by Metal Insider | Jun 5, 2012 | Metal on Metal, Video
Comedian/musician/performance artist Reggie Watts stopped by The A.V. club studios for their “Undercover” series. In it, the editors come up with a list of 25 songs and invite artists to come by and perform a cover of something on the list. Once the song...
by Bram Teitelman | May 30, 2012 | Metal By Numbers, Metal on Metal
Chew on this: While Slash has kept himself extremely busy after leaving Guns N’ Roses in 1996, it took him until 2010 to release his first solo album. That’s almost as much time as it took for Axl and friends to record Chinese Democracy, which came out in...
by Metal Insider | May 23, 2012 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. “When The Pick Of Destiny was released it was a bomb. And all the critics said that the D was done,” Jack Black sings on the title track to Rize Of The Fenix. Well...
by Bram Teitelman | May 21, 2012 | Updates
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/42480835[/vimeo] There were a lot of people surprised last week when Van Halen postponed a large chunk of their summer tour dates. Former frontman Sammy Hagar isn’t one of them. “I’m surprised it took this long,” he told...
by Zach Shaw | May 18, 2012 | Jump...To Conclusions, Updates
Yesterday, it was revealed that Van Halen were postponing over 30 previously announced dates this Summer. An official explanation for the sudden change of plans has still not been given. However, according to TMZ, the reason is simple: they’re just burned out. “They...