Metal Insider’s Top Ten Of The Year: Bram Teitelman
With the year in music just about over, Metal Insider‘s staff and contributors are taking a look back and naming their top ten albums of 2012. This next list comes courtesy of Metal Insider editor Bram...
View ArticleMetal Insider’s Top 5: Most Bizarre Reunions
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Crazy to think how within a few hours, we suddenly had TWO Black Flag reunions to choose from. Hell, even...
View ArticleAnthrax Isn’t The Only Band Putting Out A Covers EP
After the relative success of their debut album Omerta, supergroup Adrenaline Mob has announced a U.S. tour and a covers EP. The goofily-named EP, Coverta, will be released on March 12, the same day...
View ArticleDavid Lee Roth Disappointed That Michael Anthony Isn’t In The Van Halen Reunion
Since reuniting with David Lee Roth in 2007, Van Halen has toured the U.S. countless times. They even finally got their act together to release a new album, A Different Kind Of Truth, last year (even...
View ArticleEddie Van Halen And Tom Morello To Appear on LL Cool J Album
Looks like LL Cool J’s new album is about to get some guitar hero treatment. Earlier this month, both the rapper and Eddie Van Halen posted photos of the two in the studio together. Then at his SXSW...
View ArticleMetal Insider’s Top 5: Surprising Break Ups
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Before anyone starts to freak out about the imagine seen off to the side: no, we ARE NOT reporting about...
View ArticleToday In Hip-Hop Collaborations: Van Halen/LL Cool J and Serj/Tech N9ne
Hard rock and hip-hop/R&B have co-existed since the early ’80s, when Eddie Van Halen contributed a blistering guitar solo to Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” in 1982 and Run DMC rapped over guitars on...
View ArticleSix Year Old Avery Is “Hot For Teacher”
Noisecreep was the first to bring this to our attention, but there’s a six year-old drummer that’s probably better than you. Avery Molek has only been drumming for four years, but when you consider...
View ArticleHere’s What Eddie Van Halen and LL Cool J Sound Like Together
This past Tuesday, LL Cool J’s 13th album, Authentic, was released. Why are we writing about it on Metal Insider? Because Eddie Van Halen appears on two songs on the album. While we’d known that he’d...
View ArticleWatch A 14 Year-Old Nail Van Halen’s “Eruption”
Meet 14 year-old Tina S. At 14 years old, she’s nine years younger than Eddie Van Halen was when he revolutionalized two handed finger tapping with “Eruption,” his solo on Van Halen’s first album in...
View ArticleJohn 5 On Rob Zombie’s First Ever Live DVD, Working With David Lee Roth And...
It’s been a little over a year since we last spoke to John 5. Yet somehow he hasn’t slowed down at all. He’s busy enough keeping up with Rob Zombie, releasing the album Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor...
View ArticlePearl Jam cover two Van Halen songs
In Hartford on Friday, Pearl Jam revisted a song that they hadn’t played since the last time they played there three years ago. That song, which they played for the first time then, was a cover of Van...
View ArticleAccording to South Park, Van Halen symbolize World Peace
South Park helped prove that Slash doesn’t really exist, showed Ozzy eating the head of a child, made Dio play a school dance, declared Slayer as the ultimate hippie-detractor, and had Rush play for a...
View ArticleTop 10s of the year from Gypsyhawk, Skeletonwitch, Black Water Rising, Saxon...
It’s December, which means it’s time for that annual rite of passage where everyone attempts to summarize a year’s worth of music into a top ten list. Metal Insider and its contributors will be...
View ArticleThere might be some good rock and metal reading coming next year
If you’re not familiar with them, the 33 1/3 series of books is a stellar way to read about an album. Each book of 30,000 words is written about a particular album. Some of them are actually about the...
View ArticleMight as well watch Bruce Springsteen cover ‘Jump’
The older Bruce Springsteen gets, the more fun he seems to be having. And while his catalog speaks for itself, he’s been peppering in plenty of covers from his contemporaries recently. You’ve already...
View ArticleDavid Lee Roth suggests Van Halen project in the works
Back in 2012, Van Halen released their first full length with original vocalist David Lee Roth in 28 years. A Different Kind of Truth was well-received when it came out, but many of the songs on it...
View ArticleHere’s an updated list of how much it costs to book your favorite band
A few weeks ago, website Priceonomics did some number crunching and found out what it would cost to book a number of bands. At the time, we noted that the math was a little bit off, due to the fact...
View ArticleMetal Insider top 12: metal albums of 1984
And just like that, 2014 is half over. Hard to believe it’s gone this fast, right? At any rate, instead of listing our top ten records of the year so far, we thought we’d look back – 30 years back – to...
View ArticleFrom the creator of ‘Bass Dogs,’ get ready for ‘Slug Solos’
Last year, the internet was very amused by Bass Dogs, a Tumblr account that noted that “people who play bass with their fingers look like they’re tickling hairy dogs.” Hilarity ensued. Now the same...
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