All photos © / Pesky Humans Tom Morello, the living legend guitarist from Rage Against the Machine, released his solo project's debut album on Tuesday. Following an in-store appearance at Amoeba Records, Morello packed out the Hotel Cafe and assembled a show that could most accurately be described as something between a spectacle and a true extravaganza. If you would have told me that one day I would see Tom Morello, Alanis Morissette, Ben......

Alice in Chains @ Wiltern - You gotta take your hat off to a band who loses their irreplaceable singer and... replaces him. So you take your hat off, steal the shoe off of some passed-out fratboy soaking in his own puke, put the shoe in the hat, and throw it at the band. Fucking Zeppelin didn't regroup after they lost their fucking drummer, wtf is this shit? If the City employees who were......

We missed the Guns KROQ Inland Invasion metal fest. We're sure they were even better without all the guys whose names we know. We're sure Alice in Chains was better without their singer. But since we weren't there, we will remember Guns back in the day. This is GNR circa 1988 in Halifax Canada opening for Iron Maiden. Axl starts the tune by telling some fan to blow him, and then, almost in the......

Guns N’ Roses, Alice in Chains, Muse, Papa Roach @ Inland Invasion Human League, Psychedelic Furs, ABC @ Hollywood Bowl Ani DiFranco @ Orpheum Asia @ The Canyon Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Safari Sam's Golden State, The Shore @ Viper Room Hed PE, Mower, The STD’s @ Key Club The Morlocks @ Little Pedro's The Section Quartet @ Largo Thee Mad Lovers, The Motives @ Mr. T's Bowl Sophie B. Hawkins @ The Vine......

Looks like Inland Invasion is going to be a quasi-metal onslaught, nearly as meaty as Ozzfest, but just like most things KROQ these days, a tad watered-down and lacking. Guns N' Roses are the headliners of the Sept 23rd festival, and they're lacking a good chunk of Guns N' Roses. Hell, you don't even get Buckethead any more. Irony abounds as bassist Tommy Stinson now plays with Guns -- his first band was... The......