Metal Injection — Last week, James Hetfield celebrated his 49th birthday while the band was doing a week of shows in Mexico City. To celebrate, Metallica's entire crew had cream pies waiting for James as he got off stage, and surley they got some of their aggress... more info

Prefix — Photo Gallery of Day 2 at Outside Lands in San ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/photos/outside-lands-day-2-pics/ more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonOne song in, a foolhardy masochist dares to commit heckler's hara-kiri. "Louder!" he shouts at Lou Reed. "Not loud enough for ya, asshole?" the septuagenarian God of Grump barks back, to thankful cheers that age and frailty... more info

Mercury News, California — Other highlights of festival's Day Two include the Kills, Explosions in the Sky. more info

Prefix — In honor of Deep Purple's Jon Lord, who passed away a month ago at the age of 71, ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/deep-purple-tribute-album-will-feature-the-flaming/67844/ more info

411 Mania — In honor of Jon Lord... more info

Metal Injection — A tip of the hat to my BroTallicas at MetalSucks for finding this amazing cover by Kendra Morris. You see, Ride The Lightning is my favorite Metallica album. Clearly, myself and Morris have that in common as she has covered the title track from the a... more info

Consequence of Sound — Re-Machined honors Deep Purple's Jon Lord. more info

Metalsucks — This is fucking sick.  I love unexpected covers, especially seminal songs re-imagined in different genres.  Buttery NYC songstress Kendra Morris is amazing in her own right, but this cover of Metallica’s “Ride the Lightning” is sure to get s... more info

Metalsucks — This video combines two of my favorite things: terrible metal covers and people falling down and hurting themselves. Make sure you hang in there until at least the :44 second mark. -AR Thanks: Kyle more info