Alice In Chains News

Alice in Chains offer first CD since a tragedy

Sep 30, 2009 3:00 am PDT

AC/DC did it. So did Black Sabbath. Van Halen did it, but not everyone was happy. INXS didn't do it. Nor could Queen. And Motley Crue probably shouldn't have even tried. The examples of rock bands who succeed in a second wind without thei...

Alice in Chains back in "Black" after 14 years

Sep 18, 2009 4:00 pm PDT

In the midst of its first reunion tour in the summer of 2006, veteran hard rock act Alice in Chains played to a crowd of 30,000 at Portugal's Super Bock Super Rock festival. As the band performed a set of its classic cuts, a handful of...

Alice in Chains gets Elton John for tribute song

Aug 11, 2009 8:00 am PDT

Alice in Chains thought it would take a miracle to get Elton John to play on the band's tribute record to their late lead singer, Layne Staley. But it only took a listen to the song to get the rock legend on board. "He's a really warm per...

Alice in Chains reunion "Gives Way" to album, tour

Jul 2, 2009 8:00 pm PDT

Alice in Chains singer-guitarist Jerry Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney say the band's new album, their first in nearly 14 years, doesn't stray too far from the Seattle band's influential catalog. "Black Gives Way to Blue," du...

An Alice in Chains Rerun

Feb 27, 2006 12:57 pm PST

After frontman Layne Staley died of an accidental drug overdose in 2002, most fans figured Alice in Chains would suffer a similar fate. Not so fast. The three surviving members of the Seattle grunge purveyors--guitarist Jerry Cant...