Lars Ulrich

I Fought The Law... For The Week Ending Feb. 11, 2011

The Game has been ordered to pay about $91,000 U.S. (about $90,000 Canadian) for some custom jewelry he commissioned three years ago and... never paid for. Yeah... I don't even think I own $10 worth of jewelry. —TMZ In this week's installment of ridonkulous lawsuits that will go absolutely nowhere, two women from Texas are suing rapper Jim Jones....
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The Game

I Read The News Today... For Oct. 14, 2010

Saint Alvia will cover a bunch of Rancid tunes on Nov. 19 at Toronto's Bovine Sex Club as part of a new series featuring bands covering classic albums. —Facebook Broken Social Scene apparently have some songs left over from the Forgiveness Rock Record sessions that Brendan Canning says they could end up fixing up and turning into a new record. —...
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Broken Social Scene (Photo by Danielle St-Laurent)

I Read The News Today... For May 19, 2010

Axl Rose is suing Guns N' Roses' former manager, Irving Azoff, for $5 million U.S., claiming Azoff tried to "sabotage" GN'R by forcing an original members reunion. —New York Times R.E.M. will reissue their 1985 Fables Of The Reconstruction album on July 25. It'll be a two-CD package with 14 previously unreleased demos. —remhq.com...
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Axl Rose

I Read The News Today... For May 17, 2010

My Chemical Romance have offered Cleveland Cavaliers basketball player LeBron James a lifetime of free tickets if he signs with the New York Knicks. He'll be a free agent when the off-season begins. —VH1 A-Trak's Dirty South Dance 2 mixtape is available for free download here. Liam Gallagher's new band will write the soundtrack to his upcoming...
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Paul McCartney

Eagles Of Death Metal Diss Lars Ulrich

Eagles Of Death Metal's Jesse Hughes has singled Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich out, saying he has a bad attitude and is an "asshole." Hughes was interviewed by the Montreal Mirror last month and laced into Ulrich for making Metallica uncool. "Lars Ulrich from Metallica is somebody who just really gets my gander up," he said...
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Lars Ulrich

Lars Ulrich: Music Pirate

Here's one for the irony column: Lars Ulrich recently became a music pirate when he downloaded a Metallica album. Ulrich told VH1's Eddie Trunk that he downloaded a copy of Metallica's Death Magnetic — and not using a legitimate avenue like iTunes. "I sat there myself and downloaded Death Magnetic from the internet just to try it,"...
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Lars Ulrich

Don't Blame Lars For GNR's Tardiness

Guns N' Roses' "Better" video was supposed to have been on your television and computer screens about a month ago, but it's still nowhere to be found. That may seem like quite a delay, but it's a drop in the bucket for a band that took 15 years to release Chinese Democracy, the album that contains "Better." Axl Rose has never...
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Lars Ulrich

Lord Doesn't Support Ulrich

Metallica's Lars Ulrich might want to drum for the potentially reforming "Mark III" version of Deep Purple, but the feeling doesn't seem to be mutual — at least for one Purple member. "It all seems like a lot of hot air and wild speculation to me," 67-year-old keyboardist Jon Lord posted on his website on Tuesday. "I...
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Jon Lord

Ulrich In Deep Purple?

Metallica drummer and art profiteer Lars Ulrich has offered to join Deep Purple if members of the pioneering heavy metal group reform to tour. Singer David Coverdale, bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes and keyboardist Jon Lord have said they'd be up for a reunion, and they've apparently been in contact with guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. Drummer Ian...
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Deep Purple Mark III

Metallica Consider Internet Album Release

It looks like Lars Ulrich has learned how to embrace the internet. Metallica's drummer told Rolling Stone that the band have unlimited options on how to release the next Metallica album — which isn't expected for four or five years, by the way. "We're free of our record contract," said Ulrich. "We have that element of complete...
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Metallica

Ulrich Makes Millions From Basquiat Painting

Just when you thought Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich didn't need any more money, he's just pocketed $13.5 million U.S. for a painting. Ulrich sold "Untitled (Boxer)," a painting by late American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, to an unidentified buyer in an auction at Christie's in New York City on Wednesday. The artwork of a black...
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Lars Ulrich

Metallica Can't Stop Fighting

Photographer: 
Anita Zvonar
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N/A
City: 
Toronto
Date: 
October 11, 2004
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