Nas, LL Cool J, Lil Kim, and more hip-hop luminaries were in the Bronx today to break ground on the eventual site of the permanent home of the Universal Hip Hop Museum. The museum will be located in Bronx Point, a mixed-use development that is being constructed on the Harlem River waterfront.

Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture will honour Alice In Chains with its Founders Award, with live performances coming from Metallica, Duff McKagan, Corey Taylor, Ann and Nancy Wilson and many more

The acoustic show from Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art will be broadcast on the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in Paris

Muse frontman Matt Bellamy releases solo version of Simon & Garfunkel classic Bridge Over Troubled Water

In the fall, Metallica postponed a tour of Australia and New Zealand so that frontman James Hetfield could enter an addiction treatment program. Late last month, Hetfield made his first public appearance since rehab at a Q&A for his Reclaimed Rust exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum in LA. And last night, he returned to…