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May 31
- Karl Bartos and Kraftwerk: "The endless cycling didn’t help invent new music!"
- Enslaved's Ivar Bjornson: "Black metal was revenge against hippies"
- Your essential guide to every Hole album
- Empire State Bastard announce debut album Rivers Of Heresy
- Queens Of The Stone Age drop trippy new track Carnavoyeur
- Paramore's Hayley Williams says fans who vote for Republican Presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis are "dead to me"
- Lenny Kravitz once asked Dave Grohl to play drums on an unfinished Michael Jackson song, but it didn't quite go to plan
- The Fierce And The Dead to release new album in July
- A beginner’s guide to groove metal in 5 albums
- Five new bands you need to hear if you love Blur
- Freaks, mullets, coochie calls, pysch-punk and the coronation of Caroline Polachek: why Wide Awake 2023 was everything
- Steven Wilson remix of Hawkwind's Warrior On The Edge Of Time to get vinyl release
- Sleep Token announce massive Wembley gig
- Days of thunder: the triumph and tragedy of John Bonham
- Pop Evil: "I think back to all those bands that helped when doctors, parents, teachers weren’t there for me"
- Watch Ginger Baker enthuse about polo horses before playing a drum solo in a farmyard
- 20 minutes of rare pro-shot footage of Guns N' Roses in 1992 has appeared online
May 30
- Iron Maiden's new show is another reminder that class is permanent - and so is heavy metal
- Watch David Bowie create Tina Turner in a laboratory in this Pepsi commercial
- Do you need a great singing voice to be a great rock’n’roll frontman?
- Soen announce return with new studio album Memorial
- Pulp strongly rumoured for secret Glastonbury set after mysteriously-titled band 'The Churnups' appear on line-up
- Watch Foo Fighters reel back the years and revisit old haunts in the trippy video for emotional epic The Teacher
- Five new bands you need to hear if you love Radiohead
- 5 new bands to listen to if you love Avenged Sevenfold
- Karnataka to release Requiem For A Dream in July
- Watch this husky scream along to Linkin Park's Given Up because... just because
- We got Tenacious D to interview Ozzy and it turns out even Jack Black gets star struck
- Crack The Sky will release brand new album From The Wood in June
- Trent Reznor is doing the music for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie
- Watch this epic cover of AC/DC's Thunderstruck played on ancient Asian instruments
- Six things you need to know about Arielle
- Disturbed: "Sometimes people cannot handle that a band they loved privately is shared with the world"
- Elegant Weapons: "We’re going to do what we can to carry the torch"
- Why I ❤️ Derek & The Dominos' Layla (And Other Assorted Love Songs), by Jason Isbell
- Royal Blood go viral after mocking "pathetic" crowd at live show
May 29
- Bob Rock clarifies situation regarding Nikki Sixx's "replaced" basslines
- The 10 best metal cover versions of TV show themes
- Rammstein respond to fan’s allegations that she was drugged at a pre-show party attended by Till Lindemann
- Here are all the songs Iron Maiden have never played live
- Amazing Grace: how Jeff Buckley got started on the album that defined his genius
- Alice Cooper: "There wasn’t one human being on the planet that thought we’d get past thirty years old"
- The Cramps: A Date With Elvis - Album Of The Week Club review
- Classic Rock tracks of the week: eight new songs you need to hear right now
- DeWolff: If you're going to go old-school classic rock in 2023, this is how you do it
- Bonnie Tyler: the soundtrack of my life
May 28
- In 2006 we asked Lemmy to tell us about his ultimate rock'n'roll icon: he chose Tina Turner
- Iron Maiden kick off The Future Past tour: live debuts for five songs
- Watch John Fogerty play Proud Mary for Tina Turner in Manchester
- The Creedence Clearwater Revival and John Fogerty albums you should definitely own
May 27
- Roger Waters lambasts German police investigation over Nazi-style uniform
- Watch first Queens of the Stone Age show in three years
- 10 raging metal covers of classic 80s aggro-punk songs
- Avenged Sevenfold’s Life Is But A Dream… – the ultimate track by track breakdown
- Here are the hardest songs to play by each of the Big 4, as chosen by one of thrash metal’s greatest drummers
May 26
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Here are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring Depeche Mode, Creeper, Royal Blood and more
- Noel Gallagher dismisses The 1975's Matty Healy as a "slack-jawed f***wit” for calling for an Oasis reunion, advises him to split up his own "sh*t" band instead
- Avenged Sevenfold’s Life Is But A Dream… is a brilliantly deranged, LSD-soaked psycho-metal musical
- Tom Petty's estate takes legal action against auction house for allegedly selling stolen items
- Why does metal love bands in masks?
- Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from Haken, Einar Solberg and more...
- A life well lived: remembering the late Alan White
- Watch Metallica dust off I Disappear live for 80,000 French metal fans
- Hexvessel announce cold, dark new album Polar Veil
- The Pooper: Metalhead makes six-by-six foot Iron Maiden toilet that's big enough for the devil to take a dump in
- Watch Creeper brilliantly resurrect '80s stadium-goth vibes with Cry To Heaven. Plus new album and tour details revealed
- The Story Behind The Song: Corrosion Of Conformity’s Vote With A Bullet
- Foo Fighters' new album But Here We Are is a cathartic tribute to a fallen friend
- Foo Fighters’ new album But Here We Are is a defiant, emotional roar in the face of loss
- Was Nikki Sixx's bass playing secretly replaced on the early Motley Crue albums?
May 25
- Countdown To Ecstasy: all hail Steely Dan's idiosyncratic visions of jazz-charged contemporary rock
- If it's big, boisterous, melodic metal anthems you're after, Elegant Weapons may be just what you need
- Marc Bolan loses the plot on T.Rex's Whatever Happened To The Teenage Dream?
- Hanoi Rocks' first five albums repackaged: No bells, no whistles, but what a beautiful noise
- Sparks' album The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte is living proof that weirdness never gets old
- Ghost’s Tobias Forge pays tribute to Tina Turner: “I always thought she was a fantastic artist”
- Rare Genesis, Camel, Mike Oldfield test pressings up for grabs in charity auction
- Kurt Cobain showed up to Nirvana's In Utero sessions with a chunk of the guitar Steve Albini smashed at Big Black's final show
- M Shadows says The Rev would have loved Avenged Sevenfold’s wild new album: “He’d be stoked”
- Foo Fighters release shimmering new dream pop single Show Me How, featuring vocals from Dave Grohl's daughter Violet
- How Trompe le Monde proved that like most meaningful things, Pixies were simply before their time
- TesseracT and the tale of Altered State
- Revisiting the seven weeks in 1991 that changed music history forever
- "I hate the term 'neo prog'!" Frost* and the making of Falling Satellites
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- IQ and Frequency: "It's one of our best pieces of work"
- Spock's Beard and the story of Noise Floor
- Watch queen of rock 'n' roll Tina Turner deliver dazzling performances on US TV show The Midnight Special in 1973 and '75
- Watch Foo Fighters debut four songs from new album But Here We Are at first headline show since Taylor Hawkins' death
- How Korn got over a major fallout about Jesus and dubstep and managed to become a band again
- Music doesn't get much breezier than The Doobie Brothers on the Midnight Special
- Avenged Sevenfold are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer – and it comes with three exclusive gifts!
- The Foo Fighters have returned to the stage: setlist and photos now online
- Halestorm hook up with Ashley McBryde for stirring new version of Terrible Things
May 24
- Tina Turner: the music world pays tribute
- Tina Turner dead at 83
- We now know what Slipknot's Corey Taylor thinks of AI-generated music
- A beginner’s guide to symphonic metal in 5 albums
- How Thin Lizzy hitting it hard in Paris was the beginning of the end
- Josh Homme on Lynyrd Skynyrd continuing with no original members: "They're a covers band...but people still want to hear the songs"
- If you want to know how that rumoured Oasis reunion is going, Noel Gallagher just called Liam Gallagher "a coward", and Liam says Noel is a "bell end"
- 13 bands keeping occult rock alive who aren’t Ghost
- Yes "growing again", says Steve Howe, as band release video for Circles Of Time
- "Sleep Token fully delivered on their promises": metal fans review new album Take Me Back To Eden
- "America is the most satanic country in the world": How Black Sabbath getting huge in the US opened Ozzy Osbourne's eyes to the cut-throat nature of capitalism
- Celtic Frost’s Tom G Warrior: “They said I sang like Lemmy with the warts inside his mouth”
- Watch a baby-faced Jack Black on his first ever acting job for a video game commercial in 1982
- Listen to this fake Megadeth album written by an enthusiastic mega fan in under 24 hours
- The upcoming movie adaptation of Stephen King's own book The Boogeyman apparently "scared the s**t" out of him
- Listen to Bryan Adams' emotional plea for an end to global conflict on new single What If There Were No Sides At All
- Kansas announce new violin player Joe Deninzon
- 9 surprising artists who have sampled Slayer
- Aerosmith's Gap ad may be the greatest single appearance by a band in the entire history of advertising
- Listen to members of Green Day, Fugazi, Dead Kennedys, Gogol Bordello on new charity single for Ukrainian freedom fighters
May 23
- Watch Metallica's Kirk Hammett play John Lennon and Yardbirds classics alongside Johnny Depp, Ronnie Wood, Billy Gibbons, Imelda May at Jeff Beck tribute gig
- Stevie Nicks thanks Taylor Swift for the song that's helping her grieve Christine McVie
- Black Stone Cherry announce run of intimate UK dates and in-store appearances
- Watch Spinal Tap go toe-to-toe with Jonathan Ross on British prime-time TV
- Philip Selway: "Crimson, Floyd... Radiohead have drawn on that ambition"
- 11 metal songs inspired by Dungeons & Dragons
- Clown wants to do a Slipknot residency: "Wouldn’t it be great if we had seven days at a venue and played every album in its entirety?"
- Immortal’s War Against All: thrilling riff-powered noise from Norway‘s black metal crusaders
- The Darkness' Justin Hawkins says Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante is an "overrated" and "child-like" guitarist
- Metal on Metal: How Mystic Festival has grown to become one of Europe’s most essential events for metal fans
- Aylesbury Friars: the story of a venue
- Horror video game Dead By Daylight announce collaboration with Slipknot and Iron Maiden
- Lars Ulrich on the band that made him ditch tennis, get a drumkit and change rock history
- UK82: the chaotic story of the 80s punk scene that changed metal forever
- Here’s the real reason behind how Pearl Jam got their name
- Watch Ghost play Genesis' Jesus He Knows Me live for the first time
- How Dave Grohl initiated a Nirvana reunion of sorts on Foo Fighters’ Wasting Light
- Ian Anderson fell down a rabbit hole that led to Valhalla: he emerged with a new Jethro Tull album
- Metallica’s James Hetfield visits wounded Ukrainian soldiers in hospital: “You made my day”
- Aerosmith: Rocks - Album Of The Week Club review
- Rick Allen has spoken publicly for the first time about being attacked in Florida
May 22
- Photo gallery: Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe's Stadium Tour has kicked off in The UK
- Here are the 45 Slipknot songs that have never been played live
- By 1972, the wild rumours surrounding new shock rock superstar Alice Cooper were even freaking out Alice Cooper
- Watch Kate Bush perform Hounds Of Love in a magical rare appearance at a music industry awards show
- A battered guitar which Nirvana's Kurt Cobain gifted to his friend Mark Lanegan sells at auction for almost $600,000
- This official AI-generated Type O Negative video is as creepy and weird as you imagine
- Haken and Riverside to headline Midsummer Prog Festival
- Noel Gallagher shares regrets about meeting David Bowie while "high and p*ssed": "I have no recollection of it whatsoever"
- Have your say on Sleep Token's new album Take Me Back To Eden
- Rammstein pull out rarities in first show of 2023
- Algy Ward, former bassist with Tank, The Damned and The Saints, dead at 63
- Watch Foo Fighters' debut new song Nothing At All with new drummer Josh Freese
- A beginner’s guide to goth metal in 5 albums
- Extreme announce first UK tour in six years, with Living Colour in support
- Pianist transforms Slipknot music into classical wedding entrance songs and melts our cold black hearts
- Strawbs in disarray as Dave Cousins hits back at fan complaints
- Inspector Cluzo: six things you need to know
- Here are all the songs Metallica have never played live
- Classic Rock tracks of the week: new music from Greta Van Fleet, Skindred and more
- The Dead Daisies' merry-go-round continues as Glenn Hughes departs and John Corabi returns
May 21
- Ghost's Phantomime EP: the devil still has the best tunes, even when they're someone else's
- Foo Fighters confirm Josh Freese as new live drummer
- Corey Taylor heaps praise on Sleep Token, say they remind him of “early Slipknot”
- Deep Purple’s Ian Paice on how he ended up on a Paul McCartney record
- A beginner's guide to new wave in five essential albums
- The incredible rise of guitar hero Sophie Lloyd: from YouTube covers to Machine Gun Kelly
- Night one of NOFX’s last ever European tour perfectly illustrates why Fat Mike’s crew will be treasured forever as true punk rock rebels
May 20
- Fancy a spooky tour of Scottish mansion once owned by Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page?
- Watch fans explore Metallica pop-up store in Paris
- A beginner's guide to grunge in five essential albums
- How Sammy Hagar made Van Halen even better, according to Sammy Hagar
- Every band each member of Korn was in before Korn
- Def Leppard's Drastic Symphonies: You know the songs, but you’ve never heard them like this
- Ice-T on metal, Dave Mustaine and making it against the odds: “My hustle is strong. It’s a survival instinct”
May 19
- "The best Yes album in more than 20 years!" How Yes made their 23rd studio album Mirror To The Sky
- Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from King Gizzard, eMolecule and more...
- Here are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring Lana Del Rey, Foo Fighters, PVRIS and more
- Listen to new Blur single The Narcissist, as the reunited BritPop superstars announce their first album in eight years, The Ballad Of Darren
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Paul McCartney and Elton John are the only rock stars to feature on the Sunday Times' annual 'Rich List' of Britain's wealthiest people
- Does the Ghost puzzle game hold the secret to Papa Emeritus IV's future?
- Watch this metal-loving meteorologist drop Sleep Token lyrics into his weather forecast
- Asia's "reunion" album Phoenix to be reissued as lavish double vinyl set
- "The police should all retire. They're disgusting. England is falling to pieces." Mick Jagger's 1972 state-of-the-nation anarchist rant was quite something
- Greta Van Fleet share a majestic ode to their love of wearing jumpsuits with new single Sacred The Thread
- The story behind every cover version on Ghost’s new Phantomime EP
- Black metal band Marduk kick out bassist after onstage Nazi salute
- Chad Kroeger on Nickelback receiving less hate: "It's really nice to not be Public Enemy Number One"
- This horror series on Amazon Prime is scaring viewers so much people are struggling to finish watching it
- Ghost’s Phantomime covers EP is yet another mad journey through Tobias Forge’s head
- "For Virginia and Taylor": Foo Fighters dedicate new album But Here We Are to Dave Grohl's mother and Taylor Hawkins
- How Rick Rubin helped Linkin Park break free from nu metal
- The Smiths bassist Andy Rourke has died aged 59
- Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells at 50 on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- Watch videos from Peter Gabriel's first full solo show in a decade - plus setlist
- The Damned's Captain Sensible once invited The BBC to his parents' house and played a song to his rabbit
- Neal Schon's live celebration of Journey: supremely musicianly and surprisingly rough-and-ready
- The deluxe edition reissue of Season’s End proves Steve Hogarth was the perfect fit and foil for Marillion
- Yes: a strong start and a lacklustre finish on 23rd studio album Mirror To The Sky
May 18
- Glam sensations Starbenders launch vivacious new single Sex
- The top 20 best Tenacious D songs ever
- The story of Sound Of Contact and Dimensionaut
- Leprous and Coal: "We're big fans of Emperor!"
- 10 metal musicians who hate backing tracks and 6 who don’t have a problem with them
- Every Nightwish album ranked in order of greatness by Nightwish’s Tuomas Holopainen
- 6 hardcore bands every metalhead needs to know
- Bon Scott's pre-AC/DC bandmate remembers their wild times: “We nicknamed him Road-Test Ronnie. He tried it all!”
- A German concert promoter once offered Black Sabbath an extra one way plane ticket in case they needed to bring a "sacrificial victim" to their gig
- Before Eddie Munson, Alice Cooper played Dungeons & Dragons on TV once and here’s what happened
- A British city now has a new mayor who loves Metallica and speaks Klingon: watch his very metal inauguration
- Sting believes that humanity is going to be caught up in "a battle we all have to fight" against artificial intelligence
- Courtney Love shares Kurt Cobain's unpublished scrapped lyrics for Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit
- A beginner's guide to shoegaze in five essential albums
- More Tubular Bells tour dates announced
- In 1984, Nick Cave and Henry Rollins crashed a fancy Hollywood party at the Australian Consulate: their behaviour soon saw them escorted off the premises
- Are Sid Wilson-approved masked lunatics Swollen Teeth the new Slipknot?
- Watch Stevie Nicks give a fabulous impromptu performance during a 1981 Rolling Stone photoshoot, captured in this rare behind-the-scenes footage
- Robert Fripp and Toyah announce Rock Party tour
- Five reasons why Heavy Metal Truants is the most awesome metal charity
- Get your exclusive Tenacious D x Metal Hammer bundle – featuring an art card signed by Jack Black and Kyle Gass
- Watch a teenage Paramore busking on the street before they were famous
- From triumph to nowhere and back: the story of Kansas, in their own words
- In 1968 Tony Iommi joined Jethro Tull for two weeks: it was the making of Black Sabbath
- Joe Satriani: the 10 greatest instrumental tracks ever written
- Myles Kennedy: The Soundtrack Of My Life
- Elton John's 1975 appearance on Cher's TV show is spectacular proof that they really don't make 'em like they used to
May 17
- Jesse Leach: "After Alive Or Just Breathing came out, I was not in a great place"
- How Radiohead revolutionised rock music in the ‘00s
- “We did a lot of f**king drugs - the good kind!": Synyster Gates on Avenged Sevenfold's new album Life Is But A Dream...
- Billy Corgan has one good thing to say about the music industry in 2023: "The gatekeepers are dead and now people are figuring out who the real bands are"
- Watch Dave Grohl's first ever performance with Nirvana in this rare footage from 1990
- Listen to heartbreaking new Foo Fighters single Under You
- Jimi Hendrix is to battle a tyrannical intergalactic force in an official graphic novel
- Silver Moth announce November live dates for the UK
- Every song on System Of A Down‘s Toxicity ranked from worst to best
- Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and Free's Paul Rodgers reviewed Black Sabbath in 1970, and were not at all impressed
- Slipknot's Corey Taylor says he "couldn't care less" about being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- When Monty Python met Iron Maiden: The story behind Graham Chapman's Can I Play With Madness video cameo
- King Gizzard rock out on new album PetroDragonic Apocalypse
- Sammy Hagar is convinced his dad visited him in a dream to tell him he was dying
- The Josh Homme albums you should definitely own
- A happy Jimmy Page playing air guitar is today's fix of wholesome video goodness
- Hawkwind's Dave Brock is 81 and would like to go backwards in time instead of forwards
May 16
- How A Momentary Lapse Of Reason caused all-out war for Pink Floyd
- The 5 best songs by The Bronx, by vocalist Matt Caughthran
- Foo Fighters, The Cure, Queens Of The Stone Age, Turnstile and more announced for Riot Fest 2023
- 7 brilliant metal albums you might have missed last month
- Slowthai appears in court charged with two counts of rape
- Babadooks, drag kings and The Devil’s Arse: inside the world’s first Ghost convention
- A beginner’s guide to prog metal in 5 essential albums
- The enduring power of guitars, drums and desperate poetry: Frank Turner lights up New York City
- A beginner's guide to noise rock in five essential albums
- Billy Cobham: “It was testing the waters of rock and jazz!"
- Billy Corgan says Kurt Cobain was "the most talented guy of our generation" and reveals he cried when Cobain died because he'd "lost his greatest opponent"
- Metallica are still hating on Ride The Lightning deep cut Escape even after all these years
- Step aside beauty influencers, here's Gene Simmons with a tutorial on how to perfectly achieve Kiss' make-up look
- Five Finger Death Punch pull out of Download
- Listen to Ghost's lovingly faithful cover of Iron Maiden's Phantom Of The Opera from their forthcoming Phantomime EP
- Rick Wakeman announces Return Of The Caped Crusader live dates for 2024
- Joe Bonamassa: "I've sold nine million records. The detractors can say what they want"
- Watch David Lee Roth dancing joyously to an Annie Lennox song in front of a statue of a rearing stallion
- King's X's Doug Pinnick has explained that time when he was three and got abducted by an alien who looked like Jesus
May 15
- Rivers Cuomo wishes he could go back in time to stop Weezer from releasing so much music
- Every Garbage album ranked from the worst to the best
- Prince George loves listening to Led Zeppelin and AC/DC, according to his rocker dad Prince William
- Curved Air and Sky founder Francis Monkman has died, aged 73
- Vote for the best Metallica album
- Rega put a fresh spin on their Planar 3 turntable to mark 50th anniversary
- Pain Of Salvation, Ozric Tentacles and Big Big Train to headline 2Days Prog +1 Festival
- “Metallica loved it”: why Hesher is the greatest Hollywood movie ever to be inspired by Cliff Burton
- Måneskin’s Victoria De Angelis on Italy's "conservative" attitude towards homosexuality: "Many people still believe that it's a sin"
- Here are Korn, Deftones and System Of A Down’s Sick New World setlists to prove that nu metal is alive and kicking in 2023
- British politician lands himself in trouble for sharing Rainbow's Kill The King on social media days after the coronation
- Watch a death metal band start a circle pit outside a GameStop store while people queue for the new Zelda game
- Toto: XIV - Album Of The Week Club review
- The Eddie Van Halen I knew, by Gene Simmons
- Classic Rock tracks of the week: new music from Nita Strauss, Wolfmother and more
- Psychedelic projections, a spinning mannequin head and the music of the future: Is this peak Yes?
May 14
- Ted Nugent's Midnight Special videos are a reminder that he was once worth watching
- This week's Toyah and Robert Fripp video was brought to you by sadomasochism, bondage and submission
- Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong walked into a London bar last night and sang Basket Case with an astonished covers band: watch fan-filmed footage
May 13
- John 5 hopes he hasn't ruined relationship with Rob Zombie by joining Motley Crue
- Frost* and the making of Day And Age
- Voyager go for Eurovision glory tonight!
- The world’s loudest bands took over the home of BritPop last weekend and it was beautiful
- Listen to Steven Wilson's new mix of Gentle Giant's Interview
May 12
- Disturbed's David Draiman admits that he "almost joined" Chester Bennington, Chris Cornell and Scott Weiland this year while fighting addiction and depression
- Foo Fighters are lining up “soon to be announced” UK live dates
- Watch Jimi Hendrix hang out with The Rolling Stones backstage in New York on his last ever birthday
- Randy are the greatest rock 'n' roll group you've never heard. But you can change that right now
- Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from Motorpsycho, Godsticks and more...
- Watch skateboard legend Tony Hawk nail 'supergroup' cover of Nine Inch Nails' Wish, with a bonus Trent Reznor cameo
- Neal Morse Band announce brand new live album
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Every Lana Del Rey album ranked from worst to best
- “People came up to us after gigs and said our music terrified them." The saga of Hawkwind's Space Ritual
- Avenged Sevenfold's new single We Love You is a wild genre-clashing cosmic ride
- Watch a face-painted Jim Carrey duet with Alice Cooper onstage in Hawaii
- Sabaton took over a Swedish island in the dead of winter and it was as crazy as it sounds
- Luke Morley's new single Killed By Cobain tells the unfortunate story of how Thunder failed to break America
- "It's all Steve Harris's fault!": Everything you need to know about Germany's Eurovision entry Lord Of The Lost
- Audiophile label MoFi to cough up $25 million to settle fraud lawsuit
- Black Spiders' comeback album is an effervescent love letter to rock’n’roll at its most joyous and uncomplicated
- Dolly Parton has released the first single from her rock album and it most definitely rocks
- Tenacious D defend "the honour and integrity" of video games in banjo-driven one-minute single
May 11
- John 5 says Motley Crue's new music is heavier than anything on Shout At The Devil
- The Sisters of Mercy’s Andrew Eldritch thinks ‘Fear of the Dark’ by Iron Maiden is like a Sisters cover version
- "I am the Eggman!" Eric Burdon was the character referred to in The Beatles classic I Am The Walrus – and the story behind it is kinda filthy
- Dez Fafara lays his trauma to rest on Devildriver's Dealing With Demons Vol. II
- Queens Of The Stone Age share new single Emotion Sickness, announce new album
- Keanu Reeves' band Dogstar to reunite for their first public show in 20 years
- A beginner's guide to rap metal in five essential albums
- Iron Maiden are going to battle with an underwear company over its name
- Watch a teenage James Corden look on as his first ever interviewee, Meat Loaf, bangs his head against a table and talks about musicals
- The guy who everyone thought was 'Meghan in disguise' at the Coronation was a former member of Soft Machine
- Elles Bailey: "I've never been interested in fame. I just want to make good music that can help people"
- Vivian Campbell: "I'm sixty years old now but I still play like I'm sixteen in my head"
- Eric Burdon: the hellraiser who had it all and then lost it
- The Frank Zappa albums you should definitely own
May 10
- How PJ Harvey’s raw, violent, vengeful masterpiece Rid Of Me inspired Nirvana and set hearts ablaze among a new generation of fearless female musicians
- Malevolence: how the band behind 2023's most viral mosh pit took 17 years to become an overnight sensation
- Bowers & Wilkins PX7 S2 headphones review
- Black Stone Cherry announce new album Screamin' At The Sky
- How The Clash made history by visiting some of Belfast's most divided and violent streets
- An official Syd Barrett YouTube channel has been launched
- Watch this Metallica fan play Master Of Puppets using every 'instrument' imaginable, including straws, bananas and, er, a toilet door
- The time Nirvana got in a food fight with Sonic Youth (and then someone went and urinated in Ride’s champagne bucket)
- A beginner's guide to black metal in five essential albums
- The Flower Kings announce European headline tour for October
- “I couldn’t breathe!”: Duff McKagan’s new song was written in the middle of a panic attack – and got him through it
- Listen to this haunting AI Freddie Mercury cover of The Beatles' Yesterday
- Voyager announce UK and European headline tour
- Marilyn Manson's defamation lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood has multiple claims thrown out
- The 50 best Van Halen songs - the ultimate American party soundtrack
- Rita Lee, Brazil's "Queen of Rock", dead at 75
- Watch Steven Tyler poke fun at 'Peace Out' tag for Aerosmith's farewell tour
- Ex Megadeth bassist says Dave Mustaine's long-held Metallica grudge is "f***ing pathetic"
May 9
- Dolly Parton details long-awaited, much-hyped, star-studded rock album
- We went on the road with Gojira for their biggest French show ever, and it was mindblowingly good
- Jason Newsted lambasts "idiots" who criticise Lars Ulrich's drumming: "they have no idea what they're talking about"
- Tangerine Dream announce full UK tour for November
- The triumph and tragedy of Monsters Of Rock '88: How Iron Maiden's biggest UK show will be forever tinged by disaster
- Judas Priest's Rob Halford: "when disco came along, the entire industry turned its back on metal"
- The night Tony Visconti thought Phil Lynott was going to die in his hotel room
- Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones review
- Ozzy Osbourne reveals his favourite horror movie ever: "we were *****ing ourselves!"
- The 50 most hilariously ugly rock and metal album covers ever
- Yes announce new Classic Tales Of Yes tour dates for 2024
- Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe: Album Of The Week Club review
- The Girlschool albums you should definitely own
- Mike Rutherford: "The last Genesis show felt bizarre"
- 10 occasionally baffling stories of 10 bands named after 10 other bands
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd: the soundtrack of my life
- "This is the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and they’re playing my song!" - what happened when Def Leppard went to Abbey Road
May 8
- Mammoth WVH launch "completely different" new single Like A Pastime
- Sum 41 to call it a day and reveal plans for global farewell tour
- You can now listen to Motorhead's cover of Metallica classic Enter Sandman - complete with a "horrifying" animated video
- Former Kayak vocalist Edward Reekers unveils star-studded The Liberty Project
- The stories of 10 'regular folk' made famous by rock songs
- Classic Rock tracks of the week: new music from Black Rainbows, H.E.A.T and more
- Canadian band lucky to escape unharmed after tour van written off in collision with moose
May 7
- A photo of AC/DC's infamous 'Rosie' has appeared online - and your help is needed
- The story of prog record label InsideOut Music
May 6
- Global demand for live concerts is "unprecedented"
- Disturbed's David Draiman invites single ladies to swipe right on Tinder
- Far above the clouds: Pure Reason Revolution and Above Cirrus
- Could Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reunite for Rush's 50th anniversary next year?
- Watch Tom DeLonge and Blink-182 perform tracks co-written by Matt Skiba
- Minnesota highway to be renamed in honour of Prince
- Billy Corgan paid ransom to hacker who threatened to leak new Smashing Pumpkins songs
May 5
- Heriot's Debbie Gough: 10 records that changed my life
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Watch Carrie Underwood bare her rock 'n' roll soul once more with a gorgeous cover of Ozzy Osbourne's Mama, I'm Coming Home
- These are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy, The Hives and more
- So Shaquille O'Neal has made a rap song that samples Bodies by Drowning Pool
- Every Stone Sour album ranked from worst to best
- Get voting with Prog's Tracks Of The Week!
- U.K.'s Curtain Call gets remaster and worldwide release
- Gojira and Mastodon just levelled a Florida Ampitheater to remind everyone why they're two of metal's greatest bands
- Listen to Peter Gabriel's brooding new single Four Kinds Of Horses
- "It was sort of a devil's bargain" - Ann Wilson tells the story of the Heart album that reinvented the band
- "It was like Dorothy landing in Oz" - what happened when Alice Cooper went to Los Angeles
- Winger fail to reinvent themselves again, but who cares when the choruses are this big?
- Tygers Of Pan Tang's new album is the bog-average sound of a band dithering
- Thirty four years in, Therapy? unleash 10 more bulldozing, bone crunching anthems
- The post-Led Zeppelin Robert Plant albums you should definitely own
May 4
- David Bowie and Rod Stewart collaborator Linda Lewis dead at 72
- Ghost triumph at Swedish Grammis
- Watch Bring Me The Horizon's gory, gruesome and fabulously silly NSFW video for new pop-punk single Lost
- Ihsahn and the story of Àmr
- How Meteora showed Linkin Park were no one-hit wonder: "it proved Hybrid Theory wasn’t an accident"
- New John Wetton book to be published in June
- A beginner's guide to thrash metal in five essential albums
- Star Wars Day 2023: Set your blasters for stun - it’s May the 4th and we have the best gift ideas in the galaxy
- Frost* announce their first ever live Blu-ray
- AI Lana Del Rey covering Nine Inch Nails' Hurt in the style of Johnny Cash is both exquisitely beautiful and slightly creepy
- “Absolutely, horribly gutted, p***ed off, self-righteous”: A pre-fame Thom Yorke on the early days of Radiohead
- Ultravox announce Deluxe Edition of 1982's Quartet
- So the first single from Corey Taylor's new solo album is a song he was playing 14 years ago
- Blood, ghosts and tabloids: how Cradle Of Filth's Cruelty And The Beast took black metal mainstream
- Voyager announce new studio album Fearless In Love
- The Internet has blessed us with a Korn vs Bob Marley Freak On A Leash mash-up
- What happened the night Stevie Ray Vaughan died - by those who were there
- Say hi to the your new favourite southern rockers, Hillbilly Vegas
- Floor Jansen: the soundtrack of my life
- Blues, booze and debauchery: the agonising life and death of Paul Butterfield
May 3
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame boss tells Iron Maiden fans to bide their time
- Rage Against The Machine on "surprising" Rock and Roll Hall of Fame success
- Watch Greta Van Fleet official music video for Meeting The Master
- "I do like a good yarn!" Rick Wakeman and Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
- “More cheery stuff from IQ!": The story of The Road Of Bones
- Alice Cooper and Aerosmith's Joe Perry once moved into a haunted house to write songs for a horror movie: it did not end well
- New Steve Hogarth and Richard Barbieri EP to be released
- How Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded a sweet tribute to Guns N' Roses, but ended up causing beef with Axl Rose instead
- "Metallica is just as clusterf***ed as everything else": How isolation, rehab and personal strife led to Metallica's most dramatic album
- Ozzy Osbourne will play more shows even if he has to be wheeled out on stage: "it’s not a job, it’s a ***ing passion!"
- Kate Bush and Rage Against The Machine to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Steven Tyler's lawyers want a claim of "intentional infliction of emotional distress" struck from sexual assault of a minor lawsuit filed against him
- Someone out there has the only recording of a one-off AC/DC and Lynyrd Skynyrd studio jam and the world may never get to hear it
- Remembering the time Bon Scott made a rival drink his urine. Out of a turkey
- If you ever wondered what The Number Of The Beast sounds like compressed 666 times, we have news
- Every band each member of Iron Maiden was in before Iron Maiden
- Silverhead could have been huge: instead they imploded from a mix of class-A chemicals and "mad, decadent sex"
- "I don't think I could hum any of your stuff" - what happened when Led Zeppelin visited the BBC
- Joey Tempest sometimes wonders what life would be like without The Final Countdown
- Watch John Fogerty play a cacophonous Creedence classic on kid's instruments
- Lamb of God announce US summer tour
May 2
- Shinedown announce US tour with Papa Roach and Spiritbox
- Watch pro-shot footage of Tool, Primus and QOTSA members covering Ænima
- "Who the f**k wants mature rock ’n’ roll?" The Hives return with a new single, new album details and a bunch of white lies
- Sleep Token's Take Me Back To Eden is a potent, masterful statement from metal's most exciting young band
- That time Nirvana destroyed everything in sight and then set their own tour bus on fire
- Watch David Bowie play Suffragette City for the first time in London, just 8 days after recording it for Ziggy Stardust
- "Everybody was comatose!" Rick Wakeman on recording with Black Sabbath
- 10 metal songs that are weirdly popular on streaming
- Tom DeLonge used gratuitous auto-tune at Blink-182's recent show and fans are divided about it
- Watch Keanu Reeves troll an angry death metal festival crowd with his grunge band: "We got killed"
- Barclay James Harvest announce orchestral show
- Watch this woman on a 'girly weekend' with her mum accidentally gatecrash the world's biggest goth festival, Whitby Goth Weekend
- Judas Priest announce first UK headline tour for almost a decade...but you'll have to wait a while to see it
- Lemmy once tried to kick Tenacious D off a Motorhead show...so they snuck on stage and played anyway
- Watch: A fan let off an almighty fart during a Sleep Token gig and totally killed the vibe
- 10 revolutionary instrumentals that inspired the guitarists who invented rock music
- Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dead at 84
- Nita Strauss says pop shows are free of the "gatekeeping" that afflicts rock and metal
- Are you ready for Crynyl? Fall Out Boy vinyl records made from their tears
- How Richard Marx's "dumbest, lamest" song became his biggest hit
May 1
- Metallica: photos from the opening nights of 2023's biggest tour
- Aerosmith announce farewell Peace Out tour
- A beginner's guide to post-punk in 5 essential albums
- Here's what happened when cops raided a Thin Lizzy tour hoping to score a huge drugs bust
- Brad return after 10-year hiatus with new album and Shawn Smith's final recordings
- Horslips guitarist Johnny Fean has died, aged 71
- The Sisters of Mercy: Vision Thing - Album Of The Week Club review
- Classic Rock tracks of the week: new music from Girlschool, Rival Sons and more
- Mötley Crüe played the NFL draft party and people are divided about the show's merits
- There's a version of Hole's Celebrity Skin featuring AI vocals from Kurt Cobain and the future is gonna be really messy
- A sultry funk version of AC/DC's Back In Black starring Joe Bonamassa? Step right this way