Slash (Musician)

5 Ways Bruno Mars Can Out-Do Beyonce's Super Bowl Half-Time Performance

Last week, news broke that Bruno Mars will be the 2014 NFL Super Bowl half-time show performer. Given the beautiful orgasmic infamy of Beyonce's 2013 half-time show, we thought it would be useful to give Bruno some helpful suggestions on how to avoid being overshadowed. See also: Top 5 Worst Super ... More >>

Duff McKagan of Walking Papers: "This Band Is a Very Real Thing I Believe in"

"If you were in Seattle, you would have known 15 years ago what Jeff Angell was capable of," begins Duff McKagan. "You would have seen him in Post Stardom Depression and gone, 'Fuck, he's killer.' You would have thought to yourself, 'He should be the biggest thing in the world; he should be the next ... 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 >>

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

SST Records Legend and Music Scribe Joe Carducci on His New Book and Throwing Sonic Youth's Cassette Into the Demo Pile in 1985

By Brad Cohan Joe Carducci not only played a monumental role in helping run and co-own SST Records in its glorious 1980's heyday when Black Flag, Minutemen, Hüsker Dü and Meat Puppets were the reigning kings of the Amerindie underground, but he also famously penned the lyrics for the Minutemen's ... More >>

At Metal School with Unlocking the Truth

Two rock-loving kids bring their riffs to Times Square

Your Frighteningly In-Depth Guide To Insane Clown Posse's Upcoming Record The Mighty Death Pop!, Featuring Kreayshawn, Ice Cube, Color Me Badd, and a Christina Aguilera Cover

On August 14, Insane Clown Posse will deliver their 12th studio album, The Mighty Death Pop! The last time Detroit's finest punching bags released a full-length original album, September 2009's Bang! Pow! Boom!, they gave the world "Miracles," an unintentionally hilarious viral-video ode to giraffes ... More >>

Yoko Ono And Sean Lennon Rewrite "The Times They Are a-Changin'" To Protest Fracking; Rock And Roll Officially Dead

Rock and roll, 62-ish, died Friday at 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan after a courageous battle with poor taste. At the time of its death, rock and roll was surrounded by friends, family, and comedian Jimmy Fallon, as Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon -- the former wife and son (respectively) of Beatle Jo ... More >>

Jonathan Toubin, Comeback Kid

Getting back to the business of making people dance

Q&A: Jonathan Toubin On His Record Collection, Moving To New York In The '90s, And Wanting To Make Culture

Some DJs are quiet, let-the-music-do-the-talking types, but not Jonathan Toubin. Interviewed for this week's Voice profile, the 4Knots Music Festival Afterparty host was enthusiastic and opinionated, generating a novella's worth of transcript. More highlights from our conversation are below, as Toub ... More >>

First Worsts: Remembering When Bon Jovi Gave "Hair Metal" A Bad Name

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 >>

Q&A: Penelope Houston On Balancing Her New Solo Album With The Ever-Evolving Tale Of Her First Band, The Avengers

Penelope Houston, the former lead singer of San Francisco punk legends The Avengers, has her solo shoes on again with the recent release of On Market Street (Devoted Ruins), her first solitary salvo in seven-plus years. But the official reissue of The Avengers' self-titled, posthumous LP—out t ... 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 >>

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 >>

Kenny Chesney and Beyonce Pull Their Audiences Close

American Idol Season 10: The Kids Honor People Who Are A Bazillion Years Old

Michael Becker/FOXC'mon, dude, you probably never even had detention. ​ Gwen Stefani was on this week's American Idol because somebody paid somebody so she could hawk the clothing line that she apparently still has. But this wasn't Ska Week or New Wave Week or Neptunes Week, as awesome as eve ... More >>

'Jeff Beck's Rock & Roll Party with Imelda May & Her Band'

Fawning Rock Doc Lemmy Is No Ace of Spades

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 >>

American Idol Season 9, Live-Blogging Idol Gives Back & Top 7 Results

Michael Becker / FOX Baby-Hugger Simon Cowell​ Two hours? Really? Because tonight's annual philanthropic extravaganza adds an extra hour onto the already too long results show (far too much to ask of any live-blogger, in my opinion), I'll be checking in intermittently throughout the night, ... More >>

Just Admit It, You're Really Excited to Hear Hole's Nobody's Daughter. Good Thing There's a Listening Party Tomorrow at Angels and Kings

Courtney Love isn't entirely feeling this whole performing live thing anymore. The recent incarnation of Hole played three shows at SXSW--the first of which, the Spin 25th anniversary performance was pretty bad-ass, haters be damned--but her Holeness was miserable. "In Austin, I hated every minute ... More >>

Oh, Yoko Ono

BAM throws a cheerfully random, surreally star-studded tribute to the Plastic Ono Band

Your Big, Honking Guide to Haiti Benefits and Valiantly Intentioned Fundraising Efforts, Non-Wyclef Musical Edition

If this doesn't say it all, don't know what does Wyclef's Yele charity has recently drawn a firestorm of criticism, but he's not the only musical figure trying to mobilize folks and funds on behalf of Haiti. There's also an impressive number of benefit concerts and music events happening in the cit ... More >>

Our Front Pages: Granny Mugger, Tiger Woods Slammed; War on Christmas Update

The guy who mugged a 101-year-old and other elderly victims has been sentenced to 75 years in prison. As he is 47, on even the most forgiving terms of parole, he can only get out when he is of an age to be thus victimized himself. The humiliation of Tiger Woods proceeds with withering scorn from ... More >>

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance: Rihanna's Rated R

Her new album is as angry and profoundly uncomfortable as you might have suspected

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 >>

What Would You Ask American Idol Cast-Off Allison Iraheta?

Ray Mickshaw/FOXGoodbye, rocker chick Last night, Allison Iraheta got the Daughtry treatment and became the fourth-place cast-off on Season 8 of American Idol. The last girl standing, Allison is the most successful "rocker chick" in the history of the competition, outlasting all the Amanda Overmyer ... More >>

American Idol: Slash Piddles While Idol Burns, Musings From a 60-Year-Old Fan, Allison and Adam are Getting Married

Kris Allen is the real-life Dr. Drew Baird, the Jon Hamm character that Tina Fey dated on 30 Rock. He lives in a Beautiful Bubble. Michael Becker / FOX.Slash, Classic Rock week mentor After spending the weekend with my 60-year-old Idol-watching dad, I've gained some new insights into the show. A b ... More >>

In Defense of Lil Wayne's "Lollipop"

Guitar Hero III's Shred Cred

You wanted the best — you got the best: Legends of Rock

Totally Use Your Illusion, Dude

Rap stars see how the other half lives

The Birthday Party

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

Holy Shit: Slash, Perry Farrell, Tom Morello, Les Claypool, Wayne Kramer, Alexi Murdoch Onstage Together @ SXSW

Over It!

Politicking With Michael Stipe; Hanging With The Hansons; Slash In Soho

The Sunset Chronicles

Getting Their Hands Dirty

Michael Azerrad Chronicles Indie Rock His Way

Flaming Bosoms!

This Year’s Remodel

Celluloid Hero

Uriah Careys On

Warren Von Kruck

Children of the Rose

Sounds of Known Origin