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"This girl and I have been through the fire." Aged 15, Mikaela Mayer was playing alongside Nita Strauss in an all-girl metal band touring America with Avenged Sevenfold and My Chemical Romance. Tonight she's fighting for three world boxing titles
Teenage metal band Lia-Fail may not have conquered the world, but their former guitarist and bassist are now global stars
"David Bowie may have saved my life." How a head-hunting phone call from David Bowie helped one of alternative rock's most influential musicians pull back from the abyss during his darkest hours
In 1999, David Bowie asked Page Hamilton to join his touring band. It was a job offer that changed everything for Helmet's frontman
How Led Zeppelin and The Doors inspired The Cult to write one of rock’s greatest anthems
The Cult’s She Sells Sanctuary can lay claim to be the first great alternative rock anthem
The story behind Oasis' finest hour, the generation-defining Definitely Maybe
Oasis' debut album was released on August 29, 1994. Now a new generation is discovering its irresistible punk rock swagger
The inside story behind the celebrations of Syd Barrett's 80th birthday
Twenty years after the former Pink Floyd frontman's death, an exhibition, gig and star-studded tribute album will celebrate Syd Barrett's legacy
Burning Tree were doomed by a record company stunt, but a lost classic was born
Burning Tree introduced Marc Ford to the Black Crowes, but their debut album was scuttled by an ambitious record label plot
Every song on Pearl Jam's Ten ranked from worst to best
Released on August 27, 1991, Pearl Jam's Ten lit grunge's blue touch paper. Here's every track on the album, re-ordered from worst to best
Despite an armed cop drama, Joe Satriani has always loved Jethro Tull
Guitar maestro professes his love for Ian Anderson’s genius, along with early Yes, ELP and King Crimson
How Ozzy Osbourne conquered personal demons and bitter contract wars to eclipse Black Sabbath
Forty years after the release of The Ultimate Sin, this is the story of how a fragile but defiant Ozzy Osbourne took on his former band – and won
From rags to riches, Dolly Parton's story embodied the American Dream
In 2014, on the eve of a new album and a world tour, Dolly Parton revealed some of the biggest challenges and hurdles she’d had to overcome
The story behind QOTSA's modern rock masterpiece Songs For The Deaf
Released on August 27, 2002, Songs For The Deaf saw QOTSA anointed as the next “saviours of rock music”
“She spent so long in the water she contracted hypothermia”: Kate Bush’s Before The Dawn was a triumph and a terror
22 shows, 25 songs, 80,000 witnesses – her triumph was tinged with terror, but she’ll never forget the love she felt from her audiences in 2014
Tom Scholz reveals the secrets of Boston's masterful debut album
Driven on by one man’s perfectionism, Boston’s debut took seven painstaking years to complete, yet its creation was inspired by just 20 seconds of music
After 50 years of pioneering heavy metal, Accept are in the mood to celebrate
Accept's Teutonic Titans 1976-2026 features guest appearances from Rob Halford, Kirk Hammett, Billy Corgan and more
How Dolly Parton corralled a Who's Who of rock royalty to record her landmark Rockstar album
Dolly Parton, the late Queen Of Country, on the road to her rock album, transcending Nashville, and what Stairway To Heaven and Free Bird mean to her
What happened when country icon Dolly Parton met Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford
Two icons met in the most unusual of circumstances and it left an indelible impression on Rob Halford
What happened to prog in the year of punk? Rick Wakeman and JJ Burnel were there
1977 is remembered as a moment of musical revolution, when bands like Burnel’s Stranglers took crowns from bands like Wakeman’s Yes. But as the pair agreed when they discussed that time, it wasn’t that simple
