Little Village Magazine

Here’s all the local music projects we reviewed in 2025

You can say a lot about 2025. Good, bad, apocalyptic. One thing you can't say is that it was lacking in music. Our album ...
MetalSucks

Ex-Venom Members Mantas and Abbadon Reunite in Japan: Watch

Jeff "Mantas" Dunn and Antony "Abbadon" Bray, two former members of Venom, reunited late in November to perform some of the ...

"We played it for our label and management and they told us it would end our career": The story of the glam metal classic inspired by an unfaithful exotic dancer

Poison topped the US charts in late 1988 with a power ballad that singer Bret Michaels poured his broken heart into ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1988, Poison Topped the Chart With One of the Greatest Power Ballads Ever Written—Inspired by a Devastating Phone Call Made From a Laundromat

Thirty-seven years ago today, Poison started a multi-week run at the top of the Hot 100 chart with a 1980s classic.
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Bret Michaels reveals new book + biopic coming in 2026

Poison frontman Bret Michaels will be the latest rocker whose story is being turned into a biopic. The singer revealed as much in an Instagram posting this past week where he shared that his latest ...