Soundgarden's surviving members are reuniting for a show in Seattle Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd and Matt Cameron will reunite onstage at a benefit for Seattle Children’s Hospital Metal Hammer · Dec 4, 2024
"The progressive rock-ness of this huge epic pushed me in a whole new direction": Slash and Duff McKagan have combined forces on a colossal new song Slash and Duff McKagan appear together on I Can Breathe, a new charity single by Gibson Brand Metal Hammer · Dec 3, 2024
“We hit the stage, and there’s Paul McCartney. He looks at me and he says, ‘Hey, Duff’. All I can think is, ‘Paul McCartney knows my name. How the hell did that happen?!’” Duff McKagan recalls his real-life Spinal Tap moment and meeting his heroes The Guns N' Roses bassist on meeting Sir Paul McCartney, and a life-changing encounter with Prince Guitar World · Nov 29, 2024
“A lot of my peers have turned to modelers. I’m not there yet. It still feels like an electronic toy to me”: Jerry Cantrell on his love of guitar duos, vibing off Jeff Beck on his solo album –and why he remains a digital tone skeptic The Alice In Chains guitarist discusses sticking to tubes, breaking out the talkbox and the potty-mouthed solo sessions behind his new album I Want Blood Guitar World · Nov 19, 2024
"I'm still not sure that I can tell you exactly what happened, and I was there": Slash, Duff McKagan, Steven Adler and more tell the epic story of Guns N’ Roses' Use Your Illusion Use Your Illusion: Drugs, rifts, hirings, firings, and the sound of a band falling apart Metal Hammer · Nov 7, 2024
Duff McKagan promises new Guns N' Roses music Duff McKagan says Guns N' Roses have a plan in place for new music. BANG Premier · Oct 31, 2024
Plan is in place for new Guns N' Roses music, says Duff McKagan Guns N' Roses have been talking about a new album for some time – and now Duff tells fans to stay tuned Metal Hammer · Oct 31, 2024
"There are always fears and doubts lurking, because you're opening yourself up in a completely raw way": Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell on his new album and its guests, songwriting, AI, algorithm bots and AIC's legacy Jerry Cantrell's new solo album I Want Blood features members of Guns N' Roses, Metallica and Faith No More Metal Hammer · Oct 30, 2024
“If you’re faint of heart and can’t stand some blue exclamations from time to time, it’s probably not very peaceful to be with me in a studio”: Jerry Cantrell admits he can't help cursing when he’s recording solos The Alice In Chains man says his explosively expletive approach is a necessary weapon in the “battle” of tracking his lead lines Guitar World · Oct 21, 2024
“Slash and I could drink anyone under the table, but Arnold Schwarzenegger was a challenge. He was smoking and swearing all the time”: Duff McKagan’s wild tales of Iggy Pop, Aerosmith, Johnny Thunders and The Terminator Boozing with Arnie, jamming with Iggy, ignoring Aerosmith’s phone calls – Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan has done it all and more Metal Hammer · Oct 19, 2024
Duff McKagan releases unexpected cover of David Bowie's "Heroes" Duff McKagan's version of "Heroes" and a new song, True To The Death Rock N’ Roll Ballad, arrive ahead of the Guns N' Roses man's European Lighthouse tour Louder · Sep 26, 2024
"Smile at your scared opponent and help them. If he's swinging wildly, chill him out": The Gospel according to Duff McKagan Addiction can be beaten. Understand money. Put your partner first. Don’t hold grudges. Clothes maketh the man. These are among the things that shape Duff McKagan's world view Metal Hammer · Sep 10, 2024
From feeling the Kenergy with Ryan Gosling and Wolfgang Van Halen, to jamming with Dolly Parton and Demi Lovato – here are 10 of the best recent Slash collaborations Slash doesn't do holidays, so when he is not out with Guns N' Roses or putting together his own blues album and festival, he's a first-call special guest for some of music's biggest names Guitar World · Aug 19, 2024
"Rock ain’t dead. To who?!" Duff McKagan talks Guns N' Roses, punk rock and how Velvet Revolver proved the haters wrong From Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver to his solo work, Duff McKagan is still a punk kid at heart - with big ambitions Metal Hammer · Aug 16, 2024
Louder · Aug 6, 2024 “I learned Irish history through Stiff Little Fingers and my worldview education through punk rock.” Guns N' Roses star Duff McKagan on the history lessons you don't learn in a school class room Duff McKagan on the education he received from punk rock
Louder · Aug 5, 2024 Listen to the incomparable, much-missed Mark Lanegan on the driving Heard A Train, a previously-unreleased out-take from 2004's brilliant Bubblegum album Bubblegum XX, an expanded 20th anniversary of Mark Lanegan's 2004 album, is set for release this month: listen to one of the original album out-takes set for inclusion
Metal Hammer · Jul 29, 2024 "I was too drunk." Guns N' Roses man Duff McKagan on the "first and only" time he met Prince Duff has some serious regrets about meeting the iconic Prince, but it seems he actually made a solid impression
Louder · Jul 19, 2024 Bruce Springsteen: The torment and triumph of Born In The USA - only in the new issue of Classic Rock Also in this issue: Dio, Deep Purple, Duff McKagan, Canned Heat, Blondie, Gene Simmons, Tito, Suzi Quatro, Orange Goblin, Fish, Tyler Bryant, Blues Pills and more
Louder · Jul 14, 2024 “I couldn’t be arsed and James said, ‘Why don’t we ask Duff McKagan?’”: Nicky Wire on the time the Guns N' Roses legend played bass on a Manics song Duff appeared on the band's 2010 track A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun
Louder · Jun 17, 2024 "A lot more fun than Chinese Democracy":Supergroup Velvet Revolver mostly live up to the hype on Contraband Did Velvet Revolver produce an album to do the legacy of Guns N' Roses proud? Or was it just another under-achieving and short-lived side-project?
Guitar World · Jun 11, 2024 “He was living in his mom’s basement because he’s like 18. And he starts playing guitar… and then he brings out his snake”: Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan on the moment he met Slash (and his plus one) Duff McKagan recalls a teenage Slash bringing along an unexpected guest to their first-ever meeting
Metal Hammer · Jun 8, 2024 “If you’d given me a handful of résumés, I’d avoid the ones that said ‘irretrievable junkie’ on them”: the unlikely birth of Velvet Revolver, the supergroup who triumphed against the odds Velvet Revolver’s debut album, Contraband, was released on June 8, 2004. In this classic interview, Slash reveals how one of rock’s greatest modern supergroups got off the ground
Louder · Jun 2, 2024 "As unvarnished and unshowy as a multi-millionaire rock star can get": Duff McKagan keeps it intimate on Tenderness Live In Los Angeles GN’R bassist Duff McKagan scales things down on solo live double album
Louder · Apr 16, 2024 Duff McKagan announces solo UK and European tour The Guns N' Roses bassist will play 15 shows in 11 countries in support of last year's Lighthouse album
Metal Hammer · Apr 1, 2024 "I had a real sense that he was lonely and alone. I felt the same way": On April 1, 1994 two world-famous rock stars were seated together on Delta Airlines flight 788 from Los Angeles to Seattle. It would be the last flight one of them would ever take On Good Friday, 1994, two musicians caught a flight home to Seattle. One of them would be found dead at home one week later