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Metallica - Apollo Theater - 9/21/13

Better Than: Megadeth. It was anything but amateur night at the Apollo Theater Saturday night as Metallica, unarguably the world's preeminent metal band, raged through a two hour-plus private concert on the hallowed Harlem stage. About 1,500 SiriusXM listeners were the fortunate audience members, ... More >>

Top 10 Spitters In Music History (w/ VIDEO)

Spitting. It's gross in any language or culture -- a sign of disrespect that garners admiration or adoration from no one. Well, except for fans. Stars and celebrities themselves get mighty pissed off if you spit on them, but if they spit on you, you better just grin and take it. That's why we decid ... More >>

Raven - Saint Vitus - 4/21/13

Better Than: Getting moshed to death at Anthrax at Irving Plaza, I would imagine. They say you never grow old in rock 'n' roll, and last night at Saint Vitus, Raven proved it true. In all fairness, it's not like these guys are ancient. (We're talking mid-50s or so.) But they've got albums as old a ... More >>

Raven's John Gallagher Once Locked Lars Ulrich In a Bathroom

In the early- to mid-80s, Raven--who play Saint Vitus on Sunday--and their "athletic rock" were essential to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Known for their wild live shows, they opened for the likes of Ozzy Osbourne and Iron Maiden before joining Metallica's first major American tour in 1983. ... More >>

Without British Metal Legends Diamond Head There'd Be No Metallica

It's gotta be a bitch when a band you influenced becomes the richest, biggest-selling metal group in music history... and you're still plugging away in clubs 37 years after you began. Such is mythic but true tale of Diamond Head and Metallica. Diamond Head guitarist/founder Brian Tatler doesn't le ... More >>

The 10 Douchiest Drummers of All Time

By Nate Jackson What would music be without a beat, a rhythm or a backbone? Though they qualify as the first instruments ever created, the drums are probably the last thing most music fans can live without. And while we worship plenty of drummers in modern music, there are some Gods of Thunder who ... More >>

Former Metallica Bassist Jason Newsted Is Back to Kicking Asses Again

Pulling no punches

Beware of Mr. Baker: Give the Drummer Some Slack?

Great drumming almost excuses Ginger Baker's dickishness

Six Superlative Summer Shows

Our music critic's picks for the season's hottest concerts

Orion Festival In Photos: The Bands, The Scene, And The "Potato Tornado"

I spent the past two days at Atlantic City's Bader Field, which played host to the inaugural Orion Music More Festival, a two-day "music, arts and lifestyle" bonanza put together by the thrash kings in Metallica. It was pretty great all around—James Hetfield kept referring to the bash as a " ... More >>

Pazz & Jop 2011: Brad Nelson On Why Lou Reed And Metallica's Lulu Was 2011's Best Album

To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. Here, Brad Nelson talks about the much-discussed collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica, Lulu, which topped his ballot and came in at No. 94 on the albums poll. ... More >>

Lou Reed And Metallica And Darren Aronofsky Make A Video

​Last month lots of ink and pixels were spent on Lulu, the collaboration between downtown bard Lou Reed and thrash lifers Metallica—"worst album of the year or maybe ever" declarations; "you just don't understand what Lou is trying to do" cries from partisans/people suspicious of the unw ... More >>

Live: The Big 4 Go To Bat For Metal At Yankee Stadium

River Avenue, 3:45 p.m. Most of the Anthrax shirt-wearers were inside by this point. ​ The Big 4: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax Yankee Stadium Wednesday, September 14 Better than: "Nationals beat the Mets, 2-0. WP: Brad Peacock (1-0), LP: Mike Pelfrey (7-12)" Truth be told, the crowd ... More >>

American Idol: James Durbin's Not-Very-Good Voice Finally Leaves Us

Michael Becker/FOX​ Tonight, American Idol lost James Durbin. I was sorry to see him go, but only because his departure meant that we'll never get to see the live-TV Tourettic freakout that I was really excited about back when he first came into our lives. As it turns out, most people with Tou ... More >>

NYC Music Site Pop Tarts Suck Toasted Apparently Obliterated By Blogspot

​Here is a link to five-year-old music blog Pop Tarts Suck Toasted, which you will notice doesn't work, because Blogspot apparently wiped it out, much to PTST mastermind Patrick Duffy's public dismay. Reached out to him just now: He's waiting for an official explanation from Blogspot but has h ... More >>

Live: Metallica at the Newark Prudential Center, With Set-List Bonus

photos of Metallica, a few nights earlier at the Nassau Coliseum, by David Atlas Metallica Newark Prudential Center Saturday, January 31 Metallica's Death Magnetic was supposed to be the band's return to its thrash glory days; it turned out to be much better than that, to my ear, a fusion of the ... More >>

Sundance Highlights Come to BAM

Non-fiction-filled mini-fest opens with a bust, then rocks

Rock Band

It’s never been easier to start your own (fake) musical project.

Metallica Finally Gives In to the iTunes Empire

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Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Seminal speedmetal thrashers, despised by their own fans, seek and find psychiatric help

A Band Apart

Stressing value of therapy, directors issue anti-laughter edict

100 Hottest Hotties

Sex Drive Outpaces Death Drive as the Biz Goes Down the Toilet

Grrrl, Inturrupted

It’s Ladies First This Season

Balls to You, Lars Ulrich

Pranksters Work Small Tricks for Big Hoaxes

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