guns n roses

More ‘Complications’ on the Way For New, Underwhelming Guns N’ Roses Album?

1:45AM STV | Guns N’ Roses takes its 15-year battle with irrelevance straight to the people today, officially releasing the title track of its long, long, long, long-delayed album Chinese Democracy after years of leaks, lawsuits and general internecine drama that left a once-great rock band in yawning disarray. We’ve tired enough of attempting to keep up that we hadn’t bothered tracking down the new single before this morning (you can hear it after the jump); it’s about as soft as Axl Rose’s cosmetically burnished features and, as presumed, won’t make us forget anything on Appetite For Destruction. And thank goodness, because despite Democracy’s Nov. 23 release date finally laid down by Interscope Records, GNR’s manager hinted to Entertainment Weekly today that even more “complications” are imminent. More »

Chinese Democracy

6:05AM Defamer Hollywood | Putting his finger on a vague something that’s been missing from this holiday season, a San Francisco Chronicle writer realises that it’s a lack of rumours about the imminent release of Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy that’s bugging him, then provides a timeline of all the times that Axl Rose, like a creatively blocked Grinch in a kilt and catcher’s chest protector, has let the world down since 1999: “May 11, 2001: The New York Daily News quotes an “insider,” who says the album is basically done. “The album has been finished to everybody else’s satisfaction for over a year now,” the source says. “But Axl keeps going back to remix it and add vocals.” [SFGate.com] More »