The Latest on the Grammy Awards (all times local):
3:30 p.m.
The 60th annual Grammy Awards are underway with the first awards being handed out in the dance and electronic music categories.
LCD Soundsystem won the first awarded handed out Sunday during the Grammys pre-telecast ceremony that hands out dozens of honors in various genres.
The festivities are being led by musician Paul Shaffer, who laid out the ground rules: including telling winners to stand up and announce themselves when they win.
LCD Soundsystem won for best dance recording for its song "Tonight."
No one from band was on hand to accept the honor, which led Shaffer to call over a young woman who was on stage to assist winners and by calling her "darling" and handing her the Grammy.
Shaffer told the woman, "When I say darling, I mean it with the utmost, #MeToo kind of respect."
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2:45 p.m.
The sea of black at the Golden Globes has given way to a small forest of flowers at the Grammys.
Plenty of musicians and artists took to the red carpet Sunday sporting white roses to show their solidarity with the Time's Up organization, which hopes to support women with legal and financial help who raise sexual misconduct complaints.
Allen Hughes is the director of the "The Defiant Ones" and wore two small roses on his lapel. He says he believes every voice should be heard and that's why he wore the roses. Plus, he says, "I'm a feminist."
Most stars wore black and a Time's Up pin in support of the movement at the Golden Globes earlier this month. Fewer wore roses at the Grammys, but some were just being rock stars.
Songwriter Diane Warren skipped the rose but wore two white gloves — one with the word "girl" and one with "power." She's a nominee for the 15th time.
She says, "I didn't want to wear the rose. I'm a rebel."
— Mark Kennedy (@KennedyTwits) on the Grammys red carpet.
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10 a.m.
Though Adele's win for album of the year at last year's Grammys wasn't a complete surprise, it marked another loss for Beyonce in the show's major category.
The Recording Academy was heavily criticized for not rewarding "Lemonade," an album that moved the needle and dominated pop culture in different ways than Adele's colossal sales.
Critics felt the Academy failed to recognize the artistic elements of an R&B-based album, in the same ways they have passed over albums by Kanye West, Eminem and Mariah Carey for projects by rock, country and jazz artists.
But Sunday's Grammys are almost guaranteeing this year is different. Most of the album, song and record of the year nominees are rap, R&B and Latino artists, including Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Bruno Mars, Luis Fonsi and Childish Gambino.
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