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METALLICA: New Album First Listen
Published 6/6/2008 at BLABBERMOUTH.NET Latest News
Bob Mulhouse of The Quietus was one of a number of UK-based heavy rock writers who were given a preview of six tracks from the upcoming METALLICA album. The listening session took place on Wednesday (June 4) in London, with representatives from Rock Sound , Kerrang! and Metal Hammer also present. Mulhouse wrote, "It was with some trepidation . . . that I attended the playback of METALLICA 's new album at the HQ of Universal , their UK record company. We were permitted to hear six of the 10 tracks which will ultimately appear on the album — which, a rep from the ...

Metallica Want Bloggers To Hear, Not Blog, New Album [Some Kind Of Monstrously Bad]
Published 6/6/2008 by Dan Gibson at Idolator
... Somehow, our invitation to the Metallica listening party got lost in the mail, but Brit bloggers The Quietus had the opportunity to listen to most of the album, then proceeded (as bloggers are likely to do) wrote about it. ...

Metallica Wants Bloggers To Hear, Not Blog, New Album [Some Kind Of Monstrously Bad]
Published 6/6/2008 by Dan Gibson at Idolator
... Somehow, our invitation to the Metallica listening party got lost in the mail, but Brit bloggers The Quietus had the opportunity to listen to most of the album, then proceeded (as bloggers are likely to do) to write about it. ...

Metallica Shows Blogs Some Love, Makes Managers Do Push-Ups [I Reappear]
Published 6/12/2008 by Anthony Miccio at Idolator
... of the rough mixes from the new record that were posted on their sites. Our response was "WHY?!!! Why take down mostly positive reviews of the new material and prevent people from getting psyched about the next record. . . that makes no sense to us!"" So after a few rounds of managerial ear spank and sentencing everyone at Q Prime to 20 push-ups each, we figured why not take matters into our own hands and just post the links here on our site. Kerrang, Metal Hammer, The Quietus. You see, we have maintained an "in the press" section here on ...

Metallica Respond To The Blogosphere
Published 6/12/2008 by Stereogum at Stereogum
... , The Quietus . You see, we have maintained an "in the press" section here on Metallica.com for many years now, posting links to reviews of shows, album and DVD releases, and various other tidbits we've come across while surfing around. Some good, some not so good, but we put 'em all up ... sort of the same way we treat our message boards on this site ... welcoming all feedback. So in the spirit of keeping this section current, we've put as many of the reviews of the rough mixes of the new record up here as we could find. If we missed any, let us know ... and in the meantime, ...

Metallica responds to the Blogsphere
Published 6/12/2008 by Tibi Puiu at ZME Music
... , The Quietus.You see, we have maintained an “in the press” section here on Metallica.com for many years now, posting links to reviews of shows, album and DVD releases, and various other tidbits we’ve come across while surfing around. Some good, some not so good, but we put ‘em all up … sort of the same way we treat our message boards on this site … welcoming all feedback. ...

Former Arab Strap Singer Is The Agony Aunt You Never Knew You Needed [Free Advice]
Published 7/31/2008 by Matthew Perpetua at Idolator
... Well, turns out, that's actually true! Moffat's first column is insightful, funny, and brutally frank, kinda like a straight, Scottish version of Dan Savage's ...

Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb picks over the flyblown carcass of this month's music press
Published 8/20/2008 by Maggoty Lamb at Music: Music blog | guardian.co.uk
The Quietus TheQuietus.com ... the occasional whiff of critical cordite makes a welcome change A year ago, the first edition of this column promised to engage only with music journalism that was available in the theoretically antiquated but irrefutably glamorous medium of print. But the advent of www.thequietus.com - a website nobly devoted to providing a home for refugees from the Atlantis-like lost world of the early 90s rock press - has forced a reappraisal of Inky Fingers' objectives. In today's fast-moving media landscape, it is vital to move with the times. As the great ...