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Do Ozzy and Black Sabbath Have the Hearts of Angels?
The Demons Give to Charity! Let’s take a quick look at the infamous past at one of the world’s most notorious and successful heavy metal bands of all time. With a lead singer who was once deemed to be the devil incarnate by the press and millions of parents of teenage boys, Black ...read more
A-Sides Music: A Guide to Recognizing Your SAENTS
For accomplished songwriter/guitarist Rett Smith, getting ink is similar to creating music. In essence, the creator of the "band" Saents said, "tattoos inspire me the same way any work of art or artist inspires me. They inspire a thought or movement I wouldn’t of had ...read more
INKED MUSICIANS BY WHATANGIESAYS: LAUREN SANDERSON
When people use the hashtag #girlboss — I’m not sure they know what it’s like to actually BE a girl boss like Lauren Sanderson does. Just read her accolades and you’ll see quickly this girl is working harder than everyone else… and it’s totally paying off. Her self-released EP, ...read more
Kat Von D Stars in New Music Video. PRAYERS: “Black Leather”
It’s a Kat Attack! Whenever there’s a Kat Von D sighting we are all over it. And this the wonderful and talented AND beautiful Miss Von D makes co-stars in the latest video from the San Diego Cholo-Goth band PRAYERS. The press info on PRAYERS describes them as a band that ...read more
Rapper Freddie Gibbs Honors Daughter with Sweet Portrait Tattoo
Rapper Freddie Gibbs, born Fredrick Tipton, may be one of the toughest rappers in the game, best known for his ferocious lyricism and smooth delivery, but he obviously has a sweet spot when it comes to his baby daughter, a fact he proved this week by getting an adorable new chest ...read more
Bow Wow Defends Snoop from Trump and Says He'd Pimp Out First Lady Melania Trump
Bow Wow just threw his hat into the ring on the whole Trump v. Snoop Dogg beef in the biggest — and quite possibly worst — way ever, and going a far as saying he'd pimp out the First Lady. Flip through the slideshow below to read more about Bow Wow's statements and what set him ...read more
People Are Really Getting Tattoos of the 'Cash Me Ousside' Girl
Tattoos of the 'Cash Me Ousside' Girl. Wait... What? Nowadays, it's easier than ever to acquire fame. Whether it's through the magical (and free) marketing machine known as social media or through television, a 60-second antic caught on video or a funny catchphrase-turned-meme ...read more
MTV Tattoos
On August 1, 1981 at 12:01 am American cultural history was forever changed when MTV went on the air for the very first time. Over the next 35 years MTV would have an enormous impact on every aspect of our lives, most importantly on what was considered cool. Even if it was a ...read more
The Kills Tattoo Their Fans To Promote New Album
In the ever-changing record industry bands are struggling to find new ways to market their albums. Even the most fervent fans seem reluctant to purchase albums this day, why not sweeten the deal by giving them a free tattoo at the legendary Shamrock Social Club? That's exactly ...read more
Dirty Heads Singer Jared Watson Kicks Off Summer With New Tune
This year we skipped spring and went straight to summer. Now it’s time to grill everything under the sun, chill poolside with an ice cold drink and show off all the epic work you put into your body. What else could we possibly ask for? How about some new summer tunes? From ...read more
VIDEO: 'Popstar' Trailer Shows Andy Samberg With Ink
If Justin Bieber, Zayn Malik, and Aaron Carter defied the laws of science and had a baby together, that baby would be Conner Friel, stage name, Conner 4 Real, the star of this summer's presumed blockbuster Popstar. Played by Andy Samberg, the boy wonder does what all celebrities ...read more
Prince Dead At 57, Tattoos In Honor of the Pop Legend
In honor of the death of pop legend, Prince, we present you with 10 electrifying tattoos of the star. Tattoo #10 will tug at your heart strings. Pop legend Prince has died at the age of 57. According to TMZ, Prince passed in the early morning of April 21 while at his Paisley ...read more
WATCH: Kat Von D Sings in the New Single From Prayers
Is there anything that Kat Von D can't do? We've seen her tattoo,model and create her own line of beauty products; now the tattooer turned reality TV superstar can add "singer" to her extensive resume. On the new single "Black Leather," Kat joins the self-described "cholo goth" ...read more
The Tattoos of Pop Rock's Latest Sensation: Elle King
Gallery Follows the Text Elle King is not your average tattooed celebrity. Her fame is recent; her tattoos, though the collection is ever-growing, are not. In fact, her ink helped her find her mojo. "I started getting tattooed and dying my hair so that I saw beauty that I ...read more
Rihanna Goes Full Frontal In New 'Work' Video
Rihanna is known to sex things up—she does just that in her new "Work" video featuring Drake. Luckily for fans who have long awaited RiRi's new album, the seven minute clip delivers more than one music video—both parts equally steamy. In Part I, Rihanna and Drake grind it out ...read more
Baby Zayn Is Tattooed In New Album Artwork
Zayn Malik (the former One Direction singer is in the process of rebranding himself as simply "Zayn" so let's forget that last name for now) has released the artwork for his first solo album, Mind of Mine, featuring a baby photo of the pop star fronting the same ornamental ...read more
Justin Bieber's Tattoos
Gallery Follows the Text Updated February 15, 2016. Justin Bieber explains his tattoo collection in a video for GQ, detailing his favorite tattoo, those that are in honor of his mother, and the ink of his famous ex he often tries to cover up. He also shares his thoughts of ...read more
Gaga Gets David Bowie Tattoo Before Grammys Tribute
Photo Gallery Follows the Text and Videos The tattoo industry's favorite celeb added more ink to her rib cage over the weekend. Lady Gaga paid a visit to Shamrock Social Club in West Hollywood on Saturday, February 13, where tattooer Mark Mahoney inked the late David Bowie's ...read more
Belgian Band Turns Tattoo Machines Into Instruments
Photo Gallery Follows Video and Text By now we pretty much expect most musicians to be covered in tattoos. Hell, we don't even bat an eye when some guys from bands spend their days not touring working in a tattoo shop. But seeing the way that Belgian band Tat2NoisAct integrates ...read more
Rita Ora Does a Sexy Jingle Bell Rock
Rita, your jingle bells rock. Rita Ora's tattooed goodies do the naughty Mean Girls "Jingle Bell Rock" dance routine for Love magazine's 12 days of Advent. Just like in the movie that the world will never tire of, Ora bumped into the boom box, causing the music to skip. And ...read more
Sara X's Boobs Are Twerking Hard for the Holidays
Famed boob twerker Sara X posted new naughty videos just in time for Christmas and now the world is a merrier, brighter place. You probably remember her video from last Christmas, we know that we could never forget it. Watch her shake it, twerk it, and pop it in sync with "We ...read more
VIDEO: Rihanna Straddles and Tattoos Somebody For Her Album Campaign
In case you haven't heard—or seen—Rihanna has a new album coming out titled ANTI. The bad gal teamed up with Samsung to promote the LP by teasing the public with a video campaign, ANTIdiary. Each week, a new video is released in anticipation of her eighth studio album; she is ...read more
Blink 182's 'What's My Age Again?' Music Video As Grand Theft Auto V
Everyone has a special place in their heart for the dudes who rocked the world when they released a music video of them wreaking havoc in Los Angeles with their d*cks out in 1999. For the time, the pixelated nudity in Blink 182's "What's My Age Again?" was huge—and I'm not ...read more
Catey Shaw's New Music Is For Bad Bitches Only
While Hurricane Joaquin did his best to brew a hellish rainstorm on the first Friday of October, Catey Shaw raised her own kind of hell inside Brooklyn's Knitting Factory—the crowded turnout unaffected by the weather. Two days before she took the stage, the pop singer released ...read more
Rita Ora & Chris Brown Put Their Tattoos On Full Display in New Video
Photo Gallery Follows the Text Rita Ora and Chris Brown got very touchy-feely in her latest music video for "Body on Me," as in ink-on-ink action. The steamy short dropped on August 18 and follows the two as they flood their dimly-lit apartment building elevator with sexual ...read more
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO - Behind the Scenes of August Burns Red's 'Identity'
Exclusive Video Follows the Text Mermen and metalcore make unlikely bedfellows. Thanks to a childhood spent singing along to the calypso-inspired jams in The Little Mermaid I never could have fathomed the music under the sea being anything other than upbeat and gleeful, that is, ...read more
Bang Bang Crowned Rihanna His Favorite Client
Gallery Follows the Text Celebrity tattooist Keith "Bang Bang" McCurdy tattooed the one and only Rihanna on Wednesday, August 12 in his New York City studio. Bang Bang and Rihanna both proudly shared the final product–an ankle tattoo reading "1988," the year Ri Ri was born–on ...read more
The Tattoos of Rihanna
Gallery Follows the Text Rihanna got a new piece of ink yesterday by Bang Bang, her birth year of 1988. Check out that and other pieces that make her one of the most-visible tattooed people on the planet. ...read more
Watch Papoose, Dutch Capital and Others Show Off Their Freestyle Skills
Few things are more impressive than watching a talented rapper lay down a sick freestyle jam, you just can't help but stand back in awe. As part of their "Out of the Blue" summer music campaign Pepsi took a trip to Brooklyn to catch up with some of the best freestlyers around. ...read more
The Kings & Queens of Music
Imagine if we were able to gather music's most compelling and successful male and female artists from the 1940s to today all in one room? Unfortunately that would be impossible. Not all of them are still living and we have a pretty small office. What we are able to do is to ...read more
Hilary Duff Releases 'Tattoo' Music Video
Hilary Duff just released a casual little backyard video to accompany her new heartbreak track "Tattoo," number ten off of her latest album Breathe In. Breathe Out. The entirety of the album, "Tattoo" especially, seems to be the response to her recent divorce from former NHL ...read more
SullenTV: Yelawolf Live at Musink
Musink is one of the sickest tattoo conventions in the country. Held annually in Orange County and presented by Travis Barker the festival takes everything you love about tattoo conventions and throws a music festival right on top of it. This past year's event featured ...read more
Inked Presents Badass TV - Rob Zombie
Inked is lucky to present the latest project from the modern day Renaissance man Evan Seinfeld, Badass TV. Whether he is rocking faces off in one of the many bands he has been in, like Attika 7, or playing a imprisoned biker on OZ you know that Seinfeld is going to bring it. In ...read more
Exclusive: Avenue of the Giants "#FTW" Video Premiere
MUSIC VIDEO BELOW THE TEXT The guys in Atlanta rock band Avenue of the Giants don’t mess around when it comes to making music videos. Their last video for their song “Burn” recently topped the IndiMusicTV video chart, and their video for “So You’d Like to Think” won “Video of ...read more
James Hetfield Covers Adele with Daughter, Blue Oyster Cult with Jerry Cantrell
GALLERY OF METALLICA AND JAMES HETFIELD TATTOOS BELOW THE TEXT AND VIDEOS Last Friday, the second annual "Acoustic-4-A-Cure" event was held in San Francisco. The benefit concert was created by Sammy Hagar and Metallica's James Hetfield in order to raise needed funds and ...read more
New Hilary Duff Video Documents Her Real Tinder Dates
GALLERY OF PHOTOS OF HILARY, INCLUDING A FLASH OF HER TATTOOS IN THE VIDEO BELOW THE TEXT AND VIDEO Hilary Duff—the actress/pop star whose tattoos make her feel like a "super hardcore gangster"— has recently jumped back into the acting game with her new TV Land show "The ...read more
Watch Miley Cyrus and Zoe Kravitz Party in Their Underwear For New Video
Zoe Kravitz and her band LOLAWOLF teamed up with the provocative Miley Cyrus on their new track "Bitch" and the six-minute music video is making waves. The track comes off of their debut LP Calm Down. But forget the song (which is super laid back) we need to talk about this ...read more
'Pretty Girls' Iggy Azalea and Britney Spears Release New Track
Iggy Azalea and Britney Spears just made our week pop with the release of their highly anticipated single “Pretty Girls.” Like any good pop song, you’ll be blasting their new track on repeat by the end of the day. Iggy said it straight on Twitter, “I’m just over here acting like ...read more
Ty Dolla $ign and Other Artists Freestyle for Pepsi's 'Out of the Blue'
If you’ve ever been to South by Southwest—the annual film and music festival in Austin, Texas—you know it’s unlike any other festival in the country. More than a thousand music acts take over the entire city performing in any location that can host them. Spontaneous shows and ...read more
Convention Coverage: Musink
To kick off the anticipated music festival season was one of our personal favorites, Musink, presented by Travis Barker. For those of you who didn’t make it to Musink this year *sad face*, don’t worry, Sullen TV got a behind the scenes look at the tattoo convention and they’re ...read more
Iggy Azalea's Troubling New Music Video
By now you’ve probably heard the latest Iggy Azalea single, “Trouble” featuring Jennifer Hudson. As with most Iggy songs, she lays raps between choruses of a pop or R&B singer’s groove, spewing rhymes filled with slang and witticisms in her signature (strangely) American accent. ...read more
Get Ready to See the Scary Side of Lady Gaga
The very tattooed Lady Gaga announced today that she is in fact joining the American Horror Story team for Season 5! We love the idea of adding a pop star to television, but this isn’t any old singer, this is Gaga. The extremist took to Twitter,"Make your reservation now. ...read more
Sergei Polunin Takes Ballet and Tattoos to Church
If you don't think that ballet and tattoos go together well you have obviously never seen Sergei Polunin. The Ukrainian dancer has a bit of a rebellious reputation so it was no surprise to learn that his torso is covered with tattoos. In a video directed by iconic ...read more
KORN Premieres Video Featuring Inked Fan
From the day that their first album came out up to today the metal group KORN has had a rabidly loyal fan base. Now the band is paying tribute to those legions of devoted fans by premiering a series of videos over the next month. Each video will be a fan testimonial about the ...read more
World Premiere of Adlib's 'Hard Luck'
To coincide with the release of Adlib's new album The Highway we were lucky enough to ask the artist a few questions about going on tour, the video for "Hard Luck," and his tattoos. Check out the interview after watching the world premiere of the music video for Adlib's "Hard ...read more
The Reincarnation of Motionless In White
The Alexandria Hotel is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Los Angeles. Known for its many murders, constant ghost sightings and mysterious abandoned wing, it is thought to be a ghoul goldmine. With its haunted Valentino Suite and ballroom, The Alexandria proved ...read more
Sara X Performs Mozart With Her Chest
Upon first look anyone can tell that Sara X is a beautiful woman with some great ink. What you can't tell is that she has an amazing talent and an appreciation for Mozart. It's impossible to not have a new appreciation for classical music after watching "Sara X Does Mozart's ...read more
The Heart Tattoo of Joyce Manor's Barry Johnson
Joyce Manor's Barry Johnson talks about the band's new album, what makes people want to get tattooed, and the unexpected effect some of his ink has had on people. “'Heart Tattoo’ is told from the position of a young person getting a stupid, meaningless tattoo just for the sake ...read more
Samsung Announces ADD52 Partnership
Samsung announces ADD52 partnership with Russell Simmons and Universal Music Group Russell Simmons and Steve Rifkind have recently co-founded All Def Digital (ADD) and All Def Music under Universal Music Group. In celebration of their creation, they have decided to collaborate ...read more
Inked Online Exclusive: Seasick Mama
Seasick Mama releases her new EP Tip Top Shape today, here is our exclusive chat and photo shoot with the sultry singer. INKED: Your earlier EP release "Dead like Money," has a title that sets a motif of darkness that continues throughout your lyrics. Today's release is entitled ...read more