Roses

The most immediately startling thing about Guns N’ Roses’ headlining set is how polite Axl Rose is. He’s the famously unpredictable frontman of a band who, in their late 80s heyday, oozed druggy negativity: their debut album Appetite for Destruction painted such a relentlessly grim and grimy picture of life in Los Angeles that Justin Quirk’s brilliant history of 80s metal Nothin’ But a Good Time posits the theory that its release, rather than the arrival of Nirvana, spelled the end of the hair metal era and irreparably…

American Express presents BST Hyde Park has announced even more special guests for the Guns N’ Roses show on Friday 30th June.Joining the line-up are Dirty Honey, James and the Cold Gun, The Dust Coda, Grade 2, Bad Nerves and The Foxies. It had already been announced that the show will feature The Pretenders, The Darkness and Larkin PoeGuns N’ Roses – Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagan, Dizzy Reed, Richard Fortus, Frank Ferrer and Melissa Reese – have sold sold over 100 million records worldwide and are one of the biggest…

Duff McKagan is honouring Mental Health Awareness Month with today’s premiere of ‘This Is The Song’, a brand new, three-track EP available today at all DSPs and streaming services. Produced by longtime collaborator Martin Feveyear (Mark Lanegan, Brandi Carlile), the EP’s title track is joined by an official companion video premiering today on YouTube. “THIS IS THE SONG was written in the middle of a panic attack,” Duff McKagan says in a personal statement about the EP. “I couldn’t breathe and couldn’t see straight, and…

Virtual reality is already widespread in entertainment and is starting to spread to fields ranging from education to health care. But while vision and hearing interfaces are extremely advanced, and touch, or “haptics,” is improving, one key sense has been missing from the virtual world: smell. That may be about to change. Engineer Xinge Yu of the City University of Hong Kong and his colleagues have developed a lightweight, flexible and wireless olfactory interface that can precisely deliver smells such as lavender,…

The lineup for October’s PowerTrip metal festival just got twice as heavy.Guns N’ Roses, AC/DC and Tool will join the previously rumored Metallica, Iron Maiden and Ozzy Osbourne for the inaugural edition of the new festival from Coachella promoter Goldenvoice. Like its classic-rock forebearer Desert Trip, the concert will bring two acts per night to Indio’s Empire Polo Club, on the weekend of October 6-8. The lineup will pair Guns N’ Roses and Iron Maiden on Friday, AC/DC and Osbourne on Saturday and Tool and Metallica…

After the residents at Arcadia Senior Living in Bowling Green, Kentucky recreated Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime performance, Jay-Z personally sent them flowers.The video was posted by the senior living facility’s TikTok account, as seen below, and featured some of the residents dancing along to Rihanna’s “Rude Boy.” Since it was uploaded, it has garnered over 30 million views, 3.5 million likes, and 34,000 comments. It even got a comment from the official NFL TikTok account, which said, “Amazing.” @arcadiasrlivingbg…

Guns N’ Roses and Arctic Monkeys will join Elton John as headliners of the 2023 Glastonbury Festival. The festival, which released its poster and lineup Friday, will take place at the Worthy Farm in southwest England from June 21-25. John will play on the festival’s final night, which will mark his farewell show in Britain. Others set to perform include Lizzo, Lana Del Rey, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Lil Nas X, The Chicks, Måneskin, Blondie, Lewis Capaldi, Fatboy Slim, Wizkid, Carly Rae Jepsen,…

Festivals are struggling with a dearth of viable female headliners owing to an industry “pipeline” problem, Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis said as the festival announced a lineup of all-white, all-male headliners for this year’s event.Following the news that Elton John would conclude the 2023 edition on Sunday, Eavis confirmed that Arctic Monkeys would headline Friday, their third time closing the Pyramid stage, while Guns N’ Roses would make their Worthy Farm debut on Saturday.Guns N’ Roses were booked when a…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Music Rock icons hitting four Canadian cities on massive tour Axel Rose, left and Slash of Guns and Roses seen during the Vive Latino music festival in Mexico City, Saturday, March 13, 2020. Photo by Christian Palma /AP Article content Guns N’ Roses are set to hit the road for an extensive headlining tour that will find the veteran rockers headlining stadiums, festivals, and arenas throughout the summer and fall. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not…

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