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Update, Feb. 7, 11:25 a.m.:
Metallica is hosting their own music festival on June 23 and 24 at Bader Field in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Called Orion Festival, it's going to be held on the East Coast in an abandoned airport. ("There's water around if there's a fire," the band joked.) The band picked 22 acts on the lineup themselves, including Huntington Beach's Avenged Sevenfold, but Metallica is headlining both nights. 
They're going to be playing the Black album in its entirety--something the band's never done in America, and all of Ride the Lightning as well! OMGz.

Original post, Feb. 6, 2012, 2:23 p.m.
Last Saturday Metallica released a 30-second "Save The Date" video that says a special announcement will be made tomorrow on Metallica.com at 11 a.m. What could it be? We have three theories...after the jump.
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The last time I saw Madonna, it was 2006 and I paid $352 for a floor ticket. Madonna, fresh off the success of her Super Bowl halftime show, is going on a  World Tour beginning May 29 in Tel Aviv, Israel. While we have no idea how much tickets will be going for, we do know she'll stop at  South America and Australia, and 26 European cities including London, Paris, Milan and Berlin.

Her Madgesty's California dates include a San Jose stop at the HP Pavilion on Oct. 6, and and the Staples Center in LA on Oct. 10.

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​Sweet! Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band added another show to their LA stop. Now they're also performing on Friday, April 27 at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. The tour supports Springsteen's 17th studio album, Wrecking Ball, out on March 6, and tickets go on sale at all Ticketmaster today at 1 p.m.

To whet your appetite, Springsteen and the E Street Band are also set to performa at the 54th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 12.
(Springsteen, FYI, has 20 Grammys in his name.)


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​New things are happening at Cypress Hill's Smokeout Fest this year: One, Cypress Hill and Rusko are performing together.

Two, there's going to be a Low End Theory stage--yes, LA's most famous experimental hip-hop and electronic music night that Thom Yorke frequents when he's in town.

Three, Wolfgang Gartner, MSTRKRFT, Mobb Deep, Nipsey Hussle, Danny Brown, ScHoolBoy Q, Ritmo Machine and Fashawn were just added to the bill.

And now the world is completely turned on its head, and the Smokeout Festival, happening March 3 at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, is officially cool.

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​The 14th Annual Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival just announced the first five bands of this year's line up: Rancid, NOFX, Pennywise, the Adicts and the Briefs are performing!

Touted as the biggest punk rock party of the year, the festival takes place on Memorial Day weekend, on May 25 to  28 in Downtown Las Vegas.

It's actually possible that it is the biggest punk rock fete: there's four nights of music, three days of the festival, two days of bowling and poker, and pool parties galore. 

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​The former Bauhaus lead singer is coming around on tour again in support of last year's excellent solo album Ninth; Peter Murphy will be appearing at the Observatory on March 16 for a one-off. It'll be his third OC appearance in a little over a year's time and the latest in a string of local dates both with Bauhaus and on his own over the years so he definitely knows where some of his long time fans are these days.More >>

​Nicki Minaj's video for her new single,"Stupid Hoe" off Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (no, not a re-release) hit the internet last Friday. The album, due out next month, will feature one of Minaj's alter egos, Roman Zolanski. Zolanski is a flamboyant gay man who made an appearance on "Roman's Revenge" in Minaj's debut album, Pink Friday. Her other two music alter egos, Martha (Roman's uptight British mom) and Barbie (her cutesy, girly character) will be sitting on the sidelines.More >>

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This is for all  you midnight tokers: Omega Events announced today that Gregg Allman and the Steve Miller Band are headlining the Doheny Blues Festival 2012 for the festival's 15th anniversary. The two blues legends epitomize the festival's roots, and it's extra exciting because Georgia native Greg Allman hasn't played a California date in years. The Steve Miller Band also doesn't play festivals very often--and now we're going to see "The Joker" live in the sun! Sweet.

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​So mathcore/hardcore band Dillinger Escape Plan is playing a free show at Slidebar on Thursday, Jan. 19. It's being called the band's "last U.S. [show] for a while" And if you're still boycotting Slidebar because of the Kelly Thomas hooha, know that you could maintain your integrity by watching the concert online, where they'll be streaming it at Stickam.com/DillingerEscapePlan.

In Febuary the band is going down south to play in Australia with Mastodon, and then open a few shows for System of a Down as well.

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