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- June 14
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- YouTube instructor claims Slash learned some blues guitar by watching his videos
- Arjen Anthony Lucassen shares 15-minute mini-movie as he announces apocalyptic new solo album Songs No One Will Hear
- “The goal was to die onstage!” Why retirement is a four-letter word for Metallica’s Kirk Hammett
- "Obviously, I’m gonna buy him a beer or two or three." Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell thanks stem cell donor after getting cancer all clear
- "It is a wonderful honour for me": The Who's Roger Daltrey reacts to receiving a Knighthood in King Charles III's Birthday Honours list
- June 13
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- OceanGate CEO wanted Pearl Jam to be in doomed Titanic submersible, according to new documentary
- Get an exclusive Chris Squire t-shirt you can’t buy anywhere else with Prog!
- The world's first Ozzy Osbourne exhibition will open in Black Sabbath's hometown, Birmingham, this summer
- Judas Priest kick off Painkiller anniversary tour with rarities-stacked setlist – see what they played and watch videos here
- Watch Muse premiere new single Unravelling on the opening night of their European tour
- Watch 90s pop crew Vengaboys pull an insane crowd at Download, the UK's biggest rock and metal festival
- June 12
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- "There was not going to be a Led Zeppelin for me, but this was a parallel": Jimmy Page and Black Crowes discuss Live At The Greek in revealing short film
- How to watch Bonnaroo 2025: Megadeth, QOTSA & more set for annual music and arts festival
- Between The Buried And Me announce new record deal, new album and share new single
- "Kids saw the video on MTV and thought, 'This is cool. These guys are kinda ugly and they're tearing up their high school.' It attracted some riff-raff." Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit video has now been viewed more than two billion times on YouTube
- Roger Waters shares new trailer for This Is Not A Drill - Live from Prague The Movie
- Lars Ulrich has (maybe) seen your Metallica memes
- June 11
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- "A one-of-a-kind genius from another world": The world of rock reacts to the death of Brian Wilson
- Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson dead at 82
- Watch Sex Pistols and Primal Scream form an impromptu supergroup while rehearsing in the same building
- "We understand you've been patiently Counting Out Time..." Genesis shift release of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 50th Anniversary box set back to late Autumn
- "Apparently pretending to play guitar on a public path is a criminal offence." British metalcore crew Malevolence are beefing with UK nature charity The National Trust
- Todd Rundgren announces live dates for London and Birmingham for October
- "He would have been so perfect in it." Sharon Osbourne says that blocking Ozzy from auditioning for a blockbuster film franchise is the biggest mistake she ever made
- "He lit up the room like the sun. Then, just like that, he was gone": Glam-punks Starbenders release tribute to the mysterious Chantilly Boy
- June 10
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- "I remember thinking, This is ridiculous. Johnny finally said, 'This isn’t working'." Rick Rubin once tried to get Johnny Cash to record Robert Palmer's US number one single Addicted To Love
- Yes announce The Fragile Tour 2025
- Turnstile announce US tour schedule for September and October
- "The songs are the same, but you will just not recognise the vibe." Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson announces More Balls To Picasso, a heavier, expanded, remixed and remastered update of his 1994 solo album Balls To Picasso
- "I thought it was a joke. To get that nod was really nice." Turnstile's Brendan Yates on pop superstar Charli XCX's prediction that this could be 'Turnstile Summer'
- "The worrying thing for me is the unknown. We don't know what's going to happen." Tony Iommi admits that he's feeling "excitement mixed with fear" as Black Sabbath's last ever gig draws near
- "It's the opening credits to a long, 90-minute musical film..." Mariusz Duda shares new Lunatic Soul single The World Under Unsun
- “It’s a really loveable ball of barbed wire”: Watch Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall praise the wholesomeness of heavy metal fans on Australian TV
- "It's a new album now": Deep Purple launch 20th anniversary refurbishment of Rapture Of The Deep
- Thin Lizzy's long-lost 1971 BBC session has surfaced online
- June 9
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- Pioneering psychedelic soul legend Sly Stone dead at 82
- "Lucky gal right here!" Watch three absolute metal queens unite on stage as Sharon den Adel and Simone Simons surprise Cristina Scabbia for her birthday in the middle of a Lacuna Coil set
- "It felt like a revolution could happen." Pulp's Jarvis Cocker on the '90s indie-rock explosion, and why he hates the word Britpop
- "We are missing one of our brothers." Watch Slipknot play to a massive crowd headlining Rock Am Ring festival without founding member Shawn Crahan
- "We're gonna warm you up!" You can watch Spiritbox's entire, pro shot, rain-soaked Rock Am Ring 2025 set right now
- "I really like Slipknot." Watch Babymetal reveal their three favourite metal bands ever and discuss some of the surprising collaborations on new album Metal Forth
- June 8
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- Watch Robert Plant play five Led Zeppelin classics in official pro-shot video
- Guns N' Roses announce more 2025 tour dates
- Watch pop superstar Chappell Roan absolutely kill it with a brilliant cover of Heart’s Barracuda
- “I love what they have brought to the metal scene. They have a completely different spin on a genre that often runs on the same cart tracks”: Why Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello loves Babymetal
- Watch Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney covering The Beatles onstage in Liverpool last night
- June 7
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- Watch video for new Scars On Broadway track Killing Spree
- "It should have gone out with a fricking bang that shook the world, and it was more like a whimper." Michael Anthony on his Van Halen regret
- Amorphis drop first new music from upcoming album Borderland with anthemic new single Light And Shadow
- “You have to know Donald’s sense of humour. It was a total set-up”: Did Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen really tell the people behind the Yacht Rock movie to “F*** off”?
- Rush announce limited edition box set of their final four albums
- Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's farewell gig in Birmingham next month will be livestreamed globally: find out how you can watch the greatest metal show ever
- June 6
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- Watch Creeper preview their forthcoming album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death with punky new single Headstones, which explores "the dark perils of rock ’n’ roll, sins of the flesh, and pure evil"
- "It's an album of soul food, and I've never been so grateful, right here, on planet Earth": Glenn Hughes announces first album in nine years
- Watch Turnstile perform two songs on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon ahead of today's release of new album Never Enough
- "I want it to be like a religious experience." Yungblud announces UK and Ireland arena tour
- New Pink Floyd book celebrates the band's career with unpublished interviews and Syd Barrett's letters of the time
- Indian rock band go viral after flying across the world to cover Adele on America's Got Talent
- June 5
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- "He told me, You've got this opportunity to be a rock star because you're not afraid to say the things other people won't." Yungblud reveals the career advice he received from a machete-wielding rock star who sees him as a kindred spirit
- Roger Waters shares clip of Wish You Were Here as he announces new This Is Not A Drill - Live From Prague The Movie
- "The build up to the album has reached its zenith and you are elevated to the top of the soaring tomb." Katatonia share new video for Wind Of No Change
- Slipknot’s Jim Root once asked Diamond Rowe of nu metal up-and-comers Tetrarch for guitar lessons: “I was like, ‘OK, dude, come on!’”
- "Five middle-aged, slightly hungover geezers miming along to something." Opeth share new band performance video of §1
- "They could certainly all have been in Fleetwood Mac": Stevie Nicks likes Haim so much she's working on a new song with them
- June 4
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- "These instruments are more than just tools of our trade - they're extensions of our musical souls": Nancy Wilson offers "no questions asked" reward for return of stolen Heart guitars
- Steve Perry launches sale of personal artefacts to raise funds for victims of Los Angeles fires
- The biggest tour in the history of deathcore? Slaughter To Prevail announce 2026 European tour with Suicide Silence, Dying Fetus and reforming Annotations Of An Autopsy
- “It’s just not as fun, unfortunately”: Wolfgang Van Halen reveals he doesn’t listen to Van Halen anymore
- The Best of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells I, II & III tour announced for February and March 2026
- "We have lift off." Oasis have started rehearsals for their world tour, and Liam Gallagher says it's "spiritual" playing with his brother Noel once again
- This Black Sabbath song has “one of the best riffs of all time”, according to Employed To Serve’s Sammy Urwin
- June 3
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- Previously unseen pro-shot footage of Captain Beefheart performing live in Paris in 1972 has surfaced online
- "Wild Ones isn't just a song, it's a statement": Watch the first footage of the reunited Alice Cooper Band recording together
- A new photo exhibition featuring stunning life-size portraits of some of the most iconic guitars in rock history is opening in London next week
- Lemmy’s hometown may get new music venue in memory of late Motörhead leader
- Ozzy Osbourne to make public appearance at Comic Con days after retirement gig
- Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with a Volbeat cover – and a t-shirt you won’t find anywhere else
- Coheed And Cambria announce October European and UK tour
- Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt explains why Steven Wilson stopped producing their albums: “I could hear some ideas in my head that I like to think he would have brought up”
- "These are films I've waited years to work on": 40 minutes of newly scanned footage of Led Zeppelin playing in Tokyo in 1971 has appeared online
- June 2
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- "It’s a story about resilience, finding ways to cope, and not giving up." Watch the trailer for Every Time You Lose Your Mind, a new documentary saluting cult alt.rockers Failure, featuring interviews with Maynard James Keenan, Hayley Williams and more
- "I don't want to pretend everything's hunky dory." Shirley Manson says that she feels "isolated" in Garbage, admits "there's very little proper communication about anything at all"
- "I remember showing the lyrics to my grandmother, saying, Look at this, this is like poetry!" Gavin and Stacey and Would I Lie To You? star Rob Brydon on his life-long love of Bruce Springsteen
- June 1
