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Rock stars get themselves into all kinds of wild situations. Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, though, once got find himelf lucky to survive an insane incident at an airport. Thankfully, his manager, Alan Niven, was there to help him. In his book, Sound N’ Fury, Niven shared stories from his time working with the GnR fellas, whom he says he took from “the gutters of Sunset Boulevard to Wembley Stadium”. […]

When Nirvana rose to fame quickly after Nevermind, there was often talk about selling out, that the band had become too mainstream. This, of course, leads into the commentary about how capitalism hijacked grunge and drained it of all its counterculture cred. At the time, the focus was often narrowed to Nirvana as the sell-outs of the genre. The consensus: once they put your band logo on a t-shirt, it’s […]

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Artists in every medium are grappling with the prospects of AI in their field. Some musicians, actors, and filmmakers have been staunchly against it. They’ll argue that artificial intelligence can’t replace the pure, full expression of a human being. Meanwhile, someone like Timbaland or Harmony Korine might vouch for using AI as a tool or telling audiences to get with the times already. Now, we can add Steven Soderbergh to […]

The musician will gallop through Los Angeles, New York, Paris, and Berlin. Read More RSS: News News 

On May 6, 1995, Oasis had their first No. 1 hit in the U.K. charts with “Some Might Say”. This single received overwhelming critical acclaim, and the band’s trajectory took off like a shot. But while it was the start of something big for Oasis, it meant the end of the line for original drummer Tony McCarroll. McCarroll co-founded Oasis originally as the Rain. He formed the group in 1990 […]