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SWEET 16 METAL SLUDGE EXCLUSIVE: Teen girl guitar phenom Lexii Lynn Frazier speaks out LOS ANGELES — Lexii Lynn Frazier is not your average high school girl. She is just 16, but the young guitarist is already making an impact on the rock scene including an appearance on the lauded Monsters of Rock Cruise. Imagine if the late
‘IF THINGS HAD BEEN DIFFERENT, WHO KNOWS?’ METAL SLUDGE EXCLUSIVE: Taking a walk on the WildSide with singer Drew Hannah LOS ANGELES — They’re not Young Gunns anymore, that’s for sure, but they’ve still got their wild side, as in WildSide the band, the Los Angeles pop-metal act that everyone thought was going to be the next Guns
METAL SLUGE EXCLUSIVE: “Hair I Go Again” movie ready to make national impact An interview with wannabe rock star Kyle Kruger LOS ANGELES — They say you can never go home again, but Kyle Kruger is defying the odds. Thirty years since his up and coming Florida band Tryxx called it a day, he has remained so obsessed about
TRYX WERE FOR KIDS Sunset Strip glam faves Tryx fizzled out in ’90s, but founding guitarist Brian DeVeau forges comeback with The Image Nation LOS ANGELES — With a colorful candy-glam image, excellent musicianship and unbelievably catchy songs like “Only For The Summer” and “You’ve Got a Lot to Learn About Love,” Tryx was like a shooting star on the
‘I’M NOT AFRAID TO SAY F?!K YOU’ A Metal Sludge exclusive with Tony West of Blacklist Union HOLLYWOOD, California — He has not sold millions of records — yet — but Tony West is still a rock star in the truest sense of the word. The tall, tattooed singer with chiseled features has the swagger, the looks, the confidence, and
ENUFF LSD ‘I eat 23-year-old guitarists for breakfast’ A Metal Sludge exclusive with Alex Kane LOS ANGELES, Calif., USA — As an early member of Enuff Z’Nuff and the founder of Life, Sex & Death, in addition to a stint as frontman for Euro favs Antiproduct and his current gig with Richie Ramone, guitarist Alex Kane has made a
PISS POOR & MORE KIX singer; “20,000 (records sold) is a piss in the bucket compared to what we used to do” Angel Alamo — KIX Steve Whiteman (lead vocals), Jimmy Chalfant (drums, vocals), Ronnie Younkins (guitars), Brian Forsythe (guitars) and Mark Schenker (bass) are one of the bands that are about having a good time and giving their fans their money’s worth. They are loved by the fans for putting
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT Former Nitro singer Jim Gillette, now happily divorced from Lita Ford, takes out aggressions as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion Long Beach, CALIFORNIA — He was once known as the prince of glam back in the day as the lead singer of rock band Nitro, then he was known as the beleaguered former husband to
3 AMIGOS! Anthony Esposito talkin’ shop and his time in bands with Ace Frehley, George Lynch and Jake E Lee The Double Stop — Anthony Esposito discusses his career, from his early start in music, to his time in Lynch Mob and Ace Frehley’s band. He also discusses his new gig in Red Dragon Cartel, and gives us an update on the
FOR TATE, IT’S NOT TOO LATE METAL SLUDGE EXCLUSIVE: After messy split, ex-Queensryche singer Geoff Tate eager to make own mark LOS ANGELES — Geoff Tate is on a comeback. The singer with the golden scream was by far the signature star for multi-platinum metal act Queensryche before being ousted in 2012. For two years, there were two Queensryches —
