Matt Wake

The soulfulness of Sebastian Bach’s new memoir caught me off-guard. It's not that 18 and Life on Skid Row is short on debauchery. Having threesomes with strippers at age 15, rocking stadiums by his early 20s with Skid Row on Guns N’ Roses’ Use Your Illusion tour, doing mounds of......

To celebrate the Nov. 25 release of the massive The End box set, we ranked all of the songs in Mötley Crüe’s studio output — minus the John Corabi ones....

In a room on the second floor of the cylindrical Capitol Records building is a beige, boxy convection oven that could pass for a droid R2-D2 might "swipe right" for on Tinder. This type of Lindberg/Blue convection oven is primarily used in laboratories and for product testing. At Capitol, it's......

Someone broke into Mike Dirnt’s home when he was 15, stealing the young punk rocker’s guitars. Luckily Dirnt's bass was over at friend Billie Joe Armstrong’s house. “That sealed the deal. I was now a bass player for good,” Dirnt recalls now. Almost 30 years and millions of Green Day......

In the studio, record producers can be song doctors, audio wizards, incense lighters or performance psychologists. Or various combinations thereof. Sometimes, though, when paired with the right artist and right material, a producer become more than that. He (or she, though music production has historically been a boys' club) becomes a seamless......

We’ve all watched Axl Rose slither across the “Paradise City” music video wearing a black and pink Cathouse tee underneath that white leather jacket countless times. But the Cathouse was much more than a T-shirt.  The Cathouse was a rock & roll dance club that initially opened Sept. 23, 1986......

A Whitesnake medallion is the only memento John Kalodner kept from his remarkable A&R career.  He keeps it in front of the desk and computer in his airy Hollywood Hills home, commemorating Whitenake’s self-titled 1987 album, which featured the band’s epic pop-metal hits “Here I Go Again” and “Still of the......

Where are you, Meg White? Listening to the White Stripes’ feisty The Complete John Peel Sessions — long-bootlegged 2001 BBC radio performances that were officially released this April — makes me wonder what White, the garage-rock duo’s former drummer, is up to now. Like, right now. Is the famously shy Meg sipping......

He’s singing like that snakeskin-wearing 25-year-old badass again. The guy that first welcomed us all to the jungle back in 1987. Even the haters are copping to the fact Axl Rose is completely crushing his new gig touring as frontman for Aussie hard rockers AC/DC. Did even the most hardcore......