Metallica, whose leaked album Death Magnetic is coming out on September 12, launched a promotion on YouTube today that features the band's favorite covers of their songs that have been uploaded to the site. Drummer Lars Ulrich introduces their selections, apparently made over a two day period, in the video to the right.
Summer's coming to an end, which means that one of the grand traditions of the summer: the music festival, is going to be taking it's annual winter nap. Take a look at some of the craziest moments that have happened with the artists that perform at these shows.
Incessant whining + finely sculpted bouncy dreads + dating of actresses from "Friends" = Adam Duritz, stupidly annoying Counting Crows front man.
The rock legend torched his 1965 Fender Stratocaster at the end of a show at the Astoria in Finsbury Park, north London, in March 1967. The stunt sent roadies rushing to put out the flames and left Hendrix needing treatment for minor burns. The guitar was bought for just over the estimated price. In case you're wondering, that's $492,000!
The drummer of rock band Metallica has welcomed an internet leak of their new album, ahead of its release next week. Speaking on San Francisco radio station Live 105, Lars Ulrich said: "If this thing leaks all over the world today or tomorrow, happy days." "It's 2008 and it's part of how it is these days," the musician added.
Comedy duo the Flight of the Conchords figure heavily in the nominations for the 2008 Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards. Now working stateside on the second season of their HBO sitcom, the Grammy-winning, Emmy-nominated musical comedy duo of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are vying with rock and hip-hop acts in this year's Tuis Music Awards.
After being denied access to the stage at the Ripple Effect festival, a day-long event held today on the MN State Capitol's Upper Mall to promote non-partisan progressive politics in the shadow of the Republican convention, Rage picked up a megaphone and sorta said f-it, we're doing it live. Rage was supposed to be the surprise closer of the fest.
Wikipedia is an undeniably helpful resource for researching bands, with fairly accurate data that tends to be updated in near real time. Amazon hopes the same sort of thing will happen on its new SoundUnwound site, which borrows a page from Wikipedia's playbook by allowing users to edit information about any band, label, album or song.
Listening to these songs will never be the same again.
With a bump in sales, the LP is reliving a little of its glory days.
For anyone who has seen "Smokey and the Bandit" or watched "Hee Haw" as a kid, you know and love Jerry Reed. RIP.
In the interest of helping our readers stay out of jail and avoid massive fines, here are a bunch of places you can get tunes without fear of finding a summons in your mailbox. There's plenty of good, free, and legal music on the net for you to download.
...Well, not really, but it's an amusing interpretation.
Rage open their free 2008 DNC protest show on Wednesday (27th August) with 'Guerilla Radio'. This is the best quality video I've found on Youtube so far, the user says he'll upload every song in the next few days so something to look forward too!
LimeWire's DRM-free MP3 store will soon begin offering more than twice as much music as it currently does, thanks to a deal with independent music distributor The Orchard. The company's contributions from smaller labels and indie artists will add some 1.2 million tracks to LimeWire.
Someone has created a mutant hurdy gurdy out of 4 Furby toys (as if a hurdy gurdy isn't mutant enough already). It's got all sorts of glitching controls, sequencing and the ability to control external synthesizers. Includes video.
On August 29, the 'King of Pop' turns 50. One of the most successful artists of all time, the singer's life has been riddled with controversies since the 1980s. Be it his eccentric behaviour, his ever changing skin colour or the claims over child sexual abuse. Presenting, a timeline of Jackson's life, his famous friends and his worst moments.