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Pink Floyd share newly restored Hi-Res footage of Echoes from 1973 cult-classic surf film Crystal Voyager

By Jerry Ewing Published

Pink Floyd will release a special San Tropez orange vinyl reissue of Meddle for National Album Day in October

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Floor Jansen in 2026
Ex-Nightwish singer Floor Jansen on her worst album – and the prog metal deep cut which makes her cry

By Hannah May Kilroy Published

The velvet-voiced symphonic metal singer details the soundtrack of her life

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Richard Thompson studio portrait
Richard Thompson's mastery of Fender and folk shines on Hippies, Thugs And Heroes

By Pat Carty Published

More engaging stories from master craftsman Richard Thompson

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Rick Wakeman standing on Mars
Rick Wakeman outdoes Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos on Return To The Red Planet

By Philip Wilding Published

Keyboard wiz Rick Wakeman's new album Return To The Red Planet documents his continuing Mars obsession

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Tré Cool, Mike Dirnt and Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day
"I thought people were probably gonna hate it." How Nimrod, and its surprise hit single Good Riddance (Time of Your Life), taught Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong to stop caring about dumb punk rock rules

By Paul Travers Published

Released on October 14, 1997, Green Day's fifth studio album taught Billie Joe Armstrong to trust himself and no-one else

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Metallica in a dressing room on their European tour
The best Metallica songs of the 90s

By Paul Brannigan Published

Think Metallica lost their way in the 90s? Think again

Tracks & Singles
Wilco pose backstage at the Riviera Theater, Chicago, Illinois, November 23, 2001: Jeff Tweedy, Nels Cline, Glen Kotche, and John Stirratt
A roots band created an album so progressively ironic that a label paid for it twice

By Rob Hughes Published

Amid contract changes and line-up switches, the American group delivered a complex and adventurous work that’s outsold everything else they’ve done

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Roy Harper backstage at Kilburn Empire State, London, 1976
From petty crime and prison to folk legend: Nine Roy Harper albums to listen to and one to avoid

By Rob Hughes Published

Buying guide Led Zeppelin wrote a song about him, Pink Floyd invited him to sing on another, but this is the very best of Roy Harper's own recorded work

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Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder at Pinkpop Festival, 08/06/1992
How Pearl Jam's intense, combative second album Vs. saved the band's soul

By Paul Brannigan Published

Released on October 11, 1993 in the UK and on October 19, '93 in the US, Pearl's Jam's Vs. is the sound of a band lashing out at everything

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Jon Anderson performing during a solo acoustic set on stage at Under The Bridge in London, on August 10, 2013. (Photo by Will Ireland/Prog Magazine/Future via Getty Images/Future via Getty Images)
Yes icon Jon Anderson was close to death in 2008. Naturally, he made an album about it

By Grant Moon Published

He issued an open invitation for composers anywhere to send him their music. The result was Survival & Other Stories, and a one-man acoustic tour that brought him back from the edge

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