Mark Lightcap, the guitarist for Acetone, greets me outside a pub in Sierra Madre, California. Nestled in the foothills of the towering San Gabriel Mountains, it’s a small town just a short drive from ...

“I was reticent about how people might take this,” says Midge Ure. On his way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the midwest leg of his Band in a Box tour, Ure has been revisiting the music of his former ...

Although Seattle quartet Alice in Chains are regularly associated with the grunge movement of the ‘90s, they are also, somewhat arguably, a metal band. In fact, original vocalist Layne Staley was a ...