Soulfly announce 57-date US tour in support of Totem
Tickets on sale now for Soulfly's epic trek across America
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Soulfly announce 57-date US tour in support of Totem
Tickets on sale now for Soulfly's epic trek across America
Axl Rose responds to reports of fan injured by mic toss: "we don’t want anyone getting hurt"
The fan told reporters that she was struck by a microphone tossed from the stage at the climax of Guns N' Roses' set in Adelaide, Australia
Noel Gallagher recalls the moment he knew he was set for success with Oasis
Noel Gallagher says he realised his songs had promise after explosive moment in early Oasis jam session
John Martyn's The Apprentice to get box set reissue
John Martyn's 1990 album The Apprentice remastered and expanded to three discs plus DVD
Watch Pantera play their first show in 21 years
Pantera return to the stage for their first comeback gig at Mexico’s Heaven And Hell Festival – and here’s video and the full setlist
Watch fan-filmed footage of Pantera in soundcheck ahead of first 'reunion' show
Fans captured video of the reformed Pantera lineup in soundcheck for Hell & Heaven Open Air in Mexico
Only one rock artist who began releasing music this century has records among America's 200 biggest albums of 2022
Billboard's list of the 200 biggest-selling albums of 2022 features plenty of classic rock compilations, but precious little rock music released this century
UK newspaper prints eerie photos of the allegedly haunted 16th century home abandoned by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour
An urban explorer has taken haunting photographs of David Gilmour's former home, rumoured to be haunted by a young boy called Little Jack who died in 1909
Iggy Pop salutes the late Taylor Hawkins: "He had a wonderful career doing what he wanted to do"
Iggy Pop pays tribute to Taylor Hawkins, who played drums om two tracks on the Godfather of Punk's upcoming Every Loser album
Lindsey Buckingham pays tribute to "musical comrade" and "sister" Christine McVie
Ex Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham is "profoundly heartbroken" by the death of Christine McVie, and has written a touching tribute
For Christine McVie, writing her greatest track Songbird was a "spiritual" experience
Christine McVie wrote numerous chart-smashing songs for Fleetwood Mac, but many consider Songbird her best. In 2016, she reminisced about writing it and what happened when she played it to the band for the first time
Watch this band of young kids smash Metallica's Eye Of The Beholder in the middle of a street
Kid buskers rock out to Metallica's Eye Of The Beholder on the street, prove that the future of metal is in safe hands
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How the Alan Parsons Project struck gold with Eye In Sky
The story of how the Alan Parsons Project went stratospheric with 1982's Eye In The Sky
Every The Damned album, from worst to best
Smash it up! Smash it up! Not every The Damned album warrants your attention, but here's their catalogue, ranked worst to best
Here are all the songs Metallica have never played live
Metallica could churn out Seek And Destroy for the millionth time on their upcoming M72 world tour… or they could dig out one of these 17 never-played deep cuts
Jason ‘Jay And Silent Bob’ Mewes on the albums that changed his life: “King Diamond is my flying music!”
Jason ‘Jay And Silent Bob’ Mewes reaches into his record collection and pulls out King Diamond, Slayer and Björk
Archers Of Loaf: "Anger makes good rock’n’roll, and I had a lot of it"
Archers Of Loaf's Eric Bachmann on burnout, returning, and rediscovering his anger – poured into the band's new album – at 52
Prime Beef: a short history of what happens when rock stars come to blows
Musicians slating each other via the media is old news, but occasionally the ill-feeling reaches the real world, resulting in fracas and fisticuffs
Why I ❤️ The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper, by Ronnie James Dio
In 2006, the late great Ronnie James Dio told us about what he called "the greatest album ever made"
Mother's Finest: six songs to get you started
Six songs to introduce you to the fierce funk-rock wizardry of Atlanta's very own Mother's Finest
“We’re on The Rock’s workout playlist!”: how The Hu are taking over America one fan at a time
The Hu have got Metallica, Elton John and The Rock in their corner – and now America is theirs for the taking
Everything we know about Metallica’s new album so far
From their thrashing new single to charred childhood relics, here's everything you need to know about Metallica’s new album
Watch BBC current affairs show Nationwide try to make sense of the Sex Pistols and punk rock for Middle England in 1976
"It may not be the greatest rock 'n' roll in the world, but it's certainly the most controversial": the BBC introduces the Sex Pistols to mainstream Britain
Rob Halford on Judas Priest's Turbo Lover: "We didn’t know it was a classic"
Rob Halford recalls how Judas Priest celebrated 1980s materialism on Turbo Lover – with the picture completed by sexual innuendo and state-of-the-art studio technology
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd's 25th birthday remake of his second album is not a surprise party
This remake of blueser Kenny Wayne Shepherd's second album Trouble Is... might just stick too close to the original
Bones And All: The must-see romantic cannibal road movie of the year featuring music by Trent Reznor and Kiss
Blood, guts and heartache as Timothée Chalamet noms on human flesh in, like, a sensitive way
As pummelling as 12 rounds with Tyson Fury: our first reaction to new Metallica single Lux Æterna
Metallica have surprised the world with a fast blast of speed metal that sounds straight from the Kill 'Em All era
Fleetwood Mac's Alternate Collection is insightful but lacks LA bells, whistles and cocaine pixie-dust
Once more into the archives for alternative takes on old Fleetwood Mac favourites
The Doors' Paris Blues: Is that all there is? Really?
Released as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday event, Paris Blues features the last (apparently) unreleased studio recording by The Doors
Eric Burdon & War: a barrier-breaking collaboration from a trail-blazing era
This Record Store Day box set corrals Eric Burdon & War's three albums on multi-hued vinyl
Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything: an epic that's as swoony as it is cerebral
50th-anniversary Record Store Day box of peak Todd Rundgren album Something/Anything
The Grateful Dead thrive in a venue they never intended to play
A hefty Record Store Day hefty document from the Grateful Dead’s Europe ‘72 tour
Captain Beefheart's Clear Spot: a slick storm of blues, boogie, poetry, avant-garde jazz, space-rock, feminism, soul and zig-zag wandering
Two-disc clear-vinyl 50th-anniversary reissue of Captain's Beefheart and the Magic Band's Clear Spot, now with tasty extras icing the cake
Lee Aaron: pop music in leather trousers, and not in as good way
Canadian ‘Metal Queen’ Lee Aaron gets a fresh polish, 40 years after her debut
Mother Vulture's debut album rushes by in a blur of noise and nailed-on groove, but there's one problem
Turbo-charged debut from livewire British blues-punks Mother Vulture can strip paint and dislodge earwax at 50 feet
