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The buzz has been building around Mötley Crüe biopic The Dirt, which stars Machine Gun Kelly as drummer Tommy Lee. As if we weren’t already excited enough for the upcoming Netflix flick, we now know the rapper will be joining the rock icons for a collab track for the film. Read more: Ariana Grande’s “7 Rings” teaches Set It Off […]

Machine Gun Kelly has opened up about what it was like playing Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee in the upcoming Netflix film based on the band’s wild past. The Dirt is based on the group memoir the band wrote in 2001 of the same name. Colson Baker, better known as rapper Machine Gun Kelly, spoke […]

Gore-obsessed entertainers and veteran metal icons Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson have been putting their own unique twist on the Beatles‘ classic “Helter Skelter” throughout the towns of North America during their massive Twins of Evil: The Second Coming Tour. But on New Year’s Eve, the duo found themselves bolstered by none other than Mötley […]

Taylor Hawkins‘ 11-year-old son Oliver spread some holiday cheer over the weekend when he sat in with his father and Dave Grohl for a song during the Foo Fighters drummer’s classic-rock set with his merry cover act, Chevy Metal. And Oliver Shane Hawkins seems a spitting image of his dad in the fan-captured clips from the gig, […]

The long-awaited Mötley Crüe biopic finally has a release date. Frontman Vince Neil shared the news on Twitter over the weekend. The movie is heading to Netflix early next year. Read more: 2018’s top iPhone apps show drop in Snapchat use In 2001, Mötley Crüe released their autobiography The Dirt: Confessions Of The World’s Most Notorious Rock Band. Netflix has been […]

Tommy Lee took to Twitter to respond to those who claimed he “stole his shit” from Travis Barker, and Barker’s response was perfect. Read more: Tommy Lee tells Travis Scott to “lawyer up” for allegedly stealing stage design – UPDATED Earlier this week, Motley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee caught wind of rapper Travis Scott’s ASTROWORLD Tour setup. Lee in turn accused him […]

UPDATE: NOV. 29, 4:59 P.M. EST Earlier today, Motley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee caught wind of rapper Travis Scott’s ASTROWORLD Tour setup. Lee in turn accused him of ripping off old sets by posting side-by-side videos of both stage designs. Lee told Scott to “lawyer up” soon after, and now he’s returning to social media with […]

Finding a new band is awesome. What’s more awesome is finding out the members of said band are multitalented outside of their own field. For as long the technology has been around, music and photography have gone together like peaches and cream. Whether they are freelancer photographers, snapping on the road or just looking for […]

[Photo by: Mark Weiss] The Mötley Crüe biopic keeps getting better every day. After learning who's playing each member of the band, now the actor who's being considered for the role of Ozzy Osbourne has been revealed. Osbourne, of course, wasn't a member of Mötley Crüe, but he did tour with the band in their early years, which makes him part […]

[Photo by: Motley Crue/Facebook] That Mötley Crüe biopic is shaping up to be pretty epic. After announcing that Machine Gun Kelly would be playing Tommy Lee, the rest of the cast has been revealed, too. Read more: Machine Gun Kelly to play Tommy Lee in upcoming Mötley Crüe biopic The Hollywood Reporter shared that Iwan Rheon of Game of […]

[Photo by: Ryan Watanabe; Machine Gun Kelly/Twitter] Machine Gun Kelly is playing drummer Tommy Lee in an upcoming Mötley Crüe biopic. The Netflix original movie is an adaptation of the band's 2001 autobiography The Dirt: Confessions Of The World’s Most Notorious Rock Band. Read more: 21 times bands referenced other artists in their songs and it’s […]

[Photos by: Travis Shinn, Pledge Music, Wikimedia Commons] Rage Against The Machine and Prophets Of Rage guitarist Tom Morello is unpacking the questionable content offered by some of his favorite classic rock bands, saying that he still loves acts such as Mötley Crüe and AC/DC despite their pervasive misogynistic, and often nefarious, lyrical themes. Read […]

Nothing says the holidays quite like syncing up your Christmas lights to rock music. So to get you in the spirit—and maybe inspire your own decorations—we’ve gathered up some of the coolest Christmas light shows around. Watch the videos below, and tell us your favorite in the comments! This Panic! At The Disco light show […]

In a new interview with a United Arab Emirates news outlet during Mötley Crüe's final tour, Nikki Sixx gave some details about his insane flamethrower bass that has become a staple of the band's stage presence over the years. Read more: “Everything must come to an end”–Mötley Crüe promise no reunion tours after 2015 “It's like holding […]

Back Veil Brides performed a cover of Mötley Crüe’s “Kickstart My Heart” at the Montreal, QC stop of their current headlining tour with Memphis May Fire and Ghost Town. They have reportedly been playing the track at other dates as well. Check out a fan-filmed video of BVB playing the track below. Read more: In Defense Of The […]

We caught up with Black Veil Brides following their Black Veil Brides IV fan listening party on Tuesday to talk about what it means to have their fans hear it first. “Who better to hear it first than the people who gave you a chance to make the record in the first place?” frontman Andy Biersack inquires. […]

It was revealed earlier this week that Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee would be playing drums on the Smashing Pumpkins’ forthcoming album, Monuments To An Elegy. Now, frontman Billy Corgan (who will be appearing at the APMAs) has offered up a lengthy statement explaining how the collaboration came to be. Apparently, the project came together […]

The Smashing Pumpkins will be releasing two new albums in 2015. One of the albums, Monuments To An Elegy, will feature drumming from none other than Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe. Check out a photo of frontman Billy Corgan (who will be appearing at the APMAs and receiving an award) and Lee in the studio […]

Mötley Crüe have announced the retirement of the band through officially signing a “Cessation of Touring” agreement in Los Angeles today. The band promises to never tour again after the Final Tour. But what does retirement actually mean? For bands like Underoath, retirement has meant the band members splitting up and working on their own, […]