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- January 8
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- "To connect with a little band called Body Count says a lot about David Gilmour": Ice-T on Law & Order, not blowing up the planet, and breathing new life into a Pink Floyd classic
- "We get the electric guitars going and we hit it hard": Brothers Osborne's TJ Osborne on playing out, coming out, and the fine line between country and rock'n'roll
- January 7
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- “He heard this outrageously bad dance version. He was enraged; we love that song. The producer said, ‘You should cover it’”: Oceans Of Slumber’s return to prog metal
- Ramones would have been gifted Bruce Springsteen's first hit single if Springsteen's manager hadn't intervened
- “This record is about unapologetically accepting that you are the sum of all of your parts”: Halestorm discuss their next album, inspired by Motörhead, country and Skid Row
- “We’d been paying Rick Wakeman £25 a week and Yes offered him £100… We had his son Oliver with us for a while, and he left for Yes too!” Dave Cousins and the life and times of Strawbs
- "Neil would do a full hour of unrelenting drumming before he went on stage to play for another three": A personal tribute to Neil Peart
- David Gilmour solo albums: the essential guide
- January 6
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- The 10 best punk, metal and classic rock songs soundtracking season two of SAS Rogue Heroes, the loudest, most explosive show on TV
- “How dense was I, singing those songs and not realising those things were happening to me?” Linda Thompson on struggling to sing, struggling to perform live and why her kids aren’t her greatest achievement
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- January 5
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- “It feels like our last punk single, this mad little blip on the radar”: the story behind the Manics’ 2000 hit The Masses Against The Classes
- “We had to rush on to cover up this cacophony of brass players who couldn’t see what they were doing, having a go and failing miserably”: When Balaam And The Angel tried to emulate ELP, it didn’t go well
- January 4
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- “He was a great guitar player. He’s not looking at what he’s playing, he really knows the instrument”: Joe Satriani says Kurt Cobain was an underrated guitar hero
- “We were the biggest of our generation of metal bands. We’d done it through hard graft and killer songs. None of that trendy image rubbish”: How Saxon’s Wheels Of Steel turned them into the NWOBHM’s first stars
- ‘John Belushi always used to try to get off with my ex-wife. I’d say: ‘John, I can hear you, you fat git’”: Ronnie Wood’s wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Bob Dylan and Axl Rose
- “F*ck rock stars, tonight we’ve got musicians!”: saluting Self-Pollution Radio, Pearl Jam’s chaotic and star-studded foray into broadcasting
- 10 underrated indie-rock records released in 2000 that deserve your attention
- “I had no illusions about losing popularity – in fact, I almost did it intentionally. A guy from the label said, ‘Are you crazy?’ I said, ‘Yes, but I assume the consequences’”: John McLaughlin’s career outside the lines
- January 3
- January 2
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- Watch Rush, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl, Heart, Tom Morello, John Fogerty, Chuck D and more jamming on Robert Johnson's blues classic Crossroads in 2013
- “People would say, ‘He took a trip and now he’s weird.’ He wasn’t weird at all”: Mick Rock’s “surprisingly simple” friendship with Syd Barrett, and other psychedelic adventures
- “The world my kid is going into is insane. I can’t write positive lyrics”: How In Flames defied the haters and the apocalypse to make A Sense Of Purpose
- “It shouldn’t work but it comes out brilliant… You can spend hours studying what they did and still not fully get it”: Nik Kershaw’s passion for Gentle Giant
- 25 things we’re looking forward to in 2025
- January 1
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- The decade the blues mutated: A beginners' guide to 80s blues in 10 essential albums
- “The combination of music and sex was something I had never encountered in any other group”: How the Rolling Stones married sex, blues and rock’n’roll and launched themselves to notoriety
- “I thought, I gotta have some real track marks before I quit heroin.” The Lemonheads' frontman Evan Dando knows that he's lucky to be alive
- "My anger is a gift. But it's consuming me." Inside the rebirth of Jason Aalon Butler's genre-splicing punk machine, Fever 333
- Mystic Festival is boasting one of 2025's best lineups and one of the most unique and great value metal festival experiences in the world
- “Some thought it inspired; others heard an epic train wreck… His palette broadened, the songs lengthened, the lyrics became more personal”: The prog credentials of Sufjan Stevens’ The Age Of Adz
- “Who is gonna sing that to who? Cos you sure ain’t singing it to me and I sure ain’t singing it to you”: the reason that Prince turned down Michael Jackson’s request to do a duet on an 80s classic
- "It’s actually Sid Wilson’s favourite Slipknot song." Inside nu metal's greatest deep cuts
- “I got him a drink and it went from there”: how Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher buried the hatchet and became unlikely friends and collaborators
- “I chose to leave, to focus on myself… It was a very difficult, painful, sad time for everyone”: Vincent Cavanagh had to quit Anathema to become The Radicant
- "He was trying to numb the past, dull the present and look for comfort in the future. He found it there and it killed him": Dan Aykroyd on the tragedy of John Belushi and the making of The Blues Brothers
- "We just went in and just destroyed San Francisco, and that was it": Jimmy Page on Led Zeppelin's historic arrival in America
