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June 30
- "I would like a nice large creamy slice this time around": UFO frontman Phil Mogg returns with Apple Pie, first single from new band Moggs Motel
June 29
- Blackie Lawless tells fans who think W.A.S.P. don't play live at all to stay away from their shows
- "There aren’t a lot of new rock acts to choose from." Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis says she'd like to book more rock bands for the festival, shares her hope that the genre "will emerge again" one day
- Watch this world record attempt at creating the biggest 'wall of death' ever
- Gentle Giant share brand new video for Betcha Thought We Couldn't Do It
- Anger from fans and bands over chaos at Capulet Fest in Connecticut, USA
- Chris Slade admits to feeling insulted when AC/DC asked him to stick around as Phil Rudd's understudy
June 28
- "Sorry to all our fans and friends but sometimes life blindsides you." Sick Of It All forced to cancel European tour after doctors find a tumor in vocalist Lou Koller's esophagus
- Motorpsycho announce Neigh!!, a collection of "songs that won’t fit on an album"
- “We were sleeping on the floor, stealing food, stealing bikes”: Metallica turned to “thieving” to survive the early ’80s, says James Hetfield
- Curved Air announce six-disc Rarities box set to be released in September
- "We couldn’t be more disappointed to not play one of our favorite cities this tour." Pearl Jam cancel London show with 24 hours' notice
- Crowdkill your way into the weekend by spinning Gel’s new hardcore stomper, Persona
- Rage Against The Machine icon Tom Morello collaborates with son Roman on new solo song, Soldier In The Army Of Love
- Stuckfish unveil new keyboard player on upcoming album IV
- Babymetal have released full, pro-shot video of their set at Hellfest 2024 – watch here
- “Why not? Let’s do a song with Geezer!” Watch Foo Fighters tear through Black Sabbath’s Paranoid with Geezer Butler on bass
- Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard hails the "shamanistic" brilliance of IDLES
June 27
- "It just so happens that we've run across a very, very dear old friend of ours." Watch Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello join Jane's Addiction onstage in Germany
- “Shifty was a real-life tragedy. Too fast, too hard, too soon.” Crazy Town vocalist Shifty Shellshock died from an accidental drug overdose, representative reveals
- Lamb Of God’s Mark Morton opens up on writing about daughter’s death in new memoir: “It’s not something I forget. It’s not something I wanna commodify either.”
- EDM DJ Zardonic remixes Temic track Once More. Listen here...
- “If you listen to Scenes From A Memory through Black Clouds & Silver Linings, that’s the sound and style”: Mike Portnoy teases what to expect from new Dream Theater album
- Steven Wilson remixes Ultravox's 1984 album Lament
- Watch Metallica cover Diamond Head’s Am I Evil? with Diamond Head’s guitarist, Brian Tatler
- Ozzy Osbourne cancels convention appearance over health concerns
- “We practiced it and had it ready, and we walked to the edge of the stage, then I was like, Naaaaaah.” Trey Anastasio reveals the Taylor Swift song that Phish wanted to play at Madison Square Garden last year
- Tim Bowness shares new video for the aptly titled When Summer Comes
- Jinjer have finished recording their fifth studio album
- “Even I think that song’s ****”: Oli Sykes trashes controversial Bring Me The Horizon single onstage
June 26
- Los Angeles punk veterans X announce final album Smoke & Fiction
- “We’re living in an insane asylum. I keep asking: where are the tough good guys?” The E Street Band, The Sopranos legend Little Steven fears for all our futures
- “There are times when it’s best to completely tear everything down.” Unsane, Cop Shoot Cop, Daughters 'supergroup' Human Impact share single Destroy To Rebuild, announce second album Gone Dark
- “The album is so painful for me and at the same time it feels beautiful”: Genre-smashing duo Alt Blk Era announce debut album Rave Immortal, release lead single My Drummer’s Girlfriend
- "It's where chaos meets harmony." Palaye Royale announce new album Death or Glory, share single Showbiz, reveal North American tour dates and one-off UK show
- “After careful consideration of our offerings we are revising our sponsorship model.” SXSW festival drops US Army and weapons manufacturers as sponsors for 2025
- “We posted it and went to bed. We woke up and it was viral.” Jinjer reflect on whirlwind success of breakthrough track Pisces
- Order your world exclusive Ghost Rite Here Rite Now limited edition blue cassette tape with Metal Hammer
- “We have always striven to push our own boundaries and let the music change”: Black metal darlings Tribulation ditch corpse paint, go psych rock on new single Saturn Coming Down
- Dim Gray share new live video for The Wave We Thought We’d Ride Forever
- Get Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson and Geddy Lee's memoirs for free with this mega Audible audiobook deal
- Ne Obliviscaris to play all of Exul and Citadel on upcoming EU and UK tour
- Leprous share video for brand new single Silently Walking Alone
- Shawn Crahan says Slipknot will release new music “really soon”
- "It's going to be poignant, tender, poetic and epic": The Who's Quadrophenia is being turned into a mod ballet
June 25
- "It's been an incredible year for me and my band so far": Peter Frampton announces Positively Thankful US tour
- "Don't even think about boofing it, you little perverts!": Ozzy Osbourne's appearance in a new advert goes places we never expected
- “Dave Mustaine really wants to do another record”: Megadeth are making their next album, says bassist
- “Filled with optimism and fun, the performances teach kids and families life lessons.” Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, The Interrupters, The Linda Lindas and more to appear in kids TV show Yo Gabba GabbaLand
- Death metal fans, brace yourselves! The Black Dahlia Murder and Dying Fetus are teaming up to brutalise a town near you
- "If Taylor Swift ever wants to make a rock album, I’d love to help out. I have a feeling I'd get a call from Miley Cyrus first though!" Weezer's Rivers Cuomo has previously written with Charli XCX, and he's well up for more pop superstar collaborations
- Crazy Town frontman Shifty Shellshock dead at 49
- Korn have put their stamp of approval on a lofi album remixing their greatest hits – listen here
- Watch this couple get engaged in the most romantic setting possible: covered in mud as Limp Bizkit play Break Stuff at Download Festival
- Magenta to headline as Highway prog festival moves to Leeds
- With 5 months of Amazon Music Unlimited for free - this Prime Day deal should be top of your shopping list
- "The mix on this is insane!": Weezer filmed four Blue Album classics and fans are going crazy about how good the sound is
June 24
- Joe Bonamassa announces 2025 UK arena tour
- “If it brings back memories and feelings for people, that’s the magic of music.” Watch ex-Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic perform the grunge gods' debut single Love Buzz in Kurt Cobain’s hometown
- Ten-disc Ian Anderson solo box set to be released in August
- "Help him out, he's a little nervous!" Watch Oli Sykes bring his dad on stage to sing super-sweary Bring Me The Horizon anthem, Antivist
- “We are engaged here tonight in part of a larger existential battle for the very soul of the human race.” Watch Roger Waters play Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here at London concert promoting peace, freedom and justice for Palestine
- Ten-disc Kevin Ayers box set to be released in October
- New guitar player? Then score 60% off an annual Fender Play sub and take your playing to another level
- “Fred Sheeran doing the Blue Eyes thing": Watch Ed Sheeran make a surprise appearance with Limp Bizkit to perform The Who classic Behind Blue Eyes
- St Vincent adds UK and European dates to her All Born Screaming tour
- God Is An Astronaut announce new album Embers will be released in September
- Tobias Forge: "Everything with Ghost is difficult and expensive."
- Sepultura's Andreas Kisser would be open to doing one final show with Max and Iggor Cavalera: "it would be amazing"
- "Protect Paul McCartney at all costs": Macca spotted at Taylor Swift concert dancing with fans and handing out friendship bracelets
- Nightwish's Tuomas Holopainen says Yesterwynde is "probably the biggest album" they've ever made
- Order your exclusive Louder x Pvris t-shirt designed by Lyndsey Gunnulfsen
- "I just can't see us doing it one more time": 40 years after their End Of The Road tour, Status Quo may finally be nearing the end of the road
- Steven Wilson announces The Overview Tour for 2025, his first solo tour for six years
- Dave Grohl tempts the wrath of the Swifties by appearing to suggest that Taylor Swift's live music might not be entirely live
- Man discovers 60-year-old previously unseen live film of The Beatles at a flea market in Australia
June 23
- A hair metal docuseries from the director of Jackass and The Dirt is coming to a TV near you
- Watch Mr Bungle cover Van Halen's Loss of Control – with guest shredding from Wolfgang Van Halen
- Dave Davies "very sad" to find his Rock Hall of Fame trophy for sale on eBay
June 22
- Jordan Rudess details new solo album Permission To Fly
June 21
- “I can’t get into somebody else’s mind and decide what their problem is.” Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna was close friends with Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, but she still doesn't know why Courtney Love hated her so much
- Watch Babymetal play Metal Galaxy standout Brand New Day live with megastar shredders Polyphia
- "I just wanted to make a fun project full of some bad bitches in music that I love." Listen to PVRIS and Lights collaboration The Blob
- "Thank you for waiting three hours to come play drums with us." Watch Taylor Hawkins' son Shane guest with Foo Fighters at their London Stadium show
- Jem Godfrey reveals new Frost* release will be a double concept album
- Pure Reason Revolution announce new album Coming Up To Consciousness
- The new issue of Classic Rock is an AC/DC 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition
- “They did it to get some kind of reaction from Jason”: Metallica producer explains why there’s no bass on …And Justice For All
- Lzzy Hale says new Halestorm album will be “weightier”, “heavier” and “different”
- “Enjoy life, embrace it and do everything in your power to make life better”: Listen to surprise new Ghost song The Future Is A Foreign Land
- The story of Marillion's Marbles is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
June 20
- “This is an attack on artistic culture, an attack on the Good Friday Agreement and an attack on us.” Kneecap win High Court permission to challenge the UK government for blocking them from arts funding award
- "Don’t f**k with the stones man, they have mystical powers." Liam Gallagher hopes the Just Stop Oil protestors who defaced Stonehenge are cursed to wake up tomorrow as "orange toads"
- Exploring Birdsong share emotive new single Turntail
- Dikajee launches Kickstarter for new album The Frame
- Scott Weiland's widow Jamie says late Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman doesn't get accolades, respect and recognition he deserves
- "They have zero remorse about stamping all over the common man": Massive Wagons are back with a new single and they continue to be angry
June 19
- The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Psychedelic Furs announce North American co-headline tour
- Steve Hackett guests on upcoming Nick Magnus album
- "It's turned it into a different song." Big Big Train share new recording of Last Eleven
- VOLA announce new album Friend Of A Phantom
- "I will never speak to any of them again": Glenn Hughes slams Deep Purple for "hurtful" behaviour at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony
- Universal Music has signed a deal to train Artificial Intelligence to make "ultra-high fidelity vocal models" of artists signed to the label
June 18
- "It truly is going to be the hottest ticket in town": The Struts announce UK and European tour dates with Barns Courtney
- Fever 333 return with ferocious track New West Order, announce extensive US/Europe tour
- “It’s part science fiction, part western gunslinger with a heavy dash of post-apocalyptic survival”: Progressive doom maestros Oceans Of Slumber announce Where Gods Fear To Speak album, release elegant single Poem Of Ecstasy
- Kirk Hammett says Metallica don’t tour enough: “What it’s all about is playing guitar and writing, recording, going out on tour”
- Solstice announce limited edition Cropredy double coloured vinyl live album
- Heilung announce UK and Ireland Rituals for April 2025
- Noise trailblazers Health announce UK dates with Gost and Zetra
- Watch Hollywood star Jason Momoa's new band ÖOF TATATÁ play classics by Metallica and Black Sabbath
- "I wanted to go there and sit on her bed and sing to her": Stevie Nicks reflects on Christine McVie's final hours
- Axl Rose appears on an upcoming Michael Schenker album of classic UFO songs
- “I was summoned to have tea with the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret. We talked about the philosophy of punk.” In 1980, when Britain's royal family wanted “to see what a punk rocker looks like” they invited Toyah Willcox to St James’s Palace
June 17
- "It's going to be an amazing end to the year. Let's get set to party": Paul McCartney adds European and UK dates to Got Back tour
- Black Stone Cherry announce European headline tour
- “People would be surprised to hear what we’re doing.” Pop-rockers Busted are working on an “experimental” new album with former Bring Me The Horizon man Jordan Fish
- “I have zero respect for those guys. They're not good human beings.” System Of A Down's Serj Tankian slams Imagine Dragons for ignoring his concerns about 'art-washing' a genocidal dictatorship
- David Gilmour teams up with daughter Romany for new single Between Two Points
- Kickstart your summer with 33% off the House Of Marley Get Together Duo speakers
- Long Earth announce third album An Ordinary Life
- "This is going to be the best show of our career!" Black Veil Brides and Creeper announce spooktacular co-headline Wembley Arena show
- Guitarist Dave Foster steps down from Big Big Train
- Gene Simmons wishes he was harder on former Kiss members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss over their substance abuse issues
June 16
- "It's just not going to happen": Geezer Butler shares his doubts about a final Black Sabbath show
June 14
- Mark Hollis author to launch new edition of biography with evenings celebrating the musician's work
- Barclays will no longer be sponsoring Download, Isle Of Wight or Latitude festivals following artist protests and cancellations
- "My doctor said, 'He might as well be in pain on crutches at the Led Zeppelin show.'" Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello on his love of Jimmy Page, and the childhood injury that nearly robbed him of seeing Zeppelin live
- Returned To The Earth celebrate release of Stalagmite Steeple with video for epic title track
- Watch Foo Fighters play previously unheard song Unconditional and a Nine Inch Nails/Beastie Boys/Van Halen/Ramones medley on the opening night of their UK stadium tour
- "They really made me smile...it was our singer that we never got!" Metallica's James Hetfield reveals the new metal band he's loving right now - and it involves an old friend
- "We're all sitting here friends again." Watch R.E.M. reunite for first performance with their full, original line-up since the mid '90s
- Help your dad ascend to shred master with 55% off our favourite online guitar lessons for Father’s Day
June 13
- "We are surprised": The estate of late Saints singer Chris Bailey say they weren't consulted over upcoming tour with Mudhoney's Mark Arm
- Refused singer Dennis Lyxzén suffers "massive" heart attack ahead of festival date in Sweden
- Former Anathema singer Vincent Cavanagh launches new music project The Radicant
- Watch these wholesome metalheads open the gentlest mosh pit for a lady and her stroller at Sweden Rock Festival
- Watch Ghost tear through Kaisarion live in clip from upcoming movie Rite Here Rite Now
- Listen to the brand new Jon Anderson single Shine On
- "Eddie Vedder was hard on me, he was not easy to get next to." Super-producer Brendan O'Brien reveals the lengths he went to in order to work with Pearl Jam
- "A dramatic closing of a door in my life." Fish announces final reissues of his solo career
- Order your limited edition Lord Of The Lost x Metal Hammer bundle – featuring an exclusive butt plug!
- Alan Parsons Project to release Super Deluxe Pyramid box set
- "My coping mechanisms for a long time were alcohol and drugs." Placebo announce new documentary This Search For Meaning, featuring interviews with Robbie Williams, Garbage's Shirley Manson, Idles, Yungblud and more
- Hear Def Leppard team with Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello on groovy new single Just Like ’73
- “Be there or be square!” Watch Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris play a charity football match this weekend
- Toto's video for Africa has now been watched a billion times on YouTube
June 12
- "I am stoked, stunned, and humbled that I get to join in on this rock'n'roll reality camp": Punk legends The Saints to tour with Mudhoney's Mark Arm as frontman
- “It’s going to be killer to play some smaller sweatier places again.” Enter Shikari announce Dancing On The Frontline UK tour
- NOFX reveal details of their last ever shows as their 40 Years, 40 Cities, 40 Songs Per Day tour winds up in California
- "I can’t wait to revisit some beautiful cities and venture to new ones." A.A. Williams announces 26-date US headline tour
- Deftones are the most popular metal band for soundtracking sexual encounters, a horny new survey finds
- “I’m a 42-year-old man”: M. Shadows slams old record label for trying to create Avenged Sevenfold “viral Tiktok moment”
- Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi is making a solo album: “I’ve got a lot of stuff written”
- Creed wrote megahit Higher onstage in front of 4,000 people, reveals Mark Tremonti
- Metal singer records vocals in the studio, screams so loud the cops come
- Watch Iggy Pop perform The Stooges classics at California's No Values Festival
- Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate release new single Copenhagen
- Haze detail new album The Water's Edge
- Bruce Springsteen’s Born In The USA celebrates 40 years with special vinyl release
- Myles Kennedy announces new solo album and world tour: Watch the video for Say What You Will now
- If you've got a spare $9000 a limited edition AC/DC watch can be yours
June 11
- "I have absolutely no idea what to do, so I should fit right in": Alice Cooper has launched yet another bid to become US president
- Judas Priest announce 2024 North American tour with Sabaton as support
- "OMG! Pack ur bags cuz we’re going on vacay." King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announce Europe Residency dates
- “We cannot wait to share what we’ve been working on for the last two years”: Jinjer to play brand-new songs on tour with Hanabie and Born Of Osiris
- Gojira drummer Mario Duplantier will bring the death metal thunder to Late Night With Seth Meyers next week
- Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine says nothing makes him feel as good as thrash metal: “Not a drug, not a drink, not a person, not a thing”
- Beabadoobee announces her biggest ever UK headline tour
- Meer share first new music from upcoming album Wheels Within Wheels. Watch the uplifting Golden Circle video here
- Anyway, here’s that deathcore cover of Tool’s Sober that you never asked for
- “Their music means so much to us”: Metallica’s Kirk Hammett names the band he considers the “architects” of heavy metal
- While She Sleeps to lead stacked metalcore tour featuring Malevolence, Thrown and Resolve
- "We're just gonna play you a couple and then we'll get to drinking": Watch footage of Bon Jovi's surprise return to the stage
June 10
- "You can see my left hand completely cramp up at song 57": Man successfully completes nine-hour, 128-song, one-take Foo Fighters drum marathon
- “We will not take part in an event whose sponsor profits from facilitating a genocide.” Scowl, Speed, Zulu, Pest Control boycott Download festival due to sponsor Barclays investing in companies supplying weapons and military technology to Israel
- "It's a little bit of the Falls Road in the belly of the beast." Belfast rappers Kneecap announce one-night-only pub takeover in "the city that ruined half the globe"
- “It’s all about the sad moshpit.” Fidlar share two singles from new album Surviving The Dream, announce North American tour
- David Gilmour adds extra LA date due to popular demand
- Piracy, legal battles and FBI investigations: How to watch two-part documentary How Music Got Free
- Start the week by scrunching your face to new Bleed From Within single Hands Of Sin
- Powerviolence nasties Nails announce new album Every Bridge Burning, release lead single Imposing Will, are still nasty
- Watch The Dillinger Escape Plan play first show in seven years
- "I'd love to have her...you never know": Emily Eavis dreams of Kate Bush headlining Glastonbury Festival
- Glastonbury and Spotify join forces to launch official festival app
- “Dua Lipa and all the big pop stars are awesome, but how many times can you sing about a lover not being good enough?” Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes critiques pop music, names the artist he thinks represents what a “pop star should be”
- Andy Summers shares atmospheric new single Into The Blue. Listen here...
- “I’m glad to see this tune get some shine after all this time!” Hear Lamb Of God’s re-recording of Another Nail For Your Coffin with Malevolence and Kublai Khan TX
- Spiritbox announce 2025 European tour
- Slipknot announce first two festival headline sets of 2025
- Watch Babymetal and Electric Callboy play infectious new song Ratatata live together
- Shinedown frontman Brent Smith says he has seen music "cure cancer"
June 8
- The Sphere in Las Vegas has overturned its ban on Acid Farts, the bong-smoking Phish fan
- “Please, Lzzy, join Skid Row! Put the two bands together if you need to!”: even Jon Bon Jovi thinks Lzzy Hale should become Skid Row’s permanent new singer
- Jon Bon Jovi says there is "no miracle" that will heal his damaged vocal cord enough for him to tour any time soon
June 7
- "The faces, feelings, and wounds which fade as time progresses never truly leave us." Picture Parlour announce debut EP Face In the Picture, share title track
- "I don't care. I thought it was fun." Peter Tagtgren dismisses plagarism accusations against Croatia's Eurovision entry Baby Lasagna
- The Omnific celebrate release of new album The Law Of Augmenting Returns with new video of title track
- Caligula's Horse release new Digital Deluxe Edition of latest album Charcoal Grace
- "He's a piece of work, that deluded old freak." Disturbed's David Draiman says former Pink Floyd leader Roger Waters is a "monster"
- "He'd change the subject, make a joke and then we'd both laugh": Prince's sister reveals their final conversation
- "Gone are the days when a chauffeur-driven car with weighing scales in the boot for drugs would be waiting outside the Top of the Pops studio." Happy Mondays/Black Grape's Shaun Ryder on "changing times" in the music industry
- New John Wetton auction to raise money for cancer charity takes place in July
- "We've been rocking out and headbanging to it for months!": The Offspring announce new album Supercharged, release peppy new single Make It All Right
- Travis announce UK tour, share Bus as third single from forthcoming L.A. Times album
- A man named Acid Farts has been banned from The Sphere in Las Vegas after lighting up a bong during a Phish show
- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss release mesmerising cover of When The Levee Breaks
June 6
- "A snapshot of a guitar man at the height of his powers": The first MC5 album in half a century is confirmed – first single out now
- "Irvine Welsh who wrote Trainspotting said it was the best thing he'd seen in years." Watch the trailer for Kneecap's self-titled biopic, the loudest, funniest, most provocative movie you'll see in 2024
- "We're excited to finally have a song come out!" Listen to Halestorm and I Prevail's new team-up single, Can U See Me In The Dark?
- 70s prog rockers Absolute Elsewhere finally release second album Playground
- "I can’t believe we actually managed to pull it off!" Guitar hero Sophie Lloyd has upgraded her debut live show after selling out the original venue in five minutes
- White Willow reissue series reaches halfway point with 2000's Sacrament
- "I could see that schism developing." Serj Tankian says he knew System Of A Down had problems as early as 1999
- Swedish prog legends Ritual return with first new album for 17 years!
- "How do you even wear that? It's like, ridiculous!" Sebastian Bach berates fan for wearing Skid Row t-shirt
June 5
- Watch Deep Purple's video for new single Pictures Of You
- Bruce Springsteen, Billie Joe Armstrong, Frank Turner, Elvis Costello, Tom Morello and more to cover Jesse Malin songs for forthcoming benefit/tribute album
- Metalcore upstarts Heriot announce debut album Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell, release eviscerating new track Foul Void
- The Flaming Lips announce UK and Irish dates, to play Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots in full
- Kingcrow share video for emotive new singe Kintsugi
- "Anything that comes in the future, I always give it a thought." Tony Iommi suggests he'd be open to writing with Ozzy Osbourne in future and picks out the 'special' Black Sabbath riffs - including Eddie Van Halen's favourite
- "Barmy night in Bracknell" promised as Spriggan Mist joined by EBB, Haze and Kindred Spirit for Four Play Progfest III
- “We thought a lot about the desert on this record, and the urban desert.” Mercury Rev share trippy, twinkling new single Patterns, announce new album Born Horses, unveil 2024/'25 UK and Europe tour schedule
- "We pretty much wrote every single song when we were wrecked": Confidence Man announce new album 3AM (LA LA LA) and take naked helicopter rides on new single I Can't Lose You
- Glastonbury 2024: Organisers reveal more artists, events and stage times for this year's festival
- Nektar unveil new drummer on upcoming album Mission To Mars
- Poppy drops gnarly new Madonna-inspired pop-metal rager No Way Out
- Bad Omens, Parkway Drive, Architects, Poppy, Jinjer, Kittie and more to play returning Mayhem Festival this October
- "I started laughing, because he is the best": Watch unseen footage of late guitar icons Eddie Van Halen and Leslie West backstage and jamming
- “I don’t think Beyoncé or Lil Nas X are going to be jealous.” The Jesus Lizard release new single Hide & Seek, announce new album Rack, share US, UK, Europe dates
June 4
- "I have struggled with this decision but realise I cannot continue touring at this time": Robin Trower cancels US tour on doctor's orders
- “She doesn’t need autotune, autotune needs her.” A video showing Hayley Williams' isolated first-take vocals on Paramore's 2013 single Still Into You is giving The Internet goosebumps
- Babymetal announce massive 2024 tour with bimbocore provocateur Scene Queen
- Katatonia singer Jonas Renkse guests on epic new Evergrey single Cold Dreams
- Italian prog fusion duo Asymmetric Universe sign with InsideOutMusic
- “A mind-melting day out of acid-hued action from five of my favourite acts.” Comedian Stewart Lee is curating his own stage at the first-ever Brighton Psych Fest, with five hand-picked artists
- “She was very, very honest, almost to a fault. Most singers are actors. Sinéad was not an actor.” Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan recalls Sunday dinners with Sinéad O'Connor while she was holed up in a friend's attic
- “We’ve made enough albums the conventional way, and the kids don’t care about that”: Experimental vanguards Ulver to release new album one single at a time
- Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale isn’t joining Skid Row full-time: “This particular time in my life prevents me from committing”
June 3
- “The backdrop is the mall. And while the mall is crass, it’s also a very zombie, rock ‘n’ roll horror movie setting.” Watch the videos for new Pixies single You're So Impatient / Que Sera, Sera
- Sting, Manic Street Preachers, Snow Patrol, Travis and more to play BBC Radio 2 In The Park festival
- “Steve should have been here for this festival, and it would be nice if you all think of him”: Pulp and PJ Harvey pay tribute to Steve Albini at Primavera Sound
- Skid Row may not carry on with Lzzy Hale on vocals: “A few guys have piqued our interest,” says bassist
- The Sex Pistols to play Never Mind The Bollocks in full with Frank Carter at two fundraiser shows
- Slayer guitarist Kerry King names the “perfect” riff he’s written: “It’s got a lot of harmony going on”
- Metallica’s James Hetfield reveals anxiety struggles before 2024 tour: “We’re old, we can’t do this”
- Firefighters shut down prog metal show because someone was vaping
- Watch Megadeth’s drummer play Paramore anthem Misery Business after only hearing it once
- Watch Dragonforce’s Through The Fire And Flames be played on the harp by someone with faster fingers than you
June 2
- Spotify CEO sparks backlash after social media post that claimed the cost of making "content" is "close to zero"
- Steve Miller hails Eminem as a "timeless originator" after rapper sampled Abracadabra on new single Houdini
- Drummer will make a marathon attempt to play every Foo Fighters song without stopping
- Roger Daltrey has no interest in ever seeing a hologram version of The Who