Lil’ Wayne was the most nominated artist at Wednesday night’s Grammy Awards nomination special, pulling in a total of eight nominations including Album of the Year. Other Album of the Year contenders included Coldplay’s Viva La Vida, Radiohead’s In Rainbows, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand and Ne-Yo’s Year of the Gentleman. The Grammy Awards ceremony will air on February 8, 2009. [PopEater.com]

Beyonce scores her fifth chart-topping solo hit this week with “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” which is number one on the Hot 100. [Billboard.com]

Next April, Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and Sonic Youth will perform a work by composer Takehisa Kosugi for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in honor of what would have been the forward-thinking choreographer’s 90th birthday. [Guardian.co.uk]

Former Long Blondes guitarist Dorian Cox, who suffered a debilitating stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body earlier in the year, is rehabilitating his hand with a special therapeutic glove called the SaeboFlex. [PitchforkMedia.com]

Elvis Costello has a beef with director Jared Hess, claiming that he came up with the name Napoleon Dynamite years before Hess made his 2004 movie of the same name. [Spinner.com]

Thrill Jockey has a holiday treat for you: They’ve got an advent calendar that offers a new, DRM-free, high-quality MP3 every day until December 24. [Exclaim.ca]