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By Sid Smith Published
10 of the best tracks from In The Wake Of Poseidon, Lizard, Islands, Larks’ Tongues In Aspic, Starless And Bible Black and Red

By Malcolm Dome Published
Fifty years after Sad Wings Of Destiny was released, Judas Priest‘s second album still sounds like the birth of a legend

By Dave Everley Published
How a teenage guitar hero from Boston had the pre-fame Tom Morello picking his jaw up off the floor – and the friendship that resulted years later

By Maddy Howell Published
The post-grunge Sub Pop story told via five essential records

By Grant Moon Published
Singer celebrates being in a band with his hero, the best-value album he ever bought, rumours of what “Rush” really means, and the guitarist he’d most like to work with

By David McLaughlin Published
Word Gets Around found Kelly Jones shining a light on a community filled with both characters and character

By Dave Ling Published
Celebrating 40 years of their debut album God’s Own Medicine, The Mission play four London shows next month, each with a different spin

By Dave Everley Published
These are the things WASP's Blackie Lawless has learned while travelling life’s highway

By Rob Hughes Published
Radio boffins and their audio gadgets were the influence behind his experimental debut concept album, which changed the musical landscape in 1976

By Paul Lester Published
Inspired by Roxy Music, they developed their biggest ideas with Brian Eno, leading to a string of albums that demonstrated they were more about concepts than craft

By Martin Kielty Published
Sally Woolfson reveals just some of what she found in the two houses full of material her dad left behind, how she rebuilt her relationship with him, and her pride over his music’s connection to the recent World Cup

By Sylvie Simmons Published
In this archive interview, Aerosmith look back over their career and celebrate Permanent Vacation and Pump, the two albums that saved the band

By Daryl Easlea Published
He made just two albums and one collaboration record over 18 years, because his real focus was sailing – but that’s no reason to discount the keyboardist’s output

By Malcolm Dome Published
A key moment in the Canterbury band’s history came when the future Gong mastermind made contact with his former collaborator in 1966

By Jo Kendall Published
The Chambers Brothers' 11-minute classic Time Has Come Today was written after a Timothy Leary lecture and was hated by the record company... until it became a smash hit

By Paul Brannigan Published
AC/DC's earliest gigs in Britain were memorable for many reasons, not least for spontaneous sightings of 'The Human Kangaroo'

By Paul Brannigan Published
When Eddie Van Halen died on October 6, 2020, the world lost a legend. We celebrate the life of the man who changed rock‘n’roll forever…
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