KFC-lovin' neo-Guns N' Roses guitarist Buckethead serves up a return trip to his world on Bucketheadland 2, while the Darkness, a British hard rock band following in the footsteps of Spinal Tap but claiming not to be a joke, release Permission to Land.

Velvet Revolver are featured in the November 2003 issue of Guitar World.

Dave, Duff and Slash are on the cover and inside the magazine Slash has this to say about Slash's Snakepit: "The last incarnation of Snakepit was just a huge mess; as much as I liked it, I was all fucked up-- I almost killed myself drinking too much-- and I had a lot going on.".