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Paul Mccartney & Ringo Starr Confirmed For Grammy Awards Performance. Does This Spell A Beatles Showcase?
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are set to perform at this years 56th Grammy Awards, with their inclusion to the Grammys set list being announced this week by the music awards showcase. Although the organisers...
By Joe Wilde in Music / Festivals on 15 January 2014
Metallica Play Historic Antarctica Date
Metallica brought a little heat to Antarctica on Sunday (08Dec13) when the heavy rockers became the first major music act to perform at the southern-most place on earth.The Enter Sandman group performed for a crowd...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 10 December 2013
Metallica And Iron Maiden To Headline Sonisphere 2014
Metallica and Iron Maiden will headline Sonisphere festival 2014.The heavy metal titans will appear at the festival in Knebworth, Southern England, between July 4 and 6 next year. The performances will be the only shows...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 03 December 2013
Iron Maiden And Metallica To Headline Sonisphere Festival
Iron Maiden and Metallica will headline Britain's Sonisphere Festival when it returns after a two year break next year (14).In 2012, the event was cancelled and the 2013 concert was pulled due to a failure...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 03 December 2013
Metallica Are Beliebers
Metallica are Beliebers.The 'Sad But True' heavy metal legends are impressed by 19-year-old teen heartthrob Justin Bieber - whose fans are affectionately referred to as Beliebers - after he said their tracks 'One' and 'Fade...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 30 October 2013
Lars Ulrich Makes His Kids Rock
Lars Ulrich introduced his children to rock music at a young age.The Metallica drummer is tired of his kids - Miles, 15, Layne, 12, and five-year-old Bryce - fighting over the same favourite band, but...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 19 October 2013
'Metallica Through The Never': Prepare For A 3d Rock Movie Like No Other
Metallica's action music movie, Metallica Through The Never, is smashing into IMAX theaters today in the USA and is preparing to blast wannabe concert documentaries (cough-OneDirection-cough) out of the stadium with a mind-blowing mash-up of...
By Lauren James in Music / Festivals on 27 September 2013
Metallica Want To Play Weddings
Metallica would love to be asked to play at weddings.The 'All Nightmare Long' band would consider performing special sets for their friends, but sadly claim there aren't so many happy occasions among them.When asked if...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 18 September 2013
Metallica Rock Comic-con With Secret Show And Airing Of New Trailer [Video]
Metallica rocked out and geeked out at this years San Diego Comic Con International this weekend when they performed a surprise show at the California gathering, where they also aired a clip from their upcoming...
By Joe Wilde in Movies / TV / Theatre on 22 July 2013
Friday Is Movie Day At San Diego Comic-con
The Friday program at San Diego Comic-Con is a geek’s dream come true. The day kicks off with panels for “The World’s End” at 10AM and the upcoming Veronica Mars movie, at 11.15. For non-Marshmallows...
By on 05 July 2013
Alice In Chains Pleased With 'Ugly' Golden God
Alice in Chains were pleased with their ''ugly'' Icon award at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods.The grunge band were ecstatic to win the title at the award ceremony in London last night (17.06.13) shouting ''we're...
By Bang Showbiz on 18 June 2013
Metallica Play Debut Album During Surprise Festival Set
Rock legends Metallica stunned fans at a Michigan music festival on Saturday (08Jun13) when they took to the stage under a fake name and played their debut album in its entirety.Fans at the Orion Music...
By WENN on 09 June 2013
Jason Newsted: 'I Saved Metallica'
Jason Newsted believes he ''saved'' Metallica.The bass player joined the 'Enter Sandman' group in 1986 to replace Cliff Burton - who had died in a road accident - and left in 2001 after relationships between...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 03 June 2013
Dane Dehaan Stars In Metallica 'Through The Never' Teaser [Trailer]
You know you’re making it as an actor when you appear in a Metallica music video, right? That’s what the up and comer Dane DeHaan must be reckoning, after the star of the forthcoming Amazing...
By Contributor in Movies / TV / Theatre on 28 May 2013
Lars Ulrich Wants To Direct A Movie
Metallica's Lars Ulrich wants to direct a movie.The 'Enter Sandman' musician is promoting the band's new 3D concert film, 'Through the Never', at the Cannes film festival in France, where he revealed his ambitions to...
By Bang Showbiz on 20 May 2013
Metallica Still Searching For 'Ultimate Riff'
Metallica are still searching for the ''ultimate riff''.The 'Nothing Else Matters' rockers, who are currently in the midst of travelling the world performing various gigs, are looking forward to releasing a follow-up record from 2008's...
By Bang Showbiz on 14 May 2013
Slayer Guitarist Jeff Hanneman Dies
Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman has died aged 49.The heavy metal rocker succumbed to liver failure in a Californian hospital on Thursday (02.05.13), two years after contracting a rare skin disease, leaving his bandmates ''devastated''.Jeff -...
By Bang Showbiz on 03 May 2013
Lars Ulrich Comfortable On Camera
Lars Ulrich doesn't mind people filming his receding hairline. The Metallica drummer has been comfortable with the camera since the band made warts-and-all documentary film 'Some Kind Of Monster', released in 2004, and he insists...
By Bang Showbiz on 13 April 2013
Metallica Donate To Fan's Garden Design Project
Rockers Metallica have made a green-fingered fan's dreams come true by handing out funds to help him develop his garden design for a prestigious British horticultural competition.Arek Luc's garden design, inspired by the band's track...
By WENN on 30 March 2013
Metallica's Orion Festival Reveals 2013 Line-up, Including Red Hot Chili Peppers
Metallica have revealed the line-up for their second annual Orion Music + More Festival, and as you’d expect from the ageing veterans of heavy metal, it’s one that bristles with more noise and riffs than...
By Contributor in Music / Festivals on 25 February 2013
Metallica Objected To Having Their Music Used On Prisoners In Iraq
U.S. military chiefs agreed to stop using music by Metallica as part of their tough interrogation process in Iraq after the hard rockers made a personal request to army officials.The Enter Sandman hitmakers' heavy metal...
By WENN on 13 February 2013
Dave Grohl Debuts Sound City Players
Dave Grohl debuted his Sound City Players supergroup with a three-hour set at the weekend.The multi-instrumentalist performed with his all-star backing band at the Sundance Film Festival's Park City Live event in Utah. Stevie Nicks...
By Bang Showbiz on 21 January 2013
Dane Dehaan Joins Metallica Movie
Dane Dehaan will star in an unusual Metallica concert movie.'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' actor has been cast as a young roadie whose world gets turned upside down after he is sent on an urgent mission...
By Bang Showbiz on 16 January 2013
Jason Newsted Opens Up About Painkiller Addiction
Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted became addicted to painkillers as he recovered from a crippling shoulder injury which threatened to end his music career.The rocker was injured in a freak accident in 2006 when he...
By WENN on 13 January 2013
Metallica's 'Loud And Crazy' New Tracks
Metallica's new material sounds ''energetic, loud and crazy''.The 'Master of Puppets' group are back in the studio working on tracks to follow up 2008's 'Death Magnetic', and drummer Lars Ulrich is excited about the...
By Bang Showbiz on 18 December 2012
The Toys Are Back In The Pram - Metallica Back Catalogue Launched On Spotify
Twelve years after waging war with Napster, Metallica have finally softened their approach to allowing fans to access their music online. The long-lasting metal band will be making their back catalogue available to stream on...
By Hayley Avron in Music / Festivals on 07 December 2012
Spotify Proves Financial Worth To Artists, And Give Qanda About New Features
Every single publishing industry, from music, to academic journals, to books have fretted enormously over the impact that digital publishing and online streaming may have on their revenues. Spotify has been part of revolutionising the...
By Lorna Greville on 07 December 2012
Cmt Awards 2012 - Results Are Top Secret For First Time Ever
The 2012 CMT Country Music Awards took place on Monday (December 3, 2012) in Nashville but this year, the winners will be kept top secret until Saturday December 8, when the star-studded show will be...
By Hayley Avron in Music / Festivals on 05 December 2012
Jason Newsted Marries
Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted is a married man after exchanging vows with his longtime girlfriend.The rocker wed Nicole Leigh Smith last month (Oct12), according to music website Blabbermouth.net. The new bride gushes, "(Jason...
By WENN on 26 November 2012
Have Green Day Tickets? We Have Some Bad News
Green Day has cancelled the remainder of its North American tour as Billie Joe Armstrong continues treatment for substance abuse issues, the band announced on their website Monday (October 29, 2012). Scheduled appearances for January...
By in Music / Festivals on 30 October 2012
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