Artist: Velvet Revolver

Slash is friends with legendary producer Robert Evans (Chinatown, Marathon Man, uh, Jade), and plays the theme from The Godfather during his extended live guitar solos. Also, he's obviously pretty famous. And by Hollywood standards, that makes him qualified to help run a production company. And by "help run," I mean "take large paychecks to [...]

The reason all the hair-metal autobiographies have been disappointing is because the best hair metal band, Motley Crue, did it first, and did a really killer job (treating it like an oral history told from lots of different perspectives = master stroke), and so there was really no place to go but down. Bret Michaels' autobiography [...]

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Duff McKagan, ladies and gents, former bass player for Guns and Roses and Jane's Addiction, currently singing with Velvet Revolver and Loaded scraped together a list of 10 things that you should and shouldn't do if you want to make it big time in the music industry. "I must say there's really nothing I'd chance about my story thus far. But it may be helpful if I could dispense a few dos and don'ts to new and up-and-coming rock bands. I've walked into a few brick walls in my time – and made it because this [...]

The reason I haven't posted any stories on the many rumors involving the return of Velvet Revolver is because it was always the same line from Slash: "We're still looking for a singer." But now, the return of VR might actually be happening thanks to a line from Dave Navarro. The Jane's Addiction was interviewed on KROQ-FM in L.A. recently (via CoS ) and he talked about why former JA bassist, Duff McKagan, left the band. He said that, instead of working on his solo band, Loaded, like frontman Perry Farrell said he was, [...]

Unlike most big-time comebacks, Slash and company aren't keeping tight lipped about a post -Scott Weiland Velvet Revolver . After bassist Duff McKagan's public departure from Jane's Addiction earlier this month, and Slash's announcement on the 13th that auditions for a new lead-singer would begin this October, the comeback seemed inevitable. Not even McKagan's Loaded diversion could conceal the gravity of the two coincidences. And if there was still any doubt, a recent interview with Dave Navarro on LA's KROQ-FM is clearing it up. During the interview, Navarro contradicted Perry Farrell's [...]

In June, we announced that Velvet Revolver , the super group made up of Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum and Wasted Youth guitarist Dave Kushner, would reunite without vocalist Scott Weiland . As it turns out, they haven't lined up a new singer yet, so this October they'll be holding auditions. The news comes from the BostonHerald.com 's recent interview with Slash, who went on to note that before Weiland was ever chosen, Sorum had wanted to nab Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy. They considered Kennedy again shortly after Weiland's [...]

Today's Bombay Times front page tells us everything about what the Haasan family is doing (like their passion for dance, filmmaking and "directing amma and appa", and remorse at not learning ballet). They report that singer-songwriter/actress Shruti Haasan will be collaborating with Velvet Revolver ( = Guns N' Roses minus Axl Rose + Stone Temple Pilots minus Stone Temple Pilots + Wasted Youth) guitarist David Kushner. The song will be released and aired globally. Shruti will be flying to the US to the work on this project. Shruti told Bombay Times: [...]

'Cause apparently he's out. No word yet on whether he was quit or fired, but either way, this news should be about as shocking as the fact that Axl Rose walked off-stage during a show in Dublin last week. Why? 'Cause Jane's Addiction have had four bass players just since 2001. Either these dudes are [...]

Tal parece que el 2010 no ha sido un año amigable para los señores de Jane's Addiction . Primero perdieron a Eric Avery a principios de este año por diferencias e indiferencias musicales. Sin embargo, la banda estaba decidida a regresar al estudio y grabar un nuevo disco, por lo que reclutaron los servicios del ex Velvet Revolver y ex Guns N' Roses, Duff McKagan para llenar el vacio dejado por Avery. Sin embargo, luego de sólo cinco meses de estar juntos, parece que McKagan tampoco estaba muy contento con la agrupación, pues [...]

Yes, Guns N' Roses did play their first U.S. show in four years during the final night of the Rock 'N Rev Music Festival , but it's just not the same without the original lineup. If you feel our pained nostalgia, we've got a bit of a treat from you: a virtual reunion by the legendary rockers in the form of a mashup EP. According to the Guns N' F' Roses blog (via AntiMusic ), the EP mixes Axl Rose's vocals from Chinese Democracy [...]

I think Motley Crue's "Home Sweet Home" was actually the first "life on the road" music video, but regardless of who created the genre, it existed before Guns N' Roses' Nigel Dick-directed clip for "Paradise City," and has continued to exist long since. (A recent example would be DevilDriver's video for "Fate Stepped In.") And [...]

I think Motley Crue's "Home Sweet Home" was actually the first "life on the road" music video, but regardless of who created the genre, it existed before Guns N' Roses' Nigel Dick-directed clip for "Paradise City," and has continued to exist long since. (A recent example would be DevilDriver's video for "Fate Stepped In.") And [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Video , Exclusive Stefano Cremaschi Reading the lyrics for Slash 's 'Back to Cali,' the latest single from his self-titled solo album, might give some the sense that the guitarist is yearning to return home. But the video for the track makes one thing clear: Slash is just as much of a road dog as ever. 'Back to Cali' features lyrics written by Alter Bridge 's Myles Kennedy, [...]

I love reading groupie biographies. It's sort of a hobby of mine. I've read everyone's, from Pamela Des Barres to Catherine James to Marianne Faithfull (she counts), and am eagerly awaiting the memoirs of Cherry Vanilla, the woman who heroically blew half of New York to get David Bowie on the radio. Some women go [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , Q + A Since quitting Guns N' Roses in the mid-1990s, Slash has carved out for himself an impressive career that's seen him form his side-project, Snakepit, as well finding himself offering his six-string services to artists as diverse as Alice Cooper , Michael Jackson , Cheap Trick and, more recently, Macy Gray . Having formed Velvet Revolver with former Guns N' Roses members Duff McKagan [...]

Slash , one of rock's most talented and iconic musicians, took to the stage at Vicar Street with his band, which features singer Myles Kennedy on vocals, on Tuesday 29th June as a stop-off on his 2010 world tour. The Guns 'N' Roses and Velvet Revolver guitarist entertained the energetic crowd with tracks from both bands' music collections, as well as songs from his self-titled debut album. I finally managed to catch Guns 'N' Roses live a few years back in the RDS and, while it was a great gig, it just wasn't the same without [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , Q + A Since quitting Guns N' Roses in the mid-1990s, Slash has carved out for himself an impressive career that's seen him form his side-project, Snakepit, as well finding himself offering his six-string services to artists as diverse as Alice Cooper , Michael Jackson , Cheap Trick and, more recently, Macy Gray . Having formed Velvet Revolver with former Guns N' Roses members Duff McKagan [...]

Fresh from a blistering set at the Download festival in England, Slash and his band of men landed in Ireland on Monday for a pair of sold-out shows at Dublin's Vicar St. and Belfast's Mandela Hall. With his previous bands, Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver, Slash had headlined Slane and the old Point Theatre respectively, but anybody who's followed the iconic guitarist's career knows that nowhere is he more at home than in front of an intimate club audience. In truth, he could easily have sold out a venue five times the size of Vicar St., as the dozen [...]

Legendary Guns 'N' Roses and Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash brought his World Tour to Dublin for one night only on Tuesday to play a storming set at Vicar Street. It included classics from those two bands as well as songs from his self-titled debut, and an excellent Thin Lizzy cover. Setlist: Ghost Mean Bone Nightrain [...]