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- July 4
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- “I hate it when people say I was a stripper. There was never anything sleazy about my interpretive dance. I think some men and women felt threatened by a woman appearing nude”: Hawkwind ex Stacia Blake’s life in art
- “Alan told us that he didn’t know how he’d face his family again. If he’d said, ‘I won’t accept my royalties for that,’ I’d have admired the courage of his convictions”: The controversial 1983 hit that split one of Britain‘s most beloved rock bands
- “It’s not that I’m embarrassed by it. You let something pass for long enough, and you can kind of chuckle at it”: The lost ‘hippie’ album that Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley made before they were in Kiss
- July 3
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- “I’ve dedicated my life to rock’n’roll, the most American of art forms. Why turn tail and run?” Jon Spencer on death, aging and MAGA knuckleheads
- The best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Cool new prog from Haken, Stick Men, Happy The Man, Enslaved and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
- "I thought we sounded great, then I heard the recording. I was mortified!" The story behind Foo Fighters' secret first show
- “There was some mild terrorism going on. They were exploding cars and banks and real estate. There was an ongoing war”: From a climate of violence, Gojira made one of modern metal’s most conscious, powerful anthems
- “When the first riff came together, we locked in and played it for 100 hours”: How Blood And Thunder turned Mastodon from Southern misfits to a 21st-century sensation
- “The whole album is based around my friend who passed away.” Tragedy, black metal and Linkin Park: Gaerea might be masked and anonymous, but their story is deeply personal
- "I listened to the opening track on repeat for about six months." Beabadoobee on the cult classic album that changed her life
- "I cherish the band, but I don’t expect anyone else to." It's 10 years since Radiohead last released an album and I accidentally got the only interview for it
- It looks like a beer bong and sounds like a robot: the story of Joe Walsh's Rocky Mountain Way
- "I blew up in an airport. Talkin' about killing things and stuff. And you can't lose it in an airport in America." Blue October's Justin Furstenfeld reflects on runaway creativity – and personal train wrecks
- "Neil is the only one who would be a big fan of the band and then get rid of Eddie." How Pearl Jam and Neil Young came together to make Mirror Ball
- July 2
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- “By the time I swapped over the tapes I knew I was in the stinky brown stuff. Somebody said, ‘God help us’ … the budget for the cover was cut back”: How Rick Wakeman proved everyone wrong with The Six Wives of Henry VIII
- "Depression isn't the kind of thing that’ll just go away." Dream collabs with Lady Gaga and David Hasselhoff, Eurovision and touring with Iron Maiden: an interview with Lord Of The Lost's Chris Harms
- Every Metallica album ranked from worst to best
- “You look around and no one seems concerned, and there’s an explosive drone somewhere over town”: Silent Planet, the first American band to play Ukraine during the Russian war
- "There were days when leaving Japan made us feel lonely, and days when things got so tough that we wanted to give up." A track-by-track guide to the songs that defined Babymetal
- The 50 best rock albums of 2026 (so far)
- “I don’t want to put a meaning on it. My interpretation will change weekly”: Inspired by Jesus, the Solar System and boarding school, Roger Hodgson’s most ambitious Supertramp song still gives him goosebumps
- "Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon came up to me and said, 'I hear we're in the running for the prize for spending the most time and money in a studio!'": The epic story of Foreigner 4, the AOR masterpiece that helped shape 80s rock
- July 1
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- "There were many times when I couldn’t stop crying before a show." How one of Japanese metalcore's biggest stars reinvented himself and left behind his tough guy persona
- “David Gilmour doesn’t show anger often… that night, if he knew karate he’d have broken the table”: Fight over Comfortably Numb’s inclusion on The Wall was key moment in Pink Floyd’s history
- "It wasn’t just about making a record anymore; it was about survival." How Tool survived the death of 90s alt metal and a lengthy legal battle to create 2001's prog metal masterpiece Lateralus
- Welcome To Rockville and Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival both return in May 2027 - here's why you can't afford to miss them
- No Glastonbury? No problem. Create your own mini-festival at home this summer, with no rain to spoil the fun
- "There’s two days missing from my life. Apparently, we had a really good time!" That time The Cure's Robert Smith went on a 48 hours drinking session with David Bowie's guitarist, then offered him a job
- “You might think, ‘Is he so wrapped up in the problems of being human? is this who he is all day?’ It’s not!” Why the happy, positive Bruce Soord writes sad, melancholy solo albums
- "Be you and be confident in that. It doesn’t mean being a bitch." Amy Lee reflects on 20-plus years of Evanescence, collaborating with everyone from Bring Me The Horizon and Poppy to Tyler Bates, and why the band were never goth
- Blink-182 fans, where are you? Celebrate Blink-182 Day in style with my pick of t-shirts, caps, posters & more
- “I’m like, ‘I don’t know, man! I’m in Arizona!’” In 1993, Kurt Cobain asked Sepultura man Max Cavalera where to get heroin in Brazil
- “Make peace with who you are. Sit with yourself and your pain in ways that are really uncomfortable”: Devin Townsend feels like it took a 10-year dump to deliver The Moth
- "Our best friends were drug dealers. We identified with them because we felt like outcasts, menaces to society": The chaotic story of Aerosmith’s early years
- "I was on the floor, and he had his boot on my throat. I was like, That's great Elvis, that's great." The surreal story of the night Alice Cooper met Elvis Presley
