According to Billboard.com, punk pioneers the RAMONES will receive Grammy Awards for lifetime achievement next year, organizers said on Wednesday. They will receive their statuette at an event in Los Angeles on February 12, a day before the 53rd annual Grammy Awards ceremony is held.

From their humble New York beginnings, the Ramones helped pioneer punk rock in the 1970s with such fast-paced songs as 'Blitzkrieg Bop' and 'Sheena Is a Punk Rocker'. The quartet, whose members adopted Ramone as their last name, went through multiple lineup changes. Co-founders Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone died in the space of three years earlier this decade.

The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards will take place in Los Angeles at Staples Center on Sunday, February 13th, and will air live on the CBS Television Network from 8 – 11:30 PM (ET/PT). As a result of last year's earlier show and Awards process dates, this year the eligibility dates for the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards are September 1st, 2009, through September 30th, 2010. (This year will mark a 13-month eligibility period.)

Following are the nominations in the Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Metal Performance categories:

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance

ERIC CLAPTON - 'Run Back To Your Side'

JOHN MAYER - 'Crossroads'

PAUL MCCARTNEY - 'Helter Skelter'

ROBERT PLANT - 'Silver Rider'

NEIL YOUNG - 'Angry World'

Best Hard Rock Performance

ALICE IN CHAINS – 'A Looking In View'

OZZY OSBOURNE – 'Let Me Hear You Scream'

SOUNDGARDEN – 'Black Rain'

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS – 'Between The Lines'

THEM CROOKED VULTURES – 'New Fang'

Best Metal Performance

IRON MAIDEN – 'El Dorado'

KORN – 'Let The Guilt Go'

LAMB OF GOD – 'In Your Words'

MEGADETH – 'Sudden Death'

SLAYER – 'World Painted Blood'

Best Long Form Music Video

BLUR - No Distance Left To Run (Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern & Giorgio Testi, video directors; Thomas Benski, Laura Collins & Lucas Ochoa, video producers)

THE DOORS - When You're Strange (Tom Dicillo, video director; John Beug, Jeff Jampol, Peter Jankowski & Dick Wolf, video producers)

ARIF MARDIN - The Greatest Ears In Town: The Arif Mardin Story (Doug Biro & Joe Mardin, video directors; Doug Biro & Joe Mardin, video RUSH - Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage (Sam Dunn & Scot McFadyen, video directors; Sam Dunn & Scot McFadyen, video producers)

THE WHITE STRIPES - Under Great White Northern Lights (Emmett Malloy, video director; Ian Montone & Mike Sarkissian, video producers)

A complete list of nominees can be found at this location.