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Here's everything you need to know about Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's final ever show
By Matt Mills published
Still confused about the details of this weekend's epic final Black Sabbath show? We got you

Sharon Osbourne on Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning all-star blowout
By Dave Everley published
Sharon Osbourne on Ozzy, Randy Rhoads, Bill Ward and Tom Morello, and why she won't be borrowing Dave Grohl's throne

Every song on Queen's Greatest Hits, ranked from worst to best
By Paul Elliott published
Queen's Greatest Hits is the UK’s biggest-selling album of all time, with total worldwide sales of over 25 million copies – but which song is the greatest?

What former Heartbreaker Stan Lynch did next
By Bill DeMain published
Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers’ drummer is back behind the kit for an album from his new Americana collective, The Speaker Wars

The Goo Goo Dolls albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
By Philip Wilding published
Although the strength of the Goo Goo Dolls' songwriting has been frustratingly inconsistent, the band have shown moments of real class

"He quite clearly was going to shine": The early years of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell
By Everett True published
As Soundgarden broke out of the Seattle scene, Chris Cornell stood apart from his peers: a rock god among grunge’s iconoclasts

Dead Daisies: John Corabi on singing BB King and those "billionaire's hobby" jibes
By Chris Lord published
The Dead Daisies cover the blues greats on new album Lookin’ For Trouble

How Ghost Of Perdition became the defining Opeth anthem
By Matt Mills published
Opeth might've ditched the concept record idea for Ghost Reveries, but Ghost Of Perdition still tells a story

Snowman romances and dancing with Oppenheimer: these are the 10 best Kate Bush deep cuts
By Liz Scarlett published
A dive into the unparalleled British singer-songwriter's treasure trove of overshadowed tracks

The 10 greatest metal bands from Birmingham
By Rich Hobson published
10 brilliant metal bands that show Birmingham really is the home of metal

The final Black Sabbath interview: Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill look back
By Dave Everley published
Soon there will be no more comebacks, no more tours, and no more ‘final’ shows: Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill look back at their incredible career

Meet Ally Venable, who's gone from being bullied at school to playing with Buddy Guy
By Polly Glass published
Six albums into her career, Ally Venable has played with some of the greats, but she hasn't stopped lookig forward

The ‘popularity’ of an AI-generated rock band was inevitable – and it highlights a depressing fact about success in the music streaming age
By Matt Mills published
A seemingly non-existent band have more than half a million Spotify ‘listeners’, but the numbers they’re piling up are just as shallow and meaningless as the computer-generated music they spit out

The 40 best Black Sabbath songs ever
By Paul Brannigan published
From genre-defining early cuts to underrated gems, these are the Black Sabbath songs you need in your life

The meaning behind The Stranglers' controversial classic Peaches
By James McNair published
Driven by a gritty bass riff, The Stranglers' Top 10 hit Peaches is nearly 50 years old, but it's still a must-play by today’s version of the band

The Beatles' albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
By Henry Yates published
The Beatles have been gone for more than half a century, but their shadow still looms large over rock music and rock musicians - and these are their best albums

Tobias Forge on spirituality, isolation and the positive joys of fandom
By Johnny Sharp published
Tobias Forge, aka Papa V Perpetua, talks dark matters and working towards a "newer, better, bigger" Ghost

How Andy Summers and Robert Fripp collaborated with remarkable ease in the 80s
By Rob Hughes published
When the Police and King Crimson men got together, the result was two well-received albums and a stack of forgotten material – finally released – that they can’t believe wasn’t used in the 80s
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