ContactMusic — Former Guns N' Roses star Matt Sorum has changed his name to Baron Von Storm. The rocker will use the new moniker when he's recording and performing with new band Diamond Baby, which features longtime girlfriend Ace Harper. The group's break-out vide... more info

The Independent — To rock fans worldwide he is Slash the living legend, with more than 100 million album sales, not to mention a hard-drinking, drug-abusing life with Guns N' Roses. Ask for him in Stoke-on-Trent, however, and you might find he's better known as Saul,... more info

ContactMusic — Rocker Slash is getting animated for the new Phineas & Ferb movie. The former Guns N' Roses star has written and recorded a song for the soundtrack of the movie adaptation of the hit children's series - and he'll appear as a cartoon in the accompanyi... more info

ContactMusic — Jada Pinkett Smith gave up being a rock star for her family. The actress and Wicked Wisdom singer who is married to Will Smith said she turned down the chance for her band to tour with Guns N' Roses so she could concentrate on raising their ch... more info

Perez Hilton — LOVE this!!! Check out Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser, aka 2CELLOS , playing their unique arrangement of Welcome To The Jungle by Guns N' Roses (above)! It's classy! It's crazy! It's out of control with the cool! more info

Guardian Music — (Earache)The bijou Nottingham independent label Earache is most often home to death metal bands called things like Ignominious Incarceration. So it comes as a surprise to find among its roster a band of Californian vegans playing retro blues rock. R... more info

ContactMusic — Rocker Axl Rose has settled a legal battle with former Guns N' Roses manager Irving Azoff over breach of contract allegations. Azoff sued the Guns N' Roses frontman in March, 2010, accusing the singer of reneging on an agreement to hand him a slice o... more info

Guardian Music — 21 January 1991: Number 36 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicWith lines like "I laughed when Lennon got shot", Manic Street Preachers' first single for Heavenly, Motown Junk, was a shot across the bows, a kamikaze manife... more info

Guardian Music — 20 August 1988: Number 42 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock music"Don't fuckin' kill yourselves." The irony of Axl Rose's plea to the audience at Donington Park on 20 August 1988 was that two people had already been killed: su... more info

Guardian Music — Behold: the 54-year-old responsible for mis-selling the Iraq war shoving the 22-year-old responsible for All Time LowNow and then, what passes for showbiz throws up a vignette that represents everything wrong with modern life. Consider the moment it ... more info