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- July 31
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- Legendary drummers including Dave Lombardo and Gavin Harrison launch limited edition prints for the Teenage Cancer Trust
- Jack White announces official release of No Name, the solo album given away free in his record shops earlier this month
- Malaysia's Good Vibes Festival promoters sue The 1975 for almost two million pounds over Matty Healy's same-sex kiss
- Remastered vinyl version of Egg's 1970 debut album to be released
- “It feels good to be back!” Arch Enemy sound antagonistic as hell on new single Dream Stealer
- “Without adequate support in times of crisis, life can quickly spiral into an angry and isolated existence.” High Vis share new single Mind's A Lie, announce new album Guided Tour, 2025 UK tour dates
- Audio-Technica put a fresh spin on their range with the “ultimate beginner turntable"
- “I’ve never had a fear of expressing things." Ms Amy Birks and the story of her second album In Our Souls
- Black metal enigma Myrkur has joined King Diamond’s live band
- Bryan Ferry announces 81-track Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023
- "If people thought last season was big and wild, just wait." Jamie Campbell Bower teases 'gnarly' new season of Stranger Things, reveals bands he’s using to get back into character as Vecna
- Black metal mavens Tribulation announce Sub Rosa In Æternum album, stick with psych-rock on new single Tainted Skies
- “The chief of police came up to me in the cell and went, Is this the Englander who’s accused of beating up punks? Then he bent down and said, Good for you, mate.” Joe Strummer on the night a Clash gig turned into a bloody band versus audience riot
- “It became cool to slag off prog, but what do you think these punk musicians did when they got home? Listened to the bands they’d been having a go at”: JJ Burnel on how Caravan inspired a Stranglers track
- “I'd never even met any of the people on this record until the sessions.” English Teacher, Jane Weaver, O. and more to appear on new Speedy Wunderground compilation from producer Dan Carey
- "I don’t want to say that I have sacrificed the band or the music for The Truth, but I’ve held them both very close." Serj Tankian reflects on a life of truth, activism and System Of A Down
- “Expect an old-school heavy metal show of epic proportions!” UK stoner metal champions Green Lung announce biggest-ever live shows, Unto Others supporting
- "Hamferð probably has more crying than moshing." Meet the band exploring the Faroe Islands' complicated history through crushing, emotional doom metal
- Ne Obliviscaris remaster 2014's Citadel ahead of European tour
- Gofundme launched for family of late Spiritbox bassist Bill Crook
- "A guy's just died and here we are making this euphoric, celebratory music. It seemed a bit weird": How Def Leppard overcame tragedy and made Adrenalize
- “The unions stopped playing however far through the song you were. So I got fed up with using strings and I was really glad when the synths came in”: How Jeff Lynne steered ELO through the 80s and beyond
- Myles Kennedy releases euphoric new single Nothing More To Gain
- "I'm gonna kick your ass when we get off the stage": The night the Eagles broke up
- July 30
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- "The band were just so pumped and on it every night that it was a joy": Bruce Dickinson releases Resurrection Man video as a thank you to fans
- Ghost and Blur are battling to top the UK album chart this week
- "Linkin Park's Faint helped me get over my stage fright."The Hu's Enkhsaikhan 'Enkush' Batjargal picks the 10 songs that changed his life
- “It’s been such a treat to hear each song come back transformed!” Chelsea Wolfe announces remix EP featuring ††† (Crosses), Full Of Hell, Justin K Broadrick
- “He came backstage for a wee kiss and a cuddle.” Kneecap share their memories of meeting “massive fan” Noel Gallagher at this summer's Glastonbury festival
- “A testament to what extreme bands can achieve when they grind hard and write innovative but relatable songs.” Why Gojira at the Olympics was the most important moment for metal this century
- Pavement/Zwan/Dirty Three supergroup Hard Quartet share debut single Earth Hater, announce first US and UK shows
- I thought they’d drop us… the daft stuff made the label think it was viable”: Trifecta’s new album features Alex Lifeson, didgeridoo and Zappa nods – but Nick Beggs insists he’s no prog musician
- “We’re young, hungry, and we want to punch people in the balls”: Nu metal up-and-comers Vended announce debut album and US headline tour
- Big Big Train announce warm-up show ahead of Likes Of Us tour
- Klone return with brand new song, the anthemic, emotive Interlaced
- “The cycle of rebirth means the refinement of the soul.” Goat announce new self-titled record, share uber-funky breakbeats-driven single Ouroboros
- "I've got poop on me!" We took Kittie to a cat cafe (obviously) to ask them about their amazing comeback, the nu metal nostalgia train and surviving the music industry as a band of young women
- “The fact that I'm even alive and made it through that era living and breathing is powerful.” Royal Blood's Mike Kerr reflects on a decade in the spotlight
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- "We have been 'prog-wizards' but now it's time to show our ability to write pop choruses and catchy rock anthems": Von Hertzen Brothers to release ninth studio album In Murmuration in October
- Hammerfall singer doesn’t like being called ‘power metal’: “I think heavy metal is enough”
- “It’s French charm: you know, beheaded people.” Gojira respond to claims Olympics performance was “satanic”
- “I was always the lowest common denominator… but occasionally less can be more”: Jeffrey Hammond’s five years with Jethro Tull
- A street in Chicago has been renamed Steve Albini Way, in honour of “an eternally important worldwide representative of the global underground and experimental rock music scene”
- With a new album that "cuts right to the chase", Marcus King reflects on working with Rick Rubin, vulnerability, mental health and love and loss
- "That extraordinary voice, switching from urgency to desolation within a few bars": The Chris Cornell albums you should definitely listen to
- Freedom might be profoundly un-Googleable as a band name, but it sure looks good on a t-shirt
- "The thing to do would be to have an AI situation where David and Roger become friends again": Nick Mason's hope for the future of Pink Floyd
- July 29
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- "I really do apologise. I love you and I think you're beautiful": Ozzy Osbourne quells his unexpected beef with Britney Spears but not really
- “Headbanging in front of a billion people was a very gratifying experience!” Gojira express their gratitude for being given “the opportunity to represent the Metal community” at the Olympics
- “The 1975 are one of the most unlikely success stories of the modern era.” Your essential guide to every The 1975 album
- “I’m three years younger than Jesus. I’m just waiting to be crucified”: how Ville Valo went darker than ever on HIM’s Venus Doom
- Junction 2 Festival's Sunday brings sunshine, beats and immaculate vibes
- Listen to prog metal heroes Oceans Of Slumber's spinetingling cover of Chris Isaak classic Wicked Game
- This rock band just let fans pick their concert’s setlist – while they were performing onstage
- "It was my life for 16 years." Charlotte Wessels on having to adapt after leaving Delain
- "I was too drunk." Guns N' Roses man Duff McKagan on the "first and only" time he met Prince
- Jon Anderson shares video for brand new song True Messenger
- James Hetfield on why Metallica use their influence to give back and help the less fortunate: "There's not really a better feeling in this world than helping someone else"
- Greenslade's BBC sessions release now to be released in October
- Phil Manzanera 11-disc box set 50 Years Of Music to be released in November
- “It’s about coming to terms with being weirdos, having doors shut in our faces and being told we’re a little too strange”: Thank You Scientist on how to embrace being different
- "It really feels like we’re 18 again!" Dream Theater's John Petrucci is fired up for upcoming 40th anniversary tour
- "I remember getting offstage like, ‘I feel like Dave Grohl right now!'" From sweaty basement shows to Coachella, Madison Square Garden and Fred Durst: how Scowl became the most exciting new band in hardcore
- "Lars felt so sorry that he got us a slot on the main stage.” Apocalyptica's Eicca Toppinen on stoned soundguys, collaborating with Metallica and how they helped revolutionise both metal and classical music
- “I wanted to bring the R40 show to everyone, but circumstances have made that impossible… I didn’t have a lump in my throat until the very last show”: Geddy Lee’s feelings when there was still an even chance of a new Rush album
- July 28
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- “There was a very loud voice in my head that said, You're going to be dead by your birthday unless you get clean.” Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante on his recovery from addiction
- "The songs don't sound sad until you start paying attention to the lyrics. And that may be the key to the album's success": Bruce Springsteen: Born In The USA
- “A bar for live rock music that is surely impossible to match.” Bruce Springsteen bosses it at England's national stadium
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- “It’s like Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. We can’t live with each other and we can’t live without each other”: the tangled history of Rick Wakeman and Yes
- From solo albums to The Smile and Peaky Blinders to Flea: the 10 best non-Radiohead Thom Yorke songs
- “Some albums are a natural birth. This one was definitely a breech birth. It came out kicking and screaming”: the turbulent story of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, the album that tore Genesis in two
- “The greatest Pink Floyd moments are the ones where he is in full flow”: revisiting David Gilmour’s tribute to Richard Wright on what would have been the keyboardist’s 81st birthday
- "This brilliant avant-rock band embracing mainstream pop success with wit, style, and groove-heavy swagger can still floor you": Talking Heads' seminal concert film soundtrack expanded and repackaged
- "The beauty here is how far he strays from The Who": Pete Townshend finds new ways to play old songs on Live In Concert 1985-2001
- “Getting in Angela Gossow was like throwing out your pet rabbit and getting a Rottweiler. It was a lot more brutal”: how Arch Enemy’s Wages Of Sin reinvented extreme metal for the 21st century
- July 27
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- “Being crazy is being free, man. Completely free!”: the unhinged story of System Of A Down’s Hypnotize, the last album they might ever make
- “Maynard had this fifty-yard stare and I was in the target zone. I thought he was ready to jump off stage and have a ruckus”: how A Perfect Circle made the funniest and most provocative rock album of the 2010s with Eat The Elephant
- Queens of the Stone Age cancel more European shows as frontman Josh Homme recovers from emergency surgery
- Fans' hopes dashed over cryptic My Chemical Romance social media posts: "Our Facebook got hacked."
- “We’ve done Jimmy justice. Whether we quit or not, we’ve done what we were put on earth to do”: how Avenged Sevenfold emerged from tragedy with Nightmare
- “Lots of people hated it at first. Fans wanted them to do Kill ’Em All 20 per cent faster”: how Metallica defied the haters and changed the course of metal with Ride The Lightning
- “If Pavarotti had come along and offered to sing Sex Action, I’d have probably said, ‘Yeah, you’re in’”: the wild tale of LA Guns, Hollywood’s most chaotic band
- Double coloured vinyl reissue of Caravan's In The Land Of Grey And Pink is out in November
- “I love people and I hate people at the same time. I’ve a lot of passion”: how Gojira took took metal in a whole new direction with L’Enfant Sauvage
- "I didn’t know that you could be signed to a major label and earning less than minimum wage": English Teacher's Lily Fontaine on how her band's success has left her feeling "incredibly cynical"
- “You can stay small but, if you have something to say, you need to utilise these things”: Why James Hetfield is glad a Metallica fan spat on him in 1989
- “It was never released because Chris thought it didn’t need him”: 20 years since The Streets’ Dry Your Eyes hit Number One, hear the unreleased version featuring Coldplay’s Chris Martin
- “We grew up with the album Crises from Mike Oldfield… The Beatles’ I Want You (She’s So Heavy) could be one of our songs”: From eco activism to maddening production values, there’s more to Gojira than you might think
- Watch Gojira in fiery performance at Olympics opening ceremony in Paris
- July 26
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- "A heavy and mysterious masterpiece that possesses the mind in a dark and decadent vortex of mystery and wonder": Listen to the soundtrack to Tony Iommi's new perfume
- “There are choruses Kurt Cobain would have been proud to write, vocal harmonies that could be Teenage Fanclub at their most sublime.” Dublin's next break-out band, Thumper, preview their killer new album at thrilling London show
- “The world is full of cowards. You see cowards a lot when you’re doing something that’s honest, because you remind people of their own dishonesty.” Remembering Sinéad O'Connor, one year on
- The 16 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "It's nice to see that people still care." How beloved thrash metallers Power Trip rose again following the tragic loss of Riley Gale to deliver 2024's most welcome surprise comeback
- Cool new prog music you must hear from TesseracT, God Is An Astronaut, Dim Gray and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- “It's very joyful, a bit sexy, a bit playful.” Watch The Last Dinner Party cover a classic Blondie single
- “We didn’t know what the future would hold, but sometimes that’s when magic happens.” How Pisces turned Jinjer into a viral sensation - and one of metal's hottest new bands
- Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell announces new album I Want Blood, featuring members of Metallica, Guns N' Roses and Faith No More, shares new single Vilified
- A Jimi Hendrix box set featuring 38 unreleased tracks recorded in the months before his death is on the way
- Watch Billy Joel sing Guns N' Roses and AC/DC classics with Axl Rose at the final show of his record-breaking Madison Square Garden residency
- "Let’s hope this supergroup is one that sticks around for a while." Current and former members of Anthrax, Machine Head, Exodus, Shadows Fall and more unite for ripping first Category 7 album
- Mystery announce Through Different Nights European weekend for May 2025
- Exodus' Jack Gibson says the music business no longer exists: "We don't sell s**t for records. If we don't go out and sell T-shirts, we don't make money. I'm a T-shirt salesman. I'm not a musician.”
- "My wife dying has given life a different meaning." Andreas Kisser and Derrick Green on reunions, new projects and the future of Sepultura
- TesseracT announce next phase of War Of Being world tour
- “Joyous, energetic, and with the sensation of exciting things to come.” Ghost’s Rite Here Rite Now soundtrack is “that Friday feeling” in musical form
- “We found out Robert Fripp listened to our music while soaking in the bath, so we asked him to play”: Dave Bainbridge on the life and times of Iona
- "A superbly crafted album": Jack Bruce's debut solo long-player Songs For A Tailor, revisited
- "Includes superior versions of weaker tracks that made the final cut": The deluxe edition of The Police's Synchronicity improves on the original
- "Cheap, rushed and ill-conceived": Bernie Tormé sounds inessential on second archive collection
- "I'm in for playing some of everyone's old favourites. I'd love to play them one last time": Bill Ward confirms he'd love to play one final show with Black Sabbath
- July 25
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- 10 awesome independent UK festivals still to come in summer 2024
- Spiritualized replace Clown Core at this year's ArcTanGent festival
- King Crimson's Jakko Jakszyk announces autobiogaphy
- French extreme metal icons Gojira to play Paris Olympics 2024 opening ceremony alongside Lady Gaga, Céline Dion and more
- “I’m super happy about the result”: Lacuna Coil are finishing their next studio album, eyeing 2024 release date
- Watch Art The Clown make a bloody snow angel in the teaser trailer for Terrifier 3, the latest sequel in the gruesome horror franchise that's had cinema audiences screaming, puking and fainting in disgust
- "The best way to be anonymous in a band is by not forming a band. Don’t do it!" How Ghost fought Hollywood to make their own blockbuster movie, Rite Here Rite Now
- Former Spiritbox bassist Bill Crook has died
- Watch Ghost’s new video for megahit Mary On A Cross, taken from movie Rite Here Rite Now
- “It’s like something Frank Zappa would do”: Serj Tankian names the classic System Of A Down song he finds “funny”
- “When the mood took them, the prog legends of the 70s could write simple but catchy music with aplomb”: The 40 greatest Yes songs ever
- "I can't believe all these people are buying a single about death!": Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Lindisfarne's Lady Eleanor was written during an overnight shift in a psychiatric ward
- Watch pro-shot footage of AC/DC playing If You Want Blood (You've Got It) for 100,000 fans in Bratislava
- "I want to say thank you for rescuing me from oblivion": Eric Clapton pays emotional tribute to John Mayall
- Michael Schenker releases epic, 11-minute version of UFO's Rock Bottom
- July 24
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- Mick Fleetwood is releasing a blues album with "the Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele"
- Pixies announce new album The Night the Zombies Came, share new single Chicken
- “Let's make some good trouble!” Jane's Addiction share new single Imminent Redemption, the first single from the original line-up in 34 years.
- “If you keep shouting with the devil, you're going to get killed": How floating cutlery and a spooked A&R rep resulted in Motley Crue changing the name of Shout At The Devil
- Watch Godflesh prove they’re one of metal’s heaviest bands with this destructive festival headline set
- “I like to be technical, I like to be fast and I like to do intricate things – but it’s always important to have the passion and the feel”: Why Kris Barras loves Planet X
- “He sent me home in a taxi with a towel”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson once threw up on Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan’s shoes
- “Every time I go on tour, I miss it a lot”: What are Babymetal’s favourite foods? We found the answer!
- “Yes, we sell out – we sell out every seat in the house, every time we play!” 11 times Metallica were accused of ‘selling out’ for ridiculous reasons
- Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi on the time three angels "saved" his life after getting into a serious car crash: "It’s been said that they saved me for a purpose, because I went on to invent heavy metal"
- French prog legends Ange's fourth album Émile Jacotey remastered and reissued
- “This track has it all!” Synthwave star Carpenter Brut returns, teams with Ulver, soundtracks American Psycho comic with Billy Idol cover Eyes Without A Face
- A new biography on the late Motorhead guitarist 'Fast' Eddie Clarke is on its way
- "They're hitting tired, bored people that want to pull their hair out and paint their face green." The teenage Kate Bush loved punk rock's energy, originality and "guts"
- Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler opens up on past mental health struggles: "Unless you’ve experienced true depression, you can’t describe it"
- See Metallica’s James Hetfield get into a firefight in trailer for western thriller The Thicket
- Pure Reason Revolution announce December UK tour dates
- Earliest known Syd Barrett painting to be auctioned
- “I had a great substitute teacher who lent me albums by King Crimson, Gentle Giant and Genesis. He had a prog band called Butt-Crack”: Rikard Sjöblom’s musical world
- "Jeff Beck's not here on the planet anymore. So we're gonna do our bit, you know?": Battlesnake are here to save humanity from mediocrity
- "It's crazy how disposable artists are in America. In Europe they treat artists with a ton more respect": Mitch Ryder on his long, schizophrenic career
- "I was left standing alone in the dark, trying to match up to these iconic singers that had gone before": The chaotic tale of Black Sabbath's Tony Martin era
- "Keep on playing the blues somewhere": British blues legend John Mayall dead at 90
- July 23
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- “I'm honoured to be here because I always represent peace.” Legendary exercise and clean-living advocate Snoop Dogg to run with the Olympic torch in Paris
- “The audience were either totally mesmerized or totally disgusted.” The night that Hüsker Dü played a single note for 35 minutes as an encore
- “Our most dynamic and powerful album to date”: Deathcore heroes Fit For An Autopsy announce new album The Nothing That Is
- "While I made the album alone, the bassist and drummer fell out with each other": The Tangent's Andy Tillison wound up arguing with himself as he created To Follow Polaris
- “Some of the riffs are really heavy and tasty”: Mastodon are hard at work making “two different projects”
- “I’m like, ‘I don’t know, man! I’m in Arizona!’” In 1993, Kurt Cobain asked Sepultura man Max Cavalera where to get heroin in Brazil
- “Finding old forgotten images from shoots done long ago has been a joy, it’s like finding treasures from a different time.” Legendary photographer Scarlet Page announces London exhibition, 30
- “You don't have to try and act cool: just be yourself and that's cool as ****.” Watch Joey Valence & Brae's joyously nostalgic video for Packapunch featuring Danny Brown
- Andy Tillison announces 'fan-only' To Follow Polaris companion album
- “I thought you might like to do a little bit of singing!” Watch Bruce Dickinson play Iron Maiden classic Alexander The Great at a solo show in Greece
- Peter Hammill announces Italian live dates for November
- Japan’s post-hardcore dynamos Envy announce first album in four years, Eunoia
- “I have a fantastic therapist who helps me”: Jay Weinberg is in counselling to “process” Slipknot exit
- “Ay, Geezer! Let’s play Villa Park!” Watch Black Sabbath’s Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler star in trailer for beloved Birmingham football club Aston Villa’s new home kit
- “I’m not a classical composer… but with a 16-piece orchestra you get a big lift that you can’t reproduce on anything else”: When Andy Mackay took Roxy Music tracks on a new journey
- "She said she wouldn't do it with anybody except Mike Tyson": The improbable story of Joan Jett's strangest photoshoot
- "Murder and mayhem never had their way, though the potential was there": A story of Moby Grape, chaos and courtrooms, acid trips and white witches
- Jon Bon Jovi masterminded one of the biggest and biggest-selling bands of his era, and became one of its biggest rock stars. But there's more – so much more
- Giants from the golden age of AOR: The REO Speedwagon albums you should definitely listen to
- July 22
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- Moby Grape co-founder and guitarist Jerry Miller dead at 81
- “I thought Syd could do no wrong. It’s so sad that he couldn’t continue with the fever he started with. ” Why David Bowie was “passionately in love with” Syd Barrett and took huge influence from his “magical" time in Pink Floyd
- "The absolute best vehicle for communicating our emotions is through the medium of stories, imagery and fantasy." The story of young UK proggers Azure
- "Don’t let this small moment in time define you." Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale's powerful message to Ingrid Andress after her disastrous US national anthem performance went viral
- "This is Sabaton for shaggers." New Powerwolf album Wake Up The Wicked is epic, catchy and brilliantly daft - like all the best power metal should be
- “I loved Yes – but for me every eight-minute Yes song could have been four two-minute singles!” It might have taken a while to admit it, but XTC know they were prog
- Ian Gillan says Black Sabbath were more "important" than Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin: "Without them there would have been no grunge or heavy metal"
- “A noose was put in my family’s garage.” Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello remembers the racism he endured as a kid
- Kevin Parker gives update on new Tame Impala album: "I think it’ll be there, soon...I’m loving how excited I am by it"
- "There’s no bad blood." An update on new Nightwish album Yesterwynde, why they still won't tour and what comes next
- "I can't do it!" Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain reveals which classic song he has to play differently live since his stroke in 2023
- Blur's Damon Albarn disagrees with Bob Dylan's phone ban at gigs: "People won’t want to be on their phone if you’re engaging with them correctly"
- "Emails were exchanged with Ian Anderson, containing something that could be described as music": Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt is unable to tell you what he'd like to tell you
- "Forever neutered after this, at least they went out with a bang": Gary Richrath shines as REO Speedwagon actually rock on Nine Lives
- “It seemed like prog had run its course… he kickstarted the second wave”: Pendragon’s Nick Barrett wants Marillion co-founder Mick Pointer to get credit for his influence
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- "The woody base of papyrus and patchouli leaves the senses longing for more in a rhythmic exchange of back and forth": Yes, Tony Iommi has released a new scent
- Rejoice! An official Ozzy Osbourne colouring book is on the way
- Looking back at their early years for inspiration, Smashing Pumpkins announce new album Aghori Mhori Mei
- Slash cancels four shows on S.E.R.P.E.N.T. tour due to unforseen circumstances
- July 21
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- Watch previously unseen videos of Chris Cornell covering Tracy Chapman's Fast Car and the Rolling Stones' Wild Horses
- “A highly consistent and often underrated catalogue”: Every Kittie album ranked from worst to best
- IO Earth "devastated" after fire destroys band's studio
- “Did we do drugs in the studio? Of course. What could be better than three or four bongs before you start recording?”: how stoner-doom kings Electric Wizard made the classic Dopethrone album
- "Blur asked about our availability and I was like, ‘This is too good an opportunity to pass up'": how Damon Albarn unwittingly got Soft Play back together
- “We were the belt-and-braces Pink Floyd – basic yobbos”: how Hawkwind boldly went where no band had gone before on psychedelic masterpiece In Search Of Space
- "I knew immediately it was a heavy-hitting song": Soundgarden on how they made Black Hole Sun
- "Imagine. Your phone rings and it's Anthony Hopkins": Anvil's career has taken them to unexpected places, but now they've got everything they ever wanted
- "I have stood on stage during some difficult situations": Journey's Jonathan Cain on band animosity, the long life of Don't Stop Believin', and why they don't play Germany
- "For me there was no message. I was just trying to write great songs": The Bryan Adams albums you should definitely listen to
- July 20
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- “We opened for bands we really hated, like Styx. People were relating to us and not them. They got a little pissed”: the stellar rise and sudden fall of The Cars, the new wave band who soundtracked America
- “They didn’t like the idea of choruses”: Lamb Of God producer reveals one of the “pop ideas” he snuck into Ashes Of The Wake
- “We’ve really fought. In one day something can blow up into a full-scale war. There’s been days I’ve quit the band”: how System Of A Down turned friction into genius with Toxicity
- Genesis studio albums to be reissued on heavyweight vinyl
- "I always say, he’s from outer space somewhere": Prince's old bandmates on the otherworldly magic of being in his crew
- 7 new progressive metal albums that break all the genre’s rules
- “We didn’t meander into obscurity and make records that I wasn’t proud of. None of that ever happened”: the epic story of Soundgarden, the superstar grunge band who didn’t want to be superstars
- "I wasn’t concerned if people who liked The Downward Spiral would like this": Trent Reznor on the making of Nine Inch Nails' epic 1999 masterpiece The Fragile
- July 19
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- The 15 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Great new proggy music you must hear from Ulver, Simone Simons, Dark Sky Burial and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- “Rory was one of the first to put Irish rock on the international stage so it’s an important item culturally.” The Irish government is hoping to acquire Rory Gallagher's guitar as a national treasure
- Slayer guitarist Gary Holt declares his love for Taylor Swift: “Why all the hate? She’s an extraordinarily hard worker!”
- XTC announce Skylarking reissue with new Dolby Atmos mix from Steven Wilson
- “Don't ever misconstrue melody with weakness. I think Thom Yorke misconstrues that. I'm not afraid of melody. Radiohead are.” Travis' Fran Healy explains why he's “frustrated” with Radiohead's Thom Yorke
- Heavy Psych Sounds Fest is returning to London, with Dozer, Black Rainbows, Lord Dying and more booked to perform
- “We are still disturbed, but not surprised, by the violence and the division and despair”: Genre-busters Ulver go full Depeche Mode on surprise new single Hollywood Babylon
- “There are qualities of grandeur and flight in her music, yet it comes across as totally unpretentious and emotionally grounded”: Remembering Sandy Denny
- Listen to Meer's uplifting new single Chains Of Changes here...
- “Maybe when we’re 120 we’ll be wheeled onstage in bath chairs and play music with the power of our brains.” Blur aren't going away any time soon
- Bruce Springsteen: The torment and triumph of Born In The USA - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- “The director lost control of the crowd and chaos ensued.” Ex-Fear Factory vocalist Burton C. Bell shares his memories of 'starring' in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit video
- “There’s going to be a feeling of loss but a huge sense of relief… I’ve had my time with them. I’m finding new friends now and they can move on”: When David Gilmour auctioned 123 of his guitars for charity
- Former Great White frontman Jack Russell diagnosed with two degenerative illnesses, announces retirement from touring
- "There's not a note out of place here, the album crafted to perfection, every breath, every drum beat, every howling guitar line": Orange Goblin attain nation treasure status on Science, Not Fiction
- "Harking back to their early-70s pomp and the early-80s MKII rebirth": Deep Purple rediscover their purpose on the invigorating =1
- July 18
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- "Flogging dead donkeys on an album that could have put him back in the saddle": Paul Di'Anno's Warhorse come up lame on occasionally triumphant debut
- “I just couldn’t relate to him at all. It was a bad time for us to have met. I could see that he was thinking, Who is this weird guy?” When David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen first met in 1974, it did not go well
- The 100 Songs That Changed Metal
- Richard Thompson replaces Trevor Horn at Cropredy Festival
- 13 unmissable Prime Day deals that are still live - grab them before they're gone
- “It’s pretty messed up, chaotic. But it feels really human.” A Place To Bury Strangers announce new album Synthesizer, with circuit board packaging which fans can use to build their very own synth
- “When you’ve got a singer that is so eaten up with jealousy for the headliner, it never goes well”: Sharon Osbourne remembers pelting Iron Maiden with eggs, still doesn’t like Bruce Dickinson very much
- The new issue of Metal Hammer celebrates 40 years of Metallica’s Ride The Lightning and the year that thrash exploded
- Every Sleater-Kinney album ranked from worst to best
- “Just like anyone who plays, you find your favourites and the others need to go!” Metallica legend Jason Newsted is selling 60 of his guitars and basses
- “The most boring family known to mankind”: Britney Spears vs the Osbournes is the newest beef nobody saw coming
- Lamb Of God go industrial rock! Hear Health’s official remix of classic Laid To Rest here
- "An ambitious blend of groove, death and nu metal elements, with frenzied Afrobeat polyrhythms." Dzikkuh proves Togo's Arka'n Asrafokor are the band every metalhead should know in 2024
- “These kids say they’ve been here before and talk about their sky parent. That’s more than a sprinkling of prog… that’s three and a half cups!” Despite being tagged as a metal band, Karnivool know the truth
- "I could have been paralyzed. I'm not exaggerating": Cherie Currie reveals how Rush almost ended her musical career
- "A perfect storm of obstacles and misfortunes": New England released one of the greatest AOR albums of all time, but their career was derailed by the Pope
- "I had never heard anything that raw and heavy and fast in my life": Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy picks the 10 albums that changed his life
- For nearly 20 years, people have asked Steven Wilson why he thinks Coldplay are wankers. Now he finally has an answer
- July 17
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- The Black Crowes announce The Happiness Bastards Tour (The Reprise)
- “I’m not really a fan of Taylor Swift. When it comes to pop icons, I would choose Billie Eilish.” Ex-Sonic Youth alt. rock icon Kim Gordon risks the wrath of the Swifties, admits “I couldn’t tell you what her music sounded like”
- Helmet announce US tour, plus UK and European dates celebrating the 30th anniversary of Betty
- “We mixed and mastered it, and then we lost Taylor. It was actually very painful for me to pick up the guitar after that.” Jane's Addiction's Dave Navarro on the 'lost' album he recorded with Taylor Hawkins and a member of AC/DC
- Start a new chapter this Prime Day with discounts on some of our favourite books about music
- Gig-goers, listen up! Score 30% off our go-to earplugs with this Prime Day Deal - ending soon
- "Placebo might play something from each of their eight albums, but it’s not a pure nostalgia-fest." Brian Molko's crew roll back the years but keep their feet firmly planted in the present at celebratory London show
- A pre-Fairport Sandy Denny collection, Early Home Recordings, to be released
- Brian Eno shares brand new video for 1991 obscurity Stiff
- "In a country with a nearly 80% Christian population, you can see the genuine social rebellion of metal in full force." Botswana death metallers Overthrust unleash another solid slab of noise with Slaves Of Myth
- The Wood Demons and Storm Deva announce joint headline show
- “He goes, ‘This isn’t as good as the first album.’ The song became a bit like a baseball, but now it’s a favourite. It was a struggle for two or three months”: How Six By Six faced down their doubts for second record Beyond Shadowland
- “I'm very, very, very, very competitive... and I've got unfinished business.” Travis' Fran Healy talks poverty, celebrity, car-jacking, insecurity, Radiohead, Coldplay, and why it's no sin to want to teach the world to sing
- Quick! These 10 Funko Pop! collectibles are going off-sale soon: Ozzy, Iron Maiden, Guns N' Roses & more
- Steve Hackett announces UK live dates for October
- Bones UK tackle chaotic relationships on new fuzz-fuelled track Fix
- "Samara from The Ring is a fashion icon!" Genre-mashing Eurovision star Bambie Thug names the five horror movies that have terrified them the most
- “Every song has an element of odd. I like to push against our audience, ourselves, our producer… and see how far that can go before it breaks”: The prog credentials of Baroness
- "Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong": Praying Mantis once vied with Iron Maiden for attention, but setbacks and bad decisions took them on a very different journey
- "I knew we were going nowhere fast and I had to get out": Triumph were on the cusp of superstardom – then they let it all go
- "You have a right to a complete show. You paid for it. If they cut the power, be my guests, do what you want": Chaos, no-shows and bomb scares on Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion tour
- "They're not gonna get anybody heavier than me, are they?": In 1971 Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant was asked how he dealt with bootleggers
- July 16
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- "Fear no longer controls me. It has been replaced by an unwavering pursuit of justice": One of Marilyn Manson's accusers has revealed her identity
- “The whole process was such an addictive musical buffet that I couldn't stop.” Frank Black to play North American, UK and European shows performing his second solo record, 1994's Teenager of the Year, in full
- These 9 Prime Day vinyl discounts will put your head in a spin - save up to 50%
- Our highest-ranked Sony PS-LX310BT turntable is on sale for a ridiculously low price this Prime Day
- “Welcome to the urban abyss”: Rising black metal favourites Gaerea release crushing single Hope Shatters, announce new album Coma and Zeal & Ardor tour
- 10 artists that defined 2000Trees festival 2024
- Swedish prog legends Ritual share video trailer for their first new album for 17 years!
- “Because Dad did his album I thought, ‘Do I really want to put this out there?’” Despite Rick’s legendary work, Oliver Wakeman includes one wife of Henry VIII in his new solo record
- Crank the volume with up to 39% off our favourite portable Marshall Bluetooth speakers this Prime Day
- Tenacious D cancel tour and seemingly enter hiatus after Kyle Gass’s Donald Trump joke: “All future creative plans are on hold,” says Jack Black
- Watch Corey Taylor cover Slipknot, Stone Sour and Spongebob Squarepants (seriously) in this pro-shot video from Rock Am Ring 2024
- Lordi’s singer isn’t a fan of modern Eurovision rock songs: “They all go in one ear and out the other for me”
- Watch Halestorm and I Prevail perform crossover single Can U See Me In The Dark? live for the first time
- Nothing Else Matters this Prime Day aside from these price drops on Metallica LPs on coloured vinyl
- The Ocean share new Nathan Fake remix of Preboreal
- Steve Howe announces new solo album Guitarscape
- Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler declares love for nu metal, Slipknot and Fear Factory: “It was amazing to see what new bands were coming out”
- Heilung announce more European Rituals for 2025
- See first photos of Metallica’s James Hetfield in new western thriller The Thicket
- “We’d arranged to do an album of new material together. He called me… ‘I’ve got cancer; do you mind if we put things on hold?’ Sadly it never happened”: Rick Wakeman’s tribute to Jon Lord
- "He did the heroin, fell down, and stopped breathing": If you want wild and dangerous tales, Johnny Winter's story has them all
- As if 2024 couldn't get any more bizarre, someone has recorded a heavy metal tribute to the Hawk Tuah Girl
- Steve Harris's British Lion announce West Coast US shows and first dates in Australia and New Zealand
- Bob Dylan announces Rough and Rowdy Ways 2024 European tour, with no cameras or phones allowed
- July 15
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- "A lot of people are going, 'Joe, he doesn't play like Eddie.' I know that – but he can": Sammy Hagar on why Joe Satriani was the only man for his Eddie Van Halen job
- “Music's most animated character is a 24/7 party animal and this sizzling soundtrack to unapologetic living is her definitive work.” This is Peppa Pig's world, we're just living in it
- Stevie Nicks' BST Hyde Park performance is "pure magic" and a "monumental outpouring of love" for one of rock's most influential icons
- Sleep Token add more dates to 2024 European tour
- Lego’s Fender Strat kit just returned to Black Friday pricing with this crazy early Prime Day deal – build a guitar icon for less
- "Science, Not Fiction is a formidable show of strength from one of the greatest bands ever to do it." Almost 30 years in, Orange Goblin have made one of their very best records - and one of the best metal albums of 2024
- “It’s been a long time in the making!' From collaborations with Napalm Death and Heilung to sojourns in Icelandic barns, dark folk enchantress Kati Rán is a songwriter like no other
- Kindred Spirit Band detail new concept album The Journey Within
- "The first time I heard Fish singing, I felt him connecting with me. The first time I heard Steve Hogarth singing, I felt he was connecting with my girlfriend": Marillion ring the changes on Seasons End
- “A lot of the music I’ve made has had the goal of achieving something similar to Yes”: Steve Howe was the middle ground between Moby and his punk-hating guitar teacher
- "I had to metal my way out of town": Someone's made a film about a hockey-playing, Dokken-loving metalhead and we're definitely up for it
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- Iconic Los Angeles recording studio the Record Plant to close its doors after more than 50 years of rich rock and metal history
- July 14
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- "It's nice to be here in Vienna. You've even got some good groupies!": Previously unseen Led Zeppelin footage finds Robert Plant in a playful mood
- "Playing live to 100 million people. It gets to you at times": The chaotic story of the day Pink Floyd hired an oil rig to play Venice and the mayor lost his job
- “Nu metal? No guitar solos! Everyone played with their pants down round their ankles… It was a bleak period, but we came through it”: how Megadeth kicked off the 2010s with the blazing Th1rt3en album
- “This will possibly be the last band that I’m in”: legendary ex-Deep Purple man Glenn Hughes says his current group could be his last
- “There was a crunching noise, as the plane hit the tarmac, and the propellers and engines flew off, along with the odd bit of wing”: the epic life and mad musical journey of Rick Wakeman, keyboard wizard and Knight Templar
- “In a world of dunces, everything bad is blamed on the devil. Yet it’s the Church who promote a lot of things that are genuinely bad for mankind”: how Ghost kicked things to the next level with Infestissumam
- “We’re basically like two guys running in a three-legged race, we’re tied together and that’s just how it is”: The Cult’s Billy Duffy on his relationship with frontman Ian Astbury
- David Lee Roth launches exuberant unplugged version of Van Halen's Mean Street on the day Sammy Hagar's tour starts
- Sammy Hagar kicks off his Best of All Worlds tour with a set stuffed with Van Halen classics - videos now online
- “I couldn’t be arsed and James said, ‘Why don’t we ask Duff McKagan?’”: Nicky Wire on the time the Guns N' Roses legend played bass on a Manics song
- "My organs began to shut down. I was travelling in the astral world. It was magic": Masters Of Reality's Chris Goss on the dark side of Rick Rubin, the bright side of Ginger Baker, and surviving the music industry
- July 13
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- Slayer's Kerry King wishes he'd cut a better deal for his solo on Beastie Boys' No Sleep Till Brooklyn: "I would be a rich man."
- “I spent a lot of time investigating cults and they’re out there. I believe that there’s more going on than we know about”: how The Black Dahlia Murder shone a spotlight on real-life human evil with Ritual
- “Bon Scott chose to hang out with us more than AC/DC. He thought they were boring”: the rollercoaster story of Y&T, the greatest hard rock band never to become huge
- “Eddie Van Halen could say: ‘I got this idea,’ and Sammy could pick up a guitar and go, ‘Yes, but what about this?’” why Sammy Hagar is the greatest guitar hero no one talks about
- “I don’t mess with mescaline any more. I did enough acid back in the day”: how Mastodon made a psychedelic prog metal masterpiece with Blood Mountain
- Five bands you must not miss at Radar Festival this year
- “They managed to have artistic integrity at the level they were operating at and were decent people”: Radiohead drummer Philip Selway on what the band learned from R.E.M.
- “I thought, if I can disguise seeing bands as work then that’ll be handy”: Stewart Lee on curating a stage at Brighton’s Psych Fest and his forthcoming new show
- “I was very pretentious. On the early albums I was writing things I thought I should write. But all I ever wanted to do was write pop songs”: how ELO conquered the planet with mini-symphonies and giant spaceships
- “Americans tried to write songs and harmonies. We didn’t care about that. We just wanted to be filthy!”: the snarling, savage story of German thrash
- “I tried to persuade Steven Wilson we should give that one a miss on the remix series!” Ian Anderson still detests the mindless sax of Jethro Tull’s A Passion Play
- July 12
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- “Christine was Harry’s girl and she was my girl, she was your girl.” Watch ex-One Direction star Harry Styles join Stevie Nicks onstage in London to pay tribute to the late Christine McVie on her birthday
- “There I was standing right in front, stoned in amazement.” Ex-Fear Factory frontman Burton C. Bell explains why his face is on the sleeve of Nirvana's final Sub Pop single
- Watch Phish, US TV talk show host Jimmy Fallon and hip-hop stars The Roots cover Aerosmith's Love In An Elevator, in an elevator
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- “It’s a myth that Sting and I fought all the time. I broke his rib once, but we were play-fighting.” Stewart Copeland on The Police's chemistry and conflicts
- Cool new proggy sounds from Lizzard, Ebony Buckle, Exist Immortal and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- "Splicing together the old and new in a way that is heavy, honest, infectious and just the right mix of chaotic and creepy." Graphic Nature turn Korn, Deftones and Slipknot influences into something fresh on Who Are You When No One Is Watching?
- The Smile cancel European tour due to serious Jonny Greenwood illness
- The 13 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “There are curious, arty diversions tucked amongst those soaring stadium anthems.” Every Coldplay album ranked from worst to best
- "The security guard opens it up, and of course in there is a sword." European folk superstars Heilung reveal some of the unique challenges that come when your live show features bones, weapons and animal bits
- "Eminem remains unable to resist humouring his darkest lyrical impulses. He just doesn't know how to properly address them." The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) is a disappointing missed opportunity
- “So many bands came through and ripped us off”: how death metal icons Obituary came in from the cold with comeback album Frozen In Time – and a little help from Andrew WK
- Former Disperse guitarist Jakub Zytecki signs to InsideOut Music
- "Stars in every sense of the word." The Killers bring glitz, glam and wall-to-wall big-hitters as they sign off their Las Vegas-style residency in London
- Big Big Train announce new live album recorded at London's Cadogan Hall
- “It’s just funny to me”: Avril Lavigne opens up on the long-running conspiracy theory that she was replaced by a body double 20 years ago
- “Anybody that doesn’t get along with John Petrucci must be a really big asshole”: Why the Dream Theater guitarist is Steve Vai’s prog hero
- Listen to Wargasm's crushing new single 70% Dead, featuring Slipknot legend Corey Taylor
- “Steeped in 60s folk and psychedelia, exponents of Latin American, African and Indian elements – rare for European prog artists”: Jade Warrior’s Borne On The Solar Wind – The Vertigo Albums
- "I don't like to write with others. I started The Cars to play music that I wrote": A Beginner's Guide to The Cars
- "There's still plenty of gas left in the tank": Mr. Big might be worn around the edges, but their energetic tenth album is as tight as ever
- "Too many tracks are more perspiration than inspiration": Van Halen's combative For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, expanded
- "The songs are not fossils. They're alive and evolving": Brian May says Adam Lambert is taking Queen's songs to places Freddie Mercury never did
- Zombies founder Rod Argent retires from touring after suffering stroke
- July 11
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- “It’s almost like we’re so preposterously uncool that somehow we became cool”: the turbulent story of Dream Theater’s Images And Words, the album that changed the face of prog metal
- Lizzard will release fifth studio album Mesh in September
- Danny Elfman sued for defamation by fellow composer after denying sexual harassment accusations
- “I thought he was very unique. He really had something crazy, something great.” How meeting infamous cult leader Charles Manson inspired Neil Young to write a song so dark that his own bandmates refused to play it live for almost 30 years
- Nevermind Prime Day, there’s 23% off the 9-disc super deluxe version of Nirvana's classic album right now
- “It’s about an underlying optimism or faith in humanity. The quotes have a positive message, even if they’re said in a fairly ridiculous way”: Public Service Broadcasting’s first small steps that led to giant leaps
- “It was great fun to let loose wearing pink wigs in ball pits and marshmallow pools”: See Charlotte Wessels (ex-Delain) and Simone Simons (Epica) team up in flamboyant Dopamine music video
- "We need to make this happen again." Cypress Hill make hip hop history with the London Symphony Orchestra (and a former member of Fear Factory) at the Royal Albert Hall
- Teeth Of The Sea announce new Get With The Program EP
- “My internal teenager’s like, ‘Jon Bon Jovi knows who I am. Oh my god!’” Lzzy Hale reacts to Bon Jovi’s leader telling her to join Skid Row
- “I went out in the crowd of 40,000 people to try and beat somebody up”: Robert Trujillo compares supporting Metallica and Guns ’N’ Roses in the ’90s
- The Killers screen England’s Euros semi-final victory in the middle of their show, celebrate with red and white confetti and fan-favourite Mr Brightside
- Von Hertzen Brothers, Solstice and Lazuli annunced as headliners for Fusion 6
- “It’s not as if Jarvis cracked Michael Jackson on the head with a baseball bat, which is what I woulda done.” Oasis had a lot of fun annoying everyone at the 1996 Brit Awards
- “Listen to Romeo And Juliet by Prokofiev. It’s one of the heaviest pieces of music you’ll ever hear”: The magic and mystery – but not genius – of Muse’s first decade
- "The show was vilified by the record companies because artists were insulted on a regular basis": In 1974 Captain Beefheart appeared on Dutch TV show Van Oekel's Discohoek: Even by his standards, it was weird
- "The best gig of all time": What happened when Van Halen played a secret show at a tiny New York club
- A guide to harmonica blues in five essential albums
- "This guitar means so much to us in Cork": The daughter of the man who sold Rory Gallagher his iconic Stratocaster in 1963 is trying to raise €1,000,000 to bring it back home
- July 10
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- Kelly Clarkson absolutely nails Aerosmith's Angel and the crowd goes wild
- Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer sued for wrongful death and negligence
- “It's a study in greed, gluttony, and dogs.” The Jesus Lizard share freaky video for second 'comeback' single Alexis Feels Sick
- “Share the joy, share the anger, bring strobes and earplugs.” Benefits announce lengthy UK tour plus European shows
- Fashion company Balenciaga is selling “distressed” festival wristbands for up to £3,700
- Rebuild the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy ahead of Prime Day with over £150 off the Star Wars Lego Millennium Falcon
- Serj Tankian explains offer for System Of A Down to replace him: “I think it would take something away… but I would be OK with it”
- Didn’t catch Ghost’s Rite Here Rite Now in cinemas? Watch the film on a global livestream next week
- "I came out in that knight costume to God Save The Queen...The Queen died like a week later.” A conversation with Joey Valance & Brae, the duo finally bringing some fun back to hip hop
- Prime Day Lego deals 2025: The big Prime Day sale has officially ended - here are the best deals still hanging around
- “She can do it all, from heartfelt ballads to in-your-face pop-punk rebel songs.” Every Avril Lavigne album ranked from worst to best
- “It’s hard to justify to friends who don’t get it that you make a living, but you’re not goddamn Led Zeppelin and not playing cover sets at the bar”: Between The Buried And Me just do what they do
- The only reason Slipknot haven’t released Look Outside Your Window yet is because it’s “timeless”, says Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan
- “Here they are! Willie’s poopie pants!” Lamb Of God vocalist Randy Blythe once went hunting for his guitarist’s soiled jeans in the woods and made a short film about it
- "We've been trying to invite Peter Frampton!" Cypress Hill discuss bringing one of the Simpsons' most iconic jokes to life by performing with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall
- Hear Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall savagely guest on new In Hearts Wake song The Flood (Justice)
- Mick Fleetwood "would love to see a healing" between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, says their renewed friendship doesn't need to result in a Fleetwood Mac tour
- “Drugs at our age? You don’t have to take them forever. Once you’ve opened the doors of perception you can see what’s going on; you’ve got the ideas”: Dave Brock on Hawkwind’s late-period purple patch
- "My girlfriend had to leave the room when I played the album": The 10 records that changed Fish's life
- "Led Zeppelin left behind a body of music that defined the term 'progressive rock', but in the truest sense of the word": The case for Led Zeppelin, uncrowned kings of prog rock
- "I think that was his statement to me": Sammy Hagar took Alex Van Halen's recent sale of his musical equipment personally
- "It felt like maybe you couldn't breathe, and maybe you wouldn’t make it through the night": Eddie Vedder opens up on alarming illness that led to the cancellation of three Pearl Jam shows
- July 9
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- Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd's The Moon And The Melodies to be reissued on vinyl in August
- Damian Wilson to celebrate birthday with rare London solo show
- “It’s not a sci-fi record, it’s about life and stuff.” King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard prepare next month's Flight b741 album for lift-off with release of video for Le Risque
- “Their first couple of albums, they were a good band. After that... boring.” AC/DC's late, no-nonsense leader Malcolm Young wasn't impressed by Led Zeppelin
- 10 songs we want Sepultura to play before they retire
- "High drama, hard-hitting heaviness and gentle, spine-tingling beauty." Visions Of Atlantis have proven that 'pirate metal' is much more than a silly gimmick with the epic Pirates II - Armada
- “This one’s for anyone who has ever been gaslit to the point of breaking.” Listen to new Du Blonde single Blame, as they launch “a new era”
- This easy listening version of Tool’s Sober is oddly excellent
- “Queens are gutted we aren't able to play for you.” Queens Of The Stone Age cancel European tour as Josh Homme returns to the United States for “emergency surgery”
- Watch Eminem scream bloody murder in the gory video for killer new single Tobey
- Night Of The Prog plans to move festival to Mediterranean cruise
- “Sometimes, I take it off after the first 10 seconds, and other times, I listen to it to the end”: Metallica’s classic producer reveals up-and-down relationship with St Anger
- Mastodon have their own line of pickles now. Seriously.
- Metalcore crew Ice Nine Kills have covered Walking On Sunshine with ska punks Reel Big Fish, because why not?
- New Public Service Broadcasting album The Last Flight tells the story of Amelia Earhart's last doomed flight
- “We wanted to take a risk”: Grindcore up-and-comers Escuela Grind get groovy on new single Turbulence, announce Dreams On Algorithms album
- “I used to wake the engineer up to try again; he went home because it was driving him crazy. And I was angry because I didn’t know how to stop trying”: Jon Anderson recalls the “state of madness” that gave us Olias Of Sunhillow
- "We're five mates who get on a plane on Friday, have fun shouting at some nice people on Saturday and come home on Sunday": The low-key, hit-free career-in-reverse of Cock Sparrer
- "Possibly the most beautiful guitar instrumental of all time": The Harem Scarem albums you should definitely listen to
- "He's in a good place, vibrationally. He has a message for Angus": In 1997 AC/DC bore witness to a seance during which contact with Bon Scott was attempted
- July 8
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- “It was alive and exciting and subversive.” Why Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones chose to work with Texan noise-punk weirdos Butthole Surfers, and what he found the two bands had in common
- "I remember looking at this battered Stratocaster and thinking, how does that come out of there?": Rory Gallagher's iconic 1961 Stratocaster is to be auctioned
- "I've learned to embrace the sides of me that I used to consider darker." Maria Brink on the In This Moment album that let her explore her "eccentric" side
- "When he sees all his uncles backstage in the masks, he loves it, he’s not scared": Kelly Osbourne's 1-year-old son finds Sid Wilson's Slipknot mask "so hilarious"
- One of our highest-rated Audio-Technica turntables just dropped in price ahead of Prime Day – get £80 off this ultra-stable, direct drive deck
- Shawn 'Clown' Crahan believes Slipknot's next album will be "widely accepted" by fans, has "a really, really spiritual feeling" about it
- "You’re going to have to prioritize staying clean over everything else." The vital advice Guns N' Roses legend Slash gave Lamb Of God's Mark Morton on kicking addiction
- "He was my hero." HIM legend Ville Valo reveals the iconic goth film character that inspired him
- "When the time is right, put us in a coffin and fire up those avatars": Nikki Sixx is up for Mötley Crüe continuing as avatars once the band are dead
- "The amount of sugar in the lyrics could kill a whole army": Winger attempt to tweak the hard rock formula on their debut album with mixed results
- “Nobody was more surprised than I was when we started doing it, and today it’s my main activity”: Perfect but unplanned timing sent the Alan Parsons Project touring galaxies far, far away with I Robot
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- Def Leppard and Journey kick off their Summer Stadium tour: Setlists and videos
- Slash on the chemistry he felt when he and Axl reunited Guns N' Roses: "I missed him."
- July 7
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- "Girls talk to me when I play": Chris Spedding took up the guitar nearly seventy years ago and he's still in demand
- Watch video for new Suicidal Tendencies single Nós Somos Família featuring former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg
- “It suddenly escalated when a Mercedes in the car park got trashed… it belonged to the hotel manager”: the night Oasis wrecked London’s most rock’n’roll hotel and got a lifetime ban for their efforts
- "Eddie Vedder is running the shop today": the time the Pearl Jam frontman reported for duty at his local record store
- “Syd was always experimenting. He had a very open sort of mind, to an almost dangerous degree”: the truth behind the myth of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd’s original singer and psychedelic icon
- “He put on a tape, and it was OK Computer. We were there going, Oh, that’s quite good.” Travis frontman Fran Healy recalls nights out with his friends in Radiohead
- July 6
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- “There are so many bands who’ve been influenced by us, even if they don’t f***ing know it”: why the world needed death metal sickos Carcass to reunite and make Surgical Steel
- “I believe we’ve made a huge leap forward this time. This is our Radiohead moment!”: how Iron Maiden made a 21st century masterpiece with A Matter Of Life And Death
- “The pictures show a man of great power and presence, as befits a giant riffmeister.” Queen's Brian May pays tribute to his friend Tony Iommi, as Black Sabbath's guitarist unveils career-spanning photo book
- “We used to cover Problem Child in the early days. We did it two or three times in front of an audience”: we got Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott to pick his ultimate AC/DC setlist
- “I wrote a few emails saying ‘I’d like to give my songs to the public’… he wasn’t interested”: Paul Heaton tried to nationalise his back catalogue, the Tories said no
- “I was so difficult to deal with, but I wasn’t the only one in the band doing something that they shouldn’t have been doing”: how Deftones rose above turmoil and tragedy with Diamond Eyes
- “The Jilted Generation is all the kids who’ve grown up on this supposedly corrupt dance music”: revisiting The Prodigy’s era-defining second record, 30 years on
- “We were on the right track at the start, but drugs and booze made us lose our way”: the explosive story of Wild Horses, the supergroup who had it all and threw it away
- “A hint of the yodelling weirdness of Hocus Pocus might have pepped up the project… but they reckon it would be needy to try too hard, so don’t”: Focus’ Focus 12
- July 5
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- “I haven’t got **** all to say to him." Noel Gallagher isn't speaking to Dave Grohl, says the 'Nicest Man In Rock' should "wind his neck in"
- "It shocks them that a woman can achieve all that I've achieved right away." Scene Queen finds the cynicism around 'bimbocore' kinda hilarious
- The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "You move at the speed of inspiration very quickly, and so things feel very possible." Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme on the lasting impact of working with his friends Dave Grohl and Trent Reznor
- Great new proggy sounds from Swallow The Sun, Kingcrow, delving and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- Theo Travis to release hour-long duduk meditation produced by Steven Wilson
- King Crimson 1982 France concert to be released on vinyl and CD in September
- “There are people listening to Sleep Token now who started out listening to Busted.” Watch Busted discuss metal's gatekeepers, tribalism, and their hurt at being abused by the rock community when they first started
- Watch this Catholic priest perfectly play Bleed by Meshuggah on drums
- “Respectfully, I draw the line at ethnic cleansing and genocide”: System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian continues war of words with Imagine Dragons
- “I didn't tell the band, but I went to the gig and sat at the back. It was strange to see this other guy singing my lines… I really felt for him”: Michael Sadler was always going to rejoin Saga, and they knew it
- "Memorable hooks abound and no opportunity for an anthemic chorus is ignored": Kissin' Dynamite light the fuse on Back With A Bang
- "It's difficult to tell which one of the tracks on this album was improvised spontaneously": Focus veer from grandiose to sombre on expansive 12th album
- L.A. Edwards embrace heartland rock on Pie Town, but sometimes it's just too slick
- Graham Gouldman's I Have Notes: the 10cc songwriter-in-chief gets his pals in
- A beginner's guide to power pop in five essential albums
- "Auerbach and Carney have an innate gift for absorbing the plurality of rock music and turning it into something nervy, fresh and euphoric": The Black Keys albums you should definitely listen to
- July 4
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- “My knees hurt!” Metalcore legends Converge are in the studio making their next album
- The Crow 2024 director claims film is dark, violent, “scrappy indie movie”: “There’s nothing to do with Hollywood in this movie at all”
- “I couldn’t believe how enjoyable it was. They were really, really good.” West Belfast hip-hop group Kneecap's wild late-night Glastonbury performance made Noel Gallagher a new convert to the cause
- If Emily Eavis is looking for great young rock artists to play Glastonbury, look no further than the incredible modern metal scene
- Why do we make THAT face when we hear a gnarly metal riff? Science has the answer
- "I wouldn’t want to be a kid today". 23 years since P.O.D. released anti-gun violence anthem Youth Of The Nation, the song is depressingly more relevant than ever
- Elder announce new BBC sessions album
- Victrola Stream Carbon turntable review
- “We were going to be The Fabulous Stains for real.” How a cult movie featuring Diane Lane, Ray Winstone, and members of The Sex Pistols and The Clash inspired a new generation of women to play punk rock
- “When there’s a crisis, it’s musicians, actors and comedians who step up and get things done – so put us in charge”: Rick Wakeman’s election manifesto on behalf of the Progressive Rock Party
- Scottish prog metal quintet Ihlo to have debut album Union reissued by Kscope
- Watch the AI-generated nightmare that is Limp Bizkit’s new video for Turn It Up, Bitch
- "Maybe Kerry King gets in and Slayer doesn’t." Kerry King gives his take on the state of metal in 2024, and how he feels about metal not being properly acknowledged by the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
- 35 years later, James Hetfield is still amazed by Metallica’s pyro before playing One
- Watch the one and only time Babymetal ever performed 2015 deep cut Tales Of The Destinies live
- “We introduced his influence and that’s the moment we found ourselves”: Mike Oldfield is a prog hero for Gojira’s Joe Duplantier
- From cult phenomenon to commercial juggernaut and back: The ZZ Top albums you should definitely listen to
- "It's the worst album in the history of mankind": This is the soundtrack of Al Jourgensen's life
- "Rice Krispies for you and you and you!" That time the Rolling Stones were paid £400 to record a jingle for Kellogg's Rice Krispies
- David Gilmour releases chilled rehearsal footage of Wish You Were Here: Even Wesley the dog seems to find it nice and relaxing
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- Watch Def Leppard play Pyromania classic Comin' Under Fire live for the very first time - in close-up
- “We took his trousers off, gaffer-taped him to one of the girders and left him there to be photographed by Japanese tourists.” That time The Stranglers gaffer-taped a journalist to the Eiffel Tower, 400 feet off the ground
- “This is a collection of stories about betrayal, murder, injustice, and corruption.” Irish punk hero Meryl Streek announces “vicious” second album Songs For The Deceased, shares single Paddy
- Max Cavalera isn’t open to a classic Sepultura reunion anymore: “The more the time passes by, the more I feel that I don’t need to”
- “A comprehensive celebration of a band central to the rebirth of prog… impressively extensive”: Pallas’ Eyes In The Night – The Recordings 1981-1986
- Order your limited edition Kittie bundle – featuring an exclusive T-shirt
- Alt-pop megastar Aurora wants to make a metal album: “My heart wouldn’t be complete without it”
- Watch Machine Head prove their might as festival headliners in this pro-shot video of their full Hellfest set
- Held By Trees team up with vocalist Martin Smith for new EP
- "Tipper Gore, as misguided as she may have been, her heart was kind of in the right place." Inside Cover Your Ears, the thoughtful new documentary on music censorship starring Dee Snider, Chuck D, Jello Biafra and more
- “We can’t wait to play these songs for the world!” Japanese metal sensations Bridear announce UK dates of first-ever world tour
- “There’s corrupt leaders and warmongers all over the world, where do you draw the line?” Imagine Dragons respond to scathing Serj Tankian comments, defend Israel and Azerbaijan shows
- "Lars smiled: 'What do you think?' 'You need more guitar solos, that’s for sure.'" How Metallica kickstarted thrash metal and changed the game forever with a "sloppy" little demo track called Hit The Lights
- “As far as I was concerned, we were done and never going to play again”: Kerry King was as shocked as the rest of us when Slayer reunited
- “Britain is ALREADY WRECKED! How could things get any worse?” Queen's Brian May urges the UK electorate to vote for “change” at Britain's General Election on July 4
- “All the new music felt like an ice dagger through a sleeping heart”: Doom metal mavens Swallow The Sun release evocative, melodic new track Innocence Was Long Forgotten
- “It’s so nice having this youthful enthusiasm and energy. It isn’t just a bunch of grumpy old men – myself included!” How Derek Sherinian and Bumblefoot levelled up from Sons Of Apollo to Whom Gods Destroy
- "The world is on fire, and I can't get my ass out of bed": Deep Purple release chunky new single Lazy Sod
- “No clue! Couldn't say!” Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl shows up to court, refuses to be speculate on outcome
- Heart cancel remaining tour dates as Ann Wilson prepares to undergo preventive chemotherapy
- "Brian Jones picked me up and sat me on top of the fruit machine": Why I love Brian Jones, by Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman
- The precise location of The Who's mysterious concrete monolith from the cover of Who's Next has finally been pinpointed
- In 1991 a student from Akron, Ohio, won Axl Rose's apartment in Hollywood in an MTV competition: First, she had to evict him
- July 2
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- “How VIP do we gotta get? We need another hit guys!” That time Paul McCartney, Taylor Hawkins, Beck and Woody Harrelson got refused entry to a music industry party in Hollywood
- “Been working real hard on this one... thanks for flying.” King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard will release their 26th studio album Flight b741 next month
- “I love this song so much!” Beabadoobee visits Japan for the video for Ever Seen, single three from her forthcoming This Is How Tomorrow Moves album
- “I imagine there’s more unlistened to copies of Killtaker than any other Fugazi album.” Nirvana may have brought 'alternative rock' to the masses, but for Fugazi, America's greatest punk band, the fall-out proved to be “a real nightmare”
- Metal Hammer's new Ghost issue is back in stock - get yours while you can!
- 11 acts that defined Glastonbury 2024
- “When The Spirit Of Radio came on she sang every word. I knew right then she was the one”: Crown Lands’ Kevin Comeau discovered Rush at 14, forging two marriages made in Heaven
- "At times you can barely hear Gallagher over the roar of the crowd." Liam Gallagher's Definitely Maybe tour comes home to Manchester, and it's magical
- "Tobias Forge is a nerd." Rite Here Rite Now director Alex Ross Perry opens up on helping to bring Ghost's first movie to life
- "I felt like I'd been cleansed." Comedian Frank Skinner says seeing this legendary metal guitarist was "like a fabulous meditative experience"
- "I believe we have made history in the world of progressive rock.” Renaissance announce farewell US tour...
- "It’s his fault that we’re doing a record now." Kittie reveal what led them to make their first album in 13 years
- "Good God!" Watch pro-shot footage of Metallica performing Ride The Lightning in Copenhagen
- "An epic journey from light to darkness and back." Wintersun finally confirm release date and details of Time II, the Chinese Democracy of extreme metal
- “A mix of heatstroke and cannabis led to a month of terror and confusion… Writing about it probably helped but I never touched drugs again”: The Groundhogs’ prog credentials
- Billie Joe Armstrong calls Bad Nerves "the best new band in England right now" but they're ready to take on the world - even if it means living at home with mum
- "On a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time": The story of the Bruce Springsteen show that saved his career and made him a star
- "We knew how good we were. That on our day we needn't be afraid of anybody": In 1970 Free had the world in the palm of their hands... and they let it blow away
- Ticketmaster are notifying customers that their personal data may have been exposed after widely-reported hack
- July 1
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- "It's a match made on the fairway to heaven": Alice Cooper announces golf-themed radio show with pro golfer Rocco Mediate
- "My hope is that most fans of progressive music are fans of experimental stuff, so I leave it in their capable hands." How Simon Godfrey returned with Shineback
- “Peter Gabriel was forced to start slipping into this persona… If we’d not had two 12-strings to retune, would he ever have started telling all those stories?” Why so many musicians envy Anthony Phillips’ career after Genesis
- “Where are my skater boys at? Where are my skater girls at?” Watch Avril Lavigne spark wild scenes at Glastonbury performing for one of the weekend's biggest crowds
- “The UK has always been special to us, so we wanted to celebrate with you all in a big way.” Papa Roach announce biggest ever headline show at London’s Wembley Arena
- "This is what art is and this is what we do." Watch Ukrainian metallers Jinjer perform raw, intimate versions of some of their best tracks and discuss their unusual career so far
- How to rewatch Glastonbury 2025: Relive the best moments of the weekend - no matter where you are
- The hardcore community donates over $200,000 in 48 hours to GoFundMe for Sick Of It All's Lou Koller, following his diagnosis for adenocarcinoma cancer
- "If it’s energy you’re after, there’s only one place to be." Justice close out Glastonbury's West Holts stage with a thunderously heavy, effortlessly cool set for the ages
- Fender team up with Teufel to launch trio of Rockster Bluetooth speakers
- Serj Tankian on whether System Of A Down could ever continue with a new singer: "The option has always been there for the band to move on without me"
- Watch Metallica's James Hetfield and Judas Priest's Rob Halford rocking out together while watching Turnstile at Norway's Tons Of Rock Festival this past weekend
- "Syncopated lightweight pop, as if selected by algorithms for mass consumption": Imagine Dragons resolutely fail to rock on Loom
- "Tony Iommi should have dropped the name and called the band something else": Black Sabbath's least-loved album re-examined, four decades on
- “Prog? There was a university pretentiousness about it. People asked what we did and I’d say, ‘10cc music’”: However you describe it, The Original Soundtrack is a progressive landmark
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- "Everything here has a distinctly box-office feel": The Warning sound bound for the big time on Keep Me Fed
- "This collective of musicians breaths new life into established formats": Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats' lineage stretches out on South Of Here
- "It's something of a miracle that they're still plugging away in 2024": Five decades in, the metal is still good for Anvil
- "The album plays like a cohesive lost gem": Johnny Cash's buried treasure shines on eloquent Songwriter album
- "18 tracks bristling with ideas and imagination": Redd Kross come full circle on melody-stuffed eighth album
