Ginger Wildhearts’ wild tales of Lemmy, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Cheap Trick and more
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It took The Mars Volta three years and several arguments to make Noctourniquet
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez challenged himself to stop aiming for perfection, and challenged old friend Cedric Bixler-Zavala to write direct lyrics. It wasn’t easy for either of them
Psychic tests! Pet wolves! Chicken coops! Guns N' Roses and the wild ride towards Chinese Democracy
Ever wondered why Chinese Democracy took so long to make? This is the truly unbelievable story of a year in the life of Axl Rose
“He encouraged us to dream big”: How Bob Ezrin brought out the prog in Kula Shaker
Crispian Mills hails the “complete maniac” Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel and Alice Cooper producer for his work on 1999 album Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
Featuring Buckcherry, Luke Spiller, Battlesnake and five other speed kings and highway stars
What Steven Wilson learned about Robert Fripp from remixing King Crimson
Admitting that arrogance played a role in accepting the challenge, Wilson was left with an even greater appreciation of Fripp’s achievements
The unbelievable rise of Opeth, the band who went from death metal no-hopers to prog royalty
Inside one of the most remarkable success stories in modern metal
How hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot restarted the party on their second album, III
Chickenfoot’s second album, III, picked up where their debut left off
New Order’s Peter Hook hails Groundhogs’ Split
Long before he started playing bass, but after discovering Wishbone Ash and Curved Air, he was introduced to the pioneering power trio’s 1971 album by a future bandmate
The life and times of Steve Hillage, the maverick guitarist who helped shape the sound of prog
Steve Hillage was one of the architects of 70s prog
If you don’t like Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home, you don’t like music. You should hand your ears back
It’s not when-Dylan-went-electric, it’s not when Dylan ditched protest songs: it's when Dylan laid the foundations for everything we love
The chaotic story of Black Sabbath’s Born Again and the booze-fuelled union of two rock legends
Black Sabbath’s Born Again: flawed classic or total disaster? Ian Gillan has opinions
How doomed Beach Boy Dennis Wilson made his solo masterpiece Pacific Ocean Blue
Beach Boys drummer and singer Dennis Wilson made a cult classic with 1977’s Pacific Ocean Blue – a few years later he was dead
How Pearl Jam channelled Pink Floyd and emerged with their weirdest ever single
The Seattle giants were determined to show they had moved on from being the band that had made Ten and Vs., and this strange lead single was their Exhibit A
Billy Gibbons’ wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Muddy Waters and Ministry
Meet the only man to have played with Hendrix, the Stones and Chad Kroeger from Nickelback
Elkie Brooks looks back on wild times with Vinegar Joe and six decades of rock'n'roll
Catch British singer Elkie Brooks on her farewell tour after more than half a century at the microphone
Propagandhi: “The KKK were phoning my house and threatening me”
Canada’s premiere punks talk about their new album At Peace, searching for comfort in the chaos and antagonising the KKK
The Brian Fallon and Gaslight Anthem albums you should definitely listen to
With The Gaslight Anthem and solo Brian Fallon has made some marvellous records, but industry pressures extracted a heavy toll
How Roger Hodgson created Supertramp’s most ambitious song, and why he won’t say what it means
Inspired by the Beatles, a famous piece of classical music and the post-war era, Fool’s Overture isn’t the band’s longest song – but it’s by far their most complex and intense
