San Francisco's Outside Lands Lineup Announced

  San Francisco's ultimate concert in the park, Outside Lands music festival just got announced.  The headliners?  Metallica, Stevie Wonder...(finally on the same stage!) Jack White, Foo Fighters, Beck...WTF?  Sean Hayes?  Please tell me he is doing a one man Larry stage show.

  Outside Lands is August 10-12 in Golden Gate Park in SF, CA.
Tickets available Thursday, April 19th at noon here.

 Full Outside Lands lineup below:

Lars Ulrich Says Hulk Hogan Never Auditioned For Metallica

 
  Earlier this year Hulk Hogan said in a interview for The Sun that he was almost the bass player for Metallica.  That news was crazy enough.  What's even more crazy is that Lars Ulrich says it isn't true.

  "You know what?!  I'm blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with having more or less a photographic memory for pretty much anything that I've been a part of,"  Said Ulrich.  "That one, when that showed up two or three months ago, I was scratching my head over that one.  Unless he went by..."

  "I don't know Hulk Hogan, I don't know enough about him...  I'm not a huge wrestling [fan]...  Unless he went by, like, his Christian name or something, and I don't know if anybody knows what his Christian name was- Dave Smith or something - if there was a whole thing that we had with him under a different name, but I certainly have no recollection of doing anything with quote Hulk Hogan endquote.  That one, I was scratching my head on that one, too."

  Who do you think is telling the truth?  Let us know what you think in the comments below.

  Oh yeah.. Lars.. Hulk Hogans real name is Terry Bollea.  Don't pretend like you didn't know.

Godsmack Frontman Performs Acoustic Version Of Metallica's 'Nothing Else Matters'

  Godsmack frontman Sully Erna performed a acoustic version of Metallica's 'Nothing Else Matters' during a solo show last night (April 1st) at the Paramount in Huntington, New York.

  Erna is touring to promote his upcoming DVD/Blu-ray "Avalon Live",  The DVD is planned for a late April release.

  Check out Sully Erna performing his acoustic version of Metallica's 'Nothing Else Matters' below:

Metallica's Orion Festival to Feature Custom Car and Motorcycle Show

  When Metallica's Orion Festival was announced a couple months back the response was less than positive.  The lineup for the festival consisted of a lot of indie bands that many fans feel didnt represent Metallica.

  As the months went on and more and more bands were announced it's starting to feel like a Metallica Festival.  The Damage Inc. stage was announced recently with heavier bands added like Suicidal Tendencies, and Sepultura.

  Now Metallica has announced the Orion Custom Car + Motorcycle Show, curated by James Hetfield himself.

  Over 300 Customs, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars and Custom Motorcycles will be on display inside the festival grounds throughout the weekend.  Cars from around the world, including celebrity cars will be displayed.

  Orion Music + More is June 23-24 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

  Watch the video below of Hetfield explaining the vision behind the show.

Lars Ulrich Admits 'Lulu' Failure. (but thinks you will enjoy it in 900 years)

  Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich spoke with D.C. radio station DC101 about the fans reaction to last years colaboration album 'Lulu' with Lou Reed.  He acknowledged the fans negative reaction to the project, saying they needed to experiment to shake up their career.

  "It was difficult for Lou Reed because he takes everything very personally.  And I think he was very suprised.  We told him all along: 'Listen, there are some very, very, very hardcore metal fans out there that like everything pre-packaged in a particular little box that looks like this, and the minute that you slightly veer outside of that, then they have a hernia."

  "The LA Weekly said how the real album of 2011 was 'Lulu', but nobody is gonna recognize it for another 20 years.  In about 900 years from now, people will be able to talk about 'Lulu' face to face with each other without hiding behind masks."

 Metallica is working on a 3D movie, which Ulrich talked about the process.  "Getting your own 3D movie off the ground is easier said than done, but we're doing our best.  We just want to make sure that we don't throw ourselves out into something that gets so completely overwhelming that the whole thing just blows up in our face."

  The movie goes into production this year.


(If your reading this 900 years from now, please pick up 'Lulu and tell us what you think.)


Shaun Young
M Rock Radio

Metallica Defend Their Orion Festival Lineup

   Last month Metallica announced the lineup for their Orion Festival, taking place in an abandoned airport in Atlantic City June 23rd and 24th.  But after the announcement some people weren't happy with the lineup, saying it was to indie rock for their metal audience.

  Now Lars Ulrich is defending the festival, in a interview with Pulse Radio:

  "This whole thing is kind of based more around the classic festivals that we've been playing in Europe for the better part of the last 25, 30 years, which is really about diversity and really about kind of many, many different musical experiences.  Now whether anybody buys into that or not, we'll find out, but there's gonna be lots an lots of cool, heavy stuff, trust me."

   Metallica will play the 'Black Album' and 'Ride the Lightning' in their entirety at the festival.

M Rock Radio: Headline Mash-Up

M Rock Radio: Headline Mash-up.  
The headlines this week so far, that explain themselves..

• Killswitch Engage Say Decision To Bring Back Jesse Leach Was 'Very Easy'  read more

   

• Adrenaline Mob Tap Disturbed's John Moyer As New Bassist  read more

         

• Foo Fighters And Deadmous5 To Perform Together At Grammys  read more

• Tenacious D To Realease New Album In May read more

• Deftones Bassist Chi Cheng Showing Promising Signs Of Recovery  read more

• Metallica Announce Orion Music + More Festival  read more

• New Hatebreed Album In The Works  read more

 by Shaun Young
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Hulk Hogan Was Almost in Metallica

Hulk Hogan

Hogan said in a recent interview with Sun "I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn't work out.

So just think, we almost had a alternative universe of Metallica with a lot of neon colors and ripped shirts. Just Imagine what the Metallica logo could have looked like.