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- June 30
- June 29
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- Watch Gary Rossington's poignant final performance of Gimme Three Steps with Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Download Festival and The Heavy Metal Truants launch charity auction with memorabilia from Iron Maiden, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Slipknot, Kiss and more
- Placebo's Brian Molko stalls gig in protest at fans filming on their phones
- Derek Sherinian and Simon Phillips announce new live album
- Public Service Broadcasting to release celebrated BBC Proms show
- A hair metal documentary series is coming to Paramount+ and please take our money right now
- June 28
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- "Oklahoma City bomb, Kurt Cobain, Pokémon, Tiger Woods, MySpace, Monsanto GMOs": Fall Out Boy update Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire, revisit 34 years of history and pop culture
- Richard Wright's Wet Dream set for July reissue
- Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis cried with Flea after discussing his lack of confidence in his abilities as a musician
- Liam Gallagher announces intimate London show
- Nick Cave, Dave Gahan, Debbie Harry, Mark Lanegan to appear on new tribute album The Task Has Overwhelmed Us
- Check out this rare reworking of a Smashing Pumpkins classic
- Polaris guitarist Ryan Siew dead at 26
- Listen to Greta Van Fleet's fiery new single The Falling Sky
- Beam me up again! William Shatner revisits his prog all-stars album Ponder The Mystery, starring Steve Vai, Rick Wakeman and others
- June 27
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- If you thought Axl Rose's voice kept disappearing at Glastonbury you can blame your television
- Soundgarden/Nirvana/Pearl Jam supergroup 3rd Secret release their second album The 2nd 3rd Secret without telling anyone: hear it here
- This rare Sparks footage from 1976 shows they've always been an unmatched live band - the rest of the world just needed to catch up
- So Bill Murray just randomly turned up to a London rock bar, drank tequila and danced to blues music - and there's video to prove it
- Paul Rodgers announces first album of new and original material this century
- Foo Fighters announce run of huge UK shows
- Watch Foo Fighters cover Michael Bublé's Haven't Met You Yet on tour as Dave Grohl makes up his own rather naughty lyrics and dances along
- Watch Jack Black give a wonderfully bonkers performance of Super Mario Bros' Peaches with an orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl
- "We show no mercy!” 10cc announce the Ultimate Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour
- Watch Adrian Belew and Les Claypool tackle King Crimson's Thela Hun Ginjeet live
- Watch Elton John's fireworks-strewn, emotionally-charged, 10-minute Glastonbury version of Rocket Man
- June 26
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- Yes guitarist Steve Howe on a potential reunion with Jon Anderson: “I love Jon – but the only terms I work on is that I’m happy”
- Watch alt pop star Rina Sawayama tease Korn and Limp Bizkit classics and take serious shots at The 1975's Matty Healy in her explosive Glastonbury set
- Watch Bruce Dickinson sing Iron Maiden classic The Trooper with a covers band in an RAF hangar in Oxfordshire
- Listen to The Anchoress' elegant version of Manic Street Preachers' This Is Yesterday
- Muse announce new arena shows in UK and Ireland
- June 25
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- Toyah and Robert Fripp perform Cream cover, cover themselves in cream
- Elton John plays final UK show with emotional, hit-stacked Glastonbury setlist
- Watch Guns N' Roses play Paradise City with Dave Grohl at Glastonbury
- Korn and Adidas in official shoe collab – and we can't believe it took this long
- Watch Dethklok in trailer for Metalocalypse movie and hear first new music in 10 years
- June 24
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- Guns N’ Roses bring out Dave Grohl for their Glastonbury headlining set – but the air-guitaring sign language interpreters win the night
- Mick Mars accuses Mötley Crüe of “trying to take my legacy away”, Nikki Sixx says he’s in a “complete hallucination”
- Brian May salutes the genius of Eddie Van Halen: “It was like watching Hendrix for the first time”
- Slash and Axl were in the studio this week. So, are Guns N' Roses working on new music?
- Arctic Monkeys headline Glastonbury 2023: Full setlist online now
- June 23
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- "You knew it was us, right?" Paul McCartney and Guns N' Roses watch Foo Fighters make an emotional return to Glastonbury festival for the least secret 'secret' set ever
- Mötley Crüe have posted a gig flyer for a band called Dögs of War playing a 450 capacity London club on the eve of their show for 90,000 fans at Wembley Stadium
- Jay Weinberg on playing drums for Slipknot: "I never felt overawed by the pressure to replace Joey"
- Darryl Way and Steve Hogarth pair up for new Morpheus video
- Star-studded John Wetton memorial concert announced
- Marillion and four great gifts in the new issue of Prog, on sale now...
- An Australian punk singer has broken the world record for eating the most hard-boiled eggs in one sitting
- A royal birth: the real story of Queen's first album - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Red Hot Chili Peppers: European tour first night photos and setlist
- June 22
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- Ozzy Osbourne says he's "thrilled to bits" that the British public have voted to name a 10 metre-high mechanical metal bull 'Ozzy' in his honour
- Watch a death metal audience hold its breath as this metalhead proposes marriage to his girlfriend in the middle of a mosh pit
- Watch newly restored 4K footage of Rush on their 1976 2112 tour
- Porcupine Tree live guitarist Randy McStine hits back at fan complaints
- The Internet has served up a super awkward video of Korn doing karaoke with cosplay 'aliens' and, honestly, we're not sure why
- Steve Harris couldn't care less about Iron Maiden not being in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: "It doesn’t really represent anything"
- Noel Gallagher thinks that Guns N' Roses headlining Glastonbury is "mad", and not in a good way: "Are you being serious? That’s crazy sh*t"
- Haunt The Woods announce second album Ubiquity
- Iron Maiden are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer – and it comes with four exclusive gifts!
- "Sometimes they hurl bottles" - watch rare BBC footage of a wild-eyed Arthur Brown being interviewed after catching fire in 1967
- June 21
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- Watch Sebastian Bach sing Mötley Crüe and The Eagles with Yächtly Crëw
- “We realised during lockdown that classic rock changes people's lives…” Toyah and Robert Fripp on why they do what they do
- In 1992, Kurt Cobain's excitement at the prospect of Spinal Tap reforming led him to dream up some outlandish stage props which could turn future Nirvana live shows up to 11
- There's a reason Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler doesn't have tattoos, and it involves Nazis
- Greta Van Fleet's Josh Kiszka comes out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, calls out US legislators for "proposing bills that threaten the freedom of love"
- Original Marillion Herne The Hunter t-shirt to be reprinted
- Cardiacs first full-length album gets four disc reissue
- Metallica just smoothly shut down a fan attempting to dunk on a bagpipe cover of their songs: "This guy doesn't speak on our behalf"
- Bob Rock says Jimmy Page is a big fan of Metallica's St Anger: "He said it's a great album, so I'm OK!"
- Get 4 free months of Amazon Music Unlimited in this early Prime Day deal
- Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill makes history by reaching one billion streams on Spotify, the first 80s song by a female solo artist to do so
- Watch Soundgarden cover Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit at Lollapalooza 1992
- Long-lost footage of Steely Dan playing a mesmerising Show Biz Kids in 1973 has surfaced
- June 20
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- Listen to a haunting version of Metallica's The Unforgiven sung in the indigenous Inuktitut language
- So it turns out Elton John is a massive Nova Twins fan
- Slipknot planning 2024 world tour to mark 25th anniversary of Roadrunner debut
- "It's all about the willingness to take risks": Baroness preview new album Stone with massive new track Last Word
- Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan once told Pantera to "shut the f**k up" when they kept moaning about Metallica not being metal
- This Reddit forum reveals the bands that people avoided listening to purely because they didn't like their names
- This ridiculously fun Kiss x Earth Wind & Fire mash-up is a gift from the (rock) Gods that will have you dancing into next week
- Backstage at a Kiss show used to be all debauchery and decadence: these days it features Gene Simmons zooming around in a cart, waving at people like the Queen
- Joe Perry: “I don’t know if there’ll be a new Aerosmith album”
- If you were wondering what Robert Fripp and Toyah are like on tour, wonder no more
- June 19
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- Watch Metallica's absolutely epic version of Whiskey in The Jar from Download Festival
- Cradle Of Filth's Dani Filth: "Spotify are the biggest criminals in the world...we had 26 million plays last year and I got about 20 pounds"
- Corey Taylor voices his support as Slipknot's original vocalist Anders Colsefni unveils plans to perform Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat in full to honour Joey Jordison and Paul Gray
- Watch the heart-warming moment Foo Fighters invited Hayley Williams on stage to perform My Hero at Bonnaroo Festival
- How to watch Glastonbury 2024 live from anywhere – your iPlayer streaming guide
- Neal Morse announces new studio album inspired by Biblical character Joseph
- Caligula's Horse announce Rise Radiant European tour
- James Hetfield once revealed what Cliff Burton would have made of Metallica's 90s era: "there would have been some resistance"
- Noel Gallagher is not happy with the response - or lack of response - to his new songs: "People should have bought the f***ing album, then, shouldn’t they?"
- Daniel Tompkins announces release of Ruins: Live Experience
- Iron Maiden legend Steve Harris reveals the achievement that means the most to him
- We've found the world's most grotesque tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and it's in a Birmingham pub
- Papa Roach's Jacoby Shaddix: It's dope that nu metal is finally getting respect
- June 18
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- Shawn 'Clown' Crahan steps away from Slipknot's European tour again, to be with his wife: "See you soon and hail Slipknot"
- “He was pretty quiet. He just wanted to hang out”: Joe Perry remembers when Kurt Cobain met Aerosmith
- Travis Barker learns wife Kourtney Kardashian is pregnant with epic announcement at Blink-182 show
- June 17
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- Phil Collen talks about Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith's audition for Def Leppard: "Adrian's great"
- Watch Bruce Dickinson try to dress up an unimpressed Steve Harris while Iron Maiden play Alexander The Great live on stage
- "The accusations of the last few weeks have deeply shaken us as a band": Rammstein's Christoph Schneider releases statement on allegations made against Till Lindemann
- June 16
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- Steve Harris reveals the Iron Maiden deep cut he'd like them to play more live
- Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme recalls a shirtless Iggy Pop eating steak with his bare hands in a posh restaurant, then getting told off for having his nipples out
- Hawkwind detail mammoth eleven-disc Space Ritual box set
- Ash announce UK/European tour and new album Race the Night, share Stephen King-themed horror video for title track
- A Polish bus numbered 666 that stops off at Hel is being changed after religious groups accused it of "spreading Satanism"
- Ex-Type O Negative guitarist Kenny Hickey would love Axl Rose to sing at a Peter Steele tribute concert
- Watch 100,000 people emotionally singing their hearts out to Limp Bizkit's Behind Blue Eyes cover while Fred Durst dons a proud 80s perm
- "Don't you EVER say that to me!" Lou Reed and David Bowie once had a fist-fight in a London restaurant and it got very, very ugly
- Sigur Rós have surprise released their new album Átta
- At last! An official Iron Maiden Monopoly game has been launched
- June 15
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- The Pretenders hook up with Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood for new single I Think About You Daily
- Southern Empire return with first new album in five years
- The world nearly got a supergroup featuring members of the Sex Pistols, Blondie and the Bay City Rollers
- The guy who plays the fascist President in Succession was in a long-lost alt rock band and they actually weren't terrible
- "People tried to 'beat the gay' out of me - you know what? It didn't stick": GAYC/DC have turned Argent's Hold Your Head Up into a powerful gay rights anthem
- German police open investigation into Rammstein's Till Lindemann 'on allegations relating to sexual offences and the distribution of narcotics'
- Lifesigns and Franck Carducci to headline Fusion Festival 2024
- Hawkwind announce Royal Albert Hall show and Space Ritual box set
- This is the band Corey Taylor and Randy Blythe once picked as the future of metal
- Glam rockers Starbenders tackle rock'n'roll excess on new single We're Not Okay, announce new album Take Back The Night
- Jesse Malin paralysed from the waist down after suffering spinal stroke
- Former Urge Overkill drummer Blackie Onassis dead at 57
- Watch Alice Cooper and his writhing snake lift Billion Dollar Babies to psychotic new heights
- June 14
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- Twitter sued for $250 million for "rampant infringement" of copyrighted music
- Duff McKagan launches solo album featuring Slash, Jerry Cantrell and Iggy Pop
- Peter Gabriel cancels Nottingham show
- Watch Tarja Turunen perform a beautiful cover of Linkin Park's Numb in a tiny church
- Demi Lovato is using she/her pronouns again because constantly having to explain they/them to others was "absolutely exhausting"
- The Struts announce August UK and Europe headline shows
- R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe changed his original lyrics to Everybody Hurts after regrets over a misunderstood lyric in Losing My Religion
- Alice Cooper to release new album Road, shares gritty first single I'm Alice
- Stevie Nicks shares details of career-spanning studio albums and rarities boxset
- Listen to this Fred Durst-approved Limp Bizkit x Queen mash-up for a good ol' booty-shaking boogie
- This footage of Slipknot making 90,000 people jump up at Download shows they seem to be doing just fine
- According to science, these are the bands with the saddest and angriest fanbases
- Tears For Fears announce three special UK shows for September
- June 13
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- Dutch band DeWolff smash world record for fastest "studio-to-store" vinyl release
- Cormac McCarthy was the author of heavy books. In turn, those books inspired some very heavy music
- A YouTuber has covered Metallica's 72 Seasons in the style of Slayer and it's as brutal as you'd expect
- Envy Of None share animated video for That Was Then
- Jinjer announce 2023 North American headline tour
- Aerosmith’s Joe Perry on his turbulent relationship with Steven Tyler: “He’s probably my best friend”
- Queens Of The Stone Age announce UK / European tour
- Paul McCartney has used AI to create the "final" ever Beatles song
- Rob Caggiano opens up on his "emotional" split from Volbeat
- Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme reveals he's recovering from cancer
- June 12
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- Sigur Rós release video for Blóðberg, first new song in seven years
- This Nintendo-style cover of Metallica's ...And Justice For All is the album you didn't know you needed
- Watch: hundreds of fans started circle pitting around Parkway Drive's Winston McCall in the middle of their Download set and it looks amazing
- Deathcore crew Chelsea Grin launch 'pool noodle' mosh pit at their show with predictably ridiculous results
- Watch The Cure's Robert Smith serenade his wife at LA show
- Marillion announce A Tour Before It's Christmas 2023
- Jethro Tull announce The Seven Decades UK tour
- Michael Monroe and Vince Neil finally come face-to-face, decades after fatal car crash
- Bring Me The Horizon announce new album and tour
- Watch Sparks perform a frenzied This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us in 1974
- June 11
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- June 9
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- Watch The Hives perform Hate To Say I Told You So on Howard Stern's show
- Foo Fighters hold off challenge from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds to secure their sixth UK number 1 album
- Residents living near the Download site at Donington are complaining that the world's biggest rock festival is too noisy
- Kirk Hammett recalls Joey Jordison's onstage tears before playing Enter Sandman with Metallica at Download
- Listen to Black Veil Brides and Ville Valo join forces to cover Sisters Of Mercy classic Temple Of Love
- Slipknot launch new Adderall EP accompanied by disturbing Death March video
- Here's everything we know about the Rammstein allegations so far
- June 8
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- Iamthemorning's Gleb Kolyadin to officially release The Outland
- This Beavis and Butt-Head clip is the most perfect critique of 90s alt. rock ever made
- Watch Faith No More chuck water and throw punches at an unsuspecting talk show host during this excruciating interview from 1995
- Hardline preacher-cum-politician Ian Paisley used to picket "evil" metal gigs in Ireland: yesterday his son invited Gene 'The Demon' Simmons to Parliament
- "I could throw out a few thousand dollars to have you snuffed out": The ugly truth behind Kurt Cobain's threats to "hurt" two female writers working on a Nirvana book
- Foo Fighters seek to end Noel Gallagher's run of 10 consecutive UK Number 1 albums
- Run-DMC, Ice Cube, Lil Kim, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Ghostface Killah to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop at huge NYC show
- Green Lung announce their largest UK headline tour
- Slipknot's first European show of 2023: no Clown, no Craig, a new member and some rare songs (videos and setlist inside)
- Watch Corey Taylor and Bullet For My Valentine gatecrash Margot Robbie's interview and make her week
- Slipknot have posted a photo of a possible new member and no one knows what's going on
- US State Department condemns Roger Waters' "long track record of using antisemitic tropes"
- June 7
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- Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann launches range of cannabidiol products
- Watch a fresh-faced Aerosmith's play Dream On on US TV in 1974
- Slipknot announce departure of Craig Jones, then delete announcement
- The Rolling Stones play it cool with their Start Me Up iced coffee kit - just in time for summer
- Avenged Sevenfold hoped to make Life Is But A Dream... even weirder by having Lionel Richie sing on it
- PJ Harvey announces extensive UK and Europe tour, shares title track of new album I Inside The Old I Dying
- Geezer Butler and Ozzy Osbourne apparently no longer speak to each other because their wives won't let them
- Corey Taylor: "I could write an entire album in a day"
- Why Freddie Mercury boobed badly by wearing false breasts onstage at Queen's debut Rock In Rio headline show
- IO Earth to release new studio album Sanctuary in June
- Psychologist says people that listen to heavy metal think more logically and are less stressed than those who don't
- Clown to sit out upcoming Slipknot dates
- Music photographer Mick Hutson has died, aged 58
- Tool announce extensive North American tour
- Groundhogs founding guitarist and frontman Tony McPhee dead at 79
- June 6
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- Rammstein issue second social media statement in relation to online allegations: "We condemn any kind of transgression"
- Dave Grohl posts an emotional open letter to Foo Fighters fans, and UK fans have spotted a massive potential Glastonbury hint
- Noel Gallagher challenges Liam to call him to discuss an Oasis reunion: "I f***ing dare you!"
- Pixies to play Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde in full for the first time ever at UK/European shows in 2024
- Queens Of The Stone Age announce The End Is Nero tour dates
- Kerry King: Jeff Hanneman “wanted nothing more than to come back” to Slayer before his death
- Watch this behaviour analyst serve up amusing 'cultural observations' on metalheads
- Avenged Sevenfold found angry reactions to the band's new material hilarious: "we were just laughing"
- Coheed & Cambria to play 2007's No World for Tomorrow at two new UK dates
- Eric Clapton announces UK & Ireland tour
- Fall Out Boy and Paramore's Hayley Williams have collaborated with Taylor Swift on her updated version of her 2010 album Speak Now
- Watch Bruce Dickinson lead a 15,000 crowd singing happy birthday to Nicko McBrain
- June 5
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- Noel Gallagher has a new message for Liam: "He should concentrate on what's left of his f***ing hairdo"
- Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil reveals his initial aim for grindcore side project Empire State Bastard: "No melodies, just f***ing mayhem"
- Watch Fever 333 frontman Jason Aalon Butler scream his lungs out on a moving Ferris wheel
- Despite the bad blood between the Nirvana and Guns N' Roses camps, Courtney Love once appeared onstage with Slash, and it was pretty damn cool
- Voyager announce more UK shows for October
- Rob Trujillo would love Slayer to cover the title track from Metallica's 72 Seasons
- The Internet has paired David Draiman with The Muppets for a Oohwa Mahna mash-up, and only the coldest, blackest hearts could fail to be tickled
- Classic Rock magazine names the greatest Guns N' Roses song of all time
- Noel Gallagher once again slams The 1975, calls them naughty words and says they're "certainly not rock"
- Ghost just played a show opposite Harry Styles and watching the two fanbases queue next to each other is hilarious
- The Anchoress announces London Union Chapel show for October
- Listen to Peter Gabriel's cheery new single Road To Joy
- Yungblud sung Break Stuff with Limp Bizkit at Rock Im Park and there are some interesting outfit choices going on
- Watch nu metal history in action as Evanescence perform Bring Me To Life with Papa Roach's Jacoby Shaddix
- Rare white labels from Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, The Who and many more go under the hammer
- Watch high quality footage of peak Genesis performing on US TV in 1974
- In 1989 Howard Stern gave Axl Rose an unexpected wake-up call on his birthday: the whole recording is now online
- June 4
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- June 2
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- Liam Gallagher apologises on behalf of his family for Noel's "piss poor" and "damn right blasphemous" cover of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Lifesigns confirm new Live In The Netherlands album for July
- Sleep Token just sold out 10,000 capacity Wembley Arena in under 10 minutes
- Pendulum are back - and they've teamed up with Bullet For My Valentine's Matt Tuck for a rollocking new single
- New look Beatrix Players announce new album and live dates
- Here's what Metallica might sound like if they had Avenged Sevenfold's Synyster Gates playing guitar
- Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi once had an onstage guitar solo interrupted by local taxi firm orders coming through his amp
- Chad Kroeger says Pantera's Dimebag and Vinnie Paul always defended Nickelback against critics in the metal scene
- Devin Townsend announces Empath Live In America will be released in August
- This is how to write a Sleep Token song, apparently
- Watch Alice Cooper play a wild version of I'm Eighteen on The Midnight Special
- Tenacious D launch majestic video for cover of Chris Isaak's Wicked Game
- June 1
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- Noel Gallagher's cover of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart will have Ian Curtis turning in his grave
- Tickets are now on-sale for Metallica: M72 World Tour Live From Arlington, TX – A Two Night Event
- Brian May and Eddie Van Halen's Star Fleet Project to be reissued as massively expanded box set
- Unearthed early draft of Freddie Mercury's lyrics for Bohemian Rhapsody reveal the song's original title
- Courtney Love says Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was as ambitious and hungry for success as Madonna
- "He made up for some of my lack of talent": Lars Ulrich remembers meeting James Hetfield for the first time
- Corey Taylor discusses past tensions with his son Griffin, Vended's frontman: "We butted heads for a few years"
- Steely Dan: more 24-carat 70s rock gold from the Midnight Special
- Watch Foo Fighters open new club venue with special guest and fiery Bad Brains cover
- Def Leppard and Motley Crue add Australian dates to Stadium Tour
