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“The wolves are howling with great soul, great passion.” Stewart Copeland on recording his new album with wolves, hyenas and a black-footed albatross
British punks Gallows may have an album titled Orchestra Of Wolves, but Stewart Copeland now has the real thing guesting as 'musicians' on his forthcoming album
If you ever wanted to hear a whiskey-voiced Gene Simmons crooning a jazz standard, now's your chance
Gene Simmons' sultry cover of Stormy Weather comes from the soundtrack of the Dennis Quaid movie Reagan
Donner pay tribute to 80s ECM jazz on new single Grey Skies Over Stridsklev
Jacob Holm-Lupo's outfit Donner will release second album The Van Gennep Gap in November
Jazz Sabbath to release third album The 1968 Tapes
Jazz Sabbath have also been added to the 2025 Cruise To The Edge bill
The unhinged story of how jazz karaoke led to Julie Christmas waking up in bed with a tinned ham
The noise/post-rock maverick gives a bizarre anecdote about canned meat in the new issue of Metal Hammer
The Tangent jazz things up with new single The Fine Line
UK prog rockers The Tangent will release their brand new album To Follow Polaris in May
"You probably think it's easy being up here. Singing and everything, and playing. It's not. It's not easy": Acid days and ragtime jazz with Dan Hicks, an American eccentric
The unlikely story of psychedelic pioneer and folk swing vaudevillian Dan Hicks
“You get a few people that bring notepads and binoculars, but a lot of people find the fun aspect appealing… It’s not prog because it’s silly, it’s not jazz because it’s loud and it’s not rock because it’s weird”: So what are The Aristocrats?
Born of a fun jam in 2011, Guthrie Govan, Bryan Beller and Marco Minnemann would rather tell jokes on stage than just take turns playing solos
"The whole thing sounds like it was carved out of caramel and boiled in a pot with gunpowder, sunshine and jazz – mad and lovely and addictive": Was The 3 Clubmen EP the best record you missed in 2023?
XTC's Andy Partridge and friends released an overlooked EP of luminous alt.pop in 2023. But it's not too late to join the club...
"Dwarves with trays of cocaine on their heads? It never happened. Well, I never saw it. Actually, it could have been true...": What really happened at Queen's most outrageous party
In 1978, Queen launched their Jazz album with a huge Halloween party at the Fairmont Hotel in New Orleans. People are still talking about it
