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- January 31
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- Listen to Paramore's cover of Talking Heads classic Burning Down The House, from the forthcoming tribute album Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense
- Gleb Kolyadin and Bi-2 bandmates released from Thailand jail
- "Now is a good time to call time": You Me At Six announce split
- The 10 best 21st-century Iron Maiden songs
- High On Fire announce summer UK and European tour, new album expected soon
- Einar Solberg shares new live clip of Leprous fave Within My Fence
- Pink Floyd announce new Collector's Edition of The Dark Side Of The Moon
- “Daevid Allen was always throwing a grenade into situations… Tim Smith was quite benign, although very driven. They both had the same sort of presence:” Kavus Torabi compares his late Gong and Cardiacs bandmates
- Watch Metallica perform Creeping Death with a fan on lead vocals and still sound surprisingly good
- "David Bowie said, I hear you play a mean piano": Rick Wakeman on playing on Space Oddity and Hunky Dory, then turning down David Bowie's invitation to join The Spiders From Mars on the same day he joined Yes
- Hear Dragonforce’s Through The Fire And Flames in the new Despicable Me 4 trailer
- Ayreon announce new star-studded 01011001 - Live Beneath The Waves release
- London doom/stoner metal festival Desertfest announces 32 new bands
- Vote for the best Korn song ever
- 10 obscure but amazing New Wave Of British Heavy Metal bands that should have been far, far bigger
- Want to attend Download, Glastonbury, Reading/Leeds, ArcTanGent or Bearded Theory festival for free? Here's how you can do it, while also helping others
- “If there’s a message it’s live every day as if it’s your last. I went through a very sticky patch… The freedom of not being enslaved by addiction is marvellous”: John Wetton’s return from the darkness
- The Heart albums you should definitely own
- "If anyone tries to tell you that Max’s wasn't a drug den, then they are lying to cover their now-respectable asses": the story of the club that provided a safe haven for New York's creatives, freaks and weirdos
- A pouting member of Mötley Crüe, a Bon Jovi songwriter and a risque video: Joe Perry looks back on the song that took Aerosmith back to rock's top table
- "I walked into my publicist's office saying, 'I've got the formula. I've cracked it.' And that was the minute I stopped having the formula": How Roll Away The Stone was the beginning of the end for Mott The Hoople
- The 40 best AOR vocalists of all time
- January 30
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- “An exceptional collectors opportunity": An unfinished novel about John Lennon written by original Beatles bassist Stuart Sutcliffe is being put up for sale, alongside his artwork, poems and early photos of the band
- "Gothic, brooding poignancy offset by a sense of wonder and grace": why Depeche Mode are at the top of their game in 2024
- The 10 funniest death metal cover songs
- The Emerald Dawn announce 'live in the studio' performance of In Time
- How to watch Kings From Queens: The Run DMC Story online – from anywhere
- "I was on that stage a lot more as a fan than I was in our band": watch Green Day revisit 924 Gilman Street, the legendary all-ages punk club where they cut their teeth
- Marilyn Manson ordered to pay Evan Rachel Wood almost $327,000 to cover legal fees
- “I never thought prog would be some sort of positive career move… It’s a different audience now and not quite the arenas any more”: Tiger Moth Tales’ Peter Jones returns to guitar for his most personal album yet
- The complete Emerson, Lake & Powell collection to be released in April
- “We’ve got lots of leftover material from Repentless – we wrote so much stuff!” The story of the lost final Slayer album
- "In screaming so loudly for so long I gave myself chronic laryngitis and screwed up my voice forever": Mountain man Corky Laing reveals how a seductive dancer inspired a hard rock classic
- "He looked like Daniel Day Lewis in The Last Of The Mohicans, except he jangled when he walked. I thought: 'That's a bit interesting'": Billy Duffy on Ian Astbury and the early days of Death Cult
- "I was stunned and hurt. I can't begin to describe the feeling of betrayal": What happened when Don Henley joined Guns N' Roses
- Bruce Dickinson announces album signing appearances at five UK record shops
- January 29
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- Elton John, Eric Clapton, Brian Wilson and more to appear on posthumously created album of duets with Glen Campbell
- "We can't wait to celebrate the timeless legacy of our classic hits": Heart announce Royal Flush tour dates in North America, the UK and Europe
- “This is the next natural step in our evolution. This is a pinnacle moment for us. It’s something we had to do.” How Dream Theater made uber concept album The Astonishing
- "Busted at Download! Wicked. Let's 'ave it!": Busted, Mr. Bungle, Enter Shikari, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Tom Morello and more join Download 2024 bill
- Order your limited edition Bad Omens, Hanabie, Lorna Shore or Scene Queen bundle
- Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie announce 21-city Freaks On Parade summer 'spooktacular'
- "The only thing I find offensive is the suggestion I’ve done something wrong by making the record I wanted to make." Steven Wilson and the trials of The Future Bites
- “Hearing that incredible orchestration and hearing Peter Gabriel really belting out my lyrics… that was an ambition I didn’t know I had”: How ex Genesis singer helped Elbow frontman’s family through parents’ divorce
- "Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast!": the brutal true story behind Machine Head's Davidian, one of the defining anthems of '90s metal
- "I wanted to be Aaliyah so bad": Escuela Grind's Katerina Economou picks the ten records that changed their life
- “We’re thrilled to be going back to the UK”: American Football announce British shows, including Outbreak festival appearance, to celebrate their debut album's 25th anniversary
- "We’ve been calling ourselves the Backstreet Boys of the metal scene": Forget Eurovision, Blind Channel are now aiming to conquer the world
- “Those who have heard it suggest it may not be the lost classic its reputation implies”: Six songs that didn’t make Yes’ 90125 tracklist
- The Fierce And The Dead announced as headliners for A Sunday In September
- "A unique and limitless artistic vision, totally redefining what a guitar band can do": The Last Dinner Party's dazzling debut Prelude To Ecstasy shows exactly why they're the most exciting new band in Britain
- "I still think I’m part of Yes": Jon Anderson teases the possibility of a reunion with former Yes bandmates Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman
- Heather Findlay announces new project The Bee Tellers
- Here are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring Yungblud, Frank Turner, Brittany Howard and more
- "In all those children's stories, you take some kind of chemical and have a great adventure. Alice In Wonderland is blatant": Grace Slick on the inspiration behind Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Gary Clark Jr, Mark Knopfler, Mick Mars and more
- "The copycat jibes thrown in Kingdom Come's direction by the music press and Gary Moore were certainly not without merit": Kingdom Come by Kingdom Come
- Toyah and Robert Fripp continue to bring the noise with chaotic old-skool cover of (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)
- January 28
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- Alice In Chains are releasing a version of Jar Of Fies with actual dead flies embedded in the vinyl
- "I couldn't do it because I was burnt out": How Trent Reznor almost missed the chance to become an Oscar-winning film composer
- “People think we’re a pop band. But we never have been. We just had some huge success that hurt us a little”: how Huey Lewis & The News became America’s favourite good time rock’n’roll band
- Gleb Kolyadin facing threat of deportation back to Russia
- “It's the natural knee jerk reaction for some people when they see someone young and successful and female…”: The Last Dinner Party on overcoming online trolls to make the year’s most hotly-anticipated debut album
- “We put a good spin on it publicly but the truth is Bill almost died”: Michael Stipe on how R.E.M. narrowly averted tragedy on the Monster tour
- The 10 best Led Zeppelin songs that aren’t by Led Zeppelin
- Liam Gallagher and John Squire announce tour dates, confirm album details and release new track Mars To Liverpool
- January 27
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- "While our intentions were good, to put it simply, we failed... We let Sleep Token and you down": Promoters AEG apologise after US tour pre-sale chaos leaves many Sleep Token fans furious and ticket-less
- “I’m a believer in things happening for a reason. If I had become a huge star then I may not be alive today”: how cult 70s soft rockers Desmond Child & Rouge launched the career of a songwriting superstar
- “Christian Bale stands behind me and, in the Batman voice, he says, “Are you Tim, from the band James?”: the crazy story of when James frontman Tim Booth got a role in Batman Begins
- “You can be out of fashion and suddenly people are sampling you and covering you and you’re hip again…”: Tears For Fears’ Curt Smith on how a new generation discovered the band
- “I was worried about the album. Someone said it was more commercial. I thought, ‘Oh God, what‘s that supposed to mean?”: how Magnum made their masterpiece On A Storyteller’s Night and saved themselves from oblivion
- Fish announces the Road To The Isles European Tour 2024
- “It was a no-brainer to get Jeff Porcaro from Toto to produce. He’d played on more hit records than anybody I knew”: how cult melodic rockers The Strand made the greatest AOR debut album you’ve never heard
- “It’s a blessing and a curse… there’s times you feel like they’re hacking up your child! But the real freedom comes in trusting that it will all work out for the best”: How supergroup Transatlantic made Kaleidoscope
- "They're as good as anything anyone's ever written": My 10 favourite Thin Lizzy songs, by Brian Downey
- “That was when I knew we had really accomplished something”: Alice In Chains on the transformative success of their Jar Of Flies EP as it turns 30
- "I'm the flash in the middle": All 57 Bon Scott AC/DC songs ranked in order of greatness
- “If one person deserves a knighthood, it’s Ozzy Osbourne”: Judas Priest’s Rob Halford urges King Charles to knight the Prince Of Darkness
- "Everybody freaked out about how beautiful Debbie Harry was, but more focus should’ve been on how great that band were." Paradise Lost's Nick Holmes picks the 10 songs that changed his life
- “I’ve been thinking of taking drum lessons… What I won’t do is put together a new band”: What Nick Mason said before he put together a new band
- "Ploughing a uniquely distinctive furrow for over 40 years": New Model Army's Unbroken is timeless, ireful and poetic
- "There's a charming vulnerability to it all, although they still amp up the rock when necessary": Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes' Dark Rainbow
- January 26
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- "We’re so excited about our future!" Green Day celebrate scoring fifth UK number one album with 'Saviors'
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Bambie Thug is bringing a slice of industrial-pop madness to Ireland's Eurovision 2024 qualifier tonight - and you can help them make it to the final
- "I miss hearing you laugh. I miss laughing with you": Wolfgang Van Halen shares poignant birthday message to his late father Eddie, on what would have been the guitar legend's 69th birthday
- Great new prog from No-Man, Sleepmakeswaves, Temic and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week
- "Get me 100 gallons of whipped cream, fill the bath with tequila and don't forget the goats": Watch Lemmy's gloriously weird appearance in an insurance ad
- Robert Fripp and King Crimson manager David Singleton announce West Coast US dates
- Nova Cascade launch Kickstarter for "our most ambitious project yet."
- “To permit defendants alone to tell the authoritative story of the Ramones would be an injustice to the band and its legacy.” Johnny Ramone’s widow files lawsuit over Joey Ramone movie plans
- “Ginger Baker stamps, thumps and whacks his personality into these numbers… he sounds a bit confused and well-lubricated, much to the evident, if a little strained, amusement of his bandmates”: Baker Gurvitz Army’s Neon Lights: The Broadcasts 1975
- “Headbanging is more fun than going through a windshield!” Watch Iron Maiden star in the bizarre seatbelt safety advert from 1991 that almost got them a meeting with the President Of The United States
- Caligula's Horse announce European and UK tour dates for May and June
- "Considering how people scoffed at the idea of Static-X without their most recognisable member, this line-up continues to prove its worth." Static-X's Project: Regeneration Vol. 2 is worthy of the band's legacy
- “There’s bravery in their willingness to express deep, often dark emotions. The subject matter may be confounding for some… but they sound completely assured of their direction”: Caligula’s Horse return with Charcoal Grace
- "MTV said that if Trump was in our video, they'd put it on high rotation straight away": The story of Donald Trump, $250,000, and the all-girl metal band
- "What a revelation! In-your-face, bare-boned, all Ramones, all the time, balls-to-the-wall": How Dee Dee Ramone's private teenage escape inspired a punk classic
- "What these boys never had was that one great album or hit single that could lift them into rock's premier league": Mama's Boys' Runaway Dreams is a reminder of early potential
- In the spring of 1967, the newly formed Traffic retreated to a haunted cottage to write their debut album, Mr. Fantasy. Cue in-fighting, an unhappy local with a shotgun, and incredibly strong acid
- "Abbey Road was really unfinished songs all stuck together. None of the songs had anything to do with each other, no thread at all": A track-by-track guide to the final album recorded by The Beatles
- "Why Lucifer aren't the biggest sensation since Ghost is a mystery": Lucifer's fifth album is a deliciously subversive collection of dark should-be-hits, like Stevie Nicks fronting Black Sabbath
- "The standouts here rank alongside Radiohead's best": The Smile's Wall Of Eyes hops from wonky avant-samba groove to super-nimble math-rock gyration
- January 25
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- "I'm still standing up and there's nothing you can do": Frank Turner faces down the haters on new single Do One, announces tenth solo album Undefeated
- "At one point he had me on a leash. I told him he shouldn't be afraid to jerk me around": For Alice Cooper, working with horror legend Vincent Price on his 1975 TV special The Nightmare was an absolute scream
- “Every album is different, but this one was a strange process." The Neal Morse Band's Great Adventure
- Listen to the brand new Elbow single Lovers' Leap here...
- "Everything blew up. I remember there was a store in East Village that started selling ruffled shirts and velvet jackets." Vampires, Jesus and goth going mainstream: the story of Type O Negative's Bloody Kisses
- "I'd seen Led Zeppelin, loved it, but you can't touch them: they fly away on a jet plane that says 'Led Zeppelin' on it. The Clash pulled up in a station wagon": Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan on the gig that changed his life forever
- "I thought, 'I’m gonna make a song telling people to party, but party however they want.'" How an earnest, sober young man in a grubby white t-shirt called Andrew W.K. convinced a post-9/11 world to embrace positivity with a song called Party Hard
- “At the time, we had a lot of anger, a lot of depression, the world was crazy. That song reflected what we were thinking.” How Sepultura's Refuse/Resist captured the mood of a world in turmoil - and put South American metal on the map
- "You may feel as though you've fallen down a rabbit hole the size of Texas": The Butthole Surfers' fabulously freaky early albums are being reissued
- "We weren’t lying when we said our 10th year is going to be the biggest ever!": Mogwai, Electric Wizard, Explosions in the Sky and Ihsahn among artists newly confirmed for ArcTanGent 2024
- "We cannot thank you enough for joining us on our journey." Evanescence's Bring Me To Life reaches one billion streams on Spotify
- "I kinda don't recognise myself." Corey Taylor addresses mental health concerns after cancelling North American tour dates
- Bad Omens collaborate with Poppy on new industrial metal banger V.A.N.
- “I knew how to play the whole of Misplaced Childhood when I was 12. I can’t bear to listen to it now – it reminds me of being a miserable 12-year-old”: How former Oceansize member Mike Vennart grew up and moved on
- "They didn't like the record, they didn't like our songs and they didn't like band": How Mr Big conquered record company indifference with To Be With You, the song that transformed their lives
- "I have on my rider that I need two bottles of fine red wine. I won't accept anything that costs less than 100 dollars!": Jane's Addiction on breaking up, getting back together, tour life and the lure of Beyoncé
- "What was really exciting for me was watching Paul's total respect for his band members": Giles Martin tells the inside story of the final Beatles song, Now And Then
- Bruce Dickinson shares video for Rain On The Graves, the second single from his forthcoming solo album The Mandrake Project
- "Our world is much dimmer": Woodstock star Melanie dead at 76
- January 24
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- "He's complaining the entire tour like I’m not paying enough attention to him on stage": David Lee Roth launches bizarre attack on Wolfgang Van Halen, complete with comedy voices
- "Come and celebrate the new beginning with us": The Wildhearts announce return with new lineup and one-off live show featuring "biggest production" yet
- Neil Young, Dave Matthews Band, Tedeschi Trucks Band and more announced for Bourbon & Beyond
- “When I first met Paul McCartney, it was like meeting Jesus Christ”: Ozzy Osbourne reveals the celebrities who made him feel star-struck
- Guns N' Roses launch wild animated video for recent single The General
- "We've got a problem with the other band who registered the name and are trying to stop us from going to Germany. But we are trying to deal with that now": How Nektar resurrected themselves with The Other Side
- "We've had sex a lot to HIM": Atreyu's Brandon Saller shares the 10 records that changed his life
- Paramore, Foo Fighters, Blink-182, Bring Me The Horizon and Blur amongst Brits 2024 nominations
- “I just knew Trevor Horn as a pop producer. When he turned up with a guitar, I said, ‘Is that a prop, or are you going to use it?’ We just didn’t hit it off”: How Yes’ 90125 became a triumph – despite starting with “the worst jam in history”
- “The audience just wouldn’t let us go!” Jimmy Page recalls Led Zeppelin's legendary four-night stand in Boston in January '69, the gigs that set his band up for superstardom
- Arjen Lucassen unveils Plan Nine project with Robert Soeterboek
- “After the recent sad and premature passing of Joey, it only feels right to go out and celebrate these songs." Wednesday 13 announces special UK and European tour celebrating the music of Murderdolls
- “Consider this shit shut right down right now.” Donald Trump has been using a song by The Smiths at his rallies, and Johnny Marr is having absolutely none of it
- US synth duo Zombi celebrate 20th anniversary with new studio album Direct Inject
- “We were all saying, ‘We’re gonna make this something they can never follow up.’” How Linkin Park and Jay-Z united for the ultimate metal and hip hop crossover, Collision Course
- "Bursting with ambition and energy from start to finish, Lucifer’s latest is a reminder that the Devil still has the best tunes." Lucifer's V is another knockout from the Swedish occult rockers
- The Fierce And The Dead add more live dates for October
- "It's about no longer suspecting, but knowing that this will never get any easier… in fact, it’s about to get a whole lot worse": Fat White Family are releasing a new album and it's pushed them to the limits of their very existence
- “They offer a stern challenge to newcomers… they are not a straightforward band, and their music remains almost impossible to describe”: the Residents’ prog credentials
- They're heavy music's latest masked mavericks, and they’ve sold out Wembley Arena. But who exactly are Sleep Token? We chart the rise and rise of metal’s hottest band
- "We would go out and he really never wanted anybody to know that he was a musician": The troubled life and lonely death of Peter Banks, the man once called "the architect of prog"
- "Big fan of their prawn sandwich, I must say": Status Quo have reworked Rockin' All Over The World as a "Saving All Over The Store" advert for M&S
- Ghost's infamous adult toy merch combo is back once again for a "last chance, final return" - but be quick!
- January 23
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- "I felt like it was such a unique experience that I couldn't pass up": Florida man plays Deftones and System Of A Down riffs while undergoing brain surgery
- Bright & Black's self-titled debut: members of Opeth, Meshuggah, Apocalyptica, Entombed AD and Watain unite to make epic orchestral metal
- The Residents return to the UK for more live dates
- “He listened to our first album and said, ‘I see spaceships.’ We asked him what he thought of the second album. He said, ‘More spaceships – just darker!’” There are no spaceships on The Emerald Dawn’s time-travelling album
- "We were never motivated purely by money – that idea was knocked out of us many years ago!” Landmarq and the story of Entertaining Angels
- Ozzy Osbourne will perform two final farewell shows in his beloved hometown of Birmingham: "two more shows to say goodbye"
- Metallica and Super7 are releasing a new Cliff Burton action figure
- “We are incredibly sorry to anyone we offended”: A pig’s head was thrown around in a black metal mosh pit, and people are so furious that the band have apologised
- Every Anthrax album ranked from worst to best
- “By the time I swapped over the tapes I knew I was in the stinky brown stuff. Somebody said, ‘God help us’ … the budget for the cover was cut back”: How Rick Wakeman proved everyone wrong with The Six Wives of Henry VIII
- "I'd have to go up on stage alone, playing that guitar riff, and the others would join in. It was pretty nerve-racking": The story of Message In A Bottle by The Police
- In the early 80s Australia's biggest and most dangerous band, The Angels, had the world at their feet. But their meteoric rise and tragic fall is a tale littered with chaos, controversy and death
- January 22
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- "If you think it’s just about putting make-up on your face and you can have a fifty-year career, boy, are you dreaming": Gene Simmons reflects on 50 years of Kiss
- "Music really saved my life. It was the one place I could go where there was sanity and beauty": Steve Perry on being inspired, and being an inspiration
- "If everyone could go to a psych ward for a couple of weeks, the world would be a better place": Ginger Wildheart on recovery, rejuvenation, and why the next Wildhearts album will be your favourite
- “It’s time to call it a day”: Rick Wakeman announces farewell tour and a parting instrumental epic, Yessonata
- "She's making sure that an entire generation of new music fans understand what it means to actually play music live": David Draiman tells Disturbed fans to put some respect on Taylor Swift's name
- “Us and them doesn’t exist any more”: How The Cult's Ian Astbury tried to break down genre barriers with his pre-Lollapalooza festival Gathering Of The Tribes, and claimed he got “ripped off” for his trouble
- Here are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring Kim Gordon, Chelsea Wolfe, The Jesus and Mary Chain and more
- 10 metal bands with obscenely long gaps between albums
- "This is possibly the most irresistible thrash package ever put together." Anthrax, Kreator and Testament announce UK and European tour
- “Hope everybody is ready to rock & roll with us!” The Black Crowes announce 35 shows in North America, the UK and Europe
- “She has managed to maintain her position without ever once being sucked into the creative vacuum of celebrity culture”: The less we see of Kate Bush, the more we want to know
- "Our long run has lasted far longer than any of us ever dreamed." Eagles announce UK and Netherlands dates as part of their Long Goodbye final world tour
- An Ozzy Osbourne music school with "55 years of memorabilia" is being worked on in Birmingham, according to Sharon
- New book documenting the 80s prog scene to be published in June
- "These guys are so real, beautiful and caring. That's what I love about them." Judas Priest's Rob Halford heaps praise on Metallica for their pure love of heavy metal
- New vinyl edition of Kate Bush's The Dreaming out in February
- "We walk in the door, it’s 11 o’clock at night, and he says 'Mom! I have Bruce Springsteen with me!' And she goes: ‘Who?’" This incredible Bruce Springsteen anecdote about the time he went to a fan's house proves why The Boss really is one of a kind
- "I was diagnosed with an ulcer on my 21st birthday. The doctor asked me: 'What's the problem, kid? Is there something or someone…' I said: 'Let me stop you right there. There is indeed someone'": the tumultuous story of Jellyfish
- "Led Zeppelin played to a crowd of 150,000, but no-one on the bill was looking for a big break or even a record deal": How 60s' music festivals turned a generation of blues aficionados into the first rock stars
- "There is a compelling argument that with Goodnight L.A. Magnum temporarily lost their identity and became something they were not": Goodnight L.A. by Magnum
- Watch Jack Black and Foo Fighters cover AC/DC's Big Balls in New Zealand
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including the Blackberry Smoke, Big Big Train, Joanne Shaw Taylor and more
- January 21
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- I was like, ‘I ain’t been in another band, I ain’t done this for anybody else before'”: Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders on the time he joined Iggy Pop’s band
- The 10 worst Metallica songs
- The 10 greatest slide guitar moments in rock
- "We were scared to death about working with him": The Killers on the time they recorded a song with Lou Reed
- Von Hertzen Brothers share new live clip of anthemic Sunday Child - "the heartbeat of our live show"
- “Don’t expect them to get invited back to SNL anytime soon”: Watch System Of A Down play a sweary B.Y.O.B. on Saturday Night Live and really annoy NBC
- “S for Saga, S for Saxon and it landed on Six By Six. Also, we have six arms, six legs, six eyes and and so on...” Welcome to the world of new prog supergroup Six By Six
- “To get a vote of confidence from someone we hold in highest regard was thrilling”: Shirley Manson on how Garbage got Brian Wilson’s blessing to use a Beach Boys hook in Push It
- “It went a bit off-piste, like ‘I don’t know what I’m doing now… but I like this!”: Bill Bailey on his first ever gig
- “We were the original bearded pirates. Nobody gave us a chance”: the epic story of how Whitesnake became the greatest blues rock band of the early 80s
- Irish language hip-hop trio Kneecap have Michael Fassbender in their biopic, and a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and they haven't even released their debut album yet
- “We knew a transplant would be very risky. He said, ‘I’ll either walk out of the hospital or I’ll be carried out. I can’t take it any more’.” Mama’s Boys looked set to break America in the '80s, but naivety, bad luck and family tragedy broke their hearts
- Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong: Lars Ulrich is a great drummer
- January 20
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- “I didn’t want to record the best progressive album of all time, I just wanted to have fun." How Riverside made ID.Entity
- “Had I known I was going to create a piece of history, I would have approached things differently”: how Only Child made one of the greatest cult hard rock debut albums ever
- "I'm like, 'Does he really want me to play him the album or is he just being nice to me, like some son-in-law type thing?”: Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig on having Quincy Jones as a father-in-law
- The 10 best cover songs by nu metal bands
- “We might have blown our wad on our first single!” Mudhoney’s Mark Arm on the making of their classic debut Touch Me I’m Sick
- Steven Wilson's Inclination gets remixed into nine minutes of cosmic Balearic beat
- “He just showed up and didn’t sit with us or anything”: The inside story of Jason Newsted’s final Metallica show
- “It’s no wonder the lyrics are maudlin, but despite the difficulty of its creation, it’s still worthy of celebration”: Damnation is the Opeth album that works best on vinyl
- 8 totally obscure AOR albums that should have been huge
- “I said, ‘Let’s take a little drive’ and we drove down to Basildon”: Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan on the time he took his family to where he grew up
- 10 songs that invented thrash metal, according to Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian
- January 19
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- "Saviors is the sound of reassuring rebellion from the midst of the 21st Century breakdown": Green Day's Saviors is part hurtling punkarama, part political rock drama
- "States of epic rock grace, bubbling and oozing with beauty": Swervedriver's 99th Dream emits clouds of psychedelia at every turn
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “It was like being a reporter with a notebook going, ‘No! Wow!’ It was hilarious. We had all the fun but we didn’t have to go through the lifestyle”: Martin Barre on being serious with Jethro Tull while Led Zeppelin partied
- Judas Priest stream new single Crown Of Horns
- "I don't think I'd have enjoyed a stay in a South American prison": Therapy?'s Andy Cairns has learned some important lessons from three decades in rock
- Cool new prog sounds from Lesoir, Ihsahn, Chelsea Wolfe and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week
- Jordan Rudess reunites with Dixie Dreggs for US tour
- "We got a good crowd here!" Watch a heavily-disguised Green Day busk a hard rockin' cover of Bad Company's Feel Like Makin' Love on a New York subway platform
- Jem Godfrey updates on new Frost* album Life In The Wires
- "It won’t change the face of music or knock the world off its axis, but Hell, Fire And Damnation is yet another damned fine addition." Saxon's new album emphatically ticks all the heavy metal boxes you're looking for
- "Even if you listen to a band every day, go to every show and follow their every move, they are not your friends." From Bad Omens to Sleep Token, it's time to talk about toxic fandom in metal
- "We were rivals once but it doesn't feel like there's any rivalry now. We're all on the same team, for heavy metal": Revisiting the first ever Big Four show, as Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax invaded Poland in the summer of 2010
- Jethro Tull to release Steven Wilson remix of The Château D’herouville Sessions on vinyl
- “These rebels are our own children… who masquerade at night in leather and chains yet retreat by the light of day back into the fabric of our society”: watch US TV show Tomorrow investigate the dark side of punk rock in America in 1980
- "North America shall gather in Worship once again": Sleep Token announce US and Canada tour dates, including two festival appearances
- "When I first heard it, driving round LA, it sounded great, it leapt out of the speakers": the story of The Doors' Love Her Madly
- "Towards the end it was not pretty. I scraped myself off the walls of insanity. I was barking like a dog": the last days of Deep Purple
- High-energy boogies, guitar and bass showdowns and bizarre cat noises: A beginner's guide to Ten Years After in five essential songs
- "She was a much more joyful, humorous, entertaining, alert kind of person than is generally described": The epic story of the real Janis Joplin
- January 18
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- "I want to give back to my native community": Lynyrd Skynyrd's Rickey Medlocke releases solo single in support of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
- "For me, the challenge in doing this long-form concept is for people to not tune out." How Perfect Beings made their fnal album Vier
- “Even though I go off on a tangent sometimes, I think he appreciates the melodic aspect I bring to the John Hackett Band”: Guitarist Nick Fletcher indulges himself on solo instrumental Quadrivium
- “We prefer to remain free and in control, even if the road is difficult alone. I’m also clear the record industry today is probably no longer interested in groups like ours." The trials of Lazuli and their latest album11
- “It’s a big, festering, open sewer – it’s nothing to do with music”: Watch Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson eviscerate hair metal in a 1990 interview
- “John Paul Jones kept to himself, but Jimmy Page took great delight in showing you what he’d been doing the night before”: Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson on touring with Led Zeppelin, John Bonham’s pranks and Jimmy Page’s ‘fruity’ Polaroids
- “Our drummer left for a sandwich and never came back. We heard he was found wandering in no man’s land by Canadian Mounties”: An epic guide to every Swervedriver album in the band’s own words
- Listen to Fractal, the first new Vennart music for four years!
- “Freddie goes berserk and says: ‘I’m not being constrained in my wardrobe. I will wear what the f**k I like!’”: how Queen made the groundbreaking 1981 concert movie Queen Rock Montreal
- “He started crying, and goes, You're the only one that understands me”: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong recalls the day he made his childhood hero Eddie Van Halen cry
- Jadis announce first new studio album for ten years
- Every Baroness album ranked from worst to best
- "Rock doesn’t need saving in 2024, but it’s nice to be reminded just how thrilling and relatable three chords and the truth can still be." 'Saviors' is inarguably Green Day's best album in 20 years
- “People do albums and say, ‘I just do it for myself’ – that’s absolute rubbish. No one ever really means that”: How Mike Rutherford measures his success
- "The most surreal moment of my life was when Neil Young pied me": Robert Trujillo on a year in the life of Metallica
- David Crosby: celebrating the life of a quick-witted, acid-tongued raconteur and troublemaker with the voice of an angel
- "They weren't really guitarists and couldn't really play. They could play three or four chords and had trouble with that": songwriter Desmond Child on the shortcomings of 90s guitarists
- "My success with women increased when I had Geddy Lee hair": The 10 best Rush songs ever, according to the Trailer Park Boys
- January 17
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- "Music is like skiing - you don’t have to go down the black runs with the hairiest turns to get the thrill": An interview with late Eagles founder Glenn Frey
- "He'll tell you I pushed him more than I needed to, and he's probably right": Mick Jones looks back at the Foreigner single that helped invent the 80s
- "We saved a lot of our favourite mementos, candid pics, and dirtiest souvenirs": Mötley Crüe have launched what they're calling "the world's most notorious museum"
- Every No Doubt album ranked from worst to best
- “You look back and wonder what really happened there. I was asked to lie about my age and I just thought, ‘I can’t be doing this anymore.’ It wasn’t fun”: One single show rekindled Magenta singer Christina Booth’s passion for music
- "Making a split with someone after 10 years, 20 years, 30 years — there’s going to be some high highs and low lows as you begin to process it all". Chelsea Wolfe shares shadowy new single Everything Turns Blue
- Mystic Festival announces 17 more bands to join 2024 headliners Megadeth, Bring Me The Horizon and Machine Head
- The 10 best cover songs by thrash metal bands
- "The Mandrake Project is possibly the maddest idea in a career full of mad ideas." Bruce Dickinson's new comic book is weird, dark, funny and far more than a rock star vanity project
- Big Big Train share video for new single, the historically themed Miramare
- “Dust off your guitar (sorry, the snare drums will have to wait for another day)”: Metallica take potshots at St Anger in new announcement
- Spiritbox are in the studio with ex-Bring Me The Horizon member Jordan Fish
- “We were insisting we’d maintain our own identity, and perform a set before Peter Gabriel joined us onstage… I’m pretty sure that’s what soured the deal!” Happy The Man’s very brief stint as Gabriel’s backing band
- The 50 best AOR albums of all time
- Those Damn Crows are flying high: they delivered one of 2023's best albums, headlined their favourite festival, and Johnny Depp knows exactly who they are
- No Doubt and Sublime to reunite for Coachella: This year's headliners also announced
- "You're so independent; you're so tough": Relive the bizarre moment Donald Trump fired Gene Simmons on Celebrity Apprentice
- January 16
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- As if the internet wasn't strange enough already, here's Gov't Mule playing a reggae version of Black Sabbath's Iron Man
- "It's like being forced by Mary Beard, wielding a vicious riding crop, to watch never-ending episodes of The Time Tunnel": Saxon's Hell, Fire And Damnation
- "All those times we shared when it was the three of us, you can't get that back": Rush's Geddy Lee looks back on his effin' life
- "Nothing lasts forever". Sleep Token wipe their social media accounts and fans are freaking out
- "Little Rope is a defiant message of perseverance from a band who never followed the rules": riot-grrrl legends Sleater-Kinney work through their grief on 11th album
- "This is more than just a song; it's a salute to a legend, a way to honor DMX's memory." Five Finger Death Punch recorded a song called This Is The Way featuring hip hop icon DMX - and we'll get to hear it next month
- "That sounds like the demons from hell are rising... I felt like I was being possessed": Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong reveals the Van Halen song which blew his nine-year-old mind, and continues to do so today
- "Mascara, lip mask, eye mask, ear plugs, travel shampoo, conditioner": Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon to release new solo album The Collective, shares disorienting new track Bye Bye
- “As a band you can be just awful and still have lots of success. But they were truly great.” The tragic story of Snot, the best lost band in nu metal history
- “Hats off to the duo for bravely naming one of their most affecting ballads after a commuter town in Surrey…delivered with a conviction that’s hard to deny”: Wilson & Wakeman’s Can We Leave The Light On Longer?
- "I don't think their IQ is very high": watch the Beastie Boys behave like obnoxious frat boy jerks on Dutch TV
- "Hunger is what keeps you alive": How nerve damage and burnout led Linnéa Olsson to embrace vulnerability and anger with Maggot Heart
- “One slide was closed down – somebody broke their nose on it”: MTV once took Alice In Chains to the deadliest waterpark in America
- "Hopefully we get more horny metal songs in 2024": Inspired by Bat Out Of Hell and the theatricality of Ziggy Stardust, Creeper have proved Sleep Token aren't the only band bringing sex appeal back to metal
- Jane Weaver streams title track of upcoming album Love In Constant Spectacle in April
- Eivør announces European tour dates for October
- How to store your vinyl: Tips and tricks on how you can keep your record collection in great condition
- "We're the only species capable of destroying itself (and all others) completely and, increasingly, it appears as though we're only too willing": Listen to Enter Shikari and Fever 333's Jason Aalon Butler collaborate on the furious Losing My Grip
- “Say goodbye to this guy and get ready for the new look”: Slipknot’s Sid Wilson teases new era for the band – but terrifies fans into thinking he’s leaving
- “It is by far the most difficult album I’ve ever worked on”: Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach gives update on long-awaited ninth record
- “Someone will send me photos of reindeer that inexplicably died in a circle and say, ‘This is so Green Lung!’ I’m like, ‘Yeah! This is working!’” How rising occult stars stumbled into a genre of their own
- "There is an obvious media shift to delete me from being the central essence of The Smiths": Morrissey thinks that dark forces are conspiring to erase his contributions to The Smiths
- The Clutch albums you should definitely own
- Amazing lost TV footage of The Sweet has been recovered after 50 years
- Robert Plant announces extensive UK tour with Saving Grace
- January 15
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- Soundgarden's Kim Thayil says the word 'grunge' was nothing but a marketing ploy
- "Mike Bloomfield came up to me at the Avalon Ballroom and says, ‘You can’t do that’. I said, ‘C’mon, Mike, you can do it, too. All you gotta do is turn this knob up to 10'": The story of Blue Cheer, the band who invented heavy metal
- "No matter what his issues may be personality-wise, he's a brilliant singer": The Black Crowes' Rich Robinson chooses the soundtrack of his life
- "I could sense the end was near": Yes bassist Billy Sherwood recalls his "heartbreaking" final conversations with his hero Chris Squire
- "It's like a song from a parallel universe!" The funkiest, grooviest Korn remix ever just dropped, and it's got a classic Black Sabbath solo stitched in
- “We are on the brink of an autocratic government, someone who is blatantly saying, If I’m president again, I’m going to be a dictator:” Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong fears for America's future
- Will Creed make new music together? Scott Stapp hopes so
- Watch this incredible YouTuber play death metal classics by Cannibal Corpse, At The Gates and In Flames on piano
- 10 metal bands’ first-ever concerts caught on film
- “I suppose what’s different is me. I’ve done a lot of exploring, particularly with Robert Fripp… Working with him was very easy, which doesn’t sit well with a lot of the public’s perceptions of him!” Theo Travis looks back
- "We are very proud of what we have achieved." Ring Van Möbius to call it a day after next album
- "People have heard it and loved it." We have an update on that Cradle Of Filth x Ed Sheeran collaboration (and we may still be waiting a while to hear it)
- "Change is good - and bold transformation is exactly what has allowed the metalcore collective to stay relevant over the years." Bring Me The Horizon show Manchester AO Arena why they're this metal generation's top dogs
- 10 heavy metal solo careers that fell completely flat
- "I owe him an apology. I'd like to sit down with him and have a beer": Extreme's Nuno Bettencourt on upsetting a member of Guns N' Roses and the guitar solo that broke the internet
- "I felt that if I didn't open myself up, then it might limit or hurt the songs": The Cold Stares look back on one of 2023's best albums, Voices
- "Bella Donna had the formula for success: a singer from huge band, a top-notch producer, and a who's who of musicians": Bella Donna by Stevie Nicks
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including the Black Crowes, the Black Keys and the Kris Barras Band
- January 14
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- "I don't think they'll ever find a cure for cancer. I don't think they want to find a cure": Roger Daltrey questions Big Pharma as he nears the end of his time at the Teenage Cancer Trust
- “You have to be all in. It’s all or nothing”: How Dave Gahan prepares for a Depeche Mode show
- 10 classic metal albums celebrating major anniversaries in 2024
- 10 amazing covers by massive metal bands that you’ve (probably) never heard
- Mudvayne's Chad Gray slams new bands for all sounding "the same"
- Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda reflects on Hybrid Theory: “I was standing on red carpets with celebrities and thinking, ‘Wow, this is so weird.’”
- Turns out, heavy metal is the last thing people want to hear at the doctor’s
- Watch Tool play Undertow track Flood for the first time in 13 years
- "Someone from the BBC said my outfit revealed ‘too much penis’. I’m not a Ken doll!": Lord Of The Lost reflect on a wild 2023
- The 10 worst Beatles songs
- “I wanted us to be the punk Monkees, the mainstream Ramones or Mötley Crüe with sneakers”: the story of Candy, the cult 80s LA glam rockers who produced a future Guns N’ Roses superstar
- “I met the man who wrote the jingle for Bodyform, which is probably the highlight of my career”: Shed Seven on the time they rerecorded their song on an advert for The Link
- 10 heavy metal bands who need to reunite in 2024
- “We’re all very temperamental in our different ways, but we’ve learned to live with that”: how Black Sabbath were reborn in the 21st century as Heaven & Hell
- “The proggiest pop song to reach the top spot since Marillion’s Kayleigh... and that only actually reached No.2”: Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know and its parent album, Making Mirrors
- The Dave Grohl albums you should definitely own
- January 13
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- “We treated them like a bunch of hairy blues wankers… I wish we’d had the sales Eliminator had!” How British synth-pop duo OMD unwittingly set ZZ Top on the path to mega-stardom
- "You’ll find out over the next couple of years what it means when Beartooth headline": Caleb Shomo on idolising David Draiman, duetting with Papa Roach and whether he'd reunite with Attack Attack!
- “Marrying a rock band to an orchestra was seat-of-the-pants stuff." The story of Barclay James Harvest's Once Again
- "Nu metal content makes people feel a part of a community": How TikTok is helping nu metal's comeback
- Theo Travis announces January live dates with Double Talk
- 8 obscure but brilliant 1970s glam rock songs
- “My first thoughts were, Well this is pretty funny!”: Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard on the emotions stirred up by revisiting the band's early days with Pearl Jam Twenty
- “To survive in this game, we had to get away from the 10-minute guitar solos”: the story of .38 Special, Blackfoot and the Southern Rock/AOR crossover
- “The film is so shocking that as soon as you hear any of the music, you’re thinking about maniacs running around causing havoc”: Mogwai’s favourite progressive movie soundtracks
- January 12
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- The best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Here are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring Sprints, Ride, Sheer Mag and more
- Gentle Giant share new video for Steven Wilson remix of Two Weeks In Spain
- Code Orange cancel upcoming headline tour and surrounding dates due to health issues: "this is the last way we intended to start this era"
- “All my life caved in. I could barely tie my shoelace let alone run my business or my life": Liam Gallagher recalls the "absolute nightmare" of life after Oasis split
- “A triumph of melodic prog which wears its influences on its sleeve, yet still sounds bold and entirely contemporary”: Cyan’s reinvention of Pictures From The Other Side
- Great new prog music you need to hear from Caligula's Horse, North Sea Echoes and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- "She's the greatest female rock voice of all time, she's untouchable": David Draiman sings Ann Wilson's praises as he duets with Heart's vocalist on new Disturbed single Don't Tell Me
- "I charged him £200 for it. It's worth about two million now": The Police's Andy Summers on the guitar he deeply regrets selling to Eric Clapton
- Happy The Man return with brand new single Only Love
- “Having a narrative stretches you… you’re having to come up with a ‘film for the ear’ to bring the lyric to life”: 49 years on, Steve Hackett returns to the concept album genre
- "We want to challenge ourselves": Code Orange are evolving beyond hardcore to grasp at something much bigger
- Whom Gods Destroy share first new music from debut album
- "A friend said this sounds like the Emperor album that was never recorded": Ihsahn is returning to his symphonic black metal roots on his new self-titled album
- "I feel like I'm hallucinating and all of a sudden I've listened to this song 15 times in a row. I called Chris Cornell and said, You're a genius": producer Michael Beinhorn on the tensions and triumph of Soundgarden's Superunknown
- Sleepmakeswaves release hilarious animated trailer for new album
- “We wrote a postscript which gives the listener the chance to choose their own end to the story… continue the cycle or give the character up to the sea”: iamthemorning’s path to Lighthouse
- "I was a little punk kid. I skateboarded. I had purple hair and dressed like a boy": How addiction, heavy metal and a Greek family in Atlanta helped build Starbenders, one of rock'n'roll's most compelling new bands
- "What most people only think of or whisper in private, Kevin would scream at the top of his lungs. That kind of honesty is rare, and it comes with a price": the chaotic story of Kevin DuBrow and Quiet Riot
- "Those three and a half minutes tell you everything you need to know about Slade": The story of the anthemic classic Mama Weer All Crazee Now
- "If this is to be the last Magnum album, they're exiting proudly, with a worthy addition to a much-loved catalogue": Magnum's Here Comes The Rain
- "Creating music is always where we find harmony together": The Black Crowes announce Happiness Bastards album, release first new song in 15 years
- January 11
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- “I’m some old fart of a rock singer and this has given me a purpose." The Who's Roger Daltrey looks back on his time working on Teenage Cancer Trust shows, says he had to "beg" bands to perform
- "My forte, my strength in Metallica, was the live show. That is all that mattered to me, everything else came second." Jason Newsted on what made him such a vital part of Metallica during his time with the band
- Steve Hackett shares video for brand new track Wherever You Are
- "We love this odd little hybrid of folk rock, early Mayhem and King Crimson!" Watch Enslaved's new video for the mesmerising Gangandi
- "You've got the Scots who are very quiet and shy, and then you've got Scots when you get a drink in them - just wild revellers... Mogwai are the best example of that": Mogwai announce new career-spanning documentary If The Stars Had Sound
- "Billy Corgan helped me through some personal struggles and has been a close friend." How Myrkur is balancing loss, motherhood and humanity
- "We learned so much from In Flames": Orbit Culture have toured with some of metal's most legendary names, now they're ready to conquer the world on their terms
- "Why didn’t you guys call me?" Ozzy Osbourne calls T-Pain's cover of Black Sabbath classic War Pigs the best ever - and T-Pain is delighted
- A new range of Slipknot Funko Pop! Vinyl figures are being released - and it includes recently ejected drummer Jay Weinberg
- "Sometimes when you're scared and your adrenaline's pumping, you just start beating the shit out of your instrument": revisiting Nirvana's electrifying 1992 appearance on Saturday Night Live
- "Steve Harris was very suspicious. He said: Why do you wanna come back?": Bruce Dickinson on rejoining Iron Maiden with a mission to "sweep away the past"
- The New Model Army albums you should definitely own
- "He was so close to death - they had to cut off his finger": Bonafide are back, and they've got some stories to tell
- "This big guy comes in like he owns the place, and we all hate him immediately": the truth about Chad Smith's audition for the Red Hot Chili Peppers
- January 10
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- "Ozzy called asking me to help him out because Randy Rhoads had died. I asked for a private jet so he’d turn me down": Michael Schenker on UFO, Scorpions, and snubbing The Rolling Stones, Ozzy and Thin Lizzy
- The 50 greatest metal EPs of all time
- Gentle Giant announce new Steven Wilson remix of The Missing Piece
- Xmal Deutschland announce reissue of Early Singles (1981-1982), frontwoman Anja Huwe shares details of debut solo album
- “He never set out to please or comfort, so we often end up with his brilliant musical mind at its best… For that, we can forgive the physical abuse of a few Hammond L-100s”: King Crimson, Marillion, Tangent members and more pay tribute to Keith Emerson
- Iamthemorning announce live show with Randy McStine as support
- "Bands need to say 'we're not doing it'": Why musicians are taking a stand on merch cuts
- "People thought our Times Square Billboard was photoshopped": Indonesian metal sensations Voice Of Baceprot reflect on their first US tour
- John Mitchell announces London show
- "He's jetlagged, he's dead, he wants to see a real ****ing circle pit!" Watch Bad Omens' Noah Sebastian join Bring Me The Horizon on stage for a ripping Antivist in Cardiff last night
- Waxahatchee announces new album Tigers Blood, shares "unromantic" love song Right Back To It
- “Is it a strange fusion that manifests and reveals itself with repeated listens? The result is the kind of weirdness that ran through the works of HP Lovecraft”: The Witching Tale’s What Magic Is This?
- "I always wanted Magnum to be an underground band, not a pop band": How Tony Clarkin wrote Magnum's first Top 40 hit, Days Of No Trust
- The Magnum albums you should definitely own
- "If we make this record and it sells, then if nothing else some of our heroes can get some royalties": The stories of the songs that powered Guns N' Roses' strangest and most understood album
- "Every single note he played could kill me with its beauty": Celebrating the life of a man regularly described by his peers as the greatest guitarist of them all, Jeff Beck
- David Bowie: curator, mentor, nurturer, counter-intuitive collaborator, hard rock lover, surfer of the zeitgeist, Tin Machine genius
- January 9
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- James Kottak, former Scorpions and Kingdom Come drummer, dead at 61
- "Shirley Bassey arrived, took off her coat and went straight into the studio. She sang and then just collapsed on the floor": an epic Jimmy Page interview
- New York City punks Bodega announce new album Our Brand Could Be Yr Life and share playful new single Tarkovski
- Magnum guitarist Tony Clarkin has died aged 77
- "We need to keep bringing new bands through": we talk to a Download Festival booker about the future of metal and running the UK's biggest rock fest
- "Not only is the quality of life getting lower, but our politics and economy are volatile". Gen And The Degenerates tackle uncertain futures on dystopian new single Kids Wanna Dance
- “You get a few people that bring notepads and binoculars, but a lot of people find the fun aspect appealing… It’s not prog because it’s silly, it’s not jazz because it’s loud and it’s not rock because it’s weird”: So what are The Aristocrats?
- "They couldn't have been nicer, and it really lifted us at a moment when we could have used the lifting": Geddy Lee reveals how Robert Plant and Jimmy Page helped Rush overcome grief and loss
- "I was like, 'I've never heard any of these songs!'" Mike Portnoy almost drummed for Nickelback
- "Phantom of the Opera is one of the reasons I’m a singer. It was like lightning from the sky." Tarja Turunen: My Life In 10 Songs
- "It’s an extension of Slayer...a follow-up to Repentless for sure." Kerry King updates us on his highly anticipated new album
- "Tell Michael if he wants to see Bubbles again, he can come to the bar": The night Bon Jovi kidnapped Michael Jackson's pet chimp
- PVRIS announce world tour dates for Europe, the UK and North America
- “The council turned the power off in the middle of Out Demons Out. We carried on, and David Bowie is happily shouting his head off with me… We both received letters from the council, banning us for life”: Edgar Broughton has mellowed, but not entirely
- The 10 best Jimmy Page riffs
- "I wanted to write an album for my 15-year-old self, growing up kind of lost, but just knowing I loved music": Sophie Lloyd on the origins of her Imposter Syndrome album
- Why you should definitely own Klaatu's debut album, and it's got nothing to do with The Beatles
- January 8
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- "Calm and casual at the soundcheck, electrified and electrifying once the venue is full": nine videos to celebrate the humble genius of Def Leppard's Steve Clark
- "We come on all kicking and screaming and for three songs we'll punch you in the face…": Ashley McBryde on making country music for rock fans
- “We can’t think of a more fitting tribute": Prince’s Purple Rain film is to be resurrected as a stage musical
- Sleep Token's Take Me Back to Eden was the most streamed metal album released in 2023 on Spotify
- Listen to an excerpt from Can's latest Live series release
- Four Ziggy Stardust-era David Bowie B-side tracks will arrive on Record Store Day as part of the new Waiting In The Sky (Before The Starman Came To Earth) LP
- Death metal veterans Dying Fetus just stole the show at a US hardcore festival, and videos of the mosh pits from their set are going viral
- "I see people hugging each other, they're crying…I love seeing that." James Hetfield and Rob Trujillo name their favourite Metallica songs to play live
- "I said to Chester, 'What do you think about just saying SHUT UP?'" Mike Shinoda explains how Rage Against The Machine inspired one of Linkin Park's most iconic moments on One Step Closer
- "You want to touch people with eclectic taste in music." Synyster Gates talks The Beatles, Avenged Sevenfold's bold new era and the artists taking alternative music forwards
- The BBC is selling off rare Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, The Beatles and er, Bathory albums from its Gramophone Library if you want to expand your vinyl collection
- "Dave Grohl said Arms Wide Open was one of the best songs ever written." Mark Tremonti on Creed, Alter Bridge, singing Sinatra and everything in between
- "It's been an incredible ride." The Who, Robert Plant, Eddie Vedder, Noel Gallagher to play final Roger Daltrey-curated season of Teenage Cancer Trust shows
- Nine Skies cancel UK tour due to 'unforeseen circumstances'
- "We couldn't be more excited." Korn announce biggest ever UK headline show at London's Gunnersbury Park with support from Denzel Curry, Spiritbox, Wargasm and Loathe
- "Neither particularly good or particularly bad. It's just bang average": Freedom At Point Zero by Jefferson Starship
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Royal Republic, The Pineapple Thief, Bob Vylan and more
- The Primus and Les Claypool albums you should definitely own
- January 7
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- Long John Baldry helped found the British blues scene, inspired Eric Clapton, discovered Rod Stewart, and gave his name to Elton John: He was also the voice of Sonic The Hedgehog's Dr Ivo Robotnik
- Del Palmer, longtime Kate Bush bassist and engineer, dead at 71
- "At some point between now and the next album there will have been a change": Tobias Forge teases the fate of Papa Emeritus IV and what 2024 might hold for Ghost
- "There used to be loads of bands like U2 and Bob Dylan who were all about politics, but apparently that’s not really the thing anymore." Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel on nu metal, tennis and the importance of caring
- "Without Black culture, hardcore wouldn’t even exist": Zulu are calling for unity and cultural recognition in the modern alternative scene
- “During the 70s, every morning I woke up and thought: ‘This could end today’”: the epic story of how the Eagles became America’s Band
- The history of Metallica as told in 10 groundbreaking gigs
- “It shows how the founding five’s skills that first bewitched in the early 1970s didn’t fade in the slightest”: Pentangle’s Reunions clamshell box
- Smashing Pumpkins need a new guitarist and literally everyone's invited to apply
- Watch animated video for Green Day's new track One Eyed Bastard
- January 6
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- “I don’t mean to sound arrogant, but we had the goods. We knew what we were doing”: how Bad Company conquered in America in the ’70s
- “We got caught up in the hype. Maybe another label would have given us a clobber round the head”: how Angel delivered a 70s pomp rock classic with Helluva Band
- “I think a lot of people are left feeling empty and isolated, with a loss of meaning and purpose. That’s something I felt the need to write about." Myrkur tells the story of Spine
- "We felt like we'd failed": SiM were one of Japan's best kept metal secrets, but after writing a song for Attack On Titan they're ready to conquer the world
- “Polyrhythms, unusual sounds from didgeridoos to sitars, bizarre song structures, people singing backwards… It’s prog with loops and breakbeats”: Orbital’s Orbital 2 (The Brown Album)
- How Syd Barrett cast a spell that lasted throughout Pink Floyd's career
- The 8 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Corey Taylor cancels North American tour: "My mental and physical health have been breaking down"
- January 5
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- 10 times bands made masterpieces late in their career
- The Pineapple Thief share impactful lyric video for Every Trace Of Us
- Metallica’s James Hetfield wants someone to put a straw on his microphone
- The 10 greatest heavy metal live performances on late-night TV
- Ace Frehley on feeling better off since leaving Kiss: "Paul and Gene have tried to destroy my reputation over the years. And unfortunately for them my new record is going to make them look like imbeciles"
- Ex-Megadeth guitarist Kiko Loureiro wanted the band to bring Marty Friedman back: “He was a part of those iconic albums.”
- "We had a wicked circle-pit with Jason Momoa, Dave Grohl and Mike Clark": Rob Trujillo talks 72 Seasons, celebrity mosh pits and what comes next for Metallica
- "You're 24 years old. Sex is all you really think about, especially being in a rock band." Jonathan Davis on the "immature" Korn track that also has his baby secretly featured in the background
- Listen to pulsating new Bring Me The Horizon single Kool-Aid
- “I didn’t have anything against guitars – I just had this idea in my head of two keyboard players using an array of instruments. Everyone said, ‘It’ll never work.’ Well, they were wrong”: The short life and lasting times of Greenslade
- "The mugger stopped by the passenger door, took up the classic two-handed shooting position, took aim, and fired his gun": What happened when The Kinks' Ray Davies was shot in New Orleans
- Tony Moore played keyboards for Iron Maiden at one show in 1977: Now he's back on the road with Steve Harris
- "The crowd was berserk, and Bruce just beaming. It was like he knew. He'd taken a massive step": Bruce Springsteen and the long road from Sunday matinees to stardom
- Backstage at the final Kiss show: Only in the pyrotechnic new issue of Classic Rock
- "The only people who weren’t into it were the other three girls in the band": Susanna Hoffs says her bandmates in The Bangles believed Eternal Flame wasn't good enough to be an album track, never mind a single
- "It's a lot heavier than you'd expect": Mike McCready on Pearl Jam's next album, working with Andrew Watt, and the state of the US
- Billy Joel announces arena and stadium dates with Stevie Nicks and Sting
- Listen to Just Another Rainbow, the first single from the new supergroup fronted by ex-Oasis vocalist Liam Gallagher and ex-Stone Roses guitarist John Squire
- January 4
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- "I thought it was a spam email when Mike reached out asking me to be part of this": Watch Mike Shinoda play Linkin Park's Castle Of Glass with six musicians who've never met one another before
- "The whole thing sounds like it was carved out of caramel and boiled in a pot with gunpowder, sunshine and jazz – mad and lovely and addictive": Was The 3 Clubmen EP the best record you missed in 2023?
- "I got tired of seeing my own face, or seeing a stranger’s opinion of me every day. I don’t think that’s healthy." Bad Omens' Noah Sebastian recently deleted all his social media, and his new interview with Metal Hammer might explain why
- He played for the Psychedelic Furs, hung out with an overdosing Phil Lynott, fingered Andy Warhol’s bullet wounds and once tipped a pint of beer over singer Richard Butler. Duncan Kilburn remembers his years of living dangerously
- “They sort of jiggled around for a while until someone found something and took hold of it and the rest went, ‘Great!’” The Cure co-founder Lol Tolhurst’s love for Can
- “People would love for there to be gossip. When you get six blokes in a room together, there will always be spats now and again…" How Ghost Of The Machine rebuilt themselves from the ashes of This Winter Machine
- "A next-generation tribute to the musical legend": an Elvis Presley hologram show is set to premiere in London
- Greenslade At The BBC collection to be released
- The new issue of Metal Hammer stars four brand new cover stars: Bad Omens, Hanabie, Lorna Shore and Scene Queen!
- "I was 12 when I heard Roundabout by Yes, and it floored me immediately!" Hasse Froberg's own musical companions
- "I didn’t recognise him straight away and my son said, 'Dad, that’s Brian Johnson!'" Nicko McBrain on playing the "stunning" Power Trip Festival, his stroke recovery and what's next for Iron Maiden
- "I just wanted to kill everybody in the room!" How Warning revitalised Skindred's career, gave us the iconic Newport Helicopter and confirmed them as British metal's greatest party band
- John Mitchell announced as new David Cross Band guitarist
- Every At The Gates album ranked from worst to best
- “Talkback microphones go to our in-ear monitors and our lighting guy… It messes with the audience’s minds. ‘If they improvised that, how did the lights know when to change?’” How Umphrey’s McGee keep their shows rolling
- "One minute they were a band you'd never heard of, then the next you couldn't get into the gigs": In 1972 the then-unknown Focus appeared on UK TV. Within a year, their guitarist was voted best player on the planet
- "I sat down on the stairs of my basement and just cried. It killed me that he wasn’t going to be there any more": The final struggle for the life of Phil Lynott
- Rage Against The Machine "will not be touring or playing live again", says drummer
- January 3
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- Watch Mike Portnoy join Umphrey's McGee onstage in Chicago for covers of Spinal Tap's Big Bottom and Rush's YYZ
- "It's basic. It's not technical by any means": Watch Brian May solo while Tony Iommi plays the riff from Paranoid
- "In our haste, the lump of hash got away and slipped down the sink drainpipe. Panic!": What happened when Jimi Hendrix created havoc and got banned by The BBC
- Watch Limp Bizkit play a gig in a car park then destroy their own drum kit
- “Kirk Hammett said, ‘Ah, Cannibal Corpse – that’s an interesting name!’” 20 legendary metal bands remember their first shows
- Former Mr Bungle member arrested as prime suspect in the murder of his girlfriend
- "I went to Rough Trade: they told me it was the worst record they ever heard in their life. Everybody else that I could get a meeting with told me the same thing": The Undertones' Teenage Kicks wasn't always considered a punk rock masterpiece
- “This is tightrope-walking without a net… it feels a bit like having him play a solo up close and personal, and who – other than certain former members of Yes, perhaps – wouldn’t want that?” Steve Howe’s Motif Volume 2
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- "Could we have found the best album of 2024 in the first few days of January?" Sprints' Letter To Self is a faultless debut that embraces the darkness like no other
- Sophie Lloyd: 10 records that changed my life
- Don't bank on Ville Valo reuniting HIM any time soon: "We haven’t really been in touch"
- Long-time Donald Trump critics Green Day offend MAGA supporters, Elon Musk and Fox News with updated American Idiot lyric criticising Donald Trump
- Could we see Ozzfest return one day? According to Sharon Osbourne: "Of course"
- “Having suffered something of an identity crisis, minor blemishes don’t stop it being their best album in decades”: Pallas’ The Messenger
- Six New Orleans blues albums you should definitely own
- "It's nice to know that England has finally risen to our cultural level": a month before Ed Sullivan, American TV began to take The Beatles seriously
- Watch teenage Irish country blues sensation Muireann Bradley cover When The Levee Breaks
- January 2
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- More than 20 minutes of unseen footage of Led Zeppelin playing live at the Pontiac Silverdome in 1977 has emerged online
- "On the Space Oddity album we had no idea what we were doing. So we tried something different, something harder": the making of David Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World
- Watch the full video of K.K.’s Priest, featuring ex-Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing, at Bloodstock 2023
- Ex-Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg walks for first time since November surgery
- Every While She Sleeps album (and one EP) ranked from worst to best
- 10 metal bands who ‘went soft’ – and were better off for it
- Dream The Electric Sleep's Matt Page announces new solo album
- "We just wanted to have fun with it." A trailer for a new Mickey Mouse horror movie has been released, less than 24 hours after a Disney copyright for the character has ended
- Marek Arnold shares new video for the folky Canterbury-esque A Time Of Mystery
- "When you bare it all, you’ve got nothing to hide." David Ellefson on the sex scandal that got him fired from Megadeth
- "It’s just a marginally horny karaoke booth." Lord Of The Lost cover everyone from Judas Priest to Lady Gaga on Weapons Of Mass Seduction - but if you're tackling such legends, you just have to do better
- “To me, it was like getting the car back on the road. The fact that we only managed to do about 10 shows before the wheels came off again was a bit of a slap from the gods”: Despite the challenges, Fairport Convention never gave up
- "I did Bat Out Of Hell thinking it was a comedy record. I did it as a spoof of Springsteen": What a career in music has taught Todd Rundgren
- 24 things to get excited about in 2024
- "As a guitar instrumental the attitude of it was totally unique in its mystery, imagination and execution": Jimmy Page pays tribute to Link Wray's Rumble and shares footage of surprise Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame performance
- "I did all that Hammer Of The Gods stuff – I lived Hammer Of The Gods!": Robert Plant looks back
- "I am writing... and it's sounding really good": Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi looks back on a "fun" 2023, and promises long-awaited box set release plus new music
- "There was this extra Dolly energy on there – and she's doing these wonderful ad libs, singing around me": Peter Frampton on Dolly Parton, Paul McCartney, and sitting down onstage
- January 1
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- "The ones I love the best are the ones where he sounds like he's falling over drunk while he's playing": Goo Goo Dolls' John Rzeznik on the soundtrack of his life
- "I want my Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. I want to find real love. I want to make more money than I ever have": Wild nights on the road with The Struts
- “I was just lost… but if you just fall to the floor and lie there, you’re just going to take a kicking. I had to stand up and fight”: When Fish made an album about the most difficult time of his life
- The 10 least popular Slipknot songs (according to Spotify)
- “Prog date? Very much no! You didn’t get too much romance at The Peel, unless you made a financial investment”: The Fierce And The Dead’s Matt Stevens recalls his favourite venue
- The Walter Trout albums you should definitely own
- The Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon: My stories of Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Jon Bon Jovi, Dave Grohl and more
- "We're progressive people who grew up in a very conservative town. We're used to bridging the divide": Brothers Osborne's new album is a celebration of freedom and inclusiveness
- "We'd sit surrounded by amps. The magic just flowed. It gave you goose-pimples": How Status Quo made Hello! and turned into Britain's hottest band of 1973
