Criss Angel, in a word: unbelievable (Los Angeles Times)

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Believe that it's unbelievable. Unbelievably bad. In Las Vegas, his mash-up with Cirque du Soleil is a magic trick gone terribly wrong. If Criss Angel were blindfolded, straitjacketed, run over by a steamroller, locked in a steel box and dumped from a helicopter into the Pacific Ocean, he still might be easier to salvage from disaster than Criss Angel: Believe, the gloomy, gothic muddle of ...

Metallica’s new old edge: ‘Death Magnetic’ (Los Angeles Times)

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With producer Rick Rubin, the band returns with a new album and a reassuring sense of danger. IMAGINE THE smell of barbecue and methamphetamine under the Texas summer sun. This year, the Ozzfest festival -- an all-day celebration of brawny and sinister heavy metal music -- took its amplifiers to the Lone Star State, and tens of thousands of fans came from across the South and beyond to lose ...