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Jimi Hendrix would have been 70 this year. Although his hard-driving lifestyle eventually caught up with him, his inventive guitar work and songwriting is still influencing legions of musicians today. In honor of his recent birthday, Hendrix 70: Live at Woodstock is currently playing in movie houses across the U...

Today (Nov. 27), on what have been Jimi Hendrix's 70th birthday, Noisecreep wanted to take a moment and celebrate the late guitar icon. There's no question that without Hendrix's innovative playing style, most of the artists we cover on this site wouldn't exist...

Los Angeles-based and U.K. born guitarist Marino De Silva faces up to eight years in jail for scamming investors out of millions. De Silva told the investors he had unreleased tracks by Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Carlos Santana and The Rolling Stones...

Michael Anthony is the kind of bassist that most hard rock bands would kill for. The former Van Halen, and current Chickenfoot member, not only knows how to anchor a groove, with his fluid bass lines, and tasteful fills, but he also has an almost angelic quality to his vocals, that compliments any singer he's playing with...

"Do you really think we care about sacred songs?" laughs Six Feet Under frontman Chris Barnes. He's responding to a question about how the best-selling death metal band short-listed the cover songs for 'Graveyard Classics III.' "Actually," he reconsiders, "I can't remember what song it is now, but there was a song someone said to me recently, 'Man, you should try this...

Metal is one of those genres that takes itself so seriously, it's automatically hilarious. That's why we've endeavored to bring you the top 10 funny songs in metal. Granted, it's more than possible we missed a few tracks, which is why we encourage you to offer your two cents...

In the song 'Type,' from Living Colour's second album, 1990's 'Time's Up,' frontman Corey Glover sings about people's need to compartmentalize things in order to understand them: "Stereotype, monotype, blood type, are you my type?/Minimalism, abstract impressionism, post-modernism, is it...

It's a good thing metal bands don't ask to see musicians' iPods before auditions. If they did, Testament might never have invited guitar whiz Alex Skolnick to be a part of their legacy. Obviously, iPods weren't around when Skolnick tried out in the mid '80s, but you get the point...

Today's going to be a good day, because today, the Noisecreep crew's taping our second official podcast. We'll start rolling at 1 PM, and we'll be discussing all the week's big metal news, all the latest heavy releases and some of the dudes from Evile will even be in the studio to take part...