DUDE. Okay, seriously. What the fuck is going on this week? First Tommy Lee announces he’s reforming Methods of Mayhem, and now Vince Neil has announced he’s making another solo album (And, no, Steve Stevens won’t be on it – I checked.). What’s next? Is Nikki Sixx gonna make another Sixx A.M. album?

Wait – WHAT?!

Well fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck. It’s enough to make you want Motley Crue to keep touring.

-AR

P.S. Okay, but seriously, I’d love to see a Mick Mars side project called Mars Attacks!, and I’d love for its debut album to be entitled Creepy Human Statue. I’d give that album an automatic five out five horns.

No booze at a Motley fucking Crue show? Jesus fucking Christ. That must be like having sex with a condom made of nails.

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Nikki Sixx’s side project, SIXX: A.M., have just released a video for the track “Tomorrow” from their critically acclaimed album The Heroin Diaries. For those of you who have been living under a rock, The Heroin Diaries is a soundtrack to Sixx’s autobiography of the same name – sort of like how Saints of Los Angeles is a soundtrack “loosely” based on the Motley Crüe book The Dirt, except not exactly. Hey, remember when metal bands just made music based on, umm, music? Was there an Operation Mindcrime or Songs from the Elder book that I somehow missed? Anyway, The Heroin Diaries is actually a pretty solid album (and the book was fucking amazing), and I am looking forward to seeing SIXX: A.M., along with the Crüe, Buckcherry, et al., when they are in town next week with Crüe Fest. As far as the video for “Tomorrow” goes, it’s pretty much your standard “Hey, we’re on stage rocking your shit! Hey, and now we’re hanging out backstage and having fun!” type of thing. Oh, and if you can correctly identify how many tattoos the band collectively has, there might just be a prize in it for you. Can you say, “MetalSucks condom?”

-MSR

As the southern shores of the Texas coast were being relentlessly hammered by Hurricane Dolly, a storm of a different sort slammed its way into the Alamo City last Wednesday. Maybe those long traffic lines heading out of Padre Island earlier in the week were actually Crue fans making their way to San Antonio to catch the first annual Cruefest featuring Trapt, Sixx AM, Papa Roach, Buckcherry, and that notorious whirlwind of destruction known as Motley Crue.

It would be the first time for this Old Fart to witness the Crue since their glory days of corpsepaint and titties known as the Shout at the Devil tour way back in 1983. (See Dorks Love Metal! for more hilarity.) I had fallen out of man-love with the band right around the Dr. Feelgood-era so I was not really sure if I would enjoy myself or not. I am happy to report: CRUE FUCKIN’ ROCKS!!

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So the new Motley Crue album has a release date; Saints of Los Angeles (listen to the title track and first single at Motley’s MySpace and watch the video here) will hit the shelves on June 17th on the band’s own Motley Records. As expected, the band announced in a press conference yesterday that they will embark on a 40-date U.S. Amphitheater tour dubbed Cruefest, also featuring Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Trapt and Sixx A.M. Two of those bands make me puke; you decide which.

From what I can tell there was no mention of the rumors that Crue signed a $100-$150 million all-encompassing deal with touring giants Live Nation.

The new album is supposedly a concept piece following the same storyline as the band’s best-selling memoir The Dirt, a book which probably ranks among my Top 5 reads ever (seriously!). Will Sixx be able to strike lightning twice, having already released a concept album in 2007 about his own struggles with addiction, or is the new album just an excuse to tour that will suck and be completely irrelevant?