Death Metal MusicMusic and Culture on the Edge

One of the ways that Music 2.0 has changed how we think about music is that there is so much interesting data available about how people are listening to music. Sites like Last.fm automatically track all sorts of interesting data that just was not available before. Forty years ago, a music label like Capitol would know how many copies the album Abbey Road sold in the U.S., but the label wouldn’t know how many times people actually listened to the album. Today, however, our iPods and desktop

The thing that should not be Today I’d like to talk about Metallica. As some of you trendy hipsters probably know, Metallica released a brand spanking new album last week, called Death Magnetic. And while I haven’t listened to the entire album yet, I have heard 4 or 5 of the new songs on the radio. Which is surprising, because I hate FM radio with a white hot passion. (I can only assume it was aired sometime between the Jonas Brothers and me banging my head against the steering wheel.) Anywh