Red Hot Chili Peppers and Motley Crue among the 10 best paid artists of 2021
Bruce Springsteen was 2021’s highest-paid musician, with Motley Crue and Red Hot Chili Peppers among the top 10
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Red Hot Chili Peppers and Motley Crue among the 10 best paid artists of 2021
Bruce Springsteen was 2021’s highest-paid musician, with Motley Crue and Red Hot Chili Peppers among the top 10
Listen to emotive new Scorpions single Rock Believer
Are you a Rock Believer? Scorpions release impassioned title track of upcoming album, due in February
Detroit Cobras singer Rachel Nagy has died
The death of Rachel Nagy, singer and founder of influential garage rockers The Detroit Cobras, has been confirmed by the band
Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators release exuberant single Call Off The Dogs
Call Off The Dogs comes from upcoming Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators album 4, out next month
Judas Priest U-turn sees guitarist Andy Sneap reinstated to touring line-up
Bizarre about-turn sees Andy Sneap reinstated as Judas Priest’s touring guitarist just five days after the metal gods announced his exit
Iron Maiden will play their epic Senjutsu album in full on a future tour
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson confirms English metal legends’ plans to play the 82-minute Senjutsu album live in its entirety
‘This is a version of Teenage Kicks you wont forget!’ Toyah and Robert Fripp are back back back
Music’s most loved-up couple, Toyah and Robert Fripp, have relaunched their Sunday Lunch sessions with a cover of The Undertones’ Teenage Kicks
Somebody has made a mash-up of Aqua's Barbie Girl in the style of System Of A Down and now our brains hurt
This mash-up asks the question nobody asked - "what would Aqua's Barbie Girl sound like played by System Of A Down?"
Keith Richards and former Rolling Stones cover artist Ruby Mazur get in on the NFT craze - for charity
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is auctioning a signed guitar and NFT for charity MusiCares
Coheed And Cambria announce new album Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind
US proggers Coheed And Cambria will release new concept album Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind in May
Frank Zappa's Fillmore East 1971 gets expanded 50th anniversary release
Eight-disc The Mothers 1971 box set features unreleased material from whole tour including final Rainbow show
Steve Vai launches explosive track Zeus In Chains from upcoming Inviolate album
Meet Steve Vai's Zeus In Chains, a song inspired by "the heavy guitar breakdown with the dissonant high note"
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Bill Ward: "Black Sabbath were so tight, we’d have the same dreams"
Bill Ward talks battling alcoholism, how The Beatles changed everything and why Black Sabbath meant the world to him
The story behind The Byrds' psychedelic masterpiece Eight Miles High
Eight Miles High was the single that should have launched The Byrds into the stratosphere. So why did it instead mark the precise moment when it all came crashing down?
Lindsey Buckingham's new album is a doozy but he's still thinking about Fleetwood Mac
Ousted from Fleetwood Mac, guitarist/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham bounced back with one of our albums of 2021, but he’s still hopeful that he can make one more record with the Mac
20 things only Kiss fanatics know about Destroyer
Kiss's most ambitious and celebrated album, Destroyer, was 45 years old in 2021. Think you know all there is to know? Think again
Every Ozzy Osbourne solo album, ranked from worst to best
An album-by-album appraisal of the rollercoaster career of former Black Sabbath frontman and official Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne
Joanne Shaw Taylor on burnout, living in Detroit, and having a Harry Potter Christmas
Joanne Shaw Taylor's The Blues Album was Classic Rock's favourite blues album of 2021
The story behind The Power Of Love by Huey Lewis & The News
As the theme song from the blockbuster Spielberg movie Back To The Future, The Power Of Love made Huey Lewis an overnight superstar – but not rich
Roger Taylor interview: Bowie, Sun City, flying solo and the joy of Adam Lambert
Having just released his highest charting solo album and toured it, Queen's Roger Taylor is enjoying life away from his ‘day job’
Catching up with Alice Cooper: return of the road rats
With his twenty-first studio album, Detroit Stories, Alice Cooper came up with a stone-cold classic. Now he's looking forward to making up for lost time and taking the show on the road
The Budgie albums you should definitely own
Heroes to the NWOBHM – and covered by Metallica, Soundgarden, Megadeth and Iron Maiden – Welsh legends Budgie are the ultimate example of a band whose influence outshone their commercial impact
The road to The Thrill Is Gone: the ultimate B.B. King playlist
17 songs that carried B.B. King towards his crossover breakthrough, by Pulitzer-winner Daniel de Visé, author of King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King
Tracks of the Week: new music from Goodbye June, Scarlet Rebels and more
Eight new tracks to prove that this week is as exciting as last week, and last week was a doozy
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Elvis Costello & The Imposters continue winning streak with The Boy Named If
Elvis Costello conjures up echoes of his excellent past as the excellence continues on The Boy Named If (And Other Children’s Stories)
Long-running Christian alt.rockers Skillet give the fans what they want with Dominion
Skillet continue to preach to the converted on relentlessly uplifting 11th album Dominion
The spirit of NWOBHM lives on through Eliminator's Ancient Light
Galloping riffs? Twin-guitar harmonies? They're impressive to behold on Eliminator's Ancient Light
Tony Martin retains Black Sabbath power on new album Thorns
Thorns is a sharp comeback from former Black Sabbath vocalist Tony Martin
Twin Atlantic's Transparency: euphoric, funk-flecked, irrepressible
Glaswegian rockers Twin Atlantic look inwards and get funky for a lockdown special
The Band's Cahoots successfully reheated for its 50th birthday
Box-set reissue of The Band’s 1971 album Cahoots, with alternative mixes, bootleg concert, Blu-ray audio disc
Neil Young & Crazy Horse light up the darkness on the delightfully organic Barn
Barn is album number umpteen from grizzled veteran singer-songwriter Neil Young and his old friends Crazy Horse
The Doors celebrate L.A. Woman's 50th birthday via the medium of diminishing returns
Jim Morrison's boozy, bluesy Doors finale L.A. Woman reloaded with outtakes and unreleased tracks
Skid Row's Atlantic years: from wild youth to burst bubbles
Skid Row's Atlantic Years (1989-1996) features everything from Sebastian Bach-era Skid Row: three albums and two EPs, spread across five CDs or seven slices of vinyl
Wolftooth's mighty Blood & Iron conjures up heavy metal’s illustrious past
Midwestern metal mavens Wolftooth channel the greats on third album Blood & Iron
