. It’s not about sounding absolutely correct. It’s not about what goes on in a computer. It’s about what goes on in here (placing his hand on his heart) and what goes on here (pointing at his head). Long live rock `n’ roll!”

Now, I think a lot of people are confused by Dave’s comments since less than a hour later he was playing side by side with Deadmau5, a DJ/Producer that creates all of his music on the computer. Regardless, this year’s awards felt fresher than they have in years. I’m glad they paired the two on stage.
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NOTABLE CATEGORIES

Record of the Year

• WINNER “Rolling In The Deep” – Adele
• “Holocene” – Bon Iver
• “Grenade” – Bruno Mars
• “The Cave” – Mumford & Sons
• “Firework” – Katy Perry

Album of the Year

• WINNER “21″ – Adele
• “Wasting Light” – Foo Fighters
• “Born This Way” – Lady Gaga
• “Doo-Wops & Hooligans” – Bruno Mars
• “Loud” – Rihanna

Adele (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Song of the Year

• “All Of The Lights” – Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie
• “The Cave” – Mumford & Sons
• “Grenade” – Bruno Mars
• “Holocene” – Bon Iver
• WINNER “Rolling in the Deep” – Adele

Best Rock Performance

• “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall” – Coldplay
• “Down By The Water” – The Decemberists
• WINNER “Walk” – Foo Fighters
• “The Cave” – Mumford & Sons
• “Lotus Flower” – Radiohead

See the categories where Foo Fighters cleaned up.

If you are a mid-to-late twenty-something and grew up in Southern California, Bush was one of those permanent musical fixtures on the radio when you were a teenager, namely KROQ. Of course, girls had a crush on Gavin Rossdale, the healthier, less-tortured British version of the American grunge god. And dudes were into the big, brash grunge guitars and the masculine, gravelly vocals.

[Gallery] KROQ’s Pre-GRAMMY Party…Years later, Bush has evolved into something less gritty and more grown-up, but are still just as crushworthy–musically and otherwise. Last night at the Grammy Museum, Rossdale, drummer Robin Goodridge, lead guitarist, Chris Traynor, and bassist Corey Britz played a semi-acoustic set for KROQ and some of our lucky listeners as their softer, jazzier incarnation–SHUSH.

Bush at the Grammy Museum!

[Gallery] Beermug GRAMMY Round Table…

Photos from day 2 of the GRAMMY round tables including Dev, Arsenio Hall, Tom Arnold, a mob wife, a Mastercard winner, Neon Trees, Weird Al Yankovic, and Derek from Sum 41. Photos by Cody Black.

[Gallery] Beermug GRAMMY Round Table…

Photos from the first day of GRAMMY round tables at the Staples Center including Aubrey O’Day, Esperanza Spaulding, Kat Graham, Lou Ferrigno, Joe Jackson, Afrojack and Kool & The Gang. Photos by Cody Black.

Foo Fighters at The Forum // Photo: Alex Rauch

The first batch of artists to perform at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced last night, and the list includes our friends the Foo Fighters!

The Foos are nominated for 6 GRAMMY’s, including Album Of The Year and Best Rock Album for Wasting Light, Best Rock Performance for “Walk,” Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance for “White Limo,” Best Long Form Video for their documentary Back And Forth, and Wasting Light producer Butch Vig is nominated for Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical.

See who else is performing and watch video of the Foos in 2008.

Photo: Jeffrey R. Staab/CBS

A handful of this year’s biggest GRAMMY nominees are no stranger to the Ed Sullivan Theater stage.

Live On Letterman has welcomed nominees such asAdele,Foo Fighters,Coldplay,Taylor Swift and more to perform a full-length concert webcast that (in our opinion) serve as the best criteria for judging them GRAMMY winners or not. Let us know what you think – watch each performance and let us know which of the performers deserve a GRAMMY!

Watch FULL CONCERTS from the 2012 nominees

Van Halen circa '96 (Photo: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images)

A few days back, the rock world got itself in a frenzy over an unconfirmed tweet that Van Halen is scheduled to perform at this year’s Grammy Nominations Concert. The concert, which is scheduled for November 30th, will feature the controversial rock band’s most recent lineup consisting of Eddie Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Alex Van Halen, and Eddie’s 20-year-old son Wolfgang on bass.

Although the tweet from the official Grammy twitter feed doesn’t explicitly state Van Halen will be “reuniting,” it’s clear what it entails: “Who do u predict the reuniting band will be @ #GRAMMYnoms? Does this hint make u wanna ‘Jump’ & ‘Dance the Night Away’?”

Barring the possibility that we’re all idiots, which in my case is very possible, I think it’s a safe bet Van Halen will be rocking the Nokia Live Theater in downtown Los Angeles at the end of this month.  With that in mind, I ask what bands you would like to see make amends and get back together?  This may more difficult than you think considering Stone Temple Pilots, Blink-182, The Smashing Pumpkins and Soundgarden all have reunited within the past couple of years.

Read 5 bands I’d like to see back together.