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- March 31
- March 30
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- Are cigars affecting James Hetfield's voice? Not according to the Metallica man, who says he hasn't sounded this good in a long time
- “The record company said, ‘You are completely out of your mind!’ Which I was!”: Scorpions’ hit song Rock You Like A Hurricane originally had a different title, and it was definitely NSFW
- Trent Reznor recalls his "terrible" attempts at songwriting before he struck gold with Nine Inch Nails
- Rammstein are being sued by French act Ninja Cyborg who say German giants stole the riff for Deutschland
- March 29
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- "I have no need of paradise": If your dream Good Friday involves watching a tormented priest spraying Holy Water on a werewolf's face, we have an early Easter treat for you
- "Black Night? It was done in two hours of drunkenness!": Deep Purple's best songs, in their own words - Only in the revealing new issue of Classic Rock
- "I can't think of a Van Halen song that doesn't put a smile on my face – it's just a question of figuring out how to play them": How Joe Satriani is preparing to pay tribute to Eddie Van Halen
- 34 years ago Joe Satriani and Steve Vai told the world they'd record a song called The Sea Of Emotion together: Now they've finally done it
- March 28
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- The Black Crowes played a Led Zeppelin classic on the Howard Stern Show this week, and broke news many fans have been waiting for
- “The second he kicks in on the first chorus, it’s just mind-blowing!" St. Vincent shares slinky Dave Grohl-powered new single Flea, reveals All Born Screaming North American tour dates
- Beyoncé has covered a Beatles classic on her new country album, Cowboy Carter
- Korn are working on a new album, apparently it’s “the best and heaviest Korn stuff in years”
- Watch our round up of this week's best new alternative music, featuring Bodega, Metz, Softcult and more
- Vinnie Paul “was never behind” the idea of Pantera reuniting, says former bandmate
- The Omnific announce new studio album The Law Of Augmenting Returns
- Godsticks announce live dates for June and September
- Lindisfarne announce three-disc Mercury Years box set and new live dates
- “When we parted ways back in 1984, they told me to stick around because they might need me in 40 years.” Original Anthrax bassist Dan Lilker will rejoin the band for US and South American tour
- Reliqa announce new album Secrets Of The Future
- Limp Bizkit fans, rejoice! You can now buy hot dog-flavoured water to drink
- March 27
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- Twenty One Pilots announce enormous Clancy world tour, launch video for new song Next Semester
- "I don't do that": If you bump into the Red Hot Chili Peppers, don't expect a handshake from guitarist John Frusciante
- “Now… which leather pants to wear?!” Lzzy Hale of Halestorm will front Skid Row on tour, following the exit of singer Erik Grönwall
- "He would ramble off all these weird predictions, none of which ever came true": Fu Manchu announce UK tour dates and new album details, share new single about an astrologer friend who is absolutely rubbish at predicting the future
- The BBC is to broadcast "a visceral account of the days that surrounded that tragic moment in 1994 when Kurt Cobain took his own life" to mark the 30th anniversary of the Nirvana frontman's death
- Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith will have cameos in the This Is Spinal Tap sequel
- Jordan Rudess shares first single from upcoming solo album. Listen to Embers here...
- Pat Metheny announces new solo guitar album MoonDial
- Eivør announces "the most nuanced and experimental album I've created to date."
- Eurovision-winning shock rockers Lordi are on the cover of Vogue Scandinavia, because why not?
- "Hopefully we’ll get all the metallers weeping": English shoegaze legends Slowdive on their upcoming appearance at one of America's biggest metal festivals
- Marjana Semkina announces second solo album Sirin
- March 26
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- "Fans would talk s**t about Avril to me. I got a lot of negativity and backlash": Sum 41's Deryck Whibley on the unexpected challenges thrown up by his six-and-a-half year relationship with Avril Lavigne
- "That was a special adventure – I wouldn’t be here without him": Robert Trujillo says he'd love to work with Ozzy Osbourne again and reveals the classic cult supergroup he wants to resurrect
- Kerry King, Creeper, Bambie Thug and more added to Download 2024
- David Byrne and Devo, Courtney Barnett, The War On Drugs and more to appear on Noise For Now Vol. 2, a comp to benefit abortion access and reproductive rights
- You can now be hunted to the death by members of Slipknot, thanks to a new update for horror video game Dead By Daylight
- “Lemmy’s the king of rock ’n’ roll. No one else comes close.” Dave Grohl, Ozzy Osbourne, Slash and more to contribute to new illustrated book about Lemmy Kilmister
- Korn announce massive North American tour with Gojira and Spiritbox
- “I’m happy to say it’s exceptionally heavy.” Devin Townsend is recording a “crushing, emotional” new album called Powernerd
- "I don’t want to be sending a bandmate home in a body bag": why unhinged Texan noise-rock legends Butthole Surfers won't be reuniting, despite "six-figure offers" for live shows
- "I've been touring for the money": Pete Townshend opens up as he considers one final tour world from The Who before they "crawl off to die"
- March 25
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- Jon Bon Jovi joined trance DJ Armin van Buuren onstage in Miami at the weekend and 60,000 ravers look like they enjoyed the moment very much
- Watch Robert Plant, Eddie Vedder and more join Roger Daltrey onstage for an epic blast through Baba O'Reilly at the Royal Albert Hall
- "America, we will see you very soon": Mongolian folk metal sensations The Hu to support Iron Maiden on expanded North American Future Past Tour
- New four-disc box set for 'great lost Yes album' Talk due in May
- "The war doesn't stop. I know a lot of people are tired of it, but Ukraine doesn't have that luxury." Why Sharon den Adel travelled to Kyiv to film Within Temptation's new video for upcoming single A Fool's Parade
- Voyager cancel all 2024 live shows
- "It‘ll be an intense night of death and thrash metal!" Cannibal Corpse announce European tour with Municipal Waste, Immolation and Schizophrenia
- Pearl Jam release frenzied new single Running, announce global cinema event
- March 24
- March 23
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- Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese confirms return to A Perfect Circle after 13 years
- Ace Frehley says he got an apology from producer who claimed to have written "97%" of former Kiss man's solo album 10,000 Volts
- “He came up and said, ‘Hey Herman, how’s it going?’ That was a shocker!”: the encounter with a guitar legend that left Dragonforce’s Herman Li speechless
- March 22
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- More than 130 fans killed in rock concert mass shooting in Moscow
- “It’s a dream come true, a collaboration only The Simpsons could have predicted”: Cypress Hill are making a 1996 Simpsons joke a reality by booking a show with the London Symphony Orchestra
- Einstürzende Neubauten announce huge 'alien pop music' tour, share single Ist Ist from forthcoming double album Rampen (APM: Alien Pop Music)
- Black Sabbath announce details of long-awaited Tony Martin era box set and The Eternal Idol is nowhere to be seen
- Watch the official video for Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes' charity remake of Going Home (Theme From Local Hero), featuring David Gilmour, Eric Clapton, Alex Lifeson, Brian May, Brian May, Slash and more
- "She is fearless and polymathic and political and no album ever sounds the same": Oscar-winning Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy salutes the artist whose album he listened to most last year
- Oliver Wakeman shares trailer for new Anam Cara album
- “It’s a beautiful song!” Hear System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian sing lead vocals on a new track by The Walking Dead/Godzilla composer Bear McCreary
- Nordic Giants to open window on their past with new compilation abum
- "On this day, I see clearly..." Watch a sold-out Toronto arena sing a passionate, acapella version of Alter Bridge classic Metalingus with no band in sight in honour of wrestling legend Adam 'Edge' Copeland
- March 21
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- "Your mother was and still is such a powerful presence here on earth. Watching you sing to her makes me cry": watch Sinéad O’Connor's daughter sing Nothing Compares 2 U at New York tribute show
- Watch our round up of the best new alternative music this week, featuring the Dandy Warhols, Destroy Boys and more
- "It’s nothing whatsoever to do with the drug!" Watch the video for Ozzy Osbourne and Billy Morrison's brand new single, Crack Cocaine
- "The guys stopped the song. They all looked at me like, 'What are you doing?'" How David Draiman came up with the legendary 'OOH-AH-AH-AH-AH' monkey noise on Disturbed's nu metal classic, Down With The Sickness
- If you're wondering how radio-friendly the new Shellac album will be, the first track is called World Series of Dick-Sucking and the closing track is called I Don't Fear Hell
- Dave Bainbridge and Sally Minnear announce An Evening Of Iona Music and more...
- Blackpool post-rockers Blanket return with third album Ceremonia
- Steve Rothery and Mark King guest on new Dave Foster Band album
- Prog power trio Six By Six share video for the dramatic Obiliex
- "They’ve been vocal on everything from feminism and female rights to animal rights, police brutality and government corruption." The 80s anarcho punk icons that inspired Bob Vylan to do punk properly
- "We were hanging out with our acoustic guitars, and we wrote four songs in two or three hours": Duff McKagan and Jerry Cantrell are thinking of making an album together
- Watch Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder make a surprise appearance onstage with The Who in London to sing Quadrophenia classic
- March 20
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- Def Leppard launch limited edition live album for Record Store Day
- Watch Glenn Tipton return to the stage with Judas Priest for the first time since last year’s Power Trip festival
- Three of our top-rated budget turntables are on sale for Amazon’s Spring Deal Days - up to 24% off
- "The first album was called Doggystyle, so we decided to flip it, and call this one Missionary": watch hip-hop superstars Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg discuss making their first record together in 30 years
- New Pallbearer single Where The Light Fades marks sonic shift to dark post-rock sound
- The Decemberists share 19-minute epic Joan In The Garden
- A dance remix of Disturbed’s Sound Of Silence cover has cracked the US dance charts, and it is the worst thing we’ve heard in a hot minute
- Elbow announce two UK warm-up shows ahead of arena dates
- “It’s great when stuff like that breaks through”: Bruce Dickinson explains why he loves one of nu metal’s biggest, most “eccentric” bands
- Lemmy's ashes to be 'enshrined' at Rainbow Bar & Grill in Los Angeles alongside launch of Motorhead Whiskey
- March 19
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- You are cordially invited to enjoy cocktails and a Q&A with Def Leppard's Joe Elliott at a fancy hotel in London
- Mark Knopfler's all-star Guitar Heroes version of Going Home is battling for the UK #1 spot with Beyoncé and Ariana Grande
- Alex Proyas, director of 1994’s The Crow, speaks out against 2024 remake: “The Crow is not just a movie. Brandon Lee died making it.”
- “It’s just one of those days!” Watch a 100,000-strong Argentinian crowd sing every word of Limp Bizkit’s Break Stuff
- Matt Pike teases Sleep comeback: “We’re talking and working on stuff again.”
- “I thought Geordie was indestructible”: Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman pays tribute to his late friend, bandmate and “national treasure” Geordie Walker, doesn't want to hear questions about the band's future
- Deep Purple announce =1 More Time UK Tour
- March 18
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- “So, the encore continues": Pulp share dates for their first North American tour since 2012
- "Five years ago we imagined a world of our own. In Bludfest we are going to build one." Yungblud just announced his own festival taking place in Milton Keynes in August - and Lil Yachty, Soft Play and The Damned are amongst the bands playing
- Order your limited edition Judas Priest bundle – featuring an exclusive Invincible Shield T-shirt
- Jeff Lynne’s ELO announce final Over And Out tour, with 27 North American shows
- Stevie Nicks adds shows in the UK, Ireland and Europe to her summer 2024 schedule
- "We are so grateful for this experience." Dutch symphonic metal stars Within Temptation have shot a pro-Ukraine music video in Kyiv
- Sólstafir announce European Tour for November and December
- "She goes, 'I love your beard' and starts to clean it!" What happened when country icon Dolly Parton met Judas Priest frontman and heavy metal legend, Rob Halford
- Steven Wilson to release first new Bass Communion album for 12 years
- March 17
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- Cockney Rebel leader Steve Harley dies, aged 73
- “It was all a bit Jethro Tull-y and witchy-woo”: the iconic Bruce Dickinson solo song that began life as an idea for an ‘acoustic’ Iron Maiden album that was never made
- Historic status awarded to Birmingham pub dubbed 'birthplace of heavy metal' where Black Sabbath made their debut
- March 16
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- Robert Fripp endorses new Adrian Belew Crimson project Beat
- Judas Priest have just scored their highest charting album ever with Invincible Sheield
- "It reminded me of punk rock crowds, of being aligned with all of the misfits": Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder found his first Taylor Swift concert "galvanising and powerful"
- March 15
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- "I was deeply in love with the lady that became Duff McKagan's wife": The Dandy Warhols' Courtney Taylor-Taylor explains how Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash ended up on his band's new album, Rockmaker
- Queen announce deluxe edition, multi-format releases of Queen Rock Montreal
- Brian Eno shares brand new song, the reflective All I Remember
- Simon Godfrey announces UK dates for September
- Win two Weekend VIP Passes, roundtrip airfare and hotel accommodation for the DWP festival of your choice - Welcome To Rockville, Sonic Temple, Inkcarceration, Louder Than Life or Aftershock 2024!
- Marillion share new live clip of Reprogram The Gene
- "The record feels like it was made for the stage": Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds announce 27-date The Wild God UK / Europe tour, with Dry Cleaning, The Murder Capital and Black Country, New Road in support
- “It brings you to tears”: Listen to Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Pete Townshend, Brian May, Tony Iommi, Alex Lifeson plus Jeff Beck's last-ever recording on stunning new version of Mark Knopfler's Going Home, raising funds for US and UK cancer charities
- March 14
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- Pelagic Records announces Pelagic Fest 2024, featuring The Ocean, Ihsahn, And So I Watched You From Afar and more
- Watch the trailer for the controversial new Crow movie, soundtracked by Ozzy Osbourne and Post Malone
- "This looks f***ing mint": Order your limited edition While She Sleeps bundle – featuring an exclusive patch and stencil
- “This is turn-up-the-volume, feelgood Bon Jovi”: Bon Jovi announce new album Forever, release lead single Legendary
- Listen to Todd Rundgren's version of King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man
- Pink Floyd announce Animals Dolby Atmos release for May
- “Bloodstock has always been a special place for Motörhead and for Lemmy.” Lemmy Kilmister’s ashes to be displayed annually at Bloodstock festival
- Metallica’s Robert Trujillo didn’t know what ex-Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg looked like until they were in Infectious Grooves together
- Portals festival unveils full line-up for 2024
- “That song really affects people. It affects me.” Bruce Dickinson names the greatest song he’s ever written – and, no, it’s not an Iron Maiden track
- Glastonbury 2024 lineup announced: Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline, Shania Twain, Idles, Heilung, PJ Harvey, LCD Soundsystem, Avril Lavigne, Sleaford Mods and many more confirmed
- March 13
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- All 12 Irish artists invited to play official showcases at the SXSW music festival have withdrawn in solidarity with Palestine
- "The perfect ‘Mother metal’ line up": Cassyette picks Witch Fever and Harpy to join her on This World F**king Sucks tour
- Former Nightwish bandmates Marko Hietala and Tarja team up for new single
- The Enid announce 50th anniversary tour dates
- "We have waited a long time to announce this!": L7 reveal plans for Bricks Are Heavy shows in the UK and Europe
- “The songs incorporate supernatural ideas with my own experiences.” Gatecreeper have teamed with death metal and hardcore royalty for new album Dark Superstition – judging by lead single The Black Curtain, we’re in for something truly special
- “Imagine if we had done something left-field or really weird? We'd have got stoned to death": Liam Gallagher defends his album with John Squire for sounding like an album Liam Gallagher and John Squire would make
- Watch this metal musician mistake a photographer for a technician and accidentally lob a guitar at him
- “It’ll be something you haven’t heard in 20 or 30 years – it’s the perfect way to go out”: Al Jourgensen is reuniting with a legendary ex-bandmate for Ministry’s final album
- March 12
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- Slash announces all-star S.E.R.P.E.N.T. touring blues festival with Warren Haynes, Samantha Fish, Eric Gales, Larkin Poe and more
- “Movies take forever to make. Forever!” An Osbournes biopic is in development, and Sharon knows who she wants to be played by
- “We refuse to participate in the war machine." Scowl, Gel, Sprints, Lambrini Girls and more pull out of SXSW Festival in protest at festival's US Army links
- Jon Anderson's In The City Of Angels to get another reissue
- Raspberries frontman and solo star Eric Carmen dead at 74
- March 11
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- Weezer to embark on space-themed tour to celebrate the Blue Album's 30th birthday with Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr
- "We decided time is short, we better do this now!": John Fogerty announces tour with George Thorogood
- Karl Wallinger of World Party has died, aged 66
- “I get excited when a witch comes out of the broom closet”: Order your limited edition Chelsea Wolfe bundle – featuring an exclusive patch
- Biffy Clyro announce intimate 'A Celebration Of Beginnings' UK dates, playing their first three albums in full
- "It sounds like worse Ghost." Watch Creeper send up some of the more outraged comments that greeted them winning Metal Hammer's album of the year in 2023
- Watch Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen join Ryan Gosling onstage at the Oscars to rip through Barbie hit I'm Just Ken
- Slipknot are rehearsing with a new drummer – and the signs are that they hit very, very hard
- March 10
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- "When he agreed to sing it just blew me away": Sheryl Crow releases cover of Peter Gabriel's Digging In The Dirt and he's on board
- "We will continue to play for him": Blackberry Smoke confirm return to the road after the death of drummer Brit Turner
- Slash announces blues album featuring Billy Gibbons, Paul Rodgers, Iggy Pop and more, launches video for cover of Killing Floor with Brian Johnson and Steven Tyler
- Judas Priest’s Rob Halford unknowingly gatecrashed AC/DC’s compound at Power Trip festival: “I look around and there’s Brian, sitting on a couch having a cigarette.”
- March 9
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- A burned CD-R copy of an unreleased solo album by Ghost's Tobias Forge sold online for almost $5500
- "It still excites me and breaks my heart." Trent Reznor reflects on 30 years of Nine Inch Nails masterpiece The Downward Spiral
- Also Eden, Hayley Griffiths and HeKz announced as headline acts for Danfest 13
- “He told me I was like a shaman onstage. I reminded him of Jim Morrison”: Carlos Santana once wanted to start a delta blues band… with Gavin Rossdale from Bush
- March 8
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- Order your exclusive Big Big Train bundle featuring a unique front cover, art print and signed lyric sheet
- Leprous announced as Sunday headliners for Radar Festival
- "There’s odes to pop culture moments in there from Mean Girls to Michelangelo...obviously made a bit goth." Watch the fantastically bonkers video for Bambie Thug's Irish Eurovision entry, Doomsday Blue
- Andy Tillison goes it alone on brand new The Tangent album
- Avenged Sevenfold play live debuts, deep cuts and one long-lost classic at first 2024 concert
- Tangerine Dream's Phaedra at 50 is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- “We’re really proud of the track!” Tenacious D release full cover of Britney Spears’ …Baby One More Time, plus star-studded music video featuring Bryan Cranston, Ke Huy Quan, Dustin Hoffman and more
- "Bon Jovi was all or nothing": A trailer for the upcoming TV series Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story has been released
- A biopic about Bon Scott's early life is in the works: Boy Swallows Universe actor Lee Tiger Halley set to star
- March 7
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- "We lost our guiding light": Magnum frontman Bob Catley releases emotional video statement two months after the death of bandmate Tony Clarkin
- "Oh my god!" Watch 'dwarf metal' band Wind Rose surprise two fans at an airport who were wearing their merch without knowing the band were right behind them
- A dad got his kids to help make a deathcore version of Old MacDonald Had A Farm and it's equal parts hilarious and adorable
- "The world was on fire for 48 hours and then the world moved on." Judas Priest legend Rob Halford compares his coming out experience to Billie Eilish's
- RPWL share new live clip of Another Life Beyond Control
- The Watch announce Lamb Lies Down On Broadway UK tour for November
- Don Broco, Frank Turner, Bob Vylan, Empire State B*stard, Wargasm and more complete stacked 2000trees line-up
- Axl Rose refutes allegations of sexual abuse, cites earlier acknowledgments of consent by accuser
- March 6
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- Watch Tom Morello and Nile Rodgers lead an all-star lineup of guitarists through an all-shred instrumental cover of Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
- "I guess I'm honoured he even thinks about me as much as he seems to": Wolfgang Van Halen responds to David Lee Roth's bizarre personal attacks with polite resignation
- "This was fun!" Talking Heads vocalist David Byrne has recorded a Paramore cover in recognition of Paramore covering Talking Heads
- "There’s no f**king around with this record. When it hits, it hits": Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds share title track of new album Wild God
- This is what Van Halen’s Jump would sound like if it were recorded by Slayer (and no, it isn’t AI-generated)
- "This is acceptable at Amon Amarth shows only!" An audience did some viking rowing at a Deafheaven concert, and metalheads aren't too happy about it
- Bush Hall's future as a music venue under threat due to rising costs and decreased fan spending
- “We know a lot of you travelled a great distance to get us to our destination so thank you”: watch U2's stunning performance of Beautiful Day which caused Dave Grohl to lose his mind in Las Vegas
- "My idea of a pop tune!" Kavus Torabi launches new solo album with video for Snake Humanis
- Moon Safari, Cyan and Magic Pie to headline Summer's End 2024
- Beloved UK metallers Palm Reader announce breakup, farewell tour: “We all have very different priorities now.”
- Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris wants to write an autobiography: “It’s just a question of time.”
- Uriah Heep's performance of Stealin' on The Midnight Special in 1973 is classic rock that's both classic and rockin'
- March 5
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- "I can't wait to start this incredibly exciting new chapter": Ex Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg has found a new home in Suicidal Tendencies
- Jon Anderson announces Yes: Epics, Classics and More tour: new music on the way
- Kim Gordon announces UK shows, extends US and European tours, shares video for new single Psychedelic Orgasm
- "I’m really looking forward to this incredible night to celebrate together." Korn announce stadium-sized debut album 30th-anniversary show, featuring Evanescence, Gojira and more
- "I would assume it’s going to happen." Are Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine going to release a song together?
- Soft Machine announce Ronnie Scotts date in April
- Ai Di Meola announces new studio album Twentyfour
- The Blackheart Orchestra need your help!
- Dave Grohl went to see U2's final show in Las Vegas and had A Very Good Time
- "Crank it up now!" Black Sabbath's Paranoid passes one billion streams on Spotify
- "It's a few people trying to steal centre stage and if you don't know already I still own this particular stage for now." Raging Fish slams online trolls over farewell shows
- "I still have very vivid images of him laughing, smiling, and goofing around": Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon remembers Nirvana's Kurt Cobain
- March 4
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- London's iconic Brixton Academy to reopen in April with Nirvana, Smiths, Oasis and Foo Fighters tributes
- Pixies part ways with bassist Paz Lenchantin after 10 years and announce Band of Skulls' Emma Richardson as her replacement
- Watch actor Mark Benton win almost £10,000 on The Celebrity Weakest Link - and donate it all to the ultimate heavy metal charity, The Heavy Metal Truants
- Chinese prog metallers OU return with second abum 蘇醒 II: Frailty
- Dragonforce's Herman Li: "I'm not in the top thousand guitar players in this world."
- Blackberry Smoke drummer Brit Turner dead at 57
- March 3
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- "We should have been writing our own songs, but it was much better to listen to Abba": Ritchie Blackmore has named his favourite band of all time
- Warning: Deep Purple's new animated video for Dweezil Zappa's remix of Smoke On The Water contains dragons
- Scientists name Jurassic marine worm after shock rock icon Alice Cooper
- March 2
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- "Cheers to the BRITs for making the voting system so complicated that only our fans could be arsed to vote!": Bring Me The Horizon defeat The Rolling Stones, Blur and more to win Best Alternative/Rock Act at the BRIT Awards
- Watch Courtney Love sing Hole classic Celebrity Skin with Green Day's covers band The Coverups at London's iconic 100 Club
- Rick and Oliver Wakeman, Gordon Giltrap and more line up for charity concert
- March 1
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- "We are starting from point zero. And this time, we’re reading the fine print": Hayley Williams is ready to lead Paramore into a bright new tomorrow
- "I miss him and his dog": Keith Richards has recorded a cover of Lou Reed's classic I'm Waiting For My Man
- Richie Faulkner isn’t sure if Judas Priest will make another album after Invincible Shield: “You never know what the future holds”
- Surprise! Black Country Communion announce first album in seven years, share 2024's funkiest rock single Stay Free
- "Capital and its bourgeois foot soldiers hold nothing but contempt for working people": Bad Breeding return in defiant form with Survival, the fierce first single from forthcoming album Contempt
- Cosmograf to release first ever live album
- Enslaved announce Jo Quail will perform Congelia with them at London's opening night of their latest tour
- Wheel announce third studio album Charismatic Leaders
- “All of that youthful exuberance was still there!” Rob Halford is on the cover of the new Metal Hammer - cuddling kittens!
- “Laid To Rest is 20 years old!” This new comedy sketch about ‘modern metal classics’ will make you feel old, guaranteed!
- “This song is underrated!” Watch the only time Slipknot have performed All Hope Is Gone’s incredible title track live
- Maybeshewill celebrate 10th anniversary of Fair Youth with remixed and remastered vinyl edition
- "It’s going to be a very unique night of music and storytelling": Barrett Martin lines up UK tour with Duke Garwood to celebrate the release of his new Screaming Trees memoir
- "We argued about everything": The stories behind the making of The Works, the album that returned Queen to rock: Only in the regal new issue of Classic Rock
- “I was with him from day one”: Alex Van Halen's forthcoming memoir Brothers promises to offer “the definitive take on Edward Van Halen’s life and death from the one who knew and loved him best”
- A new Jack Reacher story is coming and it's inspired by AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long
