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Eddie Vedder's surprise cameo with Roger Waters at the 12-12-12 concert brought Madison Square Garden to its feet
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From Aretha Franklin to Gravediggaz, Julie Christmas makes us a soundtrack of her life
Unique noise/post-rock maverick Julie Christmas makes us a playlist and tells us the stories behind her picks
ADHD, jazz-obsessed parents and a traumatic tube attack: inside the rise of Graphic Nature, one of the UK's most exciting young metal bands
Graphic Nature's blend of propulsive nu metal, metallic hardcore and electronic flourishes has marked them out as ones to watch in the UK scene
Kris Kristofferson on Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash and country music
An interview with the late Kris Kristofferson: singer, songwriter, actor and legend
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Watch Motörhead’s Lemmy play the violin in this bizarre Kit Kat advert from 2001
What do Lemmy Kilmister, Kelly Brook, the Daleks and former footballer Roy Keane have in common? Nothing. But Kit Kat put them in an ad campaign together anyway.
The epic life and high times of Bad Company bassist Boz Burrell, rock’n’roll’s ultimate cool dude
Boz Burrell bought effortless cool to King Crimson and Bad Company and died the way he lived – on his own terms
How Amy Lee reconnected with herself on Evanescence’s self-titled third album
Evanescence’s self-titled third album saw the band return after a long hiatur - but Amy Lee had to work out whether she wanted to continue with the band first
Creed’s Scott Phillips on the comical, thrifty method the band used to replicate The Matrix’s bullet-time in their Higher video
The US rockers were MTV catnip in the early 00s but the band weren’t always convinced about their vids until they saw the finished article
The story of Porcupine Tree’s Stupid Dream, the cult classic that prepared prog for the 21st century
Steven Wilson looks back on the making of Porcupine Tree’s breakthrough 1999 album, Stupid Dream
From the bargain bin to the big time: Urge Overkill on how Pulp Fiction saved their career
Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon became the Chicago quartet’s biggest hit, and there’s a few people they have to thank for it
Genesis’ Selling England By The Pound wore a smile over hidden depths
By the time they’d toured their 1973 album, they’d had a sit single, proved Phil Collins could deliver lead vocals, and offered a hint at what would come after Steve Hackett and Peter Gabriel left
How Machine Head followed a 21st century metal classic with Unto The Locust
Machine Head’s Unto The Locust was the follow-up to career high-point The Blackening – but Robb Flynn wasn’t feeling the presssure
How The Cure’s Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers albums became goth’s great ‘Dark Trilogy’
The Cure’s Robert Smith looks back on the albums that turned the band into the goth icons they are today
The epic story of Jimi Hendrix’s Axis: Bold As Love, the heart of the guitarist‘s Holy Trinity
The story of Axis: Bold Of Love, Hendrix’s “science fiction rock’n’roll” masterpiece
How Mimi Barks went from Berlin fetish clubs to nu gen star
This Is Doom Trap represents a moment of realisation for nu gen star Mimi Barks
