“I wake up and think, ‘F**k yeah, I get to be Gene Simmons another day’”: the world according to Gene Simmons
Kiss legend Gene Simmons puts the world to rights on immigration, racism and rock'n'roll history
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Spit Out The Bone is one of the greatest Metallica songs of the last 20 years, and here’s proof
Watch Metallica blast through Hardwired… To Self-Destruct closer Spit Out The Bone live in Chile
Why you should definitely own Time’s Up by Living Colour
Mick Jagger talking about Elvis, Little Richard offering advice: Living Colour's follow-up to their debut hit Vivid was not like other second albums
Motorhead and the song that helped changed the face of British television
It's a performance that's passed into legend: cult comedy The Young Ones, University Challenge, and Motorhead pretending to fire on all cylinders
How Randy Bachman lifted ideas from everywhere for the song that pays the bills
Inspired by his brother's stutter, Randy Bachman lifted ideas from Free and The Who and came up with Bachman-Turner Overdrive's rock-tastic classic You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
Tracks of the Week: new music from Dorothy, The Cold Stares and more
The very best new music from right this very minute, including Rammstein, Hot Breath, the Black Keys, Sheryl Crow, LostAlone and All Them Witches
“Tool is a machine": an exclusive interview with Adam Jones
The Tool guitarist talks banning phones at gigs, turning down stadiums and life in Tool in 2022
The Story Behind The Song: Slayer’s Angel Of Death
How a sadistic WW2 surgeon inspired Slayer’s landmark 1986 thrash classic
10 obscure but brilliant 2010s bands that deserved more
The internet might bring us more music than ever, but these 10 bands never got the massive audiences they deserved
How love, chaos, ego and drug abuse fuelled an Eric Clapton classic
Was Duane Allman the catalyst for Derek and the Dominos' Layla, or did his “out of tune” playing spoil it? And was the piano outro nicked from another song?
The real story of that time Keith Richards fell out of a palm tree
A story of Keith Richards, an exaggerated tree, and the surgeon who saved the life of a Rolling Stone
"Birth with Rammstein had to be graphic": the inside story of Rammstein's Zeit video
Director Robert Gwisdek talks us through the making of Rammstein's epic music video for Zeit
Every The Pogues album ranked from worst to best
With seven albums released across an 11-year recording career, Shane MacGowan's London-Irish folk-punks The Pogues worked and played hard. But which album is their crowning glory?
Randy Bachman: my stories of Elvis, Little Richard, Steven Tyler and more
Randy Bachman grew up with Neil Young, tried to get The Who to change their name, saw more of Tina Turner than most. These are his stories
We used AI to write song lyrics in the style of real bands and the results are amazing
Just in case Metallica, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the rest run out of ideas
Scorpions: 50 years of belief in rock and 50 years of proving their critics wrong
Amid muted celebrations of their 50th anniversary Scorpions released their nineteenth studio album – Rock Believer – more than a decade after their farewell tour. Will they ever stop?
Someone upscaled this video of Iron Maiden miming The Number Of The Beast on Aussie TV in '82, and it looks ace
Today marks 40 years since The Number Of The Beast was released as a single
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to look at Lemmy’s thoughts on religion
Motorhead man Lemmy had some strong opinions about the church – and some very good reasons for his views too
We asked an Oxford Professor what Rammstein's new album Zeit is all about, and learned a lot
The ultimate track-by-track breakdown of Rammstein’s Zeit album, by Oxford Professor of Modern German Literature Karen Leeder
