Listen to Elton John playing piano for Yorkshire post-punks Yard Act on 100% Endurance
"Mad shit happens when you do art" say Yard Act as Elton John revamps The Overload album track 100% Endurance
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Listen to Elton John playing piano for Yorkshire post-punks Yard Act on 100% Endurance
"Mad shit happens when you do art" say Yard Act as Elton John revamps The Overload album track 100% Endurance
"I said, 'I gotta meet this guy'" - why Dave Mustaine and Ice T became BFFs
Legendary rapper and Body Count frontman Ice T and Megadeth icon Dave Mustaine go back three whole decades
This pro-shot footage of Metallica playing Metal Militia last month proves they can still nail the classics
Metallica busted out one of their oldest songs at a Netherlands show in June - and they smashed it
Rob Halford reveals the cheeky prank Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler played on him when he fronted Black Sabbath
Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford famously fronted Black Sabbath for two shows in November 1992
Are you a Scorpions fan who also likes trucks? Then you'll love these Mikkey Dee ads
Mikkey Dee has appeared in a series of ads for Volvo Trucks, driving one before being winched into the air to perform a solo at a stadium in Gothenburg
Captain Beefheart guitarist Jeff Cotton to release debut solo album
Jeff Cotton will release his first ever solo album The Fantasy of Reality in August
Watch Benny from Abba play Foo Fighters' Learn To Fly
After Dave Grohl appears at Glastonbury in a Abba hoodie, Benny Andersson shows some love for Foo Fighters
Pink Floyd to finally release new mix of Animals in September
Pink Floyd's Animals will be available on LP, CD, Blu-ray and SACD on 5.1 for the very first time
Crowd brawl breaks out during Eagles performance of Take It Easy in London
The fight broke out in the Diamond VIP area in Hyde Park, where ticket prices started at just £399
Gene Simmons thinks Ace Frehley and Peter Criss no longer have the stamina to play a full Kiss show
The bassist doesn't feel his former bandmates are physically up to a full Kiss show in 2022
A pop music radio station in Canada is playing Rage Against The Machine nonstop and won't say why
Vancouver's Kiss Radio has been playing Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name nonstop and is ignoring caller requests to PLEASE play something else
Tommy Lee plays first full set with Mötley Crüe since breaking his ribs
Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee is finally fully back in action after breaking his ribs prior to the Stadium Tour
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“I’m lucky with my intake of drugs I didn’t end up a glob of sh*t”: how Megadeth made Countdown To Extinction
How Megadeth's Countdown To Extinction helped a cleaned-up Dave Mustaine realise his superstar ambitions
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - how Bonnie Tyler became the ultimate power ballad diva
With over a billion streams across YouTube and Spotify, Bonnie Tyler's hair-raising classic Total Eclipse Of The Heart might just be be the biggest power ballad of them all
The Monster Magnet albums you should definitely own
Throwing space-rock, proto-metal, acid-rock and a lot more into a swirling pot, Monster Magnet have a gift not for invention, but reinvention... and these are their best albums
Bill Ward has made a masterpiece and no one wants to release it
Bill Ward was an integral part of Black Sabbath and of heavy metal’s genesis. Here he reflects on his eventful life thus far and his piles of unreleased albums
Someone has reimagined a ton of metal classics in major key and the results will warm your heart
Happy Metal is a brilliant experiment that will have you hearing Metallica, Maiden and Megadeth like never before
My Favourite Things: The stuff Justin Hawkins can’t live without
“I like getting up people's noses…” Singer, songwriter and catsuit wearer Justin Hawkins of The Darkness on his love of posh clothes, creepy books and a drink that tastes like "fizzy fish & chips"
8 years after the film, Spinal Tap appeared on US TV and were fantastic all over again
Appearing on Good Morning America in 1984, Nigel Tufnell, Derek Smalls and David St. Hubbins gave the audience a hilarious reminder of the greatness of Spinal Tap
Pamela Des Barres: my stories of Alice Cooper, Robert Plant, Jim Morrison and more
Pamela Des Barres on encounters with Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Keith Moon, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix and more
Sun, Skin and saxophones: 10 things we learned at Glastonbury 2022
From Skunk Anansie’s triumphant return to Paul McCartney’s marathon headline set, Glasto 2022 was one for the history books
Fly On The Wall is the great lost AC/DC album and here’s why
Released on 28 June 1985, Fly on the Wall's five cheeky videos and hair-metal production, combined with the capture of a serial killer, put AC/DC back on the map
Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and the true story that's almost too good to be true
Was inmate Merle Haggard in the audience when Johnny Cash played at San Quentin prison?
Ghost's Tobias Forge: "Eurovision is usually the end of your career"
Ghost frontman Tobias Forge talks horror, "sicking in your mask", Glastonbury and his favourite ABBA song
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His Lordship: volatile punk’n’roll with amphetamine-eyed grunt
Post-pandemic rock’n’roll is alive and scorching, thanks to His Lordship's debut EP All Cranked Up
Shinedown paint a bleak, chilling picture of the future on Planet Zero
A concept album about social media, cancel culture, and growing toxic intolerance? Step right this way!
Songbird is not the Christine McVie collection she deserves
The solo side of Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie celebrated with a solid but flawed collection
Black Stone Cherry join the ranks of the Royal Albert Hall legends
Black Stone Cherry's Live From The Royal Albert Hall… Y’all is a momentary suspension of real life in favour of incendiary live performance
Supersonic Blues Machine are the sound of modern blues in the ascendant
Littered with special guests, Voodoo Nation by Supersonic Blues Machine sets the modern blues bar ever higher
Canadian post-hardcore kings Alexisonfire have made a comeback album to be proud of
It's 13 years since Alexisonfire released Old Crows / Young Cardinals, but new album Otherness is a grand return
Brian Jonestown Massacre: still frayed, still imperfect, still out on their own
Anton Newcombe and Brian Jonestown Massacre return with another set of down-and-dirty rock’n’roll
If you like deep-thinking Canadian art-rock, then Motherhood might be for you
Motherhood's fourth album Winded explores the natural world as it mirrors human suffering
Petrol Girls' Baby is an exhilarating, incandescent rebel yell of an album
Austria-based British agitpunks Petrol Girls sharpen their hooks on third album Baby
Red Hot Chili Peppers get the funk back to basics in Manchester
What happened at John Frusciante's first UK show with Red Hot Chili Peppers in almost 15 years
