"We didn't know what was going to happen but it was a blast – so we said 'Let's see if we can do that again'" So says Lars Ulrich the always-excitable drummer and co-founder of Metallica explaining why he and bandmates Kirk Hammett James Hetfield and Robert Trujillo are returning...

Catch the legendary drummer signing copies of his new book at a bookstore near you this Spring!

• 4/20 – 2pm – Bull Moose, Portland, ME (note: this is Record Store Day)
• 4/21 – Either at Brookline Booksmith or Harvard Bookstore, Boston, MA
• 4/22 – 5pm – Record Archive, Rochester, NY
• 4/23 – 7pm – Vintage Vinyl, Fords, NJ
• 5/2 – 7pm – The Sound Garden, Baltimore, MD
• 5/6 – 7pm Criminal Records, Atlanta, GA
• 5/7 – 7pm – Waterloo Records in Austin, TX
• 5/15 – 7pm – Independent, Denver, CO
• 5/16 – 7pm – Dimple Records, Sacramento, CA
• 5/17 – 7pm – Rasputin (Haight Street), San Francisco, CA
• 5/18 – Silver Platters (1pm)/Elliot Bay Books – tentative- (5pm), Seattle, WA
• 5/19 – 3pm – Music Millennium, Portland, OR
• 5/25 – 2pm – Fingerprints, Longbeach, CA

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Click to listen to Caitlin Rose's album The Stand-In Nashville-based country singer Caitlin Rose is set to release her second album The Stand-In March 5th on ATO Records Blending pedal steel guitar with jumpy pop beats and rich instrumentation the album produces a much different sound from Rose's previous albums Through...

Artist Lewis WatsonSong "Hold On (SBTRKT cover"Album The Wild EP "'Hold On' is a song that I've always liked and I think that SBTRKT are great I saw them at Latitude and it was just a great moment It made me want to do a version and put it out there"...

Mumford & Sons' Babel just won the Grammy for Album of the Year and the band is already planning album Number Three setting up a backstage practice room at every gig of their winter arena tour to work out musical ideas "We're getting into the habit of just sort of...

Click to listen to Iron and Wine's 'Grace for Saints and Ramblers' On April 16th Nonesuch Records will release Ghost on Ghost the fifth album from singer-songwriter Sam Beam's project Iron and Wine Now you can take an exclusive first listen to the album cut "Grace for Saints and Ramblers" Packed...

EDM mastermind Kaskade recently teamed up with production trio Swanky Tunes and singer Lights for a new track "No One Knows Who We Are" which will appear on the DJ-producer's new album set for release sometime this year on Ultra Now you can take an exclusive first look at the...

Although Steven Spielberg's Lincoln led the pack with 12 nominations going into the 85th Academy Awards Sunday night it was Life of Pi that walked away with the most Oscar statuettes – four including Best Directing for Ang Lee However the night really belonged to Argo which despite the Academy...

Where we left off Rick went AWOL and traipsed through the woods hiking through Crazytown in search of his visions of his dead wife Glenn tried to take control of the Prison Gang while The Governor allegedly abdicated his Woodbury power to Andrea The Governor and his soldiers ambushed the...

Here is the complete winners list for the 2013 Academy Awards Best Picture Amour*ArgoBeasts of the Southern WildDjango Unchained Les MisérablesLife of PiLincolnSilver Linings PlaybookZero Dark Thirty Best Actor Bradley Cooper Silver Linings Playbook*Daniel Day-Lewis LincolnHugh Jackman Les MisérablesJoaquin Phoenix The MasterDenzel Washington Flight Best Actress Jessica Chastain Zero Dark Thirty*Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings PlaybookEmmanuelle Riva AmourQuvenzhané...

Life of Pi picked up two early wins at the 2013 Oscars on Sunday night while Django Unchained star Christoph Waltz earned his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor  "We participated in a hero's journey" an emotional Waltz said in reference to Django's director Quentin Tarantino "You scaled the mountain because you're...

If life really is a simulation the Creator is one stone cold weirdo The idea that reality is a simulation implies that there is intention or meaning in details as small and insignificant as Hannah's constant UTI or that there is no meaning in anything at all Either way what...

Kanye West took a moment at his London show on Saturday night to deliver another searing rant largely focused on the relationship between art and commerce Over a spare instrumental from the GOOD Music track "Clique" Kanye referred to Jay-Z and dismissed the recent Justin Timberlake single that his friend...

Sitting in a century-old church on Saturday night it occurred to Mark Kozelek that he too wasn’t getting any younger  "I’m happy to still be in business after 21 years" he said During a two-hour-plus solo set at Los Angeles’ First Unitarian Church the last stop on his current tour Kozelek...

Diane Charlotte Lampert a songwriter who contributed lyrics to a long catalog of pop and rockabilly hits along with the title songs for more than 20 movies died on Friday in New York City at the age of 88 the Associated Press reports Lampert was born in the Bronx New York...

WINNER OF THE WEEK Nobody After all it's hard to declare a winner on a weekend when no film grosses more than $141 million That's the estimate for Identity Thief back on top after being briefly dethroned by A Good Day to Die Hard That's actually not a bad session for a three-week-old...

MC Hammer was arrested in Northern California on Thursday for allegedly obstructing an officer CNN reports The rapper made the arrest known on Saturday with a series of tweets suggesting that he was a victim of racial profiling Hammer (who was born Stanley Kirk Burrell) was reportedly sitting in a car...

“What I do comes from being a drummer, the rhythm and physicality and movement of it,” Kotche says. “I know John had some background in that, and I wanted to show other sides of the drum set. Usually drummers are just keeping the beat in rock bands. But it’s a wide-open instrument capable of all sorts of things, even though not many composers write that way.”

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Silver Linings Playbook took home the top prize and a few more at the Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica on Saturday making a splash at the last awards season to-do before the Oscars The film (which is in the running for eight Academy Awards tonight) won best feature along...

Lindsay Lohan has lost the defamation lawsuit she filed against Pitbull for using her name in a lyric according to the Hollywood Reporter The judge handling the case dismissed her suit on Thursday ruling that the song was protected under the First Amendment as a work of art Lohan filed suit...