Metallica News

It is dusk at Knebworth and we had just finished rolling a joint while standing around in the crowd waiting for the show to begin.

I, Ryan James Wasoba, hereby announce that, after over a year and a half of weekly contributions , the end of my Nitpick Six column is upon us.

"It's been a long time, man," Jason Newsted said during a recent conversation advancing his return to the musical shores of the Garden State.

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Along the water on the yachts where many of the Cannes Film Festival's uber-exclusive parties are thrown, guests are required to take off their shoes before stepping on the boat And for that, "Fruitvale Station" actress Ahna O'Reilly is grateful.

When I first encountered Shadow of the Sun supporting The Heather Findlay Band in November 2011, they were something of a work in progress.

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If you accidentally make your live blog URL state that it's day two of Cannes rather than day three, you can't actually change that On to tomorrow, when the arthouse favourite will be Like Father, Like Son from director Hirokazu Kore-Eda, whose last film, I Wish , got a five star review from Peter Bradshaw.

The girls who rob Paris are more popular than the girls who rob France and Metallica's Lars Ulrich is uncannily like a Teletubby in the first instalment of our Cannes Film Festival diary.

The bad girls who rob Paris are more popular than their French equivalents, while the many headed Metallica monster begins to sound like the Teletubbies.

In her inaugural Scene & Heard column, Sharon Swart navigates the wet red carpet to find Baz Luhrmann, Brian Grazer and attorney Mickey Mayerson, who says: "I've never seen it this busy." If water equals prosperity in Feng Shui, then the rain bucketing down in Cannes on opening eve could be a sign of a lucrative market ahead.

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Death has always been one of the most predominant themes in heavy metal music, taking a backseat maybe only to Satanism.

It might sound like a paradox, but according to Metallica 's James Hetfield , thrash metal probably wouldn't exist without glam, the very thing most metalheads loathed back in the day.

Imagine getting college credit for studying Metallica and Iron Maiden and playing metal gigs.

It will be July 12, smack dab in the middle of summer, when BFD '13 slams into Dallas' Gexa Energy Pavilion.

Your eyeballs may need earplugs. Today's publication of Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal is bound to excite headbangers of every persuasion.

Martin Scorsese , Jennifer Lawrence , Justin Timberlake , Tim Burton , Jackie Chan , Fan Bingbing , Metallica's Lars Ulrich and Pele all will be in Cannes this year - but not just to stroll the red carpet at the Palais.

Metallica: Through The Never was the first release set by Bob and Jeanne Berney when they rebooted Picturehouse in January.

While Metallica frontman and guitar god James Hetfield 's Lucas Valley home was the subject of all sorts of controversy in the late 2000s , the home he and his family occupied prior to that - off Vineyard Road in western Novato - is generating lots of buzz in the real estate world this week.