SLASH STUFF

While he waits to figure out whether or not Scott Weiland is really back in Velvet Revolver, Slash is putting the full-court press on to promote his new album, Apocalyptic Love, which comes out next week. First of all, the entire record is now streaming over at Rolling Stone. Despite the fact that I don’t think the first single, “You’re a Lie,” is very good, there actually are a handful of fun hard rock tunes on there — I’m especially digging “Anastasia” — so if you ever liked Slash, it’s worth a listen. If nothing else, I think Myles Kennedy is definitely the first vocalist he’s worked with in his post-GN’R years to even come close to living up to Axl Rose.

And while we’re on the topic of “You’re a Lie” — Slash has also released a video for that song. Again, I think it’s the worst song on the album, and the video is pretty boring, too. But, y’know, if you wanna see it, here it is:

And finally, Noisecreep has posted the below video, of Slash and company performing an acoustic rendition of another Love track, “Not For Me,” as part of a television program called Guitar Center Sessions, which I assume are sessions recorded at Guitar Center (I was too lazy to ready the full description so who knows I could be wrong). This is one of many songs on Love which is wholly superior to “You’re a Lie,” so, uh, like, watch it and stuff:

Apocalyptic Love comes out May 22.

-AR