Slash (Musician)

Metallica Should Collaborate With These Five Old White Guys Next

​Are you ready for some new Metallica? You bet you are, because while plenty have made valiant and noble attempts to enjoy it, Lulu, the band's collaboration with rock 'n' roll animal/poet Lou Reed was a tough one to get through. You can't fault the band's ambition, and it is cool to imagine 14- ... More >>

Guns N' Roses at Comerica Theatre, 12/27/11

Guns N' Roses Comerica Theatre Tuesday, December 27 See also: Our complete Guns N' Roses and Sebastian Bach slideshow. Our interview with Guns N' Roses bassist Tommy Stinson. The line stretched around Comerica Theatre, and snaked all the way down Adams, placing us just across the street from t ... More >>

Five Holiday Gifts for Your Metal-Loving Uncle

​Alright, slacker. There's no more denying it: the holidays are here, and you need to get on that shopping list. Luckily, Up on the Sun has caught gift guide-fever, and over the course of this week we'll be offering you suggestions for the entire family. It's hard to forget your metal-loving ... More >>

X's Exene Cervenka's Advice to Female Musicians: "Don't Get Married"

​ X set itself apart from its first-generation punk contemporaries with Exene Cervenka and John Doe's dueling vocals and a serious dose of roots and rockabilly in its sound. X has a difficult and fascinating history. Cervenka and Doe started the band as a couple, got married, divorced, wrote ... More >>

Barry Fey's Backstage Past: The Gun, Axl Rose, Lars Ulrich, and the Truth

Legendary concert promoter Barry Fey's Twitter bio is pretty revealing: "Its Barry Fey. I am a rock promoter. I have promoted a few shows here and there. Maybe you have heard of me?" Fey, "The Rockfather," retired from the business in 1997, but not before establishing himself as one of the big name ... More >>

Mountain Guitarist Leslie West Has Leg Amputated; Expected to Make Full Recovery

Wikimedia CommonsLeslie West​Aside from perhaps Lynyrd Skynyrd, you'd be hard pressed to find a classic rock band that's been through more tribulations than Mountain. The Long Island, New York-based band is perhaps best known for their 1970 hit "Mississippi Queen," but there's some ugly lore in t ... More >>

Super Bowl Halftime Show 2011: 10 Minutes of Shouting

​I called it from the very beginning of the football game: The Super Bowl halftime show would be 10 minutes of the Black Eyed Peas shouting. And indeed it was.Between the bad pickup on the microphones and the complete lack of nip-slips, this year's Super Bowl halftime show downright sucked.Th ... More >>

Super Bowl XLV in Cave Creek, Arizona: the Good, the Bad, and the Trashy

​This year's Super Bowl was a special one for a lot of cities -- Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Green Bay among them. But few had a scene comparable to Cave Creek, Arizona.The hamlet north of Phoenix is most famous for drawing outlaws like the rapper DMX and Hell's Angel's founder Sonny Barger but it's a ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne and Slash at Comerica Theatre Last Night

Luke HolwerdaOzzy Osbourne​Ozzy Osbourne and Slash Comerica Theatre January 26th, 2011 Have you ever wondered what happened to the people who appeared in the '80s rock documentary Heavy Metal Parking Lot? Well, from the looks of it they were all standing in a line that stretched around the Comer ... More >>

Kitty Purry, Lou Dog, Snacks, Bubbles and More of Music's Greatest Pets

Snacks​Best Coast singer Bethany Cosentino has made a lot of her fans cat people.Her pet cat Snacks is almost as recognizable as the band (which plays Clubhouse Music Venue Saturday, January 22) itself. A picture of Snacks covers the drum kit, Cosentino gives Snacks a shout-out in the song "Goodby ... More >>

Incoming: Styx, Ozzy Osbourne, The Temptations, Cradle of Filth, Wu-Tang Clan

These guys: ain't nothin' to fuck with​She's a real mixed bag, this week's just announced shows. As we head toward the holidays, the shows start to become more scarce and, oddly enough, full of more popular, well-known acts. Case in point: Ozzy Osbourne, The Tempations and Alice Cooper's annual Ch ... More >>

The End of the Lopsided World: Jonathan L's Last Radio Shows are This Weekend

​If you've been following the debate about the movement to get Phoenix's NPR station, KJZZ, to play some indie rock, you may have seen the name Jonathan L tossed around a bit.The 30-year DJ, who has had an alternative show since 1986, does a twice-weekly shift on the normally metal-centric KUPD. I ... More >>

Slash's Solo Album Stream: Hear It Before Its May Release

Slash has a new record out...with the help of loads of famous friends.​When you used to be in a band with a guy that made arguably the most anticipated album of the last two decades, which turned out to be Axl Rose's epic failure Chinese Democracy, it's kinda hard to top the hype yourself. But ala ... More >>

Jailhouse Butt Rock

Band fuses The King with the ‘80s

Paulina Rubio

Cross over anytime

John Hughes Shrine in NYC, Aerosmith Cancels Tour, Anthony and the Johnsons Cover Beyonce

Sound of the City: There Is Now A Shrine in the Spot Where John Hughes Died Spin: Terrific Twitter Trio of the Week Spin: Watch as Nick Cave Reads from New Novel Rolling Stone: "The Beatles: Rock Band" Boasts Unheard Lennon, McCartney Audio Rolling Stone: Aerosmith Cancel Summer Tour Due to Tyler's ... More >>

Scream On: Gokey Makes Ears Bleed on 'Idol' Top 4

So I think we all knew going into last night's rock-themed episode of Idol that Danny Gokey was going to have problems. The guy is about as rock n' roll as my grandma after hip replacement surgery (Hi Nana!). I was honestly really excited to see him make a fool of himself, and, always eager to pleas ... More >>

About Damn Time: Matt Giraud Off of 'Idol'

Time to say goodbye, Giraud.During his tenure on American Idol, Matt Giraud was like the Little Dueling Piano Player Who Could: Snubbed by the voting public in the Top 36, the judges made him one of their "judges choice" picks for the Top 13. Then, when he finally got voted off two weeks ago after h ... More >>

'Idol' Keeps it Classy With Rat Pack Week

Think she's got one more week left in her?So before we review last night's episode, can we please discuss the guest judges or the celebrity mentors or whatever they're calling them this season? They started out making sense, with Randy Travis and Smokey Robinson. But for the past couple of weeks, it ... More >>

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 waitin ... More >>

Will Guitar Hero save the music industry?

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 waitin ... More >>

Shred Cred

You wanted the best? You got the best: Guitar Hero III

Outshined: Alice In Chains and Velvet Revolver, September 18 at Cricket Wireless Pavilion

You wanted the best? You got the best: Guitar Hero III

Mane Spotting

Poison guitarist makes hair-metal palatable -- almost

Speed Trap

PIR's Jam mixes speeding bullets with Velvet Revolver

Velvet Revolver

G 'N' R/STP contraband visits Celebrity Theatre

Guns N' Roses

Welcome to the Videos (DVD) (Geffen)

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

Off the Rails

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

The Blasters

Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (Rhino)

The Have Nots

Amid a spate of new activity, John Doe looks back at the napalm-and-velvet explosion that was X

Dream On

The Dream Syndicate The Days of Wine and Roses (Rhino)

Miracle Worker

Former Dream Syndicate leader Steve Wynn puts the ghost of his old band to rest with the finest album of his career

Achin' to Be

Clumsy's Marc Solomon proves the perfect Replacement

Enter the Dragons

In the tradition of the Zeros and the Nuns, the youngest Escovedo talks siblings, booze and Dragon slaying

A Glitch in Time Saves None

Where were you when the lights didn't go out? All the dangers of Celebration 2000 that Phoenix shut-ins sat out.

Cave Creek Dahl

Rock 'n' roll torchbearer Jeff Dahl talks about getting clean, D.I.Y., and being big in Japan

Calendar for the week

Rock 'n' roll torchbearer Jeff Dahl talks about getting clean, D.I.Y., and being big in Japan

Calendar for the week

Rock 'n' roll torchbearer Jeff Dahl talks about getting clean, D.I.Y., and being big in Japan

Beach Boys Vs. Guns N' Roses:

Who are the real bad boys of rock?

Hangin' With Mr. Cooper

Ol' Spider Eyes is back with a new summer tour--but this time, he's left the guillotine at home

DISCS WE'VE HEARDTHE CD JUST KEEP ON COMING

Ol' Spider Eyes is back with a new summer tour--but this time, he's left the guillotine at home

BACK FROM PLANET XLOS ANGELES' MOST INFLUENTIAL PUNK-ROCK EXLORERS HAVE RETURNED, SEEKING CASH

Ol' Spider Eyes is back with a new summer tour--but this time, he's left the guillotine at home

RODGERS' MUD

EX-BAD COMPANY VOCALIST HAS A FINE ROCK DISC AND TOUR' BUT THEY COULD GIVE PURISTS THE BLUES