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Metallica Drummer Lars Ulrich Cast in Hemingway Biopic

By Emily Temple on

The multifarious bell is certainly tolling for Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich these days. Ulrich, last seen playing himself in a cameo role in Get Him to the Greek, has been cast in an HBO drama entitled Hemingway and Gellhorn, a film, unsurprisingly, about “the romance between Ernest Hemingway and WWII correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway’s inspiration for ”For Whom… Read More

Music

A Metalhead’s Guide to Valentine’s Day

By Margaret Eby on

By all indications, Valentine’s Day is the least metal holiday possible. You’re reveling in all the icy, cavernous gloom of mid-winter and then BOOM: frilly pink hearts and stuffed puppies everywhere. It’s enough to make you want to tear shit up, even more than usual. But chin up, metalheads: St. Valentine himself was martyred in a totally gruesome manner (beheading!), and the original pagan holiday Lupercalia, pre-heart-shaped cards and overpriced prix fixe dinners, was partially in honor of the she-wolf that suckled Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome. Wolves, goats, and revelry? Maybe Valentine’s Day can be metal after all. Click through for our guide to celebrating V-day the metal way. … Read More

Music

Chart of Excellence: The Periodic Table of Rockin'

By Margaret Eby on

If you happen to be a chemistry nerd and a metalhead — and believe us, there’s quite an overlap — it’s tempting to think about metal music as actual different kinds of metal. Iron Maiden would obviously be ferrous — but what metal is Metallica, exactly? Would Foghat be inert? Luckily, the folks over at Roadside… Read More

Daily Dose

Daily Dose Pick: Lissie

By Doug Levy on

Rootsy California singer/songwriter Lissie caught the public ear with her heartfelt covers of Lady Gaga, Kid Cudi, and Metallica, but her debut album shows she’s just as captivating with her own songs.

Catching a Tiger features a lively blend of rock, country, and classic pop, often reminiscent of Stevie Nicks-fronted Fleetwood Mac, and always anchored by Lissie’s stunningly soulful vocals. The sensibilities are retro, to be sure, equally mining ’70s and ’80s West Coast tropes — but always with enough sincerity to leave little doubt about Lissie’s earth-bound authenticity. … Read More

Music

Sounds Like Interrogation: Top 10 Torture Songs

By John Steele on

Last week Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails joined Pearl Jam, the Roots, R.E.M., and other bands who support the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo’s effort to declassify documents dealing with the uses of loud music as an interrogation technique. According to previously declassified reports, interrogators have used Metallica, Britney Spears, and even Sesame Street in the past. Many artists are outraged that their music was used without their… Read More

Web

What’s on at Flavorpill: Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

By Caroline Stanley on

Today at Flavorpill, we were hypnotized by this photo. We vowed never to get near Jim Breuer and a stuffed crust pizza. We realized that David Bowie is secretly a manga character. We were shocked that monkeys prefer Metallica over Tool. We watched Jiminy Glick interview Ronald McDonald about waterboarding chickens. We felt like mutants. We learned how to make the scariest pumpkin ever. We got Weezy with it. We adopted some abandoned words — like lardlet and rendling. We contributed to the longest poem in the world. And finally, we got really excited about a Jack White/Keith Richards collab. Do you think the rumors that White is producing the next Rolling Stones album could be… Read More

Sports

Who to Boo: The Week in Sports

By Jake Lancaster on

Finally, Four. With a mix of lopsided blowouts and down-to-the-wire nail-biters, everyone’s office bracket came one step closer to irrelevant, as Connecticut, Michigan State, North Carolina, and Villanova made it to the Final Four. While the field is Cinderella-free, these final contenders are all on a fairly even keel, helping to secure the NCAA’s reputation as the US sporting championship most worthy of non-fans’ attention. Thankfully, the attendance should find more actual students in the stands of Detroit’s massive Ford Field. … Read More

Music

Time’s Top 10 Albums of ’08 Alarmingly Similar to Their Top 10 Albums of ’07

By Caroline Stanley on

Year-end list time is here, and Mike at Idolator did us a favor by throwing together the album picks from New York, The Guardian and Time. Wait, Time? Since when did their music picks become relevant? Since their Top 10 started looking more like someone hit the random shuffle on our iPod and less like someone hit the random shuffle on our mom’s iPod:

(1) Lil Wayne and (6) Kanye West, both obvious but completely relevant, choices. (2) TV On The Radio, (4) Girl Talk, (5) Vampire Weekend and (7) Santogold — someone has been reading their Stereogum. (3) Metallica, (8) Portishead and (9) Lucinda Williams are oldies but goodies, and while VH-1 friendly talent like (10) Duffy is just the kind of artist who we’d expect to see Time salute, we’ve always liked her.

Obviously list author Josh Tyrangiel is much cooler than we would have thought — but is he working off from some weird formula? Call us really crazy conspiracy theorists — because in this case we are — but in many ways this could be a replay of last year’s list. Sure the names are different, but they are similar ideas at work.

Take a look at the eerie parallels we’ve unearthed after the jump and see if you agree. … Read More

Music

Billboard 200 Decoder: Rise Against, Metallica, Robin Thicke

By Caroline Stanley on

Hot Right Now: RISE AGAINST
The hardcore punk band from Chicago currently occupies the number three slot on the top albums chart with their new release APPEAL TO REASON.

This proves that JOHN MCCAIN is right about one thing: Americans are angry.

So Five Minutes Ago: METALLICA
Their new… Read More