A bored Robert Smith barely miming on TV with The Cure in 1980 is grumpy goth gold
When The Cure performed A Forest on Dutch TV on July 3, 1980, a bored-looking Robert Smith could barely be bothered...
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A bored Robert Smith barely miming on TV with The Cure in 1980 is grumpy goth gold
When The Cure performed A Forest on Dutch TV on July 3, 1980, a bored-looking Robert Smith could barely be bothered...
Måneskin shut down the 'Rock is dead' debate: “Nobody is ‘keeping rock ’n’ roll alive’. It’s impossible to kill"
Måneskin share their thoughts on Mick Jagger's recent statement crediting Machine Gun Kelly and Yungblud for injecting "a bit of life in rock‘n’roll”
Nightwish's Floor Jansen releases the theatrical and uplifting ballad Storm
Nightwish frontman Floor Jansen releases the elevating, pop-style new track Storm
How To Watch Danny Boyle’s six-part Sex Pistols drama Pistol
New Danny Boyle-directed series based on Sex Pistols’ guitarist Steve Jones’ autobiography Lonely Boy is set to premiere on May 31. Here’s what you need to know
Gene Simmons says Donald Trump allowed racism and conspiracy theories to get "out in the open"
Kiss legend Gene Simmons remains unimpressed with Donald Trump's legacy as US President
Starbenders acclaim the dignity of pain on euphoric new single If You Need It
If You Need It is "a metallic clash between feathers and switchblades" says Starbenders singer Kimi Shelter
Musicians take to social media to pay tribute to Yes drummer Alan White
Jon Anderson, Carl Palmer, Rick Wakeman, Mike Portnoy, Yoko Ono, Questlove and many more have paid tribute to Yes drummer Alan White, who has died at the age of 72
Depeche Mode keyboardist Andy Fletcher dead at 60
Depeche Mode confirm the death of keyboardist Andy 'Fletch' Fletcher in a Facebook post
Yes drummer Alan White dead at 72
Alan White, who drummed on John Lennon's Imagine and with Yes for 50 years, has died aged 72
Ghost’s Tobias Forge: “ABBA deserve a Nobel Prize!”
Ghost frontman Tobias Forge showers Swedish pop titans ABBA with love
The evil that pens do: Join Eddie’s art club with Iron Maiden's new colouring book
Iron Maiden: The Official Colouring Book will be released this summer featuring Eddie down the ages and more
Extreme guitarist books Stone Temple Pilots and Bush to play inside a volcano
Rock gigs don't get much more ROCK than playing inside a volcano...
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Rob Halford: “Metallica were very beautiful guys, just like we all are in metal”
Judas Priest’s Rob Halford on his decades-long love affair with Metallica and their music
"I was out of my gourd": David Bowie duetting (and flirting) with Cher might be the most 70s thing you'll ever see
In 1975, Bowie joined Cher on her new TV show. The result was a flirty, coke-fuelled cheesefest that would end most careers
“This is a brutalising relationship”: the secrets of Rammstein’s Zeit revealed
Going deep into Rammstein’s brand new album Zeit
Saluting Andy 'Fletch' Fletcher, the unsung hero who held Depeche Mode together
A tribute to Depeche Mode's Andy Fletcher, who passed away yesterday, May 26, at the age of 60
The Story Behind The Song: Nine Inch Nails' Head Like A Hole
How Nine Inch Nails' Head Like A Hole turned Trent Reznor into the dark prince of 90s alt-metal
Why I ❤️ John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band, by Eels frontman E
Enigmatic Eels frontman E reckons John Lennon was at his best when he dispensed with the hippy stuff, as on the “timeless” album Plastic Ono Band
Ginger Wildheart: music is the only time I feel like me
Wildhearts frontman Ginger Wildheart – the man the Manics call “the great lost English songwriter” – on that band, working outside of the mainstream and why music really is the best medicine
The Wishbone Ash albums you should definitely own
With their twin guitar attack, Wishbone Ash created a whole new sound before venturing into folk, soft rock and – gulp – techno. These are their best albums
Joe Elliott has big plans for Def Leppard in the next three years but he's not letting on
Joe Elliott looks back on a long and successful past with Def Leppard and Down ‘N’ Outz, but it hasn't all been plain sailing
Relive the majestic moment Keith Richards clubbed a stage invader with his guitar
"He's on my turf. I'm gonna chop the mother down" - Keith Richards
Every Manic Street Preachers album ranked from worst to best
Few would have imagined South Wales' cockiest generation terrorists becoming national treasures, but here we are. This is Manic Street Preachers' catalogue ranked
Ozzy Osbourne as an 80s TV preacher is still the greatest heavy metal horror movie cameo ever
Remembering Ozzy Osbourne’s killer cameo as a TV preacher in a cult 80s comedy-horror movie Trick Or Treat
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Fifty years on, the cheesecloth and flares that shunned glam get another outing
Blowing Free: Underground & Progressive Sounds Of 1972 mines gems from Yes, ELP, Nektar, Edgar Broughton Band, Free, Thin Lizzy and many more
Jade Warrior's second album is visionary, pan-ethnic, and worthy of restoration
Half a century on, British prog rockers Jade's second album Released and been re-released
Steve Earle & The Dukes are ragged and true on Jerry Jeff Walker tribute
Songwriter and survivor Steve Earle pays dues to departed outlaw Jerry Jeff Walker
Raven's expanded Rock Until You Drop: energetic proof that 'athletic rock' should have been huge
The flying start of NWOBHM might-have-beens Raven lauded with four disc version of Rock Until You Drop
Another Sex Pistols compilation, another exercise in commercial cynicism
Looking for the ultimate Sex Pistols collection? You’d be better off ignoring The Original Recordings and buying Bollocks
Michael Schenker still scintillates but the songs are overwrought
Rock bottom? Well, almost, as Michael Schenker goes a bit Eurovision on Universal
Liam Gallagher continues his unstoppable rise to mainstream ubiquity
Two albums from enduringly Marmite Mancunian Liam Gallagher, the most irretrievably Oasis of all former Oasis members
Dirty Honey conjure up the ghosts of classic Zeppelin and Aerosmith on expanded debut
Rock doesn’t come more classic than this, as Dirty Honey prepare for debut European dates with a combination CD
Grunting, sweating, greasy downer rock from the dawn of the 70s? Step right this way
Another deep-dive into the proto-metal past via a 14th creditable collection in the Brown Acid series
NWOBHM footnotes Prowler finally achieve the full package
Forty years on, the Chris Tsangarides-produced Reactivate becomes a debut album for Essex rockers Prowler
Quartz recall purer, simpler times on riotous but poignant On The Edge Of Tomorrow
Black Sabbath-connected metallers Quartz pay tribute to fallen comrade Geoff Nicholls on fifth studio album in 45 years, On The Edge Of Tomorrow
