Latest articles by Paul Brannigan
The story behind the most intense song on the most ambitious rock album of the '90s
Life isn't always easy as a perfectionist
Dave Mustaine looks back on Metallica's wild, violent early days
Metallica's early years were a wild ride
Twisted Sister cancel 50th anniversary reunion tour as Dee Snider quits
The future of Twisted Sister will be decided in the coming weeks
Turnstile vow to keep making music in solidarity with "voices that are buried"
Turnstile reaffirm their commitment to calling out injustice "in a time of heightened state violence"
Why Queen shot down Robert DeNiro's life-long dream of making a musical about Freddie Mercury's life
The story behind the Queen musical that never saw the light of day
How Faith No More lost half their audience by making the most antagonistic album “in history”
How Faith No More made ‘the least commercial follow-up to a hit record in history’
The story behind Madonna's punk rock past
Madonna has a punk rock past, and we have the receipts
How memories of a "surreal" first US trip re-lit a fire under one of Britain's best young bands
Marmozets announce first new album since 2018
Bruce Springsteen releases moving anti-ICE protest song Streets of Minneapolis
Bruce Springsteen rush-releases song "in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis"
Kneecap announce new album Fenian, share video for its first single Liars Tale
Kneecap announce UK shows around release of new album Fenian, share video for single Liars Tale
Jeff Buckley finally scores an entry on the US singles chart nearly three decades after his death
TikTok users ensure that Lover, You Should’ve Come Over finally breaches the Billboard Hot 100 chart
Dave Mustaine reveals the conversation with James Hetfield that ended Metallica's plan to release the No Life 'Til Leather demo on vinyl
Dave Mustaine understandably isn't prepared to be pressured into backing down on his contributions to Metallica's early success
"I knew something was wrong. I went to the bar and my girlfriend was there with another guy." The dagger-through-the-heart memory which inspired the biggest rock song of its generation
The story behind "the UK's alternative national anthem", inspired by heartbreak, David Bowie and Iggy Pop
The dark, twisted, brilliant but largely forgotten grunge band who could have been bigger than Nirvana
The story of the cult Seattle band who should have become superstars but couldn't catch a break
“I’ve got fame, I’ve got adulation, but I was still in the mental prison."
"It started to get very gruesome for me, it was a total train wreck"
The story behind viral hit Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head)
The story behind viral hit Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head)
Former Scorpions / Michael Schenker bassist Francis Buchholz dead at 71
"Though the strings have gone silent, his soul remains in every note he played and in every life he touched"
"We’re gonna come back – it’s gonna be bigger than Oasis."
Tenacious D's Kyle Gass on the joke which caused the group's world to crumble around them
"I’m surprised they didn‘t fire me!" Producer Michael Beinhorn on working with Soundgarden
The making of Soundgarden's fourth album was no picnic for the Seattle band
That time David Bowie feared witches under the spell of Jimmy Page had targeted him to help birth the Antichrist
A fascination with occult magic did nothing to help David Bowie's sanity in the mid '70s
The story behind one of the greatest alt. rock singles ever written
"We thought no-one would play it." The story behind one of the great '90s alt. rock singles, The Breeders' Cannonball
Violet Grohl salutes one of America's greatest-ever film-makers on new single
Listen to Violet Grohl's haunting new single What's Heaven Without You
"I gave away all my records, I started giving away my guitars, I was fantasising about my own death." The horrifying origin story behind one of the most uplifting rock songs of the '90s
Out of the darkness, light, and one of the most memorable anthems of the '90s
