Manic Street Preachers launch celebratory new single Decline & Fall
Decline & Fall is the first track to emerge from the Manics' upcoming fifteenth studio album
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New six-disc reissue for Porcupine Tree's Fear Of A Blank Planet
New deluxe edition of 2007 album Fear Of A Blank Planet will be released in October
Why Courtney Love turned Oasis' Liam Gallagher down
Courtney Love once almost hooked up with Oasis' Liam Gallagher, but wasn't so keen on his "bad breath" or the fact he apparently looked like a medieval peasant
Watch a 10-year-old guitarist blaze through Master Of Puppets on America's Got Talent
Child YouTube guitar sensation Maya Neelakantan was granted permission from Metallica to play Master Of Puppets on America's Got Talent, and wowed the judges with her sitar-infused axe-slinging skills
Oasis add more dates to 2025 stadium schedule
Oasis have now scheduled 17 stadium shows in the UK and Ireland next year
Michael Schenker launches version of UFO classic Only You Can Rock Me
Only You Can Rock Me comes from Michael Schenker's upcoming album My Years With UFO
Joy Division Day in Macclesfield will celebrate iconic band and late frontman Ian Curtis
Joy Division Day will be held in Macclesfield, England, on September 7 with tours and a tribute band lined up for fans
Jonathan Cain claims victory in ongoing legal dispute with Journey bandmate Neal Schon
To be completely frank, we're not sure what's going on with this soap opera anymore
Black Veil Brides wanted to make an album that replicated Metallica's world-dominating Black Album "on every level"
On their 2014 self-titled album, Black Veil Brides were trying to "replicate" Metallica's own self-titled epic 'Black Album'
Bryan Ferry hooks up with Nine Inch Nails for his first original song in more than a decade
Bryan Ferry's new single Star was written with Nine Inch Nails duo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Judas Priest's Rob Halford opens up about offering guidance to fellow LGBTQ+ musicians: "I'm here. I'm queer. Get ****ing used to it."
Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford discusses counselling other gay musicians, the bigotry and hate that LGBTQ+ people still face and meeting his life partner
When Nick Cave first met Shane MacGowan
Nick Cave and the late Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan were great friends: here's how their friendship began
Kate Bush on her love of David Bowie: "He was just the right amount of weird, obviously intelligent and, of course, very sexy"
Kate Bush on the first time she heard and met David Bowie
"Genesis owes him so much." Band members pay tribute to former tour manager Richard Macphail
Former Genesis and Peter Gabriel tour manager and "sixth-member" Richard Macphail has died aged 73
Fun fact of the day: Metallica use or give away 6,000 guitar picks a night
The metal superstars also haul 64 guitars around on tour and make their way through 25 drumsticks per show
Watch Mick Rock's previously unseen video for David Bowie's Starman
The Starman footage was shot on David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust tour in 1972 and 1973
Watch Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo cover Rush anthem Working Man in Canada
The Metallica duo’s latest ‘doodle’ covered a Canadian classic turning 50 this year
“I’m 5’7” but I’ll have an operation, I’ll do something”: Ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman was denied a Kiss audition for being too short
Marty Friedman’s height cruelly cost him the chance to join one of rock’s biggest-ever bands
Despite all those scathing reviews, The Crow 2024’s harshest critic is the original’s director
Alex Proyas, director of 1994’s The Crow, has annihilated the new remake in a series of Facebook posts
