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Nikki Sixx confesses Mötley Crüe do in fact use backing tracks on stage – but promises they play all instruments live: “We enjoy being able to do what we did in the studio live”

The band have been accused of miming in the past

Guitar World · Aug 7

“When we played with Mötley Crüe, Nikki Sixx said to us, ‘We did some dumb stuff in our career, but man, you guys need to step on the brakes!’ So you can imagine the insanity”: Zoltan Bathory on 20 years of Five Finger Death Punch

“All I’m going to say is: this new record is a monster”

MusicRadar · Jun 30

"Record the show, put it online. There are a lot of people who won't be able to see it, so let’s give them a little joy." John 5 on why he's bucking the anti-phone movement at gigs

Well-travelled and current Mötley Crüe guitarist John 5 is about to embark on a European tour

Metal Hammer · Apr 29

"When the time is right, put us in a coffin and fire up those avatars": Nikki Sixx is up for Mötley Crüe continuing as avatars once the band are dead

Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx is keen to follow in the footsteps of Kiss and ABBA with an avatar-style show so that their music can "go forward for generations and generations"

Metal Hammer · Jul 8, 2024

"We don't want to stagnate": Mötley Crüe sign with Big Machine Records – Vince Neil exclusive

Sunset Strip veterans Mötley Crüe join Scott Borchetta’s Nashville label, with new single Dogs Of War due later this week. Crüe vocalist Vince Neil gives us the dirt

Metal Hammer · Apr 23, 2024

Mick Mars put together the most hedonistic band of their era and has the scars to prove it: Now out of Mötley Crüe, he's starting a solo career. Lived a life? You bet

Mick Mars looks back on his career, from his early days on Sunset Strip to his years as an unlikely metal superstar

Metal Hammer · Mar 28, 2024

"A full-scale solo stormer: a 90s grunge record made by a marauding horde of evil mutants": Mick Mars has made a would-be classic with The Other Side Of Mars

Former Mötley Crüe man Mick Mars' debut solo album The Other Side Of Mars is as dangerous as a black mamba in your pants

Louder · Feb 23, 2024

"We saved a lot of our favourite mementos, candid pics, and dirtiest souvenirs": Mötley Crüe have launched what they're calling "the world's most notorious museum"

Mötlety Crüe's Crüseum is open now, and the band have relaunched their official fan club

Metal Hammer · Jan 17, 2024

“I’ve been wanting to do this solo thing for a very long time. I had to do stuff with Mötley… now it’s my time”: Mick Mars opens up about his surprisingly heavy solo debut and life after the Crüe

As he releases the first single from his first-ever solo record, The Other Side of Mars, Mick Mars reflects on his guitar legacy, growing up with Eddie Van Halen and why he thinks Mötley Crüe made a “very, very wise choice” in hiring John 5

Guitar World · Oct 31, 2023

Nikki Sixx once claimed that Mötley Crüe were in secret negotiations with the US State Department to travel to Baghdad during the Iraq War to perform a Rolling Stones song

"I hate George Bush almost as much as I hate Kate Bush" - Nikki Sixx, during the Iraq War

Metal Hammer · Oct 31, 2023