The first GTA 6 trailer has launched - and Tom Petty is all over it
Love Is A Long Road by the late Tom Petty soundtracks the launch trailer for the eagerly awaited Grand Theft Auto VI action-adventure game
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The first GTA 6 trailer has launched - and Tom Petty is all over it
Love Is A Long Road by the late Tom Petty soundtracks the launch trailer for the eagerly awaited Grand Theft Auto VI action-adventure game
In 1974 Aerosmith were struggling to break through: then they flew to LA to appear on The Midnight Special and it all changed
Watch Aerosmith's career-changing performance of Train Kept A Rollin'
100 schoolkids in New Zealand go viral after prize day performance of Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven
Parents wishing to send their offspring to a school with a decent music programme may wish to relocate to Christchurch
John Mellencamp had his head cut off when he was six weeks old
John Mellencamp has detailed the startling surgical procedure that saved his life as a baby
Red Hot Chili Peppers announce 2024 Unlimited Love US tour
Red Hot Chili Peppers will be extending their Unlimited Love tour into 2024 with a lengthy run across North America in May
"I like chatting up younger, handsome men": Watch the amusing moment a journalist tries to find out whether classical music fans are "naughtier" than metalheads
For Channel 4's Same But Different segment, journalist Morf gets metalheads and classical music fans to describe each other while trying to find out what they might have in common
"It was pretty miserable": Roger Waters fired his son from his touring band, so now he's joined a Pink Floyd tribute group
Roger Waters' son Harry played for his father's touring band for 14 years before he was fired, now he plays for Pink Floyd tribute act Brit Floyd
Geddy Lee says he and Alex Lifeson have talked about recruiting one of the world's great drummers to tour as Rush again
Geddy Lee drops strongest hint yet that he and Alex Lifeson could get Rush back on the road with a stand-in for Neil Peart
Ghost just quietly released a greatest hits album with one very, very rare track
Ghost’s new 13 Commandments compilation includes Zenith, a song previously unavailable on streaming services
Prog meets Marillion on their Marillion Monthly show
Watch Prog Editor Jerry Ewing in conversation with Marillion from their monthly YouTube show
Bruce Dickinson reveals The Mandrake Project release date, track listing and album art
The Iron Maiden singer’s 10-song solo album will come out on March 1
Steve Hackett shares first new music from The Circus And The Nightwhale
Steve Hackett's new concept album The Circus And The Nightwhale to be released in February
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"I'll be honest here – I think they blew us off stage every single night": what happened when AC/DC went on tour with Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
In 1976 Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow embarked on the Rising tour of Europe with a young band from Australia in tow: Ronnie James Dio was watching them very closely
The King's X albums you should definitely own
Enigmatic trio King's X have never quite enjoyed the success they deserved, but they've made excellent music along the way – and these are their best albums
"We had a meeting at his ranch... it was quite mad": the crazy tale of the time Steven Spielberg wanted to make a TV show with Supergrass
The E.T. director wanted to make a Monkees-style show with the Oxford trio
"Lars vomited all down his front. I mopped him up and sent him back out": revisit an ace interview with Lemmy discussing his relationship with Metallica
The Motörhead man also had some choice words for fans who were bothered about the metal titans having a haircut
"If you didn’t want to be in the beef, you shouldn’t have opened your mouth": Eminem on writing a diss track about Limp Bizkit
The former friends fell out over the rapper's argument with Everlast
The tragic life and unavoidable death of Scott Weiland
Former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland's death was the sad culmination of a long downward spiral of drug abuse – one which he had little chance of escaping.
“(Don’t Fear) The Reaper is about hope, rather than the finality of death. It’s a song about wishful thinking”: how Blue Oyster Cult’s Agents Of Fortune album became their passport to immortality
Blue Öyster Cult‘s career was stuck in cruise control until their breakthrough album Agents Of Fortune and its haunting lead single elevated them to stardom
“Christine had been killed. The studio was somewhere I could go where I’d feel something other than lost”: how David Crosby turned grief into hazy magic on his solo masterpiece If I Could Only Remember My Name
“If I ever run into him in a dream again, I hope I remember to apologize”: the time Chris Cornell revealed he’d been dreaming about Layne Staley
Cornell wrote that he’d been angry at Staley’s funeral and wanted to say sorry
“It’s glossy as hell, and it sounds very corporate. The 80s were driven by cocaine and arrogance and it fit that bill”: the epic story of the self-titled 1985 album that saved Heart’s career
The 1980s was the decade of big hits and bigger hair – and Heart were all onboard with the hits These Dreams, What About Love and the multi-platinum album that spawned them
“I’m not interested in my own angst. I like a good story. Violence. A bit of sex, a bit of drinking, a bit of drugs, y’knoworramean?” A tribute to Shane MacGowan, the genius lyricist who thought the music was more important than the words
As the music of the 80s became more polished, synthesised and over-produced, The Pogues took it back to its rudiments. And at the heart of it was Shane MacGowan and his lyrics: funny, romantic, full of characters and stories
"Dwarves with trays of cocaine on their heads? It never happened. Well, I never saw it. Actually, it could have been true...": What really happened at Queen's most outrageous party
In 1978, Queen launched their Jazz album with a huge Halloween party at the Fairmont Hotel in New Orleans. People are still talking about it
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"In a year in which both pop and rock found themselves in a sort of hiatus, Hounds Of Love represented a standout achievement:" Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love (Baskerville Edition)
A reissue of Kate Bush's 1985 album Hounds Of Love with new artwork, illustrations, and solar-powered flashing LEDs
Babymetal's 2023 World Tour comes to the UK: seldom has metal seemed more joyous, triumphant and utterly groundbreaking
Almost a decade on from their self-titled debut album, Babymetal are leading lights for the next generation of metal star
"Gabriel's most consistent and cohesive post-80s record and the most philosophical of his life": Peter Gabriel's i/o
i/o is a reflective and inventive return from art-rock master Peter Gabriel, two decades in the making
The long wait is over: Jethro Tull's Warchild II is finally available on vinyl
Ian Anderson had an album’s worth of material left over from War Child and he splattered them across various compilations. Now they're collected on vinyl for the first time
"Where all this repackaging and repurposing is headed is anyone's guess, but we're surely beyond the point of diminishing returns": The Yes Album (Super Deluxe Edition)
Yes's breakthrough album has been effectively re-repackaged, again: there's plenty of greatness included, but when is enough enough?
"Their eye-catching if shamelessly transparent spin is to dress as sexy undead fetish nuns while churning out 80s-inspired Euro-metal": Dogma by Dogma
The debut album from mysterious nun-rockers Dogma is a blasphemous celebration of sex and hard rock cheese
"There's no denying the impact when Shepherd does let the blues off the leash": Kenny Wayne Shepherd's Dirt On My Diamonds Vol 1
Kenny Wayne Shepherd keeps the blues under control on 11th album Dirt on My Diamonds Vol. 1
"If an apocalypse is on the horizon, this is one album that should be turned up loud before our time runs out": Muse's Absolution (XX Anniversary Edition)
A two-decades-old celebration of the Muse’s classic third album Absolution
"Hardly likely to convert Dylan doubters, but it's an interesting curio all the same": Bob Dylan: The Complete Budokan 1978
Dylan's 1979 live album Bob Dylan At Budokan expanded, featuring two full shows from the famed Budokan arena in Tokyo
"Musically it didn't match its predecessor but Vs. had its moments": Pearl Jam's Vs. (30th anniversary edition)
The 30th anniversary edition of Pearl Jam's second album Vs. is a worthy reissue but light on extra content
"A rush of almost spiritual ecstasy": Death Cult find joy in dragging skeletons from the closet on 40th anniversary tour
The Cult's Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy resurrect Death Cult, summoning old ghosts to powerful effect
