Not sure why Maura thought Jani Lane would leave the recently reunited Warrant after two warm-up gigs to lead a less successful band he had nothing to do with, but I’m happy to say that the new singer of Tracii Guns’ L.A. Guns (as opposed to the other L.A. Guns) is not the once and future Down Boy. More »
Get out your “Where are the hard-rock dudes of yore now?” scorecards: The version of L.A. Guns that has Tracii Guns playing lead guitar has fired its lead singer, Paul Black, and the band will officially announce its “as-yet-undisclosed replacement singer with ‘blond’ hair” sometime within the… More »
Get out your “Where are the hard-rock dudes of yore now?” scorecards: The version of L.A. Guns that has Tracii Guns playing lead guitar has fired its lead singer, Paul Black, and the band will officially announce its “as-yet-undisclosed replacement singer with ‘blond’ hair” sometime within the… More »
It’s probably appropriate that the Los Angeles Times ran a piece on the many disputes over who “owns” the names of yesteryears’ hard-rock favorites in the hours before the Rocklahoma lineup announcement, what with that festival’s lineup likely being studded with many of the argued-over names. Not only does the piece have an amazing quote on why these debates usually wind up in court, courtesy of Faster Pussycat’s Taime Downe (“It’s my company. Someone from Starbucks is not going to go out and form another company called Starbucks.”), it has more on the origins of the L.A. Guns vs. L.A. Guns battle that’s resulting in two versions of the band touring–and engaging in a price war!–right now:
The nearly-full docket of summer rock festivals has added another date to its calendar with Rocklahoma, a three-day music festival in the middle of Oklahoma taking place the same weekend as Pitchfork’s outdoor fest. The rumored (and, somehow, Hinder-free) lineup, courtesy of Hard Rock Hideout:
POISON, RATT (featuring original lead singer Stephen Pearcy), VINCE NEIL and Y&T are among the acts that are expected to appear at Rocklahoma, a three-day outdoor ’80s hard rock festival, set to take place July 13-15, in Pryor, OK at the Pryor Festival Grounds. The following is a partial list of bands that are **rumored*** to be taking part in the event:
