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Search continues for missing Va. Tech student, reward posted

October 17, 2009 was the last time Morgan was seen. How many girls have to go missing? How come they just disappear with no trace? These question we ask and the family ask. Where do our missing children go?"Police...

Musicians Complain About Their Songs Being Used for Torture

 Prominent rock bands have joined forces with a legal charity to campaign against the use of music as an instrument of torture by US military interrogators.  According to British organization Reprieve, the...

Coldplay Tops List of World's Best-Selling Albums of 2008

British pop band Coldplay's latest album Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends has topped the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's global list of the best-selling album of 2008. The top five...

Run DMC, Jeff Beck, Metallica Headed for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

The Roll Hall of Fame made its official announcement on Wednesday that hip-hop royalty Run D.M.C. and rockers Metallica, along with artists including Jeff Beck, Little Anthony & the Imperials, Bobby Womack,...

Torture Tunes: U.S. Military's Interrogation Music Revealed

The United States military is known to use various coercive and deplorable tactics for its interrogations, however, now its official 'torture soundtrack' has been revealed.The military's playlists include...

Metallica Returns With Powerful New Release: Death Magnetic *Updated

This summer on Now Public and on my own site, I've been following Metallica cross-country to their only two live US appearances at Bonnaroo and at Ozzfest. Ozzfest marked the 15th time I've seen the band live and...

Run-D.M.C., Metallica Nominated for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Run-D.M.C., Metallica, the Stooges, Bobby Womack, and Jeff Beck are among the nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced Monday.The nominees will be voted on by an assembly of "500...

Carla Bruni wakes French President with her music

French first lady Carla Bruni has confessed that her music passion disturb sleep of her husband. She said that French President Nicolas Sakozy wakes up sometime in the middle of the night with her playing...

First Take on Metallica's 'Death Magnetic'

The lead-up to the release of Metallica's latest metal monolith, Death Magnetic, has been immense. The album is in stores Friday, September 12th, 2008, and here's a first take on what appears to be the band's...

Metallic's Leaked 'Death Magnetic' in Stores Friday

Metallica's heavily-promoted ninth studio album Death Magnetic is set to hit stores on September 12, 2008. But, despite being leaked on the internet ten days in advance of its official release, the band...

Death Magnetic leak welcomed by Metallica

Death Magnetic, the latest album from rockers Metallica, has been leaked on the Internet a week ahead of the scheduled release date of September 12.  Once critical of the Internet's role in the evolution...

Ozzfest Takes Dallas, Sweet Homecoming Tribute To Fallen Legend: local report...

Photos and Story by: George A. TenEyckIn its sole appearance for 2008, Ozzfest rumbled into Frisco, Texas Saturday for an afternoon of sweltering heat, incredibly loud sound, and some of the best hard rock and...

Sweden relaxes stance on weird children's names

Sweden has relaxed its rules on naming children weird things like Heineken, Mouthpad and Dubble Bubble. The country once frowned on such lapses of judgment, but, according to one official, it's no longer considered 'negative' in this day and age to name children after...

Heavy metal monk in second album

Just stumbled upon this nice piece about a Capuchin monk who sings in a heavy metal band, which has just released a second album.This not-so-young (62) monk certainly has the energy for it.Something about those hand gestures doesn't look entirely Christian though ... "At...

Led Zeppelin Not Coming to Guitar Hero or Rock Band

What was once thought to be simply a long licensing process, it's come out that we may never see (or more appropriately, hear) any Led Zeppelin songs on games like Guitar Hero or Aerosmith. The reason behind this seems to be the band's unwillingness to give any outsider...

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