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It's Gonna Bring You Down.... Huh!

rita — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:49:01 GMT

Given lead singer W. Axl Rose's notorious, errr, let's call it "unreliability," when it comes to concert appearances, though, make sure you save your receipt. The site we found this info on cautions that these dates have not yet been officially confirmed by management -- and this paragraph is right above another paragraph that says "Axl Rose has been saying that the band's long-delayed new album will be out later this year," so you should decide on your own just how much credibility you want to give these reports. The Ticketmaster site for the Warfield doesn't have the show listed yet either.

And even if the show does officially get booked -- who knows how it's all going to end? (You gotta check out how the summer shows in Europe have been going for Axl -- it's like he's Fiona Apple.) SFist is so going to see if we can get review tickets for this show. Maybe Axl'll get attacked by a fashion designer again!

Chinese Democracy

Keep Your Hands to Yourself

Jon — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:54:53 GMT

Testifying for the proposed rules was members of the Commission on the Status of Women, currently residing in the top five of our "Things We'll Slash Out of the Budget for Being a Whole Waste of Tax money The Moment We Become Mayor" list, who are behind the rule changes. Emily Murase, director of the commission, proclaimed to the assembled ~~thong~~ throng that the issue of private booths and tables were an "issue of Human Rights." Murase then quoted from Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech when she said

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. And I have a dream that dancers will no longer be forced into giving hand-jobs to drunken conventioneers from Omaha Nebraska."

The issue now goes to the Board of Supes who will be next to weigh in. We hope this story ends with that as we're running out of ways to mock this silliness.

Rock Star Auditions

krissy — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:00:40 GMT

Get your leather pants and best rock caterwaul ready, because Jason Newsted will be attending an open-call audition today here in San Francisco:

"Rock Star: The Series" Casting
March 21st
Rockit Room
406 Clement St
San Francisco, CA 94118
10am - 4pm

The second season is set to start this summer, and is run like a rock n' roll American Idol with one singer being eliminated each week. Once the winner is selected, they will be stuffed into a just-add-singer master plan that includes an album co-written and produced by Butch Walker (The Marvelous 3) and a world tour starting in early 2007.

Dave Navarro and Brooke Burke will return as hosts and the new season will also feature some format twists with a different music celebrity or rock legend each week. Said Navarro (in the press release; we didn't actually interview him), "Friends of mine, like Slash, Macy Gray, Moby and Rob Zombie, will join us and throw in their two cents about who should stay and who should go." We can't think of a better judge of rock n' roll vocalists than Moby.

Wheeeeeeee3

Matt Baume — Mon, 23 May 2005 13:50:08 GMT

If E3 is the sort of thing you care about, you've probably already gorged yourself on more coverage than you can even possibly remember. Last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles was geared toward videogame industry insiders -- sort of an opportunity for game developers and reporters to stand around sniff each others' butts -- but there was plenty of stuff going on that's of interest to casual gamers as well. E3 ain't just for the Xenis and Wils of the world, after all, so we packed up and drove down to LA last week to schmooze with gamey nerds and check out some cool upcoming amusement devices.

After the jump: nifty online French quests, previews of the new Zelda and Final Fantasy games, Slash (from Guns'n'Roses) says "whoa," advanced physics, and we go head-to-head with the voice of Mario in a MarioKart DS tournament.

Any Way You Want It

Jon — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:08:24 GMT

Like a lot of these types of sites, we have no idea what the irony level is- most of the people seem awfully sincere. On the other hand, is there anyway to appreciate Journey without some level of irony? Have you seen the video for Separate Ways? Are there any lyrics less rock n’ roll than that of “Lovin’, Touchin,’ Squeezin’”? Anyways, the sites’ writers have posted several fictional stories based on their hero- comedy, drama, romance. There’s even poetry, flash animation, and an inspiring true story as one writer recounts their meeting with Mr. Oh. Sherrie.

It goes without saying that this site is all kinds of awesome.