The future of Aerosmith is extremely uncertain due to Steven Tyler’s injured larynx, but that isn’t stopping guitarist Joe Perry from keeping the band’s music alive on the road. A new iteration of the Joe Perry Project — featuring Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford, Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson, and Stone …
Read More »Noah Weiland Re-Recorded Velvet Revolver's 'Slither' for Father's Day With Trippy AI Video
Noah Weiland has recorded his own version of the 2004 Velvet Revolver classic “Slither” that he posted over the weekend to honor his later father, Scott Weiland, on Father’s Day. He also created an AI-generated video for it that contains trippy images of Slash, Duff, his father, himself, and even …
Read More »Noah Weiland Honors Late Dad With New Cover of Stone Temple Pilots' 'Sex Type Thing'
Noah Weiland, son of late Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland, convenes with his dad’s spirit via a Chucky doll in the strange but sweet new video for his cover of STP’s “Sex Type Thing.” The younger Weiland paired his stripped-down acoustic cover of the 1993 track with a music …
Read More »Hootie Babylon! Darius Rucker Tells All
Which Nineties band once dropped $32,000 to buy a dealer’s entire supply of Ecstasy at once? The answer would’ve been hard to guess at the height of their fame, but the culprits were the seemingly clean-cut dudes in Hootie and the Blowfish —who, as frontman Darius Rucker reveals in his …
Read More »Scott Weiland's Son Brushes Off Blackmail Threat, Releases New Song With Late Dad's Vocals
Scott Weiland’s son, Noah Weiland, has released a new song, “Time Will Tell,” featuring previously-unreleased vocals from his late father. It’s an unexpected and newsworthy drop in and of itself, made even crazier by the alleged extortion attempt behind it. Noah shared the song Monday, April 22, alongside a note …
Read More »Meet the Singer Who Replaced Scott Weiland and Chester Bennington in Stone Temple Pilots
In summer 2012, singer Jeff Gutt walked onto The X Factor audition stage and stunned judges Britney Spears, Simon Cowell, Demi Lovato, and L.A. Reid with a remarkable rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” that brought the entire audience to their feet. And in a scene straight out of a movie, …
Read More »Stone Temple Pilots Unite With Live, Soul Asylum, Our Lady Peace For Epic '90s Throwback Tour
Stone Temple Pilots, Live, Soul Asylum, and Our Lady Peace are going to party like it’s 1994 on the Jubilee Tour this summer. STP will celebrate the anniversary of their 1994 LP Purple, and Live will spotlight their 1994 album Throwing Copper. “Fans of the iconic bands can expect a …
Read More »Scott Weiland's Son Is Making 'Gritty Alternative Pop' and Finally Forgiving His Father
If you look at Noah Weiland‘s life from a certain vantage point, he’s the definition of a nepo baby. The 23-year-old is the son of Scott Weiland — the tragic former lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver — and spent his childhood years traveling the world on …
Read More »Dave Coutts on the Brief, Difficult Life of Talk Show, the Forgotten Stone Temple Pilots Spinoff Group
Rolling Stone‘s interview series King for a Day features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and singers who had the difficult job of fronting major rock bands after the departure of an iconic vocalist. Some of them stayed in their bands for years, while others lasted just a few …
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