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June 30
- "I would like a nice large creamy slice this time around": UFO frontman Phil Mogg returns with Apple Pie, first single from new band Moggs Motel
- “Deathcore? None of those bands can do what we do”: Suicide Silence had a point to prove to the haters, and with No Time To Bleed they rammed it home
- "Dexys feel like the greatest secret at Glasto 2024 and the perfect band for the festival." Kevin Rowland et al might have just stolen the show at Glastonbury
- "It might just be the greatest Skindred show of all time." Benji Webbe's ragga metal party boys steal Friday night at Glastonbury
- "Everyone in this field has gone feral." The Streets bring some magnificent chaos to Glastonbury's Other Stage
- Lankum provide “the best folk horror soundtrack never written” at their euphoric, highly-moving Glastonbury set
- "A reminder of just how fantastic and influential a band they are." Bloc Party's stunning Glastonbury set shows why they were always far too good for the 2000s indie landfill scene
- "Gazza had the rhythm, everything, but you cannot understand one word of what he’s saying": the making of New Order's classic England anthem World In Motion
- “I don’t know if any orgies were ‘thrown’. Those things had a way of happening on their own”: in 1977, Kiss were on top of the world – and Paul Stanley was loving every second of it
- “Killswitch has always been strong and positive. We wanted something a little darker, a bit more personal, spiritual almost”: how Killswitch Engage reinvented themselves with their divisive self-titled fifth album
- "Michael Stipe? Never heard of him.": the time an overzealous security guard almost scuppered R.E.M.'s Glastonbury headline set
June 29
- Blackie Lawless tells fans who think W.A.S.P. don't play live at all to stay away from their shows
- "There aren’t a lot of new rock acts to choose from." Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis says she'd like to book more rock bands for the festival, shares her hope that the genre "will emerge again" one day
- Watch this world record attempt at creating the biggest 'wall of death' ever
- "Personality, charm, heart and passion in abundance." High Vis prove that UK punk rock deserves a platform at Glastonbury
- “It reminds me of the days when I used to put on punk rock shows and I’d get my friends to come”: the story of Dave Grohl and Corey Taylor’s forgotten punk-metal supergroup Teenage Time Killers
- "As rip-snorting a set of Priest, Maiden and Sabbath-inspired metal as you'll get at Glastonbury." Voice of Baceprot bring the steel to Somerset's summer spectacular
- “He got me in a headlock and started punching me. We just went at it”: the explosive story of Dokken, the hard rock band that tore itself apart
- "This feels like the beginning of something very special." Kneecap's lairy, explosive pre-noon set starts Glastonbury's Saturday bill with a bang
- "One of the coolest bands to come out of the '90s." The Breeders delight fans old and new in London ahead of their Glastonbury festival appearance
- “A modern Norwegian echo of the great Kate Bush.” Aurora casts her wild, whimsical magic over Glastonbury with a faultless sunset performance
- “Look at the scene in Los Angeles. How on earth can you call any of those bands heavy metal?”: how Manowar delivered death to false metal with Hail To England
- Gentle Giant share brand new video for Betcha Thought We Couldn't Do It
- “I said, “Oh my god, that was the most punk rock dude I’ve ever met in my life’”: Tom DeLonge on the time Liam Gallagher invaded Blink-182's dressing room
- “People talk about Clapton, Beck and Page, but you can’t leave Ritchie Blackmore out of the list”: how Deep Purple changed Zakk Wylde’s life
- "We pulled ourselves back to the front of the line and proved, ‘This is what we’re capable of'.": revisiting R.E.M.'s iconic Glastonbury set 25 years on
- “The masses can be controlled so easily by the few who have cash, and we’ve been on the receiving end our whole lives”: how Parkway Drive raged against the machine with the furious Deep Blue album
- Anger from fans and bands over chaos at Capulet Fest in Connecticut, USA
- Chris Slade admits to feeling insulted when AC/DC asked him to stick around as Phil Rudd's understudy
June 28
- "Sorry to all our fans and friends but sometimes life blindsides you." Sick Of It All forced to cancel European tour after doctors find a tumor in vocalist Lou Koller's esophagus
- The 10 best artists to see at BST Hyde Park this summer, from Stevie Nicks and Gary Clark Jr. to AlienBlaze and Kylie
- “With a different hand at the controls, and an on-form Brian Johnson, it could have been a classic”: how AC/DC made an epic mis-step with Fly On The Wall
- Cool new prog sounds from Alcest, Lesoir, Nick Magnus and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week
- The 13 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- The rock musicians battling against AI: "If they can do it to Steve and they can do it to me, what's next? How far will they go?"
- Motorpsycho announce Neigh!!, a collection of "songs that won’t fit on an album"
- “After almost 50 years, Hans Lundin is to be applauded for continuing to produce such rewarding music”: Kaipa’s Sommargryningsljus
- “We were sleeping on the floor, stealing food, stealing bikes”: Metallica turned to “thieving” to survive the early ’80s, says James Hetfield
- "Foo Fighters aren't just putting on a show, they're putting on the biggest rock'n'roll celebration on the planet." With a three-hour, 27 song setlist plus a hometown Geezer Butler appearance, Foo Fighters end their UK tour on an almighty high
- Curved Air announce six-disc Rarities box set to be released in September
- "We couldn’t be more disappointed to not play one of our favorite cities this tour." Pearl Jam cancel London show with 24 hours' notice
- Crowdkill your way into the weekend by spinning Gel’s new hardcore stomper, Persona
- Rage Against The Machine icon Tom Morello collaborates with son Roman on new solo song, Soldier In The Army Of Love
- Stuckfish unveil new keyboard player on upcoming album IV
- Babymetal have released full, pro-shot video of their set at Hellfest 2024 – watch here
- “Why not? Let’s do a song with Geezer!” Watch Foo Fighters tear through Black Sabbath’s Paranoid with Geezer Butler on bass
- "I’d ticked off my goals so quickly I didn’t even know if I wanted to do it anymore." Michael "Moose" Thomas: 10 Songs That Changed My Life
- “The world was all smiling beat bands. We were moodier. We were serious about it”: The limitations and strange decisions of Procol Harum’s landmark debut album
- Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard hails the "shamanistic" brilliance of IDLES
June 27
- "It just so happens that we've run across a very, very dear old friend of ours." Watch Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello join Jane's Addiction onstage in Germany
- “Shifty was a real-life tragedy. Too fast, too hard, too soon.” Crazy Town vocalist Shifty Shellshock died from an accidental drug overdose, representative reveals
- Lamb Of God’s Mark Morton opens up on writing about daughter’s death in new memoir: “It’s not something I forget. It’s not something I wanna commodify either.”
- EDM DJ Zardonic remixes Temic track Once More. Listen here...
- “We could release a hang-drum odyssey with seagull noises and somebody would still say it sounds like Tool!” Wheel have no time for outdated comparisons
- “If you listen to Scenes From A Memory through Black Clouds & Silver Linings, that’s the sound and style”: Mike Portnoy teases what to expect from new Dream Theater album
- Steven Wilson remixes Ultravox's 1984 album Lament
- Watch Metallica cover Diamond Head’s Am I Evil? with Diamond Head’s guitarist, Brian Tatler
- Ozzy Osbourne cancels convention appearance over health concerns
- “We practiced it and had it ready, and we walked to the edge of the stage, then I was like, Naaaaaah.” Trey Anastasio reveals the Taylor Swift song that Phish wanted to play at Madison Square Garden last year
- Tim Bowness shares new video for the aptly titled When Summer Comes
- Jinjer have finished recording their fifth studio album
- “Even I think that song’s ****”: Oli Sykes trashes controversial Bring Me The Horizon single onstage
- "Justin Timberlake sees us and starts singing Alive": P.O.D. were way ahead of the nu-metal curve but others get the plaudits
- "It’s certain to satisfy fans and pack a punch live, but it’s not a huge leap forward." Lofty spiritualist themes and arena-bait anthems aside, Nothing More are re-treading old ground on Carnal
- “Our failure got us dropped by our label, manager and publisher – and led to us rediscovering what we really wanted to do musically”: How No-Man learned to confound their expectations without offending each other
- "I need a girl who sounds like a shop girl to duet with me": How a retail assistant at Dorothy Perkins got to sing with David Bowie
- Seven songs that prove The Only Ones were much more than a one song band
- Collective Soul recorded their latest album in Elvis's old house: on the night Lisa Marie died, the ceiling fell in
- "It was like a joy filled my eyes – and ears": Why I love The Mothers Of Invention's Freak Out!, by Steve Vai
June 26
- Los Angeles punk veterans X announce final album Smoke & Fiction
- “We’re living in an insane asylum. I keep asking: where are the tough good guys?” The E Street Band, The Sopranos legend Little Steven fears for all our futures
- “There are times when it’s best to completely tear everything down.” Unsane, Cop Shoot Cop, Daughters 'supergroup' Human Impact share single Destroy To Rebuild, announce second album Gone Dark
- “The album is so painful for me and at the same time it feels beautiful”: Genre-smashing duo Alt Blk Era announce debut album Rave Immortal, release lead single My Drummer’s Girlfriend
- "It's where chaos meets harmony." Palaye Royale announce new album Death or Glory, share single Showbiz, reveal North American tour dates and one-off UK show
- “After careful consideration of our offerings we are revising our sponsorship model.” SXSW festival drops US Army and weapons manufacturers as sponsors for 2025
- “We posted it and went to bed. We woke up and it was viral.” Jinjer reflect on whirlwind success of breakthrough track Pisces
- "Bridear are writing their own book of heavy metal." Japan's heroes offer a unique spin on power metal with Born Again
- Order your world exclusive Ghost Rite Here Rite Now limited edition blue cassette tape with Metal Hammer
- “We have always striven to push our own boundaries and let the music change”: Black metal darlings Tribulation ditch corpse paint, go psych rock on new single Saturn Coming Down
- Sickness, soaring ticket prices and setlist changes: not even the curse of Co-Op Live can stop Pearl Jam at their chaotic but ultimately triumphant Manchester show
- Dim Gray share new live video for The Wave We Thought We’d Ride Forever
- Get Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson and Geddy Lee's memoirs for free with this mega Audible audiobook deal
- Ne Obliviscaris to play all of Exul and Citadel on upcoming EU and UK tour
- Leprous share video for brand new single Silently Walking Alone
- Shawn Crahan says Slipknot will release new music “really soon”
- “No one knows how to put out music any more – including us”: In 2009 another new technology was threatening music, but Radiohead had a solution
- "Friends would gather together to listen intently to each other's latest album purchases": The 60s and 70s record label samplers that changed our world
- "A crew member stole $25,000 from me - and then our tour bus caught fire": Three years ago Shane Smith & The Saints almost called it quits, but now they've sold out Red Rocks and become TV stars
- "It's going to be poignant, tender, poetic and epic": The Who's Quadrophenia is being turned into a mod ballet
June 25
- "It's been an incredible year for me and my band so far": Peter Frampton announces Positively Thankful US tour
- "Don't even think about boofing it, you little perverts!": Ozzy Osbourne's appearance in a new advert goes places we never expected
- “Dave Mustaine really wants to do another record”: Megadeth are making their next album, says bassist
- “Filled with optimism and fun, the performances teach kids and families life lessons.” Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, The Interrupters, The Linda Lindas and more to appear in kids TV show Yo Gabba GabbaLand
- Death metal fans, brace yourselves! The Black Dahlia Murder and Dying Fetus are teaming up to brutalise a town near you
- The 13 most iconic Glastonbury Festival performances ever
- How to sleep well at a music festival: 7 proven tips from a sleep editor
- “Crystal-clear stereo separation, a much fuller and warmer sound… Steven Wilson’s remaster is a huge improvement”: Jethro Tull’s Bursting Out – The Inflated Edition
- "If Taylor Swift ever wants to make a rock album, I’d love to help out. I have a feeling I'd get a call from Miley Cyrus first though!" Weezer's Rivers Cuomo has previously written with Charli XCX, and he's well up for more pop superstar collaborations
- Crazy Town frontman Shifty Shellshock dead at 49
- Korn have put their stamp of approval on a lofi album remixing their greatest hits – listen here
- Watch this couple get engaged in the most romantic setting possible: covered in mud as Limp Bizkit play Break Stuff at Download Festival
- Magenta to headline as Highway prog festival moves to Leeds
- With 5 months of Amazon Music Unlimited for free - this Prime Day deal should be top of your shopping list
- “These renditions will get pulses racing faster than the studio versions, even if not every note is perfectly in place”: Nightingale’s Nightfall Overture, remastered and extended
- “Among fair fists at the greatest ‘hits’ are extensive improvisations that repeatedly just don’t work”: Frank Zappa’s Live At The Whisky A Go Go, 1968
- "The biggest compliment ever is when someone says: 'I've just seen a stadium show in a club'": Meet the Karma Effect, classic rock revivalists with big ambition
- Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats made a soundtrack for an Italian movie that doesn't exist: Then they got actors in to supply the dialogue
- "The mix on this is insane!": Weezer filmed four Blue Album classics and fans are going crazy about how good the sound is
June 24
- Joe Bonamassa announces 2025 UK arena tour
- “It felt like the right time to me. And I think Gavin and Richard acknowledged this too." How Porcupine Tree returned with Closure/Continuation
- "He did horrible things to people. He treated people so bad. He was a complete raving maniac." In 2016, Sammy Hagar talked candidly about his fears that Eddie Van Halen was going to die during Van Halen's 2004 reunion tour
- “If it brings back memories and feelings for people, that’s the magic of music.” Watch ex-Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic perform the grunge gods' debut single Love Buzz in Kurt Cobain’s hometown
- Ten-disc Ian Anderson solo box set to be released in August
- "Help him out, he's a little nervous!" Watch Oli Sykes bring his dad on stage to sing super-sweary Bring Me The Horizon anthem, Antivist
- "Is there anyone left I'd like to collaborate with? Ozzy!" Body Count frontman and rap icon Ice T on horror movies, Slayer and who he considers the "Dr Dre of metal"
- “We are engaged here tonight in part of a larger existential battle for the very soul of the human race.” Watch Roger Waters play Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here at London concert promoting peace, freedom and justice for Palestine
- Ten-disc Kevin Ayers box set to be released in October
- New guitar player? Then score 60% off an annual Fender Play sub and take your playing to another level
- “Fred Sheeran doing the Blue Eyes thing": Watch Ed Sheeran make a surprise appearance with Limp Bizkit to perform The Who classic Behind Blue Eyes
- St Vincent adds UK and European dates to her All Born Screaming tour
- God Is An Astronaut announce new album Embers will be released in September
- Tobias Forge: "Everything with Ghost is difficult and expensive."
- “It’s not a travelogue, but there’s an expansive feel to the songs that’s redolent of broadening horizons”: Devin Townsend’s vinyl Terria reissue
- "Hot Singles In Your Area might not be short on shock tactics, but it’s the best vulgar display of power you’ll hear all year." Scene Queen's debut album is a naughty, fearless, genre-splicing knockout
- Sepultura's Andreas Kisser would be open to doing one final show with Max and Iggor Cavalera: "it would be amazing"
- "Protect Paul McCartney at all costs": Macca spotted at Taylor Swift concert dancing with fans and handing out friendship bracelets
- Nightwish's Tuomas Holopainen says Yesterwynde is "probably the biggest album" they've ever made
- Order your exclusive Louder x Pvris t-shirt designed by Lyndsey Gunnulfsen
- "I just can't see us doing it one more time": 40 years after their End Of The Road tour, Status Quo may finally be nearing the end of the road
- Steven Wilson announces The Overview Tour for 2025, his first solo tour for six years
- "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is a bit of a one-trick pony, but what a trick the pony can do": Is Iron Butterfly's iconic second album the most lopsided hit record ever?
- “We used to think, ‘Oh, there’s not enough craziness in this song; we need to add some stuff’ – but we learned that no, we don’t”: How Mastodon matured with Once More ‘Round The Sun
- Dave Grohl tempts the wrath of the Swifties by appearing to suggest that Taylor Swift's live music might not be entirely live
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- Man discovers 60-year-old previously unseen live film of The Beatles at a flea market in Australia
June 23
- A hair metal docuseries from the director of Jackass and The Dirt is coming to a TV near you
- “I don’t recall stockings and suspenders coming into Arthurian legend, but hey, they do now!”: how Rick Wakeman staged the most OTT live shows of the 1970s
- Watch Mr Bungle cover Van Halen's Loss of Control – with guest shredding from Wolfgang Van Halen
- “I thought the music industry was a circus but it’s nothing compared to the movie industry”: how Nightwish channelled their inner Tim Burton to make the fantastical Imaginaerum movie
- “We always try to go for it, always try to have that relentless ride." Dream Theater and the making of Black Clouds & Silver Linings
- “Ritchie Blackmore went into the pit with a box of tomatoes and started throwing them at the singer”: how Deep Purple changed Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott’s life
- “We played Glastonbury and it rained and it changed the whole course of our lives”: Travis frontman Fran Healy on the making of their classic hit Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
- “If it was up to me, I’d make it the Big Five”: why Testament deserve to be at thrash’s top table
- “These songs slot neatly into the catalogue – but this is a very different record from its predecessors, if only in sonic terms”: Airbag’s The Century Of The Self
- "We need more Bowies, more Princes, more Eazy-Es." Fever 333's Jason Aalon Butler talks dream collabs, the legacy of Letlive. and the stunt that got him told off by Metallica's crew
- "We do an incredible version of Forever Changes, close your eyes and you’re listening to the record": Arthur Lee may be gone, but Love have found a way forward
- "I'm just racked with self-loathing and criticism": Manic Street Preachers' bassist Nicky Wire once wanted to lacerate the world - now he's doing it to himself
- "Rock'n'roll is alive, and I need it to stay that way": The Pretty Reckless are on the road with AC/DC, and Taylor Momsen is more than ready to rock
- “Elvis had attitude. So did Iron Maiden and Danzig. Put today’s bands in front of me and I wouldn’t know who they are”: an interview with Glenn Danzig, rock’s dark lord
- “It was mega! I don’t think I’ll ever forget it, even when I get senile”: Garbage’s Shirley Manson on the time her band opened the Scottish Parliament
- “The jollity can’t undercut the impact of the music”: Marillion’s An Hour Before It‘s Dark: Live In Port Zelande
- Dave Davies "very sad" to find his Rock Hall of Fame trophy for sale on eBay
June 22
- "As slick as Jethro Tull got": The Inflated Edition of Jethro Tull's Bursting Out finds Ian Anderson & Co. finds them in fine form
- “Tony Iommi was calling me a lot. Sabbath are amazing at what they do, but it wasn’t something that I wanted to do’”: an epic interview with Whitesnake’s David Coverdale
- "How have we arrived at a juncture where workers teeter towards an inequality gap reminiscent of Victorian Britain while the gilded class prosper?" Bad Breeding's Contempt is a portrait of a divided nation which deserves better
- “There were bad vibes with local Oslo bands saying it was crap”: how Dimmu Borgir’s controversial symphonic classic Enthrone Darkness Triumphant dragged black metal out of the shadows
- “The album took off like a rocket ship. It sold 100,000 right away, it was the biggest Muddy Waters album to date”: how Chess Records and Muddy Waters invented psychedelic blues with Electric Mud
- The Kids Are Alright! 10 rock star offspring following in their parent’s footsteps…
- Jordan Rudess details new solo album Permission To Fly
- "I was 22 when I burned an inverted cross into my forehead." Death metal icon Glen Benton talks blasphemy, fatherhood and the night a Deicide gig got bombed
- “People are gonna think it’s either the last album or that we’re Trekkies”: how Iron Maiden made The Final Frontier and silenced rumours they’d reached the end of the road
- “We’d just left this gig where I’d given a speech about the Alabama abortion ban and people were gonna shoot me”: The 1975’s Matty Healy on the song he wrote about the time the band were chased out of Alabama
- “The Taylor Swift Cruel Summer moment was an amazing testament to the incredible force of her fans”: St. Vincent on how the song she wrote with Taylor Swift became a huge hit four years later
- “There was alcohol, plenty of fighting, sometimes guns. That was just the women”: the wild career of Cold Chisel, the Aussie hellraisers who should have been as big as AC/DC
June 21
- “I can’t get into somebody else’s mind and decide what their problem is.” Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna was close friends with Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, but she still doesn't know why Courtney Love hated her so much
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "When I’m stressed or not setting boundaries, things get bad." From keeping control of Pvris to chronic illness and a "very dirty" new record, a conversation with Lyndsey Gunnulfsen
- Watch Babymetal play Metal Galaxy standout Brand New Day live with megastar shredders Polyphia
- Every Alcest album (and one EP) ranked from worst to best
- "I just wanted to make a fun project full of some bad bitches in music that I love." Listen to PVRIS and Lights collaboration The Blob
- "Thank you for waiting three hours to come play drums with us." Watch Taylor Hawkins' son Shane guest with Foo Fighters at their London Stadium show
- “A sonic makeover more befitting of the inscrutable duo’s recent work”: Nordic Giants revisit their past on Origins
- Cool new prog you must hear from Oceans Of Slumber, Charlotte Wessels, Rendezvous Point and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- Jem Godfrey reveals new Frost* release will be a double concept album
- Pure Reason Revolution announce new album Coming Up To Consciousness
- The new issue of Classic Rock is an AC/DC 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition
- “They did it to get some kind of reaction from Jason”: Metallica producer explains why there’s no bass on …And Justice For All
- Lzzy Hale says new Halestorm album will be “weightier”, “heavier” and “different”
- “Enjoy life, embrace it and do everything in your power to make life better”: Listen to surprise new Ghost song The Future Is A Foreign Land
- "Think Maiden’s Death On The Road or Metallica’s Quebec Magnetic as opposed to Live After Death or S&M." Within Temptation reaffirm their arena-conquering status on new live album Worlds Collide Tour: Live In Amsterdam
- “He got all these twists and turns that I thought only John Wetton was capable of”: How Geoff Downes assembled his new Asia line-up
- The story of Marillion's Marbles is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- "Such lavish reupholstering is what genius deserves": The beautifully presented Asylum Albums 1976-1980 finds Joni Mitchell inhabiting the art department
- "A defiant joy at play, a pure love for the genre": 13 years after their last album, Kittie are back and the claws are out
- "I'm pretty sure these guys are the next biggest band in the world": If cosmic psychedelia and demon-belching vocals are your thing, Battlesnake are the best thing
June 20
- “This is an attack on artistic culture, an attack on the Good Friday Agreement and an attack on us.” Kneecap win High Court permission to challenge the UK government for blocking them from arts funding award
- "Don’t f**k with the stones man, they have mystical powers." Liam Gallagher hopes the Just Stop Oil protestors who defaced Stonehenge are cursed to wake up tomorrow as "orange toads"
- Every St. Vincent album ranked from worst to best
- “I don’t have any qualms about playing it until the day I die.” How Nymphetamine helped Cradle Of Filth become “the Backstreet Boys” of black metal
- "Alcest are blackgaze’s undisputed masters, no matter how far they sometimes run." Black metal pioneers Alcest return to their roots on Les Chants De L’Aurore
- Exploring Birdsong share emotive new single Turntail
- Dikajee launches Kickstarter for new album The Frame
- “Here was fresh music, well-presented in high quality, and I didn’t have to sit around in a rehearsal room for months deciding on the sandwich order”: The joy and pain of Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe’s only album
- "When Eddie Van Halen is giving you his socks, you know your life is getting weird": Ugly Kid Joe and beyond – the crazy career of Whitfield Crane
- Fancy a bit of heads-down, legs-apart, no-nonsense, mindless boogie? The Status Quo albums you should definitely listen to
- "It's like trying to fathom the people who built the pyramids": Joe Satriani on the Jimi Hendrix performance that still blows his mind
- "When you're cold-calling musicians, some of whom you don’t even know, it doesn't matter who you are. It's a hard gig": How Slash organised Orgy Of The Damned
- Scott Weiland's widow Jamie says late Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman doesn't get accolades, respect and recognition he deserves
- "They have zero remorse about stamping all over the common man": Massive Wagons are back with a new single and they continue to be angry
June 19
- The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Psychedelic Furs announce North American co-headline tour
- Steve Hackett guests on upcoming Nick Magnus album
- "The wedding dress? That's long gone. We used to cover it in blood, so it got a little bit mouldy." Five minutes with Creeper keyboardist/vocalist, Hannah Greenwood
- Loudness explained: Volume and decibel levels defined for live music fans
- New Battlesnake album The Rise And Demise Of The Motorsteeple is proof that you can be a) heavy metal, b) silly as hell and c) really quite good
- 10 bands that defined Download 2024
- “The government is probably writing up a new law as we speak to ban Irish-language hip-hop for life.” Annoying all the right people, Kneecap have been called “the most controversial band since the Sex Pistols”, and they're only just getting started
- “This album is about letting the song dictate when it needs something and when it doesn’t”: With her perfect new line-up, Jane Getter takes her jazz-prog back to basics
- 5 reasons why it's time to start wearing earplugs at gigs
- "It's turned it into a different song." Big Big Train share new recording of Last Eleven
- "An all-singing, all-dancing front row seat at the most joyous show in heavy metal." Ghost's first movie Rite Here Rite Now is an instant classic
- "It's lovely to wake up in the morning and be able to remember why you got punched in the head the night before": Pete Agnew and the continuation of Nazareth
- VOLA announce new album Friend Of A Phantom
- “Many prog bands hire a singer who’ll just rely on their chops… we’re one of those bands who can actually sing”: Echolyn didn’t kill the joy with their second self-titled album
- "I will never speak to any of them again": Glenn Hughes slams Deep Purple for "hurtful" behaviour at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony
- Universal Music has signed a deal to train Artificial Intelligence to make "ultra-high fidelity vocal models" of artists signed to the label
June 18
- "It truly is going to be the hottest ticket in town": The Struts announce UK and European tour dates with Barns Courtney
- Fever 333 return with ferocious track New West Order, announce extensive US/Europe tour
- “The cape-wielding progressive rock behemoth was not in vogue… there was an effort to make it simpler, but our musical identity was still at stake”: Gentle Giant take a fresh look at The Missing Piece
- “It’s part science fiction, part western gunslinger with a heavy dash of post-apocalyptic survival”: Progressive doom maestros Oceans Of Slumber announce Where Gods Fear To Speak album, release elegant single Poem Of Ecstasy
- Kirk Hammett says Metallica don’t tour enough: “What it’s all about is playing guitar and writing, recording, going out on tour”
- Solstice announce limited edition Cropredy double coloured vinyl live album
- Heilung announce UK and Ireland Rituals for April 2025
- Noise trailblazers Health announce UK dates with Gost and Zetra
- “I can’t look into myself and say why I stopped for that long. That’s too complicated. It was just a feeling I had”: When Roine Stolt brought back The Flower Kings via Banks Of Eden
- "We didn't have a clue what we were doing, but the first playback was one of those moments you never forget": How The Damned took four days and lots of cider to kickstart a revolution
- Watch Hollywood star Jason Momoa's new band ÖOF TATATÁ play classics by Metallica and Black Sabbath
- "I wanted to go there and sit on her bed and sing to her": Stevie Nicks reflects on Christine McVie's final hours
- Axl Rose appears on an upcoming Michael Schenker album of classic UFO songs
- “I was summoned to have tea with the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret. We talked about the philosophy of punk.” In 1980, when Britain's royal family wanted “to see what a punk rocker looks like” they invited Toyah Willcox to St James’s Palace
June 17
- "It's going to be an amazing end to the year. Let's get set to party": Paul McCartney adds European and UK dates to Got Back tour
- Black Stone Cherry announce European headline tour
- “People would be surprised to hear what we’re doing.” Pop-rockers Busted are working on an “experimental” new album with former Bring Me The Horizon man Jordan Fish
- “I have zero respect for those guys. They're not good human beings.” System Of A Down's Serj Tankian slams Imagine Dragons for ignoring his concerns about 'art-washing' a genocidal dictatorship
- "A glorious, beautiful, wonderful return: you really should have been there." The Black Dahlia Murder just put on the most vital and emotional set of Download 2024; it sucks more people weren't there to see it
- "There aren't many metal bands that can live with Machine Head." Robb Flynn's warriors remind Download Festival what they've sorely missed
- "Wes Borland still dresses like a hard rock Grace Jones and Fred Durst still holds 80,000 people in the palm of his hand." Limp Bizkit show Download why they remain metal's greatest party band
- “There is nothing cooler in this world than being a good dad.” A more mature but ever boundary-pushing Avenged Sevenfold bring Download's most challenging year to a close in style
- Fire, flapping farm animals and gender reveals: Fall Out Boy get weird at Download Festival with their career-spanning, ridiculously fun headline set
- “Download Festival headliners in the making”: While She Sleeps put on yet another metalcore masterclass in Donington
- David Gilmour teams up with daughter Romany for new single Between Two Points
- “We took a 20-year sabbatical from each other…” Julianne Regan and Tim Bricheno look back on All About Eve, the Sisters, The Mission and their greatest songs
- “We’ve got an application form for the Guinness Book Of World Records”: Are The Chronicles of Father Robin the only band to have spent 30 years on their debut album?
- "A supremely assured return from a band who are intent on creating something fresh, new and exciting." Kittie have completed one of modern metal's great comebacks with Fire
- Kickstart your summer with 33% off the House Of Marley Get Together Duo speakers
- Long Earth announce third album An Ordinary Life
- Cello, synths, bagpipes and melodic death metal: Scottish husband-and-wife duo Hand Of Kalliach are doing folk music a little differently
- "At a certain point we beat Britney Spears!" How Ice Queen made Within Temptation symphonic metal's first superstars - and changed heavy music forever
- "This is going to be the best show of our career!" Black Veil Brides and Creeper announce spooktacular co-headline Wembley Arena show
- Guitarist Dave Foster steps down from Big Big Train
- “I thought the track would get some attention, but I never imagined it would be like this. The whole world’s gone mad”: The stunning return of Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill
- "If you're a band that ascends quickly into huge shows, you don't have the perspective to be freaked out by it": The Black Keys look back on platinum sales, Grammy awards, burnout and reignition
- "A lot more fun than Chinese Democracy": Supergroup Velvet Revolver mostly live up to the hype on Contraband
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- Gene Simmons wishes he was harder on former Kiss members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss over their substance abuse issues
June 16
- "It's just not going to happen": Geezer Butler shares his doubts about a final Black Sabbath show
- "Once you've heard Beefheart, it's hard to wash him out": The Captain Beefheart albums you should definitely listen to
- “I’ve come to the conclusion that madness is sometimes a decision”: how Devin Townsend quit weed, unscrambled his brain and made the classic Ki album
- “I remember thinking, ‘I’ll probably never be on a tour that’s this f**king crazy ever again’”: how L7 were responsible for grunge's most debauched tour
- “David Bowie was an absolute genius. I learned more from him than from anybody I’ve ever worked with.” Rick Wakeman’s epic tales of sessions with Bowie, Bolan, Lou Reed and more
- "We decided that if we say and believe we’re the best in the world, then we will be": Fontaines D.C.'s Grian Chatten on the Dublin rockers' early days
- “We were sure A Whiter Shade Of Pale would drop out of the charts, but it just stuck there!” See Emily Play became Syd Barrett’s last stand as Pink Floyd took flight
- “What we’ve done is to move beyond metal. There are so many ideas here that expand our horizons”: how Judas Priest reached for the sky with divisive double album Nostradamus
June 15
- “These bikers came bursting into our place. I’m sure we would have been killed”: how violence, rocket attacks and the Cold War helped Voivod make 80s prog-thrash masterpiece Dimension Hatröss
- “We peaked too early. Bad commercial decisions and far too much drink and drug excess”: how 80s cowpunk legends Jason And The Scorchers snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
- “I don't believe that a company like Barclays, given their financial ties to war crimes, has any place at a metal festival.” Why the conversation around Britain's summer festival season has been all about Gaza, Barclays, and boycotts
- “Whenever you make an album you’re baring your soul. People will shoot you down. You’ve just gotta bulldoze through it”: how Steve Harris stepped away from Iron Maiden with his debut solo album
- From Dylan to Prince, The Stooges to The La's: the 10 best covers by Pearl Jam
- “The first thing she says is, ‘Oh, you remind me of my husband’”: the night Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi thought he’d been possessed by the spirit of John Lennon in front of Yoko Ono
- “We could do anything we wanted with our hair and our clothes in front of tens of thousands of people. We were gods!”: how guitar legend Steve Vai survived Whitesnake
- “We want to be top of the game for our generation. We want to headline Download!”: how Avenged Sevenfold stepped up to metal’s big league with Hail To The King
- “I love it when everyone sings it. I love it when there’s a competition”: Lightning Seeds’ Ian Broudie on writing the enduring England anthem Three Lions
- “In the 70s, there was more innocence. It was about personal identity, it wasn’t just about money”: how Blondie’s Debbie Harry went from punk icon to rock survivor
June 14
- Mark Hollis author to launch new edition of biography with evenings celebrating the musician's work
- "Whether it’s a simple song with three chords or a really elaborate epic piece, it’s all miraculous to me." How Neal Morse created his rock opera Jesus Christ: The Exorcist
- Barclays will no longer be sponsoring Download, Isle Of Wight or Latitude festivals following artist protests and cancellations
- "My doctor said, 'He might as well be in pain on crutches at the Led Zeppelin show.'" Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello on his love of Jimmy Page, and the childhood injury that nearly robbed him of seeing Zeppelin live
- Returned To The Earth celebrate release of Stalagmite Steeple with video for epic title track
- “We got James Hetfield and we tied him up tight!” Why UK punks Chumbawamba once released a bizarre, violent lounge-pop diss-track against Metallica’s beloved frontman
- “We kept binning stuff that sounded too much like us… 10 albums in, it’s got to feel different”: Prog was always in Elbow’s music, but it’s upfront on Audio Vertigo
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Watch Foo Fighters play previously unheard song Unconditional and a Nine Inch Nails/Beastie Boys/Van Halen/Ramones medley on the opening night of their UK stadium tour
- "They really made me smile...it was our singer that we never got!" Metallica's James Hetfield reveals the new metal band he's loving right now - and it involves an old friend
- "We're all sitting here friends again." Watch R.E.M. reunite for first performance with their full, original line-up since the mid '90s
- Help your dad ascend to shred master with 55% off our favourite online guitar lessons for Father’s Day
- "I thought maybe Mercyful Fate might come knocking, but no." Inside the rebirth of Slayer legend Kerry King
- “A richly atmospheric affair… songs that barely need recognisable word shapes to grip the heartstrings”: Eivør’s Enn
- "The more I listened to 18 And Life and Youth Gone Wild, the more I knew that these songs were meant for me to sing": Sebastian Bach looks back on his extraordinary life
- "Seven years on from their previous album, BCC still remember what they're good at": Black Country Communion stick to a winning formula on V
- "Crushingly heavy dope-rock jams, full of menacing riffage and crazed soloing": Fu Manchu journey to the centre of your mind on The Return Of Tomorrow
- "A suitably chaotic time capsule of a magical period now bathed in extraordinary poignancy": David Bowie's Ziggy era mined for gold on Rock 'N' Roll Star
June 13
- "We are surprised": The estate of late Saints singer Chris Bailey say they weren't consulted over upcoming tour with Mudhoney's Mark Arm
- Eagles add yet more shows at Sphere in Las Vegas as "overwhelming demand" strikes again
- Competition: Enter for a chance to win every AC/DC album on gold vinyl
- Refused singer Dennis Lyxzén suffers "massive" heart attack ahead of festival date in Sweden
- Former Anathema singer Vincent Cavanagh launches new music project The Radicant
- Watch these wholesome metalheads open the gentlest mosh pit for a lady and her stroller at Sweden Rock Festival
- Watch Ghost tear through Kaisarion live in clip from upcoming movie Rite Here Rite Now
- Listen to the brand new Jon Anderson single Shine On
- "Eddie Vedder was hard on me, he was not easy to get next to." Super-producer Brendan O'Brien reveals the lengths he went to in order to work with Pearl Jam
- "A dramatic closing of a door in my life." Fish announces final reissues of his solo career
- Order your limited edition Lord Of The Lost x Metal Hammer bundle – featuring an exclusive butt plug!
- Alan Parsons Project to release Super Deluxe Pyramid box set
- "My coping mechanisms for a long time were alcohol and drugs." Placebo announce new documentary This Search For Meaning, featuring interviews with Robbie Williams, Garbage's Shirley Manson, Idles, Yungblud and more
- Hear Def Leppard team with Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello on groovy new single Just Like ’73
- “Be there or be square!” Watch Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris play a charity football match this weekend
- "An unforgettable soundtrack to a tumble toward the abyss."Chicago's Rezn cut their psych-doom with shoegaze, sludge, prog and post-metal on new album Burden
- “They matched ELP for pomp, bombast, overambition and grandiosity of execution”: How Frankie Goes To Hollywood helped carry prog into the 80s and beyond with Welcome To The Pleasuredome
- Toto's video for Africa has now been watched a billion times on YouTube
- Wishbone Ash's Argus was voted album of the year in 1972: Its standout track went on to influence Steely Dan, Thin Lizzy and Iron Maiden
- Runnin' with the devil: The stories behind the songs on Slash's Orgy of the Damned
- "There wasn't too much talking about who should play what, it was a very instinctive kind of relationship": Mick Taylor on life in the Rolling Stones, Altamont and leaving the band
June 12
- "I am stoked, stunned, and humbled that I get to join in on this rock'n'roll reality camp": Punk legends The Saints to tour with Mudhoney's Mark Arm as frontman
- “It’s going to be killer to play some smaller sweatier places again.” Enter Shikari announce Dancing On The Frontline UK tour
- NOFX reveal details of their last ever shows as their 40 Years, 40 Cities, 40 Songs Per Day tour winds up in California
- "I can’t wait to revisit some beautiful cities and venture to new ones." A.A. Williams announces 26-date US headline tour
- Deftones are the most popular metal band for soundtracking sexual encounters, a horny new survey finds
- “We were playing to people who didn't care if we fell over and died.” The Cure might be recognised now as one of the world's most iconic and influential bands, but that wasn't always the case
- “I’m a 42-year-old man”: M. Shadows slams old record label for trying to create Avenged Sevenfold “viral Tiktok moment”
- Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi is making a solo album: “I’ve got a lot of stuff written”
- "Whether it’s scuttling, crunching, or throwing off showers of incandescent sparks, there’s a giddy, genreless joy to it all." Maverick vocalist Julie Christmas stuns on bold new album Ridiculous And Full Of Blood
- Creed wrote megahit Higher onstage in front of 4,000 people, reveals Mark Tremonti
- "Do you mind if I wear this as a laugh?" The true story of the night that 25,000 thick British TV viewers thought Manic Street Preachers had started supporting Irish terrorists
- Metal singer records vocals in the studio, screams so loud the cops come
- Watch Iggy Pop perform The Stooges classics at California's No Values Festival
- Disgusting, melodic and innovative, Ulcerate’s Cutting The Throat Of God is everything death metal should be in 2024
- Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate release new single Copenhagen
- Haze detail new album The Water's Edge
- “The supermassive black hole renders our experience terminally irrelevant… we need to be more light-hearted about stuff”: Prog’s Best New Band EBB are guided by the galaxy
- Bruce Springsteen’s Born In The USA celebrates 40 years with special vinyl release
- “It could have been a huge record, but they buried it… It was his time but the boat just sailed away”: Despite his label's disinterest, Roy Harper’s Stormcock refused to die
- One of the greatest live acts the world has ever seen: The Humble Pie albums you should definitely listen to
- Brad Sinsel fronted four of the greatest hard rock records of all time: So why isn't he better known?
- Myles Kennedy announces new solo album and world tour: Watch the video for Say What You Will now
- If you've got a spare $9000 a limited edition AC/DC watch can be yours
June 11
- "I have absolutely no idea what to do, so I should fit right in": Alice Cooper has launched yet another bid to become US president
- Judas Priest announce 2024 North American tour with Sabaton as support
- "OMG! Pack ur bags cuz we’re going on vacay." King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announce Europe Residency dates
- “We cannot wait to share what we’ve been working on for the last two years”: Jinjer to play brand-new songs on tour with Hanabie and Born Of Osiris
- "It's loud and chaotic, full of character(s), buzzing with energy, a bit sketchy, hilarious, and thrillingly alive." Kneecap's debut album Fine Art is an absolute riot
- Gojira drummer Mario Duplantier will bring the death metal thunder to Late Night With Seth Meyers next week
- Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine says nothing makes him feel as good as thrash metal: “Not a drug, not a drink, not a person, not a thing”
- Beabadoobee announces her biggest ever UK headline tour
- “Some people think it’s my most optimistic record… I don’t hear that at all. I don’t feel like a comfortable person any more”: Mike Vennart’s latest album is all about his anger
- Meer share first new music from upcoming album Wheels Within Wheels. Watch the uplifting Golden Circle video here
- Anyway, here’s that deathcore cover of Tool’s Sober that you never asked for
- “Their music means so much to us”: Metallica’s Kirk Hammett names the band he considers the “architects” of heavy metal
- While She Sleeps to lead stacked metalcore tour featuring Malevolence, Thrown and Resolve
- “No promoter would book us; they just didn’t know where we fitted in… we were victims of being ahead of our time”: With a future Uriah Heep singer and rapidly changing style, were Lucifer’s Friend prog?
- "We're just gonna play you a couple and then we'll get to drinking": Watch footage of Bon Jovi's surprise return to the stage
- An astronaut's guide to space exploration: The Hawkwind albums you should definitely listen to
- "I've got a sex tape out? Big deal! So do lots of people!": A strange and occasionally antagonistic interview with Mötley Crüe
- "My friends and I went through hours and hours and many bags of weed blasting that record": The soundtrack of Walter Trout's life
- "The freedom and joy we had, and the confidence in each other, is remarkable": Ian Gillan looks back at Deep Purple's Machine Head era
June 10
- "You can see my left hand completely cramp up at song 57": Man successfully completes nine-hour, 128-song, one-take Foo Fighters drum marathon
- “We will not take part in an event whose sponsor profits from facilitating a genocide.” Scowl, Speed, Zulu, Pest Control boycott Download festival due to sponsor Barclays investing in companies supplying weapons and military technology to Israel
- "We make musical journeys. We’re the Alan Whicker of prog!” The Tangent and how they made Songs From The Hard Shoulder
- "It's a little bit of the Falls Road in the belly of the beast." Belfast rappers Kneecap announce one-night-only pub takeover in "the city that ruined half the globe"
- "For 90s alt rock fans, this is the holy grail": Weezer and The Smashing Pumpkins kick off their UK tour with setlists that are a Gen-X wet dream
- “It’s all about the sad moshpit.” Fidlar share two singles from new album Surviving The Dream, announce North American tour
- David Gilmour adds extra LA date due to popular demand
- Piracy, legal battles and FBI investigations: How to watch two-part documentary How Music Got Free
- Start the week by scrunching your face to new Bleed From Within single Hands Of Sin
- Powerviolence nasties Nails announce new album Every Bridge Burning, release lead single Imposing Will, are still nasty
- Watch The Dillinger Escape Plan play first show in seven years
- "I'd love to have her...you never know": Emily Eavis dreams of Kate Bush headlining Glastonbury Festival
- "Roger Waters took it off the album because it was too dark, and it is." The story behind the Syd Barrett song that Pink Floyd considered too disturbing to be released, but The Jesus And Mary Chain recorded for their first single
- Glastonbury and Spotify join forces to launch official festival app
- “Dua Lipa and all the big pop stars are awesome, but how many times can you sing about a lover not being good enough?” Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes critiques pop music, names the artist he thinks represents what a “pop star should be”
- Andy Summers shares atmospheric new single Into The Blue. Listen here...
- “I ended up thinking I knew it all, and it was my responsibility to tell everybody what they were doing wrong”: How close did Devin Townsend come to forming a cult in 1998?
- “I’m glad to see this tune get some shine after all this time!” Hear Lamb Of God’s re-recording of Another Nail For Your Coffin with Malevolence and Kublai Khan TX
- Spiritbox announce 2025 European tour
- Slipknot announce first two festival headline sets of 2025
- "There's nothing wrong with the Cactus debut - it's just that so many other albums circa 1970 did the same things better": Cactus's first album showed they had the chops but not the songs
- Watch Babymetal and Electric Callboy play infectious new song Ratatata live together
- "I was halfway through Atom Heart Mother thinking, 'What the f*** are we doing? This is a bit ambitious!'": The stories behind Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets' new Set The Controls setlist
- “Surely it’s the greatest psychedelic rock song ever recorded… It makes the whole God thing seem plausible!” Kavus Torabi’s Guide To Cardiacs
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Hot Damn!, Brave Rival, L.A. Edwards and more
- Shuggie Otis's third album was hailed as classic, but his record company dropped him: It took 40 years to make a fourth
- "It was more of a struggle to stay alive than it was to continue to the band": How Failure found themselves at odds with everyone
- "I often wonder what would have happened if Keith Moon and I had formed Led Zeppelin": How The Who stopped hating each other for long enough to shape the sound of the future
- Shinedown frontman Brent Smith says he has seen music "cure cancer"
June 9
- “Bring Me The Horizon look and sound like megastars”: The first show of the Nex Gen era was ludicrous, meticulous and surprisingly heavy
- “I was in a bad place. The booze, my lifestyle, this woman I’d been with since I was 16. I’ve never been that broken”: how Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix pulled himself back from the abyss
- “Nothing’s worse than hearing someone say, ‘Deep Purple? They’re just like Black Sabbath, knocking out riffs’”: the birth of Deep Purple Mk II and the transformation that changed rock
- “It’s just open-heart surgery that’s all, no big deal”: Eels’ E on the major operation he underwent during the making of the band’s new album
- “I didn’t know if I could think. I didn’t know if I’d destroyed my brain. I didn’t know if I had anything to say”: an epic interview with Trent Reznor
- “They said we talked about dick and vagina too much and offended everyone”: how Blink-182 overcame a backlash from their peers on the way to Enema Of The State becoming a huge success
- “Every week, every month, I was doing something new… but fighting Martians has become a lifestyle for me”: Jeff Wayne on waging the relentless War Of The Worlds
June 8
- The Sphere in Las Vegas has overturned its ban on Acid Farts, the bong-smoking Phish fan
- “There are five million disgraceful heavy metal bands. What’s the point of being just another Metallica imitator?”: how Avenged Sevenfold took on the haters with their epic fourth album
- The unlikely birth of Velvet Revolver, the supergroup who triumphed against the odds
- “When Tobias Forge called us his favourite new metal band, I got really emotional”: A conversation with death metal revolutionaries Crypta
- “Please, Lzzy, join Skid Row! Put the two bands together if you need to!”: even Jon Bon Jovi thinks Lzzy Hale should become Skid Row’s permanent new singer
- “Decent material, often trampled by shoehorning in flamenco motifs, fancy footwork and an over-the-top macho swagger”: Carmen’s The Albums collection
- Into The Pumpkins-Verse! Your guide to The Smashing Pumpkins' ever-evolving line-up from their inception to the present day
- “Sometimes, it out-earns the entire Blur catalogue”: Blur bassist Alex James on making Fat Les’ enduring football classic Vindaloo
- “I’m surprised I made it this far. People were giving me 10 minutes to live when I was 30”: two years before he died, Lemmy was still one of rock’s great warriors
- “We had our pockets stuffed with $16,000 in $100 bills, and there were 8,000 kids in front of us in Bangkok. We caused a riot at the airport coming home”: the rise and fall of Girl, the cult glam rock band who should have been huge
- Jon Bon Jovi says there is "no miracle" that will heal his damaged vocal cord enough for him to tour any time soon
June 7
- "They bombed a medical supplies warehouse. You could smell medicine in the air..." Sharon Den Adel went to Ukraine to film Within Temptation's latest video. This is what she found.
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "The faces, feelings, and wounds which fade as time progresses never truly leave us." Picture Parlour announce debut EP Face In the Picture, share title track
- “I slid to the floor in shock. I didn’t speak, didn’t want to say a word to anyone.” The day that Joy Division learned their friend and frontman Ian Curtis had died
- How we test earplugs
- "I don't care. I thought it was fun." Peter Tagtgren dismisses plagarism accusations against Croatia's Eurovision entry Baby Lasagna
- Great new prog you need to hear from Hasse Froberg, Oliver Wakeman, Eivør, Mercury Rev and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- The Omnific celebrate release of new album The Law Of Augmenting Returns with new video of title track
- Caligula's Horse release new Digital Deluxe Edition of latest album Charcoal Grace
- "He's a piece of work, that deluded old freak." Disturbed's David Draiman says former Pink Floyd leader Roger Waters is a "monster"
- "He'd change the subject, make a joke and then we'd both laugh": Prince's sister reveals their final conversation
- "Gone are the days when a chauffeur-driven car with weighing scales in the boot for drugs would be waiting outside the Top of the Pops studio." Happy Mondays/Black Grape's Shaun Ryder on "changing times" in the music industry
- New John Wetton auction to raise money for cancer charity takes place in July
- "We've been rocking out and headbanging to it for months!": The Offspring announce new album Supercharged, release peppy new single Make It All Right
- Travis announce UK tour, share Bus as third single from forthcoming L.A. Times album
- “How could Syd Barrett find being in the back of a van with the lads interesting, when his head was out there? You’re working all the time in your head”: The prog credentials of Prefab Sprout’s Paddy McAloon
- "There was almost a Mafiosi-style meeting about me joining them": Richie Kotzen looks back on life in Poison, Mr Big, the Winery Dogs and more
- A man named Acid Farts has been banned from The Sphere in Las Vegas after lighting up a bong during a Phish show
- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss release mesmerising cover of When The Levee Breaks
- "Sounding less like folk-metal Shamen on the bridleway to transcendence and more like Rammstein": The Hu swap beauty for bombast on Live At Glastonbury
- "A winning balance between maturity and raw, gut-punch blues": Joanne Shaw Taylor fuses blues and soul seamlessly on Heavy Soul
- "Royal Republic have now fully assimilated the power of disco and aren't afraid to use it": Royal Republic continue to party on the exuberant Lovecop
- "This is a hard album to love": Grand Slam's lack of originality tires on second album Wheel Of Fortune
- "Rock songs, power ballads, it’s a big-sounding record designed to be played to big rooms": Bon Jovi fight for their future on Forever
June 6
- "Sure, Trower sounded like Hendrix, but he certainly didn't play like him": Robin Trower's classic Bridge Of Sighs gets a lavish 50th birthday makeover
- "A snapshot of a guitar man at the height of his powers": The first MC5 album in half a century is confirmed – first single out now
- "Irvine Welsh who wrote Trainspotting said it was the best thing he'd seen in years." Watch the trailer for Kneecap's self-titled biopic, the loudest, funniest, most provocative movie you'll see in 2024
- "We're excited to finally have a song come out!" Listen to Halestorm and I Prevail's new team-up single, Can U See Me In The Dark?
- 70s prog rockers Absolute Elsewhere finally release second album Playground
- "I can’t believe we actually managed to pull it off!" Guitar hero Sophie Lloyd has upgraded her debut live show after selling out the original venue in five minutes
- White Willow reissue series reaches halfway point with 2000's Sacrament
- "I could see that schism developing." Serj Tankian says he knew System Of A Down had problems as early as 1999
- “I liked Discharge, and really respected Crass too.” Before she became a world-famous pop star, Björk had an angry anarcho-punk band called Spit and Snot
- "I’ve died three times through my own self-abuse." From helping shape industrial metal to hanging up on Stanley Kubrick and being Timothy Leary's drug guinea pig, Ministry's Al Jourgensen reflects on 40 years of madness and music
- “An impressive set documenting a group during a clamorous creative peak”: Edgar Broughton Band’s Gone Blue – The BBC Sessions
- Swedish prog legends Ritual return with first new album for 17 years!
- "It was very British, but it shot round the world. It changed music": How the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal was born, by those who were there
- “I’d say the first thing which came into my head. I even suggested it was a yoghurt at one time!” How Tangerine Dream got their name (we think)
- "I could hardly listen to that song when we were recording it - it made me ill": the Eagles song that was written as a warning but heard as a celebration
- "People thought The Runaways were cute until they realised we were serious - and then they started calling us names": Joan Jett on the first girl rock band, her love of leather and nearly joining the army
- "How do you even wear that? It's like, ridiculous!" Sebastian Bach berates fan for wearing Skid Row t-shirt
June 5
- Watch Deep Purple's video for new single Pictures Of You
- Bruce Springsteen, Billie Joe Armstrong, Frank Turner, Elvis Costello, Tom Morello and more to cover Jesse Malin songs for forthcoming benefit/tribute album
- What happens when members of extreme metal royalty like Meshuggah, Watain and Opeth form an orchestra? Meet the uniquely excellent Bright & Black
- Metalcore upstarts Heriot announce debut album Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell, release eviscerating new track Foul Void
- The Flaming Lips announce UK and Irish dates, to play Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots in full
- Kingcrow share video for emotive new singe Kintsugi
- "The whole thing was such a shock, because it came out of nowhere." A public letter, tears and the Finnish Prime Minister: inside the crazy day Nightwish parted ways with Tarja Turunen
- Best Audio-Technica turntables 2024: recommended decks from an iconic hi-fi and audio brand
- "Anything that comes in the future, I always give it a thought." Tony Iommi suggests he'd be open to writing with Ozzy Osbourne in future and picks out the 'special' Black Sabbath riffs - including Eddie Van Halen's favourite
- "Barmy night in Bracknell" promised as Spriggan Mist joined by EBB, Haze and Kindred Spirit for Four Play Progfest III
- “We thought a lot about the desert on this record, and the urban desert.” Mercury Rev share trippy, twinkling new single Patterns, announce new album Born Horses, unveil 2024/'25 UK and Europe tour schedule
- "Quite possibly one of 2024’s finest death metal albums." Jacob Bannon's extreme metal supergroup Umbra Vitae have stuck gnarled gold with Light Of Death
- "We pretty much wrote every single song when we were wrecked": Confidence Man announce new album 3AM (LA LA LA) and take naked helicopter rides on new single I Can't Lose You
- Glastonbury 2024: Organisers reveal more artists, events and stage times for this year's festival
- Nektar unveil new drummer on upcoming album Mission To Mars
- Poppy drops gnarly new Madonna-inspired pop-metal rager No Way Out
- Bad Omens, Parkway Drive, Architects, Poppy, Jinjer, Kittie and more to play returning Mayhem Festival this October
- “Everyone’s story is different… All I can say is he was definitely there, and it was weird”: Syd Barrett’s surprise visit to Pink Floyd‘s studio
- "I really believe that tonight we're going to make history": Before the giant lemons and irony, U2 put on one hell of a live show
- "Humanity is just a failure. Humanity is just waiting to end humanity": Kerry King has a new solo album - he also has things to say
- "His work can be quite disturbing. God alone knows what's going through his mind when he draws": For years Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham kept his art secret, but all is now revealed
- "I started laughing, because he is the best": Watch unseen footage of late guitar icons Eddie Van Halen and Leslie West backstage and jamming
- “I don’t think Beyoncé or Lil Nas X are going to be jealous.” The Jesus Lizard release new single Hide & Seek, announce new album Rack, share US, UK, Europe dates
June 4
- "I have struggled with this decision but realise I cannot continue touring at this time": Robin Trower cancels US tour on doctor's orders
- “Superbly-executed powerful songs with enjoyable instrumental showboating… it’s a shame they never toured”: Squackett’s A Life Within A Day reissue
- A mixture of soft, empathetic whispers and feral, unrestrained catharsis, Goat Girl's Below the Waste is the South London trio at their most liberated
- “She doesn’t need autotune, autotune needs her.” A video showing Hayley Williams' isolated first-take vocals on Paramore's 2013 single Still Into You is giving The Internet goosebumps
- Babymetal announce massive 2024 tour with bimbocore provocateur Scene Queen
- Every Sylosis album ranked from worst to best
- Katatonia singer Jonas Renkse guests on epic new Evergrey single Cold Dreams
- 40 years after their formation by Thin Lizzy icon Phil Lynott, Grand Slam are still rocking hard with their stirring new video Come Together (In Harlem)
- Italian prog fusion duo Asymmetric Universe sign with InsideOutMusic
- "They've gone beyond novelty value to become their own unique entity." Apocalyptica have made another stirring album of orchestral Metallica covers - and they've even made St Anger sound epic
- “A mind-melting day out of acid-hued action from five of my favourite acts.” Comedian Stewart Lee is curating his own stage at the first-ever Brighton Psych Fest, with five hand-picked artists
- Best cassette players 2024: Rekindle your love for analogue tapes with a too-cool-for-school cassette player
- “She was very, very honest, almost to a fault. Most singers are actors. Sinéad was not an actor.” Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan recalls Sunday dinners with Sinéad O'Connor while she was holed up in a friend's attic
- “We’ve made enough albums the conventional way, and the kids don’t care about that”: Experimental vanguards Ulver to release new album one single at a time
- Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale isn’t joining Skid Row full-time: “This particular time in my life prevents me from committing”
- “It was the best thing I’d come up with for years – it vanished off the recorder and I could never, ever remember it. John was like, ‘Just tell yourself it was crap!’”: How Anathema made Distant Satellites
- "I get that people are trying to keep the blues alive, but to me it feels super-limiting": Six things you need to know about Troy Redfern
- In the wake of the Heysel Stadium disaster, the stars of heavy metal came together to raise money for the victims in the only way they knew: via a power ballad
- From viral sensations to superstar support: Meet Mexico’s latest rock export, The Warning
June 3
- "The crowd just went off their brains. It was an amazing, fantastic first show": The story of AC/DC's live debut, told by those who were there
- “A fearless creative with a penchant for all things mystical and macabre.” Your essential guide to every PVRIS album
- "Even if Tool were to play six nights a week, every week they'd still offer one of metal's most unique live experiences." Tool's 2024 setlist is a prog metal masterclass with cosmic visuals to match
- “The backdrop is the mall. And while the mall is crass, it’s also a very zombie, rock ‘n’ roll horror movie setting.” Watch the videos for new Pixies single You're So Impatient / Que Sera, Sera
- "When 9/11 happened, Alive gave people hope." We asked nu metal veterans P.O.D. to take us on a tour of their hometown, San Diego
- Sting, Manic Street Preachers, Snow Patrol, Travis and more to play BBC Radio 2 In The Park festival
- “I soon realised that to earn a living what you do is sit behind a desk and not on the other side”: Fish On Friday know the rules – but they’re still trying to break them
- “Steve should have been here for this festival, and it would be nice if you all think of him”: Pulp and PJ Harvey pay tribute to Steve Albini at Primavera Sound
- Skid Row may not carry on with Lzzy Hale on vocals: “A few guys have piqued our interest,” says bassist
- The Sex Pistols to play Never Mind The Bollocks in full with Frank Carter at two fundraiser shows
- Slayer guitarist Kerry King names the “perfect” riff he’s written: “It’s got a lot of harmony going on”
- Metallica’s James Hetfield reveals anxiety struggles before 2024 tour: “We’re old, we can’t do this”
- Firefighters shut down prog metal show because someone was vaping
- Watch Megadeth’s drummer play Paramore anthem Misery Business after only hearing it once
- "I'd had forty-four jobs. I knew this was my one and only shot": How Ian Hunter and Mott The Hoople got their riot started
- Watch Dragonforce’s Through The Fire And Flames be played on the harp by someone with faster fingers than you
- "Classic double cheeseburger rock'n'roll, its mission is to bring the party and it succeeds": Y&T sum up the early 80s rock sound on Black Tiger
- “There’d be three numbers in the set; Dave Swarbrick would go berserk with his Echoplex and wah-wah. Especially in America, with substances being consumed”: The origins of Fairport Convention
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Blues Pills, Elles Bailey, Cactus and more
- Robin Trower has just played six shows to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his greatest album. Next stop? America
June 2
- "We're the UK's reply to Greta Van Fleet": Meet Silveroller, the tightly-knit rock'n'rollers continuing the transatlantic conversation
- "As unvarnished and unshowy as a multi-millionaire rock star can get": Duff McKagan keeps it intimate on Tenderness Live In Los Angeles
- Spotify CEO sparks backlash after social media post that claimed the cost of making "content" is "close to zero"
- Steve Miller hails Eminem as a "timeless originator" after rapper sampled Abracadabra on new single Houdini
- 9 heavy metal stars who made it big with their first band
- “There’s a view that More and Obscured By Clouds are not ‘proper’ albums. Not so – they’re the sound of a band with the pressure off”: Pink Floyd’s early years at the movies
- Drummer will make a marathon attempt to play every Foo Fighters song without stopping
- Roger Daltrey has no interest in ever seeing a hologram version of The Who
June 1
- “The lyrics are my inner voice telling me that everything is my fault”: Prog metal mavens Leprous explain the powerful themes of new single Atonement
- “I’d always say you’d liken us to The Alan Parsons Project, rather than a unit like Led Zeppelin." Mostly Autumn and the story of Dressed In Voices
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