Latest articles by Paul Brannigan
"Its perfection is that it loves the cracks that we all fall down." U2 frontman Bono on the Lady Gaga song that saved his life
"This song will be sung forever."
"I’m not an idiot." Johnny Marr reveals why he turned down a recent offer of "an eye-watering amount of money" to reform The Smiths
The reunited Oasis might be stadium-bound soon, but don't hold your breath for another iconic Manchester band returning to the stage
"This is how you make a comeback, not pandering, not acquiescing to expectations, but reconfiguring your art with fearlessness and quiet confidence."
Nine Inch Nails wow London's O2 Arena on date three of their European tour
Watch The Offspring play one of the biggest pop-punk anthems of the '90s on Jimmy Kimmel Live
The Offspring revisit one of their Smash hits on US TV
"He's going to repair the entire world." Watch the first trailer for Bruce Springsteen biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White from The Bear
Deliver Me From Nowhere chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s classic 1982 album Nebraska
Trivium announce Ascend Above The Ashes tour with Jinjer and Heriot in support
Trivium will kick off their North American tour on Halloween
Heart's Ann Wilson on the show at which everyone thought her band had been killed
Completely false rumours about the premature death of rock stars circulated long before the internet
Before she found fame fronting Blondie, Debbie Harry was in a 'baroque folk rock' band called The Wind In The Willows. Listen to the never-released Suzy Snowflake, the first professional recording she ever made
Listen to Suzy Snowflake, the first professional recording made by a pre-fame Debbie Harry
How former LA 'gangbangers' turned hip hop superstars Cypress Hill conquered America
"Those rock audiences helped grow hip-hop into one of the biggest genres"
Heart's Nancy Wilson hits out at Trump administration over use of their 1977 hit single during Washington DC military parade
"Barracuda was played without permission or authorization from us"
"This is so beautiful." Turnstile fly high in the summer rain with superb headline performance at Outbreak London
Turnstile Summer is officially go, as the Baltimore hardcore crew smash it at Outbreak festival in east London
Watch Nine Inch Nails play Closer, Head Like A Hole and Hurt on the opening night of their Peel It Back world tour
Nine Inch Nails played their first live show since 2022 last night, June 15, in Dublin. Watch footage, and see the setlist, here
"Once you hear their stories, it's hard to not love them." Metallica pay tribute to the "deep emotional human stories" shared by fans
Metallica Saved My Life premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival, with the band and director Jonas Åkerlund in attendance
The world's first Ozzy Osbourne exhibition will open in Black Sabbath's hometown, Birmingham, this summer
Working Class Hero, the first exhibition dedicated to Ozzy Osbourne's storied career, will be hosted at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Watch Muse premiere new single Unravelling on the opening night of their European tour
Muse are back in business
Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit video has now been viewed more than two billion times on YouTube
"The video was probably the key element in Smells Like Teen Spirit becoming a hit." Dave Grohl
"Edge left the band. He was feeling that he couldn't serve both god and man. I decided I couldn't either. So we both quit."
Fears that Christianity was incompatible with life in a rock band caused much soul-searching for U2 in the early '80s, and almost led the band to break up
Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson dead at 82
The death of Brian Wilson, founding member and primary songwriter of the Beach Boys, has been announced by his family
Watch Sex Pistols and Primal Scream form an impromptu supergroup while rehearsing in the same building
Ladies and gentlemen, for one night only, please welcome to the stage... Sex Scream!
Slash on Guns N' Roses' most controversial song, One In A Million
"I can’t sit here with a clear conscience and say, It’s okay that it came out."
Sharon Osbourne says that blocking Ozzy from auditioning for a blockbuster film franchise is the biggest mistake she ever made
In another reality, Ozzy Osbourne could have been a Disney film superstar, and Sharon Osbourne has some regrets
Rick Rubin tried to get Johnny Cash to record Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love
Johnny Cash's American Recordings sessions with producer Rick Rubin yielded some incredible music, but not everything worked
Turnstile announce US tour schedule for September and October
Baltimore hardcore band Turnstile will launch their American tour in Nashville in mid-September
