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- January 8
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- "To connect with a little band called Body Count says a lot about David Gilmour": Ice-T on Law & Order, not blowing up the planet, and breathing new life into a Pink Floyd classic
- "We get the electric guitars going and we hit it hard": Brothers Osborne's TJ Osborne on playing out, coming out, and the fine line between country and rock'n'roll
- "The weirdness level is completely off the charts": Justin Hawkins explains unsettling video for The Darkness's I Hate Myself
- January 7
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- "In the current world there is little that could be more challenging and complex than achieving peace and love": Slovenian industrial music titans Laibach release uplifting cover of Foreigner's I Wanna Know What Love Is
- "Tupac stopped me from committing a murder." Public Enemy's Flavor Flav on the night Tupac Shakur talked him out of crushing a thief's skull with a fire extinguisher
- Matt Berry shares psychedelic new single Wedding Photo Stranger
- “He heard this outrageously bad dance version. He was enraged; we love that song. The producer said, ‘You should cover it’”: Oceans Of Slumber’s return to prog metal
- Riverside share powerful live video of Friend Or Foe?
- “A great motivation at a time when I didn’t really know what to do next”: Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick remembers playing sole gig with Ozzy Osbourne
- Mogwai's new single Fanzine Made of Flesh sounds like "ABBA meets Kraftwerk" according to guitarist Stuart Braithwaite
- Guns N' Roses, Sex Pistols, Lorna Shore – plus one more day – added to Rock For People 2025
- Ramones would have been gifted Bruce Springsteen's first hit single if Springsteen's manager hadn't intervened
- “Bet you didn’t know!” Glenn Close once drummed for System Of A Down, Daron Malakian ‘confirms’
- “This record is about unapologetically accepting that you are the sum of all of your parts”: Halestorm discuss their next album, inspired by Motörhead, country and Skid Row
- “We’d been paying Rick Wakeman £25 a week and Yes offered him £100… We had his son Oliver with us for a while, and he left for Yes too!” Dave Cousins and the life and times of Strawbs
- "We are genuinely sorry for this oversight": Angus and Malcolm Young's childhood home demolished despite being on National Trust Register of Historic Houses
- "Neil would do a full hour of unrelenting drumming before he went on stage to play for another three": A personal tribute to Neil Peart
- David Gilmour solo albums: the essential guide
- January 6
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- Lambrini Girls unpick all of modern Britain’s shortcomings and emerge as punk's most vital new disruptors on the furious Who Let The Dogs Out
- "Anybody who thinks they can do exactly the same thing they did 50 years ago is mad": Ian Paice on how drummers keep playing as they get older
- The 10 best punk, metal and classic rock songs soundtracking season two of SAS Rogue Heroes, the loudest, most explosive show on TV
- Marilyn Manson: Unmasked, a three-part documentary telling "the shocking story of one of rock music’s most polarising figures" to air on Britain's Channel 4 this month
- "If this album had been released 25 years ago, it would have been a revelation." New Tremonti record The End Will Show Us How is just about what you'd expect, but it's pretty damn good all the same
- Pattern-Seeking Animals share video for new single In My Dying Days
- The Halo Effect have crafted the first great melodic death metal album of 2025 with March Of The Unheard
- “The arc of his life was the story of our times.” Bruce Springsteen, Fiona Apple and Steve Earle to appear on concept album about the life of Hollywood legend and counter-culture icon Dennis Hopper
- "We always thought we'd get the call to say, Can you turn it down just a little bit?" Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross add to their trophy cabinet with Golden Globe win for Challengers
- "James and I have talked about it...kind of." Could James Hetfield and Jerry Cantrell make an album together one day?
- "An Amplifier classic in the making!" Amplifier share first music from upcoming album Gargantuan. Watch their video for new single Invader here...
- "I was a dangerous addict." Demi Lovato and Alice Cooper guitar hero Nita Strauss on the struggles of staying sober while touring
- "It's unlikely that I'll ever listen to any other Asia albums but only time will tell": Asia upset the prog purists and delight their bank managers on freakishly successful debut album
- “How dense was I, singing those songs and not realising those things were happening to me?” Linda Thompson on struggling to sing, struggling to perform live and why her kids aren’t her greatest achievement
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- "It looks like Kim Deal with Bruce Springsteen's guitar": The long-awaited Rory Gallagher statue has been unveiled in Belfast and fans are not happy
- "I should have put it out back then": Neil Young is to release yet another 'lost' album from the 1970s
- January 5
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- The motorbike Neil Peart famously rode between shows on Rush's R30 tour is being auctioned
- "Frontmen don't do humble, but today I was": Bono receives Presidential Medal of Freedom from Joe Biden
- "I really felt like I let our British and European fans down": Geddy Lee gives fans "a straight answer" about the end of Rush
- “It feels like our last punk single, this mad little blip on the radar”: the story behind the Manics’ 2000 hit The Masses Against The Classes
- “We had to rush on to cover up this cacophony of brass players who couldn’t see what they were doing, having a go and failing miserably”: When Balaam And The Angel tried to emulate ELP, it didn’t go well
- "The original fans are all our age, and they're all sort of expiring." Judas Priest's Ian Hill on the importance of appealing to a younger audience
- Eric Avery working on new music with Jane's Addiction bandmates – but there's no mention of singer Perry Farrell
- January 4
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- “He was a great guitar player. He’s not looking at what he’s playing, he really knows the instrument”: Joe Satriani says Kurt Cobain was an underrated guitar hero
- “We were the biggest of our generation of metal bands. We’d done it through hard graft and killer songs. None of that trendy image rubbish”: How Saxon’s Wheels Of Steel turned them into the NWOBHM’s first stars
- ‘John Belushi always used to try to get off with my ex-wife. I’d say: ‘John, I can hear you, you fat git’”: Ronnie Wood’s wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Bob Dylan and Axl Rose
- “F*ck rock stars, tonight we’ve got musicians!”: saluting Self-Pollution Radio, Pearl Jam’s chaotic and star-studded foray into broadcasting
- 10 underrated indie-rock records released in 2000 that deserve your attention
- “I had no illusions about losing popularity – in fact, I almost did it intentionally. A guy from the label said, ‘Are you crazy?’ I said, ‘Yes, but I assume the consequences’”: John McLaughlin’s career outside the lines
- January 3
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- Watch rare, newly unearthed, footage of an unmasked Slipknot soundchecking for a hometown club show in 2000, plus footage of that wild Des Moines gig
- A Limp Bizkit-inspired IPA called “Fred Thirst” exists now
- "He’s basically a juvenile delinquent who’s out of control." Bass legend Tony Levin reveals which studio session was the most significant of his storied career
- Reactivated Nevermore holding open auditions for new singer and bassist
- "We got **** in the press, we got bullied...but we’ve had the same trajectory." Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium are together on the cover of Metal Hammer for the first time ever
- "He does things his own way and that’s why we love him." Neil Young to headline Glastonbury, following U-turn on his recent decision to pull out of the festival
- “I wanted to explore melody even more than we have in the past”: Employed To Serve’s next album inspired by In Flames
- The Cure’s new album could be out this summer, and Robert Smith has just detailed two songs set to appear on it
- “As pictorial histories go, it’s as smart and surprising as Cardiacs themselves”: A Big Book And A Band And A Whole World Window by Aaron Tanner
- “The lowest on my list of things we’ve ever done”: M. Shadows names the Avenged Sevenfold song he considers a “throwaway”
- A Multitude Of One announce epic new concept album A Templar’s Tale
- “Welcome textures and colours… but the overall mix lacks depth and coherence”: White Willow’s remaster of fourth album Storm Season
- Celebrating 50 Years Of Rush: an exclusive new interview with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- How Jimmie Rodgers changed the face of popular music – and built a song franchise in the process
- January 2
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- "It's adrenaline-filled and balls-to-the-wall": Tony Iommi and Glenn Hughes have recorded a song with Robbie Williams
- “We’re gonna be doing stuff we’ve never, ever done before”: Bruce Dickinson promises Iron Maiden’s 2025 tour will have a “setlist for the ages”
- “Another day and I’d be playing drums with Lemmy in Heaven”: Scorpions and former Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee was hospitalised with sepsis last month
- "I like those guys in concept." Watch legendary former Police drummer Stewart Copeland create a magical new foundation for a classic nu metal anthem
- Former Iron Maiden man Tony Moore announces UK tour dates
- Watch Rush, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl, Heart, Tom Morello, John Fogerty, Chuck D and more jamming on Robert Johnson's blues classic Crossroads in 2013
- “People would say, ‘He took a trip and now he’s weird.’ He wasn’t weird at all”: Mick Rock’s “surprisingly simple” friendship with Syd Barrett, and other psychedelic adventures
- Simon Godfrey announces new Fine Modern Gentleman record label
- Ex-Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg is making a solo album
- “The world my kid is going into is insane. I can’t write positive lyrics”: How In Flames defied the haters and the apocalypse to make A Sense Of Purpose
- Ghost Of The Machine share first music from upcoming album Empires Must Fall
- “It shouldn’t work but it comes out brilliant… You can spend hours studying what they did and still not fully get it”: Nik Kershaw’s passion for Gentle Giant
- 25 things we’re looking forward to in 2025
- “She was like, ‘This will not be tolerated. I spent years building a profile and you’re not going to throw my hard work away’.” The Libertines' Pete Doherty reveals how intrusive media attention soured his relationship with supermodel Kate Moss
- January 1
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- The decade the blues mutated: A beginners' guide to 80s blues in 10 essential albums
- Watch Billy Corgan sing Take Me Out To The Ballgame for 40,000 fans in an icy stadium in Chicago
- "Glastonbury is now under corporate control": Neil Young pulls out of UK's biggest festival, citing BBC interference
- “The combination of music and sex was something I had never encountered in any other group”: How the Rolling Stones married sex, blues and rock’n’roll and launched themselves to notoriety
- Watch Alanis Morissette celebrate the new year, and the 30th anniversary of her hugely successful Jagged Little Pill album, on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve show
- “I thought, I gotta have some real track marks before I quit heroin.” The Lemonheads' frontman Evan Dando knows that he's lucky to be alive
- "My anger is a gift. But it's consuming me." Inside the rebirth of Jason Aalon Butler's genre-splicing punk machine, Fever 333
- Mystic Festival is boasting one of 2025's best lineups and one of the most unique and great value metal festival experiences in the world
- “Some thought it inspired; others heard an epic train wreck… His palette broadened, the songs lengthened, the lyrics became more personal”: The prog credentials of Sufjan Stevens’ The Age Of Adz
- “Who is gonna sing that to who? Cos you sure ain’t singing it to me and I sure ain’t singing it to you”: the reason that Prince turned down Michael Jackson’s request to do a duet on an 80s classic
- "It’s actually Sid Wilson’s favourite Slipknot song." Inside nu metal's greatest deep cuts
- “I got him a drink and it went from there”: how Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher buried the hatchet and became unlikely friends and collaborators
- “I chose to leave, to focus on myself… It was a very difficult, painful, sad time for everyone”: Vincent Cavanagh had to quit Anathema to become The Radicant
- "He was trying to numb the past, dull the present and look for comfort in the future. He found it there and it killed him": Dan Aykroyd on the tragedy of John Belushi and the making of The Blues Brothers
- "We just went in and just destroyed San Francisco, and that was it": Jimmy Page on Led Zeppelin's historic arrival in America
