by Matt Brown | Apr 11, 2014 | Crime, Legal Woes, News
Here’s a story not metal related per-se, but rather an example of how not to fund your band’s tour. This alt-rock band called the Josh Davis Band has been busted for selling counterfeit high-end guitars. From January 2008 to October 2011, the band stocked...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 15, 2014 | Bummer Alert, Crime
Last night in Chicago, a thief stole one of Zakk Wylde’s signature guitars and a Black Label Society vest. The custom Gibson Les Paul Pelham Blue and the vest were stolen off Zakk’s bus at 10pm. Wylde was in town with a who’s who of other guitarists...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 14, 2014 | Crime, News
While they might not be playing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, KISS continue to make headlines. Actually, this wasn’t KISS proper, but in Saddle Brook, NJ this past weekend, a quartet of masked marauders with Paul Stanley masks hit a Maaco Auto Body Shop,...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 13, 2014 | Bad News, Crime, Festivals, SXSW
At least two people have died and 23 are injured, five of them in critical condition, following a hit and run accident in which a car plowed through a barricade and through a throng of people at South by Southwest. The accident happened near the Mohawk on Red River...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 5, 2014 | Crime, News, Updates
The disturbing and unsettling saga of former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins, who’s currently in jail for 35 years on charges including attempted rape of a baby, continues on. Joanna “Majic,” Mjadzelics a former prostitute, had a two year...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 3, 2014 | Crime, New Music, Video
[youtube]http://youtu.be/WI4LkkBBR7g[/youtube] It’s kind of hard to listen to Austrian Death Machine. Reconciling what was essentially a joke band assembled from discarded As I Lay Dying riffs and Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes with the real-life drama of band...