Metallica

Metallica, Neil Young, KISS/Motley Crue, Vince Neil Afterparty, Reubens Accomplice Over the Weekend

METALLICA @ OUTSIDE LANDS | 8/11/12 Metallica, headlining Saturday night of the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, proved just about as huge and satisfying and powerful as Metallica can be in 2012. With a greatest-hits setlist, a small war's worth of explosives and pyrotec ... More >>

Metallica at Outside Lands: The Five Best Parts of the Band's Fiery San Francisco Show

METALLICA @ OUTSIDE LANDS FESTIVAL | 8/11/12 The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. Metallica, headlining Saturday night of the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, proved just about as huge and satisfying ... More >>

Landmine Marathon to Perform at Metallica's Orion Festival

See also: Metallica Curates Orion Music and More Festival: Who Picked Which Bands? Lucero's Brian Venable on Metallica Being Dead to Him, ATO Records, and Women & Work When Metallica revealed the lineup for Orion Music and More, the two-day festival curated by the band members themselves, plenty o ... More >>

Lucero's Brian Venable on Metallica Being Dead to Him, ATO Records, and Women & Work

Memphis rockers Lucero have a timeless quality, a lowdown, from-the-gut, blue-collar rock 'n' roll sound that could have been recorded any time since the late '60s (save for a few flashes of class of '77 punk strut). Timeless, but not timely, according to guitarist Brian Venable. After nearly a de ... More >>

Metallica Curates Orion Music and More Festival: Who Picked Which Bands?

Metal legends Metallica recently announced the two-day Orion Music and More Festival, where the band will headline each night by playing a different classic album, Ride the Lightning and The Black Album, in their entirety. There's a super-long video on the festival site featuring an interview with t ... More >>

Metallica Should Collaborate With These Five Old White Guys Next

​Are you ready for some new Metallica? You bet you are, because while plenty have made valiant and noble attempts to enjoy it, Lulu, the band's collaboration with rock 'n' roll animal/poet Lou Reed was a tough one to get through. You can't fault the band's ambition, and it is cool to imagine 14- ... More >>

Ten Albums To Still Look Forward To In 2011

As we get closer to the end of the year there are probably quite a few music nerds who are already working on their best of 2011 lists. After all, there have been some pretty amazing records released this year from the likes of Kanye and Jay-Z to the Fleet Foxes. But before you start compiling tho ... More >>

Diamond Head @ The Clubhouse Music Venue

The Big 4 Festival at Empire Polo Grounds Last Night

Mike R. MeyerJames Hetfield of Metallica performs at The Big 4 Festival in Indio.​The Big 4 Festival (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax) Empire Polo Grounds, Indio, California Saturday, April 23, 2011 It's not an understatement to say that yesterday's Big 4 Festival was an event nearly thre ... More >>

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine Is Metal's MVP

The Dude to Make an Album

​As everyone knows, The Dude was in the music business, briefly. As a roadie for Metallica during the Speed Of Sound tour. The band was, reportedly, a bunch of assholes.Now the Dude, using his professional alias Jeff Bridges, will record an album with Oscar and Grammy award winner T-Bone Burnett f ... More >>

The Big 4 (Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer & Anthrax) Announce Lone U.S. Concert, Prompting New Times Contributor To Announce Incredibly Nerdy Metal Project

​Dreams do come true. Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax, thrash metal's legendary "Big Four," have just announced a lone U.S. concert on Saturday, April 23 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Tickets go on sale this Friday, January 28.Despite their status as the godfathers of the t ... More >>

Fearsome Foursome

How much more metal could this be? The answer is none.

Trash Metal's Big Four (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax) Concert Broadcasting at Four Valley Movie Theaters

​Trash metal's Big Four -- Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax -- rarely assemble. When they do, it's in places like Bulgaria where, as we understand it, Metallica's Black Album has not yet been released, pussifying the genre in the minds of the denim-vested masses.On June 22 that Bulgaria co ... More >>

Bullet for My Valentine

Arpaio, Unfazed by Prior Lawsuits, Will Force Jail Inmates to Listen to Christmas Music All Day Long

​It seems as though America's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" can't live without hearing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer in his jails this holiday season.Sheriff Joe, despite being sued six times in the past two years for doing so, will again force inmates in the county jails to listen to Ch ... More >>

Coming Soon: Beatallica's Second

Between them, The Beatles and Metallica have probably sold something like 5% of all records ever manufactered. So I was pretty excited to hear the sophomore record from Beatles/Metallica mashup band, Beatallica. The Masterful Mystery Tour, slated for release August 2, takes it's name from Metallica' ... More >>

Lazarus A.D. is Bringing Thrash Back from the Dead

Lazarus A.D. is Bringing Thrash Back from the Dead

Nu Rock Is Disturbed

Nu Rock Is Disturbed

SxSW 2009: Saturday

Attention, all Phoenicians unable to attend SxSW this year: Don't worry. Sure, it's not as good as standing inches away from your favorite band in a trendy Austin club, but we've got the coverage to keep you satisfied. Village Voice Media SXSW Party: Meese, Bear Hands, Crystal Antlers, Gomez and ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Light Rail, Club Candids, Night Train and More

Welcome back! We hope you had a sufficient amount of ho-ho-hoing and present opening to last another twelve months. Just in case you haven't, here's a package of some of the stories and photos you may have missed during the holiday.  Light Rail Launch Hundreds of thousands turned out to celebrate ... More >>

Concert of the Year Countdown: #5 Metallica

Show: Metallica at Jobing.com Arena on October 21Unlike Niki, I'm not much of a metalhead, but this should was truly brilliant. In fact, I found myself listening to Death Magnetic for weeks afterwards, and was fond of saying things like "I feel like I just discovered this new band... Metallica! The ... More >>

Top 10 Metal Albums of 2008

In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. Go ... More >>

Concert Review: Metallica at Jobing.com Arena on Oct. 21

Metallica in Glendale: Niki's Review for Spin

Metallica’s Therapist Opens Up

Metallica’s Therapist Opens Up

Future Shock: Horns up, Metallica is coming

Metallica madness hits the Valley this week just in time for the release of Death Magnetic

The new Metallica album leaks onto the Internet; singles available for download

Metallica goes diva on the Internet…again

Last Minute Thursday: Apocalyptica

Harptallica

...And Harps For All

3 Inches of Blood pools together a classic metal sound

Various Artists

The Heavy Metal Box
(Rhino)

Cashed

Hasta La Muerte

Vintage thrash metal is back with a vengeance, and it's speaking Spanish

Crushed

My Machine
(No Relief Records)

Master Plan

You'll hog these covers

Some Other Monster

Ten years before short hair, Napster, sobriety and group therapy for Metallica, there was Metallimania

Head Trip

Between hard rock and a safe place, Metallica finds itself

Metallica

The band brings justice for all

Akercocke

Choronzon (Earache)

Metallica

St. Anger (Elektra)

Metallica-ca

POLARPALOOZAIN WHICH AN ANCHORAGE LAW CLERK GATECRASHES A ROCK FESTIVAL AT THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

NOT EXACTLY EASY LISTENINGMETALLICA IS STILL HARD TO TAKE