
Briony Edwards
Briony is the Editor in Chief of Louder and is in charge of sorting out who and what you see covered on the site. She started working with Metal Hammer, Classic Rock and Prog magazines back in 2015 and has been writing about music and entertainment in many guises since 2009. Her favourite-ever interviewee is either Billy Corgan or Kim Deal. She is a big fan of cats, Husker Du and pizza.
Latest articles by Briony Edwards

New documentary to chart the bizarre tale of how Jimi Hendrix ended up in Maui
By Briony Edwards published
New documentary Music, Money, Madness... Jimi Hendrix In Maui will be released later this year – along with new Live In Maui album

Listen to unreleased version of Thin Lizzy song Sugar Blues
By Briony Edwards, Scott Munro published
This previously unreleased version of Thin Lizzy's song Sugar Blues is taken from upcoming Rock Legends box set

Smash Mouth's ill-fated Sturgis Rally show linked to 100+ cases of coronavirus
By Briony Edwards published
Smash Mouth performed at the Sturgis Rally earlier this month – now it's revealed over 100 cases of coronavirus have been linked to the event

Robert Plant shares rendition of rockabilly classic Too Much Alike
By Scott Munro, Briony Edwards published
Robert Plant releases a cover of Too Much Alike featuring Patty Griffin - taken from his upcoming anthology Digging Deep: Subterranea

The Smashing Pumpkins have inexplicably gone full 80s synth pop
By Briony Edwards published
The Smashing Pumpkins release new singles Cyr and The Colour Of Love – and announce a new album is coming

The Struts nail the summer anthem of 2020 with Another Hit Of Showmanship
By Briony Edwards published
The Struts release new single Another Hit Of Showmanship – featuring The Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr on guitar

Public Enemy announce new album What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down
By Briony Edwards published
Public Enemy unveil new album What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down with a 2020 remix of Fight The Power

Orville Peck has teamed up with Shania Twain and it is a relentless parade of joy
By Briony Edwards published
Orville Peck releases Legends Never Die single featuring Shania Twain – to mark the release of Show Pony EP

The OBGMs are what punk music should sound like in 2020
By Briony Edwards published
The OBGMs announce their second album The Ends with furious new single Fight Song

Bully have just released the song of the summer that never was
By Briony Edwards published
Bully release new single Prism, the fourth track to be taken from upcoming album Sugaregg

Tropical F**k Storm's new single is what happens when pot-smoking teenage morons grow up
By Briony Edwards published
Aussie art-rockers Tropical F**k Storm release new single Legal Ghost, taken from an upcoming 7" of the same name

Idles wage war on 'fishbowl' Britain on new single Model Village
By Briony Edwards published
Idles release Model Village, the fourth single to be taken from upcoming album Ultra Mono

'Red Alert day of action' to take place in support of #WeMakeEvents initiative
By Briony Edwards published
Members of the UK's live events industry are taking part in a national day of action to highlight the 'red alert' currently facing music event staff and venues

Blink-182's new single Quarantine is where punk and the pandemic collide
By Briony Edwards last updated
Blink-182 have released new single Quarantine – a song about "the sadness, confusion, anger and frustration we are all experiencing right now"

The 12 best videos from Rammstein's depraved cinematic universe
By Alec Chillingworth, Briony Edwards published
Rammstein's 12 best videos. You probably shouldn't watch these at work – unless you work somewhere really weird

Soap in the likeness of black metal stars is the best thing you'll see today
By Briony Edwards published
The distinctive corpse paint stylings of Abbath, King Diamond and assorted members of Mayhem have been converted into soap designs – oh, and don't forget your pentagram soap dish

Alain Johannes' track-by-track to his new album Hum
By Briony Edwards published
There's Beatles tributes, loss and a whole lot of guitars on Alain Johannes' new album Hum – here he takes us through it one track at a time

Phoebe Bridgers' best song just got its very own video
By Briony Edwards published
Phoebe Bridgers has released a video for her song I Know The End, taken from her latest album Punisher

We took some of rock’s loudest women to a pub and this is what happened
By Briony Edwards last updated
To celebrate She Rocks month, we brought together nine industry figures to discuss the challenges still facing women in music, and what we can all do to tackle them

Korn release cover of The Devil Went Down To Georgia featuring rapper Yelawolf
By Briony Edwards, Dave Everley published
Following cryptic social media posts over the weekend, Korn have released a cover of the Charlie Daniels Band's The Devil Went Down To Georgia

There's a punk band made completely of robots
By Briony Edwards published
The One Love Machine Band is the freshest new punk band to come out of Berlin – and its members are made entirely of scrap metal

Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green dead at 73
By Briony Edwards, Fraser Lewry last updated
Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green, who formed the band with Mick Fleetwood in 1967, has died aged 73

Burger Records implodes and Culture Abuse cancel themselves: why are we still surprised by alternative music's sexual misconduct scandals?
By Briony Edwards published
Sexual misconduct within alternative music scenes is nothing new, and this week's revelations underline the fact it's almost always teenage girls who are most at risk
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