Lady Gaga and Metallica’s collaboration at tonight’s Grammys was beset by an awkward technical mishap: As the group…
Lady Gaga is having a heck of a week, leveraging the hype around her recent Super Bowl performance into a world tour,…
With James Corden taking over for LL Cool J as host (thereby bringing the era of “Big Ole Butt” jokes to a close),…
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Over at the Ringer, our pal Rob Harvilla has a good, funny, thorough review of the new Metallica record, Hardwired...…
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When a band releases a record that’s poorly received, it’s common for them to see it as a reason to revert. Those…
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Here’s an interesting marketing decision from a band whose manager once called YouTube “the devil”: Metallica has…
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Every Friday, dozens of new records are released into the wild. Some make big splashes, and others sink almost…
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In Soundtracks Of Our Lives, The A.V. Club looks at the dying art of the movie companion album, those “various…
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Reminder: over a decade ago there was a proper Metallica video game in development. It never got very far—all we…
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Taking a break from serving as the basis for various viral videos about Pokémon or medieval instruments, Metallica…
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“The one-hit Wonders… It’s a very common tale”
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Metallica is a band that, at this point, seemingly exists to be memed. It’s been eight years since its last studio…
There are a lot of famous American rock bands running around these days, and it can be surprisingly difficult to…
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At the end of a long, difficult day, Tyrion Lannister just likes to kick back with some Mozart and Handel, maybe a…
Firing yet another salvo in the band’s long, simmering war against the internet, Metallica manger Peter Mensch took…
Today the Library Of Congress added some well-known tracks, deep cuts, and multiple cuts of “Mack The Knife” to the…
It was the “One” heard ’round the world, or at least by a reasonably large number of people on the internet. A…
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