Guns N' Roses News

Guns N' Roses 'vigorously contest' claims they've copied songs

Oct 7, 2009 11:00 am PDT

Courtesy of NME.com - Band believe they've done nothing wrong Guns N' Roses have denied they have sampled songs after being hit with a $1million lawsuit last week. Legal papers claim that the band illegally copied songs from Ulrich Schna...

Record labels sue Guns N' Roses for copying songs

Oct 5, 2009 11:00 am PDT

Two independent record labels sued U.S. rock band Guns N' Roses for $1 million, claiming the group used portions of two songs by a German musician on their last album "Chinese Democracy." Guns N' Roses and Universal Music Grou...

L.A. blogger sentenced for Guns N' Roses leak

Jul 14, 2009 5:00 pm PDT

A Los Angeles blogger who leaked new Guns N' Roses songs on the Internet before their official release on the band's first new album in 17 years, was sentenced to two months of home confinement on Tuesday. Kevin Cogill also receiv...

Blogger sentenced for leaking G N'R album

Jul 14, 2009 2:00 pm PDT

A blogger who admitted to leaking part of the Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" was sentenced to a year of probation on Monday. U.S. District Magistrate Judge Paul L. Abrams also ordered Kevin Cogill to serve two months of home conf...

Rock 'n' roll survivor Duff McKagan back on the road

May 7, 2009 10:00 am PDT

You can't keep an old punk rocker down. Duff McKagan co-founded Guns N' Roses, took as many drugs as possible, and almost died from an exploded pancreas. After the band self-combusted in the mid-1990s, he sobered up, went to colle...