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How to watch the Coachella 2026 livestream: Iggy Pop, Wet Leg, Turnstile, David Byrne, Die Spitz, Interpol & Nine Inch Nails' set with Boys Noize just some of this weekend's highlights
By Scott Munro last updated
The second Coachella event of 2026 will take place this weekend - here's how you can watch the action from the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, plus line-ups and stage times

"I have been looking for that brain forever. Someone might be using it as a paperweight for all I know." The day that surrealist art legend Salvador Dalí recreated Alice Cooper’s brain using a chocolate éclair, ants and diamonds
By Paul Brannigan published
"I wasn’t exactly sure what was going on"

“I said, ‘Let’s fill the pool in. We need a Viking mead hall!’” Clive Nolan built a home venue
By Chris Wheatley published
Best known for his work with Pendragon and Arena, he’s given his passion for prog musicals a new lease of life – with practical assistance from his theatre group

How an ode to self-destructive behaviour took one Orange County band out of the clubs and onto the TV
By Simon Young published
In the late '90s, Lit were rejected by many labels until RCA spotted their potential. The band repaid the favour with an earworm of a hit single

Petition launched to save studio where Iron Maiden recorded The Number Of The Beast
By Paul Brannigan published
"If this development goes ahead, we will lose far more than a studio"

How David Bowie's Heroes became his most life-changing single
By Bill DeMain published
Although David Bowie's Berlin-period anthem Heroes was initially something of a commercial failure, it became a classic for the ages

How Mikael Åkerfeldt fell in love with prog, even though his friends hated what he was doing
By Dom Lawson published
Making up for childhood poverty, the Opeth mastermind championed classic bands of the 70s when no one else cared – which made him a strange figure on the 90s Swedish metal scene

Nazi fights, emotional Dio encounters and 40 years of Napalm Death
By Rich Hobson published
Extreme metal legend Shane Embury shares some of the wildest stories from his life in Napalm Death and beyond
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