I was very excited to see the invite for Maragold’s first Las Vegas show. Their guitarist, Greg Howe, was prominently featured in ads in Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine, from which I mostly taught myself to play guitar in the late ’80’s. His first solo album, as well ...

    The early '80s metal scene in Los Angeles has become legendary, as it spawned such worldwide headliners as Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Dokken, W.A.S.P. and countless others. Many of those very artists now live in and perform in our neon and glittery Sin City ( have you never been ...

April 5, 1994. I was just a few months shy of turning 4 when Kurt Loder broke the news over MTV to the world. "Today, Kurt Cobain, the leader of one of rock's most gifted and promising bands, Nirvana, is dead." I sat glued to my television when that news ...