Elton John on his notorious temper: "It’s still in me to explode at any moment"
Elton John admits he still struggles with the "erratic" and "unpredictable" behaviour that made him rock'n'roll's most quick-tempered diva in the 70s
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Elton John on his notorious temper: "It’s still in me to explode at any moment"
Elton John admits he still struggles with the "erratic" and "unpredictable" behaviour that made him rock'n'roll's most quick-tempered diva in the 70s
DragonForce go 80s glam metal in cheesy new video for Strangers
DragonForce perform "loving tribute" to the era of 80s glam rock in new music video for Strangers
Watch the trailer for new Tom Petty documentary Somewhere You Feel Free
Somewhere You Feel Free, a film charting the making of Tom Petty’s Wildflowers album, will air on YouTube next month
Paul McCartney will no longer be signing autographs: “We both know who I am”
Beatles legend Paul McCartney has stopped signing autographs, as he thinks the concept is "a bit strange"
Green Day unearth rare live-in-the-studio tracks for new The BBC Sessions album
Pop-punks Green Day dig out some long-buried nuggets for 16-track live-in-the-studio album The BBC Sessions
Watch Ian Anderson unbox new book Silent Singing in new video
Ian Anderson's new lyric book Silent Singing will be released in late November
Niko Tsonev releases brand new video for Glitchy Gremlin
Former Lifesigns guitarist Niko Tsonev releases first new music since 2019's Moonparticle project
Blink 182's Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian roleplay Sid and Nancy
Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian embrace the spooky season with a tribute to late Sex Pistol Sid Vicious and girlfriend Nancy Spungen
Nirvana win court case over copyright dispute on 1989 ‘Vestibule’ T-shirt design
US judge dismisses court case accusing Nirvana of infringing a 1949 illustration of Dante’s Inferno
“This is a 44-year-old man remembering how much he fell in love with Pearl Jam in 1991”: watch Coldplay cover Pearl Jam in Seattle
Watch Coldplay perform Pearl Jam’s Nothingman in Seattle in tribute to Eddie Vedder’s band
Björk's upcoming album is "for people making clubs in their living room"
Björk shares details on her forthcoming album, which she says sounds like a man "headbanging" and drinking "a glass of red wine"
Guns N’ Roses have written no new songs in the five years since Slash and Duff rejoined
Guns N’ Roses aren’t rushing into the studio to record the follow-up to Chinese Democracy any time soon it appears
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Remembering that time Vanilla Ice made a metal album
The bizarre tale of how ex-superstar rapper Vanilla Ice and Ross Robinson teamed up for the universally reviled nu metal album, Hard To Swallow
Tracks of the Week: new music from Eric Gales, Dan Reed Network and more
Eight musical manifestos, ready to contest this week's rock'n'roll election
A tribute to Mountain's Leslie West
Leslie West made his name in the early 70s with Mountain, Jeff Beck once describing him as “the greatest living guitarist in the world”
How I discovered Lynyrd Skynyrd, by Al Kooper
How a chance meeting with Al Kooper in Georgia gave Lynyrd Skynyrd their big break
Best record players 2021: Turntables your vinyl collection deserves
UPDATED Give your favourite vinyl a treat by introducing it to one of the best record players on the market
Best headphones under £100: True wireless, Bluetooth and noise cancelling headphones on a budget
UPDATED Don't spend more than you need on headphones - we have some of the best headphones and earbuds under 100 notes
The story behind Been Caught Stealing by Jane's Addiction
How Been Caught Stealing turned LA’s weirdest band Jane's Addiction into the godfathers of alternative rock
The story behind the song: Orange Goblin's Beginner's Guide To Suicide
How Orange Goblin traded in dungeons and dragons lyrics for the plague, and entered a new era for the UK stoner rock heroes
The 10 most inspirational gothic artists according to goth metal masters, Unto Others
Cult heroes turned Next Big Thing contenders Unto Others offer their guide through the labyrinthine pathways of gothic music
Necrobutcher: "Mayhem are the Rolling Stones of metal"
Mayhem's Jørn ‘Necrobutcher’ Stubberud on the death of friends, his bust-up with Euronymous and why he never left the legendary black metal group
The best earbuds and in-ear headphones 2021: From wireless to wired, we've got everything you need
UPDATED Ditch the over-ears and take a look at our pick of the best in-ear headphones and earbuds - perfect for listening on the go
Why I ❤️ Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, by Juliette Lewis
"If someone couldn’t see the greatness of Tom Petty as a songwriter, I’d just think they were not playing with a full deck" - Juliette Lewis
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Mastodon's Hushed And Grim: Atlanta riffmasters' boldest adventure yet
Mastodon offer a resonant salute to their late manager Nick John with the far-reaching eighth album, Hushed And Grim
The Pineapple Thief - Nothing But The Truth: "a must-own collection"
Not yet ratedIntimate live set from Bruce Soord’s art rock quartet.
Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World: "bigger and better"!
Not yet ratedVertigo? What vertigo? Prog metal icons survey all beneath them on skyscraping 15th album.
The Rolling Stones' Tattoo You gets a lustrous respray for its 40th birthday
The Rolling Stones' first release since Charlie Watts’ departure spectacularly reboots the 1981 out-takes classic Tattoo You
Sixx AM show musical insight but lack consistency on curiously named Hits
Sixx AM's Hits - a misleading title for decent compilation from Nikki Sixx's other band
The Replacements are reliably raucous on 100-track expansion of debut album
The deluxe edition of The Replacements' debut album Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash is, if not ‘the’, certainly ‘a’ motherlode
The Pineapple Thief continue to captivate on Nothing But The Truth
Post-proggers The Pineapple Thief's Nothing But The Truth captures livestreamed lockdown shows on a range of formats
Dream Theater exhaust their armoury on A View From The Top Of The World
A View From The Top Of The World is the 15th studio album by veteran prog metallurgists Dream Theater
Biffy Clyro's The Myth Of Happily Ever After: glorious, instantly recognisable weirdness
Lockdown experimentation from ever-inventive Scottish trio Biffy Clyro takes on a life of its own on The Myth Of Happily Ever After
Every Time I Die's Radical: metalcore crossover kings' run of form continues
Every Time I Die continue to prove themselves the kings of hardcore/metalcore crossover on their ninth record Radical
Bullet For My Valentine bring the heavy back on their self-titled new album
Bridgend’s metal behemoths Bullet For My Valentine cover all the bases on their seventh album, Bullet For My Valentine
