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- September 30
- September 29
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- Nektar founding member and drummer Ron Howden dead at 78
- “I promise we will be back." Aerosmith postpone rest of farewell tour as it's revealed Steven Tyler's vocal injury is more serious than first believed
- "You’re not entitled to magazine covers or record sales when you choose to make this music." Code Orange explain why there's no room for entitlement in metal and punk rock
- Peter Gabriel releases video for new single, "a love song" called This Is Home
- “I’d like to start scaring people again": Guitarist Graham Coxon reveals how Blur "tried to kill any stink of Britpop" with their self-titled album
- Jethro Tull release alternative mixes of latest album RökFlöte
- "You guys are punks!" Watch Dave Mustaine furiously berate security guards for 'bullying' a Megadeth fan at show in Illinois
- Noel Gallagher says Oasis' Definitely Maybe was "the last great punk album": "We had no effects, barely any equipment, just loads of attitude, 12 cans of Red Stripe and ambition."
- Marilyn Manson settles rape lawsuit with accuser who says that she has agreed to said settlement after enduring "threats, bullying, harassment and various forms of intimidation"
- September 28
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- “We talk about how rock ’n’ roll will never die, but we never really talk about how maybe the idea of the rock star should die": Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes share new single, album news and world tour plans
- "It's a love song to our audience": U2 borrow from Blondie's Call Me on new single Atomic City
- Listen to The Rolling Stones' new seven-minute gospel song Sweet Sounds Of Heaven, featuring Lady Gaga and Stevie Wonder
- "We're led by the mantra that our best days are still ahead of us, and our favourite record is the one we haven't made yet": Lars Ulrich explains why, in 2023, Metallica are still hungry, and still not satisfied
- September 27
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- Bernie Marsden finished a new album before he passed away – and it's coming out later this year
- "You can have a posthumous business now, can't you? You can have a posthumous tour": Mick Jagger hints at life after death for the Rolling Stones
- Porcupine Tree team up with Teenage Cancer Trust for limited edition signed soundwave Harridan print
- Mostly Autumn to release live album recorded at Abbey Road
- Watch Francis Dunnery's It Bites perform live version of Old Man And The Angel
- September 26
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- "The film was like a technological tribal throw-down, with an energy buzz off the Richter scale": Gram Parsons once starred in a dystopian science fiction movie about environmental collapse
- Ozzy Osbourne is planning on recording a new album in 2024: "I want to do one more and then go back on the road"
- William Orbit to perform with Hawkwind at the Royal Albert Hall
- “You can’t get more metal than that!” A metalhead is making a functioning guitar out of an actual sword
- Night Of The Prog festival announces that 2024 event will be their last
- "Kurt was jealous of Dave": Nirvana's official biographer explains why Kurt Cobain was "condescending" towards Dave Grohl
- Order your limited edition Beartooth x Metal Hammer bundle featuring a hand-signed art print and exclusive bandana
- "It was a crazy, beautiful mess": ex-Guns N' Roses bassist Tommy Stinson on Axl Rose, Chinese Democracy and why keeping GN'R alive without Slash, Duff and Izzy was pure "punk rock"
- Opeth are headlining Bloodstock 2024 - and you can help pick their setlist
- Neal Morse plans Morsefest for UK for January 2024
- Mike Rutherford, Eric Clapton and Roger Taylor to feature in charity gig in honour of Procol Harum's Gary Brooker
- Music Venue Trust demands action from Government after UK loses 15% of grassroots venues in just 12 months
- September 25
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- Stevie Nicks announces 2024 tour dates
- Watch The Conjuring and Aquaman star Patrick Wilson cover Queen's Somebody To Love while dressed as Freddie Mercury and pulling moves worthy of Wembley
- "The guys were like, ‘What’s he doing?’" Blaze Bayley reveals what it's like getting to audition for Iron Maiden
- "There was a lot of gravity about him in his final years, he was a deep thinker": Tony Visconti shares his first impressions and final memories of David Bowie
- Circuline unveil new line-up featuring Dave Bainbridge and Kyros' Shelby Logan Warne
- Watch Mike Muir fall off stage while Suicidal Tendencies play, you guessed it, You Can't Bring Me Down
- "You never know!" Krist Novoselic says that Nirvana doing an ABBA Voyage-style avatar 'reunion experience' isn't out of the question
- Watch Tony Iommi make a surprise appearance to play Paranoid at the opening night of the Black Sabbath ballet in Birmingham, which also had Geezer Butler, Sharon Osbourne, Robert Plant and Bev Bevan in attendance
- Steve Hackett to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway on tour next year
- September 24
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- “Even if I invite them, I’m not sure if they would really show up." Babymetal's Moametal wants to host a dinner party with Metallica, Maneskin, Tom Morello and Bring Me The Horizon
- Keith Richards: Rap is people yelling at me. I get enough of that at home
- "I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for Scream": Watch Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl dedicate an emotional Everlong to the late Kent Stax, the drummer he replaced in Scream, before joining Nirvana
- Listen to new Rival Sons track Mercy from upcoming album Lightbringer
- September 23
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- “You’re the guys with nine members? Can I be number 10?“ the time Ozzy Osbourne asked Corey Taylor if he could join Slipknot
- “The shows were out of control because hardly anyone knew what moshing was." Dave Mustaine on the chaos of early thrash metal concerts
- “If I rattle it around, I can hear him”: Rod Stewart keeps his late mentor’s ashes in a guitar he owns, and it’s not as weird as it sounds
- September 22
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- Spock's Beard announce 20th anniversary vinyl reissue of Feel Euphoria
- Rush legend Geddy Lee announces UK spoken word tour for December
- Jean-Michel Jarre announces new Oxymoreworks collaboration album
- Steve Hogarth, Robert Fripp and more step up for Trevor Horn's new Echoes - Ancient & Modern album
- Devin Townsend strips off for 25th anniversary reissue of Infinity
- September 21
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- "I am very excited for people to finally hear it." Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson announces new solo album The Mandrake Project - his first in almost two decades - along with live dates
- Red Hot Chili Peppers were once lined up to record a big WWE star's theme tune. They were ditched for Uncle Kracker
- Remastered version of Brian Eno's The Ship to be released on vinyl in October
- We can't believe we have to say this but bringing your dog to a metal show is not a good idea, so please stop doing it
- Live New York recording of 3, featuring Keith Emerson, Carl Palmer and Robert Berry to be released on vinyl
- "The memories of a man in his old age": Roger Waters shares new versions of Breathe and Speak To Me
- Listen to Creeper's deliciously-vampy new synth-soaked single Black Heaven
- “I felt like I wasn’t getting the credit for the things I was actually writing”: Corey Taylor says lack of recognition in Slipknot and Stone Sour inspired his solo career
- Voyager postpone October European tour in wake of Danny Estrin's shock cancer diagnosis
- Listen to Jimi Hendrix rip through a previously unreleased live version of Killing Floor in 1967
- September 20
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- "We are heartbroken": Scream announce the death of drummer Kent Stax, just 24 hours after sharing the news of new album DC Special, featuring Dave Grohl, Ian MacKaye and more
- "It's staggering, but not surprising": Living Colour's Vernon Reid calls out Jann Wenner for the "erasure" of black and female artists in his book The Masters
- "Bimbos do not care about math but they do care a lot about human rights and politics." The convention-defying Scene Queen explains the rules of 'Bimbocore'
- Radiohead drummer Philip Selway announces new live album with string quartet Elysian Collective
- Get your exclusive Tesseract x Metal Hammer bundle – featuring a signed art print and a drinks coaster
- Dave Mustaine: "When I was in Metallica, I was kind of playing at Lars’s level, because Lars was still learning to play drums."
- "Are you in the mood for us to murder one of the best songs ever?" Watch Rick Astley cover Foo Fighters classic Everlong at Radio 2 in the Park (and totally NOT murder it)
- When David Bowie first appeared on TV it was not as a musician but as president of The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men
- September 19
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- “All of these are better than Dance Of Death!” Someone’s used A.I. to create fake Iron Maiden covers and they look extraordinary
- Marilyn Manson to pay fines and face 20 hours of community service for blowing nose and spitting a "big lougee" on concert camerawoman
- There's still time to get 4 free months of Amazon Music Unlimited
- "This is the last time we're going to f**k this up": Blink-182 announce reunion album One More Time...
- "If it wasn't for early prog, heavy metal would sound different today": Metallica's Kirk Hammett on discovering prog rock
- Steven Wilson shares video for new single What Life Brings
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody movie is no longer the biggest biopic of all time, thanks to the global box office success of Oppenheimer
- Watch the video for new posthumous David Longdon single This House here
- September 18
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- Bryan Adams launches Live At The Royal Albert Hall box set
- "This is the world premiere of Atomic City, a rock 'n' roll 45 in the tradition of late '70s post-punk": Watch U2 - with Larry Mullen back on drums - premiere new, unreleased song at surprise, free Las Vegas show
- Iconic London venue Brixton Academy to re-open with a series of “test events”
- Set blasters for stun - it’s your last chance to grab 3 months of Disney+ with 75% off
- Rick Wakeman releases 32-disc The Prog Years 1973-1977 box set
- "He was absolutely fearless... not caring about what was selling, not caring about what felt safe": Corey Taylor on what David Bowie taught him as an artist
- In 1971 Ringo Starr visited The BBC to show off a range of homeware he'd designed including a kinetic sculpture filled with liquid mercury
- September 17
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- "Everyone thinks my dad woke me up and went 'practice your scales!' but I taught myself": Wolfgang Van Halen on going his own way when it came to learning the guitar
- "I cried my eyes out": former Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley on the first time he heard Bruce Dickinson's comeback with the band, Brave New World
- September 16
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- Watch pro-shot footage of Metallica performing Nothing Else Matters in Los Angeles
- Sum 41's Deryck Whibley in hospital as doctors warn of possible heart failure
- “I can’t believe I pulled that off”: Wolfgang Van Halen on playing Van Halen classics for the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert – and why he’ll never cover his dad’s band again
- "I was so nervous that I was slightly shaking.” New Babymetal member Momometal on the moment she was officially announced as part of the band
- "Rush taught us you should make your own decisions": Canadian rockers Max Webster on how Geddy Lee & co. took them under their wing
- “I didn’t know it was going to be a hit”: Bryan Adams on the making of the mega-selling (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
- September 15
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- Earthside's Jamie van Dyck reveals cancer diagnosis
- "Elton was like, I just f**king played with the Rolling Stones": Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood talk Hackney Diamonds, Paul McCartney, Elton John and Lady Gaga
- Muse announce 20th anniversary Absolution deluxe box set
- "It’s a John Hughes coming of age film with dick jokes": watch the trailer for Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge's UFO-themed movie Monsters Of California
- We asked Bryan Adams to guest edit the new issue of Classic Rock: It's in the shops now and it's a doozy
- Steve Hackett shares new live clip of Can Utility And The Coastliners
- "When we started, there was no template for heavy metal. Nobody understood what we were doing, because it was so different": Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi on the birth of heavy metal
- Cynic announce reissue of path to Focus demos Uroboric Forms
- “My ears are still ringing!” Boy George just went to a Napalm Death gig and had a lovely time
- September 14
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- "It's a worldwide phenomenon!" Toyah reveals that talks have begun to make Toyah and Robert's Sunday Lunch: The Movie a reality
- "When they suggested they shoot Lindsey and I nude I could not have been more terrified if you’d asked me to jump off a speeding train": Stevie Nicks on her regrets over topless Buckingham Nicks album cover shoot
- 100 lucky Pink Floyd fans will get the chance to have their actual brainwaves monitored while listening to Pink Floyd
- "Him not having any idea that Eddie Van Halen just took his picture was super funny": The night a Tool fan unwittingly got a rock legend to take a photo of him
- John Carpenter reworks classic Escape From New York theme 69th St. Bridge
- “Jeff was a great guy, but he wasn’t a great bandleader”: Sir Rod Stewart recalls his time singing in the Jeff Beck Group
- Babymetal return to the cover of Metal Hammer – and the magazine comes with a free double-sided poster
- "I was so nervous I had to slam Jack and Cokes": Corey Taylor on being drunk on Top Of The Pops
- Major Parkinson return with brand new single Take The Prescription
- September 13
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- "Anybody that says they saw that coming is lying to you": apparently, R.E.M. were not expecting Losing My Religion to be a hit single
- Get your exclusive Empire State Bastard x Metal Hammer bundle – featuring a signed lyric sheet and a logo patch
- Glass Hammer announce new space concept album Arise
- "An amateur sounding vocalist who sings wrong notes and out of tune": the BBC's verdict on the "devoid of personality" David Bowie in 1965
- Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Joe Bonamassa and Glenn Hughes deliver killer covers of Deep Purple classics Highway Star and Burn
- "I'm working on a little project about the Seattle scene": Pearl Jam's Mike McCready is writing a rock opera about the triumphs and tragedies of grunge
- That Joe Payne announces new album Bread & Circuses
- "It’s okay Kentucky, we still love you": watch what is surely the most failed attempt at a wall of death in heavy metal history
- “I had to say to her: “Tina, it’s not really working…”: Bryan Adams recalls duetting with Tina Turner on an 80s classic
- John Lees' Barclay James Harvest add second orchestral show
- "I had all this anger bubbling up inside me": Olivia Rodrigo hails the righteous fury of Babes In Toyland and Rage Against The Machine as core influences on new album Guts
- September 12
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- Steven Wilson teams up with Ninet Tayeb in new video for Rock Bottom
- “A man without a hobby is lost”: Sir Rod Stewart tells Bryan Adams how his model railroad collection keeps him occupied
- “Peter Grant put us right where Led Zeppelin were... We went into the arenas overnight”: Paul Rodgers on the meteoric rise of Bad Company
- “I said to Sharon, ‘I think I’ve broken my neck’”: Ozzy Osbourne on the night he got the injury that forced him to retire from touring
- Ghost's penultimate show of their US tour featured a live debut for one song, and a special, very different version of another
- "I realised what it was like to stand in Freddie's shoes, and it was not an easy gig": Paul Rodgers looks back on the challenge of fronting Queen
- Steven Tyler reveals he has damaged vocal cords, Aerosmith postpone some upcoming shows: "I'm heartbroken"
- The Fierce And The Dead announce 2024 tour dates
- September 11
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- "I never saw myself as Freddie Mercury": Radiohead's Thom Yorke names his five favourite singers of all time, and reveals why he tried to record all his vocals for OK Computer while drunk
- "The potential for AI to cause evil is, obviously, incredibly huge... the whole thing is massively scary": Queen guitarist Brian May warns of dark days ahead for humanity
- Pendragon announce 2024 European tour dates
- Nickelback are done talking about people hating on them
- September 10
- September 9
- September 8
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- "Motorhead's s**t is on the way": The musicians who founded the world's first punk rock museum in Las Vegas are talking about launching a heavy metal museum next door
- “I don’t think they envisaged the madness and chaos...”: How The Clash started falling apart while shooting their Rock The Casbah video
- "You get one chance at grabbing lightning": Corey Taylor says Stone Sour were "never going to have the same impact" as Slipknot
- "It’s tempting to say that we think it’s our best album yet." Downes Braide Association release Celestial Songs
- "F**k you for hurting so many people... f**k you for exploiting the work of the band": Anti-Flag trio issue enraged, emotional statement attacking former frontman Justin Sane
- Jethro Tull grace the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!
- September 7
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- "I felt this hairy tongue on my face": Ville Valo recalls meeting Dave Grohl for the first time and the album that made HIM goth metal stars
- Indianapolis punks Pat And The Pissers are releasing the most disgusting vinyl record ever made: it's filled with maggots
- "I am ready to embrace the future," says Riverside's Mariusz Duda as he announces new solo album
- Mask-wearing experimental metallers Imperial Triumphant have released a version of Rush's Jacob's Ladder that's both extremely creepy and substantially epic
- Watch Les Claypool, Sean Lennon and pals perform Pink Floyd's Pigs
- "Kate Bush is an artist and writer of some of the most extraordinary material I have had the pleasure to experience": Led Zeppelin legend Jimmy Page salutes the "genius" of Kate Bush
- "It’s your opinion as an artist. That’s what art is for. That’s what makes it interesting.” Within Temptation explain why the 'keep politics out of music' argument is stupid as hell
- "God is great": Blink-182's Travis Barker gives thanks after his wife Kourtney Kardashian successfully undergoes "life-threatening emergency surgery" to save the life of their unborn son
- "Ozzy wants to be on that show with all his friends. It’s heartbreaking": Sharon Osbourne reveals Ozzy's pain at missing out on Power Trip festival appearance
- September 6
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- "I can't look... it's too sad": Queen's Brian May expresses dismay as Freddie Mercury's personal possessions go under the hammer in London, with his Bohemian Rhapsody video 'snake bangle' selling for £698,500
- Runrig singer Bruce Guthro dies, aged 62
- "Perhaps it is the guitar that 'Saved Rock and Roll'": The guitar which Slash used to help write Appetite For Destruction is up for auction, with a one million dollars minimum bid
- “Prince made me stand in front of a mirror for eight hours”: This is what it was like being in Prince’s band at the height of the Purple One’s '80s superstardom
- "I write my best music when I’m devastated and heartbroken and sad": Olivia Rodrigo on sharing the "trauma" behind her new album Guts
- “I gave the lyrics to Joe to sing. He said, No, you’ve gotta sing it, they're your lyrics”: The Clash's Paul Simonon on how he wrote the punk icons' defiant classic The Guns Of Brixton
- Watch The Rolling Stones' time-travelling video for new single Angry, featuring Sydney Sweeney living her best life
- “They’ve murdered it, they’ve torn it to shreds”: John Lydon on how Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock have ruined the Sex Pistols’ legacy
- "We came out and it was packed and people were hanging from ****. I’d never seen anything like it." Corey Taylor on the crazy moment he realised Slipknot had made it
- Maynard James Keenan admits that playing AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Portishead to his grapes has no effect whatsoever on the taste of his wines: "100%, no. It's just a great story"
- “Benny Andersson has been in The Hives, how’s that for a headline?”: The Hives Howlin’ Pelle on the time his band joined forces with ABBA
- “We were younger than Billie Eilish when we headlined Glastonbury!”: How Ash accidentally set a record headlining the Pyramid Stage back in 1997
- "It is important for everyone to know… that you are a monster": 12 more women accuse Anti-Flag frontman Justin Sane of predatory behaviour, sexual assault and statutory rape
- Steven Wilson shares new ten-minute "mash-up of progressive rock, spiritual jazz and electronica" Impossible Tightrope
- Iron Maiden team up with Melon Optics for killer range of mountain bike merch
- September 5
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- Nirvana's In Utero album to get 'super deluxe' 30th anniversary re-release
- "It was really a magical thing. He fell into a psychedelic crack": a man who accompanied Syd Barrett on his ill-fated acid trips is now a viral sensation on TikTok
- "The Sex Pistols were like the One Direction of their time": Midge Ure on why he turned down Malcolm McLaren's invitation to join the Sex Pistols
- "A holy grail for collectors": Signed copy of Led Zeppelin's Houses Of The Holy - minus the actual record - sells for £15,000
- Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay to release new studio album AM PM
- Watch Billy Idol front Foo Fighters to cover Sex Pistols classic Pretty Vacant
- September 4
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- "The last thing I saw before diving in was her head going under water. Never have I swam that fast before": Biohazard's Billy Graziadei saved a young woman from drowning in California yesterday
- "This is a truly global moment we want to share with fans": Jimmy Fallon is interviewing The Rolling Stones about new album Hackney Diamonds, and you can submit your questions for the band
- Smash Mouth vocalist Steve Harwell dead at 56
- If you can ignore the horrible special effects, the addition of Supertramp's Bloody Well Right to the Midnight Special archive is yet another cause for classic rock celebration
- "Let it be known that any unsolicited contact from ANY person claiming to be a member of the collective should be disregarded." People have been scamming Sleep Token fans by pretending to be in the band, and Sleep Token are not happy about it
- Limited edition career-spanning Greg Lake box set to be released
- Smash Mouth's Steve Harwell receiving end-of-life care at home
- September 3
- September 2
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- “The solo on Enter Sandman is a real hummer! I just love it!” King Crimson’s Robert Fripp shares his love for Metallica, Megadeth, Slipknot and Korn
- This YouTuber covered Red Hot Chili Peppers in the style of Disturbed and it’s shockingly not terrible
- "It broke my heart. I wanted us to be signed to Roadrunner and support Slayer." Ghost's Tobias Forge on why it just wasn't a good idea to try and make a career from death metal in the late 90s
- "I was expecting to be back in the band when there was an opening." K.K. Downing explains why he'll never play with Judas Priest again, despite appearing with them at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame last year
- “Lemmy put a pig’s head in my case”: the time Motörhead pranked their support band with a decapitated animal head just to get a reaction
- The Rolling Stones release snippet of new song Don't Get Angry With Me but people are angry with them anyway
- David Gilmour and The Orb share suitably trippy new video for Metallic Spheres In Colour: Movement 1
- September 1
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- The Black Crowes are releasing a deluxe expanded edition of The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
- "A new Stones era": The Rolling Stones look set to announce their first album of original material since 2005
- "Devastated is an understatement": Blink-182 fans express their annoyance as pop-punk trio postpone start of UK tour due to "an urgent family matter"
- "We knew it was provocative and we knew that it might not be accepted by anyone": Metallica's Kirk Hammett revisits the making of Master Of Puppets
- "I’ve been working towards this moment": Tool's Maynard James Keenan is opening a new ice cream parlour, a trattoria, a winery and his own tram line
- Tiger Moth Tales take a more acoustic path with new album The Turning Of The World
- Magenta singer Christina announces star-studded third solo album
- Francis Dunnery's It Bites announce new live release on Blu-ray and CD
- “Master Of Puppies”: A dog ran away from home, watched a Metallica show and stayed for the whole thing
- "Steve Davis said, I saw you play, I really enjoyed it": Napalm Death's Shane Embury on playing Glastonbury, bonding with snooker legend Steve Davis and the Dave Grohl grindcore jam that sadly never came to pass
