Music for Robots — We'd like to take a second and welcome our new friends Because Sound Matters to our tiny little blogroll over there on the right. They're a new vinyl-only venture from the Warner Bros. family, offering reissues from all kinds of sick catalo... more info

MTV.com News — Stones concerts raked in $869 million in the 2000s, according to Billboard. By Gil Kaufman Madonna Photo: Daniel Mihailescu/ AFP/ Getty Images It should come as no surprise to anyone who saw one of their multiple massive tours that classic... more info

Here Comes The Flood — When all the shopping centers of the Western world are blasting good time Christmas the urge to put on a really fucking loud Bay Area trash metal album is, well, a bit childish, but perfectly understandable. Heathen split in 1993 and returned to f... more info

The 'big four' of thrash metal team up for quite possibly the loudest tour in living memory more info

Starpulse — Metallica frontman James Hetfield has donated a massive area of his Marin County, California estate to conservation groups. The Marin Independent Journal newspaper reports the move [...] Read more! more info

Guardian Music — The 'big four' of thrash metal team up for quite possibly the loudest tour in living memoryMetallica, Slayer, Megadeath and Anthrax have announced they will tour together next year. After weeks of rumours, the bands collectively dubbed the "Big Four"... more info

Live Daily — German-American violinist David Garrett [ tickets ] will kick off 2010 with a slew of club and theater performances scattered throughout the US behind his recently released eponymous album. Beginning Feb. 16 in Dallas, the string virtuoso will tak... more info

MSN Music — Metallica frontman James Hetfield donates 330 acres near Calif. home for farmland preservation more info

Reuters — DETROIT (Billboard) - Heavy metal's Big Four -- Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax -- will ride together in 2010. In Europe, at least. more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 06-16 Warsaw, Poland - Bemowo Airport (Sonisphere Festival) * 06-19 Prague, Czech Republic - Mimon Airport (Sonisphere Festival) * * with Anthrax, Slayer, Megadeth more info