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- April 30
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- "I was terrible to work with, I was unsympathetic, aggressive, mean, selfish, egotistical." The Police were never friends, so Sting's power plays on Ghost In The Machine were always going to end badly
- "You can hear Aphex Twin homages all over Hybrid Theory." Mike Shinoda: 10 songs that changed my life
- The Brainstorms Project will reveal what your brain looks like when it listens to Pink Floyd
- Slipknot announce enormous 2024 Here Comes The Pain tour, celebrating 25 years of their debut album
- System Of A Down's Serj Tankian slams “absolute maniac” Donald Trump: “He’s only interested in himself, his own ego, his own everything. He doesn’t even care about other Republicans”
- Cradle Of Filth announce extensive UK and Europe 2024 headline tour
- "I wanted to see the world and shoot as many people as possible": Before he joined Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne tried to join the British Army. His application was not accepted
- “It’s about keeping rich people rich and poor people poor… that’s the reason we’re in perpetual war”: When Roger Waters was asked to take on the mantle of Pink Floyd, it rejuvenated him
- “I’m not finished being me!” Kerry King is on the cover of the new Metal Hammer
- "John Wetton would have endorsed this tour as he wanted the music to live on." Wetton's widow "thrilled" with new Asia line-up
- “I think it’s time to play some rock ’n’ roll”: Myles Kennedy announces 2024 headline tour, supported by Devin Townsend on an acoustic guitar
- “A fantastical voyage through time, memory and the better angels of human nature”: Nightwish announce long-awaited new album Yesterwynde
- “Some terrific playing; moody soundscapes and drama… but a regrettable lyrical default”: Warhorse’s The Recordings 1970-72
- Slipknot have officially named Eloy Casagrande as their new drummer
- “I wish that he would’ve seen us live past the stupid Nineties, you’re-a-sellout thing.” Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna on the enduring impact of Nirvana and the loss of her friend Kurt Cobain
- The label that introduced Southern rock to the masses: The albums on Capricorn Records you should definitely own
- “Fast Eddie was a great example of what this business can do to you, good and bad”: Toby Jepson has some stories to tell
- "There was a strong sense of catharsis. I had to blink away some tears": How Big Big Train picked up the pieces after tragedy
- Some people run away from home to join the circus: Genevieve Glynn-Reeves ran away from the circus to start a band
- Deep Purple launch first music with new guitarist Simon McBride
- The Alarm's Mike Peters reveals that his cancer has returned
- April 29
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- Watch German pop duo Cindy & Bert perform a Sherlock Holmes-themed version of Black Sabbath's Paranoid with a cute dog in 1971
- Golf superstar Rory McIlroy has performed Journey's Don't Stop Believin' in public, and, for the first time ever, we wish we didn't have ears
- Much-travelled guitarist and producer Robin George dead at 68
- Knotfest Iowa announces 2024 lineup with Slipknot, Knocked Loose, Hatebreed and more
- Can headphones cause hearing loss? "It's more than likely that you are listening to your favourite bands at ear-damaging levels, and you might not even be aware of it"
- “Like Volare, the marriage of voices flies free in a spirit of joy.” Punk icons Iggy Pop and Siouxsie Sioux have re-recorded The Passenger for an ice cream advert
- Gaerea prove why they’re one of black metal’s best up-and-comers with hammering new single World Ablaze: “It’s a song about desire, hope and freedom”
- “A lot of the things we were doing 25 years ago seemed so new." Kittie broke the mould in the male-dominated world of nu metal. Now they're back for an almighty victory lap
- Decolonise Fest, London's acclaimed DIY music festival by and for punks of colour, launches fundraiser for 2024 weekender
- Coldplay, Little Simz, Yungblud, Dua Lipa and more will share memories of north London's world-changing music scene in new docuseries Camden
- Eddie Van Halen was a Meshuggah fan, according to son Wolfgang: “He said, ‘The drummer better be paid the most!’”
- Grace & Fire guitarist Aaron Gidney also joins This Winter Machine
- Miranda Sex Garden announce first overseas dates for 24 years
- “Europe shall gather in Worship”: Sleep Token announce extra November tour dates, plus UK/EU support band
- Bruce Dickinson concert promoter responds to presence of ‘noxious fumes’ during Brazil concert
- P.O.D. undoubtedly have an interesting story to tell, but Veritas just doesn't quite do it justice
- “Surreal and observational lyrics, daftness and majesty… With the benefit of hindsight their music makes more sense now”: Stackridge’s The Forbidden City
- "When the entire crowd is singing it back at me, it's such a glorious feeling": The Waterboys classic Mike Scott wrote to prove how easy it was to write songs
- "I didn't do a thing in the music industry until I was twenty-nine": Billy Morrison is a success story 30 years in the making
- "There were guitar players weeping. They had to mop the floor up": How Jimi Hendrix invented everything we love
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Hot Damn!, Tuk Smith, The Inspector Cluzo and more
- April 28
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- "Seven Turns is professional, competent, and worthy": the Allman Brothers Band look to the past on Seven Turns but fall just short of living up to it
- Toyah and Robert Fripp show no signs of growing up on "elderly edition" of Blink 182's Growing Up
- “If you drop people in these high-pressure environments too early on, you kill them before they’ve had a chance to flourish”: You Me At Six frontman Josh Franceschi on his concerns for the next wave of rock hopefuls
- "It's called Foundations because it's the founding of my musical life." Serj Tankian's forthcoming Foundations EP will include an early unreleased System Of A Down song
- “Every time I see him, he goes, ‘Am I still a Vampire?’”: Alice Cooper on initiating Paul McCartney into Hollywood Vampires
- “Initially, we signed it away for $500 because we didn’t have a very savvy manager”: Alabama 3 on how their song Woke Up This Morning became the theme tune for The Sopranos
- “I’m 16 and they were my heroes… They started to laugh because I was also playing the echo parts. I didn’t know they were a special effect”: Obsessive attention to detail was always Eddie Jobson’s superpower
- “Let’s do the whole album right now!” Watch Pearl Jam perform songs from new album Dark Matter live for the very first time
- April 27
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- 'Grateful' Deryck Whibley reflects on 10 years of sobriety and Sum 41's rise back to the top of their game
- Black Sabbath Ballet announces international dates after huge success of UK run
- “I don't say it's looking rosy up there in rock band land”: Metallica manager Peter Mensch on the current state of rock music
- "It’s cool to have rearranged It’s Only Smiles to introduce modern acoustic playing to Periphery’s fans." Periphery team up with English guitarist Mike Dawes for new single
- Chinese proggers OU share video for 'vulnerable' new single 輪迴 Reborn
- Jan Akkerman announces two Trading Boundaries shows in June
- “Substantial pleasures… even if they arguably venture too far into prog indulgence”: Renaissance’s 2024 reissue of Tuscany, featuring live Japan set
- “Trent would play it in the car and we’d drive round New Orleans”: Nine Inch Nails producer Alan Moulder on the record that reminds him of making The Fragile
- "The clock is ticking so we’d better enjoy the ride while we can": Accept's track-by-track guide to their outstanding new album, Humanoid
- “It takes me into the condition that I like best of all, to be the hunter, the student, the geek”: Robert Plant on the record he likes to start his day with
- “Vim and vigour fizz… energy levels are cranked up compared to the studio versions”: Transatlantic’s two-night Live At Morsefest 2022
- April 26
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- “The blonde anti-hero known as Slim Shady has had no shortage of enemies.” Watch the crime scene trailer for Eminem's forthcoming album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace)
- Watch the video for David Gilmour's brand new single The Pipers Call
- Here are the 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- “Are these your questions?” When Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan interviewed Nick Cave for MTV at Lollapalooza 1994, it did not go well
- Hear Yungblud's cover of the Kiss classic I Was Made For Lovin' You
- "We're the bastards": listen to Mötley Crüe's spidery comeback single Dogs Of War
- 5 essential record player maintenance and care tips to keep your deck spinning for longer
- "It’s great that someone of her acumen will be part of our touring family": The Smashing Pumpkins unveil their new guitarist
- Sylosis and Fit For An Autopsy announce UK and European tour with Darkest Hour and Heriot in support
- Cool new prog you realy should hear from Marjana Semkina, Dave Foster Band, Pallbearer and more
- “Concept albums are considered old hat these days, but I made a career out of it and I don’t see why I should stop now.” Alan Parsons and The Secret
- From natural selection to sex-crazed lizard demons: Meet Refestramus, the Chicago proggers who leave no topic off the table
- "Touring in Europe feels like returning home." VOLA announce November tour dates
- "This year is 1999 right here!" Watch Slipknot break out new masks, classic songs and their brand new drummer at last night's super-intimate, 300-capacity show in Pioneertown, California
- “I realised I'd made a big mistake.” The night that Blondie's Debbie Harry accepted a lift from serial killer Ted Bundy
- “Once inserted, they can comfortably stay in until the end of the night”: D’Addario dBud earplugs review
- Swedish prog legends Kaipa return with tongue-twister of an album title. Sommargryningsljus will be released in June
- “An expansive, widescreen sound… and when Ian Crichton gets the wind in his sails, the results are spectacular”: Six By Six’s Beyond Shadowland
- "Vividly conjures echoes of Chelsea Wolfe, Marissa Nadler and even touches of Depeche Mode." MWWB vocalist Jessica Ball explores new sonic paths with new project Eye and debut Dark Light
- "It's the Devil's Music - Hide your kids' stuff!" How Slash made the blues sound like a party again – only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- “It was a contractual obligation album, not a serious release. It’s not as bad as I thought it was going to be!” Alan Parsons is a punk with no regrets – well, not many
- "Like a covers band trialling material in a dive bar": Lee Aaron occasionally shines on otherwise patchy covers album Tattoo Me
- "A hurricane of monolithic thud and skronk": Neil Young revisits his grunge past with Crazy Horse on the familiar but different F##in' Up
- AC/DC are opening dive bars in five European cities this summer
- The 40th anniversary edition of Def Leppard's Pyromania: Come for the originals, stay for the "utterly fierce" unreleased live album
- Robert Plant is reportedly working on a new version of a Led Zeppelin classic for a "top-secret project"
- April 25
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- "I'm at that point in my life where I am truly happy": Richie Sambora is in fine voice on celebratory new solo single I Pray
- "People used it to mourn to": In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, one song captured the mood of a nation and turned Live into unprepared superstars
- “Korn scared me as a kid!” Fontaines D.C. extend Romance tour, talk up unexpected nu metal influences on new album
- "I went, 'I just don't know if my fans are gonna get it.'" How Slayer legend Kerry King ended up guesting on Sum 41's pop punk anthem What We're All About in one of the most unlikely heavy metal cameos ever
- Kyros's Shelby Logan Warne and prog musician Grace Hayhurst take over at London's Sensible Music Studios
- "I made it about the sexual cry of love." How The Rolling Stones and a dancer from Hot Gossip inspired one of Billy Idol's greatest hits
- "A lot of American men were messaging me saying that they were going to kill me." Meet Delilah Bon, the self-proclaimed 'brat punk' raging against misogyny with genre-splicing bangers
- "Who could have guessed that a band that hide behind masks would be so mysterious?" Everything you need to know about Slipknot's chaotic year - and what comes next
- "We have a well-stocked archive of ideas." Matt Baber and Richard Wileman reunite for second album
- "It's two hours of high octane, non-stop, smashing the life out of song after song!" Everton manager Sean Dyche on Metallica, Green Day, The Hives, and Rick Astley
- "A machine intertwining with the human consciousness!" Members of Oranssi Pazuzu and K-X-P launch new outfit Haunted Plasma
- Moody Blues founding member Mike Pinder dead at 82
- "OU frequently sound like they’ve beamed in from the 25th century." Devin Townsend-approved Chinese metallers OU take prog metal into strange new worlds on II: Frailty
- "At 78 years old, he's lost none of his chops and remains in fine voice": David Gilmour's The Piper Calls - the first review
- The Jeff Beck albums you should definitely own
- “The book is quite dark, but never complete evil. It’s misunderstandings, and that’s what evil and sin are supposed to be”: How a Terry Pratchett Discworld novel became a Steeleye Span album
- Watch Kelly Clarkson sing Heart's Crazy On You with Nancy Wilson on guitar while Ann Wilson looks on
- "In hindsight I had problems, but at the time I really enjoyed the chaos I was creating": The Pete Townshend song that savaged a pair of music writers
- Cyril Davies was a grumpy, balding panel beater who "drank bourbon like a fish": He also inspired a generation of rock musicians – and has been all but airbrushed out of history
- April 24
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- "I'm thrilled to share an inside look into our family's wild life through the world of wrestling and rock'n'roll": A Billy Corgan reality TV show is coming to a small screen near you
- "You're talking to a person that's never heard an Iron Maiden record." Watch Better Lovers frontman and former Dillinger Escape Plan man Greg Puciato take on the most daunting (and ridiculous) metal true or false quiz ever
- Can wearing earplugs damage my ears?
- “My role in the black metal scene is probably exaggerated, because I was a visible frontman… In many ways I was just the nerd making music”: Ihsahn has never stopped progressing, and can’t understand why others did
- "It’s written from the point of view of being older; mortality is the constant.” David Gilmour to release Luck And Strange in September, his first new album in nine years
- "Given titles like Bury The Cross… With Your Christ, it’d be a sucker’s bet to imagine Deicide taking their boot off the throat of organised religion." Satanic death metallers return from the abyss with Banished By Sin
- Think Blur had it bad at Coachella? The Jesus And Mary Chain may as well have been the Spice Girls so far as Roadburn is concerned
- Evanescence's Amy Lee on rumours she could replace Chester Bennington in Linkin Park: "It's not true...but they should ask me about that, I might do it part time."
- "Nostalgia is big business, and Mantras is swimming in it." Alien Ant Farm's first album in almost a decade is pretty much what you'd expect, and that's just fine
- "Embodying the essence and attitude of their 1970s incarnation possibly more than any other album in recent memory": Deep Purple announce new album =1
- “We used humour – you could do that then; there’s no humour in chart music now”: Graham Gouldman on the 10cc song he wouldn’t write today and the gizmo that broke up the classic line-up
- "I like to make women happy. I don't play for guys": That time Carlos Santana made an album of classic rock covers including songs by AC/DC and Led Zeppelin
- "Kids tell me: 'I wanna be a rock star.' I say: 'Nah, get a job in a clothing store instead'": Steve Miller on LSD, boredom and salvation
- The Genesis albums you should definitely own
- They share the same influences as Jimmy Page, but one of them is a New Orleans vampire: Meet Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse
- April 23
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- "I tried to capture the feeling of leaving a relationship and the shame that comes with being betrayed": Norwegian art-rocker Susanna reveals more new music
- "It allowed us to push the boundaries of what we thought was feasible." Listen to Knocked Loose and Poppy's outrageously heavy new single, Suffocate
- "I’m 42. It's not a sexy, rock’n’roll age…" Frank Turner announces summer headline tour of intimate venues
- "Rather than a fascinating document of Linkin Park’s movements over the years, Papercuts is little more than a playlist set to shuffle." Linkin Park's first greatest hits album is a disappointing missed opportunity
- "Teenage optimism, joyful romance and delightfully nerdy Star Wars references": Every Ash album ranked from worst to best
- “Quite often I would wake up in the middle of the night, and David Longdon would be kind of with me… I’d get very upset because I was on my own”: Big Big Train’s battle back from their frontman’s death
- "Join us as we destroy all enemies!" Megadeth announce US tour with Mudvayne and All That Remains
- "The wave of legacy bands striking new gold in their twilight years continues unabated." Almost 50 years in, German heavy metal legends Accept have found a new career peak with Humanoid
- "Dad's advice was always: follow your heart." A new Johnny Cash album of previously unreleased songs is coming later this year, powered by his son, John Carter Cash
- New-look Asia announce Heat of The Moment US tour
- "We don't want to stagnate": Mötley Crüe sign with Big Machine Records – Vince Neil exclusive
- Steeleye Span announce 55th anniversary May tour dates
- Graphic videos, disturbing lyrics and a bloodsoaked vocalist: Couch Slut's European live debut at Roadburn Festival 2024 is terrifying yet undeniably thrilling and triumphant
- "I wanted to expand upon what we had and introduce new colors." Zeal & Ardor announce new album Greif and UK headline show: listen to gorgeous new single To My Ilk now
- “I don’t think there has ever been a candidate more desperate to win, just to keep himself out of prison.” There are no prizes for guessing who Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder won't be voting for in November's US presidential election
- “Your band cannot stand you. You have got to get your self together!” Inside the tour that almost destroyed Kings of Leon
- Rick Wakeman adds three extra Christmas shows
- "A doom take on trance by way of Radiohead." Chelsea Wolfe bewitches and delights with spellbinding set at Roadburn
- “Not even in the territory of prog metal – closer to dyed-in-the-wool prog rock”: Iron Maiden’s Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son remains their best prog album
- The man who inspired BB King, Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix: The T-Bone Walker albums you should hear
- Drunken shenanigans. MTV-upsetting videos. Furious Brazilians. Sun City: With The Works, Queen returned to their rock roots, and annoyed a lot of people
- Swedish Metal Aid: The point where charity, hairspray and a singing horror show collide
- April 22
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- Deep Purple are teasing something and it might involve algebra
- Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh just played Desperado for a rain-soaked crowd of 300 at a historic Māori fort in New Zealand
- “Nobody who ‘represents’ my dad actually cares to give the fans new unheard music, let alone keep his name alive.” Scott Weiland's son releases song featuring his father's vocals following extortion threat
- Imagine Dragons announce huge North American tour to promote forthcoming sixth album Loom
- “Kurt said some stuff about us that was a real bummer. I thought Nirvana were a good band. Our response to their criticism was, Dude, why are you being such a dick?” Pearl Jam look back on their 'feud' with Nirvana
- "It's a song for the losers!" How Halestorm's Here's To Us became the ultimate underdog anthem - and ended up being covered by everyone from Slash to the cast of Glee
- "It's about how we respond to ideas we strongly dislike": Wheel's new single Disciple is an argument set to music
- How to watch Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story – stream from anywhere with our guide
- Dry Cleaning's EPs tour is a delicious reminder of what a fabulously odd, game-changing band they are
- "I was like, 'This stuff is Undertaker music!'" WWE World Heavyweight Champion Damian Priest on the many ways that heavy metal changed his life
- “Nobody cares if someone says ‘I don’t like that sound’ or ‘Actually play it right next time!’ That last one generally only comes my way”: The Pineapple Thief aimed to escape their comfort zone, and it worked
- Space-rock swagger, explosive rock ’n’ roll, psychedelic wig-outs and a ridiculous amount of in-fighting: Your essential guide to every album by The Verve
- Graham Gouldman announces new solo album I Have Notes to be released in July
- "The line between a Clipping. and Slayer gig is tighter than you'd think." Daveed Diggs' alt hip hop group challenge notions of heaviness at Roadburn Festival 2024
- "She looks and feels like a next-gen star." Zambia-born Canadian rapper Backxwash looks to evolve beyond her trap metal roots with surprise set at Roadburn Festival 2024
- "The bigger I got as a solo artist, the more we had to pay the Mob": Peter Frampton looks back over an extraordinary six-decade career
- We asked Jon Bon Jovi: If you could choose one final song to perform in front of an audience, what would it be?
- “We weren’t even talking for a while. Creatively it was just a mess. I didn’t like the scene we were part of and I wanted away from it all”: Where Primus went in 2000 and how they came back
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Blues Pills, Bill Fisher, Demon and more
- "Adore weaves its dark spell a little bit deeper. It's brooding, gothic and hypnotic in spades": Smashing Pumpkins embrace the sadness but lose fans on Adore
- Ozzy Osbourne, Foreigner, Peter Frampton and more to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
- April 21
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- "We would go in there and eat the turkeys and whatever else we found": Heart kept themselves from starving in their early days by stealing Bachman Turner Overdrive's food
- "I think he'd like to see a wall of death": Watch side-stage footage of Sleep Token teaming up with a masked Oli Sykes during Bring Me The Horizon's Brisbane show
- Eight albums (and two EPs) from 2024 that show metalcore is absolutely killing it right now
- "Somebody has to be the kind of songwriter who doesn’t give a shit if he gets called pretentious." Ian Anderson on the inspiration behind Jethro Tull's RökFlöte
- "If you're in my band you can't have too much of a sense of dignity": The surreal moment America caught its first sight of "Weird Al" Yankovic
- “I don’t filter my opinions. I filter whether I’m being kind or not”: how David Crosby turned into a master of the Twitter putdown in his final years
- April 20
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- Maynard James Keenan's plans for the next 18 months? Wine, fried chicken and new songs for Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer
- Courtney Love: "I always wanted to be known as a bitch. Kurt wanted to be liked but not me."
- “It might be as close as we came to being a four-piece rock band and I say that with no regret”: Michael Stipe on his favourite R.E.M. album
- “Even Bowie must have thought, ‘Hang on, these guys have appeared out of nowhere, how did that happen?!’”: Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera on the meteoric rise of the glam-rock trailblazers
- “We wore silly hats, but in those days, you did silly things”: Listen to the doo-wop bands Ronnie James Dio sang in before becoming a metal star with Black Sabbath and Rainbow
- “We took influences from the New York hardcore scene. Our stuff was faster than in the Bay Area”: the 100mph story of East Coast thrash
- “I remember seeing my first rock legend snorting cocaine in the bathroom, like, ‘Oh, I’ve heard about this’”: Foo Fighters’ Nate Mendel on the night they played at David Bowie’s epic 50th birthday bash
- “I started watching people like the Pope - when he turns up you know he’s in the room!”: Skindred frontman Benji Webbe on how he became metal’s most flamboyant frontman
- “Ewan Pearson and Mogwai are by far the best, while the Manic Street Preachers remix is misguided”: Steven Wilson’s Record Store Day special, Harmonic Divergence
- “Keyboards were the new thing. There was this attitude: ‘They sound big and they sound cool’”: how Rush swapped guitars and kimonos for synths and mullets in the 1980s
- April 19
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- “Stay tuned, freaks”: Halestorm and Evanescence are teasing a tour together (probably)
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "Orange Goblin have made the journey, and they're very much the real thing." London's stoner metal legends finally reach New Zealand and put on a magnificent rock 'n' roll show
- Hear Lacuna Coil get ridiculously heavy on new single In The Mean Time, featuring Ash Costello from New Years Day
- Square, a multi-city showcase festival in Portugal, is seeking international musicians to perform at their 2025 event - here's how to apply
- Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine announce extra Ascendancy / The Poison 2025 tour dates, plus stellar support act
- New proggy sounds you must hear from Maybeshewill, MONO, Eye and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- Swedish prog rockers Nightingale to have back catalogue remastered and reissued
- Get the best sound for Record Store Day 2024 with these 4 unmissable turntable deals
- “If you enjoy anything from Architects to Deftones, metalcore to pop, there’s something here for you”: Unpeople’s self-titled EP is UK metal’s most promising first impression of 2024
- “Rock’n’roll is about guts… there’s no rules!”: The Hives’ Pelle Almqvist and Nicholaus Arson on punk rock, sharp suits and the seal of approval they got from Taylor Hawkins
- An Evening With Haken comes to the UK and Europe in September
- “I plan to do a more melodic, straight-forward heavy metal side-project”: How Death’s Chuck Schuldiner broke free from extreme metal with prog powerhouse Control Denied
- “We got hit with tax bills our former manager hadn’t paid. I was so skint that I got a job as a labourer… Then one day I picked up a guitar again”: The money Caravan spent, and the money they never received
- "Jimi Hendrix lived a block from me in New York. We jammed together a lot": Al Kooper's stories of the Rolling Stones, The Who, Bob Dylan, Joe Walsh and more
- "If I was young now, I'd probably be stalking Taylor Swift. We have affairs, we make it dramatic and write hit songs about it" - Stephen Stills on the romance that drove a classic and the making of his first solo album
- "Spandau Ballet, Visage, Ultravox… there's some good music going down": In 1981, Rush's Geddy Lee was ready to blow the boundaries of progressive rock wide open
- Glen Campbell left us seven years ago, but his new album of duets suggests that the end isn't the end it once was
- "He tackles wars, political turmoil, crime and weather, in another compelling affirmation of his irrepressible muse": Ian Hunter shows no sign of erosion on Defiance Part 2: Fiction
- "They've gone out of their way to turn up the dial and make things as heavy as possible": Pearl Jam sweep the pretenders away on Dark Matter
- April 18
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- In what's turning out to be a bumper year for Led Zeppelin fans, more unseen live footage has emerged
- Dickey Betts, Allman Brothers Band founding guitarist, dead at 80
- Alcest share stunning new video for Flamme Jumelle
- "The song is about the push and pull of mismatched love and the lengths you’d go to make it work": PVRIS drops vibrant new track Oil & Water
- St. Vincent's superb All Born Screaming offers up thrillingly unfiltered reflections upon life, death, and all the chaos that occurs between those two inevitabilities
- Slipknot are teasing something special with mysterious billboard and website
- ZIO announce new live album and August tour dates
- Every Bathory album ranked from worst to best
- “There’s plenty to sustain and even expand the myth of their mission to reconstruct rock music”: Faust’s Momentaufnahme III
- Ian Anderson, Al Di Meola, John Helliwell, Simon Phillips and more guest on new Mandoki Soulmates album
- “Cannae beat a bit of AC/DC man!” Watch football legend Ally McCoist’s hilarious reaction to hearing Hells Bells on stadium speakers
- “We’ll see you next year”: Letlive are reuniting for a “proper” farewell tour in 2025
- "Tarantula Heart is the best Melvins album since the 90s": They shaped sludge metal and inspired Nirvana, but Melvins are still punk metal weirdos on new album Tarantula Heart
- "It was very mixed – we could get some lovely nuns as well as rockers": The story of Sky, the least rock’n’roll band of all time
- "I used to hate the sight of Ozzy. I couldn’t stand him, and I used to beat him up whenever I saw him": Tony Iommi in conversation with James Hetfield
- "I've ripped up my fingers to shreds, they bled, they blistered": Watch Nina DiGregorio's jaw-dropping version of Van Halen's Eruption, played on 7-string fretted violin
- "Me, Bono and Bowie hijacked a Mini and drove to this restaurant where the Edge was to sing him Happy Birthday": What happened when we went record shopping with Joe Elliott
- Pearl Jam calm down a bit on new single Wreckage
- April 17
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- "We both wanted to rock out, so we started coming up with those kinds of pieces and it made us all feel great so we just kept going." Glass Hammer and the making of Dreaming City
- "I'm fascinated by falling in love at the end of the world": Fontaines D.C. share details of their new album Romance, drop explosive single Starburster
- “SYSC will take over, so get on board or get out of their way.” Seeyouspacecowboy spread their wings and shed their demons on magnificent new album Coup De Grâce
- “It shows every member of the band doing what they did best – Gillan’s vocals, Jon Lord’s keyboards”: the In Rock classic that’s Tony Iommi‘s favourite Deep Purple song
- "What is this band about? I’m not sure. I like that it’s a mystery to me.” Meet five excellent young bands inspired by Tool
- “I’m stronger and louder than I have ever been”: Julie Christmas announces first album in 14 years, releases ultra-catchy single Supernatural
- Watch Megadeth perform a secret acoustic set outside a hotel in Buenos Aires
- “Without him, there would be no Metallica.” See James Hetfield’s new Motörhead tattoo with Lemmy’s ashes in it
- “If a musical piece lasts for 6 minutes 30 seconds, it usually means it took me that time to create it”: Vangelis on how the natural, positive force of music got corrupted
- "Rock'n'roll has given me bipolar weirdos, addicted, beautiful souls, the madness, and the sadness. It’s just too much": Chris and Rich Robinson tell the story of the Black Crowes
- "Everything up to then had been about climbing the mountain. With Powerslave it felt like we were looking out over the rest of the world": How Iron Maiden grew up
- April 16
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- The Beatles' original Let It Be movie has been restored by Peter Jackson
- Clutch and Rival Sons announce Two Headed Beast tour with Fu Manchu and Black Stone Cherry
- Can share new live clip from 1977 line-up featuring Rosko Gee
- Prog supergroup Six By Six announce first ever live show
- Public Service Broadcasting announce full UK and European tour for October and November
- Every Judas Priest album ranked from worst to best
- "I honestly can’t find the inspiration to write": Don't hold your breath if you're hoping for a new Jinjer album in 2024
- Kerry King announces UK headline debut with tiny London show
- “The humorous interludes may prove divisive; it’s strongest when they dig hard into a groove”: Trifecta control the fusion in The New Normal
- “Edge smacked me. It was a full-on rumble.” The night that U2 guitarist The Edge punched Bono in the face onstage
- For a year Tommy James was bigger than The Beatles. Then the mafia ruined everything
- "Between this and Dune: Part Two, 2024 is already proving a spotless year for fans of bat**** cosmic maximalism": Dvne's Voidkind is the best album about desert-dwelling space worms you'll hear this year
- "One demo was of a guy playing one finger piano on Black Night": When the call went out to replace Ian Gillan in Deep Purple, only one man got an audition
- "Few bands can compete for sheer atmosphere and elegiac beauty": Doom metal legends My Dying Bride stay the course on gorgeous - if a little predictable - new album A Mortal Binding
- "You look at all these people who are giving you the horns, from Eminem to Lionel Ritchie, and you think: Is this really happening?": Judas Priest on awards shows, Invincible Shield and the beauty of cats
- “We never did any TV-throwing – I’d rather nick ’em than throw ’em out the window”: Jeff Lynne recalls how easy it was for ELO to take over the 70s
- Duff McKagan announces solo UK and European tour
- "We locked the doors, then called security. Skip arrived in a taxi, with an axe, in his pyjamas": The wild genius of Skip Spence
- April 15
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- Oceans Of Slumber share daring new video for brand new song Where Gods Fear To Speak
- "It felt like horror movie music, so dark and aggressive and dangerous." Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda on the three hip hop acts that changed his life
- The Hunna, Employed To Serve, Blackgold, Saint Agnes amongst first names for Misery Loves Company festival 2024
- Big Big Train announce additional London headline show
- Every Blink-182 album ranked from worst to best
- "After multiple foiled attempts, words cannot describe how excited we are." Motionless In White announce UK and European headline tour
- Catfish And The Bottlemen just announced their biggest headline show ever
- “We didn’t force a connection, it just happened.” Steve Howe remembers a fledgling Yes supporting Jethro Tull in America in 1971
- “A handy reminder of why he’s revered as a player, tickling the ear with pleasurable sounds”: Anthony Phillips’ Strings Of Light reissue
- "Achingly beautiful, haunting music that marks Big Brave out as so much more than just another doom metal act": Big|Brave transcend boundaries on new album A Chaos Of Flowers
- “Not dissimilar to the sound Radiohead would later explore on King Of Limbs”: With the help of Brian Eno, Coldplay dipped into prog with Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
- "If you just stay in your comfort zone all the time, you keep writing the same type of songs over and over again": The Pineapple Thief are rejuvenated, regenerated and on a roll
- "I don't know if what I'm about to do has significance or whether I'm about to make an idiot of myself": William Shatner, progressive rock icon
- The Stranglers' albums you should definitely own
- "Sometimes its songs are a gentle caress, sometimes its songs are a maelstrom": Melissa Etheridge mixes it up on Brave And Crazy
- April 14
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- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Tyler Bryant, The Lemon Twigs, Joanne Shaw Taylor and more
- Chino Moreno set to record vocals for "invigorated" new Deftones album
- No Doubt roll out greatest hits and surprise guest Olivia Rodrigo at Coachella comeback
- "He was one of those people that I knew I would listen to”: Muse's Matt Bellamy on the time they worked with Mutt Lange
- “Grindcore really resonated with Americans. Our bands were being noticed before they’d even gone over there”: the ear-splitting history of Earache Records, the label that changed metal
- "This was no mere warm-up; this was a declaration that Bruce Dickinson is still a force of nature in the metal universe." Iron Maiden's irrepressible frontman played his first solo show in over 20 years - and it was a triumph
- “We came up very fast and we went down fast. We were carried away on that wave of euphoria”: how Motörhead made their two most controversial early 80s albums
- "I wrote this thing that sounded like a mix of W.A.S.P. and Youth Gone Wild by Skid Row": prog metal veterans Evergrey are looking on the bright side of life for new album Theories Of Emptiness
- “I would do meth in the private bathroom in the back. At the time, I was out of my mind”: the dark confessions of Korn’s Jonathan Davis
- “It marked Jethro Tull as being quite different to most bands… Led Zeppelin didn’t do comedy. Well, not intentionally”: Ian Anderson kept up the silly and sarcastic on solo album Homo Erraticus
- April 13
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- "Jimmy's very lucky to be even playing tonight": Watch an ailing Jimmy Page lead Led Zeppelin through a truncated show as unseen live footage emerges
- “This is the best record I’ve ever done in my life. Montrose and Van Halen led up to this”: the story of Sammy Hagar’s Chickenfoot, the greatest rock supergroup of the 21st century
- Devin Townsend Terria vinyl reissue announced
- "Metallica is huge everywhere, but extra-huge in Mexico because Robert Trujillo’s like a saint." Suicidal Tendencies might be one of metal's most influential bands, but Mike Muir is thankful they never became celebrities
- Watch awesome front row footage of Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson rocking the Whisky A Go Go in LA last night for his first full solo show in 22 years
- “Metallica would jam on their stuff in rehearsals, songs like Black Night and Highway Star”: Lars Ulrich on his lifelong love of Deep Purple and the genius of the Machine Head album
- “There’s no questioning the quality of this collection… but is it truly essential?” Carl Palmer’s Fanfare For The Common Man box set
- “Transportative music… a deeply cosmic record that might be out there with their very best”: Hawkwind’s Stories From Time And Space
- The Struts announce Pretty Vicious tour dates
- Slash and Chris Stapleton hook up for extremely lively version of Fleetwood Mac's classic Oh Well
- April 12
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- Former Saxon bassist Steve Dawson sentenced to six years in prison for child sex offences
- "You couldn’t go to an MMA show without hearing this one about 10 times in a night." The ultimate heavy metal gym playlist, by Kris Barras
- The 14 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “I was just lying in my own self-pity for months”: How an unlikely collaboration with Post Malone helped revive Ozzy Osbourne’s career
- With the swagger of Happy Mondays and the politics of Crass, Kid Kapichi's sold out Birmingham show hints they might be Britain's next breakout stars
- “It felt weird – that’s my song!” Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor reveals his first reaction to Johnny Cash’s Hurt cover
- “Bitches stay mad ’cause I slay everyday!” Listen to Scene Queen’s pounding new single, Stuck
- Dutch proggers Lesoir announce new album Push Back The Horizon
- Haken guitarist Richard Henshall will release new EP Mu Vol. 1 in June
- One of Linkin Park’s heaviest songs is now available to stream for the first time ever
- Enchanted Duo are ripping up their own rulebook for their ambitious, spiritual new album, Werifesteria - and you can help them bring it to life
- Tenacious D have recorded a 30-song cover album – and you’re never going to hear it
- “I think fire goes hand-in-hand with the devil, and I’m no stranger to talking about the devil...” Slayer guitarist Kerry King releases new single Residue and incredibly fiery music video
- How Jethro Tull broke America is the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- “A much better testimony to ELP’s legacy than the original incarnation’s risible swan song Love Beach”: Emerson, Lake & Powell’s The Complete Collection
- Oasis launch previously unreleased live version of Supersonic recorded on the day Definitely Maybe went to number one
- “More aggressive but with a parallel tranquillity… they continue to separate themselves from the post-rock pack”: Sleepmakeswaves’ It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It
- Watch Procol Harum play a majestic version of A Whiter Shade Of Pale in the Biba Department Store in London in 1973
- "Gorgeous songs, sung in a voice that sounds like it's lived a life that's full": Mark Knopfler repeats his formula to great effect on One Deep River
- Getting harder and heavier with each album, Devon’s Kris Barras Band come flying out of the blocks on Halo Effect
- "Sounds like a band remembering where they buried the treasure": Gun have stalled in the past, but on Hombres they sparkle
- "Y'know, I never realised how much I really love my band": Steven Tyler talks American Idol, dysfunctional behaviour, Johnny Depp and the history of Aerosmith
- April 11
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- Heart appeared on the Howard Stern show and talked about their iconic cover of Stairway To Heaven: then they played another Led Zeppelin classic
- "I don’t think there are too many other genres of music that have fans so loyal and devoted like this..." The story of Australian prog
- "It’s always fun to write odysseys. You go on this little musical adventure.” How Motorpsycho made Still Life With Eggplant
- "Let the party begin!": A Sammy Hagar-themed pool and tiki bar complex is opening in Las Vegas
- "If I were stuck on a desert island, I wouldn’t take Never Mind The Bollocks, it'd be Meddle or Foxtrot." The prog roots of Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist Will Seargent and Poltergeist
- "I think of the band as a progressive band because, with every record, we’re evolving and changing." Coheed And Cambria and the Year Of The Black Rainbow
- "I want to keep the attention on Ukraine." Watch the moving new video for Within Temptation's latest single A Fool's Parade, filmed in Kyiv
- Evergrey detail brand new album Theories Of Emptiness
- Rendezvous Point announce third album Dream Chaser
- "There’s certain prog fans who just want the comfy old slippers. That’s got its place and that music is timeless but they can’t accept anything new." How Pendragon proved they weren't "comfy" with Passion
- Jethro Tull announce six-disc Bursting Out - The Inflated Edition
- "You have no idea the personal battles I was going through." Ash Costello reveals deeply personal reasons New Years Day pulled out of festivals in 2023, fires back at fans who criticised them
- “Drugs were everywhere in New York. Everybody knew at least five people who had OD’d. I always learned from other people’s mistakes”: the unlikely rise and sudden fall of White Zombie
- "Death is something we think about a lot." Metz have always found happiness in the darkest places, and new record Up On Gravity Hill sees them contemplating The End with joy in their hearts
- “We didn’t go ‘That’s your job’ – we’d say ‘Why don’t you have a go?’ I can remember playing solos on Stylophone… In some places it was like 'the Martians have landed!‘” How Family made Bandstand, and where it took them
- "Dev Patel was like 'this is Indian, but metal as ****'" Bloodywood just soundtracked 2024's most epic fight scene in new action thriller, Monkey Man
- Alex Lifeson guests on new Trifecta single Once Around The Sun With You
- Jean-Michel Jarre to team up with Brian May for biannual Starmus concert
- "This is the quartet’s darkest, most varied and heaviest album by some margin." Symphonic metalcore mavericks Imminence have stepped out of the shadows of their influences in style with The Black
- “Anyone who doesn’t talk to their pets is a psychopath!” We asked a bunch of metal stars to tell us about their pets on International Pet Day
- "Every song feels like it’s ripped from the diary of the coolest girl you know." Pop superstar Olivia Rodrigo salutes the rock star who changed her life
- "At the end, Jimmy says to me: 'I want you in my band'. I say: 'But I've got a maths exam in the morning!'": Rick Wakeman, and the blues records that changed his life
- “The priorities of the first Asia were to make it a success. Yet when we had it, we were so stupid it was unbelievable:” How the supergroup admitted mistakes and worked them out via their patchy Phoenix album
- "Carlos Santana told me I was like a shaman on stage and he wanted to do a band with me": Gavin Rossdale's stories of Keanu Reeves, David Bowie, Bono and more
- "At one point an aggrieved producer threatened to attack them with a machete": Say what you want about Marillion's second album, but it was not easy to make
- April 10
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- "All our shows have become a celebration for us and the fans." Kerbdog announce special tour to mark the 30th anniversary of their self-titled debut album
- "They've gotten me back into music. They touched me in a way that made me excited about music again": How the San Francisco Giants saved Steve Perry
- Aerosmith announce new Farewell Tour dates as Steven Tyler returns after vocal injury
- Gen Z superstar Girl In Red has lived and learned between albums, and I’m Doing It Again Baby! gleams with new perspectives
- Midas Fall share live video for In The Morning We'll Be Someone Else
- MONO share video trailer for brand new album Oath
- Watch live footage of Sleep Token’s first concert of 2024
- Heavy music hit Tallinn Music Week like a blizzard: here's our guide to the seven best alternative bands we saw in Estonia
- Bruce Dickinson is playing a “secret show” at a legendary venue this Friday: “Not so secret anymore.”
- "Not everyone can say they played with David Bowie and Jimmy Page." Drummer Michael Whitehead on working with two giants of British music
- The Tangent share new video for aptly titled The Single
- Louise Patricia Crane details her brand new album Netherworld
- Everyone that left Delain in 2021 will perform on singer Charlotte Wessels’ next album: “This is the album I want to re-introduce myself with, and I’m so glad to do it with this amazing team.”
- Airbag announce brand new album The Century Of The Self
- "Minor Threat were like The Beatles. I saw Ian MacKaye write Straight Edge on his mother's piano": Henry Rollins on Black Flag, Minor Threat, The Stooges, Green Day, Beyoncé and the meaning of punk
- "Love lies bleeding in my hands - OOH YEAH!" Watch full HD footage of Elton John looking on in delight as Metallica rock their brilliant cover of Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
- Every cover song by Nightwish ranked from worst to best
- System Of A Down and Deftones announce stacked one-night-only co-headline show
- “I caved in and said: ‘Okay, I’ll put out Wuthering Heights, if only to teach you not to interfere with our choices’”: The decisions and coincidences that helped make Kate Bush a superstar
- "What a find!" In 1973 Humble Pie played a set at a trendy department store in London: That footage is now online
- "We walked into the control room to listen to the first track, and everybody was grinning, like: 'Okay, this will work'": Charlie Starr on music, life, and two decades of Blackberry Smoke
- "We'd play small islands on the west coast of Scotland rather than stadiums": Echo & The Bunnymen wouldn't play the game, but that didn't stop them from creating "the greatest song of all time"
- April 9
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- In case you missed it, Heart played Total Eclipse Of The Heart on a New York rooftop with Jimmy Fallon during the actual total eclipse
- Deep Purple and Yes join forces for North American tour
- Twisted Sister have almost been offered enough money to reunite
- Leprous announce new album Melodies Of Atonement will be released in August
- Listen to new Architects single Curse, produced by ex-Bring Me The Horizon member Jordan Fish
- "It’s over." Liam Gallagher has finally accepted that an Oasis reunion will never happen. Not this week, anyway
- Ozzy Osbourne is starting a new internet show about “aliens, drugs, conspiracies and rock ’n’ roll”
- “We’re proud metal fans and this music is like an invincible shield!” Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner explains how their new album helped him recover from heart issue
- "People aren’t used to hearing vocal melody over a wall of ‘blackened progressive deathgrind’ or whatever the hell you call it." Cattle Decapitation might be playing arenas, but they're still one of metal's most extreme bands
- Wardruna announce lengthy world tour for 2024-2025
- Every Bleed From Within album ranked from worst to best
- “Often derided as a huge error by the NWOBHM heroes, it’s the start of an artistic journey that was never taken further”: Diamond Head’s dalliance with pure prog on Canterbury
- MWWB singer Jessica Ball shares atmospheric new video for In Your Night as Eye
- Watch Tom Morello perform two long-unplayed songs with Bruce Springsteen live in Los Angeles
- "Her expression seems to say, if you even try to take this child from me, I will kill you": Family Values is a beautiful, tender and moving document of the love shared by Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love and their most precious creation
- “If you’re putting all these Beavis and Butt-Heads in the parking lot, where are you going to park the cars?” What happened when Metallica battled the city of Philadelphia to perform in a car park
- “The fans understood I was the price they had to pay to hear the band they loved, so they put up with me. It’s not like you’re joining the Sex Pistols”: Trevor Horn on fronting Yes – and how it later made 90125 possible
- "It was a pretty low time. We weren't sure of the kind of band we wanted to be": How time took its toll on Rush as they worked on the follow-up to Signals
- The Frankie Miller albums you should definitely own
- John Fogerty and George Thorogood's Celebration tour has been significantly extended
- Nearly an hour of previously unseen Led Zeppelin footage from 1975 has been posted online
- April 8
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- "All of a sudden we play at blinding speed and unbearable intensity, and everyone starts to take notice and stand up": How King Crimson got started
- "We're not defined by the five worst days in our lives": Scott Stapp has had dark days, but he knows the world we live in is not all unicorns and rainbows
- "When thousands have been killed and millions have fled their homes, moaning about the absence of a band member who left 37 years ago is churlish at best." How Pink Floyd surprised the rock world with Ukraine charity single Hey Hey Rise Up
- "Sir Elton helped cover Nothing Else Matters, and tonight, you can see us return the favor!" Watch a clip of Metallica performing a rollocking cover of Elton John classic, Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, with Elton looking on approvingly
- "I think we’ve got a reputation locally as having done something pretty awesome." From taking over hospital wards to setting pianos on fire, While She Sleeps are still doing things their way
- "An edgier, cooler and more affordable option, particularly if guitar music is your jam": Marshall Motif II A.N.C. review
- Every Slowdive album ranked from worst to best
- Bill Nelson announces new "loud, edgy" new album Powertron
- Dream Theater announce UK and Europe dates for 40th Anniversary tour
- "We felt like we were playing with our hands tied behind our backs. That will drive a person insane, and it did": Shirley Manson reveals how being pitched against No Doubt almost destroyed Garbage
- “Robert Fripp played the solo and we didn’t like it. He said, ‘You’re wrong.’ Steven Wilson said, ‘This is how wrong we are,’ and deleted it”: How No-Man prospered by refusing to ever fit in
- “A lot of guys can play awesome guitar but there’s very few super-shredders like that”: members of Slayer, Nightwish, Mastodon and more salute the genius of Alexi Laiho
- "We're all messed up! You know what I mean? There's no such thing as a normal person, is there?" The Bring Me The Horizon song inspired by Oli Sykes' ADHD diagnosis
- Teramaze announce new concept album Eli: A Wonderful Fall From Grace
- "The path of witchcraft has brought me so much joy." We explored LA's weirdest and most wonderful book store with goth-doom queen and practising witch, Chelsea Wolfe
- R.E.M.'s Reckoning: raw, mysterious and strangely melodic, refracting their influences through a murky Southern prism
- "Look at my eyes, this is do or die!" Watch Motionless In White bring the metal and play Rhea Ripley to the ring in style at Wrestlemania 40
- "This has to be the album against which every rock album that followed should be measured": Led Zeppelin attain peak Led Zeppelin status on Led Zeppelin IV
- “When working on material we could ask, ‘What would we have done in the days of Close To The Edge?’ Maybe sometimes we didn’t ask that question enough”: Steve Howe’s favourite Yes songs
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Black Country Communion, Orange Goblin, The Warning and more
- April 7
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- Firehouse singer CJ Snare dead at 64
- Rosalie Cunningham announced for Summer's End Festival
- Orange Goblin announce first album in six years, confirmed as headliners of new UK rock festival
- "We’ve never done a proper, real tour together. Which is nuts, because we’ve toured with everyone!": How Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine have teamed up for 2025's biggest metal event
- Hanoi Rocks' final album set them up for stardom, but fate had other ideas: Instead, it fuelled Axl Rose and inspired Appetite For Destruction
- “This happened to us and Layne’s family. If we can be OK with it, why can’t you?”: how Alice In Chains silenced the doubters and rose from tragedy with epic comeback album Black Gives Way To Blue
- “I don’t know that much about folk music, except that most of it bores me to tears”: the incredible life of Michael Chapman, the greatest singer-songwriter the world never knew about
- The manager said, ‘Ian Anderson and the boys don’t want you in the band so you’ve been fired.’ I replied, ‘How can you fire me when I quit three weeks ago?’” Mick Abrahams’ life after Jethro Tull
- The Judas Priest album title that became heavy metal's definitive statement of intent
- April 6
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- "Our contract with EMI allowed us complete control. When we signed, they had to make a donation to the Miners' Strike": Fired up by frustration, New Model Army's Vengeance is as relevant now as it was 40 years ago
- Recorded in the wake of tragedy, The Pretenders' Learning To Crawl was an indestructible triumph of sheer will
- Blink-182 cancel three Mexico shows as bassist Mark Hoppus hit by throat infection and "severe bronchitis"
- Watch remastered HD footage of Bon Scott-fronted AC/DC performing Jailbreak live in London in 1976
- “He phoned up the Jesus Army and claimed I was possessed by demons and needed help!”: how Cathedral dragged doom metal into the 1990s with their landmark debut album Forest Of Equilibrium
- "We went to the promoter and said, Can we go home? They were, like, 'Yeah, you can go home! But first you're gonna have to give me two millions dollars!'": Lollapalooza '92 celebrated alt. rock taking over the mainstream. But for one band, it was hell
- “I lived with this false hope that Weiland was one day gonna get it together. I kick myself because we let it go on for so long”: how Chester Bennington helped rebuild grunge icons Stone Temple Pilots
- "He was drunk out of his mind and he asked me to make out with him": Billy Corgan on how he became a fan of The Cure... and the first time he met Robert Smith
- “We were coming back and taking no prisoners”: every Kittie album in their own words
- “It was so embarrassing, it was terrible”: Muse on their most galling onstage malfunction
- “We started out with an aim to annoy!”: Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil on the band’s early days
- New Fruupp box set A Twilight Adventure to be released in June
- Iamthemorning added to A Sunday In September bill
- "We've got maybe another 10, 15 years? Playing a Dragonforce set is not easy": Guitar hero Herman Li talks technique, helping popularise power metal and the next generation of shredders
- “The sonic aggro and infectious licks are there in spades”: For better and worse, Slash strips rock to its basest elements at Wembley Arena
- “People said, ‘Oh, you’re a metal band’. I thought that was kind of lame”: the story of Tool’s Undertow, the debut album that introduced the world to a new kind of noise
- “It’s been a blessing to have been underdogs for so long. It’s kept us hungry. I’m ravenous”: the late ’80s fall and early ’90s rise of Motorhead
- Moby Dick began life as a modest instrumental showcase for John Bonham: Played live, it took on an epic, often drug-fuelled life of its own
- April 5
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- "Half Living Things is a record that satisfies that mosh-hungry hardcore itch." Alpha Wolf mix rampaging heaviness with injections of vulnerability on album number three
- "I pushed the veil, back into dark again." See Jamie Campbell Bower - AKA Vecna from Stranger Things - embrace his heavy side with the first video from his new post-hardcore band, BloodMagic
- The 15 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- “I was like, ‘Oh, my God! That sounds much better. It sounds how it should!’” Jane Weaver accidentally pushed herself out of her comfort zone for Love In Constant Spectacle
- How to watch Wrestlemania 40: The WWE Universal Championship is on the line this weekend - don’t miss out
- Cool new proggy sounds to enjoy from Transatlantic, Wheel, Hats Off Gentlemen and more in Tracks Of The Week
- Wardruna return with brand new single, the suitably mesmeric Hertan
- "There was more security on the catering backstage than on any band's dressing room. We were told, If they see the Hard Rock Cafe's cheeseburgers and French fries, there will be a riot": Jon Bon Jovi recalls playing in Russia for the first time
- Kavus Torabi shares video for new single, the epic, trippy Heart The Same
- “It was just good to have that early on.” Tool's Maynard James Keenan reveals the essential advice punk rock legend Henry Rollins gave him at the start of his career
- Listen to Jakko Jakszyk and Mel Collins' new version of I Talk To The Wind
- New UK prog quartet Age Of Distraction announce debut album
- "I was very excited to get involved, it's one of my favourite books of all time": watch Muse's Matt Bellamy work on a dramatic new original score for George Orwell's 1984 at Abbey Road Studios
- Pendragon announce new reissue of 1996 album The Masquerade Overture
- "The work of a band on the form of their career": Fresh from supporting Bad Omens and Northlane, unsung metalcore heroes Erra step up to the big leagues with new album Cure
- “He did one track… then went off with some famous singer to do another album”: Hawkwind’s collaboration with William Orbit didn’t happen on this album - but they hope it will on the next
- "I play the drums like I drive - crazy": The epic life and tragic death of Cozy Powell
- April 4
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- "He's unhinged, super smart, super talented and willing to upset": British pop superstar Robbie Williams hails the one rock star he thinks is lighting up 2024's "boring", danger-free music scene
- “I’m always ready for a kitty cat!” We gave Judas Priest legend Rob Halford a load of kittens to play with and asked him about heavy metal, becoming a gay icon and (sort of) being Dolly Parton's BFF
- German power metal force Powerwolf announce new album Wake Up The Wicked
- “Anyone with an alternate viewpoint is liable to get burned at the stake”: Queensryche made an 80s metal classic with Operation: Mindcrime. Nearly 20 years later, they tried to match it with a sequel
- “It’s great if you’re Drake, it’s not great if you’re Grizzly Bear.” Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor says streaming has “mortally wounded” many musicians
- Best beginner skateboards 2024: We break down the very best skateboards to get you shredding
- Ghost share cryptic new trailer, teasing the end of Papa Emeritus IV and a potential movie release
- The Holy Family announce release of 2022's acclaimed Roadburn set
- From Ozzy Osbourne and the British Bulldogs to Edge's legendary Slayer entrance, here are 12 times heavy metal ruled WWE's biggest show, Wrestlemania
- “So funny, so personable, so goofy”: Metallica’s Kirk Hammett remembers hitching a ride from David Bowie
- “Basically I’d been set up. I woke up the following morning and wondered, ‘Did I just rejoin?’” How Pallas repaired the angry split with Alan Reed to deliver their eighth album in 48 years
- Another Korn/Adidas collaboration is coming next month
- "I call Bill Bruford and blurt out 'how would you like to be in a rock band again?' Bill says, 'And do what? Sit around a luggage carousel all day?' But he gave us his blessing." Adrian Belew opens up on the formation of Beat
- "The major metal magazines slaughtered Emperor's early albums." How black metal icon Ihsahn ditched corpsepaint and church burnings to become a prog master
- "We all did shots with him!" The Hollywood icon that left Guns N' Roses "very wobbly" while shooting one of their most famous videos
- "Exactly how you’d hope Korpiklaani to sound in 2024 if your expectations revolve around zippy, accordion-driven tavern metal.": Folk metal's biggest party band have found the sweet spot on new album Rankarumpu
- “When I drank, I was going to be the best drinker in the bar, or take the most drugs or whatever. When I did give up the drink I was going to be the best at that:” The bottom-end drive that made Danny Thompson’s name
- April 3
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- "It was the only place that Satan wouldn’t be hanging out": Twisted Sister were a long way from home, but Jimmy Page's bathroom was a songwriting refuge
- “He's never done a band like us; he’s done a lot of heavy metal. But I thought the two could mix": How AC/DC's producer and synthesisers reinvented The Cars
- Hey Joe, where you going with my cod & chips? Unravelling the truth behind Jimi Hendrix's historic visit to a fish & chip shop in the north of England
- "Things were gloriously easy back in 1969 because we only had two albums. Things are now much more tortuous": Ian Anderson on touring, bedbugs and Martin Barre
- "I was just shut down. I remember trying to make myself cry and I couldn’t": Dave Grohl on the final days of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain
- “Some of the biggest and most powerful companies are, without permission, using our work to train AI models...This assault on human creativity must be stopped”: Pearl Jam, The Cure, R.E.M. attack “predatory” use of AI in music
- A death metal recording studio is being recognised as a historical landmark in Florida
- Lzzy Hale will “most likely” front Skid Row for even more concerts, says becoming a full-time member “sounds like a pretty good gig for me”
- “When James comes in, there’s a presence”: Metallica producer explains what James Hetfield and Johnny Cash have in common
- Metalcore darlings Misery Signals announce farewell tour: “It’s time for us to close this chapter of our lives and explore new opportunities individually.”
- Damian Wilson, Simone Simons and Anneke van Giersbergen all star in new Ayreon live video for The Day That The World Breaks Down
- The isolated bass track from Metallica’s Orion proves that Cliff Burton was a master of his instrument
- “The world is ready for us now.” Why nu metal heroes Kittie are finally ready to grab the limelight once again
- “I don’t like praise. ‘This record is flawed and has good intentions, but I look forward to something better’ – that’s a great review”: Richard Thompson doesn’t believe in the ‘perfect album’
- Taylor McCall studied wildlife management at university: Now he writes deeply personal songs inspired by the Vietnam War and tours with Robert Plant
- "I ordered Chinese food and beer for them, and we just sat there and talked": Metallica, Ride The Lightning, and the meal that got them signed
- "We get halfway through, just before the solo, and all the power goes off on stage": The night a furious Ray Davies cut a Yes set short before aiming blows and kicks at Rick Wakeman
- "I could stand up with four cardboard cut-outs and still be a star": Steve Harley spent four years of his childhood in hospital and grew up to hate journalists, but all he wanted was an audience
- April 2
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- Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold and Disturbed to headline Rocklahoma 2024, Evanescence, Lamb Of God, Halestorm, Kerry King and more also confirmed
- "Sounds like someone broke Satan's heart": seven hit singles that sound like doom classics when slowed down to 33rpm
- “We are all blown away and extremely excited!” Mike Portnoy has finished recording drums for the next Dream Theater album
- "It serves as a testament to doing what entertains you with no borders." How Trent Reznor created a masterpiece with Nine Inch Nails' timeless The Downward Spiral - and influenced everyone from Korn to Johnny Cash in the process
- “He’s like, ‘Ed, I got an idea... first song, AC/DC Highway to Hell, you take a verse, I take a verse....’: It's now been 10 years since Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder rocked Australia with their covers of a Bon Scott-era AC/DC classic
- Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello announces super-intimate London gig
- Watch Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale fill in for Ann Wilson of Heart by performing Don’t Tell Me live with Disturbed
- King Crimson outfit Beat add 21 more dates to North American tour
- “Such a spectacle: 80,000 fans, eight-way spatial audio”: Did Roger Waters top Pink Floyd at Desert Trip in 2016? His guitarist Jonathan Wilson thinks so (and he wasn’t in the band at the time)
- "You cannot underestimate the impact of seeing a woman blaze a trail right before your eyes." Why Arch Enemy’s Angela Gossow means so much to me – and to women in the metal scene
- “I bought it with lawnmowing money!” Tool’s Danny Carey reflects on the first album he ever paid for himself
- “It was the loudest thing I’d ever heard in my entire life”: Jet’s Nic Cester on the time he auditioned to be the new singer in AC/DC
- “As soon as we get past the arguments, we can get **** done!” Tool are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer
- Ultravox bassist Chris Cross has died, aged 71
- "The world will see that Scottish crowds are some of the loudest, craziest and most passionate on the planet." WWE announces major Clash At The Castle show taking place in the UK this June
- "This is about 17 minutes long and it's my favourite ever chill-out track": The Prodigy's Liam Howlett on the Pink Floyd classics that changed his life
- “Others’ expectations kept me from taking it seriously for a long time… Some will say, ‘What is this old prat on about?’ but I don’t give a damn”: Why Ian Anderson took the risk of making Thick As A Brick 2
- Suck: A tribute to the brilliant acting career of Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson
- "I woke up singing this song about being in jail waiting for the electric chair": Medicine Head's John Fiddler on inspiration, love, and the perils of getting older
- "MTV was the first time that technology became a rock star": The story of 1984, the year everything changed
- Gerry Conway, drummer with Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull, Pentangle and more, dead at 76
- April 1
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- 2024 may be remembered as the year in which Robert Fripp got naked and pretended to open an OnlyFans account
- "I had a real sense that he was lonely and alone. I felt the same way": On April 1, 1994 two world-famous rock stars were seated together on Delta Airlines flight 788 from Los Angeles to Seattle. It would be the last flight one of them would ever take
- "If I feel I have accomplished something that was set out before me, then I will be vocal about it." How grime-punk duo Bob Vylan became one of the UK's unlikely success stories (and why they're refusing to be humble about it)
- “Certain people I knew from the scene wouldn’t speak to me after I got a hit. But it’s all music… I just had a great time”: Brian Auger warned Jimi Hendrix off drugs, lent money to Rod Stewart and learned what prog was from Keith Emerson
- Devin Townsend joins OU for video of new single 淨化 Purge
- “It’s about a beautiful ménage à trois and you can’t beat that, can you?” Perry Farrell on what he thinks is Jane’s Addiction's most underrated song
- "A charcuterie board of delightful music, with all sorts of flavours, textures and surprises": Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel keep it leisurely on Timeless Flight
- “I’m happy we’ve had hits. But I do wish the record label had put out some of our challenging songs as singles”: Some only know them as ‘That Africa band,’ but how prog are Toto?
- “It was inspiring to see how Metallica worked. I had their posters before I had my first guitar”: how Volbeat’s Michael Poulsen stepped up to metal’s big league
- "It's our mission to keep the rock alive. It's important to keep the torch burning": The Gems were born out of solidarity, and now they want to invigorate classic rock
- "It pays all the bills, it's paid for everything we've ever done since": Modern English didn't set out to write commercial songs, but they're not complaining
- "We have all been robbed, and it's still going on. It's bringing the country to disaster": 40 years down the road, New Model Army are as uncompromising as ever
- "Everybody wanted to get in on the action. I wasn't letting that happen": Dio's first platinum album could have been very different
- How Bruce Springsteen's most rage-filled, despairing and misunderstood album was helped into the pop charts by a song he didn't want to write and a future star of Friends
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Mdou Moctar, Wytch Hazel, Marjana Semkina and more
