Captain Beefheart guitarist Jeff Cotton to release debut solo album
Jeff Cotton will release his first ever solo album The Fantasy of Reality in August
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Captain Beefheart guitarist Jeff Cotton to release debut solo album
Jeff Cotton will release his first ever solo album The Fantasy of Reality in August
Watch Benny from Abba play Foo Fighters' Learn To Fly
After Dave Grohl appears at Glastonbury in a Abba hoodie, Benny Andersson shows some love for Foo Fighters
Pink Floyd to finally release new mix of Animals in September
Pink Floyd's Animals will be available on LP, CD, Blu-ray and SACD on 5.1 for the very first time
Crowd brawl breaks out during Eagles performance of Take It Easy in London
The fight broke out in the Diamond VIP area in Hyde Park, where ticket prices started at just £399
Gene Simmons thinks Ace Frehley and Peter Criss no longer have the stamina to play a full Kiss show
The bassist doesn't feel his former bandmates are physically up to a full Kiss show in 2022
A pop music radio station in Canada is playing Rage Against The Machine nonstop and won't say why
Vancouver's Kiss Radio has been playing Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name nonstop and is ignoring caller requests to PLEASE play something else
Tommy Lee plays first full set with Mötley Crüe since breaking his ribs
Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee is finally fully back in action after breaking his ribs prior to the Stadium Tour
Listen to Iggy Pop and Danny Elfman's savage critique of celebrity and fame on Kick Me
Iggy Pop and Danny Elfman issue Kick Me as the lead single from Elfman's forthcoming Bigger.Messier. album
Jellyfish release video trailer for new vinyl box set
Jellyfish will release the seven disc vinyl box set When These Memories Fade in September
R.E.M. to re-release debut EP Chronic Town to mark its 40th anniversary
Originally released in August 1982, R.E.M.'s debut EP is getting a 40th anniversary re-release
The Metallica vs Megadeth feud is reignited on TikTok as 'Kirk Hammett' takes on 'Marty Friedman' in epic guitar battle
Kyle Norris, the internet hero we've clearly been missing, dresses up as iconic rockstars and challenges himself to guitar battles: watch 'Kirk Hammett' and 'Marty Friedman' now
Metallica cancel show due to Covid
Metallica have been forced to cancel an imminent show in Switzerland due to a member of the camp contracting Covid
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Def Leppard: the making of Diamond Star Halos and the return of the electric warriors
The setbacks Def Leppard have faced over the past 45 years would have finished off many lesser bands, but now they’re very much on the up again
Someone has reimagined a ton of metal classics in major key and the results will warm your heart
Happy Metal is a brilliant experiment that will have you hearing Metallica, Maiden and Megadeth like never before
My Favourite Things: The stuff Justin Hawkins can’t live without
“I like getting up people's noses…” Singer, songwriter and catsuit wearer Justin Hawkins of The Darkness on his love of posh clothes, creepy books and a drink that tastes like "fizzy fish & chips"
8 years after the film, Spinal Tap appeared on US TV and were fantastic all over again
Appearing on Good Morning America in 1984, Nigel Tufnell, Derek Smalls and David St. Hubbins gave the audience a hilarious reminder of the greatness of Spinal Tap
Pamela Des Barres: my stories of Alice Cooper, Robert Plant, Jim Morrison and more
Pamela Des Barres on encounters with Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Keith Moon, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix and more
Sun, Skin and saxophones: 10 things we learned at Glastonbury 2022
From Skunk Anansie’s triumphant return to Paul McCartney’s marathon headline set, Glasto 2022 was one for the history books
Fly On The Wall is the great lost AC/DC album and here’s why
Released on 28 June 1985, Fly on the Wall's five cheeky videos and hair-metal production, combined with the capture of a serial killer, put AC/DC back on the map
Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and the true story that's almost too good to be true
Was inmate Merle Haggard in the audience when Johnny Cash played at San Quentin prison?
Ghost's Tobias Forge: "Eurovision is usually the end of your career"
Ghost frontman Tobias Forge talks horror, "sicking in your mask", Glastonbury and his favourite ABBA song
The day Aerosmith changed the internet as we know it
In 1994 Aerosmith did something no other major band had ever done, and gave the world a glimpse of what was to come
Paul McCartney and Wings: the 10 best songs
Paul McCartney followed The Beatles by going back to basics with Wings and becoming a phenomenon all over again – here are 10 of the songs that got them there
The eight best new songs of right now
Our tracks of the week: eight new songs to get Baz Luhrmann overexcited
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Shinedown paint a bleak, chilling picture of the future on Planet Zero
A concept album about social media, cancel culture, and growing toxic intolerance? Step right this way!
Songbird is not the Christine McVie collection she deserves
The solo side of Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie celebrated with a solid but flawed collection
Black Stone Cherry join the ranks of the Royal Albert Hall legends
Black Stone Cherry's Live From The Royal Albert Hall… Y’all is a momentary suspension of real life in favour of incendiary live performance
Supersonic Blues Machine are the sound of modern blues in the ascendant
Littered with special guests, Voodoo Nation by Supersonic Blues Machine sets the modern blues bar ever higher
Canadian post-hardcore kings Alexisonfire have made a comeback album to be proud of
It's 13 years since Alexisonfire released Old Crows / Young Cardinals, but new album Otherness is a grand return
Brian Jonestown Massacre: still frayed, still imperfect, still out on their own
Anton Newcombe and Brian Jonestown Massacre return with another set of down-and-dirty rock’n’roll
If you like deep-thinking Canadian art-rock, then Motherhood might be for you
Motherhood's fourth album Winded explores the natural world as it mirrors human suffering
Petrol Girls' Baby is an exhilarating, incandescent rebel yell of an album
Austria-based British agitpunks Petrol Girls sharpen their hooks on third album Baby
Red Hot Chili Peppers get the funk back to basics in Manchester
What happened at John Frusciante's first UK show with Red Hot Chili Peppers in almost 15 years
Ecstatic, chaotic, intoxicating: Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis reclaims the King. But is it too good to be true?
Thought Elvis was a bloated old hack in a rhinestone-studded jumpsuit? Witness Elvis 2.0: the barrier-smashing revolutionary they tried to cancel…
Ghost at Hellfest: more menacing and seductive than ever, despite the early finish
Even with his voice failing, Tobias Forge managed to conjure up a triumphant headline set at Hellfest 2022
