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METALLICA To Appear In KATIE COURIC's 'All Access Grammy Special'

METALLICA is among the artists who will appear during Katie Couric's one-hour "All Access Grammy Special" on CBS, airing February 4, four days before the 51st annual Grammy Awards are handed out. Couric gets personal with some of music's leading artists as she interviews past and present Grammy nomi...

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AC/DC Earns $82 Million, METALLICA Makes $56.4 Million From Ticket, Album Sales

AC/DC is the only hard rock band to make the Los Angeles Times' 2008 "Ultimate Top 10," the newspaper's annual survey combining sales of concert tickets, albums and digital downloads to measure which acts were most popular with the broadest swath of music lovers. METALLICA came in at No. 14, an impr...

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AC/DC, METALLICA Among Top-Selling Artists Of 2008 In Canada

Nielsen SoundScan Canada, the entertainment industry's data information system that tracks point-of-purchase sales of recorded music product and Nielsen BDS, the music industry's leading music performance monitoring service, have announced their 2008 Canadian year-end sales and airplay monitoring da...

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MACHINE HEAD, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, MEGADETH Members Reveal Favorite Albums Of 2008

The official Roadrunner Records web site has been updated with top-album picks for 2008 from a number of artists that are signed to the label, including members of MACHINE HEAD, MEGADETH, DEVILDRIVER, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE and TRIVIUM. A few of the selections follow below. The entire list can be found a...

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AC/DC Named Best Band For Autograph-Seekers; LED ZEPPELIN Crowned Worst

HoundsTV.com, which features the latest in celebrity autograph news and video, has compiled a list of the best and the worst musicians for autographs and meeting fans in Canada in 2008. The best were AC/DC, COLDPLAY and THE GUESS WHO, while the worst were LED ZEPPELIN, BON JOVI and THE EAGLES. Regar...

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JOE SATRIANI: New Audio Interview Available

Mexico's Search & Destroy has posted an audio interview with guitarist Joe Satriani. Check it out at this location. According to The Pulse of Radio, COLDPLAY's record label, Capitol/EMI, has forced YouTube to remove a video clip that mashes up the band's song "Viva La Vida" with JOE SATRIANI's "...

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COLDPLAY Responds To JOE SATRIANI Lawsuit

COLDPLAY has issued a statement in response to the lawsuit filed against the band by guitarist Joe Satriani in which he claims that COLDPLAY ripped off portions of his song "If I Could Fly" for the group's Grammy-nominated track "Viva La Vida". "With the greatest possible respect to Joe Satriani, we...

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METALLICA, GUNS N' ROSES Among Rollng Stone's Top Album Covers Of 2008

METALLICA's "Death Magnetic" and GUNS N' ROSES' "Chinese Democracy" are among the Top 25 best album covers of 2008 as selected by the readers of Rolling Stone magazine. The Top 20 covers on the list are as follows: 01. THE KILLERS - Day & Age 02. THE MARS VOLTA - Bedlam In Goliath 03. FLEET ...

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JOE SATRIANI Talks About Being 'Ripped Off' By COLDPLAY

Legendary rock guitarist Joe Satriani has spoken to MusicRadar.com about his decision to sue COLDPLAY, accusing the Grammy-nominated stars of plagiarizing one of his songs. According to Reuters, Satriani's copyright infringement suit, filed on Thursday (December 4) in Los Angeles federal court, clai...

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JOE SATRIANI Accuses COLDPLAY Of Plagiarism; Audio Comparison Available

Reuters reports that legendary rock guitarist Joe Satriani has sued COLDPLAY, accusing the Grammy-nominated stars of plagiarizing one of his songs. Satriani's copyright infringement suit, filed on Thursday in Los Angeles federal court, claims the COLDPLAY song "Viva La Vida" incorporates "substantia...

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METALLICA, JUDAS PRIEST, MÖTLEY CRÜE, SLIPKNOT, DISTURBED Among GRAMMY Nominees

METALLICA, JUDAS PRIEST, MÖTLEY CRÜE, SLIPKNOT and DISTURBED are among the nominees for the 51th annual Grammy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, February 8, 2009 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The nominees in the "Hard Rock", "Metal", "Rock Instrumental" and "Rock" categories are as follows:...

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GUNS N' ROSES' 'Democracy' To Debut At No. 2 On Billboard Chart

According to Hits Daily Double, the companion web site of music industry tip sheet HITS, GUNS N' ROSES' long-awaited new album, "Chinese Democracy", will move around 300,000 copies (including a reported 25,000 downloads at iTunes on November 23 not counted towards the opening week for the Sunday rel...

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GUNS N' ROSES' 'Democracy' Tops iTunes Rock Albums Charts Across The Globe

According to antiMUSIC, GUNS N' ROSES' "Chinese Democracy" has topped the iTunes Rock Albums charts across the globe. The long-awaited effort took the lead on the charts in U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlan...

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AC/DC's 'Black Ice' Sells 118,000 Copies In Canada

Last night Australian hard rock legends AC/DC kicked off their world tour in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and today their highly anticipated album "Black Ice", the first release from AC/DC in eight years, struck No. 1 on Canada's Nielsen SoundScan Top 200, selling 118,759 units its first week. "Black...

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LARS ULRICH Says METALLICA 'Guitar Hero' Game Is Coming Soon

METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich has all but confirmed that an all-METALLICA edition of the Guitar Hero game will be out sometime next year. Responding to a fan question about the game Monday night (October 20) on the nationally syndicated radio show "Rockline", Ulrich stated, "I don't know how to say...