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Pete Townshend and the lifelong search for answers
By Ian Fortnam published
The Who's Pete Townshend on parents, partnerships, punk, songwriting, the aristocracy, addiction, the internet and the ongoing search for extraordinary music

Exploring Roger Waters' lyrics through Pink Floyd's albums
By Daryl Easlea published
A heartfelt, poetic and occasionally romantic lyricist, he became known for high-powered attacks on the hands that fed him

What it was like at Mystic Festival 2025
By Rich Hobson published
From watching Hatebreed cover Slayer in the rain to spectacular sets from King Diamond, Witch Club Satan, Sepultura and more, this is what it was like at Mystic Festival 2025

The 10 best Sleep Token songs ever
By Rich Hobson, Merlin Alderslade published
From obscure masked metal curios to Download headliners and record-breaking streams, Sleep Token are the biggest thing to hit metal in a generation. Here are their 10 best songs so far

"Edge left the band. He was feeling that he couldn't serve both god and man. I decided I couldn't either. So we both quit."
By Paul Brannigan published
Fears that Christianity was incompatible with life in a rock band caused much soul-searching for U2 in the early '80s, and almost led the band to break up

Five Colosseum songs that prove the jazz-rock pioneers’ pedigree
By Mike Barnes, Malcolm Dome published
Initially active for only three years, they secured their reputation with a series of impressively pogressive releases that, it’s said, popularised the entire genre

How Brian Wilson recorded Pet Sounds and reinvented music
By Paul Lester published
Tiring of making frothy pop, the late Brian Wilson threw away his Beach Boys’ template, assembled a battalion of top session players, and began recording an all-time classic

Brian Wilson interview: "I don’t like SMiLE any more. I got so tired of it and did it so many times"
By Harvey Kubernik published
The late Brian Wilson on carrying the legend of the Beach Boys, Macca’s tears, and how soft drinks messed him up for years
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