Here's a fact that might not be shameful to close observers of the MTV Newsroom Blog: I give something of a obsession with the medicine of the 1990s. And I take a particular obsession with the soundtracks of that era, partially because I believe the movies are interesting and partly because those soundtracks usually act as delightful little time capsules that express exactly where the zeitgeist was at the time (down to the month, usually).
Metallica singer James Hetfield admitted he now has a "sort of regard" for Axl Rose.
Tensions between the two singers ran high when Metallica and Axl`s band, Guns N` Roses, toured the US together in 1992 - a situation exacerbated by James sustaining second and third degree burns during a see in Montreal, forcing Metallica to cut their set short.
By Zachary Swickey
How often would you pay to fall out with your favourite rock star? That was the motion I considered when I say around the discharge of Josh Freese's latest solo album last summer. (Freese, of course, is one of the rock world's best drummers, who has worked with the Vandals, Devo, A Gross Circle, Nine Inch Nails, Guns N' Roses - basically every important rock band of the past three decades.
Okay, maybe `news` isn`t the proper condition for all of it. Or even much of it. 76% seems to get involved Justin Bieber in some way, while one of the week`s major stories was whether or not Guns N Roses are still playing their upcoming UK tour dates - most importantly, Reading and Leeds at the end of the month.
