Latest Duff Mckagan News
Slash Teases Blues Solo Album Featuring Demi Lovato
Slash is seemingly set to release his blues rock solo album imminently. The Guns N' Roses axe-slayer has spoken about his fondness for the genre in a video teasing the upcoming LP.He said in the...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 06 March 2024
Guns N' Roses Use Ai For The General Music Video
Guns N' Roses have shared an AI-generated music video for 'The General' featuring animated versions of the band.Axl Rose and co teamed up with Dan Potter, the creative director of London studios Creative Works, to...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 25 January 2024
Duff Mckagan Defends Gun N' Roses' Mammoth Set Lists
Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan has defended the band's three and a half hour shows.The 'Welcome To The Jungle' rockers typically play around 24 songs a night and keep going for three and a...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 19 December 2023
'Man, I Hope So': Guns N' Roses Bassist Duff Mckagan Reveals Whether Rock Will Live Forever
Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan hopes rock will live forever but admits a lot of young music fans are attending their shows.The 59-year-old rocker hopes the fact that their shows are attended by teens...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 22 October 2023
'I Don't Pay Attention To It!' Duff Mckagan Isn't Worried About Increased Ai Use In Music Industry
Duff McKagan has his "middle finger up" to artificial intelligence (AI) in the music industry, insisting it will not disrupt his "creativity". The Guns N' Roses bassist admitted he isn't going to "pay attention" to...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 10 October 2023
Guns N' Roses To Follow Up Perhaps With The General In October
Guns N' Roses have another tune called 'The General' on the way after finally releasing 'Perhaps' last week.The heavy rock legends released and gave the latter song its live debut at PNC Park in Pittsburgh...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 21 August 2023
Guns N' Roses Unreleased Song Perhaps Leaks On Digital Jukeboxes
Guns N' Roses' unreleased track 'Perhaps' has leaked on digital jukeboxes after it wasn't released as reported on Friday (11.08.23).Fans were anticipating the release of the tune from the 'Chinese Democracy' era, as a since-deleted...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 14 August 2023
Are Guns N' Roses Dropping A Previously-unreleased Song This Week?
Guns N' Roses could be about to release the track 'Perhaps' on Friday (11.08.23).The 'Patience' rockers released two tracks, ‘Absurd’ and ‘Hard Skool’, both reworked outtakes from 2008's 'Chinese Democracy', in 2021.The notorious record was...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 08 August 2023
Ozzy Osbourne Wishes He Made More 'Varied' Music
Ozzy Osbourne wishes he had made "more varied" music.The 'Paranoid' rocker is proud of the way Black Sabbath made heavy metal "big" but he admitted he would have like to have explored outside of the...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 12 August 2022
Ozzy Osbourne Shares Title Track From Upcoming Solo Lp Patient Number 9
Ozzy Osbourne has unveiled his new solo LP 'Patient Number 9', and released the title track featuring guitar legend Jeff Beck.The Prince of Darkness has made his music comeback with his first new music since...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 24 June 2022
Ozzy Osbourne Has 'Finished His New Album'
Ozzy Osbourne has "finished his new album". the former Black Sabbath rocker is "so happy" that he has "delivered" his new album to his record label Epic Records and has promised more information in...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 10 April 2022
Slash Hints At New Guns N' Roses This Summer
Slash has revealed Guns N' Roses are aiming to release new songs this summer.The 'Patience' rockers released two tracks, ‘Absurd’ and ‘Hard Skool’, both reworked outtakes from 2008's 'Chinese Democracy' in 2021.The notorious record was...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 22 February 2022
Guns N' Roses Haven't Written Any Original Material Yet
Guns N' Roses haven't penned any new material since reuniting.Axl Rose and co might have a new EP on the way in the form of 'Hard Skool', which is released on February 25, but in...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 25 October 2021
Guns N' Roses Drop Studio Version Of Absurd
Guns N' Roses have released the studio version of 'ABSURD'. Axl Rose and co gave the reworked version of 'Silkworms' its live debut at Boston’s Fenway Park earlier this week, and they've now made it...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 06 August 2021
Dave Grohl's What Drives Us Documentary Set To Hit Amazon Prime On April 30
Dave Grohl's 'What Drives Us' documentary is set to land on Amazon Prime on April 30.The first trailer for the star-studded film, which features interviews with the likes of Sir Ringo Starr, Brian Johnson, St....
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 13 April 2021
Guns N' Roses Postpone UK Tour Until Summer 2022
Guns N’ Roses’ have pushed back their UK tour to summer 2022.Axl Rose and co have delayed the rescheduled 2020 run, which was due to include performances at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on June 18 and...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 06 April 2021
Duff Mckagan Knocked Back 'Gallon Of Vodka A Day'
Duff McKagan knocked back ''up to a full gallon of vodka a day'' at the height of his alcoholism battle.The Guns N' Roses bassist has candidly opened up about his addictions and suffering from anxiety...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 12 August 2020
Guns N' Roses Reschedule North America Tour For Summer 2021
Guns N' Roses have rescheduled their North America tour for summer 2021.Axl Rose and co were set to hit the road on July 4 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but they were forced to postpone the extensive...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 29 July 2020
Slash Busying Himself Writing New Guns N' Roses Music In Lockdown
Slash is keeping busy working on new Guns N' Roses music in lockdown. The 'Welcome to the Jungle' rockers' guitarist has revealed he's using his time amid the coronavirus pandemic to continue penning new material...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 03 July 2020
Sober Steven Adler Wants To Be Part Of Possible Guns N' Roses Reunion
Reunion chatter has spiked in recent months ever since Duff MCKagan rejoined the band for a South American tour last year (14), and now celebrity fans of Axl Rose's group have started urging...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 30 September 2015
Hollywood Vampires Announces Two Shows
Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper's band Hollywood Vampires have announced two new concerts.The group, which also features Joe Perry, have announced they will perform two shows at The Roxy in West Hollywood on September 16...
By Bang Showbiz in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 13 August 2015
Supergroup The Hollywood Vampires Kick Off Live Dates In Los Angeles
Taken from the unofficial name of the celebrity group who used to hang out after hours at the Rainbow Bar & Grill in Los Angeles in the 1970s, the Hollywood Vampires formed last...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 13 August 2015
Grunge Icons Teaming Up For Iggy Pop Tribute Gig
Bassist MCKagan will hit the stage with Pearl Jam's Mike MCCready, Mudhoney's Mark Arm and Barrett Martin from Screaming Trees and Mad Season on the roof of Seattle's Pike Place Market on 23...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 09 August 2015
Duff Mckagan: 'My Daughters Know All About The Dangers Of Drugs Thanks To Me'
The rocker admits he's opened up about his heavy drinking and drug abuse past, which led to acute alcohol-induced pancreatitis in the mid 1990s, to daughters Grace, 17, and Mae, 14, but he...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 20 May 2015
Duff Mckagan Hoping To Write Alice In Chains Book
The former Guns N' Roses star has become a keen writer in recent years, producing columns for SeattleWeekly.com and ESPN.com, while he also penned his autobiography, It's So Easy (And Other Lies), which...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 14 May 2015
Duff Mckagan To Release Supergroup Ep With New Book
The bassist, his former Guns N’ Roses bandmate Izzy Stradlin, Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell and Stone Sour drummer Roy Mayorga have recorded three tracks which will be released on the same...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 30 April 2015
Duff Mckagan's Daughter Releases First Ep
Grace hopes the release of Say L'or Venus will prove to critics that she isn't just another rock offspring trying to make it as a musician. She says, "I have a lot...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 19 April 2015
Duff Mckagan Unsure He Wants Kids To Inherit Guns N' Roses Publishing Rights
Rocker Duff Mckagan is contemplating selling off the publishing rights to the Guns N' Roses songs he co-wrote to avoid his children becoming accustomed to a life of privilege.The 50-year-old bassist admits he has been...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 06 January 2015
Chris Cornell And Duff Mckagan Join Mad Season
Rockers Chris Cornell and Duff Mckagan are joining newly reunited grunge supergroup Mad Season for a special concert.The Seattle, Washington-based band only released one album, Above, in 1995, and the remaining members are coming together...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 16 December 2014
Duff Mckagan: 'We're Not Auditioning Velvet Revolver Singers'
Rocker Duff Mckagan has dismissed reports sparked by former bandmate Scott Weiland suggesting supergroup Velvet Revolver are on the hunt for a new singer again.The band MCKagan formed with Slash and Matt Sorum has been...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 13 August 2014
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