Tag: Metallica

Listen: Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode covers Metallica’s ‘Nothing Else Matters’

Listen: Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode covers Metallica’s ‘Nothing Else Matters’

Metallica this week released an expanded reissue of 1991’s Metallica along with a companion set called The Metallica Blacklist, a collection of 53 different covers from the “Black Album.”

New releases: U2 ‘Achtung Baby’ reissue, plus Lou Reed and Metallica, INXS best-of

New releases: U2 ‘Achtung Baby’ reissue, plus Lou Reed and Metallica, INXS best-of

This week’s new releases include the mammoth 20th anniversary reissue of U2’s landmark ‘Achtung Baby’ (including a $470 ‘Uber Deluxe’ edition with six CDs, four DVDs, two LPs and five 7-inches), plus ‘Lulu,’ the joint album from Lou Reed and Metallica, and a new INXS best-of.

Stream: Lou Reed & Metallica, ‘The View’

Stream: Lou Reed & Metallica, ‘The View’

The head-scratching combo of Lou Reed and Metallica, who’ll release their album ‘Lulu’ this fall, today released the first full track from that collaboration: ‘The View.’

Video: Peter Murphy goes DVD shopping at Amoeba Music for ‘What’s In My Bag?’

Video: Peter Murphy goes DVD shopping at Amoeba Music for ‘What’s In My Bag?’

Amoeba Music recently posted the latest in its ‘What’s In My Bag?’ video series, and this installment’s latest subject is none other than Peter Murphy — filmed, presumably, during the former Bauhaus leader’s June visit to the San Francisco outlet for an in-store performance promoting the release of ‘Ninth.’

Lou Reed records album with Metallica: ‘Berlin’ meets ‘Master of Puppets’

Lou Reed records album with Metallica: ‘Berlin’ meets ‘Master of Puppets’

No stranger to odd musical detours — whether it be ‘Metal Machine Music’ or his most recent project, ‘Hudson River Wind Meditations’ — the legendary Lou Reed has a particularly unlikely musical partner for his next album: thrash-metal titans Metallica.

Hoodoo Gurus set U.S. release for ‘Purity of Essence,’ mock Metallica in making-of video

Hoodoo Gurus set U.S. release for ‘Purity of Essence,’ mock Metallica in making-of video

Australia’s Hoodoo Gurus today announced a May 11 U.S. release date for their ninth studio album, ‘Purity of Essence,’ which the band is teasing with a six-part web mockumentary that pokes fun at Metallica’s self-help doc ‘Some Kind of Monster.’