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The new single from The Darkness tackles the issue of male flatulence during lovemaking
By Fraser Lewry published
Hot On My Tail comes from Dreams On Toast, the new album from The Darkness

“We embrace the spirit of early 70s prog as being the way that you should always approach music." Mastodon and their prog epic Crack The Skye
By Malcolm Dome published
In 2009 US prog metallers Mastodon released their conceptual opus Crack The Skye. It proved to be the step up to the big time the band deserved...

“It was wonderful, boring, horrible, heartbreaking": Life with Shane MacGowan
By Paul Brannigan published
The Pogues' Jem Finer recalls life in the original line-up

What Steven Wilson learned about Robert Fripp from remixing King Crimson
By Jerry Ewing published
Admitting that arrogance played a role in accepting the challenge, Wilson was left with an even greater appreciation of Fripp’s achievements

New Order’s Peter Hook hails Groundhogs’ Split
By Jo Kendall published
Long before he started playing bass, but after discovering Wishbone Ash and Curved Air, he was introduced to the pioneering power trio’s 1971 album by a future bandmate

"Thank God that genre went away." Megadeth's Dave Mustaine has no love for nu metal
By Stef Lach published
Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine pulls no punches when it comes to nu metal bands

"Friends of mine were saying, Give up on the dream, it's not happening."
By Paul Brannigan published
And the moral of Tobias Forge's story is: Don't give up on your dreams

How Roger Hodgson created Supertramp’s most ambitious song, and why he won’t say what it means
By David West published
Inspired by the Beatles, a famous piece of classical music and the post-war era, Fool’s Overture isn’t the band’s longest song – but it’s by far their most complex and intense

“We took it badly – ‘No one wants us any more!’ We’d never been through the school of hard knocks. We didn’t know what it meant to work hard”: When ELP collapsed, Carl Palmer’s career-long lucky streak ended. But he didn’t give up
By Dom Lawson published
Born into a musical family and a pro by his teenage years with a real-life education in backstage realities, the passionate drummer has seen dreams come true with Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster, Asia, Mike Oldfield and others
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