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Watch Taylor Hawkins sing Queen's Somebody To Love at his final Foo Fighters show
Taylor Hawkins fronts the Foo Fighters for an emotional Somebody To Love in San Isidro, Argentina
We wanted Taylor Hawkins to review a movie, and the loveliest thing happened
Proof that Taylor Hawkins was not like other rock stars
Metallica’s Master Of Puppets in the style of Muse is 10 minutes of utter lunacy
This is what it would sound like if tinfoil-hatted rockers Muse had written Metallica’s Master Of Puppets
The indie vs rock battle at the heart of the Manic Street Preachers' Generation Terrorists
They said they’d make one album, sell 16 million copies and split up. What really happened was far more dramatic. Inside the unique cultural, musical and political forces that made the Manics the smartest band of the 90s
Watch Slayer’s Kerry King thrash it up onstage with Megadeth… in 1984
Back in the mists of time, Slayer's Kerry King was a member of Megadeth, and here's video footage to prove it
Every Fugazi album ranked from worst to best
The collected works of Fugazi, America's punk rock conscience, ranked from worst to best
Don McLean: "I don’t like political people. They have all the answers and they don’t know s**t"
American Pie man Don McLean on a childhood dogged by illness, the struggle to get signed, and keeping the folk flame burning in the wake of 2020’s civil unrest
The story of Thin Lizzy's first hit, the "huge embarrassment" that Phil Lynott hated
Thin Lizzy were on the road to nowhere when they recorded a dusty old folk tune titled Whiskey In The Jar, intended as a B-side. Result: a 70s classic
Yes, Ronnie James Dio really did sing War Pigs years before he joined Black Sabbath
Listen to Ronnie James Dio cover Black Sabbath's classic War Pigs at a New Hampshire club in 1972
The unhinged Alice Cooper performance that led to the death of a chicken and years of questions
Alice Cooper gave the most chaotic live performance the world had ever seen at Toronto's Rock & Roll Revival Festival in 1969, and it involved ill-fated chickens, on-stage fights and wild debauchery
For a year Tommy James was bigger than The Beatles. Then the mafia ruined everything
With hits like Mony Mony and Crimson And Clover, Tommy James should have had the time of his life. Instead, he found himself robbed and threatened by the Mafia
10 of the worst cover versions of classic rock songs known to humanity
Once-great songs recorded by musicians who should really know better as you'll never want to hear them ever again, and we’re very, very sorry
Watch John Lee Hooker conjure up absolute magic on TV in 1964... with The Groundhogs
Suddenly thrust into the spotlight as John Lee Hooker's backing musicians, The Groundhogs became what he called "the number one British blues band"
Watch Tool troll a bunch of Scientologists with an exotic dancer, crowd surfers and some light spanking
Tool's 1993 show at the Scientology Celebrity Center was their most anarchic gig ever
Every Radiohead album ranked from worst to best
Few artists possess a body of work to rival Radiohead's audacious catalogue. Here it is, ranked from the solid to the sublime
Sylvain Sylvain: My stories of Mick Jagger, Brigitte Bardot, Lynyrd Skynyrd and more
New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain flashed a leg for John Lennon, nearly joined the Sex Pistols, and had a problem with Kiss. These are just a few of his stories
The Elektra Records albums you should definitely own
The best of an incredible catalogue from the early years of Elektra Records, one of the USA‘s most important, free and forward-thinking labels
How Judas Priest took a Fleetwood Mac song of madness and paranoia and made a heavy metal classic
Replacing power with energy, Judas Priest turned Fleetwood Mac's The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) into a classic track of their own
