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June 30
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- "The prospect of rockers descending on Earls Court is too awful to contemplate.” How angry locals, a Tory councillor and a jailed Scott Weiland killed Ozzfest UK '99
- Every Sigur Rós album ranked from worst to best
- Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from TF&TD, Susanna and more
- "It was like falling off a log" - how Pendragon took on the pandemic. And won!
- "I told my wife to bury me in the back seat of my ’78 Cadillac": Devildriver's Dez Fafara on nu metal, Coal Chamber and how he almost died from COVID
- Here are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring Blur, Fall Out Boy, Olivia Rodrigo and more
- Downes Braide Association detail brand new studio album
- "I will follow him into battle every day": Corey Taylor shares his love for his son Griffin, frontman of Vended
- 10 terrible metal albums with one classic song
- Lindisfarne classic Fog On The Tyne to get 180g vinyl reissue
- Could you open the UK’s first School of Rock franchise, manage your own music business and inspire the next generation?
- Five concerts over 17 CDs, or one concert over four? The choice, Deadheads, is yours
- Lucinda Williams rocks out of misfortune with Bruce Springsteen and friends
- Les Claypool on Pink Floyd, working with superstar offspring, and "one of the stupidest things I ever decided to do"
- "Success certainly beats obscurity. I have an incredible life, and I know it" - the epic journey of Bonnie Raitt
June 29
- Watch Gary Rossington's poignant final performance of Gimme Three Steps with Lynyrd Skynyrd
- “Led Zeppelin write weak, unimaginative songs”: 10 original reviews of classic albums that got it completely wrong
- The psychedelic tale of when Ministry's Al Jourgensen helped William Burroughs with an issue in his garden
- "It ended up being a Frankenstein creation": how Bob Odenkirk, sketch shows and songs about lady bits finally brought Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer to life
- A beginner’s guide to Dischord Records in five essential albums
- Download Festival and The Heavy Metal Truants launch charity auction with memorabilia from Iron Maiden, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Slipknot, Kiss and more
- The 10 best rock songs in The Bear, season two
- 10 times nu metal got surprisingly emotional
- Placebo's Brian Molko stalls gig in protest at fans filming on their phones
- Derek Sherinian and Simon Phillips announce new live album
- Public Service Broadcasting to release celebrated BBC Proms show
- Lemmy's golden rules of songwriting, and the three songs he loved the most
- A hair metal documentary series is coming to Paramount+ and please take our money right now
- "A vision with the light shining through her dress" - the woman who inspired Free's All Right Now
- "Ultimately, they weren’t Rick Wakeman" - Clem Burke and Glen Matlock on the outsider appeal of the original punk bands
June 28
- "Oklahoma City bomb, Kurt Cobain, Pokémon, Tiger Woods, MySpace, Monsanto GMOs": Fall Out Boy update Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire, revisit 34 years of history and pop culture
- “Led Zeppelin’s fee went from £500 to £20,000 in a year!” Collapsing stages and no toilets: The 1969 Bath Blues Festival that inspired Glastonbury
- Richard Wright's Wet Dream set for July reissue
- ...To Be Loved: Why Papa Roach ditched nu metal and went glam to save their career
- Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis cried with Flea after discussing his lack of confidence in his abilities as a musician
- Your essential guide to every The Pretty Reckless album
- Liam Gallagher announces intimate London show
- Every single Avenged Sevenfold album ranked from worst to best
- Nick Cave, Dave Gahan, Debbie Harry, Mark Lanegan to appear on new tribute album The Task Has Overwhelmed Us
- Check out this rare reworking of a Smashing Pumpkins classic
- Polaris guitarist Ryan Siew dead at 26
- Kittie's Brackish: the accidentally feminist nu metal anthem that should have made four young women superstars
- Listen to Greta Van Fleet's fiery new single The Falling Sky
- 10 surprising Elton John covers by rock and metal bands
- Beam me up again! William Shatner revisits his prog all-stars album Ponder The Mystery, starring Steve Vai, Rick Wakeman and others
- "Like Starcastle fronted by Bruce Dickinson!" - how Metal Church man went prog with Presto Ballet
- The six best Extreme songs that aren’t More Than Words
- Six classic rock bands who "went grunge" and lived to tell the tale
- Ayron Jones: "Our generation doesn't have a guitar player - I want to be that guy"
June 27
- If you thought Axl Rose's voice kept disappearing at Glastonbury you can blame your television
- The 10 best performances of Glastonbury 2023
- Soundgarden/Nirvana/Pearl Jam supergroup 3rd Secret release their second album The 2nd 3rd Secret without telling anyone: hear it here
- This rare Sparks footage from 1976 shows they've always been an unmatched live band - the rest of the world just needed to catch up
- Remembering the time a young Damon Albarn fired shots at Morrissey
- Every Alexisonfire album ranked from worst to best
- So Bill Murray just randomly turned up to a London rock bar, drank tequila and danced to blues music - and there's video to prove it
- Slipknot's Purity: how a fake murder story fooled the world, inspired a classic 'Knot song and got the band sued
- Death-defying acrobatics, rebel songs, troll-bashing and a dead mum's ashes: Pink's party-starting Summer Carnival might be the greatest stadium show ever staged
- Paul Rodgers announces first album of new and original material this century
- “He’s making different chords underneath all this music… and singing a middle harmony at the same time!” Joe Bonamassa’s love for Chris Squire
- Foo Fighters announce run of huge UK shows
- Watch Foo Fighters cover Michael Bublé's Haven't Met You Yet on tour as Dave Grohl makes up his own rather naughty lyrics and dances along
- Watch Jack Black give a wonderfully bonkers performance of Super Mario Bros' Peaches with an orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl
- 10 unexpectedly brilliant metal covers of 2010s pop songs
- "We show no mercy!” 10cc announce the Ultimate Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour
- Watch Adrian Belew and Les Claypool tackle King Crimson's Thela Hun Ginjeet live
- 18 times a classic rock song was almost ruined by TV advertising
- How The Mars Volta's De-Loused In The Comatorium brilliantly rewired prog rock for a new generation of punk rock kids
- Billy Gibbons has an unfinished song he wrote with Jeff Beck called Chocolate Meatballs
- "I'm not hiding behind wizards, mountains, goblins and fire" - meet vintage rockers Sweat
- Watch Elton John's fireworks-strewn, emotionally-charged, 10-minute Glastonbury version of Rocket Man
- "The song virtually played itself" - the Steely Dan classic starring Jimmy Page’s favourite guitar solo
June 26
- Lovebites' Miyako: 10 songs that changed my life
- Yes guitarist Steve Howe on a potential reunion with Jon Anderson: “I love Jon – but the only terms I work on is that I’m happy”
- Watch alt pop star Rina Sawayama tease Korn and Limp Bizkit classics and take serious shots at The 1975's Matty Healy in her explosive Glastonbury set
- Watch Bruce Dickinson sing Iron Maiden classic The Trooper with a covers band in an RAF hangar in Oxfordshire
- Listen to The Anchoress' elegant version of Manic Street Preachers' This Is Yesterday
- The Hu brought Mongolian folk metal to Glastonbury and it was an absolute blast
- A beginner's guide to Touch and Go Records
- Avenged Sevenfold's first ever show at Madison Square Garden is a mixed bag for a band with such lofty ambitions
- Elton John closes out Glastonbury with a triumphant, poignant headline set for the ages
- Muse announce new arena shows in UK and Ireland
- "It’s basically this story of rags to riches" - Behind the scenes at the Black Sabbath ballet
- Kansas: Point of Know Return - Album Of The Week Club review
- Classic Rock tracks of the week: eight new songs you need to hear right now
June 25
- Toyah and Robert Fripp perform Cream cover, cover themselves in cream
- Elton John plays final UK show with emotional, hit-stacked Glastonbury setlist
- Watch Guns N' Roses play Paradise City with Dave Grohl at Glastonbury
- "We’ve been a rock band, we’ve been pop stars, and then we became dinosaurs. But if you can live through the dinosaur period you become a legend..." The epic saga of Nazareth
- The 10 funniest rock and metal songs according to Tenacious D
- Guns N' Roses rock Glastonbury: a fun, energetic headline set in unfamiliar territory
- "If it had failed, we would have slid into ignominy": How Tommy was the last throw of the dice for The Who
- "I wrote it on a bit of paper on the train": How Led Zeppelin turned a repetitive riff into one of their most killer tracks
- Korn and Adidas in official shoe collab – and we can't believe it took this long
- Watch Dethklok in trailer for Metalocalypse movie and hear first new music in 10 years
- The first Pineapple Thief box set charts a slow and steady journey to wider recognition
June 24
- Eric Clapton's deluxe upgrade of 24 Nights: a hits collection and a collectors dream
- Guns N’ Roses bring out Dave Grohl for their Glastonbury headlining set – but the air-guitaring sign language interpreters win the night
- Royal Blood’s Glastonbury set proves they have lost their decade-old magic
- Mick Mars accuses Mötley Crüe of “trying to take my legacy away”, Nikki Sixx says he’s in a “complete hallucination”
- "Sit down, Lars!" Beavis and Butt-Head reviewing Metallica in the 90s still makes for hilarious viewing
- A beginner’s guide to country rock in five essential albums
- “When they make documentaries about the 70s, they talk about glam and prog rock. 10cc weren't either so we don’t get a mention..." The rise and fall of 10cc's original line-up
- Brian May salutes the genius of Eddie Van Halen: “It was like watching Hendrix for the first time”
- How Tom DeLonge nearly broke up Blink-182… three times
- The golden rule that Jimmy Page was determined to break on Stairway To Heaven
- Foo Fighters surprise Glastonbury with an hour of pure rock bliss
- Slash and Axl were in the studio this week. So, are Guns N' Roses working on new music?
- Arctic Monkeys headline Glastonbury 2023: Full setlist online now
June 23
- "You knew it was us, right?" Paul McCartney and Guns N' Roses watch Foo Fighters make an emotional return to Glastonbury festival for the least secret 'secret' set ever
- Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from Neal Morse, Haken and more
- Mötley Crüe have posted a gig flyer for a band called Dögs of War playing a 450 capacity London club on the eve of their show for 90,000 fans at Wembley Stadium
- A beginner’s guide to 4AD Records in five essential albums
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "The Dark Side Of The Moon of the modern era": Avenged Sevenfold fans review Life Is But A Dream...
- "I meet people and I can tell in two seconds whether they’re a rocker or not": Across 40 years playing music, here are 10 life lessons Dave Grohl has learned
- Jay Weinberg on playing drums for Slipknot: "I never felt overawed by the pressure to replace Joey"
- Darryl Way and Steve Hogarth pair up for new Morpheus video
- Star-studded John Wetton memorial concert announced
- Six times huge bands have secretly performed under fake names
- Marillion and four great gifts in the new issue of Prog, on sale now...
- An Australian punk singer has broken the world record for eating the most hard-boiled eggs in one sitting
- "We'd spend all day farting about and end up with nothing usable": the aggravating story of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
- A royal birth: the real story of Queen's first album - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- The Sanctuary Years: a somewhat arbitrary snapshot of Gary Moore’s career
- Ayron Jones: a vibrant wall of guitar wrangling, musical loops and more colours than a sky full of rainbows
- Luke Morley breaks from the day job with 10 glittering Americana-tinged gems
- Red Hot Chili Peppers: European tour first night photos and setlist
June 22
- Ozzy Osbourne says he's "thrilled to bits" that the British public have voted to name a 10 metre-high mechanical metal bull 'Ozzy' in his honour
- Watch a death metal audience hold its breath as this metalhead proposes marriage to his girlfriend in the middle of a mosh pit
- Watch newly restored 4K footage of Rush on their 1976 2112 tour
- Porcupine Tree live guitarist Randy McStine hits back at fan complaints
- Black Sabbath almost junked Paranoid because they thought it sounded too much like Led Zeppelin
- Corey Taylor: "I want to be a mash-up of Bruce Springsteen and Ozzy Osbourne"
- The Internet has served up a super awkward video of Korn doing karaoke with cosplay 'aliens' and, honestly, we're not sure why
- Steve Harris couldn't care less about Iron Maiden not being in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: "It doesn’t really represent anything"
- Noel Gallagher thinks that Guns N' Roses headlining Glastonbury is "mad", and not in a good way: "Are you being serious? That’s crazy sh*t"
- Haunt The Woods announce second album Ubiquity
- Iron Maiden are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer – and it comes with four exclusive gifts!
- The Todd Rundgren albums you should definitely own
- "We had to die" - A history of The Grunge Wars, told by those who were there
- How The Damned made Darkadelic, their surprise contender for Album Of The Year
- "Sometimes they hurl bottles" - watch rare BBC footage of a wild-eyed Arthur Brown being interviewed after catching fire in 1967
June 21
- Watch Sebastian Bach sing Mötley Crüe and The Eagles with Yächtly Crëw
- A beginner’s guide to Southern Rock in 5 albums
- “We realised during lockdown that classic rock changes people's lives…” Toyah and Robert Fripp on why they do what they do
- In 1992, Kurt Cobain's excitement at the prospect of Spinal Tap reforming led him to dream up some outlandish stage props which could turn future Nirvana live shows up to 11
- There's a reason Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler doesn't have tattoos, and it involves Nazis
- Greta Van Fleet's Josh Kiszka comes out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, calls out US legislators for "proposing bills that threaten the freedom of love"
- Original Marillion Herne The Hunter t-shirt to be reprinted
- By the time you read this, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard will probably have released another album
- Beastie Boys fan? Here's five new bands you need to hear
- The 10 Greatest Festival Bands Ever, as chosen by The Darkness' Dan Hawkins
- Cardiacs first full-length album gets four disc reissue
- Metallica just smoothly shut down a fan attempting to dunk on a bagpipe cover of their songs: "This guy doesn't speak on our behalf"
- Bob Rock says Jimmy Page is a big fan of Metallica's St Anger: "He said it's a great album, so I'm OK!"
- Get 4 free months of Amazon Music Unlimited in this early Prime Day deal
- Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill makes history by reaching one billion streams on Spotify, the first 80s song by a female solo artist to do so
- Watch Soundgarden cover Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit at Lollapalooza 1992
- JAAW: "It has to be loud... everything has to be raging and full-on"
- Island Of Love: the Third Man signings hitting the sweet spot between spit and polish
- Long-lost footage of Steely Dan playing a mesmerising Show Biz Kids in 1973 has surfaced
- Steve Harley: The soundtrack of my life
- The greatest frontman of all time? Dave Gahan's irresistible energy ensures that Depeche Mode exude life after death
June 20
- Listen to a haunting version of Metallica's The Unforgiven sung in the indigenous Inuktitut language
- So it turns out Elton John is a massive Nova Twins fan
- Slipknot planning 2024 world tour to mark 25th anniversary of Roadrunner debut
- The 12 best Glastonbury Festival performances ever
- "It's all about the willingness to take risks": Baroness preview new album Stone with massive new track Last Word
- "If an arrow has been shot at me, I shoot it back..." The life and career of Ronnie James Dio, in his own words
- Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan once told Pantera to "shut the f**k up" when they kept moaning about Metallica not being metal
- This Reddit forum reveals the bands that people avoided listening to purely because they didn't like their names
- This ridiculously fun Kiss x Earth Wind & Fire mash-up is a gift from the (rock) Gods that will have you dancing into next week
- David Bowie didn't just write Mott The Hoople's biggest hit, he single-handedly saved their career
- Have your say on Avenged Sevenfold's new album Life Is But A Dream...
- Zeal & Ardor's Manuel Gagneux: "We offered to brand fans with an iron at shows...but then people actually did it"
- "For a while, it was the worst song on the album…" The story behind Rush's Tom Sawyer
- Backstage at a Kiss show used to be all debauchery and decadence: these days it features Gene Simmons zooming around in a cart, waving at people like the Queen
- A beginner's guide to Roadrunner Records in five essential albums
- Shure SRH1540 headphones review
- Joe Perry: “I don’t know if there’ll be a new Aerosmith album”
- Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen - Album Of The Week Club review
- If you were wondering what Robert Fripp and Toyah are like on tour, wonder no more
- The Peter Frampton albums you should definitely own
- The trailblazing story of Sparks: "What we’re doing is making music that we can’t hear anywhere else"
June 19
- Watch Metallica's absolutely epic version of Whiskey in The Jar from Download Festival
- Cradle Of Filth's Dani Filth: "Spotify are the biggest criminals in the world...we had 26 million plays last year and I got about 20 pounds"
- Corey Taylor voices his support as Slipknot's original vocalist Anders Colsefni unveils plans to perform Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat in full to honour Joey Jordison and Paul Gray
- A beginner's guide to Sub Pop Records in five essential albums
- Watch the heart-warming moment Foo Fighters invited Hayley Williams on stage to perform My Hero at Bonnaroo Festival
- How to rewatch Glastonbury 2023: The festival might be over but you can still relive all the action
- Neal Morse announces new studio album inspired by Biblical character Joseph
- Caligula's Horse announce Rise Radiant European tour
- Arctic Monkeys' stadium spectaculars are emphatic living proof that “that rock ’n’ roll” isn't dying out anytime soon
- James Hetfield once revealed what Cliff Burton would have made of Metallica's 90s era: "there would have been some resistance"
- Noel Gallagher is not happy with the response - or lack of response - to his new songs: "People should have bought the f***ing album, then, shouldn’t they?"
- Daniel Tompkins announces release of Ruins: Live Experience
- Iron Maiden legend Steve Harris reveals the achievement that means the most to him
- Why I ❤️ Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left, by Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt
- Classic Rock tracks of the week: eight new songs you need to hear right now
- We've found the world's most grotesque tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and it's in a Birmingham pub
- "I wanted to be so out of line that when I fired myself the next day nobody would object": The night Grace Slick left Jefferson Starship
- Papa Roach's Jacoby Shaddix: It's dope that nu metal is finally getting respect
June 18
- 10 essential artists to see at BST Hyde Park this summer, from Bruce Springsteen to Blackpink
- “David was furious: 'I won’t have that kind of disloyalty!’" The real reason David Bowie ended Ziggy Stardust and sacked the Spiders From Mars
- Shawn 'Clown' Crahan steps away from Slipknot's European tour again, to be with his wife: "See you soon and hail Slipknot"
- “He was pretty quiet. He just wanted to hang out”: Joe Perry remembers when Kurt Cobain met Aerosmith
- “We were so loud. You could see blood coming out of people’s ears”: the true story of Attila, Billy Joel's pre-fame metal band, and 'the worst album ever made'
- Travis Barker learns wife Kourtney Kardashian is pregnant with epic announcement at Blink-182 show
June 17
- “I thought: 'There’s got to be other people that are into this style of stuff. Not everybody has got a spiky haircut!’” Marillion and the making of Script For A Jester's Tear
- "We don’t cheese out with a bunch of noodling." Symphony X and Iconoclast
- A beginners' guide to UK 80s indie in five essential albums
- "I sounded like Clint Eastwood clutching a condom!" The story behind Judas Priest's Living After Midnight
- Phil Collen talks about Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith's audition for Def Leppard: "Adrian's great"
- How a glass of spilt milk almost spelled the end of Aerosmith
- Watch Bruce Dickinson try to dress up an unimpressed Steve Harris while Iron Maiden play Alexander The Great live on stage
- Bowie on film: the stories behind 10 classic David Bowie movies
- "The accusations of the last few weeks have deeply shaken us as a band": Rammstein's Christoph Schneider releases statement on allegations made against Till Lindemann
June 16
- The 20 best new metal songs you need to hear right now (yes, including Dolly Parton)
- Here are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring The Hives, Osees, Dream Nails and more
- 11 brilliant albums that aren’t on Spotify
- Jello Biafra: "Hawkwind's Space Ritual is my Ground Zero!"
- Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from Voivod, Southern Empire and more
- Steve Harris reveals the Iron Maiden deep cut he'd like them to play more live
- Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme recalls a shirtless Iggy Pop eating steak with his bare hands in a posh restaurant, then getting told off for having his nipples out
- Hawkwind detail mammoth eleven-disc Space Ritual box set
- Ash announce UK/European tour and new album Race the Night, share Stephen King-themed horror video for title track
- A Polish bus numbered 666 that stops off at Hel is being changed after religious groups accused it of "spreading Satanism"
- Ex-Type O Negative guitarist Kenny Hickey would love Axl Rose to sing at a Peter Steele tribute concert
- Watch 100,000 people emotionally singing their hearts out to Limp Bizkit's Behind Blue Eyes cover while Fred Durst dons a proud 80s perm
- "Don't you EVER say that to me!" Lou Reed and David Bowie once had a fist-fight in a London restaurant and it got very, very ugly
- A beginner's guide to progressive rock in five essential albums
- Sigur Rós have surprise released their new album Átta
- At last! An official Iron Maiden Monopoly game has been launched
- Gov't Mule's Peace... Like A River: no room for noodling, but the pleasures run deep
- Steve Lukather's Bridges: the closest we'll ever get to a new Toto album
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's sonic avalanche continues on thrashy PetroDragonic Apocalypse
- Queens Of The Stone Age's In Times New Roman... is a brutal dissection of dark days and damage done, but Josh Homme's pain isn't everyone's gain
- Desert rock superstars Queens Of The Stone Age have returned to retain their crown
- John Mellencamp weaves deft, weary tales on the elegant Orpheus Descending
June 15
- The Pretenders hook up with Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood for new single I Think About You Daily
- Southern Empire return with first new album in five years
- The world nearly got a supergroup featuring members of the Sex Pistols, Blondie and the Bay City Rollers
- 10 alternative artists you need to watch at Glastonbury 2023
- The guy who plays the fascist President in Succession was in a long-lost alt rock band and they actually weren't terrible
- Watch David Bowie's electrifying performance of Fashion at the 1996 Fashion Awards for a reminder of how he was truly far cooler than us all
- 20 bands whose second album is the best thing they ever did
- “We don't want people to know what we think”: Why Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures may be the most important record to emerge from the UK punk scene
- "People tried to 'beat the gay' out of me - you know what? It didn't stick": GAYC/DC have turned Argent's Hold Your Head Up into a powerful gay rights anthem
- German police open investigation into Rammstein's Till Lindemann 'on allegations relating to sexual offences and the distribution of narcotics'
- “He overdosed and was saved by an adrenalin shot”: How Urge Overkill went from being Steve Albini’s pet project to year-long parties and accidentally re-enacting that famous scene from Pulp Fiction
- Lifesigns and Franck Carducci to headline Fusion Festival 2024
- The song Filter wrote to impress Trent Reznor that ended up angering thousands of Nirvana fans
- Hawkwind announce Royal Albert Hall show and Space Ritual box set
- This is the band Corey Taylor and Randy Blythe once picked as the future of metal
- Glam rockers Starbenders tackle rock'n'roll excess on new single We're Not Okay, announce new album Take Back The Night
- How Blur boldly reinvented themselves, and saved their souls, with 1997’s self-titled album
- The story of Are You Gonna Be My Girl, the song that gave Jet "Ferrari money"
- Rodrigo y Gabriela and the long journey towards the transcendent bliss of nondualism
- Jesse Malin paralysed from the waist down after suffering spinal stroke
- Former Urge Overkill drummer Blackie Onassis dead at 57
- Watch Alice Cooper and his writhing snake lift Billion Dollar Babies to psychotic new heights
June 14
- Twitter sued for $250 million for "rampant infringement" of copyrighted music
- Duff McKagan launches solo album featuring Slash, Jerry Cantrell and Iggy Pop
- Peter Gabriel cancels Nottingham show
- Watch Tarja Turunen perform a beautiful cover of Linkin Park's Numb in a tiny church
- A beginner's guide to US indie in five essential records
- Demi Lovato is using she/her pronouns again because constantly having to explain they/them to others was "absolutely exhausting"
- The Struts announce August UK and Europe headline shows
- R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe changed his original lyrics to Everybody Hurts after regrets over a misunderstood lyric in Losing My Religion
- Alice Cooper to release new album Road, shares gritty first single I'm Alice
- Stevie Nicks shares details of career-spanning studio albums and rarities boxset
- Nina Simone, Bob Marley and powerviolence: why Zulu are the most vital hardcore band of 2023
- The history of Oasis in 12 songs
- Listen to this Fred Durst-approved Limp Bizkit x Queen mash-up for a good ol' booty-shaking boogie
- Watch Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan casually link NFL superstar/broadcaster O.J. Simpson to murder in this 'disarming' 1994 TV interview
- This footage of Slipknot making 90,000 people jump up at Download shows they seem to be doing just fine
- According to science, these are the bands with the saddest and angriest fanbases
- A beginner's guide to SST Records in five essential albums
- Tears For Fears announce three special UK shows for September
- Coheed And Cambria's London show proves once again that they're the world's coolest prog band
- The 10 best rock and metal football songs to soundtrack the beautiful game (no, really!)
- Crown Lands: the duo ushering prog’s illustrious past into a magisterial future
- Andy Summers on The Police: "We could have gone on and played for years"
- Watch Brian May enthuse about Star Fleet Project on kids' TV in 1983
June 13
- Dutch band DeWolff smash world record for fastest "studio-to-store" vinyl release
- Cormac McCarthy was the author of heavy books. In turn, those books inspired some very heavy music
- A YouTuber has covered Metallica's 72 Seasons in the style of Slayer and it's as brutal as you'd expect
- Melvins' Buzz Osbourne: My Life in 10 Songs
- Envy Of None share animated video for That Was Then
- Lindy BNX-60 review
- Jinjer announce 2023 North American headline tour
- Guns N' Roses needed weird British dessert names explaining to them when they visited the UK for the first time
- "The Nice and ELP are, for me, where things went too far. Very good musicians don’t interest me. Proficiency blocks you off from real adventure": John Foxx on prog, punk and the problems of being a pioneer
- Aerosmith’s Joe Perry on his turbulent relationship with Steven Tyler: “He’s probably my best friend”
- Queens Of The Stone Age announce UK / European tour
- The mind-boggling story of how former Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson ended up in Motorhead
- 10 classic metal songs that prove keyboards can be cool
- Every Pulp album ranked from worst to best
- Paul McCartney has used AI to create the "final" ever Beatles song
- Goo Goo Dolls: "As soon as any song comes out and becomes available to the public, that’s when I wave goodbye"
- Fleetwood Mac's Jeremy Spencer: the true story of the man who went missing
- Rob Caggiano opens up on his "emotional" split from Volbeat
- Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme reveals he's recovering from cancer
- Nirvana: Bleach - Album Of The Week Club review
June 12
- Sigur Rós release video for Blóðberg, first new song in seven years
- This Nintendo-style cover of Metallica's ...And Justice For All is the album you didn't know you needed
- "Sooner or later, I'm going to offend you": At 79, The Who's Roger Daltrey is still pulling no punches
- Slipknot just proved they are the ultimate Download Festival headliner (yet again)
- Watch: hundreds of fans started circle pitting around Parkway Drive's Winston McCall in the middle of their Download set and it looks amazing
- Ghost's Download show was fabulous fun - but a headline set would be even better
- How Alice Cooper ended up singing on a forgotten Guns N’ Roses classic: “Axl called me at two in the morning!”
- Deathcore crew Chelsea Grin launch 'pool noodle' mosh pit at their show with predictably ridiculous results
- Watch The Cure's Robert Smith serenade his wife at LA show
- Marillion announce A Tour Before It's Christmas 2023
- The Hu: "There's no doubt we'll work with Babymetal again"
- Jethro Tull announce The Seven Decades UK tour
- Chris Holmes: "I don't know any other guitarist on this planet that plays the way I do"
- Clockwork Angels: one of the best albums Rush ever made
- Classic Rock tracks of the week: eight new songs you need to hear right now
- Michael Monroe and Vince Neil finally come face-to-face, decades after fatal car crash
- Bring Me The Horizon announce new album and tour
- Watch Sparks perform a frenzied This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us in 1974
June 11
- Brian Johnson makes surprise appearance at Sam Fender show to sing AC/DC classics
- Metallica at Download night two: the ultimate celebration of heavy metal
- Download headliners Metallica make 'lifeline' donation to local homeless charity
- Hollywood icon John Wayne once asked for David Coverdale's autograph
June 10
- Bring Me The Horizon's spectacular Download set proved it's time to let the next generation of headliners in
- Five new bands you need to hear if you love The Fall
- Listen to a cover of X-Ray Spex classic Oh Bondage, Up Yours! by Kim Gordon's long-lost indie supergroup
- Trivium's Matt Heafy stops show and saves crowdsurfing fan from injury
June 9
- Watch The Hives perform Hate To Say I Told You So on Howard Stern's show
- Foo Fighters hold off challenge from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds to secure their sixth UK number 1 album
- Residents living near the Download site at Donington are complaining that the world's biggest rock festival is too noisy
- Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from King Gizzard, IO Earth and more
- Here are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring PJ Harvey, Dream Wife, Sprints and more
- Kirk Hammett recalls Joey Jordison's onstage tears before playing Enter Sandman with Metallica at Download
- Listen to Black Veil Brides and Ville Valo join forces to cover Sisters Of Mercy classic Temple Of Love
- How Midge Ure ended up playing guitar in Thin Lizzy
- Dream Wife's Social Lubrication is a riotous celebration of life lived loud, proud and fear and shame free
- Nirvana fan? Here are five new bands you need to hear
- How Tenacious D's satanic stoner comedy The Pick Of Destiny went from box office bomb to cult classic
- Metallica at Download night one: metal's biggest band slay Donington after more than a decade away
- Lorna Shore's Will Ramos: "I'd love to collaborate with Sleep Token"
- Rock City Angels: the self-destructive story of Johnny Depp's old band
- Five brilliant but obscure NWOBHM albums that could have been huge in a parallel universe
- George Harrison's My Sweet Lord: the love song to a higher power that spurred a $1.6m lawsuit
- Extreme return after 15-year absence with showboating and triumphant new album
- Slipknot launch new Adderall EP accompanied by disturbing Death March video
- Here's everything we know about the Rammstein allegations so far
June 8
- Iamthemorning's Gleb Kolyadin to officially release The Outland
- This Beavis and Butt-Head clip is the most perfect critique of 90s alt. rock ever made
- Watch Faith No More chuck water and throw punches at an unsuspecting talk show host during this excruciating interview from 1995
- Hardline preacher-cum-politician Ian Paisley used to picket "evil" metal gigs in Ireland: yesterday his son invited Gene 'The Demon' Simmons to Parliament
- "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
- 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
- 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
- "If they liked you, they’d smack you. And if they didn’t like you, you were dead!" Ian Hunter on hanging out with Bowie, working with Taylor Hawkins and playing for the London Mafia
- 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
- 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
- Foo Fighters announce dates in Australia and New Zealand
- Hives frontman Howlin' Pelle Almqvist was a bloody mess after run-in with wayward mic
- Wolfgang Van Halen's album credit joke didn't get a laugh out of his manager
June 3
- Vote for the best metal album of the 2000s
- Dream The Electric Sleep return with brand new album
- Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick: the 40 minute song Ian Anderson wrote as a joke
- The Suzi Quatro albums you should definitely own
- Five new bands you need to hear if you love Joy Division
June 2
- 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
- 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 2024: 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