Nikki Sixx is the latest musician to play on Dolly Parton's much-anticipated rock album
Nikki Sixx joins Elton John, Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks and more in contributing to Dolly Parton's upcoming album Rock Star
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Nikki Sixx is the latest musician to play on Dolly Parton's much-anticipated rock album
Nikki Sixx joins Elton John, Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks and more in contributing to Dolly Parton's upcoming album Rock Star
Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony has a new band with Bon Jovi and Aerosmith men
"I wasn't going to mention anything about it, but there is a little side project thing..." former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony
Dave Mustaine claims Metallica "has always tried to hold me back"
Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine claims Metallica have tried to discredit him as a guitar player, says Megadeth "has been more consistent" as a band
Bono has detected traces of Bob Marley in U2's new version of Sunday Bloody Sunday. No, really
Bono is on one again
Watch Slash and Perry Farrell play a song about a heroin addict with a violent boyfriend to an audience of children
Jane Says is one of the most beautiful songs in Jane's Addiction's catalogue, and watching him and Slash perform it on the Kidz stage at Lollapalooza 2008 is an experience
Dave Grohl used to have a super-weird recurring dream about a Speedos-clad Eddie Vedder sucking on his finger
What could it mean if Dave Grohl was dreaming about Eddie Vedder sucking his finger while he was a member of Nirvana? "Paging Dr. Freud!"
Turns out Iron Maiden's Hallowed Be Thy Name played on bagpipes is pretty cool
Bagpipe-toting TikTok star Piper Ally has given Hallowed Be Thy Name a makeover like no other
A Kiss biopic, Shout It Out Loud, will be coming to Netflix next year
Kiss manager manager Doc McGhee confirms that Netflix has purchased the rights to a biopic covering Kiss' first four years
"I woke up to an assault rifle on my nose!" Jerry Cantrell on the day armed police raided Alice In Chains' rehearsal studio
To Jerry Cantrell, Alice In Chains's rehearsal space was party central, but he didn't expect a SWAT team to smash into the studio in search of drugs
The Moody Blues To Our Children's Children box set to be released
Remastered five disc deluxe box set of The Moody Blues To Our Children's Children to be released in May
Noel Gallagher responds to brother Liam's 'It's happening' Oasis reunion tweet: "He’s got my number, he’s got my manager’s number. Call us"
The seemingly never-ending Oasis reunion rumours gather new momentum as Noel Gallagher tells his younger brother to "stop talking on the f**king internet" and call him
Elton John has just found out what really inspired his track Rocket Man, fifty years after its release
Elton John, surprisingly, has only just discovered the story behind his classic 1972 hit Rocket Man, while in an interview with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin
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"I had been running, numbing and self-medicating": How The Interrupters turned abuse, trauma and depression into triumph on Into The Wild
The Interrupters' Aimee Allen and Kevin Bivona reveal how laying some life-long demons to rest resulted in the most essential, emotional ska punk album of recent times
Don't mess with Keith Richards' pre-show shepherd's pie ritual, or he might threaten to cut you up and bake you into one
All Rolling Stones fans know Keef has a special love for shepherd's pie, but back in 1989 when his pie-eating pre-show ritual started, he refused to go on stage after someone had taken a bite out of it
The time the FBI investigated the 'murder' of Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor only to realise, two years later, that he wasn't dead
Back in 1989, the FBI opened a case to solve the alleged murder of a mysterious man on a video tape. That man was Trent Reznor, who was (and still is) very much alive
Jesse Malin: "I like to get under those lights and sweat out the poison"
Jesse Malin reveals what he has planned for his upcoming dates celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Fine Art Of Self Destruction
Danny Elfman: "F***ing put me next to the stage where Rage Against The Machine is playing"
Iconic film and TV composer Danny Elfman talks working with Tim Burton, being a "freak" and why he's surprised the likes of Trent Reznor and Avenged Sevenfold are fans
Ghost: the definitive guide to every member of their crazy universe
From Papa Emeritus I to IV to Papa Nihil, Sister Imperator and beyond, here's everything you need to know about Ghost's colourful cast of characters
New singer, new attitude, new era: how Iron Maiden’s The Number Of The Beast changed metal forever
Bruce Dickinson joined Iron Maiden in time for the band's iconic third album, The Number Of The Beast. Things would never be the same again
The 10 most viewed Iron Maiden videos on YouTube
Which of Maiden's most popular videos shares a link with Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?
Robby Krieger's track-by-track guide to his favourite songs by The Doors
"Why would a young man like Jim think so much about death? Sure he was a poet. But my theory was that he always felt he had something wrong" - Robby Krieger
Slash: My stories of Keith Moon, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy and more
Slash met Keith Moon when he was 11, spent a long night with Lemmy in a Soho boozer, and had an unlikely on-stage encounter with James Brown. These are his stories
"We aim to re-establish our contact with the people who got us off the ground": What happened when Led Zeppelin went Back To The Clubs
In 1971 Led Zeppelin could sell out any venue in the world, and to thank fans they played a series of club dates, with tickets on sale for just 70 pence
10 times rock and metal bands totally ruined TV talk shows
From L7's pubes to Sepultura fans causing chaos, here are just some of the reasons we don't get to see many heavy bands on mainstream talk shows
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Floor Jansen goes it alone to seek more mainstream acclaim
Paragon is the debut solo album from Nightwish singer Floor Jansen
We all share music we adore. Why shouldn't Saxon?
More Inspirations is the follow-up to 2021's Inspirations and finds Saxon covering Kiss, The Who, Alex Harvey and more
After 50 years, Pink Floyd's imposing The Dark Side Of The Moon remains a cornerstone of rock
With The Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd invented something new: stadium rock that was very loud but somehow very sensitive
Bono & The Edge: A Sort Of Homecoming, With David Letterman: a revelatory, humanising look at U2's past and present
Disney+ documentary sees talk show legend David Letterman visit Dublin for an open-hearted look at U2's history and their hunger to explore new horizons
The Answer's Sundowners is the sound of a band with nothing to prove to themselves or anyone else
Northern Irish blues brothers The Answer return after a lengthy hiatus, their instinctive feel for rock'n'roll still very much intact
Songs Of Surrender: U2 look back over their career with 40 skeletal covers of stadium bangers
The album of the reading tour of the book: Songs Of Surrender attempts to connect the dots on the U2 story
Ritchie Blackmore's "private music" celebrates its 25th birthday with another public outing
Originally greeted by a mixture of controversy and ridicule, Blackmore’s Night's Shadow Of The Moon has improved with age
Van Morrison is in fine voice and generous mood as he pays loving homage to Skiffle
Skiffle may have ignited the British music scene more than 60 years ago, but it's never to late for Van Morrison to play a few old favourites
Trapeze's new box set transports the listener back to a time of wide-eyed rock’n’roll wonder
Trapeze: Don’t Stop The Music – Complete Recordings Vol. 1 – 1970-1992 is a six-CD set of studio albums and live recordings
Review: Stöner come up half-baked as they run out of puff
Desert rock legends Stöner fail to live up to their own billing on Boogie To Baja EP
Rick Wakeman: A Gallery Of The Imagination album review
Rick Wakeman's latest concept album presents the songs as if they were pictures in a gallery
