Today’s Rock News (Metallica, Green Day, Bruce Springsteen)
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METALLICA Will Release Live Acoustic Album in 2019: Loudwire
Metallica will release a live acoustic album on color vinyl on February 1st called Helping Hands… Live & Acoustic at the Masonic. The tracks were recorded at the inaugural Helping Hands Benefit Concert in San Francisco earlier this month. These feature acoustic performances of songs like “Enter Sandman,” “The Unforgiven,” and “Hardwired,” – as well as covers of Deep Purple, Nazareth and Blue Oyster Cult and more. Money from the album sales will go to Metallica’s All Within My Hands Foundation.
GREEN DAY Get a Shout-Out From Space: WMMR.com
Green Day are the first ever punks to reach Mars! NASA’s Insight Lander, which arrived on the Red Planet after traveling through space since May, bears a chip with the etching “Green Day Since 1986”. Guess someone at NASA is a Green Day fan! Upon learning this, the band took to Twitter to claim this space victory:
Officially landed on Mars 🚀🤘👽 "Green Day Since 1986" was etched on a chip on the @NASAInSight Mars Lander that landed at Elysium Planitia today. Out of this world. pic.twitter.com/WwNEKh4nxE
— Green Day (@GreenDay) November 26, 2018
Watch the Trailer for BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN’s Netflix Special: Rolling Stone
A trailer has been posted online for Springsteen On Broadway, which arrives on Netflix December 16th. The special shows Bruce’s critically lauded one-man show, which premiered in New York City 2 years ago. He ended up extending the residency several times, and when Springsteen on Broadway wraps up next month, it will have run 236 shows.
So if you’re one of the fans who paid nearly $1k for a ticket to the Broadway show… you get to see it again on Netflix for a fraction of the price!
