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- September 30
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- Joe Bonamassa to perform Rory Gallagher's legendary Irish Tour '74 set at two shows in Ireland
- "Just wait for it to kick in!": Quireboys release rollicking new single I Think I Got It Wrong Again
- “I’ve worked with some difficult singers. All kinder, better, and more talented.” A former bandmate of Perry Farrell labels Jane's Addiction's vocalist “the worst frontman I’ve ever worked with”
- “An unfiltered look at a moment when youth culture was cute, raw, vulnerable, and unapologetically different.” An emo retrospective museum exhibition titled I'm Not Okay is now open in London
- “I realised it had been a while since we had a powerful young woman up onstage with us.” Watch Pearl Jam cover Taylor Swift's The Best Day with help from a very special guest
- “I've got a trove of stuff already, some of which I rather like.” With Pink Floyd “done”, David Gilmour hopes to start work on the follow-up to his hit solo album Luck and Strange in the new year
- Watch Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder team up with Roger Waters to sing Pink Floyd classic Comfortably Numb at the most star-studded concert of this millennium
- Corey Taylor on the reactions to Dave Grohl's recent baby announcement: "If that’s the one thing that defines him, then what are we doing?"
- “Just because the lazy, the jaded, and the professionally blinkered have given up on rock music doesn't mean the rest of us have to.” Swami & The Bed Of Nails deliver emphatic proof of the eternal power of “troglodyte” rock'n'roll thrills
- Best earplugs for musicians 2024: Safeguard your ears with our expert pick of hearing protection for gigging musicians
- "Absolute Elsewhere is a mind-blowing masterpiece." Blood Incantation's new album is two songs long. It's also pure prog-death perfection and one of the best metal albums of 2024
- "You have one last chance to prove that you loved us all along." Oasis announce North American tour for 2025
- "I hated Tom Waits at first." From Aretha Franklin to Gravediggaz, Julie Christmas makes us a soundtrack of her life
- Green Day and UK coffee company Grind blend their talents to mark 20 years of American Idiot
- ADHD, jazz-obsessed parents and a traumatic tube attack: inside the rise of Graphic Nature, one of the UK's most exciting young metal bands
- "I thought it was my responsibility to tell the truth as I see it": Kris Kristofferson on Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash and country music
- “It’s like The Eras Tour except not at all”: Cannibal Corpse condense three decades of violence into 75 minutes at rabid London show
- Bryan Adams announces Roll With The Punches UK arena tour
- “I used to do these very gloomy and dark paintings, and Opeth’s music really inspired my creativity”: Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmailyuk gets goosebumps even thinking about Damnation, and likes to fall asleep to Sorceress
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- September 29
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- "As far as the career goes, I refuse to consider it over": Aerosmith's Tom Hamilton announces first show with new band
- Ten Years After are calling it quits but a new Ten Years After will arise
- Watch Motörhead’s Lemmy play the violin in this bizarre Kit Kat advert from 2001
- “Boz would always have a bottle of Smirnoff in his bass case”: The epic life and high times of Bad Company bassist Boz Burrell, rock’n’roll’s ultimate cool dude
- “It took a minute to come around to the idea that I wanted to be in Evanescence again. I’ve been defined by it but it’s not the whole picture”: How Amy Lee reconnected with herself on Evanescence’s self-titled third album
- “Every video we made, we were like, ‘Oh my god, what are we doing?!’”: Creed’s Scott Phillips looks back on the band’s big budget music videos
- “We were called the ‘Pink Floyd of the 90s.’ But there’s always been more in my music”: The story of Porcupine Tree’s Stupid Dream, the cult classic that set up prog for the 21st century
- “Quentin had it down to three tracks and he was going to bounce it off Uma Thurman and let her choose”: the story of how Urge Overkill’s Neil Diamond cover made its way onto the Pulp Fiction soundtrack
- “I had to threaten them. If they weren’t going to include all of my ideas on it, I was off. No one was expecting me to be quite so forthright”: Genesis’ Selling England By The Pound wore a smile over hidden depths
- September 28
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- “I’m watching American TV and it’s like ‘Wow, man… what is this? This isn’t my America’”: How Machine Head followed a 21st century metal classic with Unto The Locust
- “I wanted to make the ultimate record. And then the band could stop”: How The Cure’s Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers albums became goth’s great ‘Dark Trilogy’
- Gene Simmons: "I'm okay with being labelled an asshole"
- Louder Than Life festival cancels entire day – including Slayer headline slot – due to extreme weather in Kentucky
- “They would tell us directly to our faces, ‘You’re not going to last’”: Other bands hated Slipknot on their first Ozzfest tour – but Sharon Osbourne saved them
- “It gets tiring doing the same thing. In this life, you gotta do what you want, you gotta let your mind and fancy flow free”: The epic story of Jimi Hendrix’s Axis: Bold As Love, the heart of the guitarist‘s Holy Trinity
- "I want people to have sex in the moshpit." How Mimi Barks went from Berlin fetish clubs to leading her own nu gen revolution
- “Pete was an open, innocent person. He suffered a lot in his life, but everybody loved him”: Michael Schenker’s new album features a tribute to late UFO bandmate Pete Way
- “Our practice room was a church. The vicar used to let us in and then leave. We ransacked the place, basically”: How Venom made their unholy masterpiece Black Metal and changed the course of metal
- "His kid goes to our kid’s school, he's a lovely guy": how Metallica's Robert Trujillo and James singer Tim Booth became unexpected lunch buddies
- “We were thrilled to be in England. I was discovering the joy of a pint of bitter”: R.E.M.’s Mike Mills looks back on the band’s first ever UK show
- David Gilmour dazzles on the opening night of his tour in Rome: the first review!
- September 27
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- “Cliff still lives in all of us. I ask for his help still.” James Hetfield says that Cliff Burton still influences Metallica's songwriting, almost four decades on from the bassist's tragic death in 1986, aged 24
- A beginner's guide to Wu-Tang Clan, one of hip hop's most unique, innovative, wildly creative and untameable powerhouses
- The 15 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “I’m not saying my doing something else saved Slipknot, but it certainly saved me”: How Stone Sour made the leap from Corey Taylor’s ‘other band’ with Audio Secrecy
- “He looked crazed”: Jane’s Addiction tech says Perry Farrell punched Dave Navarro again backstage, that the band “is over with”
- “There are two experiences on offer here – jam band or practitioners of exquisitely-arranged songs”: Curved Air’s Rarities Series box set
- Up-and-coming rockers Starbenders get bouncy on new single Tokyo
- “He did exactly what we told him not to do”: Slipknot’s Corey Taylor remembers the night he “almost killed” Sid Wilson
- "This may be the most important thing I ever do": Stevie Nicks shares The Lighthouse, a powerful protest anthem for women's rights
- Nightwish’s Floor Jansen wants to collaborate with Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale
- "So chaotic you feel like you’re having your noggin walloped about by an entire gang of Mike Tysons." Servitude is the best tribute to Trevor Strnad Black Dahlia Murder fans could have asked for
- “Being a musician, you feel like you’re failing if you don’t achieve your dreams – that’s why we chose Dream Chaser as the album title”: Rendezvous Point face down their fears with their third album
- "I went over to John's house, and he just started sobbing and said he wanted to do it": The story of the Red Hot Chili Peppers album Flea thinks is the best they ever made
- All three-and-a-half hours of the show to raise money to bring Rory Gallagher's guitar back home can now be watched online
- "A nice package, as the actress probably said to the bass player": Thin Lizzy's big year revisited, remixed and thoroughly expanded
- "No worlds are changed here, but a few will be enhanced": Richie Kotzen showcases metal, funk and fusion on solo album Nomad
- "Although synth lines were the starting point, this remains a guitarist's album at heart": Steve Howe ranges far and wide on Guitarscape
- "An unexpected and very welcome surprise": The Hot Damn! bring the party on the dazzling Dancing On The Milky Way
- "More richly orchestrated girl-group razzle-dazzle and a little less dive-bar valve-amp sleaze": The Courettes ramp up the melody on The Soul Of The Fabulous Courettes
- "The record that proved they really were going somewhere": Therapy?'s Troublegum, 30 years on
- September 26
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- Foo Fighters cancel scheduled festival appearance this weekend - replacements announced
- Duff McKagan releases unexpected cover of David Bowie's "Heroes"
- Ebony Buckle details brand new album Hearts Get Started
- German proggers Sylvan to make first UK live appearance for 13 years
- Watch Deftones' Chino Moreno excitedly live out his fan boy dreams by fronting Smashing Pumpkins
- “It was a case of meeting one of your idols and realising he is a total douchebag.” Ministry's Al Jourgensen on the night he worked as a “man-slave servant” for Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant, and how it screwed up his love life
- Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi to appear on Robbie Williams’ new rock album
- “It’s the track that unlocked the record.” The Cure introduce their long-awaited new album Songs Of A Lost World with gorgeous, haunting new single Alone
- “We paid $30,000 to get bullied like we were in high school!” Trivium were asked to egg Iron Maiden at Ozzfest 2005. They declined and started wearing Iron Maiden shirts onstage
- After teasing a symphony of “cocks and vaginas and death” eight years ago, Devin Townsend is finally performing The Moth live with an orchestra
- Kalle Wallner announces solo tour dates through England for May 2025
- "After 44 years we finally seem to be getting somewhere." Solstice's career highlighted in new documentary
- Doom trap? Trap metal? Nu gen? Whatever: Mimi Bark's debut album proves she's a star
- Joey Jordison’s estate has settled its lawsuit against Slipknot
- "How does anybody get better after something like that?" The Cadillac Three's Jaren Johnston lost his father to Covid. Celebrity fans and the biggest shows of his career are of little comfort
- “This is an interesting and intimidating challenge!” Radiohead's Thom Yorke is reworking the band's 2003 album Hail To The Thief for a “feverish” new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet
- Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer to be charged with vehicular manslaughter following death of pedestrian
- "At their heaviest, they feel genuinely dangerous." Heriot live up to their potential as Britain's best new metal band on Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell
- "God's punishment on society for all the evil that we have done": A brief history of Cop Rock, the eighth worst TV show ever made
- “A cornucopia… Most impressive of all are the alternative monitor mixes”: Frank Zappa’s Apostrophe (’) 50th anniversary edition
- "I asked George to turn it down a little. He looked at me and said: You don't talk to a Beatle like that": How The Beatles made Abbey Road, told by those who were there
- Nickelback announce live album Nickelback: Live From Nashville
- "I know the band's not perfect right now and in turmoil": Journey's Arnel Pineda thanks supporters in first statement since inviting fans to vote him out of the band
- September 25
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- Jimmy Page honoured by British Embassy in Washington - watch video of speech
- Dead Daisies guitarist Doug Aldrich diagnosed with throat cancer
- "Chemo is no joke": Ann Wilson records health update audio message for fans
- Sólstafir show off stunning Icelandic scenery in video for new single Blakkrakki
- “Lemmy wrote the words, but I told him exactly what I wanted to say”: We asked Ozzy Osbourne to pick his favourite Ozzy Osbourne song. This is what he chose
- “What a wonderful night this will be.” Josh Homme, Greg Dulli, Dave Gahan, Chrissie Hynde to honour the late Mark Lanegan at star-studded celebration show
- “Recently I’ve been faced with my most significant and challenging struggle with depression”: Fever 333 cancel world tour due to Jason Aalon Butler’s mental health
- The Pineapple Thief announce new European dates for Spring 2025
- “Their mastery of black metal left them nowhere to go, except into far weirder and more interesting territory”: Where to start with Ulver
- Elder to revisit third album Lore for May 2025 European tour
- “The first day of rehearsal they forgot me!” Watch Nirvana's first-ever TV performance as a four-piece, with future Foo Fighter Pat Smear on guitar
- “You know within 10 seconds if that person’s right, and straight away we knew she had it”: The making of Secrets Of Angels, Karnataka’s only studio album with Hayley Griffiths
- Linkin Park's London O2 show is a celebration of one of 21st century metal's most impactful and important bands
- Donner pay tribute to 80s ECM jazz on new single Grey Skies Over Stridsklev
- Exploring Birdsong's Lynsey Ward guests on new Kite Parade single, the emotive Broken
- “I watch it, love it, like pretty much everyone I talk to”: Opeth explain how hit TV series Succession inspired new album The Last Will And Testament
- “Lavish yet controlled angst… for what was then considered regular pop music, it’s fearlessly miserable”: Ultravox’s 40th anniversary edition of Lament
- “I actually think people don’t think of System Of A Down as nu metal”: Serj Tankian names the greatest nu metal album of all time
- "It's a bit traumatic if you wake up there's a story about a picture of your penis on ABC News": Think Neal Schon's year has been interesting? A decade ago it was even more so
- Mezcal, coffee plantations and Bitchin' Sauce: Six things you need to know about L.A. Edwards
- September 24
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- Queens Of The Stone Age announce first live dates since Josh Homme's emergency surgery
- Uriah Heep announce first dates of Magican's Farewell world tour
- “It attempts to create order from chaos, but never reaches the goal.” Celebrating Trent Reznor's long, hard road out of a personal hell, as heard on Nine Inch Nails' bleak, challenging masterpiece The Fragile
- "It was do or die." After a decade of "failures" Nothing More kept the faith and wrote their breakthrough hit This Is The Time (Ballast)
- Linkin Park continue the biggest reunion tour of 2024 with new single and new live dates (including one show with Sleep Token)
- Billie Joe Armstrong helps Marshall launch the Monitor III A.N.C. headphones
- Unlike Oasis, Iron Maiden take a stand against dynamic pricing ahead of 2025 50th-anniversary tour
- “George Harrison opened the door to reveal a Formula 1 car in the hall. He said, ‘We made it from a kit and can’t get it out of here!’” Former ELO bassist Michael de Albuquerque’s life and times
- "This is no night for naysayers." The Last Dinner Party's Glasgow show proves Gen Z hasn’t given up on rock bands quite yet
- Crippled Black Phoenix share unlikely cover of Laura Braningan's Self Control
- “Rob Halford shows up in a jean jacket and I’m like, ‘Oh, this guy, come on!’” Slayer’s Kerry King explains why Judas Priest were a “letdown” at 1981 gig
- The Orb announce career-spanning 2CD & limited-edition quadruple vinyl octagonal set
- Napalm Death announce the rowdiest EU/UK tour of 2025 with Crowbar, Full Of Hell and Brat
- “You could argue we were the quintessential cult band. But I was thinking, ‘We can be more than this’”: In Absentia sold poorly, influenced greatly, and marked the beginning of the end for Porcupine Tree
- A great American contributor to the great American songbook: The Tom Petty albums you should definitely listen to
- "Taylor Swift is probably the most influential guitar player of my generation": This is the soundtrack of Joanne Shaw Taylor's life
- "Absolute garbage fabricated bulls***": Neal Schon hits back after criticism of Arnel Pineda, blames Avenged Sevenfold for Rock In Rio sound problems
- Prepare to be agog: official photos from the first nights of the Eagles' residency at Sphere in Las Vegas are in
- Dave Mason cancels upcoming tour dates due to serious heart condition
- "I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Zeppelin and asking my mom to help me make bellbottom pants": Bones Owens on growing up, touring on a Harley and living the dream
- September 23
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- "It's disappointing when someone you admire talks out their ass about you": Megadeth vs Peter Frampton is the 2024 beef no one saw coming
- Poppy announces her genre-bending new album, Negative Spaces
- Don’t miss this epic Disney+ deal: Music docs, Star Wars, Marvel & more for just $1.99/£1.99 a month for three months
- "Someone said, 'If you see them without their masks on, they will come and kill you!'" Why I love Slipknot's debut album, by Jamie Campbell Bower
- “The moshpit may take breaks, but the singalongs seldom do”: Zeal & Ardor go avant-garde without hindering their hooks at electric London gig
- "Things have always been ****ed up." How death, cancer and a whole pandemic helped make Yesterwynde the most optimistic Nightwish album yet
- “After 2022’s step into traditional prog territory, they aim much more squarely for the arena rock jugular from the outset”: Lesoir’s Push Back The Horizon
- Here's how you can safely install or replace a turntable cartridge
- "We’re so excited for players and fans to experience this!”: Watch Linkin Park debut new single Heavy Is The Crown at recent Hamburg show
- US prog duo Days Between Stations to release new album in November
- Watch Killswitch Engage reunite with ex-singer Howard Jones at emotional homecoming show in Massachusetts
- Opeth push back release of The Last Will & Testament to November 22
- "Pompous, sexually charged, straight-ahead 4/4 rock, replete with cliches and cheesy power ballads": Poison's Look What the Cat Dragged In, 39 years on
- “I took off my apron. My manager said, ‘You’ve got tables to serve,’ and I said, ‘I’m talking to Peter Gabriel!’” How actor Adrian Lukis was talked out of signing a music contract by his Genesis hero
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- Slayer have just played their first set in five years - see their reunion setlist and watch fiery video footage here
- Liam Gallagher hits back at "s***c***s" who criticised his vocals after he sang Oasis classics at Joshua v Dubois fight
- Larkin Poe announce new album Bloom, launch video for If God Is A Woman, an invitation to "resist the typecasting of women, both conscious and unconscious"
- September 22
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- "No one more than me in this world feels so devastated about this": Arnel Pineda invites fans to vote him out of Journey after criticism of Rock In Rio show
- Slipknot's set at Knotfest Iowa cut short by severe weather
- "On a road trip to Los Angeles, about to move into the first home he'd ever purchased, something gave way": The torment and triumph of Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A.
- The Cadillac Three cancel all remaining 2024 shows as frontman Jaren Johnston begins mental health treatment
- “We were torn between trying to make it big and making our music more crossover, but failing… that happened because we became conscious of what we were doing”: The Power And The Glory signalled the beginning of the end for Gentle Giant
- "I remember being sat in the car the day after I got arrested and Danny was coming up with lines in the car, going ‘Caught by the fuzz!'": Supergrass on the making of their classic debut single
- “I had become Musical Director, which I always hate. But I took the money and took the title and did the job!”: The Cure’s Reeves Gabrels on the time he became David Bowie’s touring MD
- “The aim was to be ‘the best group in the world’… this easily becomes confused with ‘the most successful group in the world,’ at which point the music may get lost”: Robert Fripp’s observation of King Crimson
- September 21
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- “We weren’t arrogant enough to think we were suddenly the most important band in the world. We just knew we were”: A metal fan’s guide to Rush
- “They actually asked Judas Priest to write music for it. We saw it and decided to avoid it like the plague”: The inside story of Rock Star, Hollywood’s infamous attempt to make a heavy metal movie
- “You would see them lift their masks, puke in a bucket and keep going!” Slipknot’s first manager remembers wild 90s Iowa shows
- “I contacted Steve Howe and got very little back. Eventually you say, ‘OK, I’ve got to move on’”: Jon Anderson is finally over the idea of rejoining Yes
- “Had we not made this record the way it sounded, I’m not certain there would have been another album”: How Opeth ditched the death growls and fully embraced prog on Heritage
- Lesoir share new video for "ultimate road track" AEON
- "We're playing Creep and looking terrible": revisiting Radiohead's most deranged performance ever
- "If Cocteau Twins counts as a ‘job’ then of course that was the best": former Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde on the magic of his old band and being a record label chief
- "It’s always been the song that we would say, ‘This is our best song'": Creed's Mark Tremonti on the track that the band think is their finest
- “It was total overkill. We were getting in all sorts of trouble. I thought, ‘I’ve got two months of this, I’m going to be dead at the end of it!’” The epic story of Iron Maiden‘s conquest of America
- Goth legends Balaam And The Angel release first new song in three decades
- September 20
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- The 15 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "A true believer, sharp as a knife, heart of gold." A tribute to Michelle Kerr, the ass-kicking, passionate PR legend who helped shape modern metal as we know it
- Norse folk shamen Wardruna announce new album Birna with single Himinndotter
- Slayer have their own hot sauce now, and we can’t believe it isn’t called “Hell Awaits”
- “We have to carry on howling, no matter how wrong it feels”: Ulver release Locusts and Nocturne #2, their first songs since longtime member Tore Ylwizaker’s death
- Fever 333 double down on promoting new album Darker White by releasing two singles at once
- "No offence Oasis, but that's how it's done." Moby's Manchester show is a cheeky, gorgeous and ultimately triumphant celebration of dance music
- "They made it relevant again!" David Gilmour guests on Body Count cover of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb
- The Blackheart Orchestra release brand new single Bloodlines
- Von Hertzen Brothers spoof Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues in new Ascension Day video
- “Lars called me, and you’re on a shortlist”: Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson was in the running to replace Jason Newsted in Metallica
- "Slipknot used to have taser fights." Morgan Lander talks nu metal, pranks and the wildest tours Kittie have been on
- The 9 classic deep cuts Iron Maiden need to play on their Run For Your Lives tour
- "I was very green and it was a tentative start, but we knew we had something": The complicated birth of Led Zeppelin
- “Occasionally downbeat and introspective – but there’s also an excitement that’s genuinely uplifting”: Stuckfish’s IV is another winner
- At last! A rare new vocal from Axl Rose as Michael Schenker's cover of UFO's classic Love To Love finally emerges
- "Treasured songs suffer repeated acts of vandalism": Bob Dylan and The Band create both towering art and frat-party havoc on The 1974 Live Recordings
- "Even by Nightwish's standards, the album is sonically huge": Much-imitated symphonic metal giants Nightwish go even bigger than ever on Yesterwynde
- "Chunky, boogie-infused glam-rock tunes are in vanishingly short supply": Glam survivors Sweet bow out in a blaze of AOR
- Co-starring Axl, Slash and other heavy friends, Michael Schenker's My Years With UFO finds the mad axeman in phenomenal form
- "Many of you have been with us since the beginning": Uriah Heep announce farewell tour
- September 19
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- “There’s new artwork, there’s music that’s so punk rock from board tapes, there’s audio, visuals, everything”: Slipknot are planning a 25th anniversary reissue of their iconic debut album
- George Harrison’s Living In The Material World celebrates 50 years with special anniversary reissue
- Evanescence to record new album in November: ”We’ve been doing a lot of creating”
- “Billionaires are making record profits off the blood, sweat, and tears of the working class.” Dropkick Murphys share rousing new single Sirens calling out grifters making money from hatred and division
- The 10 psych-rock bands you need to be listening to right now
- Masked jazz-metal weirdos Imperial Triumphant go pop with new track Eye Of Mars. Not really: they’re still masked and weird.
- New nu metal champions Tetrarch return with new nu metal single Live Not Fantasize
- Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, Louder and Prog team up to launch brand new merch store - get exclusive designs, vinyl, signed artist bundles and more
- “Stupefying seat-of-the-pants stuff nicely served by a crisp, revelatory sound mix… and ripe for reappraisal”: King Crimson’s Sheltering Skies
- The four horsemen ride! Metallica announce 2025 North American tour, including Sick New World and Sonic Temple festivals
- “I’m going to be sticking with the ones that are essentially my music.” David Gilmour names three beloved Pink Floyd classics that he won't be playing live again
- "It’s not The Beatles, it’s not Metallica, but it wasn’t ever supposed to be." Mushroomhead blew up with nu metal and were rivals with Slipknot, but never got the dues they deserve
- VOLA share video for pounding prog metal anthem Cannibal
- “Fidlar have come a long way from their 'Wake! Bake! Skate!' years.” Clean and sober LA party punks face up to life's stark realities on Surviving The Dream
- The Pineapple Thief announce new EP Last To Run, featuring previously unreleased material
- Watch the full, pro-shot footage of Meshuggah decimating Summer Breeze festival last month
- "Pete Townshend rates them above The Who": The Kinks' albums you should definitely listen to
- "The future of music is not Taylor Swift." Monster Magnet's Dave Wyndorf shares his wisdom on AI, aliens and the state of rock'n'roll
- "An auspicious and metallicised spin on her dark fairytale aesthetic." The Obsession reunites Charlotte Wessels with former Delain bandmates and the stylings that made her a symphonic metal star
- October's An Evening With Jakko Jakszyk to be hosted by comedian Stewart Lee
- "It was a watershed moment for the band, with our existence very much under threat": Steve Hackett on The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway and keeping the Genesis flame alight
- "We never had to try to fit in because we were never going to": Punk legends X are finally getting the recognition they deserve, but their biggest success is failure
- “He said, ‘You’ll be with me for a short time because I won’t be able to keep you.’ And he was right… We were always quietly confident”: What went right for 10cc, what went wrong, and how they could have avoided it
- "We will likely never play many of these songs again." Iron Maiden announce 50th anniversary world tour for 2025, confirm biggest ever UK headline show
- Eagles pay tribute to J.D. Souther, co-writer of New Kid In Town and Heartache Tonight
- September 18
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- Jane's Addiction release new single True Love just days after onstage fight and subsequent fallout
- Brujeria frontman Juan Brujo dead at 61
- Watch the three Smashing Pumpkins classics the band performed for Jimmy Kimmel Live which weren't shown on TV
- “I like being in total control, then I hooked up with Kurt Cobain and everything lost control.” Courtney Love on “battling Kurt's dammed demons” and pouring “25 years of repressed rage” into Hole's music
- “What does he know about performing?” Mike Shinoda reveals hilarious insult from his daughter, who had no idea that Linkin Park are kinda a big deal
- "It's a banger!" Swallow The Sun share video for anthemic new single MelancHoly
- “This is our way of saying welcome to the world”: Nu metal mystery men Swollen Teeth release new single Family, produced by Slipknot’s Sid Wilson and genre god Ross Robinson
- “All good things will eventually come to an end, and so will we”: Prog metal collective The Ocean announce The End Of An Eon, final tour with current lineup
- "It quickly becomes obvious that this is more than just a festival – it's a movement". The 8 best bands we saw at Decolonise Festival 2024
- Watch Arch Enemy’s Alissa White-Gluz team with Charlotte Wessels (ex-Delain) in video for brand-new single Ode To The West Wind
- "It'll be extra special!" Haken's Ross Jennings gets ready for Be Prog! My Friend. Read our full preview here...
- Devin Townsend references his time in The Wildhearts in atmospheric and anthemic new single Jainism
- “Roots Bloody Roots is like a baby’s lullaby”: Sepultura/Soulfly legend Max Cavalera picks the five songs that define his career
- Irish post-rockers A Burial At Sea collaborate with Peter Broderick on new single Boss Man Tony With His Big Heart
- Chris Braide shares video of cover of T-Rex's Cosmic Dancer
- Watch Linkin Park play new single The Emptiness Machine live on The Tonight Show
- "Our influences are really hard, dark rap tracks." How Sweden's Thrown became breakout stars of metalcore's most aggro subgenre: pissedcore
- Poppy teams with former Bring Me The Horizon and Fever 333 members for metallic new single They’re All Around Us
- "We’ve been trying to get Chuck D to do something with us again." Anthrax talk collabs, politics and using Dave Grohl's studio to record their new album
- “Bands that went from beauty to absolute hideousness attracted me – Van der Graaf and King Crimson managed to create fragile music that was then utterly destroyed”: The roots of Tim Bowness’ Powder Dry
- Bill Bruford comes out of retirement to join Pete Roth Trio
- "Plenty of evidence to suggest a future exists beyond the shadow of their family tree." Vended's self-titled debut finally goes some way to shaking off that Slipknot tag
- "What the world needs now, is rock, sweet rock": The Darkness invoke God as they launch new album Dreams On Toast
- “It works because of the unlikely mix of people involved – and he takes a similarly maverick approach to its songs”: Jordan Rudess’ Permission To Fly
- "Vivian is still battling cancer, we've still got a one-armed drummer. But these are obstacles that we just mock": Joe Elliott on why Def Leppard won't be retiring any time soon
- "John Lennon doesn't have to do this, why should I?": Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, and the creation of See Emily Play
- "Hustle, write, be authentic, collaborate": Blues-rocker, radio host and award winner Elles Bailey on how to succeed in the music industry
- "It felt as though there were three guitars behind me that night": The night Jimi Hendrix saved Engelbert Humperdinck
- "Steve Perry could hit high notes that other singers could only dream of": Every Journey album ranked, from worst to best
- September 17
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- “The most melodic, hook-filled and engaging record of their career.” Crows dazzle in the darkness on excellent third album Reason Enough
- Talking Heads’ debut album set for CD and vinyl reissue - check out acoustic version of Psycho Killer
- “You can get lost in the kitten vortex for hours.” A wide-ranging interview with The Jesus Lizard's David Yow, taking in new album Rack, a try out for Nirvana, acting, a sadistic witch, and a cat riding a goat
- “We put so much work and love into the Imposter Syndrome album and we’re so excited to finally bring that to the stage”: Viral shredder Sophie Lloyd announces debut US concert, shares cover of Alice Cooper’s Poison
- "I got high on mushrooms with Brent Hinds from Mastodon." How Zeal & Ardor went from grotty squat-punks to one of the most innovative bands in extreme metal
- “I acknowledged my masochistic side… my self-destructive nature peaked”: Louise Patricia Crane can’t escape her dark aspect, so she’s brought it into the light on her new album
- “It’s the metal tour of 2025, so don’t miss out!” Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine add North American dates to Poisoned Ascendancy world tour; August Burns Red, Sylosis and Bleed From Within supporting
- Amazon mark the return of Prime Big Deal Days with 4 months of Amazon Music Unlimited for free
- This piano cover of Lamb Of God’s Laid To Rest is the most elegantly metal thing you’ll hear today
- Polish proggers Amarok to play first ever UK show headlining next year's Prog For Peart
- Mogwai share video for brand new single, the six-minute keyboard-led God Gets You Back
- "Nightwish sound heavier and livelier than they’ve been for years." Yesterwynde proves Nightwish remain the undisputed heavyweight champs of symphonic metal
- Matt Berry shares brand new single, the colourful psych of I Gotta Limit
- “This is a punk move from us.” Benefits unveil new direction with new single Land Of The Tyrants, announce UK and European shows
- “Every time I hear it on the radio it’s like, ‘I’m glad they’re playing this instead of Crazy Train!’” Slayer’s Kerry King names his favourite Ozzy Osbourne song, and it’s one of his most obscure
- Pixies share UK and European tour dates for 2025, unveil new single Motoroller
- Arena, Wobbler, Antimatter and more all lined up for Winter's End 2025
- Rob Halford says another Judas Priest album is “inevitable”: “This band thrives on the metal that we make”
- “It’s hard to be angry young men at our age, but there are some pretty heavy duty lyrics here. Sometimes you’ve got to speak up”: When Marillion defied expectations (again) with Sounds That Can’t Be Made
- "It's very important to me that I make people feel something": Meet Bywater Call, your new favourite Canadian jazz-trained blues-rock band
- Fastball's Tony Scalzo used to work the graveyard shift at a bagel store: Now he's celebrating more than 30 years of "a certain degree of success"
- "I wanted to go back to being a cult band, which is what I had sought all along": After 35 years, Monster Magnet know exactly what they want
- Our tiny minds have just been blown by a man playing Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) on a whammy clavinet
- A new animated video for Thin Lizzy's classic Jailbreak has been launched
- “Pre-order now, and we’ll throw in, at no extra cost to you, anxiety, depression, band breakups, loss of self, suicidal thoughts and ideation, and, of course, everyone’s favourite: cancer!” Blink-182's Mark Hoppus announces tell-all memoir
- “We will be armed with a sonically fresh attack.” The Prodigy announce Disrupta tour dates
- September 16
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- "Unfortunately, my breaking point resulted in inexcusable behaviour": Perry Farrell apologises after violent onstage altercation
- "Never ever thought it would end like this and I'm heartbroken": REO Speedwagon to cease touring due to "irreconcilable differences"
- “Our hearts are broken.” Jane's Addiction cancel US tour and announce hiatus, with bandmates claiming that Perry Farrell's “mental health difficulties” have left them them “no alternative”, for their own safety
- “Get rid of the guitar player and get somebody else. Nobody cares.” Kiss' Gene Simmons urges Morrissey to reunite The Smiths without Johnny Marr, but there's a plot twist
- Watch thrash legends Testament perform live with 11-year-old on guitar
- “We played a cave underground. There was water on the floor and all our electrical stuff was in the water.” How Slift became heavy music’s least likely viral sensation
- Arena announce 30th anniversary tour dates for April and May 2025
- “People are gone. Craig’s out. Chris is out, Joey’s out, Paul’s out. The band is different.” Slipknot’s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan admits the band aren’t as “close” now as they were 25 years ago
- Experimental pop duo MEMORIALS remix Jane Weaver's Univers
- “There’s some screams on there. It’s cool that people appreciate it. It’s also a bit annoying.” Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt is slightly irritated by all this talk about his growls
- “The original idea was to sell my songs to a publisher, not that I should be a singer or a performer”: An unexpected interview with Kate Bush while she was writing Hounds Of Love
- Watch Gojira’s fiery Olympic Games performance get projected onto the Arc De Triomphe
- "Dynamic pricing not included": Supergrass announce tour to celebrate 30th anniversary of debut album I Should Coco
- "My God. This is horrific... I'm feeling violated": Real Brian May slams fake Brian May TikTok ticket scam
- "A lot of squawking that overshadows everything else": Sir Lord Baltimore conjure up the right sounds on Kingdom Come, but about those vocals...
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- "A testament to a lifetime of rock'n'roll greatness": Listen to Tom Morello play on fiery new MC5 single Heavy Lifting
- "Rapturously received souvenirs of an ever-evolving journey": Big Big Train hit the right notes on A Flare On The Lens
- September 15
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- "Even the most fervent of believers can run out of divine inspiration": Stryper's songwriting falls short on When We Were Kings
- "His liveliest album for decades": Nick Lowe hooks up with Mexican wrestler-faced surf rockers Los Straitjackets on Indoor Safari
- "The sun will rise and fall, and BB King will play the blues": The incredible life of BB King
- "That's the problem with me, you see. I'm a lunatic": The true story of Marc Bolan's final days
- Jane's Addiction cancel next show after bust-up and guitarist Dave Navarro posts cryptic "goodnight" message on social media
- “It has brightened my spirit to see how many have posted about Ric, praising his originality, flair, and brilliance”: Revisiting Billy Corgan’s tribute to late Cars leader Ric Ocasek
- “It was very bittersweet and not an easy decision for us to arrive at”: Michael Stipe looks back on the day that R.E.M. split up
- “It was early days for the band. We’d gone out on a limb… it was by no means certain that the response would be positive”: Genesis’ early fears for Foxtrot
- September 14
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- Perry Farrell's wife Etty gives her account of his onstage bust-up with Jane's Addiction bandmate Dave Navarro
- Kiss icon Gene Simmons gives new Linkin Park lineup his backing
- Chaotic Jane's Addiction show ends early as Perry Farrell takes a swing at a shocked Dave Navarro
- "Antics leaked 10 days after we finished it... you’d go to every city and someone would be talking about it": Interpol on the premature release of their brilliant second record as it turns 20
- “When we first playing Reading, we got everything thrown at us. The whole crowd hated us.” Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes on the hurdles the metal giants overcame to become one of Britain’s biggest bands
- Pearl Jam cover Ted Nugent's Stranglehold but give the lyrics an anti-gun update. Ted Nugent, as you might imagine, is not happy about it
- September 13
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- The Cure tease the release of Songs of a Lost World, their first album in 16 years, with a poster outside the English bar where they played their very first gig
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “I’d like to thank everyone who’s bought my new album and helped make it Number 1.” David Gilmour celebrates his third solo UK number one album with Luck And Strange
- “A brilliant bloke who left you feeling better about life every time you ran into him.” Tributes paid to Rachel Stamp/Sham 69/All About Eve drummer Robin Guy following his death
- Supergrass tease second reunion with announcement coming next week
- “Raw and confessional – but their musical approach soothes the barbs of the subject matter”: Pure Reason Revolution’s Coming Up To Consciousness
- “80 per cent of the people I meet are very boring people.” In 1975, Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore named his favourite guitarist, and shared his brutally honest thoughts on the '70s music scene
- "He's the king of death metal." Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt and Fredrik Akesson name the greatest death metal band of all time, and discuss their own journey through the genre
- "I'm the rock'n'roll rebel that everybody's mother likes to hate": Watch Ozzy Osbourne talk about capturing the hearts of America in this 1986 The Tube interview with Paula Yates
- Cool new prog you really must hear from Teramaze, Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- "I want to take my fans into a world like they’ve never experienced before." Hans Zimmer announces UK 2025 arena tour
- "I love being a poser!" Five minutes with Fernanda Lira of fast-rising Brazilian death metallers Crypta
- Big Big Train share new clip of The Connection Plan
- "We were nobodies, anonymous and faceless, but it felt like maybe we had a shot." The new issue of Metal Hammer is a bumper celebration of Slipknot’s debut album – and comes with an exclusive patch and charm
- Korn kicked off their 2024 North American tour with some rare cuts - including one classic song not played in 25 years
- Richard Wright features in David Gilmour's new video for the title track of Luck And Strange
- “No pale rehash of former glories, but a genuine triumph in a state-of-the-art setting”: Jon Anderson And The Band Geeks’ True
- Bret Michaels plots 40th anniversary Poison reunion in 2026
- Eric Clapton slams the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a "frat boys club"
- September 12
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- All hell breaks loose! Inside Thin Lizzy's first hit album and the campaign to break America - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- “America is so divided. Trump is clearly unhinged.” Punk priestess Patti Smith still fears for all our futures
- Rolling Stones and Speaqua launch portable speaker that doubles as a bottle opener
- Listen to Within Temptation's Sharon den Adel team up with Ukrainian metallers Blind8 on new single Labyrinth
- "Will we bring the tour overseas? We’re exploring options..." Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe and Mastodon's Brann Dailor talk their new collab single, their history together and what the future may hold
- Aphrodite's Child's classic third album 666 to be released as five-disc box set
- 60 years of US Beatlemania celebrated in 1964 mono box set
- “Delivering a cerebral, skilful and inventive blend of prog and metal, they’ve remained proudly on the periphery of fashion”: The best Dream Theater songs featuring Mike Portnoy (to date)
- "We've vastly improved since our 80s heyday!” Tears For Fears announce very first live album
- Frost* share behind-the-scenes footage in video for their new single Moral & Consequence
- “I met Brian May and said, You're the reason I used to spend months and months on end in my garage trying to build a f***ing guitar.” How Queen inspired Radiohead's Thom Yorke to follow his dreams
- Saga singer Michael Sadler reveals cancer diagnosis
- Listen to Lamb Of God and Mastodon's explosive new team-up single, Floods Of Triton
- Watch footage and check out the monstrous 26-song setlist from Linkin Park's second comeback show at the Kia Forum in California last night
- "Dissonant, angular and blearily psychedelic, it absolutely reeks of madness." Black metal icon Gaahl has made one of this year's weirdest extreme metal albums with Trelldom's ...By The Shadows
- “The four-note phrase is arguably the most recognisable motif of the entire Pink Floyd catalogue”: Seven powerful moments that help make Wish You Were Here so unique
- "Rack is an incendiary device of an album": The Jesus Lizard shine as brightly as ever on the irresistible, fascinating Rack
- "It's my swan song life story": 50 years ago Terry Slesser was Paul Kossoff's singer in Back Street Crawler - now he's finally releasing a solo album
- "This renaissance of heavy metal is worldwide": From Gojira at the Olympics to crazed teenage fans, Rob Halford is incredibly excited about the state of heavy metal
- "Phil Mogg sings so unusually so it's difficult to copy, but Axl did a fantastic job": Michael Schenker's track-by-track guide to his new album My Years With UFO
- Megadeth drummer hits out at fashion brand for "stealing" heavy metal imagery
- Mike Portnoy doesn't regret leaving Dream Theater despite massive success of his recent return to the band
- September 11
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- Jon Bon Jovi credited with saving life of woman on bridge in Nashville
- “When I’m onstage my job is to be God. And I’m pretty good at it.” An epic, exclusive, revealing and sporadically very amusing interview with The Sisters of Mercy's iconic frontman Andrew Eldritch
- “It's not going to happen. There's only three people left and we're not talking.” David Gilmour says that anyone holding out hope for a Pink Floyd reunion should “dream on”
- Crippled Black Phoenix return with epic new single Goodnight, Europe (Pt 2)
- “They arrested a girl who had a blank piece of paper. She was making the point that even doing that would send someone to jail”: Iamthemorning’s Marjana Semkina hated mixing politics with art – until her native Russia’s war on Ukraine
- "The debut album we always dreamed of bringing to you": Queen announce Collector's Edition "rebuild" of first album
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- David Gilmour announces two special rehearsal performances in Brighton
- Nene Valley Rock Festival confirms 2025 event
- Post-rocker A.A. Williams shares powerful new single Splinter
- “I told Noel Gallagher that Oasis sounded like Guns N’ Roses. We gave them some crazy speed and they were up for the next three days.” You can blame The Brian Jonestown Massacre for Oasis nearly splitting up in 1994
- "Top-shelf Pete Steele, sans any Playgirl spreads." Unto Others have crafted the goth rock album of the year with Never, Neverland
- Iron Maiden celebrate The Future Past with new vinyl releases of Powerslave and Somewhere In Time
- “I never mind faking it. I had a filthy cold on the night, so vocals were grabbed from other shows. It’s only artifice when you pretend it’s something it isn’t”: Peter Gabriel explains his passion for the video medium
- With sales of more than 40 million, these are the Toto albums you should definitely listen to
- UK consumer rights group advises Oasis to "do the right thing" and refund fans after dynamic pricing ticket uproar
- "I'll be honest with you - the devil was my best friend at one time": Southern rockers Van Zant are on the road to redemption with Jesus Christ
- Toto announce the Dogz Of Oz UK and European tour with Christopher Cross
- Refused announce 2025 North American farewell tour as singer Dennis Lyxzén recovers from heart attack
- Mark Tremonti says Creed are here to stay
- September 10
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- “I’ve recently become the father of a new baby daughter, born outside of my marriage.” Dave Grohl reveals that he has become a father for the fourth time, promises to try to regain his family's trust and “earn their forgiveness”
- “Spinal Tap is demanding that the Trump campaign refrain from playing Sex Farm at their rallies.” Legendary English rockers Spinal Tap forbid Donald Trump from turning his presidential campaign up to 11
- Watch 'The Battle of Britpop' play out on a football pitch, as Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher squares up to Blur's Damon Albarn in this resurrected archive footage
- “Heavy music with a message and aesthetic that transcend the genre.” Idles, Quicksand, Cult Of Luna, Touche Amore and more to honour departing hardcore legends Refused with The Shape Of Punk To Come Obliterated tribute album
- "One of the most intense tracks we've ever released." Watch the video for Jinjer's pulverising new single Rogue
- “My goal has always been to make explosive music.” Rocket From The Crypt, Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu legend John Reis announces UK and Ireland shows with new band Swami & the Bed of Nails
- "The ultimate musical island-hopping adventure!" Listen to new Nightwish single An Ocean Of Strange Islands now
- “This machine sues fascists.” Jack White makes good on his promise to sue Donald Trump for “flagrant misappropriation” of The White Stripes' Seven Nation Army
- “I realised on the very first tour that this was no kind of life… Should I be excited about leaving my family? No”: Neil Peart’s love, pain and thoughts on playing live before Rush bowed out
- Jazz Sabbath to release third album The 1968 Tapes
- Previously unreleased Klaus Schulze album to be released
- Steve Rothery, Ray Wilson and John Hackett to guest with Steve Hackett at the Royal Albert Hall
- “There’s a few stations that’ll play my music; very few, and usually after midnight”: Frank Zappa’s final print interview, and the 12 words he signed off with
- The releases you should definitely listen to on Neat Records, the kings of NWOBHM
- "Smile at your scared opponent and help them. If he's swinging wildly, chill him out": The Gospel according to Duff McKagan
- "My little girl can't wait to tell her friends at school": Justin Hawkins responds to viral footage of Taylor Swift singing I Believe In A Thing Called Love at the US Open
- "The best is yet to come!" Heart announce rescheduled Royal Flush Tour dates for 2025
- Wish you were here? David Gilmour stuns tiny Brighton pub with live rendition of Pink Floyd classic
- September 9
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- "It was important for us to press the reset button": Joe Perry on touring with Kiss and the making of Aerosmith's Honkin' On Bobo
- “He says, ‘Here you are, my good man’ and he hands me this glass of champagne.” How a wayward flying bass led to Nirvana meeting Queen legend Brian May for the very first time
- “In the indie world, you’re not meant to be successful.” Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody on dealing with superstardom after being written off as “damaged goods” by the music industry
- Watch Pulp premiere new song Spike Island on the opening night of their American tour
- "A lot of songs for the next record are already in demo phases." Kerry King already has his sights set on a second solo album
- "Chester was one of a kind. Emily is also one of a kind." Mike Shinoda dismisses criticism of Linkin Park's decision to continue
- “An exceptional, cathartic album that showcases Delilah Bon as a welcome disruptor on the UK alternative scene.” Evil, Hate Filled Female gives new meaning to the phrase ‘Slay, queen!’
- New Oceans Of Slumber album Where Gods Fear To Speak is a vengeful prog metal monster that needs to be heard
- Zetra's debut album sounds like a black metal band swapped screams and blastbeats for croons and synthesisers, then rehearsed on the set of a 70s Doctor Who episode. And it's not bad!
- Imagine Dragons announce UK and European stadium shows as part of their 2025 Loom tour
- Rick Wakeman leads tributes for Sky and War Of The Worlds bassist Herbie Flowers
- “A comedy with teeth.”1995's Blur vs Oasis 'Battle of Britpop' to be dramatised in a new play staged in London next year
- “Music is sacred.” Jack White announces three intimate 'pop up' shows in the UK this coming weekend
- Reissued compilation shines light on Decca's heavier psychedelic era
- "It's nobody's ***ing business, and he's our brother." Slipknot's Clown on why the band rarely discuss their much-missed former bandmate, Joey Jordison
- "Along the lines of Bridge Across Forever or Spock's Beard’s V." Neal Morse announces new prog outfit Neal Morse & The Resonance
- "The greatest rock'n'roll band ever to come from Finland": The Hanoi Rocks albums you should definitely listen to
- “It was sounding great, then halfway through the loop stops… We turned into a sort of working men’s club band!”: Marillion’s late-career hit single didn’t stop people asking Steve Hogarth about Fish
- Herbie Flowers, bassist for Lou Reed, David Bowie and many more, dead at 86
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- "I've not done Taylor Swift's numbers, but I don't give a sh*t because I'm proud of the songs I did": As Fish prepares to leave the business behind, he reflects on Marillion, going solo and life after music
- "What's the difference between a Lada and a sheep?": Brian Johnson on the worst and best cars he's ever owned
- September 8
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- "They're called The Experience, man. You've gotta see them": In December 1966 Jimi Hendrix released Hey Joe: Five days later he played a casino in a hotel basement
- Actors, artists, transvestites, junkies and wannabes: How Lou Reed made the defining album of his career
- Rob Halford has no plans to retire while Judas Priest "can still deliver the goods"
- “I didn’t want James Hetfield to smell the alcohol on me”: Robert Trujillo stayed up drinking until 5am before his Metallica audition
- “The crowd was booing us and spitting on us, the entire set”: Trivium’s Matt Heafy remembers being bullied by his heavy metal idols
- “Over the years I’ve realized I thrive most when I’m actively working with my bandmates behind the scenes”: Linkin Park’s Brad Delson steps back from live lineup
- Metallica’s James Hetfield, actor in new western film, doesn’t seem to like acting: “Next time I’m asked to do something like this, remind me to say no”
- “Our producer played the intro to Nevermore and I was just blown away”: How U.K. became Witherfall guitarist Jake Dreyer’s prog heroes
- “It’s never a closed chapter. I helped start the band.” David Ellefson doesn’t rule out Megadeth return
- "I was like, ‘What do I do?'. I chose the band": English Teacher's Lily Fontaine on how she turned her back on the world's best job to become a Mercury Prize-winner
- The 10 best cover versions by Smashing Pumpkins
- “For all its flights of fancy it’s not ironic; it finds him rooting for hard-grafting, often veteran grapplers”: The prog credentials of Luke Haines’ 9 1/2 Psychedelic Meditations On British Wrestling
- Will Oasis release a new album as part of their comeback? According to Liam, it's "already finished"
- September 7
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- Linkin Park tickets for LA and New York shows sell out fast as vocalist Emily Armstrong addresses criticism over previous support of actor later convicted of rape
- “I’m not very good at ignoring people who slag us off”: the story of Radiohead’s My Iron Lung, the song that changed everything for Thom Yorke & co.
- “The great albums were not made under a microscope. They were made by living, breathing people who were excited by what they were doing”: How Kiss fought back against the music industry with Sonic Boom
- The 10 best Britpop B-sides, featuring Oasis, Supergrass, Ash, Elastica, Blur and more
- September 6
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- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds announce plans for 18-date North American tour
- “I composed this score for the legions of infamous characters in these haunted houses to elicit a sense of emotional terror.” Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash to release limited edition Music Of Universal Studios Hollywood - Halloween Horror Nights album
- “I knew what each word meant, and it described exactly from moment to moment what that day was about.” The true inspiration behind David Bowie's 'Heroes' has been revealed
- Listen to Unfinished, the last song Eddie and Alex Van Halen ever recorded together
- “One of the most singular, unique and influential catalogues in music history.” Every Talk Talk album ranked from worst to best
- Hardcore punk band American Nightmare are suing Cody Rhodes, the WWE Undisputed Champion
- “I told you all we were gonna get back together 1 fine day.” Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher swaggers back on to social media, tells fans they can buy “Kneeling only” tickets for next year's reunion tour for “100 thousand pounds”
- “I feel lucky to be a part of this band. It’s been life changing for me.” Rage Against The Machine bassist Tim Commerford announces first ever UK and European shows with his band 7D7D
- The 14 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Rolo Tomassi release live version of To Resist Forgetting from upcoming album Live At The Electric Ballroom
- Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell drops new atmospheric solo single, Afterglow
- Spiritbox return with ultra-heavy new single Soft Spine
- Order your limited edition Pure Reason Revolution x Prog bundle – featuring a signed lyric sheet and art print!
- Order your limited edition Leprous x Prog bundle – featuring an exclusive t-shirt!
- Awesome new prog you really must hear from God Is An Astronaut, Tomo Katsurada and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- Why isn’t drummer Rob Bourdon part of the new Linkin Park? The band explain
- "Reminiscent of a deeper, darker version of UFO": Phil Mogg ponders his own mortality on the brilliant Moggs Motel
- Ebony Buckle announces new single Think I Just Saved My Own Life
- Hear Opeth go full prog on new single §3
- "You had guys who would jump into the crowd and then walk across people’s heads." Inside the year that turned thrash metal into a global phenomenon
- Lazuli announce England, Wales and Ireland tour dates for March 2025
- Jon Anderson graces the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!
- "I hear this screaming from behind me: Simon! Simon! Start the bloody song!" How Deep Purple entered their Mk IX era, inspired by the tedious complications of modern life
- “One can spot a steely glint in his eye – despite the subject matter, he’s hardly feeling sorry for himself here”: David Gilmour’s Luck And Strange
- The UK Government is to investigate Ticketmaster over Oasis ticket sales
- "Billie looked scared, then ran off and they all zoomed off on golf carts": Green Day rushed offstage in Detroit after drone flies into stadium: Suspect arrested
- "All the blood rushed into my fist and I decked him. He fell to the ground like a tipped cow": What happened the night Vince Neil punched Izzy Stradlin
- "Southern rock, blues rock, what does it matter what you tag it when the tracks are this good?": The Cold Stares prepare for a big future on The Southern
- "A case of what might have been": The Dead Daisies revert to meat-and-potatoes type on Light Em Up
- "A tightly convoluted blend of NY postpunk, art-rock and fusion": 80s' King Crimson shine brightly on Sheltering Skies
- "Imbued with tropical, fado or flamenco vibes, as if recorded in a hammock on a private beach somewhere": Luck And Strange finds David Gilmour in relaxed, reflective form
- September 5
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- “We didn’t really plan this far!” English Teacher win the 2024 Mercury Prize for debut album This Could Be Texas
- "It's good to see you again." Linkin Park introduce new vocalist Emily Armstrong at livestream concert, announce new album From Zero, new single The Emptiness Machine, world tour dates
- “Head and Fieldy are born-again Christians. I don’t choose sides. I’ve got Christian friends and Satanist friends”: How a reunited and rebooted Korn put religious differences aside to make The Paradigm Shift
- Lenco spin a hat-trick of new turntables to suit every budget
- Delain return with new single Dance With The Devil, announce EP for November
- Marillion announce new deluxe edition of This Strange Engine
- Coma Rossi announce English tour dates for October
- Does vinyl really sound better than other formats?
- John Lydon announces massive I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right 2025 spoken word tour across the UK and Ireland
- “A flood is coming… and most of you will die”: Mastodon tease split release with Lamb Of God
- Earthside share striking new video for We Who Lament
- “There was so much unreleased cool stuff still to reveal.” Weezer announce 30th anniversary ‘Blue Album’ reissue featuring 36 previously unreleased recordings and a “12 sided die for all your Dungeon Mastering needs”
- “Do you want to see a fight or do you want to see a show?!” Watch Slipknot brawl with Mushroomhead fans during 1999 gig in resurfaced video
- “Robert Fripp was triggering sounds and I just responded… I told him I was feeling more comfortable, and he said: ‘You mean like you’re no longer being auditioned?’”: The series of incidents that led to Jakszyk, Fripp & Collins’ A Scarcity Of Miracles
- "I imagined cutting my hair to have a green reverse mohawk like Keith Flint." Leprous vocalist Einar Solberg picks the 10 records that changed his life
- "I'm an R&B singer in the body of a metal guy": Why Armored Saint recorded a cover of a Four Tops classic
- "I broke his nose. He chipped one of my teeth. We went and played the next day in Georgia and it was great": How Poison's career imploded
- What happened when we went record shopping with Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown
- "We're taking a step back from the soap opera": The ongoing saga with The Quireboys ends as the Black Eyed Sons emerge from the wreckage
- To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Gene Simmons' pronouncement that rock is dead, here are the Top 10 other examples of Gene Simmons repeating his theory
- September 4
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- “It’s dangerous when you’re a kid shooting up drugs. Me and two other guys made it out alive. The others are dead or in prison”: How Mastodon transcended tragedy and trauma to make Crack The Skye
- “The execution of the plan failed to meet expectations.” Oasis add two more Wembley Stadium shows to reunion tour following fans outrage at unexpected 'dynamic pricing' hikes for tickets
- 10 great Britpop-era indie bands who could reform to ease the pain of fans who missed out on Oasis tickets
- Watch comedians Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan annoy the hell out of an extreme metal band in new clip from TV show Rob And Romesh Vs
- “It was an intimidating show.” King Crimson bassist Tony Levin recalls the only gig ever played by Mothers Of Invention spin-off band Aha, The Attack Of The Green Slimebeast, with a dance troupe, a body-painted Danny DeVito and an audience of two people
- Order your limited edition Mimi Barks x Metal Hammer bundle – featuring an exclusive t-shirt, a signed art print and two temporary tattoos
- “Gary Wright split from Spooky Tooth, declaring the album ‘an utter failure’… but he was wrong”: Ceremony did more for prog than anybody realised at the time (except the French)
- David Gilmour says it would be a "dream" to sell Pink Floyd's catalogue, not because of the financial gain, but to get out of the "arguments"
- “We’ve been working on new stuff for months. And we need to go home.” Mastodon drummer hints new music to come “really, really soon”
- A Day To Remember, Alkaline Trio, New Found Glory, Less Than Jake, Neck Deep among first bands announced for Slam Dunk 2025
- Marko Hietala shares video for the darkly gothic new single Frankenstein's Wife
- Stuckfish share video for Sarah Bernhardt-inspired Shadows and Moonbeams
- “Bass solo, take one”: Watch Metallica’s new (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth music video, featuring never-before-seen photos of Cliff Burton
- Gojira share small update on next album, reveal it will "take a clear step forward and upward" from Fortitude
- “It’s over. I don’t want to string anyone along.” Black Midi frontman Geordie Greep confirms band break-up, says “nothing’s meant to go on forever.”
- "It certainly rocks!" Nick Fletcher announces new album A Longing For Home
- Queen's Brian May reveals he was recently rushed to hospital after suffering minor stroke: "The good news is that I can play guitar"
- Did Kelly Osbourne just unmask Slipknot’s mystery keyboardist?
- “I’m too stupid for this”: Spiritbox tease new music with weird online puzzle thing
- “I went to Rio for a show. I told my wife I’d just been for a helicopter ride and I was now sitting on gorgeous white sand… She hung up on me!” The need to deceive loved ones inspired Caravan’s Paradise Filter
- Back in the 80s, someone thought it would be a good idea to launch a sports-themed AOR version of the Village People: The result was the All Sports Band
- "There's a reason why it's sold more than all the other AC/DC albums combined": Why I love Back In Black, by Def Leppard's Joe Elliott
- Want to torment someone you hate in the afterlife? Death metal pioneers Deicide have launched their own ouija board
- September 3
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- The Emerson, Lake & Palmer albums you should definitely listen to
- “This presidency isn’t a surprise to me. You could see it coming a mile away. But the scope of the corruption is unparalleled”: How Ministry’s Al Jourgensen tried and failed to bow out with the George W Bush-baiting The Last Sucker
- “I love Radiohead more than I could possibly love anything other than my kids.” Why In Rainbows is Charlotte Church's favourite Radiohead album
- “I was sitting in a bar and a friend came in and said, Bono from U2 just phoned my mother trying to find you.” How Depeche Mode/Nine Inch Nails producer Flood got to work with U2, and why working with Brian Eno made him “reappraise everything”
- Listen to the atmospheric title track of Klone's upcoming album The Unseen
- “Devin Townsend was sick but he jumped right in. He treated the music like it was his own, which meant the world to me”: It’s all going well for Anthony Vanacore since he left America for China, formed OU, hooked a star producer and never looked back
- Listen to Eddie Vedder team up with members of AC/DC and Red Hot Chili Peppers for new version of Tom Petty's Room At The Top, one of 21 Petty covers on the soundtrack to Bad Monkey
- “If the Church won’t condemn this atrocity, it won’t only be bulls slowly haemorrhaging.” Morrissey has written to the Pope urging him to end the Catholic Church's blessing of bullfights
- Why your choice of stylus and turntable cartridge matters
- “I sing in pictures – as I sing I see myself standing on the deck of a bloody great boat in Rime Of The Ancient Mariner”: How Powerslave pointed the way to Iron Maiden’s epic future
- “We almost ended up performing with Geddy Lee… it’s better that it didn’t happen!” Anthrax’s Scott Ian explains his lifelong passion for Rush
- Iron Maiden are currently touring Australia and Steve Harris has made the TV news for his off-stage activities
- "No minor chords here, just major chords hitting you in the balls! I was just mesmerised!": What AC/DC mean to me, by Kiss's Gene Simmons
- "Oozing with a tangible undercurrent of dark, forbidden sex": The Stooges' songs that provided a perfect blueprint for rock's future
- "He proceeded to take his trousers off between songs. The police got very twitchy": The chaotic night Led Zeppelin jammed with Ten Years After and the Jeff Beck Group
- Filipino children performing Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love with uncanny precision? Step right this way
- September 2
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- “I’m going to get into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame one way or another and Lars Ulrich can’t keep me out!” How Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine used old rivalries as fuel for the Endgame album
- “He took out this big knife, put it on the table with a loud thud, looked at us and said, There's a lot of crazy people out there.” Eddie Vedder on the night Pearl Jam supported Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards
- “He’s better with me solo. He was more open to being adventurous.” Kim Deal on working again with former Pixies / The Breeders engineer Steve Albini, and why his death hit so hard
- “It’s a complicated story.” Elvis Costello on why he no longer plays one of his best-known and most-loved songs, Oliver’s Army
- "I was in spandex pants, reading Karl Marx." From birth in Harlem to graduation from Harvard to stripping, Rage Against The Machine and fighting the KKK: this is the incredible life story of Tom Morello
- “Nobody can stop me.” The Brian Jonestown Massacre share UK and Europe tour plans
- Lee Abraham announces new solo album Origin Of The Storm
- Listen to previously unreleased Clannad song A Royal Procession here
- "Side Quest Summer continues!": Watch former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg join King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on stage for thrash banger Perihelion
- New 10-disc John Wetton live box set on the way
- ''Listen to as many people as possible, and don't try and stylise yourself on one person": Iron Maiden's Steve Harris gives advice to young musicians and songwriters
- Jakko Jakszyk announces intimate An Evening With show for October 11
- Green Lung announce European leg of Heathen Neverland tour, share additional UK and Ireland dates
- Newly restored film footage of the shoot for Heart's iconic Little Queen cover has appeared online and it's wonderful
- "If the world was a fair place, everyone's Greta Van Fleet records would spontaneously turn into Great Western Valkyrie": Rival Sons' fourth album finds them on top of their game
- “We were held together by Sellotape and sealing wax… We knew our days were numbered”: Tired, broke and losing members, Van der Graaf Generator went down fighting with The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- September 1
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- An expanded, deluxe edition of Tom Petty's Long After Dark is on the way
- "We were able to capture the spirit of Detroit": Suzi Quatro and Alice Cooper have recorded a version of the MC5's Kick Out The Jams
- “We had collapsed financially – I couldn’t pay the wages. I was on the verge of bankruptcy”: The chaotic story of Ian Gillan’s erratically brilliant solo career
- Fancy seeing Oasis from the 'nosebleed' seats at London's Wembley Stadium next summer? For a mere £23,603 a ticket can be yours
- From Oppenheimer to The Mandalorian, Childish Gambino to Vampire Weekend and more: 10 of the best by Oscar-winning producer and composer Ludwig Göransson
- “One of the toughest lessons I’ve learned is how to show backbone but not show your fist”: You Me At Six’s Josh Franceschi on the wisdom he’d pass on to the next wave of rock bands
- “There was some smoking and drinking but it wasn’t a lot of drugs. We weren’t coked out of our minds or shooting heroin”: The epic story of Kyuss, the stoner metal visionaries who blazed brightly and burnt out
- “You could be a Luddite and ignore these new instruments, or you could say, ‘Let’s give it a spin.’ And I chose the latter”: How Jethro Tull embraced synths, drum machines and the 1980s – and split their fans
- “I felt they were having second thoughts… I got quite angry – ‘Just stop the bus, I’ll get off, no problem’”: Ray Wilson knows what went wrong during his time in Genesis
- Morrissey keen on "lucrative" offer for The Smiths to reunite – Johnny Marr...not so much
- Noel Gallagher's daughter Anais hits back at "ageism" and "misogyny" from older Oasis fans upset that they can't get tickets for upcoming reunion tour
