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“I realized that day that you don't perform for people. You don't prove anything to the audience”: Nuno Bettencourt on how Alice in Chains' Layne Staley radically changed the way he plays guitar on stage

Nuno Bettencourt criticizes music fans who think playing on stage is “like scoring points. Like, how was the performance from one to 10”

Guitar World

“Alice In Chains showed me how you can do more with less”: How Klone successfully go unplugged with their prog

As the five-piece French head out on an acoustic tour, we dig into the secrets behind their success at moving between worlds with guitarist Guillaume Bernard

MusicRadar

"Whether it has anything to do with being sober I don't know – but I needed a release": Slash tells the story of his star-studded debut solo album

Slash's band split. He was called a 'sell-out' and 'a cancer'. And through it all he emerged with the first great rock album of the last decade

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“We found the damn thing!” Jerry Cantrell’s original G&L Rampage wasn’t stolen after all – it had just been misplaced

The 'Blue Dress' G&L, which has been used by the Alice in Chains icon on almost everything he's ever recorded, is one of the most important guitars in grunge

Guitar World

“I was worried to death that this thing was gone”: Jerry Cantrell’s ‘Blue Dress’ G&L Rampage has been found safe and well

False alarm! The iconic S-style was lost in transit. And there is more good news – the Alice In Chains guitarist is working on new music

MusicRadar

"Carlos Santana told me I was like a shaman on stage and he wanted to do a band with me": Gavin Rossdale's stories of Keanu Reeves, David Bowie, Bono and more

He's been bitten by Shirley Manson, sung on stage with Alice In Chains, spent 15 hours a day for months with Tom Jones, and is pals with Robert Downey Jr. He’s Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale, and these are his stories

Louder

“We’re offering a reward to anyone who can help us locate the guitar”: Jerry Cantrell’s original G&L Rampage – one of grunge’s most important guitars – has been stolen

The 1984 'Blue Dress' Rampage has been used on almost everything the Alice in Chains guitarist has ever recorded

Guitar World

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“We’re offering a reward to anyone who can help us locate the guitar”: Jerry Cantrell’s G&L ‘Blue Dress’ Rampage has been stolen

The 1985 Rampage has been on every one of Cantrell’s recordings, and was taken from the Alice In Chains’ guitarist’s car over the weekend

MusicRadar

Alice In Chains' Jar Of Flies Tops Billboard Vinyl Chart

Alice In Chains' EP Jar of Flies makes a triumphant return to the music scene, topping Billboard charts.

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The angst, the sensitivity… and the songs: how gen Z got hooked on Nirvana

For a new generation of musicians, the grunge band and their frontman Kurt Cobain have provided a blueprint for a more inclusive style of stardom

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"We were hanging out with our acoustic guitars, and we wrote four songs in two or three hours": Duff McKagan and Jerry Cantrell are thinking of making an album together

The Guns N' Roses and Alice In Chains men have contributed to each other's solo releases in the past and are now considering taking the relationship further

Metal Hammer

"A mesmerising snapshot of the nihilistic grunge age": Mad Season's only album may forever be associated with tragedy and loss, but the musicians sound liberated

With members of Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains and Screaming Trees on board, Mad Season's 1995 album Above was gut-wrenching but transfixing

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Alice In Chains are releasing a version of Jar Of Fies with actual dead flies embedded in the vinyl

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Louder

“That was when I knew we had really accomplished something”: Alice In Chains on the transformative success of their Jar Of Flies EP as it turns 30

The grunge trailblazer's had their first Number One with the 1994 EP

Metal Hammer

“One slide was closed down – somebody broke their nose on it”: MTV once took Alice In Chains to the deadliest waterpark in America

In 1993, Headbangers Ball host Riki Rachtman treated Alice In Chains to a day in New Jersey’s Action Park. He had no idea the waterpark claimed six lives in 10 years.

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10 amazing covers by massive metal bands that you’ve (probably) never heard

From Iron Maiden going full prog to Black Sabbath smashing Smoke On The Water, only completists will have heard these extraordinary covers

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"The record is a guitar extravaganza": Heavy Lifting, the first MC5 album since 1971, will feature Slash, Tom Morello, Alice In Chains' William DuVall, Vernon Reid, and more

Wayne Kramer promises that Heavy Lifting, the first MC5 album since 1971’s High Time, is coming in spring 2024

Louder

Watch ten rock stars from the 90s in their earlier bands

Warning: contains Tom Morello playing with a Michael Bolton lookalike

Louder

“If I ever run into him in a dream again, I hope I remember to apologize”: the time Chris Cornell revealed he’d been dreaming about Layne Staley

Cornell wrote that he’d been angry at Staley’s funeral and wanted to say sorry

Louder

10 moments of genius from MTV Unplugged

As Nirvana’s iconic set turns 30, we pick out the ten best songs from the famous sessions

Metal Hammer

This cover of Alice In Chains' It Ain't Like That performed by Jerry Cantrell and Nickelback in 2002 packs more meat than a butcher's shop

Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell joined Nickelback on the road in 2002, and joined the Canadian rockers onstage for their mega-beefy Facelift-era cover

Louder

“Here’s my record. And if you ever want to write a song together…”: Bob Dylan said he loved Duff McKagan’s last album. So Duff McKagan asked him to collaborate

Duff McKagan reacted to Bob Dylan’s praise by suggesting they write a song together, plus he reveals he wants to make an album with Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell

Metal Hammer

Every cover song by Metallica, ranked from worst to best

We’ve listed the 40 covers that metal’s biggest band recorded in the studio and released to the public in reverse-order of excellence

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