The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame celebrated a quarter century as the self-appointed, oft-suspect gatekeeper for canonical artists in the rock world (no Replacements, no Sonic Youth, no etcs. -- no vote of confidence, RRHOF dudes) with a pair... CONTINUE READING U2 JAM WITH BLACK EYED PEAS, JAGGER, SPRINGSTEEN AT ROCK HALL 25TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW»
Posted on November 2, 2009 in , , (12 comments)
Tags: Annie Lennox | Aretha Franklin | Fergie | Jeff Beck | Jerry Lee Lewis | Lou Reed | Metallica | Mick Jagger | Ozzy Osbourne | Patti Smith | Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame | Stevie Wonder | Sting | The Decemberists | Tom Hanks | will.i.am
Weezer's frontman says the hit song was an attempt to ape Velvet Underground that turned into "almost a complete rip-off" of "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)." Wonder if Lars will sue. More raditude (will Rivers work with Matt Sharp again?) at RS.... CONTINUE READING RIVERS CUOMO CLAIMS "SWEATER SONG" IS A METALLICA RIP-OFF»
Posted on August 28, 2009 (6 comments)
Tags: Metallica | Sharon Van Etten | Weezer
Bruce Springsteen, U2, Eric Clapton, CSN, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, and Paul Simon (with and without Garfunkel) will raise money for the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Foundation & Museum via concerts at MSG 10/29 and 10/30. Tickets... CONTINUE READING ALUMNI SET FOR R&R HOF 25TH ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT»
Posted on July 22, 2009 (0 comments)
Tags: Aretha Franklin | Bruce Springsteen | Crosby Stills And Nash | Eric Clapton | HEALTH | Metallica | Paul Simon | Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame | Simon & Garfunkel | Stevie Wonder | U2
At the 2009 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductions next month, Marshall Mathers will induct Run-D.M.C., Jimmy Page will induct Jeff Beck, Ron Wood will induct Bobby Womack, and Red Hot Chili Peppers will induct Metallica. No word on... CONTINUE READING EMINEM, RHCP INVITED TO R&R HALL OF FAME INDUCTIONS»
Posted on March 20, 2009 (7 comments)
Tags: Eminem | Jeff Beck | Metallica | MSTRKRFT | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame | Ronnie Wood | Run-D.M.C. | The Dodos
Adidas and Armani all around: Seminal rap and influential metal outfits Run D.M.C. and Metallica have officially achieved their music-history artifact status, confirmed as inductees in the Rock 'N' Roll Hall Of Fame's Class of 2009. But the R&R HOF's... CONTINUE READING ROCK HALL WELCOMES METALLICA AND RUN D.M.C. INTO ITS CLASS OF '09»
Posted on January 14, 2009 (8 comments)
Tags: Bobby Womack | Jeff Beck | John Vanderslice | Metallica | Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame | Run-D.M.C.
When Death Magnetic started leaking, "All Nightmare Long" provided us with a helpful pun about the general quality of Metallica's newest effort. Another song ripe for meta commentary's "The Day That Never Comes," because a number of these Death tracks... CONTINUE READING NEW METALLICA VIDEO - "ALL NIGHTMARE LONG"»
Posted on December 8, 2008 in (16 comments)
Tags: Depeche Mode | Metallica
Remember the 50th Annual Grammy Awards? Alicia Keys duetting with the ghost of Sinatra? Will.i.am rapping nonsense? Album of the Year River: The Joni Letters??? It's easy (and fun!) to make fun of the Grammys, but last year they really... CONTINUE READING RADIOHEAD, LIL WAYNE NOMINATED FOR ALBUM OF THE YEAR GRAMMY»
Posted on December 3, 2008 (64 comments)
Tags: Alison Krauss | Band Of Horses | Beck | Daft Punk | Death Cab For Cutie | Gnarls Barkley | Grammys | Hot Chip | Justice | Kanye West | Kings Of Leon | Lollapalooza | M.I.A. | Metallica | MGMT | My Morning Jacket | Ne-Yo | No Age | Radiohead | Robert Plant | Robyn | The Raconteurs | Weezer
We told you about the tech guy who analyzed Death Magnetic with Audacity and decided the over-compressed album sounds better in Guitar Hero. Now the Wall Street Journal's analyzed it against ...And Justice For All and basically came to a... CONTINUE READING DEATH MAGNETIC STILL HAS CRAPPY DYNAMIC RANGE»
Posted on September 25, 2008 (20 comments)
Tags: Metallica | Silversun Pickups
The 2009 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame nominees were announced this morning, and again prog get no respect. However, cheers to The Stooges for finally getting the nod (Iggy Pop's Madonna tribute put him in the Hall's good graces)... CONTINUE READING ROCK HALL NOMINATES METALLICA, RUN-D.M.C., STOOGES»
Posted on September 22, 2008 (29 comments)
Tags: Bobby Womack | Chic | Iggy Pop | Jeff Beck | Little Anthony And The Imperials | Metallica | Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame | Run-D.M.C. | The Horrors | The Stooges | Wanda Jackson | War
It's not just songwriting that's subpar: MusicRadar guitar editor Chris Vinnecombe used Audacity to analyze Death Magnetic's audio, says it's over compressed, that "the kick and snare drum seemed to be audibly clipping, along with some of the palm-muted guitar... CONTINUE READING METALLICA'S DEATH MAGNETIC SOUNDS BETTER IN GUITAR HERO »
Posted on September 16, 2008 (10 comments)
Tags: Metallica | Solange | SXSW | Theophilus London
The question is, will anyone want to download it? No sooner than we trudged through the desert and Metallica's Thomas Vinterberg-directed "The Day That Never Comes" recruitment clip and mentioned that metallica.com is currently streaming "Cyanide" (which we first saw/heard... CONTINUE READING METALLICA'S DEATH MAGNETIC LEAKS»
Posted on September 4, 2008 (54 comments)
Tags: Metallica
We've already lived through "The Day That Never Comes" -- in the studio and live. So this is the third time it has never come. Something like that. The stitched together, eight-and-a-half-minute, Metallica-sampling Metallica epic gets a high budget, short-film... CONTINUE READING NEW METALLICA VIDEO - "THE DAY THAT NEVER COMES"»
Posted on September 2, 2008 in (17 comments)
Tags: Dinosaur Jr | Metallica | SXSW | The National
Add this one to "Cyanide" and "The Day That Never Comes," only this time your only option for listening is via metallica.com, where the track pops in your choice of streaming player. Warning: Lars's drums sound like trash. It may... CONTINUE READING NEW METALLICA - "MY APOCALYPSE"»
Posted on August 26, 2008 (22 comments)
Tags: Coachella | David Hasselhoff | Metallica
As Amrit sagely noted when discussing Metallica's new 7:56-long Death Magnetic track "The Day That Never Comes": "At 5:00 [it] becomes the last half of "One." (Literally.) Before that, it's 'Unforgiven' meets 'Fade To Black.'" (But not really as good... CONTINUE READING NEW METALLICA - "THE DAY THAT NEVER COMES" (LIVE AT LEEDS)»
Posted on August 25, 2008 in (22 comments)
Tags: Leeds | Metallica | The Wrens
If "Shackler's Revenge" didn't slake your thirst for the heroes of yesterdecade, here's another shot. As they've made unavoidably clear, Death Magnetic Metallica is all about bringing it back to the classic era. Clocking in at 7:56, you'd think this... CONTINUE READING NEW METALLICA - "THE DAY THAT NEVER COMES"»
Posted on August 21, 2008 (48 comments)
Tags: Metallica
After the misfires at trying to harness some positive internet attention (by trying to manipulate the flow of internet attention), it seems this time Metallica is ready to go BIG with their web friendliness: courtesy of metallica.com (if that screen... CONTINUE READING NEW METALLICA - "CYANIDE" (LIVE AT OZZFEST)»
Posted on August 11, 2008 in , (17 comments)
Tags: Metallica | My Brightest Diamond | Ozzfest
Metallica's Rick Rubin-produced Death Magnetic lands on 9/12, a Friday. When they released St. Anger off-cycle in 2003, the guys said it was to circumvent leaks, so it's likely the same thinking here. (Sorry Metallica, Buckcherry will find a way... CONTINUE READING NEW METALLICA ARRIVES ON A FRIDAY»
Posted on August 4, 2008 (3 comments)
Tags: Leonard Cohen | Metallica | SXSW | Wavves
Back in the '90s Metallica and Guns N' Roses were hard rock titans, owning the Billboards, touring together, getting caught on fire and leaving their crowds in riots. 16 years later it's less about burning flesh and broken bottles, and... CONTINUE READING METALLICA'S DEATH MAGNETIC TO GET A GUITAR HERO'S WELCOME»
Posted on July 15, 2008 in (4 comments)
Tags: Guitar Hero | Metallica
I mean, I do. You don't go to Plattsburgh and the Went and spend one New Year's under a giant udder ball at MSG and another with a choir singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" in Boston without being intrigued by recent happenings.... CONTINUE READING PHISH IS MAYBE REUNITING: DO YOU CARE?»
Posted on June 27, 2008 (57 comments)
Tags: Metallica | Phish
Did you see Conan last night? That Anne Hathaway is delightful. Did you know she used to be in a college a cappella group? My Morning Jacket were on too, and they did "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream (Part... CONTINUE READING MY MORNING JACKET MEET THEIR BIGGEST FAN ON CONAN»
Posted on June 20, 2008 in (19 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Conan O'Brien | James Lipton | Metallica | My Morning Jacket | Nicole Atkins | St. Vincent | Zach Galifianakis
Every festival has that band that becomes small talk fodder fest wide, the easy ice breaker, the default conversational touchstone. Last year's Lolla it was Pearl Jam. Last year's Bonnaroo it was the Police. And last night, it was... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO: METALLICA ARE AWESOME AT THER INSTRUMENTS, BEING PHOTOGRAPHED»
Posted on June 14, 2008 in (35 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Chris Rock | Metallica
Greetings from Manchester, TN, where the present conditions are RAIN and I'M SOAKED, much as they were for approximately 85% of My Morning Jacket's slow-starting but ultimately epic, three-hour midnight set at the Which Stage last night. There was... CONTINUE READING BONNAROO: MY MORNING JACKET OWN. EVERYTHING.»
Posted on June 14, 2008 in (20 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Kirk Hammett | Metallica | My Morning Jacket | Zach Galifianakis
Today's full sets from Fiery Furnaces and Raconteurs can be viewed here. (UPDATE: Now with added Metallica.)... CONTINUE READING ROOTUBE»
Posted on June 14, 2008 in (3 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Metallica | The Fiery Furnaces | The Raconteurs
Remember when Metallica previewed their new album for some folks in London and then tried to clear the resulting reviews from the Internet? It was just last week. So you should remember. Well, Blinded By The Hype reached and let... CONTINUE READING METALLICA RESPOND TO THE BLOGOSPHERE»
Posted on June 12, 2008 in (12 comments)
Tags: Metallica
