John Fogerty and George Thorogood's Celebration tour has been significantly extended
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"Sir Elton helped cover Nothing Else Matters, and tonight, you can see us return the favor!" Watch a clip of Metallica performing a rollocking cover of Elton John classic, Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, with Elton looking on approvingly
The cover song we did NOT have on our 2024 bingo card!
Dream Theater announce UK and Europe dates for 40th Anniversary tour
US prog mteal giants Dream Theater will tour Europe and the UK in October and November
"We felt like we were playing with our hands tied behind our backs. That will drive a person insane, and it did": Shirley Manson reveals how being pitched against No Doubt almost destroyed Garbage
In the early years of the 2000s the music industry decided there was only space for one female-fronted rock band, and that band wasn't Garbage
Firehouse singer CJ Snare dead at 64
The death of founding Firehouse frontman CJ Snare has been confirmed by his partner and the band
Orange Goblin announce first album in six years, confirmed as headliners of new UK rock festival
Orange Goblin's Science, Not Fiction will released in July – listen to new single (Not) Rocket Science now
Watch remastered HD footage of Bon Scott-fronted AC/DC performing Jailbreak live in London in 1976
AC/DC have released remastered high-definition video of their 1976 performance of Jailbreak in London
"We went to the promoter and said, Can we go home? They were, like, 'Yeah, you can go home! But first you're gonna have to give me two millions dollars!'": Lollapalooza '92 celebrated alt. rock taking over the mainstream. But for one band, it was hell
"We were like rabbits caught in headlights. It was just traumatic for us"
"There was more security on the catering backstage than on any band's dressing room. We were told, If they see the Hard Rock Cafe's cheeseburgers and French fries, there will be a riot": Jon Bon Jovi recalls playing in Russia for the first time
Playing the Moscow Music Peace Festival in 1989 was an eye-opening experience for Jon Bon Jovi
“It was just good to have that early on.” Tool's Maynard James Keenan reveals the essential advice punk rock legend Henry Rollins gave him at the start of his career
Maynard James Keenan has kept this piece of advice in mind ever since
Listen to Jakko Jakszyk and Mel Collins' new version of I Talk To The Wind
An all-star reimaging of King Crimson's debut album, Reimagining The Court Of The Crimson King, to be released in April
"I was very excited to get involved, it's one of my favourite books of all time": watch Muse's Matt Bellamy work on a dramatic new original score for George Orwell's 1984 at Abbey Road Studios
Take a look behind the scenes as Muse frontman Matt Bellamy works with the London Metropolitan Orchestra on the soundtrack for a new Audible version of 1984
German power metal force Powerwolf announce new album Wake Up The Wicked
Metal’s best (and only) werewolf church cult will release their next album in July
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The manager said, ‘Ian Anderson and the boys don’t want you in the band so you’ve been fired.’ I replied, ‘How can you fire me when I quit three weeks ago?’” Mick Abrahams’ life after Jethro Tull
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“The sonic aggro and infectious licks are there in spades”: For better and worse, Slash strips rock to its basest elements at Wembley Arena
Slash, Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators bring two hours of rock ’n’ roll sleaze to London, but little in the way of arena-sized spectacle
"It all becomes a bit by-numbers": Sheryl Crow fails to evolve on unambitious Evolution album
Sheryl Crow's 12th album Evolution starts strongly but soon falters
That mix that made Deep Purple great was never stronger than on Machine Head, and never clearer than it is now, on its 50th anniversary edition
This reissue of Deep Purple's 1972 album Machine Head adds remixes, Montreux and BBC live sets, audio fairy dust and more
The Gaslight Anthem get their groove back in the middle of a three-night run at London's Roundhouse
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"Nobody picks up a guitar to be the most hated band in the world." Nickelback: Hate To Love isn't likely to win over the haters, but does shine a light on why you should never bet against one of rock's most surprising underdogs
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"That the refined and regal Albert Hall feels like a home fixture for The Who, the least house-trained band of their generation, is not without irony": The Who thrill the hoi polloi at their second Teenage Cancer Trust show of 2024
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The early work of the Butthole Surfers: grotesque, distended, acid-fried, phlegm-powered, hallucinatory and brilliant
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"Nothing is off limits in a dizzying array of influences and styles mixed with the precision of a master of his craft": Gary Clark Jr hits a career high on Jpeg Raw
Texan electric blues multi-instrumentalist Gary Clark Jr's sixth album Jpeg Raw might be one of the best albums you'll hear this year
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A show 160 years in the making: Judas Priest, Saxon and Uriah Heap take to the stage in Glasgow
Rob Halford may look like Santa Claus in fetish gear, but his vocal is still the unrelenting, glass-breaking scream of a man 50 years younger, and Judas Priest's Invincible Shield is pristine and powerful
Judas Priest's late-career renaissance continues apace with thundering nineteenth album Invincible Shield
