by Elise Yablon | Feb 8, 2022 | News
On Monday (7th) it was reported that the estates of Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley and bassist Mike Starr sold their stakes in the publishing rights and master recordings of the band’s music. Independent music publisher Primary Wave purchased those rights...
by Zenae Zukowski | Aug 22, 2019 | News
According to KEXP, Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan has declared August 22, 2019 as “Layne Staley Day” in Seattle, WA. Today (22nd) would have been the late Alice in Chains frontman’s 52nd birthday. The grunge legend passed away on April 5th, 2002 from a heroin overdose at...
by Metal Insider | May 5, 2016 | New Music, News
It has been just over 14 years since former Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley sadly passed away from a drug overdose. Fortunately, Alternative Nation picked up on a not-so-subtle tweet directed from a Seattle-area audio engineer Jesse Holt to Staley’s former Mad...
by Bram Teitelman | Aug 17, 2015 | News, Video
With Decibel’s fun article on the rise and fall (and maybe re-rise) of nu-metal that ran last week, a pretty interesting fact about Taproot has come to light. A new book about Alice In Chains, Alice in Chains: The Untold Story, mentions that former Alice In...
by Bram Teitelman | Feb 25, 2015 | News, Video
[youtube]http://youtu.be/L-gx957MEO4[/youtube] Before Alice in Chains was Alice In Chains, they were known as Alice ‘N Chains. And while it was no secret that they had a hair metal past, some recently-unearthed footage from 1986 shows just how much. Singer...