The 56th annual Grammy Awards show takes place on Sunday night, where Daft Punk & Stevie Wonder will team up together during the last big chance rock stars have to dress to the nines and pat each other on the back before the sweaty mess of festival season gets underway.
CraveOnline is rockin’ a full run of Grammy Awards 2014 coverage, keeping tabs on Jay Z’s unearned 9 nominations while fellow rappers Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Kendrick Lamar, each with seven nods, vie for the statuettes– including best album and best new artist of the year. The other half of Jay Z’s luxury rap project, Kanye West, locked down two noms for his new Yeezus album in rap categories
The mere fact that Jay Z tops the Grammy nominees with 9 nods adds an air of suspicion to the whole event. While his new record Magna Carta Holy Grail has failed to make much of an impact critically, culturally or otherwise, somehow it beat out an incredible roster of talent in 9 different categories. But let’s be real here – if it weren’t for the Samsung Galaxy phone tie-in with the album launch, there’s zero likelihood that it would’ve sold nearly as well.
Here’s a hint: appointment television is dead. It makes no sense anymore to sit through 90 minutes of commercials in a three-hour broadcast. Instead, you should follow our live-tweeting coverage of the 2014 Grammys as they happen! We’ll bring you the play-by-play as performances take place and gold is given, with Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohl, and special guest Lindsey Buckingham closing the entire production after Macklemore, Paul McCartney, Green Day, Madonna, Daft Punk, Stevie Wonder, Pink and more do what they do best.
Check it out below, or on Twitter as we go!
