“We have chemistry that you spend your entire career trying to find.”
– James Michael, Sixx: AM
In Los Angeles, the music industry is more than just a business. For some it’s a game, a l’enfant terrible experiment of intoxicating proportions. For others, it’s an asylum. It’s a labyrinth of lunatics, all lost amongst themselves and all scrambling for something to protect them from the deafening roar of self-destruction. All too often drug addiction becomes the mute button. As Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx details in The Heroin Diaries, it’s an industry that is mysterious and beautiful, as well as shattering, and one whose battles get waged right here, in our hearts, and often at the expense of our own artists.
After speaking with Nikki at length about his memoir, SuicideGirls dug deeper into the Heroin Diaries project to explore the music of Sixx:AM, a band that never intended to be a band, but wound up one nevertheless. Alongside the memoir’s release, Sixx:AM made its debut with a companion soundtrack for Nikki’s diaries – a concept album of sorts with 13 tracks to each coincide with a chapter in the book.
SuicideGirls cozied up with a conference call to Sixx:AM’s James Michael and DJ Ashba to chat more about what the band describes as its journey from the needle, to the pen, to the musical note…
Read our exclusive interview with Sixx: AM on SuicideGirls.com.
