Guardian Music — If you're heading to Reading and Leeds just for Pulp then you're missing out on what the festival does best – here's Kerrang! editor James McMahon with the weekend's top rock highlightsDeftonesRarely do the alt-metallers grace a music festival with... more info

NME — Local pressure group says the city should double the number of police on the street more info

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Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG Diamond Head in the early 80s It is an undisputed fact that one of the key players in the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal movement of the late 80s was the UK's Diamond Head. And though the... more info

Stereogum — Here’s an actual IM I just got from Stereogum executive editor Amrit Singh: “Ride the Lou-tning.” This ghastly pun, obviously, was a reference to the forthcoming batshit Lou Reed/Metallica collaborative album. We learned about the LP a while ba... more info

Metal Injection — If you didn't already know, Metallica is making an album with Lou Reed, former frontman for the legendary Velvet Underground. While not much was previously known about the album, updates are trickling in.There is a release date: November 1, 201... more info

ContactMusic — Metallica and Lou Reed's 'Lulu' album will be released on October 31. The 'Enter Sandman' group collaborated with the former Velvet Underground singer earlier this year -which Lou described as "a marriage made in heaven" - and a new post on their web... more info

Metalsucks — According to the NY Post — The Fox News of NYC daily newspapers — a Bronx business group is worried that riots in the streets will accompany next month’s Big Snore show at Yankee Stadium. Cary Goodman, Executive Director of the 161st Street Bus... more info

Metalsucks — Metallica and Lou Reed have announced a November 1 release date for their collaborative album, which we now know to be titled Lulu. The album was apparently inspired by Marjorie Henderson Buell’s 1930s comic strip, Little Lulu, as well as the anim... more info

NME — Project will be based around a play written about the life of an abused dancer more info