• Mötley Crüe Biopic 'The Dirt' Moving Forward: Focus Features Picks Up Jeff Tremaine-Directed Film

    Although Mötley Crüe is currently on its final ride, the group's biopic based on the 2001 memoir The Dirt: The Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band recently found new life thanks to Focus Features. The production company snagged the film, which has Jackass mastermind Jeff Tremaine attached to direct with a script by Rich Wilkes (Airheads) and Tom Kapinos (Californication). The search for actors will begin soon.

  • Nikki Sixx's Sons Play Troubadour As Figs Vision Three Decades After Mötley Crüe

    More than three decades after Nikki Sixx played the Troubadour in Los Angeles with Mötley Crüe, the bassist's sons, Storm and Gunner, graced the venue's stage with their band Figs Vision. The proud papa took to Facebook Friday, Jan. 9, to support his boys, Ultimate Classic Rock notes."Tonight I got to watch my sons band Figs Vision play the same venue I played 33 years ago this same month," he wrote. "They have a different sound and their own unique vibe which is what NEW music is all about...Thank you to the fan that tweeted me the picture and reminded me of this moment years ago. So much more could be said but I am sure you can imagine how cool this was."The Troubadour helped catapult Sixx and his bandmates to superstardom in the 1980s. The band has been on its Final Tour for awhile and they hope to come home to Los Angeles in 2016 for the last gig.Sixx discussed the thought of doing one more show with his band.

  • 8 Artists Who Hated The Production On Their Own Albums: Nirvana, Oasis, And More

    Making albums is almost always a collaborative process between the artist and their producer, which means that egos often clash and ideas are often compromised. For these eight artists, however, these compromises apparently didn't work out in their favor. Here are eight artists who hated the production on their albums.

  • Billy Corgan Fired Smashing Pumpkins Drummer For Being A "Twitch" With "ADD"

    Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has a notoriously strained relationship with the people he's played music with, so it came as no surprise when he fired drummer Mike Byrne back in June. Though the reasons for Byrne's dismissal weren't made entirely clear at the time, Corgan discusses his decision in a lengthy (and occasionally confusing) blog post made to the Smashing Pumpkins' website, in which he blames the 24-year-old Byrne for holding up the recording of the band's upcoming albums, calling him a "twitch" with "ADD."

  • Smashing Pumpkins Share New Single 'One and All' from Upcoming Album 'Monuments to an Elegy' [LISTEN]

    In anticipation of their upcoming album "Monuments to an Elegy," The Smashing Pumpkins have shared another new single, titled "One and All," which you can check out below. Fans of the Pumpkins will not be disappointed, as the song has a darkly metallic quality reminiscent of their 1995 opus "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.""I basically sang the whole song the first time I wrote it," frontman Billy Corgan told "The Huffington Post" about "One and All." "It had written itself."

  • Axl Rose Reportedly Has Two New Guns N' Roses Albums Recorded

    Guns N' Roses' 2008 album "Chinese Democracy" famously took so long to record that it became more of a punchline than an album. However, the band's next album might be coming much sooner than we think. According to guitarist DJ Ashba, Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose has recorded enough songs to fill up two albums.

  • STREAM iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas: Taylor Swift, One Direction, Weezer, Lorde and More Live

    This weekend, Las Vegas will be taken over by the power of pop music. And rock. And country. And hip-hop. Tonight (Sept. 19) and tomorrow (Sept. 20), the iHeartRadio Music Festival will rock the Vegas strip, with performances from some of the biggest acts in music, such as Taylor Swift, One Direction and Nicki Minaj. And for those of you who are unable to travel to the City of Sin can stream the concert from the comfort of your own home.
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