Guns N’ Roses have dropped another new song from their Chinese Democracy-era sessions called “Hard Skool.” It follows their performance and subsequent official release of “Absurd,” a reworking of their previously unreleased “Silkworms.” In the driving song, frontman Axl Rose doles out tough relationship lessons, where being stubborn and ungiving …
Read More »Welcome to the Jungle: How Melissa Reese Broke the Guns N' Roses Glass Ceiling
A couple of weeks before Guns N’ Roses kicked off their 2016 reunion tour, keyboardist Melissa Reese got a call from Chinese Democracy producer Caram Costanzo. “We may be looking for a keyboard player,” she remembers him saying. “I didn’t even realize he was talking about me. Then he said, …
Read More »Slash Speaks! Inside the Guns N' Roses Reunion and His New Album
Sheep . . . sheep . . . Axl. You can see some amazing things out the window of this mansion-turned-hotel in rural England, where Slash is currently hanging out in a backward Thrasher cap and talking up his new album, Living the Dream, with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, due September 21st. …
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