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Metallica, Neil Young, Jack White headlining Outside Lands festival

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:11:00 +0000

I’ll be the first to tell you that the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco, CA is a damn good time. I went there for the first time last year and even documented my time on video. And based on this year’s line up it looks I’m going back to the Bay Area this summer.

Metallica, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Jack White, Foo Fighters and Beck will lead the charge this year at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Sigur Rós, Justice, Dispatch, The Kills, Regina Spektor, Passion Pit, Grandaddy, Bloc Party, Explosions in the Sky and Franz Ferdinand will also be performing.

You can also expect to see Portugal. The Man, Alabama Shakes, The Walkmen, Dr. Dog, Fun., Fitz And The Tantrums, Caveman, Sharon Van Etten, Washed Out, Reggie Watts and even some EDM artists like Skrillex and Wolfgang Gartner.

Passes for the festival go on sale this Thursday, April 19th at the Outside Lands official website.

The Black Keys, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mastodon releasing vinyl on Record Store Day

admin — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:06:25 +0000

Ah, Record Store Day. It’s Christmas in the Spring for music lovers everywhere. And this April 21st will be no different as thousands of people make their way to their nearest independent record store to fight each other over some exclusive wax.

This year has some good stuff in store for your turntable including some releases from Mastodon, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Keys and many more. Check out the list down below and head to Record Store Day’s official website for more information.

– The Black Keys will release their newest album, El Camino, as a deluxe vinyl. It’ll include a bonus CD, limited edition poster and a 7″ containing live cuts of “Sister” and “Money Maker.”

– Mastodon will be releasing two separate vinyls: First up is a split 7″ with Feist. Mastodon will cover Feist’s “A Commotion” and Feist will cover Mastodon’s “Black Tongue.” Secondly, Mastodon will release, on a 7″ baby pink vinyl, a cover of the Flaming Lips’ “A Spoonful Weighs A Ton.”

– Red Hot Chili Peppers will release the deluxe 180-gram box set of Stadium Arcadium on vinyl. The package will also include a pair of 16-page booklets titled “Jupiter” and “Mars.”

– Metallica will release their Beyond Magnetic EP on 12″ vinyl.

– Arcade Fire will release a 12″ of the Damian Taylor remixes of “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” and “Ready To Start.”

– Eric Clapton will release his three albums, From The Cradle, Riding With The King, Me and Mr. Johnson, in a deluxe vinyl box set entitled Blues.

– Disturbed will release all five of their albums (The Sickness, Believe, Ten Thousand Fists,Indestructible and Asylum) in a limited edition vinyl box set called Disturbed: The Collection.

– MC5/Afrika Bambaataa will release a split 7″ with each band’s version of “Kick Out The Jams” on a white with red paint splattered vinyl.

Plenty more releases are coming that day so start saving your money from now.

RiO!B episode – February 7, 2012

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:54:56 +0000

Metallica creates summer music festival

Adam Lambert in Queen?

The Black Keys – “Gold On The Ceiling”

OK Go – “Needing/Getting”

Coldplay – “Charlie Brown”

Sasquatch Music Festival line up

Metallica headlining and curating two-day festival

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:28:40 +0000

Metallica has done many things in their day but have never curated and headlined their own two-day festival…until now.

Taking place in Atlantic City, New Jersey on June 23rd and 24th at Bader field, the festival will feature ‘Tallica headlining both nights and they will be performing both The Black Album and Ride The Lightning in its entirety. The festival will include 22 bands hand selected by the band to perform. The line up is quite interesting as it mixes the worlds of metal and hard rock with alternative and indie rock.

Playing alongside Metallica will be Arctic Monkeys, Modest Mouse, Fucked Up, The Gaslight Anthem, Best Coast, Titus Andronicus, Cage the Elephant, A Place to Bury Strangers, Roky Erickson, Lucero, Hot Snakes, The Black Angels, Gary Clark Jr., The Sword, Liturgy and Avenged Sevenfold.

Tickets are going on sale February 11th at 10am EST but a pre-sale for those that are a part of Metallica’s fan club will go from February 8-10. More info can be found at OrionMusicAndMore.com.

Metallica, Black Sabbath, The Prodigy headlining Download festival

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:44:47 +0000

UK rockers, get ready to do some dancing and some headbanging at Donington Park this year. The line up for the 10th annual Download festival was recently announced and the line up is rather big for fans of hard rock and metal.

Headlining this whole shindig are Metallica, Black Sabbath and The Prodigy. You’ve also got Chase & Status, Biffy Clyro and Soundgarden providing support (even though I think Soundgarden should be a headliner but that’s just me.) Other bands appearing include Tenacious D, Machine Head, Lamb of God, You Me At Six, Trivium, Devil Driver, August Burns Red, Anthrax, Little Angels, Devin Townshend Project and Ugly Kid Joe.

The festival will run from June 8-10 and you can buy tickets right now by heading to the Download website. I figure since there’s no Glastonbury festival this year, you can head to Download and take out your aggression there. What else were you gonna do? Mosh at the Olympics?

Okay, that would be pretty awesome…

RiO!B episode – December 13, 2011

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:20:37 +0000

Radiohead releasing new songs

Metallica releases Beyond Magnetic EP

Red Hot Chili Peppers tour dates

Tool tour dates

Foo Fighters, Blink-182, Bon Jovi headlining Bamboozle

Coldplay tour dates

Metallica releases Beyond Magnetic EP

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:18:23 +0000

Would ya look at that? All those previously unreleased tracks that have been leaking online all week from Metallica? Turns out the band has released them as an EP on iTunes called Beyond Magnetic.

The four tracks, “Just A Bullet Away,” “Hate Train,” “Hell And Back” and “Rebel Of Babylon,” will be available for download in the U.S. starting this week in honor of the band’s 30th anniversary which they’ve celebrated this whole week. Of course, since all those tracks leaked onto the web you can check them out here.

So what did the band have to say about this new EP?

During the Death Magnetic album sessions in 2007 and 2008, we originally recorded 14 songs. When it came time to pick the songs for the final album, we decided on 10 songs that you’ve all come to know over the last three years… Some of you may have heard bits and pieces of those other songs on ‘Mission Metallica’ (remember ‘Mission Metallica’?!) or heard rumors about them during the recording process, and wondered, ‘What ever happened to those other four songs???.’ We kept them in the vault and decided to pull them just for this special celebration, so here are the four leftover tracks from the Death Magnetic sessions. They are ROUGH mixes, unfinished to their original degree of mixing from March ’08. These four songs were released as gift to our closest fans, the members of our Fan Club, to enjoy. Now they’re being made available to you.

Beyond Magnetic EP tracklist
1. “Hate Train”
2. “Just A Bullet Away”
3. “Hell And Back”
4. “Rebel Of Babylon”

Watch: Green Day cover The Misfits’ “Hybrid Moments” for Metallica

admin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:46:11 +0000

Question: What does one Bay Area band give another Bay Area band for their 30th anniversary? If you’re Green Day, you cover the Misfits.

Up top, you can check out Billie Joe Armstrong and the crew cover “Hybrid Moments” as a present for Metallica and then launch into a rendition of “Happy Birthday.” It should be noted that Armstrong lovingly refers to ‘Tallica in the song as “You old ass heavy metal motherfuckers.” I’d say that’s a pretty spot-on description.

Meanwhile, Metallica has been releasing previously unreleased demos from Death Magnetic all week long and a good majority of people are wondering why those songs didn’t make the album.

Listen: Metallica – “Rebel Of Babylon”

admin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:13:12 +0000

This really has been a good week for Metallica fans. It seems as if almost everyday another unreleased demo from the band was hitting the web for you to consume…so why stop now?

Down below, you can stream yet another previously unreleased Death Magnetic recording called “Rebel Of Babylon” (via Blabbermouth). This is the fourth track to come from Metallica this week. The previous songs include “Hate Train,” “Just A Bullet Away” and “Hell And Back”. This bounty hath sprung forth online since Metallica celebrated its 30th anniversary this past week by playing a week of shows at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

Down below, you can also check out video of ‘Tallica performing “Hit The Lights” with Dave Mustaine and “Iron Man” with Ozzy and Geezer Butler last night.

Metallica – “Rebel Of Babylon”

Metallica feat. Dave Mustaine – “Hit The Lights”

Metallica feat. Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler – “Iron Man”

Listen: Metallica – “Hell And Back”

admin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:35:22 +0000

They’ve done it again. For the third time this week, a previously unreleased track from Metallica has hit the internet for all of us to check out. Down below, you can stream the song “Hell And Back” which was also recorded around the time the band was working on Death Magnetic along with “Hate Train” and “Just A Bullet Away”.

Metallica has been performing in San Francisco at the Fillmore all week in celebration of their 30th anniversary.

Metallica – “Hell And Back”