The Latest Breaking News from Slash

Nuno Bettencourt on playing with Rihanna: "I’m sorry, most of the guitar players who I admire could not in their lifetime play that gig"

"Slash is one of the greatest rock guitar players of all time but I guarantee – and he’d be the first to tell you – that if he jumps up and he’s got to play a clean intro to Rude Boy by Rihanna, it ain’t happening,” the Extreme virtuoso says

Guitar World · Jul 19, 2023

“I’m sorry, most of the guitar players who I admire could not in their lifetime play that gig”: Nuno Bettencourt explains why the Rihanna gig is way tougher than rock

The Extreme guitarist says even Slash would struggle in a set that requires different styles, song after song

MusicRadar · Jul 18, 2023

Alice Cooper and Demi Lovato have written a song together, according to Nita Strauss: "they both said that it went amazingly well"

Nita Strauss reveals that Alice Cooper and pop-star-turned-rocker Demi Lovato have co-written a song

Metal Hammer · Jul 18, 2023

With Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen onboard, is the Barbie soundtrack this year’s must-hear guitar collaboration?

The guitar heroes reportedly both drop in on the soundtrack to accompany Ryan Gosling’s Ken on his signature tune, I’m Just Ken

Guitar World · Jul 13, 2023

Listen to Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen play on Ryan Gosling's '80s-style power ballad I'm Just Ken from the Barbie soundtrack

Guns N' Roses legend Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen serve up dazzling guitar work on I'm Just Ken, a power ballad sung by Ryan Gosling in the forthcoming Barbie film

Metal Hammer · Jul 13, 2023

“We made a protective circle of candles around us”: how Michael Monroe ended up duetting with Axl Rose on a Guns N’ Roses cover of punk rock classic

Ex-Hanoi Rocks frontman Michael Monroe is the only guest to have appeared on two Guns N’ Roses songs

Metal Hammer · Jul 12, 2023

Slash teams up with Ryan Gosling for Barbie soundtrack power ballad I’m Just Ken – and Wolfgang Van Halen is on it too

Because you can’t spell Kenergy without GNR...

MusicRadar · Jul 11, 2023

Barbie movie: Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash appears in Ryan Gosling’s I’m Just a Ken music video

Co-writer Mark Ronson tells of his delight that his ‘all-time hero’ plays on the song, which has its UK premiere on July 21

Evening Standard · Jul 11, 2023

Slash is apparently BFFs with Insidious actor Patrick Wilson: "I bug him all the time"

Slash bonded with Patrick Wilson at a Guns N' Roses gig over their love of horror and have been friends ever since

Metal Hammer · Jul 10, 2023

The man who designed the cross on the cover of Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction has died

Billy White Jr, who drew the iconic cross that ended up on the cover of Appetite For Destruction, has passed away

Metal Hammer · Jul 10, 2023