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- February 29
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- "He’s always waiting for body parts to fall off": Al Jourgensen says Dave Navarro once offered him $20,000 for his amputated toe
- Richard Thompson announces Ship To Shore, first new studio album for six years
- “We made it again!” Nightwish have finished their next studio album
- “I think fans are going to be blown away”: Avenged Sevenfold release virtual-reality concert Looking Inside
- Swedish prog rockers Agusa to have first five albums reissued
- “The time is right to get back on stage”: Power Trip announce first headline shows since death of Riley Gale
- "Anything that draws me back to London, and therefore to England, fills my heart with joy": Stevie Nicks to headline huge BST Hyde Park show
- "We look forward to an incredible evening of unique performances": Metallica to perform at star-studded Elton John tribute ceremony
- “This story takes place around a seminal UFO event that I believe happened”: Blink-182's Tom DeLonge has written a novel titled Trinity about a “pivotal moment in American culture”
- "I'm ready, willing and able to play": Last month John Fogerty was confirmed to headline a festival in Australia. Now organisers have removed him from the bill and he's baffled
- February 28
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- "Even now it still has that special quality that made it such a ground-breaking record": Def Leppard to release massively expanded 40th anniversary edition of Pyromania
- Zakk Wylde turned down the chance to join Guns N' Roses because he needed to buy pizza and soda pop for his girlfriend
- Slayer, Slipknot, Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe and many more confirmed for massive Aftershock lineup
- "An album on vinyl is a beautiful thing." Kate Bush talks about her love of vinyl
- "I've felt very loved and cared about." Marillion's Pete Trewavas updates fans after recent heart surgery
- Robert Fripp and Toyah announce Christmas 2024 party and you're all invited
- “It’s heavy, it’s dynamic, it’s technical!” We got Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine to name the best song on each other’s classic 2005 album
- Tarja shares new single edit of Dark Star ahead of What Lies Beneath reissue
- Rick Wakeman announces new-look Xmas show run for November and December
- Surprise! Courtney Love joined Green Day covers project The Coverups onstage for three songs in London last night
- February 27
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- Suzi Quatro to celebrate 60 year reign as official Queen of Rock and Roll with five-date UK tour
- "It's going to be a great party for all!": Journey announce 50th anniversary tour dates with Cheap Trick
- Ozzy Osbourne explains social media tirade against Kanye West: “It’s wrong if you don’t say anything about him.”
- "It would be the perfect bookend to my life in latex": Horror legend Doug Bradley wants to play an "older, darker Pinhead" for one last Hellraiser movie
- “Without prior warning, he immediately left the band”: Sepultura drummer Eloy Casagrande abruptly quits, replacement revealed
- "It had nothing to with me rejoining Dream Theater!" Mike Portnoy responds to Sons Of Apollo claims
- Jean-Luc Ponty's Life Enigma album to be released on vinyl for first time
- “I’m a cosmic thunderlord, here to present you the best show you’ve ever seen”: Watch Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst seemingly lose his mind during a collaboration with shoegaze band Diiv
- Fish announces Road To The Isles England and Scotland dates for February and March
- “I am honoured to be joined by dozens of my favourite artists”: Slash, Corey Taylor, Serj Tankian and more will appear on a new album by composer extraordinaire Bear McCreary
- "Since black metal, what’s the next dangerous thing?": Ihsahn reflects on black metal's place in rock'n'roll history
- "It’s almost like Benny Hill put to music": Steve Hackett reveals which song on Genesis' classic 1974 album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway he considers "a joke"
- “You’ll see a lot of hoods up and masks on and fire ceremonies”: some lad from Boyzone thinks that modern musicians are carrying out live Satanic rituals at shows
- February 26
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- "But oh my God, he's just awesome. Power, resonance, tone... fabulous": Bruce Dickinson names some of his favourite singers
- Tedeschi Trucks Band announce mammoth summer and fall leg of Deuces Wild North American tour
- "What I wish to ask you is if you still love your husband, or if you have another lover?" Eric Clapton's love letter to seduce Pattie Boyd when she was married to his friend George Harrison is quite something
- If you think AI technology is all fun and games, you clearly haven't seen the new 'Mike Patton as Britney Spears' Toxic video
- "Not everybody was on board." Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal lifts the lid on Sons Of Apollo demise
- How to watch the BRIT Awards 2024 - from anywhere
- Jean-Michel Jarre's Xmas day Versailles 400 concert now available
- “Without me begging him, it wouldn’t have happened”: Wife of Slayer’s Tom Araya says she “harassed” him for over a year to reunite the band
- Karnivool announce UK and Europe headline and festival dates
- "A Limp Bizkit is a sad, lumpy body part": Watch these Gen Z music fans react to classic nu metal songs
- "It's not over": Bruce Dickinson is ready to start writing again for the follow up to his forthcoming new solo album The Mandrake Project, says he "already has 10 or 12 different ideas for it"
- "It sounds like the inside of my brain most days": The Struts release breezy new single Heaven's Got Nothing On You
- Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox have returned to the internet with a sparkling new episode of that thing they do at the weekend
- February 25
- February 24
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- Kansas drummer Phil Ehart steps down from live performance after heart attack
- Alcest announce the release of their seventh album Les Chants De L'Aurore
- Steven Wilson announces Record Store Day remix album
- Watch video for previously unreleased Linkin Park track Friendly Fire as band detail upcoming singles collection
- Mick Mars: If Motley Crue wanted me to write songs with them again, of course I would
- February 23
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- “Stumbling on King Crimson and Gentle Giant was eye-opening for me. I went, ‘How can you do that so fast?’”: ex-Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars reveals his secret love of 70s prog
- “The risk was getting too big”: UK festival promoters express concern that rising expenses and the cost of living crisis endangers future events, as nine festivals disappear from the summer '24 schedule
- "What I love about the metal community is that you get to rage safely." Jada Pinkett Smith explains the unique challenges - and joy - she got from fronting her own metal band, Wicked Wisdom
- "I don't know, I'm the bass player": Tim Commerford admits he has no idea if Rage Against The Machine have broken up
- "I've already started humming and strumming": Ville Valo is planning to work on new music this year
- TesseracT announced as headline act for Radar Festival
- Yes launch limited 2CD and Blu-ray edition of Mirror To The Sky
- Nektar to play final UK live show at Nene Valley Rock festival in September
- February 22
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- "This is going to be the metal tour of 2025." Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine announce co-headlining UK tour, playing classic albums Ascendancy and The Poison in full
- "We are ready to have some fun": Kings of Leon share new single Mustang, announce new album, BST Hyde Park headline show and North American tour
- "There is a spirit in the place": Watch Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, Queen's Brian May and Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi unite to launch London's new Gibson Garage
- “Hello London! Come have fun with us!” Green Day side-project The Coverups announce tiny London gigs
- The Slayer reunion has some haters, and Gary Holt’s wife has a simple message for them: “Don’t go!”
- Sexual assault case against Aerosmith's Steven Tyler dismissed as judge rules his alleged actions did not pose “serious risk of physical injury”
- "It promises to be one of our most interesting sets to date." Yes discuss their upcoming UK tour
- "It's just two twenty-minute songs. Very conceptual." Steven Wilson updates on his unreleased new studio album
- Stewart Copeland announces UK dates for his "most intimate tour to date".
- Judas Priest legend Rob Halford is officially a Sleep Token fan: "One day The Metal God and Vessel will take a selfie together."
- "The dreams of a teenage kid... to me it's always been the fuel that keeps you going": Mark Knopfler releases achingly poignant new single Watch Me Gone
- February 21
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- Slayer to reunite to play Louder Than Life 2024 alongside Slipknot, Korn, Motley Crue, Judas Priest, Disturbed, Evanescence, Five Finger Death Punch and many more
- "Parkinson’s is a daily struggle, the important thing is to persevere": Foreigner's Mick Jones reveals Parkinson’s diagnosis
- Susanna shares brand new single The Enemy
- "The past 10 years have been incredibly fulfilling, but also physically and emotionally draining": Jamie Lenman announces retirement from music
- Guitarists Gordon Giltrap and John Etheridge team up for UK tour
- “Want to know what love is? Love is putting Foreigner in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”: producer Mark Ronson recruits Dave Grohl, Jack Black, Josh Homme, Slash and Chad Smith to lobby for his stepdad's band's induction into Rock Hall
- All The Way To Memphis on The Midnight Special is peak Mott The Hoople and peak Ian Hunter hair
- “It’s about deconstructing the systems that have created all this poverty, sectarianism, hatred and murder”: Belfast rap trio Kneecap announce debut album Fine Art, share mosh pit video for Sick In The Head
- February 20
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- Led Zeppelin fans! Peter Grant's Ferrari 246 Dino GTS could be yours, although it won't be cheap
- AC/DC to celebrate 50 years of rockin' and rollin' by releasing their first nine albums on gold vinyl
- Primus and Coheed & Cambria announce joint headline US tour for July and August
- “We put an offer on the table for an Oasis thing and Noel said no": Liam Gallagher reveals that his big brother turned down "a lot of money" to reform Oasis for a 30th anniversary Definitely Maybe tour
- "We feel as though the time is right to get back on stage." Power Trip to reunite for punk mega-festival No Values, with Misfits, Turnstile, Iggy Pop, The Dillinger Escape Plan and more also scheduled to play
- "I'm excited to challenge the notion of what constitutes a trip to the movies": Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty/Skyfall) to direct biopics for each of the four Beatles
- Gwen Stefani opens up on No Doubt's surprise reunion: "There's just so much water under the bridge. We had such a life together."
- Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine clear Instagram profiles, post Ascendancy and The Poison album covers – are they teasing something special?
- Jethro Tull announce departure of guitarist Joe Parrish
- Radar Festival announces Music Venue Trust partnership
- "When you have a band this good, I believe in showing it off": Alice Cooper announces Too Close For Comfort UK tour
- February 19
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- "Let’s stop playing silly political games. Show the carnage on the news. Show the American people the dead children": John Mellencamp issues powerful statement calling for gun control in America
- Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson to guest on upcoming Opeth album
- Order your limited edition Ihsahn bundle – featuring an exclusive cassette of his incredible new self-titled album
- Career-spanning Brian Eno collection featuring three previously unreleased tracks to be released in April
- February 18
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- February 16
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- Transatlantic announce "the most epic and mammoth of all TA Live releases!"
- Prog supergroup Six By Six announce second album
- "It’s getting into some new territory for us:" hear Vampire Weekend's first new music in five years
- Colin Edwin remixes The Fierce And The Dead's Golden Thread
- "We have asked WWBBD? (What would Bad Brains do?) many times": Dave Grohl has recorded a Bad Brains cover with Anthrax's Scott Ian and Charlie Benante for a seven inch Record Store Day single
- "I love those memories. The ten thousand hours that we spent together being crazy, being wild": As Blackberry Smoke release their eighth album, Charlie Starr looks back on the band's early days
- "Be available for rehearsals and shows. Know how to play bass. Be cool": want to play in a band with James Hetfield's son Castor, and join Metallica's extended family? Here's what you gotta do
- Final acts confirmed for Steelhouse Festival 2024
- "Paul is incredibly grateful to all those involved": Amateur sleuths have located Paul McCartney's long-lost Höfner bass 50 years after it was stolen
- The Black Crowes launch imperious yet funky new single Cross Your Fingers
- February 15
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- “People have been saying it’s one of the greatest lead guitar parts of all time!” While She Sleeps share new single To The Flowers, announce UK record-store tour
- "Nickelback has been such an influence on our music culture." A deep new Nickelback documentary explores their status as one of the most popular - and yet uniquely hated - rock bands of all time
- Carl Palmer to release career-spanning Fanfare For The Common Man box set in April
- Fresh from their Grammy triumph, Larkin Poe have been confirmed as Maid Of Stone festival headliners
- White Willow to reissue second album Ex Tenebris in April
- The new Idles video is sung by a deep fake version of Coldplay's Chris Martin as he appeared in the video for Yellow two decades ago and we have no idea what's going on any more
- "I’m glad I didn’t sign them. They were too dangerous": Island Records co-founder Chris Blackwell explains why he has no regrets about Led Zeppelin breaking their promise to sign with his label
- February 14
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- "The first time we heard it we just stared at each other with our mouths open": Slash teaming up with The Dandy Warhols for 'Vietnam-era acid rock' is the collaboration we never knew we needed
- "Sometimes, incredible opportunities present themselves in surprising ways": watch the video for Eyes Wide Open, the first new music from Kittie in 13 years
- "We're coming back!" Riverside announce UK and Ireland tour dates for May
- “Welcome to the new era”: Sleep Token have signed to major label RCA Records
- "It feels like the biggest sonic jump we've made yet... It feels great to break down preconceived limitations and leave them in the rearview": Metz announce new album Up On Gravity Hill, two new singles and a massive world tour
- "A trilogy in five parts!" Kev Rowland announces fifth volume of The Progressive Underground
- "Iron Maiden is a popular band among taxonomists and museum curators": Scientists in Peru name a new species of lizard after Bruce Dickinson
- "It was cathartic... a trial by fire": Robert Plant on how it felt to sing Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven for the first time in 16 years, and possibly the last time ever
- February 13
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- “I have always been interested in writing about empathy and communion as a tool to fight the fascist government that we are under": Idles' Joe Talbot wants to see the British government "crushed"
- "The horse is runnin’. What a ride we have": Neil Young and Crazy Horse saddle up for first full tour in 10 years, announce double vinyl live album
- "No hyperbole, I think this is our best work": Pearl Jam confirm Dark Matter album details, announce World Tour
- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announce extensive North American tour
- From Jersey Shore clubs to the world's biggest stages: New Bon Jovi docu-series celebrates band's 40th anniversary
- “That activity that a very, very small minority of people do is so selfish and so disturbing”: Bruce Dickinson admits he “lost his temper” when a fan lit a flare at an Iron Maiden show in 2022
- Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets announce UK dates for June
- Bloodstock Open Air announces 18 more bands for 2024
- IQ announce array of tour dates for 2024 and 2025
- Pearl Jam release explosive new single Dark Matter
- There may be something that delivers a more joyous, uplifting, feel-good hit than peak Van Halen and Ozzy Osbourne mixed with Motown legends The Miracles, but if so, chances are it's already illegal
- February 12
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- "Genesis is a strange band... they were privileged but brutalised": Steve Hackett remains "very proud" of his six years with Genesis, but has no regrets about leaving
- "I don’t need some wank award by some geriatric in a cowboy hat": Liam Gallagher won't lose any sleep if Oasis don't make it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- "Danny Carey is 62 now, so there's no thought of taking 13 years for another album": Justin Chancellor offers promising update on new Tool album
- Order your limited edition Amaranthe bundle - featuring a signed art print
- "See you Filthlings there": Cradle Of Filth to headline Damnation Festival 2024 with an "old school ritual performance"
- AC/DC announce 21-date Power Up tour - and a new bass player
- February 11
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- The Struts conjure up a Rod Stewart vibe on "brutally honest" new single How Can I Love You (Without Breaking Your Heart)
- Emperor’s Ihsahn reflects on black metal church-burnings: “We were all very consumed with the whole thing. The attention it got.”
- Ozzy Osbourne refuses request from Kanye West to use Black Sabbath Iron Man sample: "I want no association with this man!"
- Ozzy Osbourne, Jane's Addiction and Oasis among nominees for the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- February 10
- February 9
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- "Once again the British government is trying to silence voices from West Belfast – once again it will fail!": Rising hip-hop stars Kneecap accuse the British government of trying to "silence" them after having funding blocked
- Sleep Token’s 2024 UK tour is selling out fast, two new dates added
- My Dying Bride announce new album A Mortal Binding, release first single Thornwyck Hymn
- In Flames just released a new song, Become One, on streaming services without telling anybody
- Introducing new Nordic folk artist Kati Rán
- Gamers are using the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth demo to cover My Chemical Romance’s Welcome To The Black Parade
- Chelsea Wolfe announces UK and Ireland headline tour
- Marillion bassist Pete Trewavas updates fans from hospital
- Listen to a synthwave version of Avenged Sevenfold’s (O)rdinary, officially endorsed by the band
- "It has a kind of sense of revolutionary message but also a good sense of humour": Producer Bob Ezrin gives update on eagerly anticipated MC5 album
- "One of my vocal cords was literally atrophied": Jon Bon Jovi addresses the issues with his singing voice
- February 8
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- "Wayne was a force of nature. A soul man in a rock'n'roll body": Bob Ezrin pays tribute to late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer
- Marshall add a splash of sunshine to the Emberton II with collaboration with streetwear brand Patta
- Enslaved and Jo Quail hook up for alternative version of Forest Dweller
- Jello Biafra collaborator and 'cowpunk' outlaw Mojo Nixon dead at 66
- Ihlo to premiere live at ProgPower Europe performance
- “It just brings you to tears”: David Gilmour, Pete Townshend, Brian May, Tony Iommi, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Alex Lifeson, Slash and more join forces for epic new recording of Mark Knopfler's Going Home
- Big Big Train announce European tour dates for September and October
- Marillion announce Nick Beggs to replace Pete Trewavas for Cruise To The Edge
- Blue Öyster Cult's new album is an AI-assisted collection of songs recorded decades ago
- February 7
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- "We've been through pain and tribulation, we've been through hard times and fun times": Skindred win Best Alternative Music Act at the MOBO Awards
- "We’re often told that Troublegum changed people's lives. Well, it changed ours too": Therapy? announce massive Troublegum 30th anniversary tour
- Godsmack, Shinedown, Killswitch Engage, The Offspring, Halestorm, Parkway Drive, Poison The Well, Machine Head and more for Inkcarceration Festival 2024
- Here's what System Of A Down’s Chop Suey! would sound like if Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian swapped voices
- "It's like if the solo from The Beatles' Taxman wolfed down a bottle of Adderall" Les Savy Fav share Legendary Tippers, their first new material in 14 years
- "Swirling Phrygian runs, insistent sax, full on vocals and blistering guitar!" It's Steve Hackett's new single Circo Inferno
- House Of Marley Stir It Up again with limited edition Bluetooth turntable to celebrate Bob Marley biopic
- "When we had to do children’s TV with Craig Charles, it was very bizarre." Shane Embury, longest-serving member of legendary grindcore innovators Napalm Death, has a book out, and it's unlike any other you'll read this year
- Watch this YouTuber turn an exorcism into a legitimately awesome metal song
- "It is so dark...it's not accessible like some of the other Maiden albums." Ex-Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley explains why he feels many fans didn't warm up to their divisive The X Factor album
- Vintage Trouble go on hiatus: "May we all continue as friends and supporters of one another"
- February 6
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- "He brought us the music, the friendship and the memories": A crowdfunding campaign to erect a Gary Moore statue in Belfast has been launched
- "We want to take listeners on a journey they won’t forget." Trifecta return with second album
- "I don’t wish him dead at this moment": Kerry King hasn't spoken to, texted, or emailed Tom Araya since Slayer split
- Lamb Of God and Mastodon announce epic 'Ashes Of Leviathan' tour playing two classic albums in full, with Kerry King and Malevolence in support
- “This album helped propel our little art experiment called ‘Incubus’ into a way of life." Incubus announce US tour performing Morning View in its entirety
- "Every time we finished a rehearsal, I felt that my brain was sweating": former Genesis/Weather Report drummer Chester Thompson on why playing with Frank Zappa was the best education he ever received
- Career-spanning Andwella vinyl box set to be released
- Gurriers tackle "the effects of climate change, war and people being too obsessed with themselves and their online personas" on new disorientating psych-rock track Des Goblin
- "The BBC said, We don’t want to play this song because there are too many words in it": Why Dire Straits had to break America before they were embraced in England
- See the first photos of Kerry King's new band in the studio
- Andy Latimer guests on new Colin Bass & Daniel Biro album
- "Are you ready?" Are AC/DC about to announce a world tour?
- "We are here to play. We don't let our friends down": Watch pro-shot 4K footage of the night Joey Jordison saved Metallica when Lars Ulrich went AWOL
- February 5
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- Stevie Nicks extends 2024 tour
- Sleepmakeswaves announce London headline show for May
- "If you were after a girlfriend, by the time you’ve got ten minutes into A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers she’s usually jumped out the window." Bruce Dickinson on his prog heroes
- Sleep Token announce 2024 UK arena tour
- "I’m going to be doing this for the next 10 years at least." Listen to Kerry King's ferocious debut solo single, Idle Hands, as the ex-Slayer man reveals his new band members and debut album From Hell I Rise
- February 4
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- "Let's keep the youth making music and keeping the dream alive." Metallica win Best Metal Performance at the 2024 Grammys, as Paramore, Larkin Poe and Boygenius also pick up awards
- "I have a dream of holding a festival that brings together female vocalists such as those in Evanescence, Nightwish and Arch Enemy." Babymetal reveal their dream festival lineup
- February 3
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- Rock world pays tribute to MC5 founder Wayne Kramer, who died this week at the age of 75
- "I couldn’t tell you a pentatonic scale from a gin and tonic." Bruce Dickinson's new album The Mandrake Project will be the first time he's ever played guitar on record
- “I consider myself friends with Paul and Gene – we’re like brothers, brothers have arguments”: Ace Frehley offers an olive branch to his old Kiss bandmates, takes a swipe at backing tapes and avatars
- Avenged Sevenfold's virtual reality concert set for release on Apple and Meta VR devices
- Watch Ace Frehley in video for Walkin' On The Moon
- February 2
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- MC5 founder, guitarist and driving force Wayne Kramer dead at 75
- "Our new record label thought we were awful, and they hated Golden Brown. They said, you're finished": Jean-Jacques Burnel on why The Stranglers' best-known song was "a threat to the powers that be"
- Tool's Maynard James Keenan is releasing a live album, and it has the worst cover art we’ve seen in a very, very long time
- Jordan Rudess announces new solo album to feature Joe Payne on vocals
- Order your exclusive Steve Hackett bundle featuring an alternate cover, art print and signed lyric sheet
- “If you’re not in the fields with us this year you are MISSING OUT!” Reading & Leeds announces new names for 2024 lineup, including Pendulum, Denzel Curry, The Amity Affliction and more
- "I will never forget this experience": Watch a Kiss superfan get an incredible life transformation in emotional new episode of Queer Eye
- Iron Maiden's Powerslave at 40 and the Greatest Albums of 1984: Only in the historic new issue of Classic Rock
- "His name is now etched in the annals of corporate law." A thrash metal drummer just cost Elon Musk $56 billion
- Steve Hackett's on the front cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now
- Taylor Swift once dressed up as Kiss legend Ace Frehley to prank Keith Urban during a live show
- February 1
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- “The fans, the performances, the shows”: David Ellefson reveals what he misses about being in Megadeth
- The Utopia Strong announce new BBC Sessions album
- Hawkwind detail new studio album Stories From Time And Space
- Listen to Billy Joel's first new song in 17 years, Turn The Lights Back On
- "It’s not that Maiden albums aren’t fun, but we don’t get to play like children." Bruce Dickinson is on the cover of the new Metal Hammer
- Weezer's Rivers Cuomo, Wet Leg, Architects' Sam Carter, Maisie Peters and more lend their voices to Yukee, a new animated CBeebies series about "the sheer joy of making a noise with friends"
- Led Zeppelin's original contract with Atlantic Records stated that Jimmy Page could replace the other band members if he wanted
- If you watch just one video of Pink Floyd's Brain Damage and Eclipse being sung by a giant sad clown today, it should be this one
