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January 2023
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- January 31
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- “We had no interest in being rock stars”: The story behind Jethro Tull’s Aqualung
- Moby: "The first time I saw The Misfits I was just glad they didn’t eat me"
- The Otolith: "We couldn't live without making music with each other"
- Six great new prog tracks to listen to this week!
- “Oh God, it’s hard to listen to”: The story behind Nirvana’s final song, You Know You’re Right
- Porcupine Tree: "a lot of the excitement is because people don’t know if they’ll see us play again"
- Rush's Moving Pictures: a tale of double-entendres and red overalls
- How Joni Mitchell watched Woodstock on TV then wrote the song that captured its magic
- January 30
- January 27
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- The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- 13 rock and metal musicians hating on their own songs
- Korn’s Blind: how a rewritten version of another band’s song invented nu metal
- Watch Ben Stiller and Bob Odenkirk dress up as Metallica in 1992
- How Van Halen's debut album changed everything, by the guitarists it changed
- January 26
- January 25
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- Nicolas Cage on Megadeth, Rob Zombie and Dimmu Borgir: “Black metal gets a bad rap”
- The 10 greatest Dracula movies, ranked from worst to best
- The definitive history of every Slipknot mask
- The Neil Young albums you should definitely own
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: the improbable story of a 17-minute one-hit-wonder
- January 24
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- January 20
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- The Story Behind Judas Priest's You've Got Another Thing Comin'
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- The 10 greatest old school death metal vocalists
- Thirteen gems from the Barclay James Harvest back catalogue
- The 10 best David Crosby songs
- The unforgettable life of Meat Loaf: "It felt like riding the tail of a comet"
- January 19
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- The 10 greatest moments in WWE Raw history
- Introducing Gandalf's Fist...
- Soulful doom rockers Royal Thunder are back from the edge of oblivion: "Everything had to fall apart before we could set things right"
- The Von Hertzen Brothers would like us to think about death every day
- Run DMC thought Walk This Way would ruin them: instead, it saved Aerosmith
- January 18
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- Devin Townsend: "I don't enjoy suffering by my own hand if I can prevent it"
- Someone's found the James Hetfield vs Fred Durst fight from Celebrity Deathmatch and it's gruesomely hilarious
- Mathcore mavericks The Callous Daoboys are here to fill the Dillinger Escape Plan-shaped hole in your life
- Feel Like Makin' Love: the story of Bad Company's aphrodisiac anthem
- The Ramones albums you should definitely own
- Resurrection shuffle: behind the scenes of the triumphant return of Skid Row
- Susan Tedeschi: "I’m hoping to do something with Harry Styles"
- January 17
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- January 10
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- All six Scream Movies ranked from worst to best
- Taipei Houston: these sons of rock royalty are making a right royal racket
- The Pat Benatar albums you should definitely own
- Motörhead's 'Fast' Eddie Clarke: 5 favourite guitar albums
- All the young droogs: How David Bowie became David Bowie
- 20 spectacular reissues from 2022 you should definitely own
- January 9
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- January 6
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- 10 new artists who're going to set 2023 on fire
- 10 West Coast hardcore bands everybody needs to hear
- 5 new prog acts you must hear in January 2023
- Goldeneye: how one godawful U2 demo led to Tina Turner recording one of the most iconic James Bond themes ever
- Tobias Forge on what 2023 holds for Ghost: “There’s going to be a change. Good change”
- Joe Lynn Turner: "I was so tired of doing this AOR cookie-cutter bulls**t"
- David Crosby wants to make all the music he possibly can before he peters out
- January 5
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- Myrkur: Norse myths and the story behind the progressive folk of Folksange
- "I can’t work with these guys. They're falling down drunk" - the story of Thin Lizzy's Dancing In The Moonlight
- Lone Star were tipped for stardom: then came booze, bongs and Scientology
- How Christine McVie wrote the song that gave Fleetwood Mac their future
- January 4
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- Here are all the songs Nightwish have never played live
- How prog was The Art Of Noise: Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise?
- 10 bands we want to see reunite in 2023
- How The Doors harnessed the self-destruction and creativity of Jim Morrison to make their first album
- Billy Gibbons' personal guide to every ZZ Top studio album
- January 3
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- Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall on shutting down the elitists: “I don’t deal with metal gatekeepers at all”
- Eurovision star Sam Ryder has made you a playlist and it's an absolute blast
- Every Terminator film (and one TV show) ranked from worst to best
- 10 new albums coming later this year to get hugely excited about right now
- Watch Lemmy prove how he was an anti-gatekeeping king while sharing his opinion on Motörhead copycats
- 10 metal tours we’re unreasonably excited for in 2023
- 20 iconic metal albums that turn 20 in 2023
- George Martin: 10 recordings to demonstrate his revolutionary musical genius
- Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4 was supposedly about an acid trip: the truth was much more mundane
- January 2
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