The Untold Truth Of Motley Crue's Mick Mars
Mötley Crüe wouldn't be what we know and enjoy today if it weren't for guitarist Mick Mars. He's been shredding with them from the beginning and continues.
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This Was One Of Van Halen's Absolute Worst Albums
Most popular bands have made a bad record. For Van Halen, the consensus seems to be that 1998's Van Halen III tops the worst album list. Not too surprising, really. Any sequels with a three in the name really never measure up, do they?
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The Hidden Meaning Behind Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail Album Cover
When Jay-Z released 2013's Magna Carta ... Holy Grail, critics were particularly savage, as The Atlantic recounts. Pretentious, portentous "dad rap" written by a "bored first-class denizen on his fourth Bloody Mary ordering opulent, au courant, marvelously vapid beats out of a SkyMall catalog."
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Why Robert Plant Nearly Quit Music For Good
"The first phone call said his son was sick," tour manager Richard Cole told Express. "And the second phone call, unfortunately, Karac had died in that time." Plant's son Karac was just five years old when he died of a stomach virus.
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The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Allen Collins From Lynyrd Skynyrd
With the band Lynyrd Skynyrd having so much tragedy surrounding it, it's not a far stretch to assume that the band's members each had their own tragic lives.
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Why The Everly Brothers Broke Up Their Band
By the early '60s the brothers were fighting constantly. Said Phil, "There were too many people making too much money off us, keeping us going. Things were too confused. We should have taken a long rest. But ... we couldn't."
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Inside Axl Rose And Slash's Feud
Axl Rose has an attitude that has put fans into a love-hate relationship with him. Rose and GNR bandmate Slash had a love-hate relationship of their own.
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Eddie Van Halen's Family Plans To Look For Unreleased Music
There may some good news on the horizon for those of us who worried that we'd never hear another new Van Halen song again.
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The Beach Boys: The Truth About Brian Wilson And Mike Love's Feud
The highly-publicized feud between Brian Wilson and Mike Love of the Beach Boys first started in 1966, when Love purportedly criticized their upcoming album Pet Sounds. While Brian Wilson and Mike Love are wildly successful musicians, ego, lawsuits, and creative disputes are at the center of a feud.
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Why Scott Stapp Got Sued By His New Band
They also sued Stapp for $1.2 million dollars in 2018, claiming he refused to tour with them to promote their 2017 album The Madness. Brother bandleaders Johnathan and Vincent Votta said they advanced Stapp $200,000 to sing, but Stapp only showed up for 18 of the 40 gigs they'd booked.
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The Untold Truth Of The Violent Femmes
The Violent Femmes could be considered an underappreciated band of the late '80s and early '90s, but whose innovative music gave them a cult following.
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How Van Halen's Best Album Signaled A Breakup
Tensions ramped up between the two during the making of the 1980 album Women and Children First, particularly when it came to shooting the album cover and inset photos with provocative fashion photographer Helmut Newton.
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The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Ronnie Spector
Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes climbed to fame in the 1960s with hits like "Be My Baby" and "Walking in the Rain." But her story was full of tragedy.
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The Hidden Truth Behind Coldplay's X & Y Album Cover
The X&Y cover features a Tetris game in the middle of a dark blue background. When the album was first released, MTV said people didn't understand what was going on in the album. Was Coldplay just closet Tetris fans? The band teased that there was something deeper and people started staring.
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This Is What Happened To 90s Rock Band Mazzy Star
Sandoval, in the Refinery 29 interview, describes a highly sensitive, artistic process of crafting stories and music, saying, "We like to take our time experimenting with different ideas and creating new sounds until we feel satisfied that we've accomplished something mind-expanding."
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The Album That Nearly Broke Up Metallica
St. Anger was released in June 2003 and looked like it might be Metallica's final album. The band's bassist, Jason Newsted, left just before production.
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The Untold Truth Of The Cranberries
The Cranberries were one of the biggest bands of the 90s, and singer Dolores O'Riordan made the band's songs hits.
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The Tragic Death Of Bobby DeBarge
Despite his overwhelming talent, Bobby DeBarge had a darker side that eventually made its way into the spotlight.
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Here's What We Know About Kamala Harris' Husband
Emhoff was born in Brooklyn on October 13, 1964, and moved to California as a teen. He is Jewish, which would make him the first Jewish spouse of a United States vice president. He graduated from the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law and worked as an entertainment litigator.
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What Happened To '90s Rock Band Garbage?
As MTV reported, Manson and the other members felt they'd had enough. Manson unequivocally said the band was on a hiatus, though many thought they had broken up. Manson said recording and touring for Bleed Like Me had been difficult for all band members. They just needed time away from each other.
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The Truth About Billy Idol's Horrific Motorcycle Accident
Almost as famous as the bad boy's image and his music was his reputation for partying. Points in Idol's life were filled with drugs, women, and alcohol. The musician had struggles that mirror those of a number of rock stars. These struggles contributed to his horrific motorcycle accident in 1990.
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Details You Didn't Know About Criss Angel's Music Career
Chances are, you didn't know about Criss Angel until 2005. No one did, really. Not by name anyway. But he's been cranking out tunes longer than magic.
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The Hidden Meaning Behind David Bowie's Blackstar Album Cover
Notably, Bowie himself doesn't appear on the album art -- a career first for the stylish artist, according to The Guardian. But anyone familiar with Bowie's wit would not be surprised to discover that Blackstar's art was full of symbolism -- as well as a number of Easter Eggs for fans to discover.
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The Completely Illegal Thing ZZ Top Did Before Becoming A Band
Before they were the ZZ Top hitmakers of "Sharp Dressed Man" and "La Grange," they were passing themselves off as The Zombies, bassist Dusty Hill recalled in 2016.
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What It Was Really Like To Be The First Music Video On MTV
Music and television changed forever in 1981, when MTV began broadcasting over America's nascent cable television systems. The very first music video played on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. This is what it was really like to be the first music video on MTV.
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Tragic Details About Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks, legendary solo artist and member of the rock group Fleetwood Mac, has lived hard in her five-decade career.
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The Truth About Nikki Sixx's Strained Relationship With His Mother
Nikki Sixx's many exploits, highest highs, lowest lows, and even his insane near-death experiences are notorious.
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