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- June 8
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- "I could throw out a few thousand dollars to have you snuffed out": The ugly truth behind Kurt Cobain's threats to "hurt" two female writers working on a Nirvana book
- 9 cheap upgrades you can make to improve your vinyl setup
- Foo Fighters seek to end Noel Gallagher's run of 10 consecutive UK Number 1 albums
- Run-DMC, Ice Cube, Lil Kim, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Ghostface Killah to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop at huge NYC show
- Green Lung announce their largest UK headline tour
- Rob Halford: "I've never been afraid of death"
- Slipknot's first European show of 2023: no Clown, no Craig, a new member and some rare songs (videos and setlist inside)
- Watch Corey Taylor and Bullet For My Valentine gatecrash Margot Robbie's interview and make her week
- Introducing Nashville glam rocker Gyasi: "People tell me I’ve made them feel less alone"
- Procol Harum: The epic story of A Whiter Shade Of Pale
- The story behind Metallica's 72 Seasons: "We love what we do, and we love each other"
- Slipknot have posted a photo of a possible new member and no one knows what's going on
- US State Department condemns Roger Waters' "long track record of using antisemitic tropes"
- June 7
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- Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann launches range of cannabidiol products
- Watch a fresh-faced Aerosmith's play Dream On on US TV in 1974
- Slipknot announce departure of Craig Jones, then delete announcement
- The Rolling Stones play it cool with their Start Me Up iced coffee kit - just in time for summer
- On what would have been Prince's 65th birthday, here's Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, David Gilmour, Chris Cornell and more covering his most iconic songs
- 10 hilarious metal covers of classic cartoon theme tunes
- Avenged Sevenfold hoped to make Life Is But A Dream... even weirder by having Lionel Richie sing on it
- PJ Harvey announces extensive UK and Europe tour, shares title track of new album I Inside The Old I Dying
- Geezer Butler and Ozzy Osbourne apparently no longer speak to each other because their wives won't let them
- Corey Taylor: "I could write an entire album in a day"
- Why Freddie Mercury boobed badly by wearing false breasts onstage at Queen's debut Rock In Rio headline show
- IO Earth to release new studio album Sanctuary in June
- Psychologist says people that listen to heavy metal think more logically and are less stressed than those who don't
- Clown to sit out upcoming Slipknot dates
- Music photographer Mick Hutson has died, aged 58
- A beginner’s guide to Krautrock in five essential albums
- How a psychotic reaction inspired The Groundhogs' revolutionary classic Split
- Tool announce extensive North American tour
- Groundhogs founding guitarist and frontman Tony McPhee dead at 79
- June 6
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- Rammstein issue second social media statement in relation to online allegations: "We condemn any kind of transgression"
- Dave Grohl posts an emotional open letter to Foo Fighters fans, and UK fans have spotted a massive potential Glastonbury hint
- Five new bands you need to hear if you love Pulp
- Noel Gallagher challenges Liam to call him to discuss an Oasis reunion: "I f***ing dare you!"
- A beginners guide to grindcore in five essential albums
- Pixies to play Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde in full for the first time ever at UK/European shows in 2024
- Adore might be The Smashing Pumpkins' best album, even if it was met with ridicule and - worse - apathy, 25 years ago
- Queens Of The Stone Age announce The End Is Nero tour dates
- Watch Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks shut down a sexist journalist in this 1977 interview
- Kerry King: Jeff Hanneman “wanted nothing more than to come back” to Slayer before his death
- Watch this behaviour analyst serve up amusing 'cultural observations' on metalheads
- Avenged Sevenfold found angry reactions to the band's new material hilarious: "we were just laughing"
- Coheed & Cambria to play 2007's No World for Tomorrow at two new UK dates
- Eric Clapton announces UK & Ireland tour
- A blow-by-blow analysis of Guns N' Roses' most epic video, November Rain
- Tina Turner: Acid Queen - Album Of The Week Club review
- Ian Hunter: an absolutely epic interview
- Fall Out Boy and Paramore's Hayley Williams have collaborated with Taylor Swift on her updated version of her 2010 album Speak Now
- Watch Bruce Dickinson lead a 15,000 crowd singing happy birthday to Nicko McBrain
- June 5
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- Noel Gallagher has a new message for Liam: "He should concentrate on what's left of his f***ing hairdo"
- Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil reveals his initial aim for grindcore side project Empire State Bastard: "No melodies, just f***ing mayhem"
- Watch Fever 333 frontman Jason Aalon Butler scream his lungs out on a moving Ferris wheel
- Despite the bad blood between the Nirvana and Guns N' Roses camps, Courtney Love once appeared onstage with Slash, and it was pretty damn cool
- Voyager announce more UK shows for October
- Rob Trujillo would love Slayer to cover the title track from Metallica's 72 Seasons
- The Internet has paired David Draiman with The Muppets for a Oohwa Mahna mash-up, and only the coldest, blackest hearts could fail to be tickled
- Classic Rock magazine names the greatest Guns N' Roses song of all time
- Noel Gallagher once again slams The 1975, calls them naughty words and says they're "certainly not rock"
- Amy Lee: "It took a long time to get respect for being a creator and not just the 'pretty face'"
- Ghost just played a show opposite Harry Styles and watching the two fanbases queue next to each other is hilarious
- The Anchoress announces London Union Chapel show for October
- Listen to Peter Gabriel's cheery new single Road To Joy
- Yungblud sung Break Stuff with Limp Bizkit at Rock Im Park and there are some interesting outfit choices going on
- Watch nu metal history in action as Evanescence perform Bring Me To Life with Papa Roach's Jacoby Shaddix
- St Anger at 20: how Metallica's most maligned album saved their career
- Rare white labels from Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, The Who and many more go under the hammer
- Classic Rock tracks of the week: eight new songs you need to hear right now
- Watch high quality footage of peak Genesis performing on US TV in 1974
- In 1989 Howard Stern gave Axl Rose an unexpected wake-up call on his birthday: the whole recording is now online
- June 4
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- June 2
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- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Liam Gallagher apologises on behalf of his family for Noel's "piss poor" and "damn right blasphemous" cover of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Here are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring Noel Gallagher, Foo Fighters, Fever 333 and more
- Loving the new Avenged Sevenfold album? Here are the 10 records you need to listen to next
- Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from Soen, Spell, L.O.E. and more
- Lifesigns confirm new Live In The Netherlands album for July
- Sleep Token just sold out 10,000 capacity Wembley Arena in under 10 minutes
- Einar Solberg - 16: "An impressive and adventurous new chapter."
- Pendulum are back - and they've teamed up with Bullet For My Valentine's Matt Tuck for a rollocking new single
- New look Beatrix Players announce new album and live dates
- A beginners guide to 90s hardcore in five essential albums
- Here's what Metallica might sound like if they had Avenged Sevenfold's Synyster Gates playing guitar
- Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi once had an onstage guitar solo interrupted by local taxi firm orders coming through his amp
- Chad Kroeger says Pantera's Dimebag and Vinnie Paul always defended Nickelback against critics in the metal scene
- Here are Metallica's ten fastest songs, ranked by BPM
- Devin Townsend announces Empath Live In America will be released in August
- This is how to write a Sleep Token song, apparently
- Watch Alice Cooper play a wild version of I'm Eighteen on The Midnight Special
- Rival Sons are sharper, deeper and more intense than ever on seventh album Darkfighter
- Avenged Sevenfold have crafted their definitive artistic statement... and it’s fantastic
- Noel Gallagher interrupts squabbling to release album of old-school anthems
- Revitalised and raucous, Buckcherry sound like they're just getting started
- Hollywood Vampires' Live In Rio is the jukebox of the damned
- Tenacious D launch majestic video for cover of Chris Isaak's Wicked Game
- June 1
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- Guns N' Roses' first show of 2023 included three songs not played in over 30 years
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- Noel Gallagher's cover of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart will have Ian Curtis turning in his grave
- Sennheiser HD 660S headphones review
- Tickets are now on-sale for Metallica: M72 World Tour Live From Arlington, TX – A Two Night Event
- There Goes My Hero: The Gallows Pole writer Ben Myers on Joey Ramone, the ultimate punk
- Brian May and Eddie Van Halen's Star Fleet Project to be reissued as massively expanded box set
- Unearthed early draft of Freddie Mercury's lyrics for Bohemian Rhapsody reveal the song's original title
- Courtney Love says Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was as ambitious and hungry for success as Madonna
- "He made up for some of my lack of talent": Lars Ulrich remembers meeting James Hetfield for the first time
- Corey Taylor discusses past tensions with his son Griffin, Vended's frontman: "We butted heads for a few years"
- Best record players for beginners 2023: Get up to speed with our pick of top quality turntables
- A beginner’s guide to pub rock in five essential albums
- Steely Dan: more 24-carat 70s rock gold from the Midnight Special
- Watch Foo Fighters open new club venue with special guest and fiery Bad Brains cover
- Def Leppard and Motley Crue add Australian dates to Stadium Tour
