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September 2021

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September 30
- Phil Campbell's Byson Family: I want this band to be a celebration of Glasgow
- Young, Loud and Snotty: the chaotic story of the Dead Boys
- 20 mostly brilliant but also ridiculous progressive rock albums
September 29
- Acid daze and revolution: Jefferson Airplane's long summer of love
- Meet Me At The Altar are the band giving pop-punk a much-needed makeover
- Why The Matrix was the perfect movie for the nu metal generation
- Danko Jones: conquering the world one riff at a time
- Prawns in the tempura: What happened when Status Quo's Frantic Four reunited
September 28
- Why you should definitely own Discipline by King Crimson
- Kiss: the making of Destroyer and the brutal, boot camp genius of Bob Ezrin
- The story behind Styx's Pieces Of Eight album artwork
- Why I ❤️️ Humble Pie's Performance Rockin' The Fillmore, by Angry Anderson
September 27
- Skindred's Benji Webbe picks the top 10 ultimate party starters
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Ghost Hounds, Emigrate and more
September 25
- Raven Bush: the albums that shaped my debut solo record
September 24
- The Dee Snider interview: "Twisted Sister and Manowar were gonna have fisticuffs"
- We put together the ultimate Nevermind covers album
- The beauty of the implicit: a guide to Chinese post-black metal
- How Blood Sugar Sex Magik almost killed the Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Every song on Nirvana's Nevermind, ranked from worst to best
- Interview: David Crosby on free love, drugs, and why America might be doomed
- Crown Lands: 'Canadians are polite, but we’re not nice'
- Motorhead: a guide to their best live albums
September 23
- 30 years of Screamadelica, the genre-bucking phenomenon that spun 1991 on its head
- "I’m proud of myself for surviving": how Dana Dentata overcame trauma to find empowerment
- 50 years of Judas Priest: the ultimate interview
September 22
- Filth Is Eternal: "We lost a tour because people objected to our old name"
- Health: The Trent Reznor-approved industrial band angering hipsters
- Green Lung’s Top 10 Occult Rock Albums
September 21
- "You need to be able to stare into the abyss": Transylvania's Dordeduh make peace with their past
- Sepultura's Derrick Green: "I knew there would be backlash when I joined"
September 20
- Jeff Walker: "Tom Hanks used to play Carcass to his friends"
- “It feels, without sounding pretentious, like we’ve been working our way up to this point since the first album." How Opeth ditched the death metal on 2011's Heritage
- Between The Buried And Me: the story behind Colors II, the bizarro, brilliant sequel to a landmark album
- Why The Old Grey Whistle Test Rocked
- How Ozzy Osbourne found Randy Rhoads and made a masterpiece
- 10 Britrock albums you should definitely own
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Don Broco, Doom’s Children and more
September 19
- Bon Jovi: How the New Jersey album nearly killed the band
September 18
- The 10 best Jimi Hendrix songs released after his death
September 17
- Betrayal, murder, colonialism: Alien Weaponry are confronting the dark heart of New Zealand
- Employed To Serve: "This is an album about empowerment - about conquering yourself".
- 82 Minutes, 10 Songs, one Samurai: the real story behind Iron Maiden's epic new album Senjutsu
- Every track on Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I & II, ranked from worst to best
- What's the greatest solo album ever? You tell us
September 16
- The metal world weighs in on Iron Maiden's Senjutsu
- Six things you need to know about Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real
September 15
- BB King: a guide to his best albums
- Stargazers: How Chris Cornell and Andrew Wood transformed Seattle rock, then the world
- The Stranglers: Dark Matter and the death of Dave Greenfield
- The story of Richard Wright's last ever show
September 14
- Wardruna and Enslaved: the birth of the stunning union, Skuggsjá
- Ian McNabb: the long road to Utopian
- How Nancy Wilson created the Almost Famous soundtrack
- Why I ❤️ Crosby, Stills & Nash's debut album, by REO Speedwagon's Kevin Cronin
September 13
- The 10 best Australian prog metal bands
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Dangereens, Mastodon and more
September 12
- In and out of Traffic: the fantastic career of Jim Capaldi
September 10
- Incineration Festival returns in 2022 with an exclusive Emperor headline set
- Inglorious: Nathan James's track-by-track guide to Heroine
September 9
- The Sisters Of Mercy's Ben Christo: My life in 12 songs
- Songs about body odour and a bath full of beans: The story of The Who Sell Out
September 8
- Platters of the gods: the Led Zeppelin albums you'll never find
September 7
- Anxiety, freedom and pissing yourself: Times Of Grace's Adam D and Jesse Leach go head to head
- An interview with Andrew Eldritch: 'I don’t regret anything, but I’m sure other people regret stuff where I was present'
- Imelda May: When I hit number one it was my perfect 'up yours' moment
- Is Rock Star really the worst film ever made about rock?
September 6
- 10 obscure but brilliant grunge bands who should’ve been huge
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Dirty Honey, GATC and more
September 5
- King Crimson in Pompeii, by comedian Al Murray
- Al Stewart: The Prog Interview
September 4
- The greatest 70s rock bands, ranked by their facial hair
September 2
- The 10 best must-see acts at Wide Awake festival
- Shane Embury: My Life In 10 Songs
- David Bowie changed my life: the story of Earl Slick
- Four into three: How Genesis lost a guitarist but set off on a bold new path
September 1
- Why I ❤️ punk rock, by football legend Stuart Pearce
- Styx interview: 'We’ve had to circle the wagons many times as a band'