This year, renowned force of darkness – and New Jersey’s own ‘evil Elvis’ – Glen Danzig tried suing his former Misfits bandmate, the devil-locked, born again Christian, Jerry Only, for a share of profits Jerry made licensing the band’s ‘crimson ...

Concept albums are difficult things to get right. Most of the best-known examples from the ‘70s ‘rock opera’ heyday – Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, Alice Cooper’s Welcome to my Nightmare, Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell – really just have a ...

You know who should’ve won an Oscar? Crispin Glover. And not for his generation-jumping performance in Back to the Future. He should’ve won best supporting actor for Charlie’s Angels. McG’s girl-power soft porn masterclass casts Glover as the sinister henchman, ...

‘If you want my views of history then there’s something you should know The three men I admire most are Curly, Larry, Moe’ – ‘Everything Louder Than Everything Else’ In the late ‘60s, Elektra Records employed Danny Fields as their ...

“Shut up! I’m about to tell you how I won the war” – Courtney Love, ‘Hello’ “Saxophones don’t belong in rock ‘n’ roll”. That was the line pulled by the media from a recent episode of Courtney Love’s web series. ...

When Ashes to Ashes, the follow-up series to Life on Mars, needed a countercultural icon to lead a protest in 1981, their choice was a little leftfield. A staunch advocate for gay rights, women’s rights and right-on, antiauthoritarian left wing ...

‘Politics is the art of controlling your environment’ – Hunter S. Thompson ‘Bill Davis told me that he believes he is the hero of the show […] Whatever makes it easy for you to sleep at night, CSM.’ – David ...

‘I’ve been hell on the women in my life, and the women in my life have been hell on me’ – Axl Rose One upon a time there was a band who, for their second album proper, decided to lay ...

Mike Tyson. Iron Mike. The baddest man on the planet. Five foot ten of unstoppable, unfettered carnage. A disciplined machine of purpose and destruction. Effectively orphaned at 16, Tyson took up boxing in juvenile detention, falling under the wing of ...

Alain Jourgensen was just another fresh-faced, Cuban-American frontman of a synth band until Ministry struck their true character with third album The Land Of Rape And Honey. On Land, and its more guitar-heavy sister The Mind is a Terrible Thing ...