Axl Rose

The Many, Many Weird Guest Appearances of Sir Elton John

Elton John may be one of the most silently pervasive artists ever. At award shows, tribute concerts, and even on random albums, including his most recent stint on Fall Out Boy's currently #1 Save Rock and Roll, the "Candle in the Wind" crooner knows how to steal the spotlight from whichever star is ... More >>

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Beacon Theatre - 1/15/13

Better Than: Hearing a drunk crowd shout "Freebird" at a concert where the annoyed band onstage did not write and will not perform said timeless classic by that name. It would have been Ronnie Van Zant's 65th birthday had he not perished--with other members of Skynyrd and their entourage--at the a ... More >>

Arctic Expert Predicts Final Collapse Of Sea Ice Within Four Years!

Around the same time that Obama's second term will be coming to an end, the world will become wetter than Axl Rose's arm pits during a reunion tour. What a ghastly moment that will be! And this isn't just hearsay. A noted expert swears that a global disaster is in the making, and the sea ice is a ... More >>

Rock of Ages Posits Hair Metal as Something Un-awful

Corporate rock still sucks

The Gay Twist In Rock of Ages

No, it doesn't involve Tom Cruise. Tom plays a burnt out rocker who swaps spit with a lady reporter--and who has a pretty sensational past with another female character--and he's actually pretty funny as he slowly whispers his wacked-out lines, coming off even deeper fried than Axl Rose ever was.

Introducing SOTC's Look Back At Our First Least Favorite Songs, Starting With New Kids On The Block

This month, to celebrate the Internet's unbridled love for wallowing in nostalgia and even greater relishing of talking about why certain cultural artifacts are horrible, Sound of the City presents First Worsts, a series in which our writers remember the first time... they ever hated a song enough t ... More >>

10 No-Brainer Rock Legends Never Nominated For The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame

This weekend, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its class of 2012, which consists of Donovan, the Beastie Boys, the late singer-songwriter Laura Nyro, the Small Faces and the Faces, blues guitarist Freddie King, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Guns N' Roses, although not lead singer Axl Rose, wh ... More >>

Live: L'Arc-En-Ciel Land At Madison Square Garden

L'Arc-en-Ciel Madison Square Garden Sunday, March 25 Better than: Hearing critics just talk about weird foreign scenes and stylistic blends and collisions at the EMP Pop Conference. Japanese hard rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel have been in well-deserved self-celebration mode of late. They celebrated thei ... More >>

In Honor Of Axl Rose Reviving The Ritz Next Month, Here Is Guns N' Roses 1988 Concert There

The current version of Guns N' Roses--Axl Rose, DJ Ashba, Dizzy Reed, Tommy Stinson, Richard Fortus, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, Chris Pitman, and Frank Ferrer--will continue their pretty successful run of gigs when they head out on a brief club tour next month that has three shows scheduled in New York ... More >>

The Best Books of 2011

Voice writers pick their favorites of the year

Guns N' Roses And Some Other People Get The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Nod; Plus, Get A Peek At My Ballot

​This morning the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame announced its 2012 inductees, and topping the list is the snarling chroniclers of Sunset Strip decadence Guns N' Roses. (Will they get back together for the induction dinner? Is Axl Rose only going to call up Izzy for the big night? How does Tracii ... More >>

People Love Nostalgia, So Why Doesn't MTV Go All In?

Live: Guns N' Roses Reward The Patient At The Izod Center

Guns N' Roses w/Asking Alexandria Izod Center Thurdsay, November 18 Better than: Getting to sleep at a decent hour. "It's nice to be here," Axl Rose said from the Izod Center's stage at approximately midnight last night, an hour into Guns N' Roses set. "I had my doubts, too, if I'd make it." The ... More >>

The Kardashian Marriage Was Far From The Shortest In Showbiz History

​As I pointed out the other day, the unlikely duo of Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman topped Kim and the ex Mr. Kim's 72-day marriage by splitting after only 32 days. But there are some that croaked even faster! (1) Rudolph Valentino and Jean Acker, 1919 Only six hours! And they were pr ... More >>

Use Your Illusion Zero: Celebrating The 20th Anniversary Of Guns N' Roses' Two-Disc Opus By Editing It Down To One Disc

​Over the weekend, a key album that came out in 1991 celebrated the 20th anniversary of its release date: Guns N' Roses' double-disc, piano-laden Use Your Illusion was released on September 17, 1991, giving late-'80s arena rock what was probably its last gasp of commercial supremacy/artistic o ... More >>

Behind the Music: Hitting All the Wrong Notes in The Perfect Age of Rock 'N' Roll

Which Musical Genre Was South Park Spoofing With "Tween Wave"?

​Last night's South Park was in large part about the fad/scourge of Tween Wave, a new genre that horrified parents and mobilized kids all across the country. Dubbed as such because it would be the Next Big Thing from 2009 through 2012, it made the phrase "this sounds like shit" quite literal; ... More >>

Ride The Free Parking: Suggested Modifications For The Metallica Monopoly Game

​ Given that Metallica themselves have raised the question, "Can you ever really have enough money? Can you possess enough beachfront properties and Fifties-style hot rods?", it makes sense that the band will have its own Monopoly game, which goes on sale in the band's online store next week. ... More >>

Live: Weezer Do Pinkerton (And Other Songs They Clearly Like More) At Roseland

Rivers Cuomo, still a sex symbol. Pics by C.S. Muncy, more below.​Weezer Roseland Saturday, December 18 Better Than: Doing Make Believe in its entirety It's Saturday night, so Rivers Cuomo is makin' Louise. "Hop on board the Weezer Time Machine!" he bellows, to an absurdly packed Roseland cr ... More >>

CMJ Day Two: Marnie Stern, Dom, Tamaryn, And Lower Dens Kick Off The Stereogun Party At Santos Party House

"Stereogum!" Pics by Rob, more below.​Marnie Stern/Dom/Tamaryn/Lower Dens Santos Party House Wednesday, October 20 Better than: Just sitting at home reading ecstatic Tweets about the whole Phoenix/Daft Punk thing. So let's toss a few more ribald Marnie Stern exclamations on the pile. #1: "It ... More >>

Juliette Lewis

10 Magnificent Discoveries from Behind the Music: Courtney Love

The nakedly turbulent narrative structure of VH1's Behind The Music was invented for Courtney Love. In fact, everything with her is behind the music. So when the hippie spawn who once fronted Faith No More (true story) and auditioned for the Mickey Mouse Club by reading Sylvia Plath (a piece about ... More >>

Week in Review: I Sweat Nonsense

Ever feel like Sid Vicious is just kinda watching you? Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week we made Jay-Z's signature gas face at the bunch of hacks and pretenders posing as Guns N' Roses until dudes got the hell out of town, we also posted rants about everything from LMFAO not punching Mitt Romne ... More >>

Here's To Axl Rose and the Bunch of Random Dudes Calling Themselves Guns N' Roses Getting the Hell Out of Town

So Sebastian Bach saved Axl Rose from being attacked by a maniac with a blade the other night at the Gramercy Hotel's Rose Bar. "Nobody is getting anywhere near my man Axl Rose with a knife," said the one-time Skid Row frontman, and from his position atop a banquet, he summoned security to cast wh ... More >>

OK, So Guns N' Roses Played the John Varvatos Store on the Bowery Last Night

Take that, CBGB! Were you booking shows with Axl Rose and his rental band back before John Varvatos graced you with some leather jackets and used audio equipment? No you were not. Fashion week would come and go and you'd just book 17 more Subhumans shows. Not like the new regime over at 315 Bowery ... More >>

Slash Has a Very Good Question

Meanwhile, Axl Rose was in Winnipeg last night looking like Dog the Bounty Hunter:

Who Should Perform at The Michael Jackson Tribute?

​On September 26, Vienna will be home not to just mountains of high-caloric wiener schnitzel, but to scads of bad-for-you stars singing their love for Michael Jackson so they can gain a mass televised audience and revive their careers. It's basically the memorial all over again, but without al ... More >>

The Top 20 (and Far Beyond)

Big year for metal, hip-hop, and Paul Simon/pigfucker reconciliation

Letters 12.3.08

Krist Novoselic on MTV Awards' Great Bass Toss of 1992: Duff McKagan Responds

The Birthday Party

Reminisces on last night's, last year's, and the last half-decade's parties as Fly Life turns five

Axl Rose: Still Crazy

The Killers: Not Enough Like Def Leppard

Letters

Mouse & Masque

Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse elate, punk the masses

Exclusive: Fight! Fight! Fight!

Rated X crew walk out, MisShapes smokes, and Axl Rose's assistant gets into scuffle

Bored in the U.S.A.

Axl Rose's refusal to release a new record is a powerful work of art all its own.

Barring Bars

Proposed legislation would freeze liquor licenses; Rated X is back

Guns N' Roses Leak Chinese Democracy Tracks

The Game Drunk Journalists Love

Déjà Vu

All his cowboys get the blues: The shambolic, iconic Van Santian hero dies young, again

Scary Hipsters

Warriors, Rubik's Cubes, sausages—Oh my! Williamsburg gets ghoulish.

Our Band Is Your Life

That Misty Mountain Was Mount Everest, Dun

Big With the Kids

Corporate Rock-Hack Bands Nobody Over 20 Ever Heard of Rule America

Music

Fade to Black

The End of Frivolity as We Know It

Cocaine Yes, Cobain No

Dung Jumpers Down Under

Monster Mash