Duff McKagan

Steven Adler: "The Past 20 Years Have Been a Hell Ride For Me"

Pacing back and forth in a dressing room at the House of Blues on Sunset, Steven Adler can't control his emotions. His new band, Adler, is performing their first show in Los Angeles in the same neighborhood where he first made his name as the drummer for Guns N' Roses. For a person who has played ... More >>

Duff McKagan On the "Rock-and-Roll Lifestyle": He Reads Tonight

Duff McKagan is the founding bassist of Guns N' Roses and the leader of the band Loaded. His column runs every Thursday on our sister blog Reverb. Today and tomorrow at the Viper Room in L.A. he'll be reading from his book, It's So Easy: and Other Lies. These will be no ordinary readings: today's w ... More >>

Marilyn Manson, Slash, Evanescence - Club Nokia - 4/11/12

Revolver Golden Gods Club Nokia 4-11-12 Better than ... Any hard rock show you'd see on the Sunset Strip nowadays. Music awards shows generally suck. They are most often excuses for industry people to slap themselves on the back and perform crappy performances of songs you don't want to hear anywa ... More >>

Guns N' Roses - The Palladium - 3/9/12

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 >>

Velvet Revolver - John O'Brien Tribute - House of Blues - 1/12/12

Velvet Revolver, Maroon 5, Sheryl Crow, Stephen Stills, The Nightwatchman House of Blues Los Angeles 1/12/11 Better Than...Scott Weiland's Christmas album. Last night, Scott Weiland, Slash, Duff McKagan and company put their differences aside to play a one-off set to honor the memory of composer a ... More >>

Tommy Stinson Interview: Guns N' Roses' Bassist Compares Axl Rose And Paul Westerberg

Steven CohenTommy Stinson​See 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 >>

Axl Threatened To Skip A Concert, So Barry Fey Got His Gun

Katarina BenzovaBelieve it or not, this is Axl's PR photo these days​See 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 >>

Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Complete List

​See also: *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums One day I was sitting around thinking I want to write a song about ménage a trois...and the line 'love in stereo' came into my head. Inspiration can happen anywhere at any time. -Jani Lane, Hit Parader magazine History has not been ... More >>

The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #5-1

​See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: #15-11 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6 *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums ​5. Motley Crue Shout At the Devil (1983) Motley Crue's second record stands a ... More >>

Best Posts of the Week

We'll tell you exactly how they make us feel​Who needs Snakes On A Plane when you've got a Cobra Starship? This week in his kill-yourself-hilarious column Why This Song Sucks Shea Serrano explored the slick New York band's somehow-popular single "You Make Me Feel," proving why it blows using s ... More >>

Excerpt From Duff McKagan's New Memoir, Part II: "People would throw cigarettes at us and spit on us."

Yesterday we ran our first excerpt from Guns N' Roses founding member Duff McKagan's new memoir, It's So Easy: And Other Lies, which recounts GnR's rise to fame as well as Duff's descent into addiction. Read more from Duff on our sister blog Reverb, where he is a weekly columnist. Our early gigs w ... More >>

Excerpt From Duff McKagan's New Memoir, Part I: Guns N' Roses Finds Their Identity, Somewhere Between Metal And "Cow-Punk"

See also: Excerpt From Duff McKagan's New Memoir, Part II: "People would throw cigarettes at us and spit on us." In It's So Easy: And Other Lies, Duff McKagan recounts GnR's rise to fame as well as his descent into addiction. Read more from Duff on our sister blog Reverb, where he is a weekly colum ... More >>

Jane's Addiction Is Back; Dave Navarro Talks Their New Album and Why He Fucking Hates The Media

See also our review of Jane's Addiction at the John Anson Ford Theatre, 10/3/11 Jane's Addiction play the Ford tonight and tomorrow. The venue is an important part of their history. Back in 1989, the band performed seven straight nights there, launching Nothing's Shocking. They also offered a glimp ... More >>

Music Picks: Coachella, Girls in Trouble, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Paul Simon

Also, Mary Anne Hobbs, Yoni Wolf, Emmylou Harris and others

NIGHTRANGER: 2010

Sweat, Sleaze and Stars: Jane's Addiction Brings Hits, Circus to Hollywood's Roxy

Check out more pictures from the show in Timothy Norris' slideshow, Jane's Addicition @ The Roxy. Jane's Addiction needs to either quit it with last-minute gigs or take up residency in my back yard. For what seemed like the fifth time in less than two years, Perry Farrell and company announced anot ... More >>

More Free Jane's Addiction Tickets for Friday's Surprise Roxy Show Coming Via Facebook

Dave Navarro and Duff McKagan​Yesterday, West Coast Sound got word that the already rumored "fans-only" surprise Jane's Addiction show is indeed going down on Friday night at The Roxy in Hollywood. What's more, Dave Navarro gave away five pairs of tickets via his Twitter account last night, a ... More >>

Jane's Addiction to Play Intimate 'Fans-Only' Show at the Roxy in Hollywood on Friday

Jane's Addiction, then​Late last week, Dave Navarro let slip via the Jane's Addiction website that the band will be playing an intimate show "for the fans" at an undisclosed Hollywood venue. Well, that venue's been disclosed. On Twitter about an hour ago, Navarro announced, "I'll be giving aw ... More >>

Live Review: Activision's E3 2010 Preview Event with Eminem, Jane's Addiction & Usher - "We Got the Cash!"

Last Night: Activision E3 2010 Preview Event with Eminem, Jane's Addiction, & Usher

Nightranger: Ritual de lo Rock Show

Last Night: The New Lineup of Jane's Addiction @ Bardot

Gustavo TurnerJane's'n'Roses!​ Historic (i.e., pre-Chinese Democracy debacle) Guns'n'Roses bassist Duff McKagan debuted last night holding the low-end for Jane's Addiction in a small gig at Hollywood club Bardot. The band, dubbed by the fans Jane's Addiction 6.0 or Jane's'n'Roses, sounded hap ... More >>

Live in L.A. Tonight: Pacha Massive, the Hold Steady, Jane's Addiction, Dosh, Two Door Cinema Club

​No matter whether you regard Cinco de Mayo as a meaningful holiday or a beer company-sponsored excuse to get loaded, it's a good day to get your bilingual on. Spaceland's lineup tonight plays right into that: NYC's hybridizers of dub, electro and Latin rhythms Pacha Massive headline, supporte ... More >>

GnR's Duff McKagan Confirms 'Association' with Jane's Addiction, Also Visits Silver Lake and Feels Validated by Hipsters

"Yes, you ARE my monkey!": Self-confessed "dork" McKagan​In case you didn't know, former Guns n Roses' bassist Duff McKagan has a sorta regular column that runs in our sibling publication the Seattle Weekly. Yesterday McKagan granted an interview to his editor there explaining why he had been ... More >>

Video Interview: Slash Talks Solo Album Details, Guitar Center Contest, and His New Attitude Towards Frontmen

Erin Broadley"Which guitar do you want me next to: a Les Paul or a Les Paul?"​On any given day you can walk into Guitar Center in Hollywood and see Slash. One can't go more than ten feet inside the mega-retailer without coming across a promotional gear-head display or banner bearing the image ... More >>

Sweet Jane O' Mine?: GnR's Duff McKagan Rumored to Be Joining Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction's (Perhaps) New Bassist Duff McKagan and Significant Others​The Jane's Addiction fan community -- a dedicated lot if there's one -- is trying to digest a persistent rumor that has emerged from Perryland this past weeked: bassist Eric Avery is out and (shocker!) Guns n Roses' D ... More >>

Joe Carducci's Book Enter Naomi Recounts History of SST Records

Recalling label's photographer Naomi Petersen, rock critic looks back at his roots in the L.A. punk explosion of the 1980s

Guns N' Roses: Appetite for Pastrami

A deli owner's obsession with Axl and company begets the definitive behind-the-scenes account of the band's rise

A Hero for Our Time

Are rocker video games the new MTV — and will they help save the music universe?

Makin' It Work

Style Wars, Divine Design and Kitchen 24

Strip Standard

Cocks of the Rock

The ear-to-ear assault of the Chelsea Smiles

New Power Generation

Wayne Kramer's anarchy for adults

Cocked and Loaded

Blowing away the music machine

Bianca Halstead

1965–2001

Built for Speed

Fastbacks: Punk in the present tense