After being diagnosed with tinnitus, the Alter Bridge singer/guitarist shot down the chance to audition for Velvet Revolver ...

Today, we can still hear the epic backdrop behind Guns N’ Roses’ “Knockin’ On Heavens Doors” and “November Rain,” and feel the vibrating sounds behind Velvet Revolver’s “Fall to Pieces” and “Dirty ...

Slash is talking in his familiar, woozy SoCal drawl. “Hey,” he says, “it’s the second day of this fucking two-day picture shoot, man. You can always tell when you got a record coming out, because all ...

Velvet Revolver has always seemed like something created in a marketing meeting rather than an organically conceived band, as the former members of Guns N' Roses turned to Stone Temple Pilots singer ...

Velvet Revolver are denying they’ve hired a Canadian singer to fill the frontman position vacated by Scott Weiland last year. Rumors began circulating online that Gord Prior, singer of the band Blu ...

Few people in rock need less of an introduction than Slash, the legendary former ax man for Guns N Roses who built that band’s epic sound with his deft, but economical and sexy, riffage. Since 2002 he ...

In the world of rock 'n' roll, sometimes it's good to be bad. At least that's the case for rock group Velvet Revolver, a band that consists of members of renegade bands Stone Temple Pilots and Guns N' ...

"He was complicated, yes, but the artistry was magnificent," said Sorum. By Ashley Iasimone, Billboard Following Scott Weiland’s death, Matt Sorum called in to Matt Pinfield’s SiriusXM show to ...

A top hat drew the biggest ovation of the evening at Tuesday's Velvet Revolver concert -- style clearly beat out substance. But then, Velvet Revolver is nothing if not an exercise in style, although ...

As with Contraband, the first Velvet Revolver CD, Libertad is an amalgam of its influences: some good (Guns N’ Roses), others less so (Stone Temple Pilots). Still, the unregenerate retro-ness of the ...

Beneath the feathers and glitter and makeup and leather, the Darkness are smart guys. In relaunching popwise hair metal for an age in need of a little heart, they didn’t overlook the miskept form’s ...