Topic: Guns N' Roses

Axl Rose and your investment team

While band names and fund families may keep the same names, finding out if there are different players behind the scenes can mean a very different final outcome. Just look at the failure of the latest Guns 'N Roses album.

Grammys 2012: Would a computer have picked Adele? (+video)

Grammys 2012: Adele won six awards at Sunday's Grammys. But Adel should have lost to Bruno Mars, according to a computer algorithm that predicts which songs will be hits and which will be flops.

Legendary blues singer Etta James embodied refined soul music

James' spirit could not be contained — perhaps that's what made her so magnetic in music; it is surely what made her so dynamic as one of R&B, blues and rock 'n' roll's underrated legends.

Jeffrey Eugenides talks about 'The Marriage Plot' and pokes fun at literary theorists

Jeffrey Eugenides talks about his novels – and themes of death, suicide, and Detroit.

Former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan releases new book

Bassist Duff McKagan tells of his days with the band, his struggle with drugs and alcohol addictions, and later jobs as a writer and founder of a wealth management firm.

Guns 'N Roses, Joan Jett, The Cure nominated for rock hall

Guns 'N Roses is the headliner of the first-timers group. The L.A. bad boys were easily the largest hard rock act of the 1980s and early '90s, featuring siren-voiced lead singer Axl Rose and Slash playing muscled riffs on lead guitar.

Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am says cell service stopped tweets

Black Eyed Peas: will.i.am's Twitter handle was silent until after the game, when he sent out a series of tweets beginning with: "Att crashed ... ahhhh!!!! The worse."

Verizon iPhone: the ‘Chinese Democracy’ of smartphones?

If the Will they? Won't they? rumors continue to swirl about the possible Verizon iPhone, customer interest will eventually peak and then die away, as it did for the long-awaited and underwhelming Guns n' Roses album 'Chinese Democracy.'

Guns N' Roses rocker writes book about hard life and now sobriety

Guns N' Roses rocker Steven Adler pens new book about life on the edge as a member of Guns N' Roses. Sobriety is now key in his life.

Kings of Leon cancel show because pigeon droppings bombard stage

Kings of Leon had to stop their St. Louis-area concert Friday night after pigeons bombarded the stage with droppings.

Dohhh! President Obama still smoking?!?

The White House doctor encouraged President Obama to continue his "smoking cessation efforts."

Scientists blare Rush Limbaugh show at beetles to stop deforestation

Researchers at Northern Arizona University blared the Rush Limbaugh show at pine beetles to discourage them from eating trees.

New Vatican album: Can Pope Benedict sing?

Pope Benedict stars on a new Vatican CD featuring a hymn sung by the pontiff. Will the album soften his image?

Obamas head to New York - no aerial tour of Statue of Liberty planned

Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff

Classic puzzlers in a crisp new book, Jack Bauer is back in a '24' movie, Stephen Colbert croons his way into Christmas, and more.

Report: World could end fossil fuel use by 2090

Greenpeace's Energy [R]evolution report, released Monday, outlines how solar power, wind farms, geothermal stations, and biofuels could meet all of the world's energy needs by the final decade of this century.

How to succeed in screaming without really being Axl Rose

Vocal coach Melissa Cross teaches heavy-metal rockers to find their inner beast without getting hurt.