The Surprising Story behind a Surprise Grammy Nomination

This year's

Grammys include a category for Electronic Dance Music. Nominee Al Walser is a man almost nobody in the established dance culture has ever heard of. His Grammy-nominated dance recording is

I Can't Live Without You. Walser, who calls himself "The Mouse that Roared," says he had to refresh the Grammy website three times before he believed the nomination.

August Brown, music writer for the

Los Angeles Times, hunted him down at Cut the Bull Entertainment, which shares space with the Honorary Consulate of the Principality of Liechtenstein — in Hollywood.