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The 2017 Grammy ceremony takes place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 12 - and the world of rock and metal is well represented.

Stressed Out by Twenty One Pilots is up against tracks by Adele, Beyonce and Rihanna in the Record Of The Year category, while the song is also nominated in the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.

Primus' album Primus & The Chocolate Factory is nominated in the Best Surround Sound Album category, while Rosetta by Vangelis gets a nod in the Best New Age Album category.

Earlier this week, Drake took to Instagram to celebrate a new milestone when Views became certified quadruple platinum. This is Drake's second time at the 4x platinum rodeo:

Amy Winhouse, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and The Rolling Stones are just a few of the artists to have their songs featured. "As Westworld came together, Lisa and I knew that we wanted to take enormous risks with the narrative of the show, tossing the audience into the deep end with our story," said Executive Producer Jonathan Nolan in a press release.

The video features scenes from the film Collateral Beauty, which stars Will Smith. In the first shot in the clip, Smith says, "Love, time, death. Let's begin now." Then the delicate, plucked guitars and soft vocals kick in as vocalist rides through Midtown New York in a cab. Other shots depict the band performing from a rooftop and inside a warehouse.

Collateral Beauty opens December 16 and features Smith as a successful New York advertising executive who suffers a great tragedy and retreats from life. In a state of desperation, he writes letters to 'love,' 'time' and 'death' and receives unexpected answers that guide him on a new path and help heal his pain.

Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan-Tatum's Lip Sync Battle featuring Ginuwine and Beyonce also cracked the top ten, which was light on musical entries.

"Hopefully, there comes a time in all of our lives where we stop resisting and start allowing ourselves to live a more authentic life," Rimes said in a statement. "Remnants are the pieces of ourselves we want to keep. Allowing one's self to fall apart as gracefully as possible and then picking up the most authentic pieces or remnants of ourselves and moving forward."

In the picture, Chisholm is covering her chest with her arms, showing off her washboard abs and tattoos. 'Cheeky little cover shoot tomorrow," Mel C captioned the photo. 'Better get my work pants ready!"

Before announcing his newest project, Adams detailed how he went into a prolific writing period that produced 80 songs. But he culled those options down to 12 for the album, which arrives February 17th. It marks Adams' first original music since his self-titled release in 2014. He recorded and released a cover album of Taylor Swift's 1989 in 2015.

The country musician will celebrate over 25 years in the industry by hitting the road for his Honky Tonk Highway Tour beginning on January 20th in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and wrapping up on October 28th in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

If that sounds like a long time to be on tour and away from home, Jackson has everything nice and spread out over the course of the year. Lee Ann Womack will support Jackson on select dates.

Fallon tells Music Radar: "It's as good as disowning a kid. Even if I don't really care for one, we still made it. It's all part of the learning process. To make great songs you have to make not-so-great songs. There's some early stuff we don't play, but we've changed over 25 years and it feels awkward. Saying that, we just started playing Passive Restraints from 92."

Arejay tells Live In Limbo: "I do the Spotify thing. I subscribe. Judge me all you want, I'm guilty as charged. I accept the new forms of the way music is perceived. You get music to get discovered, to bring people to your show - compared to the way it used to be, where you'd go on tour to sell a record.

"It's a cool way to discover new music, browse the different genres and playlists, look at the related artists. It's cool that right in your pocket you can discover any artist, any song ever recorded and put out there."

The poppy rap number doubles as a feature of the game, which prompts users to record their own raps over various beats and backing tracks. "Ain't Gone Do It" is just one of the songs fans can choose from as they play by Nicki's rules.

Now Jay-Z's Roc Nation faces a suit from Prince's estate alleging that his catalog was streamed without permission. Billboard reports that new documents filed in court allege Roc Nation tried and failed to obtain managerial rights to Prince's catalog "weeks" after his death.

Indeed, it is a cover of the 1981 hit. The song was produced by Tim Myers, formerly of OneRepublic. In addition to his duties as pop star, Myers is a prolific artist in the film and TV sync world (song that serve as soundtracks). But the voice� the voice makes this particular cover come alive.

As the owner of a record label, Myers tapped one of his own artists; Helene Immel, better known as Lenachka, a German-born singer-songwriter living in Los Angeles. This isn't the first cover Lenachka has been a part of however. Some of her interpretations include Skrillex and Diplo's "Where Are Ü Now", Taylor Swift's Safe & Sound, "Sweater Weather" by The Neighbourhood, "Clarity" by Zedd Feat. Foxes, "Royals" by Lorde, and Justin Bieber's "Heartbreaker."

The single "Am Your Eyes" was the first song Sean and I recorded together. Sean had been working on solo electronic instrumentals, by utilizing new programs, gear, and recording methods. He started by sampling a guitar riff that one of our good friends had written, and repurposed it in a different direction, by incorporating a heavier riff with an ambient, electronic beat.

When Sean first showed me the instrumentals, "mungbean" was not yet "mungbean." Sean and I had only ever performed together acoustically at a local event in town - doing the opposite of what we're doing now. We stripped down more complex tracks in order to cover it acoustically, as opposed to writing acoustically and building it electronically. We learned quite a bit from this process. Covering Adult Jazz, Radiohead and Grizzly Bear allowed us to explore different styles of composition, and approach the process in converting more technical tracks into an acoustic piece.

The day Sean sent me an instrumental beat he made, I turned it up in my car and started singing. It's my favorite way to find a melody. Whatever comes out usually sticks, because it's coming from a very organic place in my chest and in my mind.

This song in particular was heavily influenced by a conversation I had in a class earlier that day. The conversation in class covered the intersection of medical and cultural discourses in literature. More specifically, the discrepancies between how we talk about male and female bodies in social and medical contexts. I left the conversation feeling very confused and frustrated. As a woman, one often feels that even the powers that are supposed to be objective, are working against you. In a social context, your body is always marketable and consumable. In a medical context, your anatomy is trivialized and degraded in comparison to men's.
The song explores these feels; questioning why our physical, tangible attributes are of constant focus, and why our intangible elements, emotions and intelligences, are glossed over. It is resigned in frustration, but still making a point to say something.