De las presentaciones en vivo tendremos a: Slash y Doug E. Fresh y Green Day.
Recordemos las categorías rock:
Mejor presentación Hard Rock
War Machine
AC/DC
Track from: Black Ice
[Columbia]
Check My Brain
Alice In Chains
[Virgin]
What I’ve Done
Linkin Park
Track from: Road To Revolution: Live At Milton Keynes
[Warner Bros.]
The Unforgiven III
Metallica
Track from: Death Magnetic
[Warner Bros.]
Burn It To The Ground
Nickelback
Track from: Dark Horse
[Roadrunner Records]
Mejor presentación Metal
Dissident Aggressor
Judas Priest
Track from: A Touch Of Evil – Live
[Epic]
Set To Fail
Lamb Of God
Track from: Wrath
[Epic]
Head Crusher
Megadeth
Track from: Endgame
[Roadrunner Records]
Señor Peligro
Ministry
Track from: Adios…
[13th Planet]
Hate Worldwide
Slayer
[American / Columbia]
Mejor presentación instrumental de Rock
A Day In The Life
Jeff Beck
[Eagle Records]
Warped Sister
Booker T. Jones
[ANTI]
Mr. Surfer Goes Jazzin’
Brian Setzer Orchestra
[Surfdog Records]
Now We Run
Steve Vai
[Favored Nations Entertainment]
Mejor canción Rock
The Fixer
Escrita por: Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready & Eddie Vedder, (Pearl Jam)
I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
Escrita por: Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge & Larry Mullen Jr., (U2)
21 Guns
Escrita por: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt & Tré Cool, (Green Day)
Use Somebody
Escrita por: Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill & Nathan Followill, (Kings Of Leon)
Working On A Dream
Escrita por: Bruce Springsteen (Bruce Springsteen)
Mejor album Rock
Black Ice
AC/DC
[Columbia]
Live From Madison Square Garden
Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood
[Reprise/Duck]
21st Century Breakdown
Green Day
[Reprise]
Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King
Dave Matthews Band
[RCA Records / Bama Rags Recordings, LLC.]
No Line On The Horizon
U2
[Interscope]
Mejor album alternativo
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
David Byrne & Brian Eno
[Todomundo/Opal]
The Open Door
Death Cab For Cutie
[Atlantic]
Sounds Of The Universe
Depeche Mode
[Capitol]
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Phoenix
[Loyaute/Glassnote Records]
It’s Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
[DGC Records/Interscope]