Guns N' Roses

Key Club to Close This Month

The Key Club, a Sunset Strip favorite for decades, is scheduled to close later this month. Though the club's ownership could not be reached for comment, its last show is slated for March 14, and sources behind various events held there confirmed its impending demise.

Maná Gets Inducted Into the Hollywood Guitar Center's Rock Walk

Mexican rockers Maná made their mark in concrete as the foursome were inducted the Hollywood Guitar Center's Rock Walk yesterday. Like Bon Jovi, The Boss and Guns N' Roses all rolled into one (but from Guadalajara, Jalisco), Maná has garnered dozens of accolades -- including winning eleven Grammys ... More >>

What's Nirvana's Best Album? Hint: It's Not Nevermind

See also: The Most Important Album of the Last 25 Years Isn't Nevermind, It's Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction If you aren't familiar with Nirvana's sophomore release, 1991's Nevermind, you were probably born after the Y2K scare or believe that music peaked when Rush released Moving Picture ... More >>

The Most Important Album of the Last 25 Years Isn't Nevermind, It's Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction

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 >>

Old Records Are Outselling New for the First Time

By Chris Kornelis In the two decades since Nielsen Soundscan started to keep track of U.S. album sales in 1991, the company has seen the industry fold in half, digital sales catch up to physical, and vinyl mount a resurgence. But until last week, they'd never seen old records outsell new ones. The ... More >>

Top 10 Live Music Venues in L.A.: The Complete List

Timothy Norris​California knows how to party. -"California Love" It's the unofficial state motto. But not only do we know how, we know where. Los Angeles is home to a wide spectrum of live music venues, from the teeniest Echo Park hole-in-the-wall only you and five friends know, to grand ol' ... 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 >>

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 >>

Dive Bar Report: Kibitz Room

Vidalia/FlickrThe scene at a benefit show.​ The Place: Kibitz Room, 419 N. Fairfax Ave., West Hollywood; (323) 651-2030. The Hours: Every day from 10:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. The Deals: Well, that can be a relative term in a dive bar. What did we think? Turn the page to find out...

Top 5 Edible Rider Requests By Los Angeles Bands

robert_rex_jackson/flickrJane's Addiction. Ginger gives you wings. ​ Anyone who has wasted an afternoon at work bouncing around The Smoking Gun's collection of hospitality riders -- an artist's list of demands, like towels, booze, food, guest tickets -- understands that musicians can be fair ... More >>

Sunset Strip Follies

Jane's Addiction's "Nothing's Shocking": The Word Cloud

​ Hey gang--guess what popular West Coast Sound feature is back? The Word Cloud! The 'Cloud has been M.I.A. for a few months, but we're restarting this Friday tradition with a great one--as per usual very suitable for making stencils and T-shirt iron-ons. For those of you with memories oblit ... More >>

Top 10 Rock Books of 2010

​With the year coming to a close, we're heading off the inevitable barrage of "best" lists coming your way with one that will actually be useful and problem solving (a holiday gift guide for the music lover in your life, that's not actually music... or a t-shirt). Buy 'em a book! iPad and Kin ... More >>

Sunset Strip Music Festival: Warner Drive Headlines Viper Room Tonight, Talks Hollywood Business Savvy, Meeting One's Idols & Why The Band Will Never Pay-to-Play

[L-R] Warner Drive's Candice, Jonny U, Albert, Jonny Law and Elvis​For those of us raised in Los Angeles (not counting Silver Lake transplants who are too cool, or lazy, to drive west of Vine) partying and playing music on the Sunset Strip is a right of passage. Love it or loathe it, we all h ... More >>

Guitar Icon Slash Talks 2010 Sunset Strip Music Festival Honor, Hollywood Survival Tips, and Stealing His First Top Hat

Erin BroadleySlash at Guitar Center on Sunset Blvd.​It started as just another night on the Sunset Strip in the early '80s. A 17-year-old Slash borrowed his mom's car to party at the Rainbow with Steven Adler. Fake IDs in hand, they got to the bar only to find out that it was "ladies' night." ... More >>

Nightranger: Stars, Cars & Guitars

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 >>

Live Review: Hanoi Rocks' Michael Monroe @ the Viper Room

Word came in that Michael Monroe, longtime frontman for pioneering sleazo-glam-metal outfit Hanoi Rocks would be playing the Viper Room last Friday, in a rare LA show before heading out to SXSW. As the mastermind of Hanoi Rocks, Monroe (born Matti Fagerholm in Finland almost 50 years ago) is the mi ... More >>

Lusty for Life

Tupac's 'All Eyez on Me': The LA Weekly Word Cloud [NSFW]

West Coast Sound has been analyzing classic Los Angeles albums for the past six months by creating word clouds from the lyrics. We've tackled Black Flag's Damaged, the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton, Guns 'n Roses' Appetite for Destruction and, most recently, just for kicks, ... More >>

Jason Reitman's Concert Highlights: David Crosby's Live Gig at Rob Lowe's House (And More)

Editor's note: This week director Jason Reitman is guest blogging at West Coast Sound. Reitman, whose new film, Up in the Air, was nominated for six Golden Globes earlier in the week (including Best Director and Best Screenplay nominations for Reitman ... congrats!), is also a pretty big music head, ... More >>

In Praise of Banquets: Why I'd Rather Eat at Tavern Than at Babbo, or Mommy, My Ears Are Bleeding

The other day I had lunch at Tavern, Suzanne Goin and Carolyn Styne's snappy newish eatery in Brentwood . I ate the New Yorker -- brisket, pickled onions and horseradish on a roll. The sandwich was good, but what made me even happier was the banquet on which I was sitting.

Ticketmaster and Servants: Bands Get Cut of Service Fee

Irving Azoff reveals industry secret at Senate Judiciary hearings

Ticketmaster LiveNation: Take the #4 Bus from HQ to HQ

View Larger Map Well, it makes sense on a practical level. All you have to do is zip down San Vincente from Ticketmaster's WeHo HQ on Sunset, hang a right on Santa Monica and bingo, a few blocks past the Troubadour is LiveNation's Beverly Hills HQ. Or, in these lean times, executives can just catch ... More >>

Top 10 Metal Albums of 2008

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 >>

Pacific Heights: L.A. Weekly's Top 10 L.A. Recordings of 2008

No Age, Chapin Sisters, Mia Doi Todd, the Knux, Flying Lotus, Madlib and more

WORN OUT- From Bands to Beads: Joseph Brooks

We've known and admired Joseph Brooks from afar and later as a friend for over 20 years now. From his stints spinning at our first and maybe all-time fave rock club, Scream in downtown LA circa 1986 to his seminal record shop Vinyl Fetish (subsequently sold to Scream creators Michael Stewart and Bru ... More >>

Guns N' Roses: Why Chinese Democracy's Fine Print Is Way More Fun Than the Record

Amuse your delusion

The Week in LA Music: Scott Weiland, GnR, Vivian Girls at Part Time Punks, Jason Bentley

Cassie Ramone of the Vivian Girls (photo by Timothy Norris) These things happened in LA music this week: Erin Broadley sat down with Scott Weiland at his Lavish Studios for an interview, and the former Pilot, former Revolver, was, well, in a sentimental mood. KCRW announced that DJ Jason Bentle ... More >>

The Doors? Black Flag? The Chili Peppers? Nope. L.A.'s Best Band Was Love.

The more things change . . .

Get Off Your Rocker and Slam!!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

The whole shootin' match

So, I need to tell you about the show of the festival. My mind is blown, dude! I'm sitting in this bar, reading my Archies comics, because I am desperate for anything to keep me awake through a set by Aqualung. (Aqualung are one of these tragically earnest Nic Harcourt bands. They are attempting ... More >>

Where Are You Hollywood?

Last season we had Charlize. Jack Nicholson. Lara Flynn Boyle. Courtney Love. Tommy Lee. Gina Gershon. Anthony Keidis. Mena Suvari. Mike Tyson. Er...Sporty Spice. And of course there was Paris. Aahhh, we'll always have Paris...or so LA Fashion Week thought. But so far this season, and with only ... More >>

Rock God Goes Jackless

Rock Picks

For September 21–28

They Come in Colors...

Kill Them All. Kill Them All!

Music and video games: an endless, wretched love affair

Smokin!

Leaked single from long-awaited Guns N’ Roses’ album rocks hard

Getty Up or Bagg It

Blogs & iPods & Jay-Z & (non-ironic) Metal

The Hipster’s musical year-end predictions and post-game analysis

Half Moon

The Darkness, not quite back from hell

Don’t Go Away Mad, Just Go Away

Welcome to the Jungle

Edited by Kateri Butler

A Dope Show

Edited by Kateri Butler

They'll Always Have Paris

Edited by Kateri Butler

?Quién Es Palestino?

The 17th Level

Opening weekend at 'The Grove'

Titty Titty Bang Bang

Edited by Kateri Butler