RollingStone.com is reporting that Axl Rose and Guns N Roses will be touring this summer and playing stadiums as opposed to the arenas they played in 2002 and 2006-2007. They also will not be playing Spain’s Kobetasonik Festival. GNR manager/LiveNation Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff had this to say about the bands…
Up until today, I was pretty much convinced that Axl Rose was hiding in California or dead. I was half right. Axl’s been pretty much avoiding any chances of doing publicity for Guns N Roses’s “Chinese Democracy” which came out in November until he recently opened up to Billboard. In…

When not suing his fans or playing drums for Metallica, Lars Ulrich is being appearing in music videos, most notably the upcoming “Better” from Guns N Roses. A GNR “associate” (wtf is that) named Fernando Lebeis wrote on a GNR message board that Lars had not signed the release permitting…
According to Contact Music, Metallica would consider touring again with Guns N Roses. They apparently liked “Chinese Democracy” and are big GNR fans. Drummer Lars Ulrich said “We’re road dogs. We love to tour. So we’d never say no. We’ve learned never to say no to anything, and all four…
Scott Weiland and his producer/collaborator Doug Green took over the radio waves for about an hour last night on four radio stations: KUFO (Portland), WBCN (Boston), WKRK (KRock Cleveland) and KXTE (Xtreme Radio Las Vegas). Here’s a recap of it and we actually have the whole thing for you (minus…
If you want a free can of Dr. Pepper, you can get it now. Dr. Pepper has kept true to its promise and is offering a coupon for a free can of Dr. Pepper because the new Guns N Roses album “Chinese Democracy” came out this year. Get your..
Typically, I would summarize an article, make a few wiseass remarks, put up a picture, credit the source and put it in the oven. This time though, we’re doing things differently. The New York Times has a piece that will be in Sunday’s newspaper about Axl Rose and what he’s…
There’s been a lot of talk as to why Guns N Roses’s new album, “Chinese Democracy”, has taken so long to be released. Was Axl Rose really working on a masterpiece? Were there a lot of legal problems? Did he just take a nap and not want to get up?…
There are rumors that Robin Finck and Bryan “Brain” Mantia might be out of Guns N Roses because neither of them are listed on Guns N Roses’s Myspace page. Finck’s been touring with Nine Inch Nails and “Brain” had taken a leave of absence during one of GNR’s most recent…
At the Classic Rock awards in London the other night, Slash spoke to the BBC who asked him about Guns N Roses’s “Chinese Democracy” album coming out and he said, “I’m glad it’s finally coming out after all this time. It’s good to hear Axl’s voice again. That’s what’s cool.”
Then he…
Serj Tankian, a Grammy Award winner and one of rock’s most unconventional frontmen, will perform Elect the Dead Symphony — a very special orchestral interpretation of Tankian’s critically acclaimed solo debut Elect the Dead — for two very special live shows to take place this summer. Tankian will recreate Elect the Dead…

