Jane's Addiction, Jimmy Page, St. Vincent, Elton John, Laura Jane Grace, Anthrax, Devin Townsend, Dillinger Escape Plan, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Q-Tip, Joe Russo, Ozzy Osbourne, and more react to Chris Cornell's death.
Mercury passed away from complications of AIDS a quarter century ago tomorrow. Since then, it’s been too easy for the metal community to forget the role he played in the music we love. In honor of Mercury’s passing, we reached out several metal musicians to explain, in their own words, the continuing importance of Queen.
There's a cool event going down this December for NYC-based Zeppelin fans (which is certainly a broad group of people). The Zeppelin Bowl tribute goes down at Brooklyn Bowl on December 28 with a great lineup that includes Gene Ween, Scott Ian and John Medeski, with several more guests promised to be announced later...
Their first EVER 2nd show in one day.
A couple of heavy musicians-turned-authors are joining up for a special conversation this week. Scott Ian, whose memoir I'm the Man: The Story of That Guy From Anthrax came out back in 2014, and Every Time I Die frontman Keith Buckley, who published his first novel called Scale, will be in conversation at Saint Vitus tonight (5/11), presumably talking about heavy music and literature and such...
The ongoing saga of Phil Anselmo's racist comments and the fallout thereof continue, as members of Anthrax have taken to defending Phil. This relationship is of particular interest, as Scott Ian and the band have a longstanding relationship with Pantera, have been openly supportive of social justice issues in the past, and have been especially critical of Phil's actions since the incident at Dimebash...
On January 22, former Pantera frontman and always prolific metal musician Phil Anselmo stirred up considerable controversy as he hosted the annual Dimebash show...
While Anthrax are hitting the road this spring, Scott Ian is up to something else before that with his new band Motor Sister. Here's the premise:
Jim Wilson, guitarist/vocalist of Mother Superior (who doubled as Henry Rollins' backing band from 1997 to 2003) and longtime Daniel Lanois bassist, teamed up with Scott, Pearl Aday (Scott's wife, Meatloaf's daughter, and Jim's country collaborator), drummer John Tempesta (currently of The Cult, formerly of Exodus, Testament and other bands) and Joey Vera (who was briefly in Anthrax) last year to perform Mother Superior's music at a show in Scott's house as Scott's birthday present to himself...
Motorhead set sail aboard their own Motorboat cruise last month, leaving the coast of Miami on September 22 and returning on September 26. Joining the metal legends were other veterans (and newer bands) of the genre including Zakk Wylde, Testament, Anthrax, High on Fire, Down and more...
Bay Area thrashers Exodus have released a new track from their upcoming full-length Blood In, Blood Out. This one is called "Salt the Wound" and it features former Exodus guitarist Kirk Hammett lending a solo...