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Welcome to the Naptime: Guns N' Roses Gets Remade as Lullabies
“Mr. Brownstone,” one of the many classic jams on Guns N’ Roses’ brilliant debut Appetite for Destruction, is all about being hopelessly addicted to heroin. It seems only natural, then, that the song would be featured on an album of lullabies for children, right? Right?... read more
Found in: Music, NewsGuns N' Roses: Chinese Democracy
“All I’ve got is precious time,” Axl Rose snarls... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsGuns N' Roses serves up free Chinese Democracy, Dr Pepper
Guns N' Roses' long-awaited followup to 1993's The Spaghetti Incident occupies a special spot in our pop culture collective unconsciousness - a piece of art whose creation story is so well known that it's impossible to disconnect the history from the actual product being offered. Regardless of whether it's actually any good, Chinese Democracy's fate has already been written: like a glam-rock Ozymandias, it stands as a towering monument to cost-be-damned tenacity, crushed expectations, and the sheer force of Axl Rose's ego.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsChuck Klosterman writes 1,700 words on Chinese Democracy
Of the two speeches given at the Soldier's National Cemetery dedication in 1863, it's Lincoln's 272-word Gettysburg Address that far eclipses the memory of Edward Everett's 13,607-word firebrand oration from only moments earlier. The lesson? Terser formats capture attention. It's a fact we see reverberate through the many listicles of our lives.... read more
Found in: Books, NewsFinally: the first single from Guns N' Roses' comically overdue Chinese Democracy. But is there still a place in rock for Axl Rose?
In the fourth grade, when I first became curious about rebellion and rock ’n’ roll, Guns N’ Roses seemed like the perfect fit. A friend of mine had a poster featuring the longhaired, tattooed rockers strewn drunken and shirtless behind police crime-scene tape, clad in leather pants and leather jackets, clutching bottles of Black Death vodka and looking like they did not give a shit about anything. Damn, I thought, these guys are pretty cool!... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VGuns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy gets release date
Break out the Dr Pepper, y'all.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsGNR's Chinese Democracy goes Best-Buy exclusive
For 15 years, Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy has stood as a monument to the perils of rock 'n' roll egoism, a perennial punchline and the embodiment of Shelley's Ozymandias: "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" Five producers and $10 million deep into the boondoggle there was little hope that the album would ever see the light of day, before GNR graced the public with some new material released via a video game. Our long national nightmare may at last be drawing to a close; Chinese Democracy could be released before the end of the year. There is... read more
Found in: Music, NewsGuns N' Roses Chinese Democracy leaker gets arrested
Seems like a few times a week now that we're reporting the latest in intellectual property news. But no matter how common the vicious leak-indictment-arrest-release cycle gets, it's, well, a cycle, which means it just keeps going 'round and 'round. It's like the world is stuck in a Ratt video.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsChinese Democracy possibly seeking big box-only release
Say you're a rock band. Not only that, but a rock band that's been working on the follow-up to its last album for close to 15 years now, to the point where your proposed album title alone has become the biggest running joke in rock music (speaking hypothetically, of course). How could you make the album even more of a parody of itself at this point? That's easy. Give it exclusive Wal-Mart distribution?... read more
Found in: Music, News
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