Velvet Revolver’s debut album, Contraband, was released on June 8, 2004. In this classic interview, Slash reveals how one of ...

A top hat drew the biggest ovation of the evening at Tuesday's Velvet Revolver concert -- style clearly beat out substance. But then, Velvet Revolver is nothing if not an exercise in style, although ...

Velvet Revolver are denying they’ve hired a Canadian singer to fill the frontman position vacated by Scott Weiland last year. Rumors began circulating online that Gord Prior, singer of the band Blu ...

According to a press release, Velvet Revolver no longer have a lead singer. “This band is all about its fans and its music and Scott Weiland isn’t 100% committed to either,” Slash reportedly said (the ...

Few people in rock need less of an introduction than Slash, the legendary former ax man for Guns N Roses who built that band’s epic sound with his deft, but economical and sexy, riffage. Since 2002 he ...

Today, we can still hear the epic backdrop behind Guns N’ Roses’ “Knockin’ On Heavens Doors” and “November Rain,” and feel the vibrating sounds behind Velvet Revolver’s “Fall to Pieces” and “Dirty ...

Matt Sorum has looked back at his time in Velvet Revolver, and said that the band “could have been” as big as Guns N’ Roses if it lasted longer. Now, Sorum has reflected on his time in the group and ...

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has drastically grown in the last few months, especially in the music community, where people are recreating songs using different voices and instruments.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Velvet Revolver backstage at the Manchester Academy in September 2004. Slash is talking in his familiar, woozy SoCal drawl. “Hey,” ...

Hard rock in the early 2000s found a sharp, revitalized edge through Velvet Revolver, a band formed from the collision of seasoned musicians with a shared history and a desire to reassert ...

Velvet Revolver has always seemed like something created in a marketing meeting rather than an organically conceived band, as the former members of Guns N' Roses turned to Stone Temple Pilots singer ...

Beneath the feathers and glitter and makeup and leather, the Darkness are smart guys. In relaunching popwise hair metal for an age in need of a little heart, they didn’t overlook the miskept form’s ...