NEW YORK, NY  [Friday Dec.9.2005]  /WMQT.com/ -- The "Rock" nominees for the 48th annual Grammy Awards were announced yesterday (December 8th) in New York City, and the Foo Fighters, Coldplay, U2 and Franz Ferdinand are among the contenders.

Foo Fighters, Coldplay and U2 will face off for Best Rock Album, Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group with Vocal, and Best Rock Song. The Rolling Stones and Neil Young also earned a nomination for Best Rock Album, while Franz Ferdinand and the Killers round out the nominees for Best Rock Performance By A Duo or Group with Vocal.

In the Best Rock Song category -- an award given to the songwriter -- the other nominees include Rivers Cuomo for Weezer's hit single "Beverly Hills" and Bruce Springsteen for "Devils & Dust."

Neil Young also earned a Grammy nomination for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for his song "The Painter." Rob Thomas, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton and Robert Plant also received nods in this category.

Franz Ferdinand, Death Cab For Cutie, the White Stripes, Beck and The Arcade Fire will duke it out for Best Alternative Music Album. The Best Hard Rock Performance category is a toss-up between Audioslave, Nine Inch Nails, Robert Plant, Queens of the Stone Age, and System of A Down.

To see the complete list of this year's Grammy nominees, visit www.Grammy.com.

Here are the Grammy nominations in the Rock Category:

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
• Revolution - Eric Clapton
• Shine It All Around - Robert Plant
• Devils & Dust - Bruce Springsteen
• This Is How A Heart Breaks - Rob Thomas
• The Painter - Neil Young

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal
• Speed Of Sound - Coldplay
• Best Of You - Foo Fighters
• Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand
• All These Things That I've Done - The Killers
• Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own - U2

Best Rock Song (awarded to songwriter):
• Best Of You - Foo Fighters, songwriters (Foo Fighters)
• Beverly Hills - Rivers Cuomo, songwriter (Weezer)
• City Of Blinding Lights - U2, songwriters (U2)
• Devils & Dust - Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)
• Speed Of Sound - Guy Berryman, Jon Buckland, Will Champion & Chris Martin, songwriters (Coldplay)

Best Rock Album
• X&Y - Coldplay
• In Your Honor - Foo Fighters
• A Bigger Bang - The Rolling Stones
• How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - U2
• Prairie Wind - Neil Young

Best Alternative Music Album
• Funeral - The Arcade Fire
• Guero - Beck
• Plans - Death Cab For Cutie
• You Could Have It So Much Better - Franz Ferdinand
• Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes

Best Hard Rock Performance
• Doesn't Remind Me - Audioslave
• The Hand That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails
• Tin Pan Valley - Robert Plant
• Little Sister - Queens Of The Stone Age
• B.Y.O.B. - System Of A Down

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