Lemmy Kilmister

10 Metal Albums to Listen to Before You Die

I have been a heavy metal fan for over 50 percent of my existence on this planet. But when you're talking about the all-encompassing musical genre known as "heavy metal," you might as well be talking about something as infinitely complicated as the Universe. It's that vast, and the amount of territo ... More >>

Motorhead - Club Nokia - May 14, 2013

Motörhead Club Nokia May 14, 2013 The privilege of watching Motörhead thrash on their instruments is certainly a good way to spice up any Tuesday night. But there is no way to start this review without discussing the insanity of their opening act, Anvil, who took the stage with a vengeance in fron ... More >>

Revolver Golden Gods Awards - Club Nokia - May 2, 2013

Golden Gods Awards Club Nokia May 2, 2013 The Fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards show celebrating the heavy metal and hard rock community had some unplanned extra heaviness with the untimely passing of legendary Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman. At the opening of this star filled extravaganza, h ... More >>

MusInk Days 2 & 3 - OC Fairgrounds - March 9-10, 2013

MusInk Days 2&3 OC Fairground March 9-10, 2013 The art of ink slinging took over OC this weekend as the sixth annual, three-day Musink Festival came the OC Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, in what was turned out to be a 72-hour celebration of body art(including tattoos and piercings), ... More >>

Product Placement in Music Videos = Tacky

We'll be honest: product placement in music videos used to not irritate us--we giggled when the Foo Fighters parodied a Mentos commercial in their "Big Me" video back in the 90s--but that was when music videos premiered on MTV--not Vevo--and artists weren't cashing in on aggressive product placement ... More >>

Six Most Notorious Musician/Wrestler Incidents (Not Including Hulk Hogan Almost Joining Metallica)

​Wrestling and heavy metal have gone hand-in-hand since, well, the '70s. That being said, NME reported the startling news that wrestling icon Hulk Hogan was buds with Metallica's Lars Ulrich and wasthis close to joining Metallica in the early '80s when the Hulkster was a session bassist (believe t ... More >>

Eight Films to Help You Prepare for the End of the World on May 21

​ For the last few months, a kooky religious group has been plastering North America with billboards and placards announcing that the world will end on May 21. Call us warped, but we're thrilled by the prospect of Armageddon. With millions of the faithful lifted skyward by the Rapture, their hom ... More >>

TGIF: RX Bandits, Cold War Kids, Motörhead and More

RX Bandits​On Saturday, Ty Segall plays Alex's Bar in Long Beach, headlining a bill featuring Tijuana Panthers and Okee Dokee. His hyperactive role in a slew of bands had already won him local fame, but the release of Melted seems to have woken up the rest of the musical world to what's been going ... More >>

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House of Blues

Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister Is Still Wild

Lemmy remembers the old days, but has no plans to slow down

Musink Tattoo Convention & Music Festival at OC Fairgrounds

Andrew YoussefNOFX performing SundayClick for slideshows of Day One, Day Two and Day Three.The Hype: Three days of tattoos, punk, metal, rockabilly and skateboarding descended upon the OC Fairgrounds under the umbrella of the Musink Tattoo Convention & Music Festival Friday through Sunday. The l ... More >>

Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister and More at NAMM Day 2

The musician sightings at NAMM, which runs through Sunday, heated up Friday as I passed Tom Dumont (No Doubt), Kenny G, Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath), Neal Schon (Journey), Billy Zoom (X), Tim Mahoney (311), Rikki Rockett (Poison), Peter Frampton, and Hollywood-based hard rock hero, Lemmy Kilmister ... More >>

Five Regrettable Music/Video Game Moments

​Motörhead are currently on tour (including a stop at the House of Blues in Anaheim), they also play a role in upcoming action/adventure game Brütal Legend, out next week on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 (we got a chance to play it at Comic-Con this year, it's a fun, straight-forward beat 'em up wi ... More >>

Incoming: Metallica at the Honda Center

Way back when, there was this radio station called KNAC. They were based out of Long Beach and played metal. I was in middle school, so needless to say, I loved it.Every freakin' night, KNAC had a program called Mandatory Metallica. It was hosted by Poundin' Pat and it had this killer intro that wen ... More >>

Rockabilly Icons the Stray Cats Give the OC One Last Hurrah

Surf City Celluloid

The SoCal Independent Film Fest goes big

For Those About to Schlock . . .

KNAC/DC supply the metal, you shout at the devil

Get Out!

True Poison
March 9 - March 16

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

Dale Crover and the unstoppable killing machine

Cereal Killers

Count Chocula would approve of Tiger Army

Let Them Die!

Motorheads Lemmy explains it all

Soul-Soothing Magick

Joe Louis Walker makes you proud to be an American

Time Has Come Today

Motorhead and Alison M. Rosen: Separated at birth?