Keith Richards: Rap is people yelling at me. I get enough of that at home
In news that will surprise nobody, 79-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards says he's not a fan of rap music
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"I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for Scream": Watch Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl dedicate an emotional Everlong to the late Kent Stax, the drummer he replaced in Scream, before joining Nirvana
Dave Grohl salutes Kent Stax, "one of the best punk rock drummers of all time"
Listen to new Rival Sons track Mercy from upcoming album Lightbringer
Rival Sons release another track from companion album to Darkfighter
“You’re the guys with nine members? Can I be number 10?“ the time Ozzy Osbourne asked Corey Taylor if he could join Slipknot
Slipknot could have had an extra member in the shape of Ozzy Osbourne
“The shows were out of control because hardly anyone knew what moshing was." Dave Mustaine on the chaos of early thrash metal concerts
Megadeth legend Dave Mustaine saw firsthand just how wild live shows got during the early days of thrash
“If I rattle it around, I can hear him”: Rod Stewart keeps his late mentor’s ashes in a guitar he owns, and it’s not as weird as it sounds
Rod Stewart is still close to late British bluesman Long John Baldry, even though he died almost 20 years ago
Rush legend Geddy Lee announces UK spoken word tour for December
Rush singer and bassist Geddy Lee will release his memoir My Effin' Life on November 14
"I am very excited for people to finally hear it." Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson announces new solo album The Mandrake Project - his first in almost two decades - along with live dates
Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson has confirmed his first solo studio album since 2005's Tyranny Of Souls
Red Hot Chili Peppers were once lined up to record a big WWE star's theme tune. They were ditched for Uncle Kracker
There aren't many measures of success the Chilis will take second place to Uncle Kracker over, but this is one of them
We can't believe we have to say this but bringing your dog to a metal show is not a good idea, so please stop doing it
A metalhead recently brought their golden retriever dog to a Motionless In White show, for reasons we're not totally sure of
"The memories of a man in his old age": Roger Waters shares new versions of Breathe and Speak To Me
Roger Waters will release Dark Side Of The Moon Redux on October 6 and premiere it at the London Palladium on October 8
“I felt like I wasn’t getting the credit for the things I was actually writing”: Corey Taylor says lack of recognition in Slipknot and Stone Sour inspired his solo career
“There was a lot of stuff that either wouldn’t have been written without me, or that I wrote and other people gave themselves credit for,” Corey Taylor says of Slipknot
Listen to Jimi Hendrix rip through a previously unreleased live version of Killing Floor in 1967
The live version of Killing Floor is taken from a previously unheard recording made at the Hollywood Bowl in August 1967, when Hendrix was supporting The Mamas & The Papas
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“I don’t have to go out covered head to toe in tattoos to maintain Iron Maiden’s image. Eddie does that.” Watch Bruce Dickinson explain why Iron Maiden use Eddie on all their artwork
“When Iron Maiden are so haggard that we’d never put our pictures on an album cover, we can still make decent music – just put Eddie on the front!”
"I Believe In A Thing Called Love inspired me to start my own glam rock band": Lord Of The Lost frontman Chris Harms picks the 10 songs that changed his life
From Roxette and David Bowie to Iron Maiden and Slipknot, these are the records that made Lord Of The Lost frontman Chris Harms
“He found things that other people wouldn’t think of finding in there”: how Jimi Hendrix turned Bob Dylan’s All Along The Watchtower into one of rock’s greatest songs
Multiple sessions, countless takes and a drunken Brian Jones – how Jimi Hendrix claimed All Along The Watchtower as his own
10 metal bands who changed genre and immediately ruined everything
Changing your sound is a bold step, but Slayer, Mötley Crüe and Kiss absolutely fumbled it
A beginner's guide to '80s goth in five essential albums
Release the bats! Your essential guide to the best of '80s goth
“Like no one else… Theirs was the sound of a progressive new future for rock”: the prog roots of Jane’s Addiction major label debut Nothing’s Shocking
Where other bands flirted with the dark side, listeners just knew this band were living it
“I’m thinking to myself, ‘Freddie Mercury is cooking me breakfast”: how Queen and James Bond turned Highlander into one of the great cult movies of the 80s
Director Russell Mulchay looks back on the classic 80s movie Highlander and its Queen soundtrack
Every Pearl Jam album ranked from worst to best
Dismissed by many of their peers as grunge interlopers, Pearl Jam have out-written, out-sold and outlived most of those detractors – here we guide you through their albums
"It was trance robot music for girls. I wasn't interested in the guys at all": the birth of Queens Of The Stone Age from the ashes of Kyuss
Released on September 22, 1998, Queens Of The Stone Age's debut album was Josh Homme's post-Kyuss declaration of independence, and the start of a wild new adventure for the 'Ginger Elvis'
"I want to quit while I’m ahead": John Lees is taking Barclay James Harvest to Huddersfield for two final UK shows and he's bringing an orchestra
Veteran proggers John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest play a pair of concerts this weekend backed by an 80-piece orchestra
John Lydon gave his most x-rated interview to two puppets: a foul-mouthed rabbit and a profane, chain-smoking panda
They really don't make television like they used to (NSFW)
"There’s a lot of similarities in watchmaking and Anthrax." Here's what members of some of your favourite metal bands went and did after quitting the music industry
From the Anthrax guitarist who is now a master watchmaker to the death metal bassist who hung out with "sweary Muppets", these are the most unique post-music career paths of metal musicians
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"With a voice marked by weariness and loss, it's scarcely credible Tedeschi was in her twenties": Susan Tedeschi still sails and soars as Just Won't Burn turns 25
An expanded version of Susan Tesdeschi's breakthrough album Just Won't Burn, 25 years on
Starbenders: defiant, spooky and sexy, yet somehow more fun than graduation day at clown college
Androgynous Atlantans Starbenders add volume to melodic nous on album number three, Take Back The Night
The final show on Ghost’s US tour is an absolute triumph - and one big question about Papa Emeritus IV's immediate future is answered
Ghost play to more than 30,000 people over two nights in Los Angeles – but did Cardinal Copia/Papa IV make it out alive?
"Ever wondered how Slipknot might sound if they brought Slash into the fold?": Corey Taylor's second solo album CMF2 is bolder, heavier and "utterly exhilarating"
Corey Taylor's second solo album CMF2 explores everything from glam and rap metal to country and punk
"All the things that made me feel alive, still make me feel alive”: Ash retain their infectious, joyous lust for life on Race The Night
Once proud teenage hellraisers, Ash slide into their fourth decade as a band with their wide-eyed excitement for rock'n'roll thrills still firmly intact
Has Steven Wilson's remix of Hawkwind's Warrior On The Edge Of Time become the definitive version?
Steven Wilson's version of Hawkwind's Warrior On The Edge Of Time gets a vinyl release. Can we let him have a go at Hall Of The Mountain Grill too?
Recorded between the gruelling Animals tour and the psycho-drama that was The Wall, the sentiments Richard Wright expressed in Wet Dream could apply to Pink Floyd as much as to his disintegrating marriage...
Richard Wright's Wet Dream album: The Pink Floyd keyboardist’s underrated solo debut remixed
"Purists who hate anything invented after the Mellotron might not like it. But if prog is to have a future beyond legacy acts, it needs fresh ideas": Voyager's Fearless In Love is the most energised music of their career
Voyager's Fearless In Love: They may not have won Eurovision, but the Australian keytar kings (and queen) have delivered the feelgood sound of the summer
From underground trailblazing to commercial success: Ultravox's Quartet saw George Martin take them further into the mainstream – but at what cost?
Ultravox – Quartet (Deluxe Edition): Steven Wilson burnishes art-poppers’ watershed 1982 album
Soft Machine: less a band and more an organism which is constantly evolving
Soft Machine's Other Doors review: The fêted fusionists come knocking again with 12th studio album.
40-odd years on, Gentle Giant's 1976 album Interview remains an object lesson in risk-taking
Gentle Giant's 1976 album In'terview (2023 Steven Wilson remix) – reviewed
