
Sleazegrinder
Came from the sky like a 747. Classic Rock’s least-reputable byline-grabber since 2003. Several decades deep into the music industry. Got fired from an early incarnation of Anal C**t after one show. 30 years later, got fired from the New York Times after one week. Likes rock and hates everything else. Still believes in Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction, against all better judgment.
Latest articles by Sleazegrinder

D Generation - Nothing Is Anywhere album review
By Sleazegrinder published
Glam-grunge misery kings D Generation make their comeback

Kid Congo And The Pink Monkey Birds - La Araña Es La Vida album review
By Sleazegrinder published
Hip swamp-rock star Kid Congo gets real gone for a change...

Interview: Twisted Sister's Jay Jay French
By Sleazegrinder published
As Twisted Sister guitarist Jay Jay French prepares to host a screening of the band's film in London, he speaks to Classic Rock to explain the secrets of their success...

The Top 10 Best Ramones Songs
By Sleazegrinder published
These are the Ramones' greatest moments distilled into one mighty list... 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10!

Flash Metal Suicide: Jackyl - the chainsaw-wielding princes of backyard BBQ
By Sleazegrinder published
Their songs are exuberant odes to hard parties and vigorous sexcapades, accented with ham-fisted innuendo or outright vulgarity. They once played 21 gigs in 24 hours. They're Jackyl

Flash Metal Suicide: Manowar - Sign of the Hammer
By Sleazegrinder published
Sign Of The Hammer was perhaps the most gonzo metal album of the 80s. Its creators Manowar were clad in loincloth, glistening with battlesweat, and utterly magnificent.

Flash Metal Suicide: Rene Berg - The Leather, The Loneliness, and Your Dark Eyes
By Sleazegrinder published
An unsung cult hero from the UK's long-gone gypsy-glam scene

Sleaze Round-up - August 2016
By Sleazegrinder published
Not yet ratedSleazegrinder on the latest releases from Watts, Zig Zags, Five Black Bullets, The Pinx and The Balls

Flash Metal Suicide: Danger Danger - Danger Danger
By Sleazegrinder published
So good they named them twice...

The 25 weirdest bands of all time
By Sleazegrinder, Chris Chantler, Malcolm Dome published
Bands from outer space. Bands of corrupt cops. Bands fronted by animals. They're all here as we select the 25 weirdest bands of all time.

Flash Metal Suicide: Dogs D'Amour - In the Dynamite Jet Saloon
By Sleazegrinder published
Convincing evidence that Dogs D'Amour's In the Dynamite Jet was one of the greatest rock'n'roll records ever made, by the coolest band that ever was

Flash Metal Suicide: Asphalt Ballet
By Sleazegrinder published
The story of Asphalt Ballet, who released one of the finest debut albums of the 1990s... the decade that then killed them

What we want from Download Festival 2018
By Sleazegrinder published
Blue Oyster Cult. Bruce Dickinson's return to Samson. The Forgotten Glam stage. And a great big moat.

Flash Metal Suicide: Britny Fox
By Sleazegrinder published
This week: they wore purple velvet and ruffled shirts, and were debauched, gender-bending Prince Charmings. They were Britny Fox

Sleaze Round-up - Summer 2016
By Sleazegrinder published
Not yet ratedSleazegrinder on the latest releases from The Cavemen, White Dynomite, High N’ Heavy, Anti-Nowhere League and Sexual Advice

Black Explosion - Atomic Zod War album review
By Sleazegrinder published
Third heavy dose from these Swedish planet eaters.

Flash Metal Suicide: Lunachicks' Babysitters On Acid
By Sleazegrinder published
This week: the debut album by Lunachicks, a day-glo classic of ramshackle excess and high-concept absurdity

Flash Metal Suicide: Junkyard
By Sleazegrinder published
Junkyard's debut album bled motor oil and oozed back alley grit. Stardom beckoned, but they've been lost to the mists of rock'n'roll history...

Flash Metal Suicide: The Sweet's Identity Crisis
By Sleazegrinder published
Glam Metal should have been The Sweet's party, but they weren't even invited...

Sleaze Round-up: July 2016
By Sleazegrinder published
Not yet ratedSleazegrinder on the latest releases from Ratt Face, Burning Fuses, Mink Daggers, Donkey Punch and The Casket Creatures

Scorpion Child: Acid Roulette
By Sleazegrinder published
Texas band deliver a second helping of vintage hard stuff.

Flash Metal Suicide: The Joneses
By Sleazegrinder published
This week: they may have been written out of rock'n'roll history, but The Joneses only album - Keeping Up With the Joneses - was sleaze rock before sleaze was even invented...

Flash Metal Suicide - Jetboy
By Sleazegrinder published
This week: Jetboy's debut, a schizophrenic album with all the trappings of sleaze metal but none of the chest-beating, Harley-riding machismo
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