
Paul Brannigan
A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography (Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne's private jet, played Angus Young's Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal. Having worked in various editorial roles across Louder since its inception in 2017, Paul was named Contributing Editor in 2022, and is steering Louder's editorial direction to help further establish it as an all-encompassing alternative music, culture and lifestyle brand.
Latest articles by Paul Brannigan

Sub Pop announces details of what promises to be the best record on the label since its '90s heyday
By Paul Brannigan published
Get ready for the return of cult heroes Slift

Bruce Springsteen launches his fiercest attacks yet against "criminal clown" Donald Trump
By Paul Brannigan published
The Boss was not holding back at the opening night of his new Land of Hope and Dreams tour

"I lost it. I was just screaming and swinging at people. I’m not proud of it." How Red Hot Chili Peppers made By The Way, in their own words
By Paul Brannigan published
"It’s not some champagne and caviar rock star party for us"

The day The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde met Motorhead's Lemmy
By Paul Brannigan published
"Without Lemmy, The Pretenders wouldn’t have happened"

How Linkin Park pushed themselves to the limit on Hybrid Theory and changed the face of metal
By Paul Brannigan published
In October 2000, as the nu metal revolution rolled ever onward, one band released an album that changed the game, and their lives, forever...

"Olivia Rodrigo said to my daughter, Without your mother, none of this would have happened"
By Paul Brannigan published
New books, a photo exhibition, new music and book tours, Melissa Auf der Maur is thriving

Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament on Ten, Temple Of The Dog, Mother Love Bone and working with Neil Young
By Paul Brannigan published
"We didn’t expect Ten to be a huge deal. But I guess it kinda became one"

The Black Crowes' Chris Robinson looks back on a turbulent decade
By Paul Brannigan published
The Black Crowes did a lot of growing up in the '90s

The fabulous adventures of one of America's greatest cult artists, Jesse Malin
By Paul Brannigan published
From DIY punk to major label almost-stardom, from supporting Kiss and Green Day to being honoured by (and making friends with) Bruce Springsteen, Jesse Malin's career has been a wild ride

Paul McCartney announces new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane, shares first single Days We Left Behind
By Paul Brannigan published
Paul McCartney announces 18th solo album

Mogwai summon a post-rock apocalypse In London by invitation of The Cure's Robert Smith
By Paul Brannigan published
Glasgow's finest are more than words at Teenage Cancer Trust fundraiser

Remembering Ozzy Osbourne's bizarre '90s collaboration with Miss Piggy
By Paul Brannigan published
Never heard Ozzy and Miss Piggy's take on Born To Be Wild? Lucky you

Melissa Auf der Maur on the '90s, love, loss, and her brilliant memoir Even The Good Girls Will Cry
By Paul Brannigan published
"There was a lot of pain from all the death and drugs and corporate destruction"

The day Anthony Kiedis was fired from Red Hot Chili Peppers
By Paul Brannigan published
How detox helped save Anthony Kiedis' soul, and possibly his life

Take a first look inside Oasis Live ‘25 Opus book
By Paul Brannigan published
Oasis share first images from photographer Simon Emmett's book documenting their 2025 tour

Melissa Auf der Maur's 90s rock memoir Even the Good Girls Will Cry is a frank, fearless and fabulously revelatory read
By Paul Brannigan published
You won't read a better '90s music biography than former Hole / Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur's new memoir

AFI announce UK and European headline shows
By Paul Brannigan published
Davey Havok's influential punks extend their summer in Europe

How Cillian Murphy convinced Nick Cave to re-record one of his best-loved songs for the new Peaky Blinders movie
By Paul Brannigan published
"I said, You need to call them!"

Billy Idol on his wild adventures in '80s New York
By Paul Brannigan published
"It was a post-apocalyptic place, like the bomb had been dropped and we were living in the rubble"

Fraudster earns eight million dollars streaming AI songs that no human has ever listened to
By Paul Brannigan published
US man pleads guilty to defrauding musicians and music streaming platforms

Neurosis return with stunning new album and an underground metal legend as their new frontman
By Paul Brannigan published
"This was now or never"

How a damaged teenage drug dealer channelled black days into platinum records
By Paul Brannigan published
"I knew how to fail, but I didn’t know how to win"

One of America's greatest alternative rock bands announce 40th anniversary tour
By Paul Brannigan published
Greg Dulli's men in black are back

"We jokingly called the album Commercial Suicide while we were making it." Why one of the world's biggest rock bands had to go back to "ground zero" on their riskiest and darkest record
By Paul Brannigan published
"Some reports said that it was a great record, but we should consider changing our name"
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