Artist: L.A. GUNS

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Your super Saturday: ► British psych-rockers Django Django, whose acclaimed debut came out last year< headline the Fonda Theatre. That's their video for "WOR," above. ► Day 2 of the Burgerama blowout at the Observatory in O.C. features Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, White Fence, King Tuff, FIDLAR, Hunx & His Punx, Beachwood Sparks, Allah-Las, Shannon & the Clams, Summer Twins, the Soft Pack, Dixie Band, Natural Child, Gap Dream, Cosmonauts, the Memories, Sam Flax, Fletcher C. Johnson, Tomorrows Tulips, Guantanamo Baywatch, Hindu Pirates and the Aquadolls. ► U.K. hard rockers [...]

Listen to this week's new releases and your ears will be whisked off to Italy, Pennsylvania, insane-ass Finland, and worse!

• Malignant Records - Corpse Upon a Throne of Wyrms by Deathstench
• RockNGrowl - Raven Lord - Black Friar

L.A. Guns provided one of the most talked-about performances at the 2012 M3 Rock Festival in Maryland last May. That full concert was professionally captured in a multi-camera shoot and packaged with behind-the-scenes, studio, and interview extras in L.A. Guns: Live in Concert , to be released February 12, 2013 by Cleopatra Records. Also included are three studio music videos from the critically-acclaimed album, Hollywood Forever . The accompanying CD provides the audio tracks for the M3 concert. L.A. Guns continues to carry the torch [...]

Tracii Guns... Stacey Blades... Casee Nunchucks?

I know you were all really concerned about the well-being of Tracii Guns after he announced this summer that he was dissolving the second version of L.A. Guns. But rest assured, Tracii's gonna be alright! He's scoring HIgh on the HOg, a movie about a farmer who has to start growing weed to save his [...]

Writing about L.A. Guns earlier got me thinking about hair metal songs I really like, some of which are by bands I don't think should be classified as hair metal but are anyway. So, like, here are some songs I was listening to, if you wanna listen to 'em, too: L.A. GUNS, "NOTHING BETTER TO [...]

It's over - but we're grateful for every moment of it. What else brought us more smiles, more laughs, more pure, unadulterated joy? It lasted six whole years, but that still doesn't feel like it was long enough. But everything, eventually ends. And so, that regrettable time has come: There is now, once again, only [...]

In among the slew of albums out this week, we were rather surprised to see one bearing the name LA Guns . We'll be honest and admit that we assumed these Los Angeles hair metal stalwarts had broken up years ago, but no, they're still going strong (although they appear to have splintered into two parallel versions of themselves, a long and complicated story that's related at Wikipedia for anyone interested). Anyway, for all that mid-'80s LA metal was undeniably awful and silly, there was something rather endearing about its sheer, unabashed absurdity — as Flavorwire hero [...]

We get that metal people are not a target audience for that Rock Of Ages jive, just as we know that the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise did not covet the historians of high-seas pirates demo. Same deal. With that knowledge, a metal dude's mild buttrage at its overall pussyness might dissipate into a faint cloud of lulz at its [...]

That's right, fart knockers. There are still two versions of L.A. Guns, one with namesake Tracii Guns, and one with some dude named Stacey Blades instead. This is the one with Stacey Blades. It's got these two slutty girls running around in Catholic school outfits. There's a Catholic school right by my apartment. I always [...]

On the same day that Great White premiered their new video for "(I've Got) Something for You" , fellow '80s hair metal rockers LA Guns show up with "You Better Not Love Me". The track is featured on LA Guns forthcoming release, Hollywood Forever , coming on June 5 from Cleopatra Records. There are those that bitch and moan that founding member Tracii Guns is no longer in the band but he's tried [...]

Portland invaded Boulder for one evening with Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks with Nurses brought some Rose love to the land of patchouli. I say that because the guy next to me wreaked of it, nearly passing out in the process. Nurses held their own with the heavy reverb and falsetto vocals that managed to overcome the less than stellar sound at the Fox Theatre. The material relied heavily on the mind warping release of "Dracula" that hit it's high pitch with "Fever Dream." I still have that beat stuck in my head and my feet [...]

• Nurses - Fever Dreams
• Nurses - Trying To Reach You

As reported , the first installment in Matador Records' new 73 subscription series features Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks and 802s glam-metal godfathers L.A. Guns covering one another. As Stereogum points out , Malkmus and co.'s contribution, a take on 19892s "Wheels of Fire”, was recently played on a Canadian radio station, and you can stream the replay here (scroll to the 1:48:10 mark.) For context, L.A. Guns' version is below. The second 73 in the series is out March 20th and features lo-fi hardcore upstarts OBN III’s. The third, available May 22nd, promises Brooklyn [...]

Check out Malkmus' foray into glam-metal.

Last month, Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks teamed up with the glam-metal veterans L.A. Guns to cover each other on a split single for Matador's Singles Going Home Alone story, and it took forever for either song from the 73 to make it to the internet. Trust me, we've been looking. But now you can finally hear Malkmus and company faithfully taking on the L.A. Guns rager " Wheels Of Fire ." The song got played on the Canadian community radio station CJSR, and you can hear the entire show here . Jump to the 1:48:10 mark [...]

There must be something about NYC that disagrees with the members of L.A. Guns. Last November, the Tracii Guns-led band was scheduled to play a poorly publicized show at Club Rebel. All I can find online about the show is a one line comment: " L.A. Guns (Tracii Guns version) were supposed to headline but had a dispute with the club and walked out. " The Phil Lewis / Steve Riley lineup were scheduled to play Bowery Electric on Jan. 29th and the show description listed on Reverb Nation [...]

The Men at Bowery Ballroom in November ( more by BBG ) Matador Records is presenting the Singles Going Home Alone Subscription Series for 2012, where you will get 6 subscription only 7"es every other month in 2012, plus a special secret bonus item, a tote bag and 10% off all year long on the Matador Store (which cannot be combined with other discounts, email with code will arrive around time of the first single) The first installment is a split 7" between Stephen Malkmus and L.A. [...]