Fotos de Destruction

Hair Metal Fashion 101: An Interactive Guide

You probably noticed that the twentieth anniversary of the release of Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction has got us thinking about late-’80s hair metal just a bit. So far we’ve celebrated Guns N’ Roses’ early days on the Sunset Strip, the ladies who starred in some of the era’s biggest music videos and those that dated rockers like Axl Rose and Vince Neil, exclusive photos of Axl and Co.’s first months as a band and a longstanding metal marriage (via an interview with Slash’s wife, Perla Hudson). But if you think we forgot about the leather lace-up pants, spandex and Aqua Net, you’re quite wrong. Check out our photo gallery of must-have hair metal fashion, complete with helpful instructions for how to achieve the scene’s hottest looks.

Publicado: 2007-08-02 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News

David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust Turns 35, Beck Hits the Studio, Ray Davies Loses His Day in Court

Everyone’s going milestone crazy. Rolling Stone is honoring Appetite for Destruction’s 20th birthday, the Sex Pistols are getting ready for Never Mind the Bollocks to hit the three-decade mark, and everyone can celebrate the 35th anniversary of David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust by voting in the new album cover contest on his Web site. Our favorite: number thirty-nine’s post-modern take on the iconic Bowie image. Comedian Zack Galifianakis reminisces about that time he and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy went down to the farm and lip-synched to Kanye West. The man who shot the Kinks’ Ray Davies in New Orleans in 2004 has had the charges against him dropped due to Davies’ failure to make it to court (Davies says the district attorney didn’t notify him in time). Beck and Jamie Lidell are sharing studio time while recording on a direct-to-disc device. To honor Gene Simmons’ birthday, the minor league baseball team Brockton Rox will pay homage to his band Kiss on August 25. The team will don Kiss-inspired uniforms and, if we’re lucky, the starting pitcher will paint his face like Ace Frehley.

Publicado: 2007-07-28 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup

WAR OF THE ROSES

For Guns n' Roses, "Appetite for Destruction" was more than the title of a landmark album that sold 15 million copies in the US and turned the group into rock legends. It was also the perfect description of a hunger that, while catapulting them to...

Publicado: 2008-08-31 Proveedor: New York Post Etiquetas: Axl, band, Slash, strong, Guns, album, Izzy, million, Chinese, Democracy, Geffen, Roses, later, Davis, Sixx, music

Down - Down III - Over The Under

Artist: Down Review: Ex-pantera singer Phil Anselmo doesn't believe in A's for effort. "Never try/You either do it or don't waste your time," he growls in "Never Try," in a voice etched with scars from his own blues and trouble (the messy breakup of his old band, a personal war with hard drugs -- he's been clean since 2002 -- and the near-destruction of his New Orleans home to Hurricane Katrina). But Down, originally started as a Pantera side project, are a clear-cut victory in their own right, making Southern metal... Rating: 4 Stars

Publicado: 2007-09-19 Proveedor: Rolling Stone

Portland Punks The Thermals Talk Dark April LP “Now We Can See”

The Thermals, three Fraggle rockers from Portland, Oregon, are coming back to steal your assumptions. They’re a distortion-spraying punk band that stitches the come-hither simplicity of rock anthems to the stickiness of pop hooks. They also write lyrics that take simple words and place them into complex puzzles. “We love the ’90s,” lead singer and guitarist Hutch Harris said with a wink at a recent show in Brooklyn, before launching into a Breeders cover. But don’t expect some kids simply flipping through the Alternative Nation playbook. The band broke out with 2003’s More Parts Per Million, a gob-stopping collection of fuzzed-out basement tracks, featuring the anti-manifesto manifesto “No Culture Icons.” Since then, the Thermals have released two more records, said goodbye to two drummers and switched labels from Sub Pop to Kill Rock Stars, which is set to release the band’s fourth studio album, Now We Can See, on April 7th. The band’s two constant members are Harris and bassist Kathy Foster; new drummer Westin Glass rounds out the trio just in time to tour for the new record. So how will Now We Can See compare to 2006’s The Body, The Blood, The Machine, a politically charged nightmare phantasm in which religion stomps over the state and the apocalypse marches in to a beat you can pogo to? Harris says the new LP follows up their last record, which ended in mass destruction. And while the band doesn’t consider Now We Can See a sequel, there are some Venn diagram overlaps. “We like to have a theme,” Harris says. “And for this one it was definitely death — or life looking back at death.” Don’t call them concept records, please. “I feel like a concept is something that will weigh the record down and you’re going to have to know what it is to really get into the record,” Harris says. “We want someone to just enjoy the record and the songs individually without having to buy into some story.” Does Harris consider Now We Can See a political album, like the last one? “No,

Publicado: 2009-03-12 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, Breaking

Shane West on Joining the Germs and “What We Do Is Secret”

After years of drama, this Friday sees the long-awaited release of What We Do Is Secret, the biopic that tracks the rise and fall of notorious Los Angeles punk icons the Germs. Formed in 1977, Darby Crash, Pat Smear, Lorna Doom and Don Bolles became notorious for loud, fast songs about sex and destruction which they played with amateurish glee at their riot-inducing live shows. In recent years, the band has seen something of a renaissance, touring occasionally with What We Do Is Secret star Shane West in place of the late Crash. “I never thought so much fun being a Germ,” West says. “But I always remember that Darby was booed off the stage a lot back in the day, too.” Click above for an exclusive clip from What We Do Is Secret. How did you end up in this role? To be honest there’s no great story. I just had an audition the meeting came through, and I jumped up and was like “really, they’re doing what?” I’m thankful it’s so independent, because otherwise I don’t think I would have had the opportunity to do it. It was difficult, but that’s what I feel when the best movies come because you’re not trying to care about foreign rights or who is getting people into the seats. You’re actually trying to make the movie good. Were you a Germs fan before, or did your research of Darby come after you got the role? The real research started to begin when I got the role. I had heard the regular set of punk bands out of the L.A. scene: Black Flag, the Germs, X. I had heard of Darby’s legend, but that’s it. I knew of “Lexicon Devil” and “Circle One.” I might have heard those two songs. Is it difficult playing somebody who actually lived? It seems it’d be hard to keep the balance between the actual facts and you’re interpretation who Darby was. I had never done it before. I think it’s gonna be different for any actor or actress who has that chance. I’m not a method actor, but I feel it’s good to be somewhat method when it has something to do with a character like that. I also feel

Publicado: 2008-08-06 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, Videos

Megadeth, In Flames, High On Fire Ground and Pound at Gigantour in New York

The third installment of Gigantour, Dave Mustaine’s traveling metal circus, had its first of two sold-out shows at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom last night. Never one to blow an entrance, Mustaine opened Megadeth’s set standing alone onstage, ripping into “Sleepwalker,” the first cut from last year’s United Abominations. From then on, the order of business was to thrash as hard as possible for ninety minutes, with items on the agenda including a blistering “Take No Prisoners” and a sneer-heavy “Symphony of Destruction.” Mustaine’s ginger mop doesn’t bob as much as it used to, but his chops were still there — impressive for a guy who had to essentially re-learn his instrument five years ago after suffering nerve damage. The big revelation of the night was newly added lead guitarist Chris Broderick, who made trading shred-heavy lines with Mustaine on “Hangar 18″ seem like child’s play. And speaking of children, the 1984 mullets several attendees forced upon their spawn likely qualify as a form of child abuse. Bouncing back from a pair of albums that were light on memorable moments, Sweden’s In Flames performed a handful of vicious songs from their latest, A Sense of Purpose. Diehard fans gnashed their teeth at the dearth of pre-2000 material, but new songs “The Mirror’s Truth” and “Disconnected” featured enough bite to grab newer ears and likely won back a few of the old ones. Most attendees in the massive line missed an impressive — if unpleasantly early — set from Oakland’s High on Fire, who conjure up as much blood and thunder as Mastodon and do it with only three guys. Phoenix-based youthful Internet buzz band (7 million MySpace views!) Job for a Cowboy followed by showing off solid technical proficiency and was the night’s most straightforwardly brutal act, suggesting the band could become pretty noteworth

Publicado: 2008-04-23 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, Live Shows

Roses - Slashs Doubts Over Gnr Album

Former GUNS 'N' ROSES star SLASH was plagued by doubts about the band's first album APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION - fearing the record wasn't "that great". The rocker's 1987 ...

Publicado: 2008-04-04 Proveedor: Contact Music

Angels Of Destruction by Marah

The Philadelphia/Brooklyn-based band returns with its latest studio album following a Christmas album in 2005. [Rock]

Publicado: 2008-01-16 Proveedor: Metacritic

Guns N’ Roses in Rolling Stone: The Cover Stories

When Guns N’ Roses graced the most recent cover of Rolling Stone to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their landmark album Appetite for Destruction, it obviously wasn’t the band’s first time on our top page. Click here for three of their previous RS covers, including their January 1991 one where Slash revealed, “Axl gets very adamant about expressing himself, and his lyrics are very direct. He’s very honest, and he’s got his reasons. … I don’t regret doing ‘One in a Million,’ I just regret what we’ve been through because of it.” They were back on the cover in September 1991, where Slash observed, “There will be a point when this will all finish, the tour will end, the album will die and I’ll keep jamming with cats I dig playing with. But then we’ll just go do another record. I don’t think anything’s really going to break us up.” Seven months later, Axl Rose granted us one of the most revealing interviews of his career, where he admitted, “I’ve done regressive therapy all the way back to the point of conception … My father was a pretty fucked up individual. I didn’t care much for him when I was born.” To get the big picture, read the full stories.

Publicado: 2007-08-09 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News

Rob Zombie: “Our Fans Were More Metal Than We Were”

Photo: Gries/Getty Rob Zombie has spent his career mining everybody else’s past, but the new box set Let Sleeping Corpses Lie goes deep into his own. The release collects every song and video released by the band during their 12 year career, from their humble beginnings as a New York art-noise act through the massive cyber-metal powerhouse Astro-Creep 2000: Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head. “We never fit in,” says Zombie. “At every point in our career, we’d have people standing around confused going ‘What the fuck is this?’” Click below for more from Zombie, including his new music and film projects and why he never liked the idea of going solo. • Rob Zombie: “Our Fans Were More Metal Than We Were” Related Stories: • Rob Zombie Finishes Work on Long-Awaited White Zombie Box Set • Album Review: Rob Zombie, Educated Horses • From Charles Manson to Rob Zombie: The Scariest Covers of Rolling Stone

Publicado: 2008-11-18 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News

Pete Townshend Demonstrates the Art of Guitar Destruction: Exclusive Clip From “Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who”

There have been many guitar-demolishers in the history of rock, but perhaps none more accomplished than the Who’s Pete Townshend. Click above to check out an exclusive clip of Townshend demonstrating his technique from Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who, a film tracking the band’s forty-plus-year career via all-new interviews with Townshend, Roger Daltrey and more, plus rare concert footage. The movie comes out on DVD November 6th along with Amazing Journey: Six Quick Ones, an additional feature-length project that compiles commentary on the Who’s significance from Eddie Vedder, the Edge, Sting and Noel Gallagher, among other musicians.

Publicado: 2007-10-25 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Videos, The Who