"I was just shut down. I remember trying to make myself cry and I couldn’t": Dave Grohl on the final days of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain
"A lot of s**t went down that nobody knows about..."
"A lot of s**t went down that nobody knows about..."
Orion without guitars and drums is still a majestic experience. That’s how incredible Cliff Burton was.
If acoustic hymns, weird gospel and “some real ripping guitar” floats your boat, climb aboard
Metallica changed the rules with their second album, Ride The Lightning. It was only a matter of time before the rest of the world would play along
The late Steve Harley was most famous for his 1975 hit Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me), but his story involves so much more
Slowing 45rpm singles down to 33rpm just hits differently
Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder and Tom Morello playing Highway to Hell in Melbourne and Brisbane in 2014 was a good time for everyone involved
While not living his “Canyon life,” American musician and producer’s prog world includes Rush, Frank Zappa, Roy Harper, Robert Wyatt and others
The Prodigy's Liam Howlett may have grown up on hip-hop, Two-Tone and techno, but Pink Floyd also played a key role in his musical education
In exploring what could have happened to Gerald Bostock – the child prodigy of the 1972 Jethro Tull album – he explored where else his own life might have taken him
From trailer parks and vampire rockers to conspiracy theorists and beyond, Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson is one of rock's premiere thespians
A duo back in the 60s, Medicine Head is now effectively just John Fiddler, whose new album Heartworks is filled with love
Sitting between the heritage of the 70s and the glitzy, big-haired peak to which the 80s would ascend, 1984 was a quietly pivotal time for music, popular culture and the world as we knew it
On Good Friday, 1994, two musicians caught a flight home to Seattle. One of them would be found dead at home one week later
They were inspired by prog heavyweights and their records have always contained surprising depth
Swedish rockers The Gems hope that leaving "toxic" former band Thundermother will turn out to be a blessing in disguise
Modern English on getting older, the trouble with politics, and the financial heft of Burger King
Northern powerhouse New Model Army play shows in April and May, taking new album Unbroken to the people
Unencumbered by the curse of the second album, The Last In Line became one of the most momentous metal albums of the 80s