Alice in Chains

Revolver magazine's Golden Gods Awards and Ephiphone guitars have donated two guitars, signed by winners, performers and presenters at the April 8 event in Los Angeles, which will be auctioned to benefit the West Memphis Three Defense Fund. The WM3 are Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley and Damien Echols, a trio of Arkansas young men who were arrested in June 1993 and ultimately convicted of murderi

It's a monolithic triple bill that can only be described as a gift from the rock 'n' roll gods! Alice in Chains will be joined by Deftones and Mastodon on the Blackdiamondskye Tour this fall. The tour name references each band's current album: AIC's 'Black Gives Way to Blue'; Deftones' 'Diamond Eyes'; and Mastodon's 'Crack the Skye...

In six days time, we should know a little more about BlackDiamondSkye.com, a site launched this week that several websites are speculating will go down this fall, and if the rumor is true, the only question remaining is: Who'll be the headliner...

"We never quite fit into that hair band mold. A lot of those bands were great, but we never just fit in it," Extreme frontman Gary Cherone told Noisecreep of his band's legacy. "We were on tour with Bon Jovi or ZZ Top or Bryan Adams or Alice in Chains...

Alice in Chains stand as one of the most influential and successful bands of the '90s, true superstars of the Seattle grunge music movement. But that was more than a decade ago. So when the band returned last year with 'Black Gives Way to Blue,' their first new album in more than a decade and the studio debut of new singer/guitarist William DuVall, they knew they'd be reintrioducing themselves to

Black Tide bassist Zakk Sandler is so not on Team Edward. The bassist issued a tirade about rumors that 'Twilight' heartthrob Robert Pattinson -- who makes 16-year-old girls swoon as pasty-faced, pouty-lipped, Bella-loving vampire Edward Cullen -- will portray Kurt Cobain in a film about the late singer's life and last days in Nirvana...

The metal world survived the second annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards. The bullet-belted, star-studded event, which occurred on April 8 at Los Angeles' Nokia Theatre, featured a full-fledged black carpet with everyone from Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl to Slash to Chino Moreno to Corey Taylor to Jonathan Davis in attendance...

In the '70s and '80s there was a financial firm named EF Hutton (now part of Citigroup) that ran television commercials that took place in a noisy environment such as a conference room full of chattering people. One investor would be talking to a friend or colleague and say, "Well, my broker's EF Hutton, and EF Hutton says...

On May 22, two of man's greatest creations -- chili and rock 'n' roll -- will come together for a good cause in Washington, D.C. According to reports, Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots will anchor this year's 31st annual DC101 Chili Cook-Off Rock Festival fundraiser...

In New York City on March 8, three very big and important metal shows were simultaneously going on around Manhattan (yes, all in the same borough). One included one of the most-sought-after bands to reunite this decade: Coalesce. They played with the southern doom masters Harvey Milk...