fluffy kitties for fluffy metallica

I Consider this my tribute to their upcoming album that is probably going to suck.
 

Rage Against the Machine acapella protest at the RNC

This is just great.  These guys step out into the crowds of people, rally against Bush-McCain and rap/beatbox Bulls On Parade and Killing in the Name Of.  Morello is all class when he tells the crowd, that despite the cops fearing the masses, they (the crowd) and the police with their tear gas and rubber bullets have more in common [...]

Axl Rose pulls a Metallica, pisses on the Internet

Axl Rose, Indiana’s own, (yes, look it up) has lawyered up and filed felonycharges against a blogger who leaked 8 streaming tracks from Chinese Democracy, an album I won’t dare call upcoming as we’ve been waiting for this megalomaniac’s release for 15 years.
Buried at the bottom of the L.A. Times article is a quote from Corynne McSherry, a staff [...]

Cuban punk rocker scares Raul Castro

Wow.  musically, the band Porno para Ricardo sound great!  And even better in this Internet age that the Cuban government has just arrested their front man, Gorki Aguila, on charges of ”pre-crime social dangerousness”.  I hope there was something lost in the Cuban-English translation of that charge because if not, the charge just makes the Cuban government look [...]

If we are to westernize Iraq, it might as well be with heavy metal

Like it or not, we are colonizing Iraq.  And why not do it with heavy metal?  The genre has it all and is cultural imperialism at its finest.  It questions political authority (system of a down), it’s positive, it doesn’t trust Christianity/religion, It’s international, rallies around animal rights, and has an affinity for literature.  It’s even got a sense of [...]