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Ten Metal Albums to Hear Before You Die

Experts. The world is full of them, now more than ever. There are panels full of them on cable news every night. They're clogging up your Twitter timeline. You overhear them everyday on the train. Everyone everywhere is an authority on everything. Everyone's an expert. Like "hipster" or "passion," t ... More >>

Female G N' R Cover Band Guns N' Hoses Have Guns N' Roses Governors Ball Set Predictions

Erin Marsz once met Guns N' Roses in an elevator. During a family stay in a hotel when she was a kid, a fire alarm pulled by perturbed Guns N' Roses fans after a cancelled show led to a brief evacuation. "We come back into the building, and we get into the elevator. As the door is closing, these guy ... More >>

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The Six Coolest Members of Otherwise Uncool Bands

By Ryan Wasoba Bands are collections of people. In any such group, some people will be cooler than others. Even in an uncool rock band, there will be cool people. Here are the six coolest members of uncool bands. Cool? Cool. See also: Top 10 Douchiest Guitarists of All Time

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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

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12 Supporting Characters From Music Videos Who You Can Use As Quick (And Cheap) Inspiration For Halloween Costumes

Picturesque Americana or pop-cultural moment waiting to be ripped off? It's your call! ​Halloween is coming! In case you're someone who doesn't have the time or money—or patience—to head out to the costume shop and figure out what alter ego you're going to take on during this weeke ... More >>

The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Class Of 2012 Could Include Eric B & Rakim And Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses ca. 1987: If nothing else, that pouf should be immortalized for eternity. ​The Cure, Eric B. & Rakim, and Guns N' Roses are among the new-to-the-ballot artists on the list for for the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame's class of 2012, announced this morning; they join previous nominees ... 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 >>

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Guess Who The Surprise Performer Will Be at the Super Bowl Half-Time Show?

​We know that The Black Eyed Peas are all set to perform. But guess who I hear is joining them? La Toya Jackson?

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Whoever Just Faked The Jelly Pool Parties Lineup Could've Done A Way Better Job

​So a couple hours ago Brooklyn Vegan seemed to post this year's Jelly Pool Party schedule, easily the most vital dance card for Brooklyn-is-the-center-of-the-universe types. But apparently it was some clown with access to the JPP braintrust's official Twitter account last year. BV posts a pho ... 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 >>

Axl Rose Also Has Some Thoughts On Those Guns N' Roses Fashion Week Shows

If you weren't there, have a Red Stripe and fuck off. Unfortunately he took to Twitter several hours before our own Zach Baron unleashed his own visceral rant re: GNR's two "secret" shows here last week, but Axl's own thoughts are always worth perusing, if only because rumors/jibes/accusations sw ... More >>

The Dirty Projectors Played Opening Ceremony's Kick Off Party at the Ace Hotel; Solange Knowles Guested on "Stillness Is the Move" and Groove Theory's "Tell Me" (!!)

The scene at the Ace Hotel was pretty rowdy on Saturday night, as Opening Ceremony threw a party to celebrate opening a bizarre and tiny store in the chain hotel's lobby. Further research undertaken by SOTC over the weekend seemed to indicate that the store is long on McSweeney's and Levis-collabo ... More >>

Week in Review: Fist Fight in the Parking Lot

In the week a chipped tooth kept Lil Wayne out of jail and a secretive, proprietary Billboard chart made a success out of his new, abysmal Rebirth, we pulled our Paul Wall grills out of the closet, just in case. You never know when your hood pass might get pulled, you know? Care for a Sightings p ... More >>

Thanksgiving Playlist 2009: 100-Plus Songs Better Than Your Grandma's Lumpy Squash

Two years ago, William Bowers compiled this playlist. Any further additions? This holiday's abstract mandate can be sorta barren for us patriotically-challenged atheist vegetarians who maintain cosmic equidistance from our bloodkin. The term for it is even weird: "Thanksgiving" is a syntactical c ... More >>

Duff McKagan Wrote About Flying for Today's New York Times, Though You Wouldn't Know It

Michael McKagan, better known as former Guns 'N Roses bassist/current Loaded frontman/guest-SOTC contributor Duff, has a 600-word piece in today's Times about his lifetime of experiences flying. Unlike, say, Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson, who piloted his band's private 757 across the world l ... More >>

Bassist Duff McKagan Loves New York City and He Would Personally Like To Tell You Why

You may know bass player Duff McKagan from his work in Guns 'N Roses, Velvet Revolver, or Neurotic Outsiders. Next Tuesday, May 19, he brings his band, Loaded, to the Gramercy Theater for their local debut. In honor of this milestone, Duff asked us if he could share some of his New York experiences ... More >>

Kurt Reaches For the Shotgun. But He Hesitates: 'The Alternate History of Kurt Cobain'

On the fifteen-year-anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death, Ward Sutton pens "In Bloom: The Alternate History of Kurt Cobain," in which Kurt instead puts the gun down, becomes a latter-day Brian Wilson, alienates his bandmates and wife, inspires retaliatory albums from Guns N' Roses and Neil Young, prev ... More >>

New Year's Eve 2009: New York Shows, Continued

This Week's Voice: Chinese Democracy, Kanye West, New Column Lit Seen, Gus Van Sant's Milk, and More

Why Chinese Democracy's Fine Print Is Way More Fun Than the Record Itself

Axl Rose amuses his delusion

Provincializm #16: Thank-Rock Playlist

CMJ Day Three: Making the Most of Shitty Options

New Guns N Roses Song: Pretty Good!

Axl Rose: Still Crazy

Rock Star Supernova: Fish in a Barrel

Bored in the U.S.A.

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

Guns N' Roses Leak Chinese Democracy Tracks

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