Sly Stone has been MIA for decades. The recent reissue of his joyful and profound catalog has people hot on the Family Stone again. The fountain of funk finally connects with a journalist to explain a couple things in Vanity Fair.

Metallica is going to ride the lightning one more time. Lars Ulrich told a journalist that the songs are long and they don’t particularly have anything do with the sound of the band’s last disc, St. Anger. He and the boys are pounding the chests at the Live Earth spectacular this Saturday. We’ll be live blogging the concert during the afternoon. Check a string of Metallica vids on our Classic site.

Morrissey’s tour had to stop for a moment due to a scratchy throat, but the master of misery is back in action. Wonder if he’ll be doing any of these songs? 

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In Sweden you can name your kids Axl, Bengta or Gudrun, but you can’t name ‘em Metallica. Tax officials recently told a Scandinavian couple that the metal-centric moniker was "inappropriate" for their newborn. (Maybe those tax officials were privy to what went on backstage before the mighty band’s late ’80s tours). Anyway, we’ve just revitalized our VH1 Classic site and just launched our Rock Honors site (hello Ozzy, Heart, ZZ Top, and Genesis) and to celebrate we’re introducing a new franchise called "Blast From the Past" – each week the blog will feed you a classic clip that still stands tall.

To honor the plight of that beautiful Swedish baby, we’ve chosen a little sumpun sumpun called "Enter Sandman." Hetfield’s growl, Lars’ thump – all the ominous bombast is in place. The fitful footage of the kid in bed brought the band to a whole new audience in 1991. Hit "play" after the jump and have a blast.

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