Subject: Guns N' Roses

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

  May 4, 2008

• Future Shock: Alicia Keys, Buckethead, The Hives, and more

  July 25, 2008

• NOT EXACTLY EASY LISTENINGMETALLICA IS STILL HARD TO TAKE

  June 3, 1992

• THE DEAD RETURN

  . . . DEADHEADS, MARIJUANA SMOKE AND LAWMEN TRAIL IN THE WAKE. BUT THIS TIME MIGHT BE DIFFERENT.

  December 5, 1995

• Chinese Democracy on Nov. 23? Really? REALLY???

  October 23, 2008

• Horde of the Ring

  When the WWF comes to town, everyone is an extra

  February 4, 1999

• Driven to Ecstacy

  Victims in Ecstacy will do whatever it takes to become stars. They'll even dress like boys.

  March 30, 2000

• Comings and goings on the local scene

  When God closes a Jar, he opens a soda bar

  February 24, 2005

• The worst jobs in rock

  August 28, 2008

• Knux Redux and Cool Kids Explain Why Q Tip Sucked

  By Martin Cizmar It’s Friday of a loooong week and I’m still thinking about Monday’s show at the Marquee, The 2K Sports Bounce Tour with Q-Tip, The Knux and The Cool Kids. Sure, I panned it in my review, mostly because it was a six-hour slog that should’ve been an incredible three hours, but there was still a lot of great music. I’ve been listening to The Knux’ Remind Me In Three Days... all week, and it’s really, really growing on me. This is the rap record of the year, as far

  November 21, 2008

• Why I Was The Last Man In America To Hear Chinese Democracy

  By Martin Cizmar I very well may be the last man in American to hear Chinese Democracy. Almost certainly, I was the last music critic, and among last Guns n' Roses fans. Honestly, though, as bad as I wanted to hear it, I couldn't bring myself to log on to MySpace to hear the record I've been waiting for since seventh grade. So this morning, I did it right: I got up at 9:30 a.m. after a long night of drinking, put on my Appetite for Destruction shirt and went to my neighborhood Best Buy where I

  November 23, 2008

• Night Train: Sycamore/Main Street (Stop #28)

  I'm on the nightrain, Bottoms up,I'm on the nightrain, Fill my cup,I'm on the nightrain, Ready to crash and burn, I never learn.-- W. Axl Rose, 1987 "Nightrain," the Guns N' Roses song, is actually about a brand of bum wine that'll get you pissy, punch-your-best-friend drunk after half a bottle. But it could also be about the project we're launching today: The Ultimate Phoenix Bar Roll. Up on the Sun is counting down the coming of light rail, which is opening on Dece

  November 30, 2008

• What's The Big Announcement?

  So we Phoenix media types have been summoned to the U.S. Airways Center Thursday for "a major 2009 concert announcement" at 11:30 a.m. And oh what a press conference it will be, with free lunch and entertainment by The Big Bang as well as the Phoenix Suns dance team and their Gorilla mascot.This morning, our contact over at Live Nation, the always-charming Sarita Ray, even dropped off a box with two chocolate pianos (white and milk) and a paper flier.I'm not sure if I'm excited or frightened. Le

  December 2, 2008

• Concert Calendar for This Weekend: Gilby Clarke, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Sarah Brightman, Agnostic Front, And More

  Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is scheduled to perform on Friday, December 19, at the Celebrity Theatre. As we get closer and closer to Christmas (just seven days to go), the number of regular concerts tends to dwindles off, and the number of holiday-themed performances increases substantially. Which means, if you're into carols and choral groups, then right now is truly the most wonderful time of the year. But for rock and hip-hop gigs? Eh, not so much. Still, there are a handful of noteworthy shows h

  December 18, 2008

• The Best Album of 2008? Sorry 'Science,' I Go With Girl Talk

  Can an album comprised solely of samples really be an artistic achievement? Honestly, I'm a little bit torn about naming Girl Talk's Feed The Animals the best album of the year. After all, it is a record made up entirely of mashups, so, strictly speaking, there's not a note of new music in this banging 53-minutes club opus. But there is pretty much everything that's great about popular music, all tossed together into something joyously familiar yet excitingly new.So, while pretty much no one w

  December 22, 2008

• 'The Heart is a Drum Machine' Draws Big, Loud Crowd For Premiere

  The Voyager Golden Record, sent in to deep space with a selection of Earth's music, is an important part of the film.It's not often a movie with Elijah Wood, Juliette Lewis, George Clinton, Wayne Coyne and a host of other big names premieres in Phoenix, so it probably wasn't surprising that The Heart is a Drum Machine's opening at Phoenix Art Museum drew a huge crowd last night. Free wine from the Arizona winery owned by Tool's Maynard James Keenan didn't hurt either. Check out the trailer here.

  February 7, 2009

• Eagles of Death Metal Surprisingly Excellent at Martini Ranch

  I only had an iPhone to shoot with -- gimme a break here, folks.The last time Eagles of Death Metal were in town, their show was nearly unberable. Opening for The Hives at the Marquee, the band made their (now latest, then soon-to-be released) record Heart On sound so boring I almost gave up on them. "By the end, it was like watching some dude in a trucker hat and 'More Cowbell' T-shirt put the moves on your little sister," I wrote at the time.But, when Heart On finally came in the mail, it was

  February 10, 2009

• Buckethead: Under the Bucket

  November 13, 2008

• Lock and Load, Lovebirds

  You’ll never buy flowers again

  February 14, 2008

• Various Artists

  November 1, 2007

• Mane Spotting

  Poison guitarist makes hair-metal palatable -- almost

  August 9, 2007

• Crushed

  My Machine
  (No Relief Records)

  July 26, 2007

• Startling Lineups

  Local promoters book bands that don't blow

  August 16, 2007

• Metal Health

  The freshest stuff is underground

  May 24, 2007

• Party Like a Rock Star

  Shaking asses and eardrums at The Rogue

  March 1, 2007

• Rock Star: Supernova

  Fake band: hyperreality

  February 22, 2007

• Encore Performance

  Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act

  November 23, 2006

• I See Hawks in L.A.

  California Country
  (Western Seeds)

  July 6, 2006

• Adults Only

  Like, the 'Blisters can be fun

  April 6, 2006

• Hit Makers

  It's amazing what a scuffle can do for a rocker's career

  March 2, 2006

• Die Hards

  Redfield makes the rock 'n' roll lifestyle look easy, but behind the scenes, it takes a lot of work

  July 21, 2005

• Take Me Out . . .

  . . . to the ball game

  April 7, 2005

• Speed Trap

  PIR's Jam mixes speeding bullets with Velvet Revolver

  March 17, 2005

• Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains

  October 21, 2004

• The Faces

  August 26, 2004

• Velvet Revolver

  June 10, 2004

• Alice in Revolver Land

  June 3, 2004

• Guns N' Roses

  Welcome to the Videos (DVD) (Geffen)

  Mötley Crüe
  Greatest Video Hits (DVD) (Mötley/Hip-O)

  December 18, 2003

• Good Grief

  Waylon Jennings' widow and youngest son say goodbye to a sad year -- with rock stars. In Phoenix!

  January 9, 2003

• Letdowns: Bummer, Man

  Five artists came with the promise of a new day -- and defused faster than a wet firecracker

  January 2, 2003

• Off the Rails

  The Guns N' Roses tour collapses, and Axl folds. Is anyone really surprised?

  December 19, 2002

• Bless This Mess

  The Go-Go's, sweethearts of pop, move beyond old sins

  August 16, 2001

• Torch Singers

  Betty Blowtorch - Are You Man Enough? (Foodchain)

  August 9, 2001

• Gotta Have the Phunk

  Valley rap-rock pioneers return with a new record

  January 25, 2001

• Godspeed you black emperor!

  Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (Kranky)

  October 5, 2000

• Hatfield's the Real McCoy

  Will Juliana Hatfield fans find the Beautiful Creature in Juliana's Pony, or will it be a Total System Failure?

  June 8, 2000

• Tool of the Trade

  A Perfect Circle tries to prove that its popularity is because of much more than just Maynard Keenan's pretty face

  June 1, 2000

• Misanthrope Through and Through

  Nursing a broken heart and bruised ego, Trashman seeks solace and finds . . . Bush

  December 9, 1999

• BOXING YOUR EARS

  IF YOU'VE GOT CASH IN YOUR WALLET AND TIME ON YOUR HANDS, BOXED SETS ARE FOR YOU

  December 15, 1993

• JUST THE FLACK, MA'AM

  MUSIC-INDUSTRY PRACTITIONERS OPERATE ON FRACTURED HYPE

  January 15, 1992