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June 2020

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June 30
- Crashes, madness and missing money: the story of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band
- Oranssi Pazuzu: the psychedelic shamen taking black metal into other dimensions
- How Led Zeppelin II changed the face of rock music
- Sevendust’s Lajon Witherspoon: 10 albums that changed my life
June 29
- Two queer icons collide in Orville Peck's cover of Bronski Beat
- The top 10 best Voivod albums
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Joyous Wolf, Fantastic Negrito and more
- Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell: “If the Messiah were to return, what a load of shit he would step into”
June 28
- The top 10 best Powerwolf songs according to Powerwolf
- What happened when the Big Four played together for the very first time
June 27
- 10 essential jazz metal albums
- "Those were really pioneering days – none of us knew exactly what we were doing." The making of Chris Squire's Fish Out Of Water
June 26
- Holidays? Who needs 'em when you have the new album by Clap! Clap!
- Cherie Currie interview: karma, catharsis, and chainsaw accidents
- The story behind the song: Thin Lizzy's The Boys Are Back In Town
- Venom Prison have re-recorded a bunch of old tracks and they sound even more brutal than before
June 25
- Bring Me The Horizon’s new single Parasite Eve is bizarre, baffling and brilliant
- Fantastic Negrito's music can stop fights
- Rammstein’s Christoph ‘Doom’ Schneider: My Life Story
- Black metal jazz made by people in weird masks is what the world needs right now
- Bury Tomorrow’s Dani Winter-Bates: “Let’s have that mental health conversation right now”
June 24
- Yello's new track Waba Duba is the most fun electronica has had in years
- Meet the metal fan raising money for mental health charity MIND through the power of patches
- The 20 most underrated rock albums ever
- The best song about giving up drugs you’ll hear this week
- Human Impact's new singles drag 90s noise rock into a broken 21st century
- Dr. Martens summer sale: Save big on range - including Sex Pistols, The Who and CBGB Docs
- Blind Melon: the band who got too big
- Nothing says emotional devastation like A.A. Williams’ new song Love And Pain
- How Pink Floyd made The Final Cut and learned to hate each other
- Amon Amarth’s Johan Hegg: “I started growing a beard in 1992 and haven’t shaved since”
June 23
- How Jimi Hendrix turned the Star Spangled Banner into a protest anthem
- A tale of domestic terrorism, a BBC ban, and the end of Hawkwind's pop career
- Vader: the unsung heroes who dragged death metal out from behind the Iron Curtain
June 22
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Songhoy Blues, Dead Posey and more
- 10 cult 80s thrash albums every metal fan should know about
- Duff McKagan: “Who would play me in a movie? Brad Pitt”
- Guests moshing to System Of A Down at a Nigerian wedding is the best thing you’ll see today
- Watch: Bloodbather – The Influences
June 20
- Pet Sounds: The story of how the Beach Boys helped inspire progressive rock
- "The time I spent with Tull was marvellous." Don Airey on his time with Jethro Tull, Colosseum II and more...
June 19
- Want to stop sexual abuse in music? Male musicians need to pay more attention
- Jehnny Beth interview: Sex, love and videotape
- Ozzy Osbourne: partying, getting older, and the album that saved his life
- We gender-swapped some of metal’s biggest stars and the results are spectacular
- We gender-swapped some classic album sleeves and the results are spectacular
- The 10 best vampire movies every metal fan should see
- Papa Roach’s Infest: Jacoby Shaddix looks back at a nu metal classic
- Watch: Make Them Suffer – The making of 'How To Survive A Funeral'
June 18
- Rock Against Racism: the story of the Anti Nazi League Carnival and the rise of The Clash
June 17
- Hey Tommy Vext: just because you’ve never seen racism, it doesn’t mean it’s not there
- Korn’s Brian ‘Head’ Welch: “Go and do pop or hip hop. It's the only thing that’s selling”
June 16
- Vanilla Fudge: the remarkable history of rock's greatest covers band
- Buy a Marshall speaker and get a pair of Major III headphones completely free
- Willie Dixon: the life and legacy of the blues' greatest songwriter
- And on the eighth day Manowar created… power metal
June 15
- The 10 best Captain Beefheart Songs
- 10 obscure but absolutely essential grunge albums
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Vega, Blitzen Trapper and more
- King Crimson collaborator Keith Tippett remembered
- Kvelertak: “We didn’t know we were going to change metal forever”
June 14
- Geezer Butler: “I’m getting up there in terms of age. I have to take it one day at a time.”
June 12
- The spectacular life of Rodney Bingenheimer, the Mayor of Sunset Strip
- Fire up the hot tub. Ice-T just invited us over to his house
- Feel The Noize: the tragic and triumphant rise of glam revivalists Giuda
- Save up to 17% on a set of Bose noise cancelling 700 headphones right now
- 8 reasons why Rammstein are the best live band on the planet
June 11
- Old school jazz and lacerated hands: the secrets of Led Zeppelin's Moby Dick
- Chilean maestros Target stake a claim as tech-death's new champions with Inverted Gloaming
- 10 obscure Swedish bands every metal fan needs to hear
- Delain’s Charlotte Wessels: “Speaking out against the ‘female-fronted’ genre has been frowned upon”
June 10
- The story of IQ's The Wake
- How BB King made his forgotten masterpiece Indianola Mississippi Seeds
- Buy an Amazon Fire HD8 or HD8 Plus and get 3 months of Amazon Music Unlimited free
June 9
- Punk, purity, and positive mental attitude: The turbulent tale of Bad Brains
- Fighting against racism in metal is more important than ever
- The 10 worst albums by 10 brilliant classic rock bands
June 8
- The 13 best Red Hot Chili Peppers songs about California
- Fantastic Negrito: car crashes, comas, and the recuperative power of the blues
- Dear System Of A Down: we’re bored of the bickering. Either make an album or split up
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Lovehoney, Blinders and more
- 10 essential Synthwave albums
- In Flames’ Anders Fridén: “I’d be f**ked if I was working in a factory”
June 7
- Motion City Soundtrack: When pop-punk was forced to grow up
June 6
- How the blues was stolen, and then stolen again and again
June 5
- Blues, beer and burritos: How ZZ Top made Tres Hombres
- Hellhammer: the tortured black metal outcasts who created a monster
- Watch Tallah bring the nu-metal back on twisted new song The Silo
June 4
- Lamb Of God: “The system is broken. It doesn’t work”
- A short history of strange deaths in rock
- Loathe: the future of British metal has arrived
- The World According To Converge’s Jacob Bannon: “Perfection is the mind-killer”
- The Bruce Springsteen albums you should definitely own
June 3
- How Deep Purple's classic In Rock was made
- Vote for the greatest Download Festival set ever
- Every Gojira album ranked from worst to best
- Wednesday 13: “Murderdolls is just resting in the grave”
- How Jack White and the White Stripes breathed new life into the blues
- Paradise City: How Sunset Strip shaped glam rock and the 1980s
- Neil Peart interview: "I never set out to be famous - I set out to be good"
June 1
- Raising the bar: the chaotic story of pub rock
- Do I need a phono preamp for my record player?
- The record that stopped the world: the outrage and the comedy behind Body Count’s Cop Killer
- Tracks of the Week: new music from The Cadillac Three, Black Star Riders and more
- 10 essential tech metal albums
- 5 minutes alone with… Soilwork’s Björn ‘Speed’ Strid