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  Metallica Planning Orion Fest 2013: Who's Gonna Play?

  July 26, 2012 – SPIN had a ridiculous time at Metallica's weird, whimsical Orion Music + More Festival, having to manage absolutely insane set conflicts like choosing between Modest Mouse and Suicidal Tendencies (spoiler: the five-song Infectious Grooves mini-set with Robert Trujillo truly had us Floating On). Lucky for all of us, a recent conference call to drummer Lars Ulrich about headlining Outside Lands yielded hope for a follow up run. …
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  Metallica's Lars Ulrich Just Wants to Talk About His Kids

  July 25, 2012 – The fifth annual Outside Lands descends upon San Francisco's Golden Gate Park August 10-12, with Skrillex, Stevie Wonder, and Metallica topping the bill. The headliners have all been warming up this summer — Skrillex has been cruising around Canada, Wonder has stayed busy regaling Brits at June's Diamond Jubilee, and Metallica even threw their own festival. But a show in NoCal is particularly significant for the metal legends. …
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  Metallica + More: 12 Key Sets at 2012's Inaugural Orion Fest

  June 25, 2012 –  …
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  How to Experience Orion Fest From the Comfort of Your Couch

  June 23, 2012 – SPIN has boots on the ground at Metallica's Orion Music + More festival in Atlantic City this weekend (for proof of our poor gambling prowess, and of course reports on all the best sets, keep an eye on our @SPINfestivals Twitter), but before we tell you how awesome it was seeing our cover costars Best Coast playing alongside Lars and Co., you can actually see it for yourself. …
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  Orion Music + More's 5 Most Wrenching Set-Time Conflicts

  June 19, 2012 – "People gotta let us run amok," said Lars Ulrich, drummer for Metallica when we interviewed him about the Orion Music + More festival he and his bandmates are putting on the weekend of June 23 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. And amok they did run… in the best way possible, judging from the fest's lineup. …
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  Five Ways 'Wild Things' Author Maurice Sendak Influenced Music

  May 8, 2012 – Maurice Sendak, author of wildly influential, deeply moody children's books — including, most notably,1963's Where the Wild Things Are — died this morning in Connecticut at age 83. …
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  Metallica Play Full 'Black Album' For First Time Ever

  May 8, 2012 – Metallica might have just celebrated 30 years as a band with a handful of shows a few months ago, but times have changed since December, and now Metallica scoffs at your obsession with anniversaries. Scoffs! To prove it, Blabbermouth reports they just played the entirety of their eponymous 1991 album, better known as the "Black Album," for the first time ever yesterday at their tour opener in Prague, Czech Republic. …
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  Metallica's Lars Ulrich on Orion Fest, 'Lulu,' and a 'Black Album' Regret

  May 2, 2012 – Metallica have entered their fourth decade far away from their comfort zone. Last year, the quartet released the nobly experimental Lulu, an almost universally detested art-metal collaboration with Lou Reed. On June 23 and 24, the band will host Orion, their very own music festival in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where they will share billing with the likes of underground extremos Liturgy and beach-pop heartbreakers Best Coast. …
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  Outside Lands 2012 Lineup: Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Neil Young, and Skrillex

  April 17, 2012 – San Francisco's Outside Lands has announced its fifth-annual lineup, with top billing packing an interesting punch. Headliner spots will be taken by Stevie Wonder (one of last year's Austin City Limits headliners), Metallica (who will see their own Orion fest go down in June), 21st-century audiophile crusader Neil Young & Crazy Horse, and the omnipresent Jack White and Foo Fighters. …
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  Metallica and Katy Perry's 3D Movies Are Totally Happening

  March 8, 2012 – Why pay upwards of 75 bucks to see Katy Perry or Metallica in concert just to be covered in faux whipped cream (it's soap, people!) or urine (it happened), when you can get the same experience, blood-, sweat-, and happy-tear-free in a movie theater? …
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