All Them Witches: alluring sounds from rural Arkansas via Abbey Road
Nomadic living, religious music, Taoist literature and a stint in Abbey Road are among the building blocks of All Them Witches’ kaleidoscopic new album Nothing As The Ideal
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Biffy Clyro interview: "We’re as good a live band as any fucker in the world"
Fuelled by personal disappointment and betrayal, Download Festival headliner Biffy Clyro’s album A Celebration Of Endings is a masterful triumph in the face of adversity
Howlin' Wolf - a guide to his best albums
Late Chicago powerhouse Howlin' Wolf was equal parts transcendent and terrifying. These are the releases that will blow down your house
Tracks of the Week: new music from Crobot, Larkin Poe and more
Eight revving engines on rock's great starting grid
Win a signed Angus Young Gibson SG guitar
Win! For those about to rock, here's your chance to win a Gibson SG guitar, signed by AC/DC's Angus Young himself
Palaye Royale: Six things you need to know
Palaye Royale grew up on classic rock, do things their way, give Health & Safety the finger, and don’t get their clothes from Next
“Scream for me, Long Beach!”: down the front on Iron Maiden’s World Slavery Tour
Mummified Eddies, stages the size of football pitches, hysterical crowds – this what it was like seeing the most epic metal tour of the 80s first-hand
Tommy Lee interview: rock'n'roll has become too safe, and that's kinda sad
Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee on his new solo album, meeting Prince, loving electronic music, and rock becoming too safe
The story behind Search And Destroy by Iggy & The Stooges
The Stooges' Search And Destroy started out with James Williamson “goofing around making machine-gun sounds”, its combination of pounding rhythm and aggressive guitar a template for punk.
Tracks of the Week: new music from The Struts, Starbenders and more
Eight more reasons to leap out of bed, turn the stereo up to 14 and unleash your inner party
Motorhead: The story behind On Parole, the debut album that never was
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE Originally completed in 1976, ‘On Parole’ should have been Motörhead's debut album. Then the record company refused to release it, shocked by its raw energy and the speed-fuelled maniacs who made it...
The Top 10 best ’90s Slayer songs
From the decade that gave us Seasons In The Abyss and Divine Intervention, these are greatest Slayer songs of the 1990s
Lzzy Hale: The Soundtrack Of My Life
Halestorm leader Lzzy Hale picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the one Sabbath album she keeps going back to
John Lee Hooker: a guide to his best albums
From Mississippi roots to wilderness years and redemption, John Lee Hooker always played the blues his way. Here are the albums that go boom boom
A tribute to the explosive genius of Eddie Van Halen
Like Hendrix a decade earlier, Eddie Van Halen revolutionised the guitar. We salute the late, great six-string icon who changed rock’n’roll forever
Here's everything we know about AC/DC's Power Up album so far
New AC/DC album Power Up is on the way, and we've separated fact from fiction, rumour from reality, and charted how we got here
The world of rock mourns as tributes to Eddie Van Halen pour in
Metallica, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Kiss and more pay tribute to Eddie Van Halen, who died yesterday aged 65
AC/DC's Shot In The Dark: the first reaction
AC/DC have released their first new music since Rock Or Bust. But is Shot In The Dark any good?
Van Halen: the story of the debut album that saved rock
Rock was stale, and dinosaurs were lumbering. Then the debut album from Van Halen arrived, an effervescent shot in the arm for an entire genre and a template for a brighter future
