Grammys 2016: Vox live-blogs this year’s awards

The 58th Grammy Awards kick off tonight at 8 pm Eastern, bringing the usual spate of over-the-top performances, rambling speeches, and award snubs and surprises to your TV screen. They also promise answers to some burning questions: Will leading nominee Kendrick Lamar clean up? Will the cast of Hamilton melt our collective brains with their performance? What will Kanye West do?!

Join culture editor Todd VanDerWerff, deputy culture editor Jen Trolio, culture writers Alex Abad-Santos and Caroline Framke, and copy chief Tanya Pai as we live-blog the ceremony and performances, discussing these questions and much more. You can follow along in real time right here, or you happen to be reading this after the show has ended, you can scroll through the archive below.

Meanwhile, if you want to remember who's nominated, go here. If you want to know how the Grammy nominees and winners are decided, read our explainer. You can find Vox's complete Grammys coverage here; for all your other Grammys needs, keep checking back throughout the show.

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