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Eddie Vedder and Taylor Swift
"It reminded me of punk rock crowds, of being aligned with all of the misfits": Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder found his first Taylor Swift concert "galvanising and powerful"

By Paul Brannigan Published

Attending a show on Taylor Swift's ongoing Eras concert tour evoked warm memories for Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder

Bands & Artists
Black Flag's Chuck Dukowski
“These rebels are our own children… who masquerade at night in leather and chains yet retreat by the light of day back into the fabric of our society”: watch US TV show Tomorrow investigate the dark side of punk rock in America in 1980

By Paul Brannigan Published

Blood! Mohawks! Nazi salutes! In 1980, NBC’s The Tomorrow Show took a solemn, sober and unwittingly hilarious look at hardcore punk

Concerts & Shows
A band portrait of Idlewild in 2002
"Pearl Jam used to hire out bars to drink with us": Idlewild's Roddy Woomble on how four punk rock kids from Scotland emerged from the wreckage of Britpop, gatecrashed the UK charts and got adopted as Pearl Jam's new favourite band

By Niall Doherty Published

With their 30th anniversary approaching, Idlewild look back on a career spent "existing in their own little place"

Interviews
Flea laughing
"It touched my heart so much and made me feel so much emotion." Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea reveals the album that he thinks defined 70s LA punk rock - and what it taught him about less sometimes being more

By Merlin Alderslade Published

This classic late 70s punk rock record was a true life-changer for Flea

Albums
Code Orange posing in 2023
"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

By Merlin Alderslade Published

Code Orange's explosive new album The Above is out now, and the band have opened up on where it finds them in their career

Albums
Metal
"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

By Paul Brannigan Published

Could Las Vegas soon be home to a new heavy metal museum? Some superstar punk rockers are keen to make it happen

Bands & Artists
Tom Morello
"Hearing it was my punk rock revelation, the moment where the skies open and you go, Oh, a lot of that music which I’ve liked up until now isn’t so important anymore": Tom Morello on the album without which Rage Against The Machine would not exist

By Paul Brannigan Published

"I’d bought the cassette and once I put it in the deck I didn’t leave the car until it finished"

Albums
SUN
Liberté, egalité, solidarité: The night four "mean Frenchy bitches" lit up London with Brutal Pop, discothèque-noir and punk rock fire

By Paul Brannigan Published

SUN shines while heading up a new, noisy French revolution in Brixton

Concerts & Shows
Hanoi Rocks frontman Mike Monroe and Axl Rose of Guns N Roses
“We made a protective circle of candles around us”: how Michael Monroe ended up duetting with Axl Rose on a Guns N’ Roses cover of punk rock classic

By Classic Rock Published

Ex-Hanoi Rocks frontman Michael Monroe is the only guest to have appeared on two Guns N’ Roses songs

Interviews
The Mars Volta
How The Mars Volta's De-Loused In The Comatorium brilliantly rewired prog rock for a new generation of punk rock kids

By Stephen Hill Published

Released in June 2003, The Mars Volta's debut album De-Loused In The Comatorium is a prog-punk masterpiece

Albums
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