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Musician and author Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe and Sixx:A.M. was recently honored at Covenant House California’s 9th annual Awards Gala held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The highlight of the evening was a check presentation of $250,000 to Covenant House by honoree Nikki Sixx. Sixx is donating a portion of proceeds from his New York Times best-selling book The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star to benefit Running Wild In The Night, a creative arts program he created for Covenant House California at their youth shelters in Los Angeles and Oakland. This summer, …read more

The June issue of Revolver featuring The Hottest Chicks In Metal Part 3 is on news stands now. I’ve had some issues with Revolver for the last year or so due to the fact that sometimes they just blow my mind when they feature some not at all metal bands on the cover or as the main story of the issue. With that said, I can honestly say that the last three issues have been pretty good.
This months feature The Hottest Chicks In Metal, starring Marta of Bleeding Through, Maria Brink of In This Moment, Karin Axelsson of Sonic …read more

 The Rockvine and Sneak Attack Media have made the following Press Release Regarding an important announcement to be made by Motley Crue on April 15th:

I’m not a fan of Nikki Sixxbut I thought this news had a little relevancy. Looks like Sixx has become the new president for 11/7 Records. I don’t know if it goes by 11/7 or Eleven Seven Records. here is the press release from BillBoard.com:
Add “record label president” to the Nikki Sixx resume, as the Motley Crue/Sixx: A.M. bassist steps in as the new chief of Eleven Seven Records. Sixx is stoked at the opportunity, and is a hands-on label executive, working with bands in the studio and in plotting everything from their image to their touring. “I find it …read more

In a recent interview with former Motley Crue producer Tom Werner, He stated that Nikki Sixx’s Book The Heroin Diaries as being Totally Deluded” and “Stunningly inaccurate”.
“As the producer of three MÖTLEY CRÜE albums over a four-year period, I found Sixx’s allegation that in the recording studio he did ‘all the work’ with Vince Neil’s vocals while I chatted idly on the phone not only humorous but pure fiction.

So every now and then I have to vent and this blog is my portal to sanity. It seems less deserving celebrities make the news too often and for the most ridiculous reasons, which in turn gives them more publicity. They say that there is no such thing as bad publicity…but that was back in the days when the internet did not exist and dirt wasn’t spread so far. Lately these following people have absolutely made me sick and tired of seeing their names EVERYWHERE!.
Let’s start with Kanye West. Last year he says some stupid remark about George Bush hating …read more

Honestly….who cares? If you really want to read this pathetic story click here Over rated musicians and their dramatic divorce trial.

Wow, it feels like it’s been forever since I did one of these. I’ve posted quite a bit this month and good old Metal Shavings has been neglected…frankly because there hasn’t been in my opinion, been any real good news in metal…a few tid bits here and there but nothing on a large scale lately. Anyway I’ve compiled a few things.
Paul Raven, Bass player for the Band Ministry and Killing Joke is Dead at age 46 from an appearant heart attack.
Ozzy, Rob Zombie, And velvet revolver performed at SCREAM 2007, the horror/sci-fi event that was taped last friday and will …read more

WTF?!??!? I just don’t understand what the hell is going on! Why Is Nikki Sixx getting all this media lately. So what, he wrote a book about how big and stupid of a heroin addict he was. Let’s give every drug addict a book deal and put it into the scholastic book orders for our kids to read in 4th grade!
What part of Solo Careers and Motley Crue Members just don’t mix, don’t you understand. Vince Neil should have told you…it doesn’t work. Tommy Lee should have told you three time, (Mothers Of Mayhem…pppbbbbbbbb! Tommy Lee…ppppbbbbb!, Supernova…ppppbbbb.) It doesn’t …read more