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"I think we may be looking at somebody in December, which is fun to think about (and) I believe in my heart of hearts it'll happen," bassist Duff McKagan said recently when asked about the vacant front man position in Velvet Revolver. McKagan believes Velvet Revolver will have a new singer by the end of the year...

Velvet Revolver have continued their search for a singer to replace the departed Scott Weiland, albeit in passive fashion. It's not been as easy as the band had hoped, having shelved an entire album's worth of material that was recorded with Slipknot/Stone Sour vocalist Corey Taylor at the helm...

Slipknot will continue without vocalist Corey Taylor if he chooses to quit the band, according to drummer Joey Jordison. In recent interviews, Taylor has been open about his concerns about carrying on with the band following bassist Paul Gray's 2010 death...

Slipknot revealed that original guitarist Donnie Steele will rejoin as the band's bassist during their upcoming summer dates. Steele replaces the late Paul Gray, who died at the age of 38 last May from an accidental morphine overdose. Steele first joined Slipknot during their early days in Des Moines, Iowa when the band called themselves The Pale Ones and played guitar on Slipknots' self-released

Slash's black top hats are as signature as the riff that dominates Guns N' Roses' legendary ballad 'Sweet Child O' Mine.' If you ever dreamed of owning one of the guitarist's trademark toppers, well, that fantasy is now one step closer to reality...

In 2008, the ex-Guns N' Roses/Stone Temple Pilots spin-off band Velvet Revolver spun out of control when vocalist Scott Weiland left the group after just two albums. Considering more than two years have passed and not much seems to have happened in that time, drummer Matt Sorum is in pretty good spirits...

Guitar god Slash recently opened up about the current state of Velvet Revolver. Back in 2008, Slash and the rest of Velvet Revolver announced a split from singer Scott Weiland. Turns out, things were not exactly rosy in Revolver land, and Slash blames a lot of the troubles on chemical dependency...

Last week, Jane's Addiction announced that they'd found a replacement for original bassist Eric Avery, who left the band for a second time last month, in former Guns N' Roses bass slapper Duff McKagan. This week, McKagan opened up about the new job, saying it was an opportunity he simply couldn't pass up...

The rumors are true: former Guns N' Roses/current Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan has joined Jane's Addiction, becoming the fifth bassist to join the band since it first formed in 1985. The news was revealed in a series of pictures this week...

When Hanoi Rocks formed way back in 1979, there's no way lead singer Michael Monroe could have predicted all that would happen to the band over three decades. The band played farewell shows in April 2009, and now the members are working on their respective solo careers...