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May 2021

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May 13
- Todd Rundgren: hall of famer, singer, producer, songwriter... and guitar hero?
- Rock's Big Bang theory: Jimi Hendrix and the most influential debut album ever
- Jeff Beck: a guide to his best albums
May 12
- Loudest Bluetooth speakers 2021: The best speakers capable of summoning the devil himself
- Acolyte singer Morgan-Leigh Brown talks us through brand new album Entropy
- The best audiophile headphones for Hi-Fi listening 2021: Wired, Bluetooth, noise cancelling and gaming cans
- “My brother is all over this record”: how Amy Lee’s private tragedy shaped Evanescence’s new album
- Loathe’s Kadeem France: “When I saw Chino Moreno had tweeted about us, I thought he’d been hacked”
- Why I ❤️ Rush’s Permanent Waves, by Taylor Hawkins
- How David Coverdale, Tawny Kitaen and MTV turned Whitesnake into megastars
- Slipknot and Gnarls Barkley's Sulphur Crazy should be the feel-good hit of the summer
May 11
- Ten years of The Treatment: a tale of liquor, vampires, serial killers and Alice Cooper pranks
- The magnificent late-career rise of Cheap Trick, a band too dumb to quit
- The Brits ignored metal, so we made up our own Metal Brit Awards
- Max Cavalera: My Life In 10 Songs
- The best Sonos deals May 2021: Find tge biggest savings on Sonos One, Sonos Play, Sonos Beam, Sonos Sub and more
- Best Beats headphones deals May 2021: Beats Solo Wireless3, Powerbeats Pro Studio3 headphones and more for less
- The best AirPods deals in May 2021: grab the AirPods Pro for just £179 at Laptops Direct
- Best Bose headphones deals May 2021: Big savings on Bose QC35 II, Bose 700 Noise-Cancelling headphones and more
- Best Sony headphones deals in May 2021: Save big on Sony WH-1000XM4, WH-1000XM3 and WF-1000XM3 headphones
- Suzi Quatro: the soundtrack of my life
- How Germany took on the world of heavy metal and won
May 10
- Saucerful Of Secrets’ Gary Kemp: “Playing with Nick Mason and Roger Waters was utterly intimidating”
- Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante: 10 albums that changed my life
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Garbage, Seafoam Green and more
- 10 hair metal bands who should have been massive
May 9
- How Star Wars helped The Alan Parsons Project's I Robot up the charts
May 7
- Breaking Brian Warner: The women who refused to let the Marilyn Manson story die
- Bees, ballads, Michael Bolton, and the heroically overblown return of Touch
May 6
- Listen to Pentral's debut album What Lies Ahead Of Us here
- Best budget noise cancelling headphones 2021: Listen for less with 10 of the best
- The Dust Coda: 6 things you need to know
- Michael Schenker on creativity, immortality, and why he’ll never make peace with Rudolf
- Chris Holmes on Blackie Lawless, why he made a documentary, and *that* interview
- 10 Southern rock albums you should definitely own
May 5
- Skindred’s Benji Webbe: “I went to A&E cos I thought I was dying”
- Best portable record players 2021: Portable turntables that’ll fit even the smallest space
- How Pink Floyd reinvented themselves and journeyed towards The Dark Side
May 4
- These nu metal looks are giving us pure 2001 energy and we're here for it
- Why I ❤️ Faith No More’s The Real Thing, by Korn’s Brian ‘Head’ Welch
- Flames, fetishes and pickled babies: the twisted story of Rammstein‘s Mutter
- Cheap vinyl records May 2021: Top vinyl records on sale in rock, metal, prog and more
- Introducing Levara: where rock-star genes and synth-rock jams collide
- Nancy Wilson interview: the Heart vortex and the lost Eddie Van Halen song
May 3
- The secret inspiration behind Gojira’s Fortitude album artwork
- Girlschool: the story of metal’s original riot girls
- Tracks of the Week: new music from The Sheepdogs, Fantastic Negrito and more
May 2
- The making of IQ's Tales From The Lush Attic
- This medieval cover of Iron Maiden’s Hallowed Be Thy Name is what the lute was invented for