The twisted story of Alice Cooper’s shock rock classic Welcome To My Nightmare
How Alice Cooper made shock rock classic Welcome To My Nightmare – with help from a horror icon
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The Smashing Pumpkins album that Billy Corgan says has always had a “weird cloud” around it
Things were never straightforward for Corgan & co. throughout the 90s and the tale of what was meant to be their final record pretty much sums it up
Andy Fairweather Low’s wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Roger Waters and Tom Jones
From Hendrix’s backing vocalist to George Harrison and Roger Waters’ right hand man, Andy Fairweather Low is one of rock’s secret MVPs
The albums by Nazareth you should listen to... and one to avoid
Although never rock A-listers, enduring Scots Nazareth have a recorded catalogue peppered with timeless bluesy rock gems. These are their best albums
Flag-burning prog innovators The Nice found trouble on stage and off it
Keith Emerson, Davy O’List and Lee Jackson created enough controversy to last for decades in their original three-year run
How a band of Dutch retro-rockers ended up recording at two legendary recording studios
The Queen Of Soul, the birth of the Allman Brothers Band, and the new album from retro-rock flag bearers DeWolff all have something in common
Marillion look back on the making of the album that tore the band apart
Fish, Steve Rothery and Mark Kelly look back at the making of Marillion's best-known and most successful record, Misplaced Childhood
“ELO, Judas Priest, my dad’s piano playing – that’s prog!” Pat Cash’s record collection
Travelling the world with his Walkman, the young Australian moved on from his family’s opera and folk to Rush, Steven Wilson, Brian Eno, Francis Dunnery and Anathema, and adopted his chequered headband in honour of Cheap Trick
The story of how Metallica got themselves an orchestra – and the album that followed
With Metallica’s S&M reaching the grand old age of 25, we look back at how, and why, the world’s leading metal band teamed up with – shock, horror – the San Francisco Symphony
“Yes told me never to come back”: How Oliver Wakeman joined and left his dad’s former band
If Rick Wakeman’s son had taken an angrier attitude to being fired in 2011, their 2019 mini-album From A Page might never have been rescued from the demo stacks
Every Pink Floyd album ranked from worst to best
Updated Pink Floyd's journey from underground pioneers to stadium-filling superstars saw them release albums that ranged from woeful to wonderful
How Steven Wilson’s desire to believe in ghosts inspired his last fully prog album
2013’s The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories) was a collection of ghost stories in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe, MR James and spooky 70s kids’ TV. He explained each track in his own words
The epic saga of one of rock's great live acts, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Detroit rock veteran Bob Seger looks back on his early career and his transformation from regional hero to national treasure
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
Including Battlesnake, Those Damn Crows, Brass Camel, Gorilla Riot and four other artists who don't happen to be named after animals
“That half-minute is probably our peak”: How Genesis made Supper’s Ready
The band believe it’s the moment they began to become significant – and the construction of the 23-minute anthem for 1972’s Foxtrot was itself an epic experience
How Done With Mirrors put Aerosmith back on the long road to redemption
In 1985, the reunited Aerosmith had a long way to go to recapture old glories – and Done With Mirrors was the first step
How Halestorm went from teenage rockers to globe-conquering metal stars
Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale has been addicted to rock’n’roll since she was a kid
The 10 must-hear B-sides and outtakes by Smashing Pumpkins
Billy Corgan’s alt-rock titans were one of the most prolific bands of the 90s. Here’s ten brilliant cuts that never made it onto one of their records.
