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June 30
- “Deathcore? None of those bands can do what we do”: Suicide Silence had a point to prove to the haters, and with No Time To Bleed they rammed it home
- "Gazza had the rhythm, everything, but you cannot understand one word of what he’s saying": the making of New Order's classic England anthem World In Motion
- “I don’t know if any orgies were ‘thrown’. Those things had a way of happening on their own”: in 1977, Kiss were on top of the world – and Paul Stanley was loving every second of it
- “Killswitch has always been strong and positive. We wanted something a little darker, a bit more personal, spiritual almost”: how Killswitch Engage reinvented themselves with their divisive self-titled fifth album
- "Michael Stipe? Never heard of him.": the time an overzealous security guard almost scuppered R.E.M.'s Glastonbury headline set
June 29
- “It reminds me of the days when I used to put on punk rock shows and I’d get my friends to come”: the story of Dave Grohl and Corey Taylor’s forgotten punk-metal supergroup Teenage Time Killers
- “He got me in a headlock and started punching me. We just went at it”: the explosive story of Dokken, the hard rock band that tore itself apart
- “Look at the scene in Los Angeles. How on earth can you call any of those bands heavy metal?”: how Manowar delivered death to false metal with Hail To England
- “I said, “Oh my god, that was the most punk rock dude I’ve ever met in my life’”: Tom DeLonge on the time Liam Gallagher invaded Blink-182's dressing room
- “People talk about Clapton, Beck and Page, but you can’t leave Ritchie Blackmore out of the list”: how Deep Purple changed Zakk Wylde’s life
- "We pulled ourselves back to the front of the line and proved, ‘This is what we’re capable of'.": revisiting R.E.M.'s iconic Glastonbury set 25 years on
- “The masses can be controlled so easily by the few who have cash, and we’ve been on the receiving end our whole lives”: how Parkway Drive raged against the machine with the furious Deep Blue album
June 28
- The 10 best artists to see at BST Hyde Park this summer, from Stevie Nicks and Gary Clark Jr. to AlienBlaze and Kylie
- “With a different hand at the controls, and an on-form Brian Johnson, it could have been a classic”: how AC/DC made an epic mis-step with Fly On The Wall
- Cool new prog sounds from Alcest, Lesoir, Nick Magnus and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week
- The 13 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- The rock musicians battling against AI: "If they can do it to Steve and they can do it to me, what's next? How far will they go?"
- "I’d ticked off my goals so quickly I didn’t even know if I wanted to do it anymore." Michael "Moose" Thomas: 10 Songs That Changed My Life
- “The world was all smiling beat bands. We were moodier. We were serious about it”: The limitations and strange decisions of Procol Harum’s landmark debut album
June 27
- “We could release a hang-drum odyssey with seagull noises and somebody would still say it sounds like Tool!” Wheel have no time for outdated comparisons
- "Justin Timberlake sees us and starts singing Alive": P.O.D. were way ahead of the nu-metal curve but others get the plaudits
- “Our failure got us dropped by our label, manager and publisher – and led to us rediscovering what we really wanted to do musically”: How No-Man learned to confound their expectations without offending each other
- "I need a girl who sounds like a shop girl to duet with me": How a retail assistant at Dorothy Perkins got to sing with David Bowie
- Seven songs that prove The Only Ones were much more than a one song band
- Collective Soul recorded their latest album in Elvis's old house: on the night Lisa Marie died, the ceiling fell in
- "It was like a joy filled my eyes – and ears": Why I love The Mothers Of Invention's Freak Out!, by Steve Vai
June 26
- “No one knows how to put out music any more – including us”: In 2009 another new technology was threatening music, but Radiohead had a solution
- "A crew member stole $25,000 from me - and then our tour bus caught fire": Three years ago Shane Smith & The Saints almost called it quits, but now they've sold out Red Rocks and become TV stars
June 25
- The 13 most iconic Glastonbury Festival performances ever
- How to sleep well at a music festival: 7 proven tips from a sleep editor
- "The biggest compliment ever is when someone says: 'I've just seen a stadium show in a club'": Meet the Karma Effect, classic rock revivalists with big ambition
- Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats made a soundtrack for an Italian movie that doesn't exist: Then they got actors in to supply the dialogue
June 24
- “It felt like the right time to me. And I think Gavin and Richard acknowledged this too." How Porcupine Tree returned with Closure/Continuation
- "He did horrible things to people. He treated people so bad. He was a complete raving maniac." In 2016, Sammy Hagar talked candidly about his fears that Eddie Van Halen was going to die during Van Halen's 2004 reunion tour
- "Is there anyone left I'd like to collaborate with? Ozzy!" Body Count frontman and rap icon Ice T on horror movies, Slayer and who he considers the "Dr Dre of metal"
- “We used to think, ‘Oh, there’s not enough craziness in this song; we need to add some stuff’ – but we learned that no, we don’t”: How Mastodon matured with Once More ‘Round The Sun
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
June 23
- “I don’t recall stockings and suspenders coming into Arthurian legend, but hey, they do now!”: how Rick Wakeman staged the most OTT live shows of the 1970s
- “I thought the music industry was a circus but it’s nothing compared to the movie industry”: how Nightwish channelled their inner Tim Burton to make the fantastical Imaginaerum movie
- “We always try to go for it, always try to have that relentless ride." Dream Theater and the making of Black Clouds & Silver Linings
- “Ritchie Blackmore went into the pit with a box of tomatoes and started throwing them at the singer”: how Deep Purple changed Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott’s life
- “We played Glastonbury and it rained and it changed the whole course of our lives”: Travis frontman Fran Healy on the making of their classic hit Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
- “If it was up to me, I’d make it the Big Five”: why Testament deserve to be at thrash’s top table
- "We need more Bowies, more Princes, more Eazy-Es." Fever 333's Jason Aalon Butler talks dream collabs, the legacy of Letlive. and the stunt that got him told off by Metallica's crew
- "We do an incredible version of Forever Changes, close your eyes and you’re listening to the record": Arthur Lee may be gone, but Love have found a way forward
- "I'm just racked with self-loathing and criticism": Manic Street Preachers' bassist Nicky Wire once wanted to lacerate the world - now he's doing it to himself
- "Rock'n'roll is alive, and I need it to stay that way": The Pretty Reckless are on the road with AC/DC, and Taylor Momsen is more than ready to rock
- “Elvis had attitude. So did Iron Maiden and Danzig. Put today’s bands in front of me and I wouldn’t know who they are”: an interview with Glenn Danzig, rock’s dark lord
- “It was mega! I don’t think I’ll ever forget it, even when I get senile”: Garbage’s Shirley Manson on the time her band opened the Scottish Parliament
June 22
- “Tony Iommi was calling me a lot. Sabbath are amazing at what they do, but it wasn’t something that I wanted to do’”: an epic interview with Whitesnake’s David Coverdale
- “There were bad vibes with local Oslo bands saying it was crap”: how Dimmu Borgir’s controversial symphonic classic Enthrone Darkness Triumphant dragged black metal out of the shadows
- “The album took off like a rocket ship. It sold 100,000 right away, it was the biggest Muddy Waters album to date”: how Chess Records and Muddy Waters invented psychedelic blues with Electric Mud
- The Kids Are Alright! 10 rock star offspring following in their parent’s footsteps…
- "I was 22 when I burned an inverted cross into my forehead." Death metal icon Glen Benton talks blasphemy, fatherhood and the night a Deicide gig got bombed
- “People are gonna think it’s either the last album or that we’re Trekkies”: how Iron Maiden made The Final Frontier and silenced rumours they’d reached the end of the road
- “We’d just left this gig where I’d given a speech about the Alabama abortion ban and people were gonna shoot me”: The 1975’s Matty Healy on the song he wrote about the time the band were chased out of Alabama
- “The Taylor Swift Cruel Summer moment was an amazing testament to the incredible force of her fans”: St. Vincent on how the song she wrote with Taylor Swift became a huge hit four years later
- “There was alcohol, plenty of fighting, sometimes guns. That was just the women”: the wild career of Cold Chisel, the Aussie hellraisers who should have been as big as AC/DC
June 21
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "When I’m stressed or not setting boundaries, things get bad." From keeping control of Pvris to chronic illness and a "very dirty" new record, a conversation with Lyndsey Gunnulfsen
- Every Alcest album (and one EP) ranked from worst to best
- Cool new prog you must hear from Oceans Of Slumber, Charlotte Wessels, Rendezvous Point and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- “He got all these twists and turns that I thought only John Wetton was capable of”: How Geoff Downes assembled his new Asia line-up
June 20
- Every St. Vincent album ranked from worst to best
- “I don’t have any qualms about playing it until the day I die.” How Nymphetamine helped Cradle Of Filth become “the Backstreet Boys” of black metal
- “Here was fresh music, well-presented in high quality, and I didn’t have to sit around in a rehearsal room for months deciding on the sandwich order”: The joy and pain of Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe’s only album
- "When Eddie Van Halen is giving you his socks, you know your life is getting weird": Ugly Kid Joe and beyond – the crazy career of Whitfield Crane
- Fancy a bit of heads-down, legs-apart, no-nonsense, mindless boogie? The Status Quo albums you should definitely listen to
- "It's like trying to fathom the people who built the pyramids": Joe Satriani on the Jimi Hendrix performance that still blows his mind
- "When you're cold-calling musicians, some of whom you don’t even know, it doesn't matter who you are. It's a hard gig": How Slash organised Orgy Of The Damned
June 19
- "The wedding dress? That's long gone. We used to cover it in blood, so it got a little bit mouldy." Five minutes with Creeper keyboardist/vocalist, Hannah Greenwood
- Loudness explained: Volume and decibel levels defined for live music fans
- 10 bands that defined Download 2024
- “The government is probably writing up a new law as we speak to ban Irish-language hip-hop for life.” Annoying all the right people, Kneecap have been called “the most controversial band since the Sex Pistols”, and they're only just getting started
- “This album is about letting the song dictate when it needs something and when it doesn’t”: With her perfect new line-up, Jane Getter takes her jazz-prog back to basics
- 5 reasons why it's time to start wearing earplugs at gigs
- "It's lovely to wake up in the morning and be able to remember why you got punched in the head the night before": Pete Agnew and the continuation of Nazareth
- “Many prog bands hire a singer who’ll just rely on their chops… we’re one of those bands who can actually sing”: Echolyn didn’t kill the joy with their second self-titled album
June 18
- “The cape-wielding progressive rock behemoth was not in vogue… there was an effort to make it simpler, but our musical identity was still at stake”: Gentle Giant take a fresh look at The Missing Piece
- “I can’t look into myself and say why I stopped for that long. That’s too complicated. It was just a feeling I had”: When Roine Stolt brought back The Flower Kings via Banks Of Eden
- "We didn't have a clue what we were doing, but the first playback was one of those moments you never forget": How The Damned took four days and lots of cider to kickstart a revolution
June 17
- “We took a 20-year sabbatical from each other…” Julianne Regan and Tim Bricheno look back on All About Eve, the Sisters, The Mission and their greatest songs
- “We’ve got an application form for the Guinness Book Of World Records”: Are The Chronicles of Father Robin the only band to have spent 30 years on their debut album?
- Cello, synths, bagpipes and melodic death metal: Scottish husband-and-wife duo Hand Of Kalliach are doing folk music a little differently
- "At a certain point we beat Britney Spears!" How Ice Queen made Within Temptation symphonic metal's first superstars - and changed heavy music forever
- “I thought the track would get some attention, but I never imagined it would be like this. The whole world’s gone mad”: The stunning return of Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill
- "If you're a band that ascends quickly into huge shows, you don't have the perspective to be freaked out by it": The Black Keys look back on platinum sales, Grammy awards, burnout and reignition
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
June 16
- "Once you've heard Beefheart, it's hard to wash him out": The Captain Beefheart albums you should definitely listen to
- “I’ve come to the conclusion that madness is sometimes a decision”: how Devin Townsend quit weed, unscrambled his brain and made the classic Ki album
- “I remember thinking, ‘I’ll probably never be on a tour that’s this f**king crazy ever again’”: how L7 were responsible for grunge's most debauched tour
- “David Bowie was an absolute genius. I learned more from him than from anybody I’ve ever worked with.” Rick Wakeman’s epic tales of sessions with Bowie, Bolan, Lou Reed and more
- "We decided that if we say and believe we’re the best in the world, then we will be": Fontaines D.C.'s Grian Chatten on the Dublin rockers' early days
- “We were sure A Whiter Shade Of Pale would drop out of the charts, but it just stuck there!” See Emily Play became Syd Barrett’s last stand as Pink Floyd took flight
- “What we’ve done is to move beyond metal. There are so many ideas here that expand our horizons”: how Judas Priest reached for the sky with divisive double album Nostradamus
June 15
- “These bikers came bursting into our place. I’m sure we would have been killed”: how violence, rocket attacks and the Cold War helped Voivod make 80s prog-thrash masterpiece Dimension Hatröss
- “We peaked too early. Bad commercial decisions and far too much drink and drug excess”: how 80s cowpunk legends Jason And The Scorchers snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
- “I don't believe that a company like Barclays, given their financial ties to war crimes, has any place at a metal festival.” Why the conversation around Britain's summer festival season has been all about Gaza, Barclays, and boycotts
- “Whenever you make an album you’re baring your soul. People will shoot you down. You’ve just gotta bulldoze through it”: how Steve Harris stepped away from Iron Maiden with his debut solo album
- From Dylan to Prince, The Stooges to The La's: the 10 best covers by Pearl Jam
- “The first thing she says is, ‘Oh, you remind me of my husband’”: the night Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi thought he’d been possessed by the spirit of John Lennon in front of Yoko Ono
- “We could do anything we wanted with our hair and our clothes in front of tens of thousands of people. We were gods!”: how guitar legend Steve Vai survived Whitesnake
- “We want to be top of the game for our generation. We want to headline Download!”: how Avenged Sevenfold stepped up to metal’s big league with Hail To The King
- “I love it when everyone sings it. I love it when there’s a competition”: Lightning Seeds’ Ian Broudie on writing the enduring England anthem Three Lions
- “In the 70s, there was more innocence. It was about personal identity, it wasn’t just about money”: how Blondie’s Debbie Harry went from punk icon to rock survivor
June 14
- "Whether it’s a simple song with three chords or a really elaborate epic piece, it’s all miraculous to me." How Neal Morse created his rock opera Jesus Christ: The Exorcist
- “We got James Hetfield and we tied him up tight!” Why UK punks Chumbawamba once released a bizarre, violent lounge-pop diss-track against Metallica’s beloved frontman
- “We kept binning stuff that sounded too much like us… 10 albums in, it’s got to feel different”: Prog was always in Elbow’s music, but it’s upfront on Audio Vertigo
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "I thought maybe Mercyful Fate might come knocking, but no." Inside the rebirth of Slayer legend Kerry King
- "The more I listened to 18 And Life and Youth Gone Wild, the more I knew that these songs were meant for me to sing": Sebastian Bach looks back on his extraordinary life
June 13
- Competition: Enter for a chance to win every AC/DC album on gold vinyl
- “They matched ELP for pomp, bombast, overambition and grandiosity of execution”: How Frankie Goes To Hollywood helped carry prog into the 80s and beyond with Welcome To The Pleasuredome
- Wishbone Ash's Argus was voted album of the year in 1972: Its standout track went on to influence Steely Dan, Thin Lizzy and Iron Maiden
- Runnin' with the devil: The stories behind the songs on Slash's Orgy of the Damned
- "There wasn't too much talking about who should play what, it was a very instinctive kind of relationship": Mick Taylor on life in the Rolling Stones, Altamont and leaving the band
June 12
- “We were playing to people who didn't care if we fell over and died.” The Cure might be recognised now as one of the world's most iconic and influential bands, but that wasn't always the case
- "Do you mind if I wear this as a laugh?" The true story of the night that 25,000 thick British TV viewers thought Manic Street Preachers had started supporting Irish terrorists
- “The supermassive black hole renders our experience terminally irrelevant… we need to be more light-hearted about stuff”: Prog’s Best New Band EBB are guided by the galaxy
- “It could have been a huge record, but they buried it… It was his time but the boat just sailed away”: Despite his label's disinterest, Roy Harper’s Stormcock refused to die
- One of the greatest live acts the world has ever seen: The Humble Pie albums you should definitely listen to
- Brad Sinsel fronted four of the greatest hard rock records of all time: So why isn't he better known?
June 11
- “Some people think it’s my most optimistic record… I don’t hear that at all. I don’t feel like a comfortable person any more”: Mike Vennart’s latest album is all about his anger
- “No promoter would book us; they just didn’t know where we fitted in… we were victims of being ahead of our time”: With a future Uriah Heep singer and rapidly changing style, were Lucifer’s Friend prog?
- An astronaut's guide to space exploration: The Hawkwind albums you should definitely listen to
- "I've got a sex tape out? Big deal! So do lots of people!": A strange and occasionally antagonistic interview with Mötley Crüe
- "My friends and I went through hours and hours and many bags of weed blasting that record": The soundtrack of Walter Trout's life
- "The freedom and joy we had, and the confidence in each other, is remarkable": Ian Gillan looks back at Deep Purple's Machine Head era
June 10
- "We make musical journeys. We’re the Alan Whicker of prog!” The Tangent and how they made Songs From The Hard Shoulder
- "Roger Waters took it off the album because it was too dark, and it is." The story behind the Syd Barrett song that Pink Floyd considered too disturbing to be released, but The Jesus And Mary Chain recorded for their first single
- “I ended up thinking I knew it all, and it was my responsibility to tell everybody what they were doing wrong”: How close did Devin Townsend come to forming a cult in 1998?
- "I was halfway through Atom Heart Mother thinking, 'What the f*** are we doing? This is a bit ambitious!'": The stories behind Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets' new Set The Controls setlist
- “Surely it’s the greatest psychedelic rock song ever recorded… It makes the whole God thing seem plausible!” Kavus Torabi’s Guide To Cardiacs
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Hot Damn!, Brave Rival, L.A. Edwards and more
- Shuggie Otis's third album was hailed as classic, but his record company dropped him: It took 40 years to make a fourth
- "It was more of a struggle to stay alive than it was to continue to the band": How Failure found themselves at odds with everyone
- "I often wonder what would have happened if Keith Moon and I had formed Led Zeppelin": How The Who stopped hating each other for long enough to shape the sound of the future
June 9
- “I was in a bad place. The booze, my lifestyle, this woman I’d been with since I was 16. I’ve never been that broken”: how Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix pulled himself back from the abyss
- “Nothing’s worse than hearing someone say, ‘Deep Purple? They’re just like Black Sabbath, knocking out riffs’”: the birth of Deep Purple Mk II and the transformation that changed rock
- “It’s just open-heart surgery that’s all, no big deal”: Eels’ E on the major operation he underwent during the making of the band’s new album
- “I didn’t know if I could think. I didn’t know if I’d destroyed my brain. I didn’t know if I had anything to say”: an epic interview with Trent Reznor
- “They said we talked about dick and vagina too much and offended everyone”: how Blink-182 overcame a backlash from their peers on the way to Enema Of The State becoming a huge success
- “Every week, every month, I was doing something new… but fighting Martians has become a lifestyle for me”: Jeff Wayne on waging the relentless War Of The Worlds
June 8
- “There are five million disgraceful heavy metal bands. What’s the point of being just another Metallica imitator?”: how Avenged Sevenfold took on the haters with their epic fourth album
- The unlikely birth of Velvet Revolver, the supergroup who triumphed against the odds
- “When Tobias Forge called us his favourite new metal band, I got really emotional”: A conversation with death metal revolutionaries Crypta
- Into The Pumpkins-Verse! Your guide to The Smashing Pumpkins' ever-evolving line-up from their inception to the present day
- “Sometimes, it out-earns the entire Blur catalogue”: Blur bassist Alex James on making Fat Les’ enduring football classic Vindaloo
- “I’m surprised I made it this far. People were giving me 10 minutes to live when I was 30”: two years before he died, Lemmy was still one of rock’s great warriors
- “We had our pockets stuffed with $16,000 in $100 bills, and there were 8,000 kids in front of us in Bangkok. We caused a riot at the airport coming home”: the rise and fall of Girl, the cult glam rock band who should have been huge
June 7
- "They bombed a medical supplies warehouse. You could smell medicine in the air..." Sharon Den Adel went to Ukraine to film Within Temptation's latest video. This is what she found.
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “I slid to the floor in shock. I didn’t speak, didn’t want to say a word to anyone.” The day that Joy Division learned their friend and frontman Ian Curtis had died
- How we test earplugs
- Great new prog you need to hear from Hasse Froberg, Oliver Wakeman, Eivør, Mercury Rev and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- “How could Syd Barrett find being in the back of a van with the lads interesting, when his head was out there? You’re working all the time in your head”: The prog credentials of Prefab Sprout’s Paddy McAloon
- "There was almost a Mafiosi-style meeting about me joining them": Richie Kotzen looks back on life in Poison, Mr Big, the Winery Dogs and more
June 6
- “I liked Discharge, and really respected Crass too.” Before she became a world-famous pop star, Björk had an angry anarcho-punk band called Spit and Snot
- "I’ve died three times through my own self-abuse." From helping shape industrial metal to hanging up on Stanley Kubrick and being Timothy Leary's drug guinea pig, Ministry's Al Jourgensen reflects on 40 years of madness and music
- "It was very British, but it shot round the world. It changed music": How the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal was born, by those who were there
- “I’d say the first thing which came into my head. I even suggested it was a yoghurt at one time!” How Tangerine Dream got their name (we think)
- "I could hardly listen to that song when we were recording it - it made me ill": the Eagles song that was written as a warning but heard as a celebration
- "People thought The Runaways were cute until they realised we were serious - and then they started calling us names": Joan Jett on the first girl rock band, her love of leather and nearly joining the army
June 5
- What happens when members of extreme metal royalty like Meshuggah, Watain and Opeth form an orchestra? Meet the uniquely excellent Bright & Black
- "The whole thing was such a shock, because it came out of nowhere." A public letter, tears and the Finnish Prime Minister: inside the crazy day Nightwish parted ways with Tarja Turunen
- Best Audio-Technica turntables 2024: recommended decks from an iconic hi-fi and audio brand
- “Everyone’s story is different… All I can say is he was definitely there, and it was weird”: Syd Barrett’s surprise visit to Pink Floyd‘s studio
- "Humanity is just a failure. Humanity is just waiting to end humanity": Kerry King has a new solo album - he also has things to say
- "His work can be quite disturbing. God alone knows what's going through his mind when he draws": For years Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham kept his art secret, but all is now revealed
June 4
- Every Sylosis album ranked from worst to best
- 40 years after their formation by Thin Lizzy icon Phil Lynott, Grand Slam are still rocking hard with their stirring new video Come Together (In Harlem)
- Best cassette players 2024: Rekindle your love for analogue tapes with a too-cool-for-school cassette player
- “It was the best thing I’d come up with for years – it vanished off the recorder and I could never, ever remember it. John was like, ‘Just tell yourself it was crap!’”: How Anathema made Distant Satellites
- "I get that people are trying to keep the blues alive, but to me it feels super-limiting": Six things you need to know about Troy Redfern
- In the wake of the Heysel Stadium disaster, the stars of heavy metal came together to raise money for the victims in the only way they knew: via a power ballad
- From viral sensations to superstar support: Meet Mexico’s latest rock export, The Warning
June 3
- "The crowd just went off their brains. It was an amazing, fantastic first show": The story of AC/DC's live debut, told by those who were there
- “A fearless creative with a penchant for all things mystical and macabre.” Your essential guide to every PVRIS album
- "When 9/11 happened, Alive gave people hope." We asked nu metal veterans P.O.D. to take us on a tour of their hometown, San Diego
- “I soon realised that to earn a living what you do is sit behind a desk and not on the other side”: Fish On Friday know the rules – but they’re still trying to break them
- "I'd had forty-four jobs. I knew this was my one and only shot": How Ian Hunter and Mott The Hoople got their riot started
- “There’d be three numbers in the set; Dave Swarbrick would go berserk with his Echoplex and wah-wah. Especially in America, with substances being consumed”: The origins of Fairport Convention
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Blues Pills, Elles Bailey, Cactus and more
- Robin Trower has just played six shows to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his greatest album. Next stop? America
June 2
- "We're the UK's reply to Greta Van Fleet": Meet Silveroller, the tightly-knit rock'n'rollers continuing the transatlantic conversation
- 9 heavy metal stars who made it big with their first band
- “There’s a view that More and Obscured By Clouds are not ‘proper’ albums. Not so – they’re the sound of a band with the pressure off”: Pink Floyd’s early years at the movies
June 1
- “The lyrics are my inner voice telling me that everything is my fault”: Prog metal mavens Leprous explain the powerful themes of new single Atonement
- “I’d always say you’d liken us to The Alan Parsons Project, rather than a unit like Led Zeppelin." Mostly Autumn and the story of Dressed In Voices
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month