Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Feb 10, 2012, 9:54 pm
Remember the Hot for Teacher video by Van Halen? Of course you do, you brought your pencil. Yahoo News did a "where are they now" with the insanely hot teacher from the video who I slaughtered a bunch of kittens over. And you may be wondering...how does she look today? Here is a reminder of what sh...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Feb 9, 2012, 8:44 pm
This needs no other introduction than the heading. And I made it nice and big for emphasis. It must be watched. 
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Feb 9, 2012, 8:39 pm
We have teamed with Van Halen to sponsor a custom guitar giveaway, but it won't be easy. To celebrate the new release of the first new music from the band in over 20 years, they want to see your best shredding. Take a look at this video There are a couple of ways to enter. Submit your video as a Y...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Feb 8, 2012, 9:04 pm
Bill Ward stepped out of the Black Sabbath reunion due to an "unfair contract." The upcoming Black Sabbath album currently being recorded, will not be a full blown Black Sabbath album. The only original members on the album will be Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, and Ozzy Osbourne. Bill felt he was not p...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Feb 7, 2012, 6:48 pm
Metallica announced this afternoon a two day festival called the Orion Music + More festival. Besides the insanely stupid name, this idea was great in theory...shit in execution. Let me give you the details and bands and then attempt to express my outrage. The Orion Music + More festival is suppose...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Feb 6, 2012, 7:22 pm
Do you have a friend who just insists Van Hagar is the true Van Halen? Is he consistently driving over or under 55 mph? Does he think OU812 and For Your Carnal Knowledge are hilarious responses and album titles? If so, he has probably been inhabited by the Red Rocker Demon. The Red Rocker Demon is...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Feb 6, 2012, 6:21 pm
Van Halen hasn't released new music since their last album 1984. Some claim that they had two lead singers since David Lee Roth left the band, but this guy doesn't believe it. It's a myth. There is no Van Hagar or Gary Halen. This is the first release of original music from Van Halen with David Lee ...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Feb 4, 2012, 4:08 pm
Just like all great shows just before the season finale, we get a clip show. Except this is more like Saved By the Bell and Full House than LOST or Babylon 5. SBTB and Full House had a clip show worked into their final episode. Ben Sommer week started out with a simple opening salvo - a discussion ...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Feb 3, 2012, 3:09 pm
Former American Idol contestant, Adam Lambert has a new gig. He will be the new lead singer of the band Queef. Queef seems to be a fitting band considering Mr. Lambert's personality, but what style of music do they play? Apparently dramatic rock n' roll where he can scream with his tongue out. Hold...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Feb 3, 2012, 2:31 pm
Benjamin went to a quiet high school near Boston. It was rough, but everyone knew their cliques and stuck to them. Ben really didn't fit into any cliques. The nerds didn't like him because he dressed like a hipster. The hipsters didn't like him because he had a collection of board games in the thous...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Feb 2, 2012, 5:04 pm
After today's installment of Ben Sommer Week, I have no idea where this is going. All of my writings and musings will have been tapped out and I just might go with disgusting poems using Ben's name. We will see where this goes from here. But I have a skit about Ben. Begin Play (A drap studio apart...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Feb 1, 2012, 7:53 pm
There is an ad campaign out there called It Gets Better. The idea is simple. To show kids who are gay, lesbian, whatever, that there is a life after they come out and that it gets better. If you are currently being bullied by some fat ass jock fuck who is insecure about his sexuality, it gets better...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Feb 1, 2012, 6:27 pm
Ben Sommer week reaches hump day and today features a poem I wrote about Ben Sommer's career. None of it is true. I exaggerated parts of his story immensely for comedic purposes. Again, none of this is true to the best of my knowledge. The poem attempts to explain a few things about Ben's inspirat...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Jan 31, 2012, 9:16 pm
The Cult announced yesterday they were going to release an album of brand new music. Choice of Weapon will be the band's first album in five years. You will be able to pick up the new tunes on May 22, 2011. But in the press promotion phase, Ian Astbury sat down with RollingStone.com and made a few ...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Jan 31, 2012, 8:25 pm
Iron Maiden is ready to release “EN VIVO!,” a new live Iron Maiden Blu-ray™, 2-DVDSet and double soundtrack album, on Tuesday, March 27, in the U.S. “EN VIVO!” was filmed on April 10, 2011, in front of over 50,000 ecstatic fans at the Estadio Nacional, Santiago, during the Round The World ...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Jan 25, 2012, 8:41 pm
To create the video for their new single Dry Bone Valley, Mastodon teamed up with noted fine artist Tim Biskup, a long-time friend, who boasts a complex color and design theories and a decidedly populist aesthetic. Or so some artsy-fartsy critic tells me. This collaboration with Mastodon marks Bisku...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Jan 25, 2012, 7:15 pm
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have released a video for their second single Look Around. The single can be found on their new album I'm With You. You can find full tour dates at this location and the new video below. Simple post because there is no news here.
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Jan 24, 2012, 9:01 pm
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band are taking their merriment out on the road this Spring. This will be the band's first tour since the death of Clarence Clemons, who died on June 18, 2011. The tour will be in support of Wrecking Ball, the band's new studio album due out on March 6. March 18:...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Jan 24, 2012, 8:49 pm
Royal Bliss is a great band out of Salt Lake City, Utah. We featured their first release Life In Between here and our interview with Neal here. One of the things I like about the band is the powerful emotion which Neal is able to emote through his voice. His soft story telling helps listeners conne...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Jan 23, 2012, 9:53 pm
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced more tour dates, despite postponing a bunch of dates due to Anthony Keidis foot problem. More on that here. The interesting thing here is that the original dates were around Janurary-April. Those dates were postponed to late summer. Now new tour dates are out...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Jan 23, 2012, 5:34 pm
BnR Products Inc is branching out into the Language Teaching realm. We are cornering the market on teaching you a new language. The Rosetta Stone software is the gold standard of language learning tools, however, they teach you book language. You don't want to talk like a fag and like your shits all...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Jan 22, 2012, 11:26 am
Nikki Sixx was chatting with Carol Anne Szel of Powerline and he gave a dumb answer. Powerline: How would you describe today's MÖTLEY CRÜE? Nikki Sixx: I think you'll get a different answer from everybody in the band. That's what I love about our band; it's like four different personalities. But i...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Jan 18, 2012, 8:25 pm
Fozzy, the brain child of Chris Jericho (WWE Wrestler) and Rich Ward (Stuck Mojo), have signed a record deal with Century Media Records. This is good news for fans of the band and for the band itself. Fozzy can now reach a broader audience with major label backing. I have been following wrestling s...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Dec 14, 2011, 7:33 pm
... hey what the hell? BnR: Hopefully it will go to a nose job for her. Rev: I don't think she needs any money now though. BnR: Are you signed with Silent Majority Group? Rev: No, what makes you ... and we didn't stop to bathe once. Right around the Florida panhandle is when we started smel...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Dec 13, 2011, 7:31 pm
... the worldwide premiere of "TunnelVision," the next video from iconic rocker Sebastian Bach and his latest album Kicking & Screaming. It's a good song that builds on his Angel Down sound. ... the years, but also has a refined control. I think you will dig it and I recommend downloading Kicking...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Dec 13, 2011, 7:14 pm
Universal Music Group released the deluxe and super deluxe reissue of the Rolling Stones' 1978 album, Some Girls, on November 21st. Widely regarded as one of the band's greatest albums, the super deluxe version features 2 CD's, 1 DVD, a hardback book, Helmut Newton print, 5 postcard set, a "Beast of...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Dec 12, 2011, 7:39 pm
... on stage by Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler for Sabbra Cadabra, Iron Man, and Paranoid. Metallica was also joined by former Metallica members Jason Newstead, Hugh Tanner, ... . Frantic (with Bob Rock) 10. Sabbra Cadabra (BLACK SABBATH cover) (with Geezer Butler) 11. Iron Man (BLACK SABBATH co...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Dec 12, 2011, 2:00 pm
Yesterday, while procrastinating finishing the write up of the interview I did with Rev from Underride, I wanted to become inspired by some new bands. I took to Twitter and jumped through a bunch of bands I like and who they followed. That is when a disturbing trend appeared to me. I try to do a fe...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Dec 8, 2011, 7:01 pm
Chaim Witz got his KISS thong in a jumble over the recent news Madonna was going to perform at this years Super Bowl Halftime show. He even called Madonna a karaoke singer. I love all karaoke singers. I like all the girl singers who get up and sing with tapes. Shame on you. "You've got to have som...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Dec 7, 2011, 9:10 pm
It is the holidays and there is just that one person you have to buy for that never provides a wishlist or even a Post-It note asking for something. My Grandmother does this every year. A typical Thanksgiving conversation goes like this: Me: What do you want Grandmom?  G-ma: Oh I know how strapped ...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Dec 7, 2011, 7:50 pm
I don't like the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame. I never have because it is more about TV ratings for the ceremony itself and getting publicity to sell tickets to the museum. Sure maybe acts deserve to be in a legitimate rock n' roll hall of fame, but when they sit alongside ABBA...it's officially a joke...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Dec 6, 2011, 7:07 pm
We used to do a feature on the site called New Music Tuesday - a feature where Bob Wettner collected all the music releases interesting to you readers. He was fired from that position when he didn't update every Tuesday and when he did update it was all about Nick Cannon and Spineshank. I am partial...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Dec 5, 2011, 9:55 pm
Rush have just unveiled a new widget that features a new two part audio-documentary featuring Mercury-era interviews with Geddy, Alex, and Neil which are compiled from the archives of inthestudio.net in celebration of the Sectors Box Sets releases. The widget's audio content gives a great glimpse in...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Nov 2, 2011, 9:38 pm
In a world dominated by Turdbots, one band dares to be different. In a society where 12k people bought LouTallica's album, comes an EP by a band who offer their music for free. Limited time only. The Tressels are your blue collar superheros ready to deliver your quivering, wet, tired body from the o...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Nov 2, 2011, 9:27 pm
The Nazi's in Germany had papers to identify their "enemies" and now we have Lulu. According to Hits Daily Double, the Metallica and Lou Reed mishap is on it's way to selling between 12k and 15k copies. We can use the master list to cull the herd here. Anyone who bought this whether they were (bi)...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Nov 1, 2011, 8:54 pm
The 2012 Gigantour lineup has been revealed and it's awesome. Next year's tour will feature Lacuna Coil (Vic Wettner's Spank Bank material), Motorhead (My Spank Bank material), Volbeat (My new Spank Bank material), and Megadeth (trusty Spank Bank material). The tour kicks off right here in Philadelp...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Oct 31, 2011, 11:20 pm
The great Seattle band Underride have finally gotten off parole and Princess finally left his abusive boyfriend. The band is kicking out of the confines of Seattle and setting their sights on some of the United States most populous cities, like Dayton OH. All snark aside, this is a big deal for the...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Oct 31, 2011, 7:32 pm
When writing a book, one of the easiest books to write is an autobiography on a particular living person. You visit with them and have them recount their earliest memories and write the book from the third person perspective. You mix in a bit of the background on the times and Ta-Da autobiography. H...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Oct 26, 2011, 9:15 pm
... Achtung Baby. The first clip features a story about Larry Mullen being harassed by an East German police officer, after his car had broken down on the road. The ... Baby sessions. "From the Sky Down" was directed by Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim (Waiting for Superman, An In...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Oct 25, 2011, 8:47 pm
It seems whenever Morre asks me to review their stuff, it takes me a month to get around to it. I'd apologize, but since it has happened before and probably will happen again. I reviewed the band's previous effort ...Out There and called them the Led Zeppelin Pinot Noir and that is the best descript...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Oct 25, 2011, 8:07 pm
Voodoo Johnson is my favorite band to come out in the past decade. The band combines my influences, heavy grunge, hard rock with soaring vocals and meaningful lyrics. They, like Ron Jeremy, are the total package. If the band didn't live a full ocean away from me, I'd have already played center cum c...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Oct 24, 2011, 8:39 pm
I have burned my hand on a pizza dish this evening. I was typing the Morre Control review, when the pan burned through the oven mist and I instinctively grabbed it with my right hand. Don't worry kids that's not the jacking hand, but it is my dominant hand. I apologize to our loyal readers who expec...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Oct 20, 2011, 7:51 pm
You were spiteful when the first sounds of Lulu were heard over the internet. Well feast your ears on the entire album streaming from here. I love the use of strings and the haunting eeriness they bring to the music. But it is comically bad. The Metallica portion isn't bad, but hell if this doesn't ...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Oct 19, 2011, 9:13 pm
Rush has decided to release a three box set of their entire Mercury Recording Years for the first time. Now bear with me as I essentially place a glass table over your chest and shit all over it with the information of what is contained in these box sets. Sector 1 RUSH – Their hard-rocking, self...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Oct 19, 2011, 8:48 pm
On the heels of my review of their upcoming album, The Great Escape Artist, Jane's Addiction has partnered with us to giveaway a Paul Reed Smith SE Custom 24 guitar signed by Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Stephen Perkins, and their bassist Chris Chaney. Who doesn't want that? Well maybe Carmen Electr...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Oct 18, 2011, 8:18 pm
The Stone Roses, an English alternative band who I loved, are back after 15 years. The band confirmed long held rumors that they were reuniting today at a London Soho hotel. The original lineup, frontman Ian Brown, guitarist John Squire, bassist Mani and drummer Pedi Reni will do two two shows in En...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Oct 18, 2011, 7:39 pm
Coldplay is about to release their hotly anticipated album with the stupid name Mylo Xyloto. I have been listening to the album recently and it sounds like a watered down version of Biffy Clyro's Only Revolutions. The album seems too grandiose to me using a lot of sweeping strings, electronic back...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Oct 17, 2011, 8:15 pm
This happens every couple of months. We are I am inundated with album review requests and I accept them all like a Russian Oil Tycoon picking out Liam Neeson's daughter in Taken. I just can't say no to an album review; and despite how professional this site looks, it isn't my full time job. Due to...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Oct 17, 2011, 7:57 pm
LouTallica has yet to release Lulu, but Newsweek decided to ask Lars Ulrich his biggest mistake. Newsweek has a column called My Favorite Mistake, in which a guest author recalls...well you know what that's pretty self-explanatory. Lars' biggest mistake isn't turning down the bass on ...And Justice...
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Craig W. posted an article on Blogs N' Roses - Oct 13, 2011, 8:21 pm
Twenty years ago, Bono described Achtung Baby as “the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree” while Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote that “stripped-down and defying its old formulas, U2 has given itself a fighting chance for the 1990's.” The album won a Grammy® Award for Be...
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