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Seems some fans are not happy about Metallica's co-headlining the UK's Glastonbury Festival and part if it stems from James Hetfield's involvement with a new TV series. An online petition (See the page HERE) has been started by animal activists to get Metallica dropped from Glastonbury because of James Hetfield's well known love of bear hunting, and his signing on to narrate a new History Channel

The USSR really didn't sound like a very fun place to live, and according to this list, the Soviet youth was basically not allowed to listen to anything cool on the radio at all. The Soviet Communist Party issued a list in January 1985 entitled "The Approximate List of Foreign Musical Groups and Artist Whose Repertoires Contain Ideologically Harmful Compositions" Sound ridiculous... Read

Festival promoter Michael Lang is reportedly in the early planning stages for a 50th Anniversary Woodstock concert set for some time in 2019. According to Rolling Stone, a number of locations are being scouted as possible concert locations for the show...

Newly unearthed footage of a June 1970 Black Sabbath performance in Germany has surfaced and the quality is quite good. Check it out. Yes, they're performing in a ring of some sorts and some of the crowd doesn't seem too into but hey...that's just how they do things in Germany...

Curtis Jackson, better known as hip hop artist 50 Cent, was on hand for the ceremonial first pitch at last night's Mets game at Citi Field. The results were not pretty. Somehow his entire image as the scary rapper from the most dangerous part of town has been completely shattered...

Earlier this week, it was reported that Jon Bon Jovi was a front runner to take the ownership spot for the Buffalo Bills, and fill the vacant spot after Ralph Wilson's death. The idea certainly piqued the interest and support of many, including Dallas owner Jerry Jones and a number of other NFL owners whom Bon Jovi is apparently in good with...

Jason Merritt / Getty Images Steven Tyler and Aerosmith were in Lithuania for a concert recently, when he randomly bumped into two young Lithuanian street musicians doing a violin and accordion version of Aerosmith's 1994 hit, Crazy.  Tyler was delighted...

Since the death of Bills founder and owner Ralph Wilson this March, speculation has run rampant on who'd be taking the reins in Buffalo and attempting to bring the franchise back to prominence. One name that's come up a number of times is non other than Jon Bon Jovi...

It's long been a topic of debate within music circles (at times...heated debate), that Led Zeppelin, in their day, very liberally borrowed from other artists. Now, they could be going to court to defend themselves. Almost everyone on planet Earth has heard Stairway to Heaven probably more times than they'd like, but it's no question it's a staple of rock radio everywhere...

Credit: Theo Wargo / Getty Images Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler has offered $1,000 towards a fund, that has been set up by the SPCA, that leads to the arrest of the suspect wanted in the killing of 25 cats in Yonkers, NY.  It is so tragic that we have human beings among us that are capable of committing such a heinous and heartless crime...