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- July 31
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- Big Big Train sign new multi-album deal with InsideOut Music
- Brian May: "Humans are pretty much eliminating all species except the ones that we think are useful to us"
- "I know Dad would have been really proud": Wolfgang Van Halen explains why he played two Van Halen songs to honour Taylor Hawkins
- "Get that f***ing Siri or whatever out of your house": John Lydon warns against the dangers of AI, which he claims has "infiltrated young people’s minds now to the point of total domination"
- "Finally the big four will clash and thrash together!" The 'Big Four' of German thrash metal - Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and Tankard - announce first ever show together
- In 1974 Steve Miller played The Joker and Fly Like An Eagle on US TV and transformed them into something entirely new
- "I just love the freedom to get to do whatever you want": Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante looks to the future, and teases "new stuff on the horizon"
- “We probably did about as much as we could have... but I have a regret or two”: Pink Floyd's David Gilmour reflects on what he might have done differently with Syd Barrett
- Periphery announce first European tour for over four years
- Watch Foo Fighters and Alanis Morissette join forces to perform tribute to Sinead O'Connor during Japanese festival appearance
- John Wetton's An Extraordinary Life eight disc box set out in November
- "Too hot to handle": Watch Disturbed accidentally set sprinklers off with pyro at Houston show during performance of, yes, you guessed it, Inside The Fire
- July 29
- July 28
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- “Dave said, ‘No, not doing it’”: Eddie, Alex and Wolfgang Van Halen once wrote a brand new Van Halen song, only for David Lee Roth to refuse to sing it
- "Amazing!": Watch this Bon Jovi-approved cat accidentally (sort of) play the introduction to Livin' On A Prayer
- “Bon Scott was a bit of a gangster, and that stuff is very linked with rock music”: Saxon’s Biff Byford on how AC/DC changed his life
- Watch Fall Out Boy pay tribute to Sinead O'Connor with a live cover of Nothing Compares 2 U
- District 97 announce new album Stay For The Ending
- Former Eagles bassist Randy Meisner dead at 77
- July 27
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- Bruce Soord announces third solo album Luminescence
- Five things we’re looking forward to at Radar Festival 2023
- Watch hilarious footage of an orchestra audience's wild mosh-pits at a recent UK music festival
- "All her pain, all her beauty, those incredible songs, she deserves sainthood": the rock world pays tribute to Sinead O'Connor
- "It was a magical and very inspiring time.” Max Cavalera reveals his favourite Sepultura album, whether he'd ever reunite with the band
- July 26
- July 25
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- “I got rick rolled but it was worth it”: Someone has covered Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up in the style of Deftones and it’s actually shockingly good
- “I cleaned the beach and dumped the rubbish in the mayor’s parking lot”: Gojira’s Joe Duplantier remembers his early environmental protests
- Roger Waters to premiere Dark Side Redux at London Palladium in October
- “Doctors put something down my neck and straight to my groin”: Ozzy Osbourne offers first health update since cancelling Power Trip festival show
- July 24
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- System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian shares snippet of new solo music
- Jason Becker is selling the guitar gifted to him by Eddie Van Halen to raise money for his ongoing medical care
- ELO performing In The Hall Of The Mountain King with an exploding cello on The Midnight Special is peak '70s TV
- Lego just sent a cease and desist to a post-hardcore band and we’re as "wildly confused" as they are
- “It’s always some fabricated, over-exaggerated bulls**t”: Why Slash doesn’t want a Guns N’ Roses biopic (yet)
- 'Here Lies Geezer Butler': How a falling out between ex-Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler turned bitter, nasty and personal in the '90s
- Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt and Richard Fortus from Guns N’ Roses are having an online bust-up over Slash and Rihanna
- July 23
- July 22
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- Listen to violinist Lindsey Stirling's rousing cover of Led Zeppelin classic Kashmir
- “Dime was still upset about Pantera”: Zakk Wylde recalls inspiring Dimebag Darrell to carry on in the early 2000s
- Watch Steely Dan tear up The Midnight Special with a killer version of My Old School taped in the summer of 1973
- "So, what, we're just casually accusing people of being a paedophile now for entertainment?": The 1975's Matty Healy rages against TikTok conversation before his band have festival set shut down for "non-compliance"
- “It was like being fired out of a cannon”: Wolfgang Van Halen looks back on joining Van Halen
- July 21
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- “Lizzy were a man down…”: Pat Travers on the time he nearly joined Thin Lizzy
- “We’d just play through it…”: Greta Van Fleet on the biker gang brawls at their early shows
- "It sounds like a Nickelback song": This AI James Hetfield cover of Seal's Kiss From A Rose is both ridiculous and impressive
- “AC/DC are the real deal”: Kiss frontman Paul Stanley picks his favourite AC/DC album – but what’s he gone for?
- Jean-Michel Jarre shares new version of Synthy Sisters with British composer Adiescar Chase
- Roger Waters will release Dark Side Of The Moon Redux on October 6
- "He’s a desperate, untalented piece of s***": Nirvana on the time Bon Jovi wanted to look like them
- The new issue of Classic Rock is a star-studded celebration of 50 years of AC/DC
- July 20
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- "Boo!" Watch Corey Taylor get a taste of his own medicine as someone in a spooky mask gives him a fright
- Jon Anderson recalls his drink-fuelled gig with Keith Emerson in 1969!
- “Thanks to everyone who has extracted a morsel of enjoyment from our music”: Queen receive a BRIT Billion Award
- Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman Gentle Giant, Strawbs and more on new Tony Visconti box set
- “It would have been career suicide”: Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares on why he refused to audition for Limp Bizkit
- Watch The Cure's Robert Smith burst into tears during a recent US show
- "I feel myself hyperventilating... he sounds like a demon!": Watch this vocal coach analyse Will Ramos' brutal delivery on Lorna Shore's To The Hellfire
- Roger Waters teases new Dark Side Of The Moon redux
- The new issue of Metal Hammer is a massive celebration of the 2000s
- July 19
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- New video released for Vivian Stanshall's Dog Howl In Tune
- Alice Cooper releases new single White Line Frankenstein featuring Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello
- "Geddy didn't understand what a blues scale was." Gene Simmons recalls the time he gave Rush's Geddy Lee a bass lesson on tour
- Jacoby Shaddix names Papa Roach and two other bands as the "next Metallicas"
- These are the rock and metal songs that have achieved a billion or more streams on Spotify
- July 18
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- Alice Cooper and Demi Lovato have written a song together, according to Nita Strauss: "they both said that it went amazingly well"
- Watch Megadeth's Dirk Verbeuren smash out The Killers' Mr Brightside perfectly on drums after hearing it for the very first time
- "If Slash jumps up and he’s got to play a clean intro to Rude Boy, it ain’t happening.” Nuno Bettencourt explains why playing guitar for Rihanna is way harder than you might imagine
- Yes announce Classic Tales Of Yes US tour dates
- Teeth Of The Sea announce brand new studio album Hive
- The one thing missing from the new Barbie movie soundtrack is this Barbie Girl x Slipknot mash-up that everyone needs to listen to immediately
- Geezer Butler recalls the time a stage invader with a knife tried to "sacrifice" Tony Iommi at a Black Sabbath show
- “For three days we had people screaming at us as if we were The Beatles”: Jarvis Cocker on the time that Pulp and Radiohead formed a supergroup to appear in a Harry Potter film
- Watch this singer nail The Darkness' classic I Believe In A Thing Called Love a whole octave higher than the original - alongside Justin Hawkins' brilliant reaction
- House of Marley keep the positive vibes alive with their new over-ear headphones
- July 17
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- Corey Taylor says he "completely backed" Metallica and Lars Ulrich's Napster battle: "if more people realized how badly artists were paid, they might say something"
- This insane drone footage of Lamb Of God smashing Now You’ve Got Something To Die For at Inkcarceration shows why they're still one of metal's greatest live bands
- Justin Hawkins was chosen to become the frontman of The Darkness after doing an interpretive dance to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody at a party
- Galahad ready new album The Long Goodbye
- Bassist Charlie Cawood joins UK proggers Kyros
- July 16
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- July 14
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- Sammy Hagar recalls exposing his genitals onstage while supporting Kiss in 1977: "I pulled my pants down, shook it at them and then smashed my guitar to bits"
- "It’s the most shambolic performance by Blur possible": Watch Blur perform on Italian TV with a cardboard cut-out of guitarist Graham Coxon
- "I find the world a very strange and screwed up place. I don’t feel comfortable in the world as it is now": Queen's Brian on why Britain's political landscape makes him depressed
- Steve Hackett previews Foxtrot At Fifty live album with Watcher Of The Skies video
- "I think this song is about Dave Mustaine considering moving to Colombia": Megadeth and The Offspring take on Shakira in one of 2023's best mash-ups
- July 13
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- "It was a labour of love": Brian May reveals his favourite Queen album
- "It was a lot of work writing this book. I'm not gonna say it was easy. I was a mess": Bikini Kill/Le Tigre's Kathleen Hanna announces 'raw and insightful' memoir Rebel Girl
- Starbenders share seductive new single Body Talk
- "John just looked at us and said, I can’t do this any more”: Brian May on why John Deacon walked away from Queen
- Corey Taylor reacts to Duff McKagan describing him as a young Bruce Springsteen: "That meant so much to me, 'cause I have not always been the easiest person to like in this business"
- Avenged Sevenfold frontman M Shadows: "technology overuse is killing metal and killing rock"
- Watch Hayley Williams deliver soulful Beyonce cover at recent Paramore show
- Prime Day is over but I've picked out the best deals that are still alive and kicking
- Listen to Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen play on Ryan Gosling's '80s-style power ballad I'm Just Ken from the Barbie soundtrack
- Hedvig Mollestad unveils new band with Elephant9 keyboardist Ståle Storløkken
- July 12
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- Here's a collection of classic album covers made out of Lego
- Blur's Damon Albarn pins Arctic Monkeys as "the last great guitar band", says no band has been as good as them since
- Amazon's top 100 Prime Day deals list is live – these are the 7 genuine bargains I would recommend
- "It was an utterly ridiculous idea": Geezer Butler on the embarrassing truth behind Black Sabbath's infamous Stonehenge set, their unfortunate 'devil baby' and Spinal Tap
- I’m a whisky geek who has too many bottles, but I'm all in on these Prime Day booze bargains
- Dani Filth admits he would feel "uncomfortable" wearing Cradle Of Filth's infamous Jesus t-shirt today: "I don't want spit in my food"
- TesseracT return with 11-minute epic War Of Being
- Watch Bruce Dickinson break gong mallet at Iron Maiden show, before pretending to play it like a flute and giving it a lick
- Rock and ‘roll’ this Prime Day with these epic band and pop culture Monopoly deals
- Amazon’s Prime Day AirPods Pro lowest price ever deal is music to my ears - with an impressive $50 saving
- "Bonehead started it!" Watch Noel and Liam Gallagher discuss getting barred from the Columbia hotel in this 1994 interview
- Rina Sawayama appears to call out The 1975's Matty Healy onstage for the second time: "Why don’t you apologise for once in your life without making it about yourself? "
- Hayley Griffiths Band return to the road with Metamorphosis tour
- John Lodge: "Graeme Edge said to me 'Keep the Moody Blues alive!'"
- July 11
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- "We are excited and ready to raise double horns way up high": Judas Priest replace Ozzy Osbourne on heavyweight Power Trip festival bill
- Diego Tejeida and Eric Gillette announce new band Temic
- My vinyl record picks are still rocking hard even though Prime Day is over
- Two of my favourite in-ear headphones are on sale for Prime Day - here's why you need them
- These Prime Day Audio-Technica turntable deals have put us in a spin
- Helmet announce UK and Europe tour dates in support of Left, their first studio album in seven years
- Beatrix Players announce joint headline shows with Amanda Lehmann
- Jack White labels Donald Trump a "fascist, racist con man", calls out "disgusting" celebrities who ‘normalize’ the former US President
- Focus return to the UK for November live dates
- Watch Dragonforce guitarist Herman Li nail the notoriously hard Through The Fire And Flames solo...while underwater
- Corey Taylor announces UK/Europe tour dates, shares intense new single Post Traumatic Blues
- Rick Wakeman announces new London date for 2024 UK tour
- July 10
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- Oli Sykes is animated as a vampire as Bring Me The Horizon team up with Corpse on video for CODE MISTAKE
- Ozzy pulls out of Power Trip Festival: "My body is telling me that I’m just not ready"
- Watch Nita Strauss get engaged at her album release show in Los Angeles
- Trivium's Paolo Gregoletto rips on nu metal, sparks big debate: "it was a very, very bad genre and anyone saying otherwise is a sicko"
- Watch Elton John play the final song on the final show of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour
- Depeche Mode announce new shows for 2024
- Slash is apparently BFFs with Insidious actor Patrick Wilson: "I bug him all the time"
- Nene Valley Rock Festival granted licence but Cambridge Rock Festival cancels
- Voyager share video for dark new single Ultraviolet
- The man who designed the cross on the cover of Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction has died
- July 9
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- July 6
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- "They're just beautiful, musically." Watch George Michael defend Joy Division against Morrissey and Tony Blackburn in this peak 80s exchange
- Our favourite rock and metal t-shirts have up to 30% for Prime Day: Iron Maiden, Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Motley Crue and more
- The Beatles' Ringo Starr names the song that he believes defines his career
- “This has to be the weirdest thing that’s ever been named after me!”: Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi presented with sculpture of 469 million-year-old fossil named in his honour
- The Eagles announce The Long Goodbye farewell tour: "Everything has its time, and the time has come for us to close the circle"
- Cellar Darling and Iamthemorning hook up for October European tour
- Watch Machine Gun Kelly make a fan's dream come true by punching him in the face
- "I appreciate you." See the heartwarming personal message Dolly Parton sent to Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx following their recent collaboration
- July 5
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- "Hayley and I have been friends since we were teens in Nashville and now we get to frolic around the UK/Europe next summer? I’m screaming": Taylor Swift announces Paramore as support on her 2024 Eras Tour
- Jethro Tull announce 40th anniversary reissue of The Broadsword And The Beast
- Two owl chicks rescued from beneath Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage after Guns N' Roses set have been named Axl and Slash
- Miranda Sex Garden announce UK tour
- Bruce Soord announces solo tour of EU and UK
- July 4
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- More electrifying footage from The Midnight Special's Steely Dan treasure trove has surfaced
- “Ozzy did a great big turd on his car”: how Ozzy Osbourne got his revenge on a promoter who refused to pay him after a disastrous gig
- "It's Spiderman again!" Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme reunites with masked superhero at European festival
- Floor Jansen cancels shows, reveals she collapsed after Nightwish concert: "my health is not good enough to responsibly perform"
- Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash reveals the horror movie that "scared the ****" out of him
- Bassist Mo Foster, who played on over 400 albums and singles, dead at 78
- GOAT to release their sinister proggy soundtrack to The Gallows Pole
- David Longdon's debut solo album Wild River gets expanded reissue
- People are losing their minds over Lil Uzi Vert's bizarre cover of System Of A Down's Chop Suey
- Local council threatens to cancel Download Festival over "unprecedented" traffic chaos and 600 missed flights
- July 3
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- Iron Maiden's Adrian Smith had mixed feelings about their iconic mascot Eddie: "I thought, 'Is this overshadowing the band?'"
- The Darkness announce UK and Ireland leg of their Permission To Land 20 world tour
- Keith Emerson celebrated with 20-disc box set Variations
- Adam Lambert: "There's no replacing Freddie Mercury. It's impossible. Freddie Mercury is a mythic rock god"
- Listen to Peter Gabriel's poignantly reflective new single So Much here
- Corey Taylor thinks he has "maybe five years” of touring with Slipknot, says he'll help the band find a replacement
- That time Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones appeared on Conan O'Brien with an alt-rock supergroup and it wasn't Them Crooked Vultures
- July 2
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- Watch Axl Rose take a tumble during Guns N' Roses show in London's Hyde Park
- The Guess Who, American Woman, and Burton Cummings in a glorious white suit
- “Sir, are you married?”: the unlikely connection between Queen’s Brian May and punk band X-Ray Spex
- Drive Like Jehu/Hot Snakes/Obits frontman Rick Froberg dead at 55
- Watch a young Queens Of The Stone Age tear up an unsuspecting CBGBs in this rare early footage
- Peter Criss and Ace Frehley decline offer to return for last ever Kiss shows
- Stone Sour's future more uncertain than ever as Corey Taylor slams band's "hindrances"
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