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Alice Cooper and Joe Perry on Hollywood Vampires, Johnny Depp's guitar skills, and 40 years of sobriety

They are the hellraising survivors of LA’s Sunset Strip — and when Hollywood Vampires hit London, even the Princess of Wales is invited to join them on stage, says frontman Alice Cooper

Evening Standard · Aug 4

"A raw and lethal mix of razor-saw metal and a punky punch." The story of Leather Angel, the "female Mötley Crüe" with the Nikki Sixx-designed logo

Leather Angel had Sunset Strip in the palms of their biker-gloved hands, but lousy production and a laughable Led Zeppelin cover didn't help the cause

Louder · May 19

“I laughed my head off! Like, ‘Oh my God, what have we spawned?’” Keith Richards shares his response to the Sunset Strip shredders of the 1980s

Richards never had any interest in becoming a lead player – and the early innovators of the shred movement did not change his mind

Guitar World · Mar 24

“Hendrix took a look at my first album and said: ‘I’ll try it this way’. I don’t appreciate that. But then I can’t play the guitar like him”: The chaotic story of Arthur Lee and Love, the 60s renegades who helped invent the LA scene

The Doors were stars but their Sunset Strip peers Love deserved to be equally famous

Louder · Jan 16, 2025

"Beautiful," "Exceptional" "Design" Test for Sunset Strip Billboard Approval Violates First Amendment

This is in West Hollywood, right near where I lived for a while; many of the Sunset Strip billboards are indeed visually striking, but that doesn't mean the permitting scheme can rely on city officials' aesthetic judgments.

Reason · Dec 3, 2024

“I’d indulge in all-night orgies of sex, violence, fighting, drinking and driving. Sometimes I even bit people on the street”: The chaotic story of Love/Hate, the greatest Sunset Strip band nobody cared about

Love/Hate blazed out of late 80s LA with killer debut Blackout In The Red Room – only to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

Louder · Nov 9, 2024

“It’s especially special to be playing at The Whisky... where almost all of my guitar heroes have played”: Sophie Lloyd announces debut US headlining show at LA’s Whisky A Go Go and shares blazing shred cover of Alice Cooper’s Poison

Lloyd will follow up her UK headlining debut with visit to Sunset Strip on 16 January and celebrates the occasion with a typically audacious reworking of a shock rock classic

MusicRadar · Sep 13, 2024

“If Pavarotti had come along and offered to sing Sex Action, I’d have probably said, ‘Yeah, you’re in’”: the wild tale of LA Guns, Hollywood’s most chaotic band

LA Guns laid the groundwork for the Sunset Strip glam metal scene, but they were too combustible to become superstars

Louder · Jul 27, 2024

"The amount of sugar in the lyrics could kill a whole army": Winger attempt to tweak the hard rock formula on their debut album with mixed results

A more serious proposition than many of the Sunset Strip generation, Winger's debut combined melodic hooks with no small amount of technical skill

Louder · Jul 8, 2024

Britney Spears' Incident At Sunset Strip Hotel

Britney Spears faces hotel incident, divorce finalization, and conservatorship end, highlighting her ongoing legal and personal battles.

Top News · May 2, 2024