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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Chili Peppers to Be Inducted by Chris Rock, Guns...
As Grantland has previously pointed out, this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony has — in a break from the institution’s time-honored commitment to having no one ever give a crap...
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Axl Rose Rejects Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nomination in a Manner Befitting...
Here we go! Wednesday Axl Rose released an open letter explaining that he flatly rejects the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s inclusion of himself, as a member of Guns N’ Roses, into the Hall class of...
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Axl Rose Explains His Rock Hall Snub, Makes a Ton of Sense (Really!)
Despite the cavernous absence of one W. Axl Rose, the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony went down as planned in Cleveland on Saturday night. (Were you totally unaware that this was...
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The Rock and Roll (on YouTube) Hall of Fame
Editor’s note: This week, in the twilight of the pre-Tom-Cruise-in-Rock-of-Ages era, we look back on some of rock and roll’s finer bat-shit moments. If you don’t see the videos, please try another...
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Seattle Supergroup Walking Papers: Duff N’ McCready N’ Screaming Trees Jam
Only four years separate the release of Guns N’ Roses’ first full-length record, 1987’s Appetite For Destruction, and Pearl Jam’s 1991 debut, Ten. But in the narrative of rock history, these albums...
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Axl Rose Makes First Live-TV Appearance in 20 Years, Refuses to Give People...
Axl Rose stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live last night for an appearance that had been hyped weeks in advance as his first live television interview in 20 years. (Rose also did a much longer, non-live...
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YouTube Hall of Fame: Worst Music Videos 2
Long ago, in the early days of the HOF, the Grantland staff got together and honored the “worst music videos of all time,” from Billy Squier to Sisqo. But, of course, there will always be more worst...
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Second Banana Update: The Dumb, the Smart, and the Dumb-Smart Voting Issues...
You people. That’s what I think every time we do a bracket with voting. Because sometimes you people nail it, and other times you people make decisions that are imprisonable offenses. There have been...
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Keith Richards Is Not a Second Banana: The Guitarist’s Conundrum
Keith Richards is not a second banana. I’m annoyed that I have to argue this. But I will. A fair-minded person who is knowledgeable about the history of the Rolling Stones would classify Keef as (at...
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Side 1, Track 1: ‘Straight Outta Compton’ and the Best First Songs Ever
This weekend, I paid to see Straight Outta Compton, F. Gary Gray’s authorized biopic about pioneering gangsta rap group N.W.A. Two and a half hours later, I felt like I had been watching television —...
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