Slavery, sex and school shootings: Lower is the album Benjamin Booker's old label didn't want him to make
Benjamin Booker is back with a compelling, experimental new album, and enjoying pulling the strings on his own label
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How watching an episode of Saturday Night Live in 1980 changed Dave Grohl's life forever
Dave Grohl on the musical performance that blew his 11-year-old mind
Papa Roach's Jacoby Shaddix on overnight success, the path to sobriety and the nu metal resurgence
Papa Roach are about to bring their biggest-ever show to the UK and Jacoby Shaddix still has something to prove
When Kansas cracked the charts with a song they didn’t want to record
In 1976 the US prog rockers found themselves in the upper reaches of the US charts with drivetime classic Carry On Wayward Son – which nearly fell victim to lethargy
The Scorpions: the turbulent story of Germany's greatest band
Whether it’s almost changing their name to Stalingrad or filling their biggest hit with whistling, there’s always a sting in the Scorpions' tale
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
Including The Wildhearts, Saxon, Manic Street Preachers and five other red rockers, purple hazers and golden goddesses
"It was crazed, almost Charles Manson–like." Before he started Def Jam, and produced everyone from Slayer to Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin played guitar in a noise-rock band called Hose, and recorded one of the worst Led Zeppelin covers ever committed to vinyl
Now one of the most powerful and influential men in the music industry, once upon a time super-producer Rick Rubin was just another punk rock guitarist in a terrible band
How Fish escaped his Marillion train wreck and scored a Top 5 album
On the cusp of retirement, the singer looks back on how the 1988 split came about, how it could have been avoided, and how his debut solo record Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors rose from the ashes
The Police’s Andy Summers on success, psychedelia and working with difficult people
The multi-faceted guitarist looks back on a career including stints with Robert Fripp, John Cale, Kevin Ayers and others
"It was horrifying and beautiful at the same time." Belinda Carlisle on the punk rock album that changed her life
"Time stopped as I lifted the album from the bin and stared at the cover. I thought, What is this?" Album artwork matters: ask Belinda Carlisle
The inspirational story of Horslips, Ireland’s original Celtic Rock band
Horslips put celtic rock on the map and paved the way for U2
Reflected glory: the story of the Neil Young and Pearl Jam team-up album Mirror Ball
The grunge superstars learned a lot when they teamed up with the rock veteran to make his 1995 album, but they regret not putting their name on it
How Simple Minds went from punk to stadium rock, via an 80s Brat Pack classic
The epic story of Simple Minds, the Scottish rock band who conquered the world
The mysterious late 60s album that Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt says invented Satanic rock
Six months before Black Sabbath released their landmark debut album, another band were praising Satan
Why Marianne Faithfull saw the best and worst of the late 60s and early 70s music scene
The late, great Marianne Faithfull had a life like no other
How Them Crooked Vultures became modern rock’s greatest one-and-done supergroup
What happened when Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones teamed up in Them Crooked Vu.tures
Why Zakk Wylde swapped Black Label Society and metal for southern rock on Book Of Shadows 2
Zakk Wylde’s love of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young knows no bounds
Jeff Beck’s wild tales of Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen and Frank Zappa
Sharing the stage with Page, giving Hendrix a guitar, being mistaken for Jagger – these were some of Jeff Beck‘s most memorable friendships
10 classic songs given away from one artist to another
From Prince to Joni Mitchell and Macca to the Bee Gees, the stars who were in such a creative purple patch that they had classics going spare and shopped them elsewhere.
