We broke some sad news last week: the Key Club will close its doors this Friday. Since opening in 1967 as Gazzarri's, it has been a staple of the Sunset Strip for decades, under various names and ownership. The venue has seen many popular styles of music come and go, but has, Zelig-like, been at the ... More >>
Axl Rose's birthday was yesterday, but one thing has not changed since last year: Chinese Democracy remains the most expensive album ever produced. Fifteen years and $13 million went into making the 14-track album; about a million bucks and a year, for each song. No record has been as anticipated ... More >>
Axl Rose's birthday was yesterday, but one thing has not changed since last year: Chinese Democracy remains the most expensive album ever produced. Fifteen years and $13 million went into making the 14-track album; about a million bucks and a year, for each song. No record has been as anticipated ... More >>
See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app This week, a photograph angers a rock star, an artist compares Fox News with CNN and an iconic sculpture returns to the building it inspired. 5. Red state, blue state Artist Jonathan Horowitz has split the Hamm ... More >>
Pearl Jam Are the Most Boring Band in 20 Years Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: The Complete List Guns N' Roses' seminal album Appetite For Destruction came out 25 years ago this past Saturday. I was 9 years old when a foreign exchange student taped me a copy of it. I had heard "Welcome to the ... More >>
In case you don't trawl celebrity news, Slash got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. To celebrate the occasion, a phalanx of paparazzi and fans showed up -- not to mention radio host Jim Ladd and even goddamn Charlie Sheen. The star for the 46-year-old former Guns N' Roses axeman sits ... More >>
Rock of Ages, a new star-clogged pop-musical diversion, is a cinematic event. It's not every day, after all, that you get to see two great American traditions--guitar/bass/drums rock music and Tin Pan Alley musical theater--so thoroughly, mutually degraded. This mess originated as a stage productio ... More >>
See also: Tommy Stinson Interview: Guns N' Roses' Bassist Compares Axl Rose and Paul Westerberg If you took sides during the Guns n' Roses break-up and subsequent feud, chances are it was that of the curly haired guitarist and the lanky, blonde bassist, not the ginger genius who fronted the band. ... More >>
Timothy Norris"Do you know where you are?"See also: *Our slideshow of the concert *True Story: Axl Once Threatened To Skip A Concert, So Barry Fey Got His Gun *Tommy Stinson Interview: Guns N' Roses' Bassist Compares Axl Rose And Paul Westerberg *Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Comp ... More >>
Steven CohenTommy StinsonSee also: True Story: Axl Once Threatened To Skip A Concert, So Barry Fey Got His Gun Tommy Stinson is good bassist and a tremendous fella, but he's best known for being in both the Replacements and Guns and fucking Roses. As he told us, dealing with the outsize egos ... More >>
Katarina BenzovaBelieve it or not, this is Axl's PR photo these daysSee also: *Why Van Halen Demanded The Brown M&Ms Be Picked Out On Their 1980 Tour Rider *Excerpt From Duff McKagan's New Memoir Recently we ran an excerpt about Van Halen from the new memoir Backstage Past, by Barry Fey, a l ... More >>
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Also, Guns N' Roses, Weingart, Stevie Wonder's House Full of Toys, and others
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Haiku News: Kanye's Meh Mini-Movie, Jónsi Cancels In-Store Tour, Local Natives' New Vid, Katie Perry Gets Hitched
Haiku News: Kanye's Meh Mini-Movie, Jónsi Cancels In-Store Tour, Local Natives' New Vid, Katie Perry Gets Hitched
Lina Lecaro Fergie gets skankalicious performing with Slash at SSMF [See also Timothy Norris' slideshow "Sunset Strip Music Festival 2010"] Whether you're 20, 40 or 60 years old, grew up in Los Angeles or hopped right off the bus ala Axl Rose in "Welcome to the Jungle," if you're a music fan ... More >>
Lina Lecaro Fergie gets skankalicious performing with Slash at SSMF [See also Timothy Norris' slideshow "Sunset Strip Music Festival 2010"] Whether you're 20, 40 or 60 years old, grew up in Los Angeles or hopped right off the bus ala Axl Rose in "Welcome to the Jungle," if you're a music fan ... More >>
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Brooklyn Vegan"You're in Varvatos, Baby--I wanna see you shoooooooppppp!"Brooklyn Vegan reports that last night Guns n Roses Axl Rose and a bunch of his buddies who are not Slash, Duff, etc. played legendary NYC club CBGBs the hip clothing store Varvatos in the Bowery. According to Brookly V ... More >>
When we first starting doing word clouds of classic Los Angeles albums, we knew this day would come, and were itching to find out what a Guns 'n Roses Appetite for Destruction cloud would reveal. Our past exercises have been pretty interesting, if we do say so ourselves. N.W.A's Straight Outta Compt ... More >>
You are running out of time. YOU ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. You're running out of time. Halloween is a little over a week away, and you haven't done jack to prepare. It's not too late. You've got this weekend to shop, and the entire next week to finesse. If you're looking for some ideas for you and/or ... More >>
Ulrich Schnauss is pissed and wants to get paidThis one came out of left field. Who knew Axl Rose (allegedly) had such good taste in pastoral techno? Word arrives that Guns 'n Roses are being sued by German techno artist Ulrich Schnauss, whose gorgeous, bucolic instrumental tracks seem the p ... More >>
Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift, continuing a long tradition of unspontaneous VMA quackery. Back in the day, VMA's didn't suck, here's evidence.
Spinner.com has a new Axl Rose interview up, and in it the King of Guns & Roses, Inc. has some choice words for his old bandmate Slash. Read the interview here. Most definitive part of the Q&A is right here: Q: Would you consider a reunion with the Appetite or Illusions lineups? Axl: No. (via The ... More >>
By Phil Freeman In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random stran ... More >>
You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were dem ... More >>
A deli owner's obsession with Axl and company begets the definitive behind-the-scenes account of the band's rise
And anarchy on Sunset
KROQ INLAND INVASION with Guns N’ Roses, Alice in Chains, Muse, Papa Roach, Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu at Hyundai Pavilion, September 23
KROQ INLAND INVASION with Guns N’ Roses, Alice in Chains, Muse, Papa Roach, Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu at Hyundai Pavilion, September 23
KROQ INLAND INVASION with Guns N’ Roses, Alice in Chains, Muse, Papa Roach, Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu at Hyundai Pavilion, September 23
Leaked single from long-awaited Guns N’ Roses’ album rocks hard
Leaked single from long-awaited Guns N’ Roses’ album rocks hard
Leaked single from long-awaited Guns N’ Roses’ album rocks hard
Leaked single from long-awaited Guns N’ Roses’ album rocks hard
at Zen, January 23
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There and back with Punkin Pie
Raping nuns with W.A.S.P.
Raping nuns with W.A.S.P.
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