“Californication” Hit One Billion Views

“Californication” Hit One Billion Views

It’s official: I’m the only person in the world who hasn’t seen the video for Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication. The video was uploaded to YouTube 13 years ago, and just hit one billion views. If by some chance I’m wrong and you also haven’t seen it yet, it’s below.MORE

Axl Rose Won’t Throw His Mic Anymore

Axl Rose Won’t Throw His Mic Anymore

For decades, Axl Rose has ended Guns N’ Roses shows by throwing his microphone into the crowd. But during a recent show in Adelaide, Australia, some woman had to go and get hit in the face by it and end up with two black eyes and a bruised nose.  So now, no more free microphones for us. On Friday…MORE

An Alice Cooper Coffee Table Book Is Coming

An Alice Cooper Coffee Table Book Is Coming

I’m not sure Alice Cooper and coffee table book are 2 phrases I’d put together, but here we are. In honor of Cooper’s 75th birthday, we’re getting Alice Cooper at 75. It’ll cover “75 career accomplishments, events, and partnerships”, and even the price is sticking with the theme: it’ll cost $75. The book’s coming out…MORE

Why Metallica Let “Stranger Things” Use “Master of Puppets”

Why Metallica Let “Stranger Things” Use “Master of Puppets”

Metallica used to be snobs about letting their music be in movies and TV shows.  But drummer Lars Ulrich said the band changed their mind in recent years. On “The Howard Stern Show”, Lars said, “We just said, ‘You know what?  This is stupid.  Why are we hanging onto these [songs] like they’re so important, like they’re the crown jewels?’ .…MORE

Axl Rose Doesn’t Like Your Drone Pirates

Axl Rose Doesn’t Like Your Drone Pirates

Guns N’ Roses’ Thanksgiving show in Australia was infiltrated by “drone pirates” as Axl Rose calls them.  There were drones flying above the stadium and close to the stage.  He said it was the most intrusive thing he’s experienced. After the show he tweeted, “According to the police it happens more often than not lately especially with sporting events.  It’s…MORE

Jimmy Kimmel Will Host Metallica’s Charity Concert 

Jimmy Kimmel Will Host Metallica’s Charity Concert 

If you can’t make it to L.A. for Metallica’s Helping Hands benefit concert, you can still participate because it’ll stream live on Friday, December 16th on Paramount+, PlutoTV, and MTV’s YouTube channel at 8:30 p.m. Eastern / 5:30 p.m. Pacific. Jimmy Kimmel will host the show and there will be an opening performance from Greta Van Fleet.  Metallica said there will…MORE

New Pantera Share First Rehearsal Photos

New Pantera Share First Rehearsal Photos

It’s been over 20 years since Pantera played a show, but it’s coming. Charlie Benante shared the first photos of the new lineup (Benante and Zakk Wylde filling in for the late Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell) rehearsing for the upcoming tour, and captioned them “2 weeks in NOLA with these boys, it’s been a…MORE

Ryan Reynolds Wrote a Full Deadpool Christmas Movie

Ryan Reynolds Wrote a Full Deadpool Christmas Movie

Deadpool 3 is officially in the works, and if we’re lucky, we’ll get a Deadpool Christmas next. Ryan Reynolds did an interview where he said, “Four years ago, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and I wrote a Christmas movie starring Deadpool. But it got lost in the shuffle of Disney acquiring Fox and it never got…MORE