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- January 31
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- Listen to Paramore's cover of Talking Heads classic Burning Down The House, from the forthcoming tribute album Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense
- Gleb Kolyadin and Bi-2 bandmates released from Thailand jail
- "Now is a good time to call time": You Me At Six announce split
- High On Fire announce summer UK and European tour, new album expected soon
- Einar Solberg shares new live clip of Leprous fave Within My Fence
- Pink Floyd announce new Collector's Edition of The Dark Side Of The Moon
- Hear Dragonforce’s Through The Fire And Flames in the new Despicable Me 4 trailer
- Ayreon announce new star-studded 01011001 - Live Beneath The Waves release
- London doom/stoner metal festival Desertfest announces 32 new bands
- Want to attend Download, Glastonbury, Reading/Leeds, ArcTanGent or Bearded Theory festival for free? Here's how you can do it, while also helping others
- January 30
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- “An exceptional collectors opportunity": An unfinished novel about John Lennon written by original Beatles bassist Stuart Sutcliffe is being put up for sale, alongside his artwork, poems and early photos of the band
- The Emerald Dawn announce 'live in the studio' performance of In Time
- How to watch Kings From Queens: The Run DMC Story online – from anywhere
- "I was on that stage a lot more as a fan than I was in our band": watch Green Day revisit 924 Gilman Street, the legendary all-ages punk club where they cut their teeth
- Marilyn Manson ordered to pay Evan Rachel Wood almost $327,000 to cover legal fees
- The complete Emerson, Lake & Powell collection to be released in April
- Bruce Dickinson announces album signing appearances at five UK record shops
- January 29
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- Elton John, Eric Clapton, Brian Wilson and more to appear on posthumously created album of duets with Glen Campbell
- "We can't wait to celebrate the timeless legacy of our classic hits": Heart announce Royal Flush tour dates in North America, the UK and Europe
- "Busted at Download! Wicked. Let's 'ave it!": Busted, Mr. Bungle, Enter Shikari, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Tom Morello and more join Download 2024 bill
- Order your limited edition Bad Omens, Hanabie, Lorna Shore or Scene Queen bundle
- Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie announce 21-city Freaks On Parade summer 'spooktacular'
- “We’re thrilled to be going back to the UK”: American Football announce British shows, including Outbreak festival appearance, to celebrate their debut album's 25th anniversary
- The Fierce And The Dead announced as headliners for A Sunday In September
- "I still think I’m part of Yes": Jon Anderson teases the possibility of a reunion with former Yes bandmates Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman
- Heather Findlay announces new project The Bee Tellers
- Toyah and Robert Fripp continue to bring the noise with chaotic old-skool cover of (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)
- January 28
- January 27
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- "While our intentions were good, to put it simply, we failed... We let Sleep Token and you down": Promoters AEG apologise after US tour pre-sale chaos leaves many Sleep Token fans furious and ticket-less
- Fish announces the Road To The Isles European Tour 2024
- “If one person deserves a knighthood, it’s Ozzy Osbourne”: Judas Priest’s Rob Halford urges King Charles to knight the Prince Of Darkness
- January 26
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- "We’re so excited about our future!" Green Day celebrate scoring fifth UK number one album with 'Saviors'
- Bambie Thug is bringing a slice of industrial-pop madness to Ireland's Eurovision 2024 qualifier tonight - and you can help them make it to the final
- "I miss hearing you laugh. I miss laughing with you": Wolfgang Van Halen shares poignant birthday message to his late father Eddie, on what would have been the guitar legend's 69th birthday
- Robert Fripp and King Crimson manager David Singleton announce West Coast US dates
- Nova Cascade launch Kickstarter for "our most ambitious project yet."
- “To permit defendants alone to tell the authoritative story of the Ramones would be an injustice to the band and its legacy.” Johnny Ramone’s widow files lawsuit over Joey Ramone movie plans
- Caligula's Horse announce European and UK tour dates for May and June
- January 25
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- "I'm still standing up and there's nothing you can do": Frank Turner faces down the haters on new single Do One, announces tenth solo album Undefeated
- Listen to the brand new Elbow single Lovers' Leap here...
- "I'd seen Led Zeppelin, loved it, but you can't touch them: they fly away on a jet plane that says 'Led Zeppelin' on it. The Clash pulled up in a station wagon": Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan on the gig that changed his life forever
- "You may feel as though you've fallen down a rabbit hole the size of Texas": The Butthole Surfers' fabulously freaky early albums are being reissued
- "We weren’t lying when we said our 10th year is going to be the biggest ever!": Mogwai, Electric Wizard, Explosions in the Sky and Ihsahn among artists newly confirmed for ArcTanGent 2024
- "We cannot thank you enough for joining us on our journey." Evanescence's Bring Me To Life reaches one billion streams on Spotify
- "I kinda don't recognise myself." Corey Taylor addresses mental health concerns after cancelling North American tour dates
- Bad Omens collaborate with Poppy on new industrial metal banger V.A.N.
- Bruce Dickinson shares video for Rain On The Graves, the second single from his forthcoming solo album The Mandrake Project
- "Our world is much dimmer": Woodstock star Melanie dead at 76
- January 24
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- "He's complaining the entire tour like I’m not paying enough attention to him on stage": David Lee Roth launches bizarre attack on Wolfgang Van Halen, complete with comedy voices
- "Come and celebrate the new beginning with us": The Wildhearts announce return with new lineup and one-off live show featuring "biggest production" yet
- Neil Young, Dave Matthews Band, Tedeschi Trucks Band and more announced for Bourbon & Beyond
- “When I first met Paul McCartney, it was like meeting Jesus Christ”: Ozzy Osbourne reveals the celebrities who made him feel star-struck
- Guns N' Roses launch wild animated video for recent single The General
- Paramore, Foo Fighters, Blink-182, Bring Me The Horizon and Blur amongst Brits 2024 nominations
- “The audience just wouldn’t let us go!” Jimmy Page recalls Led Zeppelin's legendary four-night stand in Boston in January '69, the gigs that set his band up for superstardom
- Arjen Lucassen unveils Plan Nine project with Robert Soeterboek
- “After the recent sad and premature passing of Joey, it only feels right to go out and celebrate these songs." Wednesday 13 announces special UK and European tour celebrating the music of Murderdolls
- “Consider this shit shut right down right now.” Donald Trump has been using a song by The Smiths at his rallies, and Johnny Marr is having absolutely none of it
- US synth duo Zombi celebrate 20th anniversary with new studio album Direct Inject
- The Fierce And The Dead add more live dates for October
- "It's about no longer suspecting, but knowing that this will never get any easier… in fact, it’s about to get a whole lot worse": Fat White Family are releasing a new album and it's pushed them to the limits of their very existence
- "Big fan of their prawn sandwich, I must say": Status Quo have reworked Rockin' All Over The World as a "Saving All Over The Store" advert for M&S
- Ghost's infamous adult toy merch combo is back once again for a "last chance, final return" - but be quick!
- January 23
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- "I felt like it was such a unique experience that I couldn't pass up": Florida man plays Deftones and System Of A Down riffs while undergoing brain surgery
- The Residents return to the UK for more live dates
- Ozzy Osbourne will perform two final farewell shows in his beloved hometown of Birmingham: "two more shows to say goodbye"
- Metallica and Super7 are releasing a new Cliff Burton action figure
- “We are incredibly sorry to anyone we offended”: A pig’s head was thrown around in a black metal mosh pit, and people are so furious that the band have apologised
- January 22
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- “It’s time to call it a day”: Rick Wakeman announces farewell tour and a parting instrumental epic, Yessonata
- "She's making sure that an entire generation of new music fans understand what it means to actually play music live": David Draiman tells Disturbed fans to put some respect on Taylor Swift's name
- "This is possibly the most irresistible thrash package ever put together." Anthrax, Kreator and Testament announce UK and European tour
- “Hope everybody is ready to rock & roll with us!” The Black Crowes announce 35 shows in North America, the UK and Europe
- "Our long run has lasted far longer than any of us ever dreamed." Eagles announce UK and Netherlands dates as part of their Long Goodbye final world tour
- An Ozzy Osbourne music school with "55 years of memorabilia" is being worked on in Birmingham, according to Sharon
- New book documenting the 80s prog scene to be published in June
- "These guys are so real, beautiful and caring. That's what I love about them." Judas Priest's Rob Halford heaps praise on Metallica for their pure love of heavy metal
- New vinyl edition of Kate Bush's The Dreaming out in February
- Watch Jack Black and Foo Fighters cover AC/DC's Big Balls in New Zealand
- January 21
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- Von Hertzen Brothers share new live clip of anthemic Sunday Child - "the heartbeat of our live show"
- “Don’t expect them to get invited back to SNL anytime soon”: Watch System Of A Down play a sweary B.Y.O.B. on Saturday Night Live and really annoy NBC
- Irish language hip-hop trio Kneecap have Michael Fassbender in their biopic, and a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and they haven't even released their debut album yet
- Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong: Lars Ulrich is a great drummer
- January 20
- January 19
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- Judas Priest stream new single Crown Of Horns
- Jordan Rudess reunites with Dixie Dreggs for US tour
- "We got a good crowd here!" Watch a heavily-disguised Green Day busk a hard rockin' cover of Bad Company's Feel Like Makin' Love on a New York subway platform
- Jem Godfrey updates on new Frost* album Life In The Wires
- Jethro Tull to release Steven Wilson remix of The Château D’herouville Sessions on vinyl
- "North America shall gather in Worship once again": Sleep Token announce US and Canada tour dates, including two festival appearances
- January 18
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- "I want to give back to my native community": Lynyrd Skynyrd's Rickey Medlocke releases solo single in support of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
- “It’s a big, festering, open sewer – it’s nothing to do with music”: Watch Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson eviscerate hair metal in a 1990 interview
- Listen to Fractal, the first new Vennart music for four years!
- “He started crying, and goes, You're the only one that understands me”: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong recalls the day he made his childhood hero Eddie Van Halen cry
- Jadis announce first new studio album for ten years
- "They weren't really guitarists and couldn't really play. They could play three or four chords and had trouble with that": songwriter Desmond Child on the shortcomings of 90s guitarists
- January 17
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- "We saved a lot of our favourite mementos, candid pics, and dirtiest souvenirs": Mötley Crüe have launched what they're calling "the world's most notorious museum"
- "Making a split with someone after 10 years, 20 years, 30 years — there’s going to be some high highs and low lows as you begin to process it all". Chelsea Wolfe shares shadowy new single Everything Turns Blue
- Mystic Festival announces 17 more bands to join 2024 headliners Megadeth, Bring Me The Horizon and Machine Head
- Big Big Train share video for new single, the historically themed Miramare
- “Dust off your guitar (sorry, the snare drums will have to wait for another day)”: Metallica take potshots at St Anger in new announcement
- Spiritbox are in the studio with ex-Bring Me The Horizon member Jordan Fish
- No Doubt and Sublime to reunite for Coachella: This year's headliners also announced
- January 16
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- As if the internet wasn't strange enough already, here's Gov't Mule playing a reggae version of Black Sabbath's Iron Man
- "Nothing lasts forever". Sleep Token wipe their social media accounts and fans are freaking out
- "This is more than just a song; it's a salute to a legend, a way to honor DMX's memory." Five Finger Death Punch recorded a song called This Is The Way featuring hip hop icon DMX - and we'll get to hear it next month
- "That sounds like the demons from hell are rising... I felt like I was being possessed": Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong reveals the Van Halen song which blew his nine-year-old mind, and continues to do so today
- "Mascara, lip mask, eye mask, ear plugs, travel shampoo, conditioner": Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon to release new solo album The Collective, shares disorienting new track Bye Bye
- Jane Weaver streams title track of upcoming album Love In Constant Spectacle in April
- Eivør announces European tour dates for October
- "We're the only species capable of destroying itself (and all others) completely and, increasingly, it appears as though we're only too willing": Listen to Enter Shikari and Fever 333's Jason Aalon Butler collaborate on the furious Losing My Grip
- “Say goodbye to this guy and get ready for the new look”: Slipknot’s Sid Wilson teases new era for the band – but terrifies fans into thinking he’s leaving
- “It is by far the most difficult album I’ve ever worked on”: Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach gives update on long-awaited ninth record
- "There is an obvious media shift to delete me from being the central essence of The Smiths": Morrissey thinks that dark forces are conspiring to erase his contributions to The Smiths
- Amazing lost TV footage of The Sweet has been recovered after 50 years
- Robert Plant announces extensive UK tour with Saving Grace
- January 15
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- Soundgarden's Kim Thayil says the word 'grunge' was nothing but a marketing ploy
- "I could sense the end was near": Yes bassist Billy Sherwood recalls his "heartbreaking" final conversations with his hero Chris Squire
- "It's like a song from a parallel universe!" The funkiest, grooviest Korn remix ever just dropped, and it's got a classic Black Sabbath solo stitched in
- “We are on the brink of an autocratic government, someone who is blatantly saying, If I’m president again, I’m going to be a dictator:” Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong fears for America's future
- Will Creed make new music together? Scott Stapp hopes so
- "We are very proud of what we have achieved." Ring Van Möbius to call it a day after next album
- "People have heard it and loved it." We have an update on that Cradle Of Filth x Ed Sheeran collaboration (and we may still be waiting a while to hear it)
- January 14
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- "I don't think they'll ever find a cure for cancer. I don't think they want to find a cure": Roger Daltrey questions Big Pharma as he nears the end of his time at the Teenage Cancer Trust
- Mudvayne's Chad Gray slams new bands for all sounding "the same"
- Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda reflects on Hybrid Theory: “I was standing on red carpets with celebrities and thinking, ‘Wow, this is so weird.’”
- Turns out, heavy metal is the last thing people want to hear at the doctor’s
- Watch Tool play Undertow track Flood for the first time in 13 years
- January 13
- January 12
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- Gentle Giant share new video for Steven Wilson remix of Two Weeks In Spain
- Code Orange cancel upcoming headline tour and surrounding dates due to health issues: "this is the last way we intended to start this era"
- “All my life caved in. I could barely tie my shoelace let alone run my business or my life": Liam Gallagher recalls the "absolute nightmare" of life after Oasis split
- "She's the greatest female rock voice of all time, she's untouchable": David Draiman sings Ann Wilson's praises as he duets with Heart's vocalist on new Disturbed single Don't Tell Me
- "I charged him £200 for it. It's worth about two million now": The Police's Andy Summers on the guitar he deeply regrets selling to Eric Clapton
- Happy The Man return with brand new single Only Love
- Whom Gods Destroy share first new music from debut album
- "I feel like I'm hallucinating and all of a sudden I've listened to this song 15 times in a row. I called Chris Cornell and said, You're a genius": producer Michael Beinhorn on the tensions and triumph of Soundgarden's Superunknown
- Sleepmakeswaves release hilarious animated trailer for new album
- "Creating music is always where we find harmony together": The Black Crowes announce Happiness Bastards album, release first new song in 15 years
- January 11
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- “I’m some old fart of a rock singer and this has given me a purpose." The Who's Roger Daltrey looks back on his time working on Teenage Cancer Trust shows, says he had to "beg" bands to perform
- "My forte, my strength in Metallica, was the live show. That is all that mattered to me, everything else came second." Jason Newsted on what made him such a vital part of Metallica during his time with the band
- Steve Hackett shares video for brand new track Wherever You Are
- "We love this odd little hybrid of folk rock, early Mayhem and King Crimson!" Watch Enslaved's new video for the mesmerising Gangandi
- "You've got the Scots who are very quiet and shy, and then you've got Scots when you get a drink in them - just wild revellers... Mogwai are the best example of that": Mogwai announce new career-spanning documentary If The Stars Had Sound
- "Why didn’t you guys call me?" Ozzy Osbourne calls T-Pain's cover of Black Sabbath classic War Pigs the best ever - and T-Pain is delighted
- A new range of Slipknot Funko Pop! Vinyl figures are being released - and it includes recently ejected drummer Jay Weinberg
- "Steve Harris was very suspicious. He said: Why do you wanna come back?": Bruce Dickinson on rejoining Iron Maiden with a mission to "sweep away the past"
- "This big guy comes in like he owns the place, and we all hate him immediately": the truth about Chad Smith's audition for the Red Hot Chili Peppers
- January 10
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- Gentle Giant announce new Steven Wilson remix of The Missing Piece
- Xmal Deutschland announce reissue of Early Singles (1981-1982), frontwoman Anja Huwe shares details of debut solo album
- Iamthemorning announce live show with Randy McStine as support
- John Mitchell announces London show
- "He's jetlagged, he's dead, he wants to see a real ****ing circle pit!" Watch Bad Omens' Noah Sebastian join Bring Me The Horizon on stage for a ripping Antivist in Cardiff last night
- Waxahatchee announces new album Tigers Blood, shares "unromantic" love song Right Back To It
- January 9
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- James Kottak, former Scorpions and Kingdom Come drummer, dead at 61
- New York City punks Bodega announce new album Our Brand Could Be Yr Life and share playful new single Tarkovski
- Magnum guitarist Tony Clarkin has died aged 77
- "Not only is the quality of life getting lower, but our politics and economy are volatile". Gen And The Degenerates tackle uncertain futures on dystopian new single Kids Wanna Dance
- "They couldn't have been nicer, and it really lifted us at a moment when we could have used the lifting": Geddy Lee reveals how Robert Plant and Jimmy Page helped Rush overcome grief and loss
- "I was like, 'I've never heard any of these songs!'" Mike Portnoy almost drummed for Nickelback
- "It’s an extension of Slayer...a follow-up to Repentless for sure." Kerry King updates us on his highly anticipated new album
- PVRIS announce world tour dates for Europe, the UK and North America
- January 8
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- “We can’t think of a more fitting tribute": Prince’s Purple Rain film is to be resurrected as a stage musical
- Sleep Token's Take Me Back to Eden was the most streamed metal album released in 2023 on Spotify
- Listen to an excerpt from Can's latest Live series release
- Four Ziggy Stardust-era David Bowie B-side tracks will arrive on Record Store Day as part of the new Waiting In The Sky (Before The Starman Came To Earth) LP
- Death metal veterans Dying Fetus just stole the show at a US hardcore festival, and videos of the mosh pits from their set are going viral
- "I see people hugging each other, they're crying…I love seeing that." James Hetfield and Rob Trujillo name their favourite Metallica songs to play live
- "I said to Chester, 'What do you think about just saying SHUT UP?'" Mike Shinoda explains how Rage Against The Machine inspired one of Linkin Park's most iconic moments on One Step Closer
- The BBC is selling off rare Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, The Beatles and er, Bathory albums from its Gramophone Library if you want to expand your vinyl collection
- "It's been an incredible ride." The Who, Robert Plant, Eddie Vedder, Noel Gallagher to play final Roger Daltrey-curated season of Teenage Cancer Trust shows
- Nine Skies cancel UK tour due to 'unforeseen circumstances'
- "We couldn't be more excited." Korn announce biggest ever UK headline show at London's Gunnersbury Park with support from Denzel Curry, Spiritbox, Wargasm and Loathe
- January 7
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- January 5
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- The Pineapple Thief share impactful lyric video for Every Trace Of Us
- Metallica’s James Hetfield wants someone to put a straw on his microphone
- Ace Frehley on feeling better off since leaving Kiss: "Paul and Gene have tried to destroy my reputation over the years. And unfortunately for them my new record is going to make them look like imbeciles"
- Ex-Megadeth guitarist Kiko Loureiro wanted the band to bring Marty Friedman back: “He was a part of those iconic albums.”
- "You're 24 years old. Sex is all you really think about, especially being in a rock band." Jonathan Davis on the "immature" Korn track that also has his baby secretly featured in the background
- Listen to pulsating new Bring Me The Horizon single Kool-Aid
- Backstage at the final Kiss show: Only in the pyrotechnic new issue of Classic Rock
- "The only people who weren’t into it were the other three girls in the band": Susanna Hoffs says her bandmates in The Bangles believed Eternal Flame wasn't good enough to be an album track, never mind a single
- Billy Joel announces arena and stadium dates with Stevie Nicks and Sting
- Listen to Just Another Rainbow, the first single from the new supergroup fronted by ex-Oasis vocalist Liam Gallagher and ex-Stone Roses guitarist John Squire
- January 4
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- "I thought it was a spam email when Mike reached out asking me to be part of this": Watch Mike Shinoda play Linkin Park's Castle Of Glass with six musicians who've never met one another before
- "I got tired of seeing my own face, or seeing a stranger’s opinion of me every day. I don’t think that’s healthy." Bad Omens' Noah Sebastian recently deleted all his social media, and his new interview with Metal Hammer might explain why
- "A next-generation tribute to the musical legend": an Elvis Presley hologram show is set to premiere in London
- Greenslade At The BBC collection to be released
- The new issue of Metal Hammer stars four brand new cover stars: Bad Omens, Hanabie, Lorna Shore and Scene Queen!
- John Mitchell announced as new David Cross Band guitarist
- Rage Against The Machine "will not be touring or playing live again", says drummer
- January 3
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- Watch Mike Portnoy join Umphrey's McGee onstage in Chicago for covers of Spinal Tap's Big Bottom and Rush's YYZ
- "It's basic. It's not technical by any means": Watch Brian May solo while Tony Iommi plays the riff from Paranoid
- Former Mr Bungle member arrested as prime suspect in the murder of his girlfriend
- Don't bank on Ville Valo reuniting HIM any time soon: "We haven’t really been in touch"
- Long-time Donald Trump critics Green Day offend MAGA supporters, Elon Musk and Fox News with updated American Idiot lyric criticising Donald Trump
- Could we see Ozzfest return one day? According to Sharon Osbourne: "Of course"
- Watch teenage Irish country blues sensation Muireann Bradley cover When The Levee Breaks
- January 2
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- More than 20 minutes of unseen footage of Led Zeppelin playing live at the Pontiac Silverdome in 1977 has emerged online
- Watch the full video of K.K.’s Priest, featuring ex-Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing, at Bloodstock 2023
- Ex-Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg walks for first time since November surgery
- Dream The Electric Sleep's Matt Page announces new solo album
- "We just wanted to have fun with it." A trailer for a new Mickey Mouse horror movie has been released, less than 24 hours after a Disney copyright for the character has ended
- Marek Arnold shares new video for the folky Canterbury-esque A Time Of Mystery
- "When you bare it all, you’ve got nothing to hide." David Ellefson on the sex scandal that got him fired from Megadeth
- "As a guitar instrumental the attitude of it was totally unique in its mystery, imagination and execution": Jimmy Page pays tribute to Link Wray's Rumble and shares footage of surprise Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame performance
- "I am writing... and it's sounding really good": Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi looks back on a "fun" 2023, and promises long-awaited box set release plus new music
