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- May 27
- May 26
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- Noel Gallagher dismisses The 1975's Matty Healy as a "slack-jawed f***wit” for calling for an Oasis reunion, advises him to split up his own "sh*t" band instead
- Tom Petty's estate takes legal action against auction house for allegedly selling stolen items
- Watch Metallica dust off I Disappear live for 80,000 French metal fans
- Hexvessel announce cold, dark new album Polar Veil
- The Pooper: Metalhead makes six-by-six foot Iron Maiden toilet that's big enough for the devil to take a dump in
- Watch Creeper brilliantly resurrect '80s stadium-goth vibes with Cry To Heaven. Plus new album and tour details revealed
- The 50 Greatest Guns N' Roses songs and the stories behind them - only in the new Classic Rock
- Was Nikki Sixx's bass playing secretly replaced on the early Motley Crue albums?
- May 25
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- Ghost’s Tobias Forge pays tribute to Tina Turner: “I always thought she was a fantastic artist”
- Rare Genesis, Camel, Mike Oldfield test pressings up for grabs in charity auction
- Kurt Cobain showed up to Nirvana's In Utero sessions with a chunk of the guitar Steve Albini smashed at Big Black's final show
- M Shadows says The Rev would have loved Avenged Sevenfold’s wild new album: “He’d be stoked”
- Foo Fighters release shimmering new dream pop single Show Me How, featuring vocals from Dave Grohl's daughter Violet
- Watch queen of rock 'n' roll Tina Turner deliver dazzling performances on US TV show The Midnight Special in 1973 and '75
- Watch Foo Fighters debut four songs from new album But Here We Are at first headline show since Taylor Hawkins' death
- Music doesn't get much breezier than The Doobie Brothers on the Midnight Special
- Avenged Sevenfold are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer – and it comes with three exclusive gifts!
- The Foo Fighters have returned to the stage: setlist and photos now online
- Halestorm hook up with Ashley McBryde for stirring new version of Terrible Things
- May 24
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- Tina Turner: the music world pays tribute
- Tina Turner dead at 83
- We now know what Slipknot's Corey Taylor thinks of AI-generated music
- Josh Homme on Lynyrd Skynyrd continuing with no original members: "They're a covers band...but people still want to hear the songs"
- If you want to know how that rumoured Oasis reunion is going, Noel Gallagher just called Liam Gallagher "a coward", and Liam says Noel is a "bell end"
- Yes "growing again", says Steve Howe, as band release video for Circles Of Time
- Watch a baby-faced Jack Black on his first ever acting job for a video game commercial in 1982
- Listen to this fake Megadeth album written by an enthusiastic mega fan in under 24 hours
- The upcoming movie adaptation of Stephen King's own book The Boogeyman apparently "scared the s**t" out of him
- Listen to Bryan Adams' emotional plea for an end to global conflict on new single What If There Were No Sides At All
- Kansas announce new violin player Joe Deninzon
- The moment Chuck Berry heard Yoko Ono screaming for the first time has gone viral
- Listen to members of Green Day, Fugazi, Dead Kennedys, Gogol Bordello on new charity single for Ukrainian freedom fighters
- May 23
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- Watch Metallica's Kirk Hammett play John Lennon and Yardbirds classics alongside Johnny Depp, Ronnie Wood, Billy Gibbons, Imelda May at Jeff Beck tribute gig
- Stevie Nicks thanks Taylor Swift for the song that's helping her grieve Christine McVie
- Black Stone Cherry announce run of intimate UK dates and in-store appearances
- Clown wants to do a Slipknot residency: "Wouldn’t it be great if we had seven days at a venue and played every album in its entirety?"
- The Darkness' Justin Hawkins says Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante is an "overrated" and "child-like" guitarist
- Horror video game Dead By Daylight announce collaboration with Slipknot and Iron Maiden
- Watch Ghost play Genesis' Jesus He Knows Me live for the first time
- Metallica’s James Hetfield visits wounded Ukrainian soldiers in hospital: “You made my day”
- Rick Allen has spoken publicly for the first time about being attacked in Florida
- May 22
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- Photo gallery: Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe's Stadium Tour has kicked off in The UK
- Watch Kate Bush perform Hounds Of Love in a magical rare appearance at a music industry awards show
- A battered guitar which Nirvana's Kurt Cobain gifted to his friend Mark Lanegan sells at auction for almost $600,000
- This official AI-generated Type O Negative video is as creepy and weird as you imagine
- Haken and Riverside to headline Midsummer Prog Festival
- Noel Gallagher shares regrets about meeting David Bowie while "high and p*ssed": "I have no recollection of it whatsoever"
- Rammstein pull out rarities in first show of 2023
- Algy Ward, former bassist with Tank, The Damned and The Saints, dead at 63
- Watch Foo Fighters' debut new song Nothing At All with new drummer Josh Freese
- Extreme announce first UK tour in six years, with Living Colour in support
- Pianist transforms Slipknot music into classical wedding entrance songs and melts our cold black hearts
- Strawbs in disarray as Dave Cousins hits back at fan complaints
- The Dead Daisies' merry-go-round continues as Glenn Hughes departs and John Corabi returns
- May 21
- May 20
- May 19
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- Listen to new Blur single The Narcissist, as the reunited BritPop superstars announce their first album in eight years, The Ballad Of Darren
- Paul McCartney and Elton John are the only rock stars to feature on the Sunday Times' annual 'Rich List' of Britain's wealthiest people
- Does the Ghost puzzle game hold the secret to Papa Emeritus IV's future?
- Watch this metal-loving meteorologist drop Sleep Token lyrics into his weather forecast
- Asia's "reunion" album Phoenix to be reissued as lavish double vinyl set
- Greta Van Fleet share a majestic ode to their love of wearing jumpsuits with new single Sacred The Thread
- Black metal band Marduk kick out bassist after onstage Nazi salute
- Chad Kroeger on Nickelback receiving less hate: "It's really nice to not be Public Enemy Number One"
- This horror series on Amazon Prime is scaring viewers so much people are struggling to finish watching it
- "For Virginia and Taylor": Foo Fighters dedicate new album But Here We Are to Dave Grohl's mother and Taylor Hawkins
- The Smiths bassist Andy Rourke has died aged 59
- Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells at 50 on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- Watch videos from Peter Gabriel's first full solo show in a decade - plus setlist
- The Damned's Captain Sensible once invited The BBC to his parents' house and played a song to his rabbit
- May 18
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- Glam sensations Starbenders launch vivacious new single Sex
- A German concert promoter once offered Black Sabbath an extra one way plane ticket in case they needed to bring a "sacrificial victim" to their gig
- A British city now has a new mayor who loves Metallica and speaks Klingon: watch his very metal inauguration
- Sting believes that humanity is going to be caught up in "a battle we all have to fight" against artificial intelligence
- Courtney Love shares Kurt Cobain's unpublished scrapped lyrics for Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit
- More Tubular Bells tour dates announced
- Watch Stevie Nicks give a fabulous impromptu performance during a 1981 Rolling Stone photoshoot, captured in this rare behind-the-scenes footage
- Robert Fripp and Toyah announce Rock Party tour
- Five reasons why Heavy Metal Truants is the most awesome metal charity
- Get your exclusive Tenacious D x Metal Hammer bundle – featuring an art card signed by Jack Black and Kyle Gass
- Watch a teenage Paramore busking on the street before they were famous
- May 17
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- “We did a lot of f**king drugs - the good kind!": Synyster Gates on Avenged Sevenfold's new album Life Is But A Dream...
- Billy Corgan has one good thing to say about the music industry in 2023: "The gatekeepers are dead and now people are figuring out who the real bands are"
- Watch Dave Grohl's first ever performance with Nirvana in this rare footage from 1990
- Listen to heartbreaking new Foo Fighters single Under You
- Jimi Hendrix is to battle a tyrannical intergalactic force in an official graphic novel
- Silver Moth announce November live dates for the UK
- Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and Free's Paul Rodgers reviewed Black Sabbath in 1970, and were not at all impressed
- Slipknot's Corey Taylor says he "couldn't care less" about being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- King Gizzard rock out on new album PetroDragonic Apocalypse
- A happy Jimmy Page playing air guitar is today's fix of wholesome video goodness
- May 16
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- Foo Fighters, The Cure, Queens Of The Stone Age, Turnstile and more announced for Riot Fest 2023
- Slowthai appears in court charged with two counts of rape
- Billy Corgan says Kurt Cobain was "the most talented guy of our generation" and reveals he cried when Cobain died because he'd "lost his greatest opponent"
- Metallica are still hating on Ride The Lightning deep cut Escape even after all these years
- Step aside beauty influencers, here's Gene Simmons with a tutorial on how to perfectly achieve Kiss' make-up look
- Five Finger Death Punch pull out of Download
- Listen to Ghost's lovingly faithful cover of Iron Maiden's Phantom Of The Opera from their forthcoming Phantomime EP
- Rick Wakeman announces Return Of The Caped Crusader live dates for 2024
- Watch David Lee Roth dancing joyously to an Annie Lennox song in front of a statue of a rearing stallion
- King's X's Doug Pinnick has explained that time when he was three and got abducted by an alien who looked like Jesus
- May 15
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- Rivers Cuomo wishes he could go back in time to stop Weezer from releasing so much music
- Prince George loves listening to Led Zeppelin and AC/DC, according to his rocker dad Prince William
- Curved Air and Sky founder Francis Monkman has died, aged 73
- Rega put a fresh spin on their Planar 3 turntable to mark 50th anniversary
- Pain Of Salvation, Ozric Tentacles and Big Big Train to headline 2Days Prog +1 Festival
- Måneskin’s Victoria De Angelis on Italy's "conservative" attitude towards homosexuality: "Many people still believe that it's a sin"
- Here are Korn, Deftones and System Of A Down’s Sick New World setlists to prove that nu metal is alive and kicking in 2023
- British politician lands himself in trouble for sharing Rainbow's Kill The King on social media days after the coronation
- Watch a death metal band start a circle pit outside a GameStop store while people queue for the new Zelda game
- May 14
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- Ted Nugent's Midnight Special videos are a reminder that he was once worth watching
- This week's Toyah and Robert Fripp video was brought to you by sadomasochism, bondage and submission
- Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong walked into a London bar last night and sang Basket Case with an astonished covers band: watch fan-filmed footage
- May 13
- May 12
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- Disturbed's David Draiman admits that he "almost joined" Chester Bennington, Chris Cornell and Scott Weiland this year while fighting addiction and depression
- Foo Fighters are lining up “soon to be announced” UK live dates
- Watch Jimi Hendrix hang out with The Rolling Stones backstage in New York on his last ever birthday
- Watch skateboard legend Tony Hawk nail 'supergroup' cover of Nine Inch Nails' Wish, with a bonus Trent Reznor cameo
- Neal Morse Band announce brand new live album
- Avenged Sevenfold's new single We Love You is a wild genre-clashing cosmic ride
- Watch a face-painted Jim Carrey duet with Alice Cooper onstage in Hawaii
- Luke Morley's new single Killed By Cobain tells the unfortunate story of how Thunder failed to break America
- Audiophile label MoFi to cough up $25 million to settle fraud lawsuit
- Dolly Parton has released the first single from her rock album and it most definitely rocks
- Tenacious D defend "the honour and integrity" of video games in banjo-driven one-minute single
- May 11
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- John 5 says Motley Crue's new music is heavier than anything on Shout At The Devil
- Queens Of The Stone Age share new single Emotion Sickness, announce new album
- Keanu Reeves' band Dogstar to reunite for their first public show in 20 years
- Iron Maiden are going to battle with an underwear company over its name
- Watch a teenage James Corden look on as his first ever interviewee, Meat Loaf, bangs his head against a table and talks about musicals
- The guy who everyone thought was 'Meghan in disguise' at the Coronation was a former member of Soft Machine
- May 10
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- Black Stone Cherry announce new album Screamin' At The Sky
- An official Syd Barrett YouTube channel has been launched
- Watch this Metallica fan play Master Of Puppets using every 'instrument' imaginable, including straws, bananas and, er, a toilet door
- The Flower Kings announce European headline tour for October
- “I couldn’t breathe!”: Duff McKagan’s new song was written in the middle of a panic attack – and got him through it
- Listen to this haunting AI Freddie Mercury cover of The Beatles' Yesterday
- Voyager announce UK and European headline tour
- Marilyn Manson's defamation lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood has multiple claims thrown out
- Rita Lee, Brazil's "Queen of Rock", dead at 75
- Watch Steven Tyler poke fun at 'Peace Out' tag for Aerosmith's farewell tour
- Ex Megadeth bassist says Dave Mustaine's long-held Metallica grudge is "f***ing pathetic"
- May 9
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- Dolly Parton details long-awaited, much-hyped, star-studded rock album
- Jason Newsted lambasts "idiots" who criticise Lars Ulrich's drumming: "they have no idea what they're talking about"
- Tangerine Dream announce full UK tour for November
- Judas Priest's Rob Halford: "when disco came along, the entire industry turned its back on metal"
- Ozzy Osbourne reveals his favourite horror movie ever: "we were *****ing ourselves!"
- Yes announce new Classic Tales Of Yes tour dates for 2024
- May 8
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- Mammoth WVH launch "completely different" new single Like A Pastime
- Sum 41 to call it a day and reveal plans for global farewell tour
- You can now listen to Motorhead's cover of Metallica classic Enter Sandman - complete with a "horrifying" animated video
- Former Kayak vocalist Edward Reekers unveils star-studded The Liberty Project
- Canadian band lucky to escape unharmed after tour van written off in collision with moose
- May 7
- May 6
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- Global demand for live concerts is "unprecedented"
- Disturbed's David Draiman invites single ladies to swipe right on Tinder
- Could Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reunite for Rush's 50th anniversary next year?
- Watch Tom DeLonge and Blink-182 perform tracks co-written by Matt Skiba
- Minnesota highway to be renamed in honour of Prince
- Billy Corgan paid ransom to hacker who threatened to leak new Smashing Pumpkins songs
- May 5
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- Watch Carrie Underwood bare her rock 'n' roll soul once more with a gorgeous cover of Ozzy Osbourne's Mama, I'm Coming Home
- So Shaquille O'Neal has made a rap song that samples Bodies by Drowning Pool
- U.K.'s Curtain Call gets remaster and worldwide release
- Listen to Peter Gabriel's brooding new single Four Kinds Of Horses
- May 4
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- David Bowie and Rod Stewart collaborator Linda Lewis dead at 72
- Ghost triumph at Swedish Grammis
- Watch Bring Me The Horizon's gory, gruesome and fabulously silly NSFW video for new pop-punk single Lost
- New John Wetton book to be published in June
- Star Wars Day 2023: Set your blasters for stun - it’s May the 4th and we have the best gift ideas in the galaxy
- Frost* announce their first ever live Blu-ray
- AI Lana Del Rey covering Nine Inch Nails' Hurt in the style of Johnny Cash is both exquisitely beautiful and slightly creepy
- Ultravox announce Deluxe Edition of 1982's Quartet
- So the first single from Corey Taylor's new solo album is a song he was playing 14 years ago
- Voyager announce new studio album Fearless In Love
- The Internet has blessed us with a Korn vs Bob Marley Freak On A Leash mash-up
- May 3
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- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame boss tells Iron Maiden fans to bide their time
- Rage Against The Machine on "surprising" Rock and Roll Hall of Fame success
- Watch Greta Van Fleet official music video for Meeting The Master
- Alice Cooper and Aerosmith's Joe Perry once moved into a haunted house to write songs for a horror movie: it did not end well
- New Steve Hogarth and Richard Barbieri EP to be released
- How Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded a sweet tribute to Guns N' Roses, but ended up causing beef with Axl Rose instead
- Ozzy Osbourne will play more shows even if he has to be wheeled out on stage: "it’s not a job, it’s a ***ing passion!"
- Kate Bush and Rage Against The Machine to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Steven Tyler's lawyers want a claim of "intentional infliction of emotional distress" struck from sexual assault of a minor lawsuit filed against him
- Someone out there has the only recording of a one-off AC/DC and Lynyrd Skynyrd studio jam and the world may never get to hear it
- Remembering the time Bon Scott made a rival drink his urine. Out of a turkey
- Watch John Fogerty play a cacophonous Creedence classic on kid's instruments
- Lamb of God announce US summer tour
- May 2
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- Shinedown announce US tour with Papa Roach and Spiritbox
- Watch pro-shot footage of Tool, Primus and QOTSA members covering Ænima
- "Who the f**k wants mature rock ’n’ roll?" The Hives return with a new single, new album details and a bunch of white lies
- That time Nirvana destroyed everything in sight and then set their own tour bus on fire
- Watch David Bowie play Suffragette City for the first time in London, just 8 days after recording it for Ziggy Stardust
- "Everybody was comatose!" Rick Wakeman on recording with Black Sabbath
- Tom DeLonge used gratuitous auto-tune at Blink-182's recent show and fans are divided about it
- Watch Keanu Reeves troll an angry death metal festival crowd with his grunge band: "We got killed"
- Barclay James Harvest announce orchestral show
- Watch this woman on a 'girly weekend' with her mum accidentally gatecrash the world's biggest goth festival, Whitby Goth Weekend
- Judas Priest announce first UK headline tour for almost a decade...but you'll have to wait a while to see it
- Lemmy once tried to kick Tenacious D off a Motorhead show...so they snuck on stage and played anyway
- Watch: A fan let off an almighty fart during a Sleep Token gig and totally killed the vibe
- Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dead at 84
- Nita Strauss says pop shows are free of the "gatekeeping" that afflicts rock and metal
- Are you ready for Crynyl? Fall Out Boy vinyl records made from their tears
- May 1
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- Metallica: photos from the opening nights of 2023's biggest tour
- Aerosmith announce farewell Peace Out tour
- Brad return after 10-year hiatus with new album and Shawn Smith's final recordings
- Horslips guitarist Johnny Fean has died, aged 71
- Mötley Crüe played the NFL draft party and people are divided about the show's merits
- There's a version of Hole's Celebrity Skin featuring AI vocals from Kurt Cobain and the future is gonna be really messy
- A sultry funk version of AC/DC's Back In Black starring Joe Bonamassa? Step right this way
