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Axl Rose

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    How to Deal With Airport Security When You're a Famous Musician

    The problem with being famous and getting special treatment everywhere you go is that you sometimes forget that rules actually apply to you. Yes, music stars, we know you think you're more important than the rest of us plebeians, but make no mistake about it: In the eyes of airport security, you're ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Live Review 4/24/12: tUnE-yArDs and St. Vincent Explode Minds and Corneas at the Fox

    St. Vincent tUnE-yArDs Tuesday, April 24, 2012 The Fox Theater, Oakland Better than: Tim Burton meets Bobby McFerrin meets Slash meets strobe-induced seizure. Whereas Monday night's live score by tUnE-yArDs at the Castro Theatre was somewhat restrained, front woman Merrill Garbus let loose for her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Live Review 4/23/2012: tUnE-yArDs Gives New Life to Silent Buster Keaton Shorts at the Castro Theatre

    tUnE-yArDs Monday, April 23, 2012 The Castro Theatre Better than: Silent films without a score (and tUnE-yArDs without a guitarist). "You get to look at our behinds," tUnE-yArDs frontwoman Merrill Garbus said as the five musicians onstage turned their backs on the audience to face the screen. Seco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Axl Rose Is Batshit: His Top Five Craziest Moments

    You may have noticed in the last couple of weeks that Axl Rose is running amok all over the press again (it's been a while, Axl, thanks for coming back to us). Not only have there been reports that -- try not to vomit on your keyboards -- he's dating Lana Del Rey (so, so wrong on so many levels we d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Top 5 Reasons Lady Gaga Should Move to the Bay Area

    Though she was born in New York City, recent news suggests Lady Gaga might be considering a move to the Bay Area. At the end of last month, Gaga was spotted hitting the rounds of fancy restaurants in Sonoma, and (those infallible) British tabloids now claim the 25-year-old pop star is thinking about ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Van Halen's A Different Kind of Truth: A First Listen

    ​Van Halen is about one thing: revenge. Eddie brought in Sammy to get rid of Dave, flirted with Dave again to get rid of Sammy, brought in Gary Cherone to clear out the building, trained his own son to replace his most loyal member, and brought Dave back in for now. Don't be surprised if he cans h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Robyn Hitchcock Brings the Quietly Penetrating Eye Back to the City Where He Made It

    Robyn Hitchcock at Slim's last night. ​ Robyn Hitchcock Dawn Mitschele Nov. 17, 2011 Slim's Better than: New Kids on the Block performing their No. 1 British album, Step By Step in its entirety. Robyn Hitchcock recorded Eye in San Francisco more than 20 years ago, and last night he returned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    How To Be in Your Boyfriend or Girlfriend's Music Video (Without Looking Like an Idiot)

    JiveBritney Spears and boyfriend Jason Trawick in the new "Criminal" video​We've all been there. You're at home, doing the dishes or washing the dog, and in swans your famous partner and demands that you be in their latest music video. Nightmare, eh? We understand that this is a really common prob ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne: A First Listen

    ​ Have we been waiting for this? Who knows -- even big fans of Jay-Z and Yeezy know they never shut up for too long. Big-budget collab albums we know aren't Jay-Z's strong suit (Unfinished Business? Collision Course?). And judging by the awful "H*A*M" (now a bonus cut) and the mesmerizing "Ot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2011

    Jane's Addiction to Release New Album, World Covers Ears in Anticipation

    There's a funny thing that happens to a lot of old rock stars. Maybe it's because they're surrounded by sycophants who never say no. Or because all that fan adoration goes to their heads. Or because too much critical acclaim can irreversibly inflate the ego. Whatever it is, quite frequently they jus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    The Black Eyed Peas' Super Bowl Halftime Show: Awful Awful or Just Regular Awful?

    Well, it was terrible, of course; the question is really whether yesterday's Super Bowl Halftime show was inappropriately awful or expectedly so. To help you sort through it, we've divided up the goings-on based on whether they met or exceeded our minimal expectations for crumminess. Feel free to di ... More >>

  • News

    July 28, 2010

    SF Weekly Letters

    Well, it was terrible, of course; the question is really whether yesterday's Super Bowl Halftime show was inappropriately awful or expectedly so. To help you sort through it, we've divided up the goings-on based on whether they met or exceeded our minimal expectations for crumminess. Feel free to di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    What To Do? Pierced Arrows at Bottom of the Hill

    ​Pierced Arrows @ Bottom of the Hill "New kids on the block have taken my place/Walking on my grave," Fred Cole screeched in his last band with his wife, Toody, the mildly legendary garage-rockers Dead Moon. He has a right to those lyrics -- he turns 62 in August. In the Portland, Ore., native's ... More >>

  • Music

    March 24, 2010

    Pierced Arrows

    ​Pierced Arrows @ Bottom of the Hill "New kids on the block have taken my place/Walking on my grave," Fred Cole screeched in his last band with his wife, Toody, the mildly legendary garage-rockers Dead Moon. He has a right to those lyrics -- he turns 62 in August. In the Portland, Ore., native's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Video of the Day: Wake Up Axl Rose

    Axl Rose Buddyhead Rapper from twiggysrabies on Vimeo.Too funny. Photos of Axl in all his braids, with a call for GnR's lost soul, whose "Paradise City [went] up your nose," to wake up. Via Buddyhead.

  • Music

    July 8, 2009

    Patterson Hood's flannel anthems

    Axl Rose Buddyhead Rapper from twiggysrabies on Vimeo.Too funny. Photos of Axl in all his braids, with a call for GnR's lost soul, whose "Paradise City [went] up your nose," to wake up. Via Buddyhead.

  • Film

    May 6, 2009

    Arthouse movie listings for May 6-12, 2009

    Axl Rose Buddyhead Rapper from twiggysrabies on Vimeo.Too funny. Photos of Axl in all his braids, with a call for GnR's lost soul, whose "Paradise City [went] up your nose," to wake up. Via Buddyhead.

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    Top 10 Albums That We Hope Will Actually Come Out in 2009 (But Probably Won't)

    (Dr. Dre might need an intervention in order to release his long-awaited Detox album)With the music industry in a continued state of shambles, even the average consumer is starting to understand that it's a risky venture to release an album and that this holds true for newcomers as well as those who ... More >>

  • Music

    January 7, 2009

    Eight Steps to a Better 2009

    (Dr. Dre might need an intervention in order to release his long-awaited Detox album)With the music industry in a continued state of shambles, even the average consumer is starting to understand that it's a risky venture to release an album and that this holds true for newcomers as well as those who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 1, 2009

    Top Ten Metal Albums of 2008

    By Phil FreemanIn a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2008

    Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

    By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barrier ... More >>

  • Music

    December 3, 2008

    Guns N' Roses' fine-print insanity

    By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barrier ... More >>

  • Music

    November 28, 2007

    Sebastian Bach

    Angel Down (MRV/EMI)

  • Music

    January 17, 2007

    Sonic Boom burrows into the inner E.A.R.

    Angel Down (MRV/EMI)

  • Music

    December 20, 2006

    Freaks, noiseniks, and beach bums

    Angel Down (MRV/EMI)

  • News

    September 27, 2006

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, September 27, 2006

  • Music

    September 13, 2006

    Never Mind the Oxygen Tanks, Here's Guns N' Roses

    Five excuses to see Axl Rose's new band

  • News

    August 31, 2005

    Headbanging for Jesus!

    Infiltrator gets booked on a Christian talk show

  • News

    May 25, 2005

    Bullshitting the Lie Detector

    Infiltrator cooks up a criminal past. A PAX TV show absolves him of it. Ain't it a great country?

  • Music

    April 6, 2005

    Plushy

    And now we present a boring interview with a big-time rock star: Scott Weiland of Velvet Revolver

  • Calendar

    July 7, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    And now we present a boring interview with a big-time rock star: Scott Weiland of Velvet Revolver

  • Music

    June 2, 2004

    Guns N' Roses

    Greatest Hits (Geffen)

  • Music

    October 1, 2003

    Behind the Music Videos

    There are some pretty cool videos out there, but you won't see them on MTV

  • Music

    June 18, 2003

    Of Noise and Nuance

    Glasgow's Mogwai delivers Happy Songs for Happy People and still manages to be the loudest band on Earth

  • Music

    October 31, 2001

    Appetite for Resurrection

    Aussie expat Brody Armstrong channels her miserable past into the glorious punk of the Distillers

  • Music

    October 27, 1999

    House Of Tudor

    Les Nubians, Andrea Parker, Stereo Total, House of Horror, and Cloyne Court Haunted Hotel

  • Music

    November 27, 1996

    Boys Will Be Boys

    Les Nubians, Andrea Parker, Stereo Total, House of Horror, and Cloyne Court Haunted Hotel

  • Music

    December 13, 1995

    Books

    Les Nubians, Andrea Parker, Stereo Total, House of Horror, and Cloyne Court Haunted Hotel

  • Calendar

    May 31, 1995

    Night+Day

    Les Nubians, Andrea Parker, Stereo Total, House of Horror, and Cloyne Court Haunted Hotel

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