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Golden Gods 2013: How Gene Simmons Gets Out Of Interviews And Other Black Carpet Tales

If you've been reading this whiskey-drenched, devil-horn-throwing column every week for more than a year, here's a little thank-you flashback to the beginning. In one of the first Metal Mondays installments, I talked about the Revolver Golden Gods Awards in Los Angeles--basically the heavy metal Gra ... More >>

Your Holiday Heavy Metal Gift Guide

What's the most metal gift you've ever received? I can think of several that stick out: Led Zeppelin vinyl, a miniature model of Dimebag Darrell's Razorback lightning bolt guitar, spike-bedecked high heels that would make a dominatrix envious, a stripper pole paired with a handle of whiskey. But I ... More >>

KISS and Motley Crue, Ashley Furniture Homestore Pavilion, 8/10/12

KISS and Motley Crue Ashley Furniture Homestore Pavilion Friday, August 10, 2012 See also: KISS and Makeup: 8 Male Makeup Icons See also: KISS/Crue Openers The Treatment Make American Rock 'n' Roll (But Hail From England) See also: The Full KISS/Crue Slideshow A few things are guaranteed at a KIS ... More >>

Six Music Advertising Deals We'd Love to See

It's been a weird couple of weeks in the world of music-meets-advertising. Between Andrew W.K.'s announcement to speak at a My Little Pony convention and KISS' licensing deal with Family Guy, it's been pretty damn weird indeed. But think about it: a hard-partying My Little Pony would look great sit ... More >>

Gene Simmons Has Beef With Rihanna, and Probably a Few Other Pop Stars

​See also: KISS and Motley Crue Are Coming to Phoenix (Together!)Don't make lip-syncing a habit at concerts, or outspoken KISS-man Gene Simmons will have something to say about it."We're sick and tired of girls getting up there with dancers and karaoke tapes in back of them," Simmons said at a pre ... More >>

How About Some Rock: KISS and Mötley Crüe Are Coming to Phoenix (Together!)

See also: Ace Frehley on KISS and His New Memoir, No Regrets You guys like guitars? How about makeup? Well, KISS and Mötley Crüe are coming to town. The "summer's biggest, baddest rock tour" (their words, not ours) is headed to Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion (I feel like Gene Simmons has g ... More >>

This Week's Tastiest Links!

Message to co-workers: get your damn birthday cakes and homemade goodies out of my dieting face. - The Wall Street Journal To foie gras or not foie gras? Valley chefs, restaurateurs, and readers weigh in on the controversial issue. - Chow Bella Gene Simmons of KISS is going to open up a chain of r ... More >>

Ace Frehley on KISS and His New Memoir, No Regrets

​No Regrets: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir is the new book by legendary KISS guitarist Ace Frehley. Assisted by Joe Layden and John Ostrosky, Space Ace pretty much hits it all: his young years in a gang, his audition to be in KISS (there was a job application), the band's rise, his drug abuse, leavin ... More >>

Serge Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life and Seven More Music Flicks That Don't Suck

A scene from A Heroic Life​I didn't make it out to the French pop spectacular at FilmBar on Saturday night, but the pics posted on Facebook got me super-pumped to catch Serge Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life. Non-documentary or concert films are tough to pull off (those are, too) but when a movie ... More >>

Hot for Teacher

Steel Panther's Balls Out Delayed: Eight Albums to Rock The Family Jewels While You Wait

​If you're one of the Steel Panther fans anxiously awaiting the band's new record, Balls Out, well, you're just going to have to wait a little longer. The band announced on its website yesterday that the record has been pushed from its original release date of October 18 to October 31. Practi ... More >>

Sade Lets Her Music Do the Talking

Five Teachers That Turned Into Rock Stars

Having Bun B as a professor could have been interesting...​What if Sheryl Crow had been your elementary school music teacher? How cool would it have been if Bun B was your professor in a class about religion and hip-hop? How strange would your learning experience have been if Peaches had been your ... More >>

Pauly D to Join Britney Spears on Tour

​DJ Pauly D will be spinning on Britney Spears' tour, according to the Fab Life.The Jersey Shore star will be opening for Britney for six dates during her fall tour."Britney is one of my favorite performers and certainly one of this generation's most influential artists," he said. "It's an amazing ... More >>

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Limp Bizkit is Baaaaack: Fred Durst Says the Band is Working on Two New Albums

Fred Durst now has a gray beard but he still wants to rock.​Bad news for people with working ears: Limp Bizkit, the rap-rock outfit that stained an entire generation by instigating a meathead riot at Woodstook 1999, is reassembling.Or so says singer/rapper/douchenozzle Fred Durst, who NME reports ... More >>

Another Piece of Pop Culture Retired: Sony Walkman

​"What's a cassette tape?" Parents, you'll never hear your children asking that ever again now that Sony has retired the Walkman, according to Paste.It turns out that the last of the Walkmen left Sony in April. The 30-year-old portable cassette player couldn't outlast the competition of music play ... More >>

OMB! Biebz's 3-D Movie Title, Poster Revealed

​Never Say Never is the title for Justin Bieber's upcoming 3-D movie, according to Idolator. The movie poster was released today as well. That makes for one more Bieber poster we can all hang up in our bedrooms! Yes!Film director Jon Chu posted pieces of the poster on his Twitter over the past two ... More >>

Toni Braxton Up to Her Eyes in Unbelievable Debt

​R&B singer Toni Braxton has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy again, according to TMZ. She owes between $10 million and $50 million.The companies to which she is indebted include Tiffany & Co., AT&T, The Four Seasons Hotels, and Neiman Marcus. Maybe diamonds aren't a girl's best friend a ... More >>

Matt & Kim's Place Among Other Too-Happy Rockers

Ray It Forward

Ukulele + lunchbox = great art

Ray It Forward

Ukulele + lunchbox = great art

Kiss Posts New Times Review of Their Glendale Concert on Their Web Site -- After Editing Out All the Criticism

Luke Holwerda​The official Web site for the band Kiss has re-printed my review of the band's show Tuesday night at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale. That's not a big deal; bands do it all the time. What is a little shady, however, is the way they edited it.Turns out they removed anything remotely n ... More >>

Fake Kissing: A Tribute to the Long History of Kiss Tribute Bands

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GWAR is War

Sludge metal pioneers, The Melvins, are still doing things their own way on Nude with Boots

KISS, Marilyn Manson, the Brady Kids and . . . Max and the Marginalized?

MiniKiss is better than no KISS at all

Slip Us the Tongue: Minikiss at Dos Gringos on Saturday, May 3

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Light My Menorah

Imagining a rock star Hanukkah

Rockin’ Rides: AZ gets music theme park proposal, we get some baaad ideas

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Never Been Funnier

Local indie flick is mint in box

Sex Factor

All this and First Friday, too

Tongue and Groove

Count Smokula lights up the Trunk Space

Stage Fight

It's KISS vs. Aerosmith in a battle for your metal-god dollar

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Goodbye Boys

The Half Visconte proves that breaking up isn't so hard to do

Lick It Up

Trashman dreams of Genie, but he never shows

Flinch KISS

Detroit Rock City fails makeup exam

Guns 'n' Poses

Trashman finds that he can no longer enjoy a beer in peace

Plaster Casters

Kiss tribute band Hotter Than Hell just might be more real than the real thing

Song for Xmas

The trailer-park Grinch revisits his year of misery

I Love a Band in a Uniform

The fashionable dos and duds of pop's greatest costume gimmick bands

SIMMONS SAYS

KISS IN OUR TIME

THE WORLD'S GREATEST-- OR DUMBEST-- ROCK 'N' ROLL BAND REFUSES TO DIE. PUCKER UP, BUTTERCUP.