Latest articles by Liz Scarlett
Cyber Monday music deals 2024: The big day of sale is over for another year - but you might still find a bargain or two
Cyber Monday has closed its doors for another year and most of the deals are done. However, you might still find something if you're very, very quick
Black Friday music deals 2024: The door has closed on Black Friday, but you might still find a deal or two if you're quick
Black Friday has wrapped up until next year, but there are a handful of deals still kicking around
The time Tom Morello apologised for Rage Against The Machine accidentally creating the "misogynistic", "anti-woman" and "fratty" nu metal genre
"We made records every four years. In that gap, labels were like, ‘How can we get a band that sounds like Rage but sang about girls and showed up for video shoots?'”
"You could make the kind of sound that could bring back the balls in rock ‘n’ roll": John Lennon's eight-page letter to Eric Clapton asking to start a band with him is headed to auction
After their brief collaboration together in 1969 with the Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon had hopes of recruiting Clapton for a "revolutionary" new supergroup, one where wives and girlfriends were "welcome" on the road instead of "frowned upon"
Liam Gallagher has given a scathing response to Sex Pistols' Glen Matlock for calling Oasis "boring"
The Oasis brother has hit back at Glen Matlock with some icy words
"I’m proud and ready and more than able to take the stage again to pleasure and titillate my friends at Glastonbury": Rod Stewart confirmed to play the legend slot at Glastonbury Festival 2025
The Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? singer has been announced for Glastonbury Festival's coveted legend slot
Watch Metallica's James Hetfield playfully do his best Rob Halford impression with the help of a helium balloon during the making of St. Anger
Papa Het can't quite reach the Judas Priest frontman's high notes without a little assistance, but nevertheless he gives it his best shot in this behind the scenes clip from Metallica's 2003 St. Anger sessions
"What are you 'gonna do when you run out of all the lyrics Kurt left for you?": Watch Courtney Love take down a sexist Nirvana fan
Hole frontwoman Courtney Love keeps her cool when a fiery Nirvana fan calls in to ask some rather inappropriate, misogynistic questions on the Howard Stern show
Lambrini Girls' scathing new single Love is the anthem every person getting out of a toxic relationship needs to hear
Lambrini Girls share the tumultuous new single Love, from their forthcoming debut album, Who Let The Dogs Out
Primus are officially on the hunt for a new drummer. Could it be you?
Primus have announced a open call across the universe for a "well-mannered, affable" new drummer. Here's how to submit your application
Linkin Park to screen live performance film in cinemas in 2025
Newly-reunited nu metal giants Linkin Park are set to screen their From Zero release show in cinemas worldwide in 2025
Spiritbox announce long-awaited new album Tsunami Sea, share the ethereal new single Perfect Soul
Metalcore heavyweights Spiritbox share details of their highly-anticipated second studio album, Tsunami Sea, and unveil the new single Perfect Soul
Brian May opens up about Queen's doubts on having Freddie Mercury as their frontman in their early days: "He did a lot of running around the place and screaming his head off. So we thought, ‘Is this going work?’"
Queen guitarist Brian May reveals how the band used to find working with Freddie Mercury "a little unnerving"
The time My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way hit out at nu metal: "It set us back to the stone age...it's like a bunch of neanderthals had a microphone for 8 years and everybody had to deal with it"
In a newly-resurfaced 2007 interview, the My Chemical Romance frontman aired his ill-feelings towards nu metal, and said that he thought certain bands within the genre encouraged sexism, homophobia and "other forms of ignorance"
"People would vomit when they saw it": Shawn 'Clown' Crahan on the worst injury he ever sustained with Slipknot
Percussionist Shawn 'Clown' Crahan reveals how he lost 25 percent of his arm and opens up about that mysterious Slipknot album from 2008 that's still yet to be released
Incubus will perform Morning View in full at 2025 headline London show
Incubus are set to play their iconic 2001 album Morning View in full next year at one very special show at London's 02
Watch Bruce Springsteen open his Halloween show in Montreal with a fun cover of Ghostbusters
The Boss celebrated Halloween in Montreal with a performance of Ray Parker Jr.'s spooky chart-topper Ghostbusters alongside his full band
According to science, metal is the most “intelligent” genre of music you can listen to - and these are its most intelligent bands
Metalheads are boffins, actually, and these bands prove it
Fontaines D.C. announce headline US tour for 2025
Irish post-punk rockers Fontaines D.C. share details of their 2025 run across the US
Alex Van Halen reveals that David Lee Roth asked Eddie Van Halen to play fewer guitar solos: "He couldn’t handle the fact that Eddie was getting more attention than he was"
In his new memoire, Brothers, Alex Van Halen says that David Lee Roth was "convinced he was going to be a movie star" so didn't want the spotlight to shine too long on anyone else
"Happy Halloween for all who believe, and much love to all who don't": Black Sabbath's Bill Ward shares the eerie new poem, It's Near
Former Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward unveils his latest original poem, It's Near, in time for Halloween
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard drop new track Phantom Island and announce that they'll be heading out on tour with an orchestra
"We have an orchestra now haha"
Paul Stanley defends Kiss' "wholesome" history of groupies: "Nobody got hurt. Nobody ever walked away feeling disrespected or diminished”
Kiss' Paul Stanley says that the band had a very "wholesome" relationship with their many groupies
