Motorhead drummer Mikkey Dee reveals his last ever conversation with Lemmy
Mikkey Dee recalls the last words he exchanged with his long-time friend Lemmy
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Motorhead drummer Mikkey Dee reveals his last ever conversation with Lemmy
Mikkey Dee recalls the last words he exchanged with his long-time friend Lemmy
Courtney Love slams upcoming Pam & Tommy series, calls it “f**king outrageous” and “vile”
Hole’s Courtney Love has criticised the show’s producers for “further complexing” Pamela Anderson’s sex scandal trauma
A rare painting Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett made as a teen is up for auction
The piece was created when the Pink Floyd vocalist was just 15 years old
Dave Grohl reveals he once got stoned with Joan Jett and Miley Cyrus
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl thinks back to the time he smoked weed with Joan Jett and Miley Cyrus at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Legendary London rock bar The Crobar has been saved
Crowdfunding campaign raises £100,000 to save iconic, Dave Grohl-approved London rock hangout The Crobar
Tik Tok genius nails what it’s like listening to Rage Against The Machine for the first time
Tik Tok comedian Jacob Givens recreates hearing RATM’s Freedom for the very first time in the 90s
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame boss defends Iron Maiden snub
“There’s no doubt they are an influential band,” says Hall Of Fame president Greg Harris, as Gene Simmons describes Iron Maiden’s exclusion as “disgusting”
Watch a bunch of kids in hazmat suits nail Rammstein’s Du Hast
Rammstein’s Till Lindemann has some serious competition from nine-year-old singer Taylor Jade Campbell
Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Korn and more announced for Louder Than Life
Also on the bill for Louder Than Life 2021: Judas Priest, Snoop Dogg, Jane’s Addiction, Staind, Rise Against, Mudvayne, Cypress Hill, Machine Gun Kelly, Anthrax, Gojira and more
Billy Gibbons launches video for My Lucky Card filmed at legendary honky tonk
My Lucky Card comes from the Billy F Gibbons album Hardware, out next month
The Struts launch thumping cover of Queen's We Will Rock You
As The Struts join the bill for this year's Reading and Leeds festivals, they've released a rousing version of the Queen classic We Will Rock You
Blackberry Smoke and Warren Haynes join forces on All Rise Again
All Rise Again featuring Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes comes from Blackberry Smoke's upcoming album You Hear Georgia, out later this month
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Monster Magnet’s Dave Wyndorf: “Was rock’n’roll better in the 70s? Yeah. People put more effort into it”
As Monster Magnet gear up to release new covers album A Better Dystopia, mainman Dave Wyndorf dives into a world of psychedelic madness, lost heroes and melting brains
Todd Rundgren: hall of famer, singer, producer, songwriter... and guitar hero?
From using a guitar to simulate motorbikes on Bat Out Of Hell, and the sound of strangled chickens on A Wizard, A True Star, we revisit the case for Todd Rundgren’s guitar genius
Rock's Big Bang theory: Jimi Hendrix and the most influential debut album ever
Jimi Hendrix’s debut album, Are You Experienced, was pieced together in London in between dazzling live gigs that left the competition reeling. But the end results are still a revelation
Jeff Beck: a guide to his best albums
Jeff Beck wrote the blueprint, from psych-rock rave-ups with The Yardbirds to pioneering heavy rock and masterful jazz fusion
Why I ❤️ Rush’s Permanent Waves, by Taylor Hawkins
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins on Permanent Waves, the Rush album that streamlined their songs and gave them their first radio hit
How David Coverdale, Tawny Kitaen and MTV turned Whitesnake into megastars
Whitesnake’s album 1987 sold millions and turned David Coverdale into a rock legend. It also made David’s future wife Tawny Kitaen a star
Ten years of The Treatment: a tale of liquor, vampires, serial killers and Alice Cooper pranks
Shedding band members but swaggering on, The Treatment are betting on their fortunes taking an upturn with fifth album Waiting For Good Luck
The magnificent late-career rise of Cheap Trick, a band too dumb to quit
Illinois Anglophiles Cheap Trick are deep into their fifth decade of existence, and they're enjoying a late-career surge of creativity
Suzi Quatro: the soundtrack of my life
Glam-rock icon Suzi Quatro picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the hit song she turned down... just like Debbie Harry
How Germany took on the world of heavy metal and won
The story of the unlikely rise of German metal, as told by members of Scorpions, Accept, and Doro Pesch
Saucerful Of Secrets’ Gary Kemp: “Playing with Nick Mason and Roger Waters was utterly intimidating”
Gary Kemp on sharing a stage with Pink Floyd members, Spandau Ballet’s secret prog past and the chances of brand new Saucerful Of Secrets songs
Tracks of the Week: new music from Garbage, Seafoam Green and more
This week's freshly carved additions to our weekly Mount Rushmore of rock
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The Ides Of March confirms Myles Kennedy as a musical powerhouse
Out now: Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy brings hope amid banana bread and glitchy Zoom meetings on The Ides Of March
Nancy Wilson bleeds authenticity as You And Me steps outside Heart's boundaries
Nancy Wilson's You And Me is a mélange of ethereal acoustic ballads, eclectic covers and thoughtful tributes
Van Morrison is surprisingly enjoyable on album of grumpy but bouncy R&B
Van Morrison's Latest Record Project: Volume 1 suggests that lockdown wasn’t such a bad thing for some
Pink Floyd repackage the past once more on Live At Knebworth 1990
Wish you’d been there? Pink Floyd's Live At Knebworth 1990 is super slick but lacks mystery
Gary Moore's unreleased blues find a home on How Blue Can You Get
Gary Moore's How Blue Can You Get is patchy proof that blue is still very much the colour
Mick Fleetwood & Friends triumphantly fail to descend into chaos and catastrophe
The big guns come out to play on Mick Fleetwood & Friends: Celebrate The Music Of Peter Green And The Early Years Of Fleetwood Mac
Electric Boys fail to provide the expected good times on Ups!de Down
Ups!de Down is a metal carpet ride from Electric Boys, sure, just not a funky one
Turn Up That Dial is the euphoric sound of Dropkick Murphys' future parties
Dropkick Murphys' Turn Up That Dial is good time music for good times to come
Touch's comeback album Tomorrow Never Comes will exhaust your supply of air keyboards
Long-lost US pomp-rockers Touch scratch their 41-year-old itch with Tomorrow Never Comes
Peter Frampton remembers his guitar on Frampton Forgets The Words
Peter Frampton Band's all-instrumental covers album Frampton Forgets The Words is richly toned and stately
The Mars Volta test rock's limits on La Realidad De Los Suenos
A Mars Volta completist’s dream is realised as long-lost recordings finally see the light of day on the La Realidad De Los Suenos box set
