Tag Archives: Modest Mouse

Metal Insider’s Top 5: Events In 2012 We’re Thankful For

Posted by on November 19, 2012

Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Hard to believe it, but Thanksgiving is just a few days away. With that in mind, we decided to continue a tradition we started last year and list the top five events we’re thankful occurred in 2012. Sure, 2012 was […]

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Rage Against The Machine Drummer Has Awesome House

Posted by on July 30, 2012

Ready to see something that’s going to want to make you practice whatever instrument you play more? Rage Against the Machine drummer Brad Wilk is selling his house in Malibu. And here’s the best news of all: you can buy it for only $2.699 million! If you’re in the mood for real estate porn, there […]

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Guess Modest Mouse Won’t Be Playing The Next Orion Fest

Posted by on June 27, 2012

One of the more left-field bands to play the Orion Music + More festival this past weekend was Modest Mouse. They weren’t touring behind a new album, they’re decidedly an indie rock band, and the only point of reference for most of the crowd was likely their eight-year old crossover hit “Float On.” Yet the […]

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Orion Music + More Fest: Day One Recap

Posted by on June 25, 2012

This past weekend, Metallica presented the inaugural Orion Music + More festival in Atlantic City, NJ. Metal Insider’s Bram Teitelman, Zach Shaw and Kodi McKinney were there, as was MI contributor Alex Rudisill. We’ll be bringing you plenty of interviews from the show, but today is the first of two recaps, covering the first day’s festivities. […]

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Volbeat, Baroness Added To Metallica’s Orion Music + More Fest

Posted by on May 21, 2012

If we were to have handicapped the final two slots of who would wind up playing Metallica’s Orion Music & More festival when it was first announced, we would’ve definitely had Baroness and Volbeat in the top ten. Baroness are now being managed by Metallica’s management company Q Prime, and with Yellow and Green coming out […]

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Headbangers’ Brawl 2/10: Our Thoughts On Metallica’s Orion Music + More Lineup

Posted by on February 10, 2012

Headbangers’ Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’s contributors take a moment to debate and analyze two opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music industry. By now, most fans have already heard the news that Metallica will be holding a two day festival in Atantic City, NJ this coming […]

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Is This The Most Metal Thing To Ever Happen At Bader Field?

Posted by on February 7, 2012

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYhrpA0tmBQ[/youtube] Sure, Atlantic City’s Bader Field might be playing host to Metallica’s forthcoming Orion Music + More festival, but it was once an actual airport. And while there are already some people wondering what the hell a Modest Mouse is, we think that for $75 a day, seeing the likes of The Sword, Avenged Sevenfold […]

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Metallica To Curate Two Day Festival In Atlantic City

Posted by on February 7, 2012

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKS2WzSLMdM[/youtube] That’s right, Metallica have confirmed that they are holding their own two day festival in Atlantic City, NJ on June 24 and 25 at Bader Field. Dubbed the Orion Music + More festival, Metallica will headline both days of the festival will also be playing The Black Album AND Ride The Lightning in their entirety! While […]

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Creating Mashups Are Almost Easy

Posted by on April 7, 2011

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EElJcF17Z4[/youtube] Did you love the mashup made between Slipknot’s “Psychosocial” and Justin Bieber’s “Baby”? Ok, so love is a strong word, but you have to admit that it worked frighteningly well together. Now, the presumably same arranger has released another mashup that we would’ve never thought of ourselves. This time, they mix the music of […]

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