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Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Nearly Filled in for Guns N’ Roses’ Axl Rose at Rock Hall of Fame Show
We knew that when Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong introduced Guns N’ Roses at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction last April, the crowd booed at the mention of Axl Rose. We didn’t know that Armstrong almost filled in for Rose during a retrofitted GNR set that night.
Foo Fighters’ ‘Million Dollar Demos’ of ‘Come Back’ and ‘Have It All’ Surface
Flash back to the early 2000s: the Foo Fighters had fallen from ‘Everlong’ era glory, drummer Taylor Hawkins nearly died of a drug overdose in 2001, and the stadium-packing heavy rock band was on the verge of breaking up — all while recording 2002 album ‘One by One,’ an album that had entire recording session junked before re-recording. Demos from the left-for-dead first draft have now leaked onli
Kurt Cobain-Graffitied ‘Melvan’ Fails to Sell on eBay
A moldy piece of ’90s history has failed to find a home: The ‘Melvan,’ a broken-down van once owned by stoner-rock pioneers the Melvins, did not sell on eBay – again — despite a media flurry and a Kurt Cobain-drawn “mural” of Kiss on its side...
For Pearl Jam Guitarist, Brad is More Than a Side Project
To be in a rock band–and still relevant–for two decades is amazing; to be in two might be a miracle. That’s the case for guitarist Stone Gossard, who last year celebrated twenty years of Pearl Jam, and this year marks twenty with Brad (the band, not a dude) — who have a new album out on April 24, ‘United We Stand.’