Rachel May of the Detroit Free Press published an article today about how when Metallica played their set at this year’s SXSW, they essentially fucked over everyone else playing that night, including our friends over at Small Stone Records. Dig the excerpts:

“It was the worst thing I’ve ever seen at SXSW,” says Scott Hamilton, head of Detroit-based Small Stone Records. Hamilton and a handful of Small Stone bands, including hometown outlaw country boys Whitey Morgan, were showcasing right across the street from Stubb’s at the time of the Metallica performance. “Not only did they affect my showcase, they drained every club,” Hamilton says. “Why come down here and ruin a festival that’s about breaking independent artists? A band that big has no business being at that festival.”

“The Metallica thing was a little frustrating, but probably more so for Scott and some other Small Stone bands than us,” says Jeremy Mackinder, bassist for Whitey Morgan, which played early in the evening. “Our crowd was pretty different,” he says. “They had a decent crowd and the people that saw them loved them,” Hamilton says of Whitey Morgan.

So once again, we see the moral of the story is fuck Metallica.

You know that Sirius XM shit is still going on? God damn that’s a pain in the ass.