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- November 21
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- Collectors assemble! Zavvi's massive Black Friday sale sees serious discounts on Marvel, Star Wars collectables & more
- Pixies/Breeders legend Kim Deal announces UK, US and Europe tour dates, shares title track of new album Nobody Loves You More
- Godley & Creme announce 'definitve' career-spanning box set
- Elvis Costello couldn't care less about his songwriting style being plagiarised and exploited by AI in the future. “Nobody wants to be me anyway!”
- Watch the visualiser for Michael Schenker and Axl Rose's epic cover of UFO's Love To Love
- "I love programming all of the pre-show house music": Listen to the audience playlist Mike Portnoy compiled for the Dream Theater tour
- November 20
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- Green Day, The Prodigy, Misfits and more announced for Coachella 2025
- "My idea was making The Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamourous": Miley Cyrus says her upcoming album was inspired by Pink Floyd
- “You see this thing on people's faces, this awakening moment, when they're going, There's a possibility here.” David Gilmour recalls the exact moment Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett tribute Shine On You Crazy Diamond was born in a scuzzy London rehearsal room
- Fred Durst having a conversation with a goblin is the most deranged non-interview of 2024
- Coheed And Cambria announce third Vaxis album The Father Of Make Believe
- Genesis announce 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
- Listen to the stories of Ozzy, Sammy Hagar, Bruce Springsteen and more for FREE - score 3 free months of Amazon Music Unlimited now with Audible
- “I was bleeding everywhere. It was wild!” Atreyu bassist has “a dent in my skull” after opening for Iron Maiden
- "We’re so excited to show you what we’ve been working on." Horsegirl announce new album Phonetics On and On, share first single 2468, reveal US tour plans
- Jethro Tull share new 2024 remix of Jack Frost And The Hooded Crow
- Watch Rolo Tomassi play their biggest-ever UK show in new pro-shot footage
- Listen to the first Killswitch Engage song in five years, Forever Aligned
- "I wanted to inject a little touch of hope and light into it": Legendary soul singer Al Green has covered R.E.M.'s classic Everybody Hurts
- November 19
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- AEW launches epic wrestling video using Guns N' Roses' equally epic November Rain
- The official Fleetwood Mac documentary will shine a light on their music as well as the band's "chaotic and almost operatic personal lives"
- "We’re so happy to be back." Architects announce new album The Sky, The Earth & All Between: listen to new single Whiplash now
- Poppy announces 2025 North American tour
- Leprous share drum playthrough video for Atonement
- Steven Wilson's surprise 2023 Christmas single December Skies to get physical release in December
- Pre-order our exclusive Mark Wilkinson/Fish t-shirt/signed calendar bundle here
- Lambrini Girls' scathing new single Love is the anthem every person getting out of a toxic relationship needs to hear
- Bring some rock'n'roll history to your living room with Marshall's epic UK Black Friday sale - save up to £110 on speakers and headphones
- "I don’t like comedy heavy metal." Comedian Frank Skinner reveals the beloved British rock band he'd banish forever
- Primus are officially on the hunt for a new drummer. Could it be you?
- Watch all of If These Trees Could Talk's headline slot from this year's Portals Festival
- “I’m in it to win it.” Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan enters charity raffle to win Courtney Love's hand-written lyrics for Hole's Violet, a song inspired by Billy Corgan, “a guy I know a little bit about”
- "After the uproarious bash which was the 40th anniversary of our first record, Red Roses for Me, we wanted to do it again." The Pogues announce first UK headline tour in 13 years, celebrating 40 years of their classic album Rum Sodomy & the Lash
- Sammy Hagar robbed of $1 million worth of tequila in organised crime double truck heist near Mexican border
- Rod Stewart announces 20-date One Last Time North American tour with Cheap Trick
- At last! Yngwie Malmsteen launches range of multivitamin gummies
- November 18
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- "I'd rather listen to two foxes shagging in the bushes." Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher isn't buying into all the excitement around The Cure's triumphant comeback
- Save money, you will: The Lego Millennium Falcon just dropped by £210 at Argos ahead of Black Friday
- “I go to rock shows. I have never had to hold my ears because of that screaming and the ear-shredding loudness. It's quite something.” Pixies/Breeders legend Kim Deal on supporting Olivia Rodrigo
- Danfest announce stage times for Danfest 13
- Linkin Park to screen live performance film in cinemas in 2025
- “When I first wake up I’m suicidal, actually suicidal.” The Who's Pete Townshend opens up about how he deals with his “chemical depression”, but admits “what works for me won’t necessarily work for you”
- Spiritbox announce long-awaited new album Tsunami Sea, share the ethereal new single Perfect Soul
- Steven Wilson adds fourth London Palladium show on May 20
- “These guitars were his great love. They need to be shared, played and loved again.” Jeff Beck's guitar collection to be auctioned next year
- Watch the trailer for Beatles 64, the new Martin Scorsese-produced film about The Beatles' arrival in America
- "I started crying like a baby, it was like Jesus coming back and anointing you!" How Crossbone Skully coaxed legendary producer Mutt Lange out of retirement to work on their album
- November 17
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- Magnum release live version of the classic Kingdom Of Madness, recorded at final show with late founder Tony Clarkin
- "Let's make trophy hunting extinct, not wildlife": Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne launch Ban Trophy Hunting t-shirt in aid of "a future free of these sick maniacs"
- “It was a dream! We’d love to meet them one day and thank them for the inspiration!” Italian goth metallers Lacuna Coil react to Depeche Mode endorsing their Enjoy The Silence cover
- November 16
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- "I was done after that, no more." Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones hasn't spoken to Johnny Rotten since 2008
- "It's kind of a mental health thing." Mike Shinoda on new Linkin Park lineup and why Brad Delson stepped away from reunion live duties
- Robert Fripp and Carl Palmer lead tributes to Pete Sinfield who has died, aged 80
- November 15
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- "UK/EU… stay tuned." Jack White announces No Name world tour itinerary for 2025
- “Even just four shows will allow us to get some proper UK food and bad reviews." Desert rock legends Masters of Reality announce 2025 UK tour
- Order an exclusive Papa Roach bundle featuring a limited edition tie-dyed t-shirt
- John Lodge gets in the festive mood with brand new single Love Will Conquer All
- Watch pro-shot video of Thrice playing post-hardcore classic The Artist In The Ambulance live in full
- Beyond The Gates festival announces headliner King Diamond and 7 others for 2025
- Exploring Birdsong share video for reflective new single Stitch
- Watch WWE wrestler Damian Priest debut new entrance music featuring Slayer guitarist Kerry King
- “A Wu-Tang Clan-level thrash collaboration!” Machine Head release all-star song featuring In Flames, Lacuna Coil and Unearth; quietly announce new album for 2025
- Listen to new Elton John and Brandi Carlile duet Never Too Late, inspired by, and written for, the forthcoming Elton John documentary of the same name
- November 14
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- Welcome To Rockville announces headliners Shinedown, Green Day, Linkin Park and Korn, plus more than 150 others, for 2025
- Serj Tankian admits he “emotionally checked out” during System Of A Down’s final albums
- Show your CD collection some love with 30% off one of our top-rated CD players ahead of Black Friday
- Midsummer Prog Festival moves to Maastricht for 2025
- Atomic Rooster announce live dates for 2025
- Linkin Park announce enormous 2025 world tour, including a date at London’s 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium
- Rock For People 2025 announces first bands: Slipknot and Linkin Park to headline, Fontaines D.C., Idles, Spiritbox, In Flames and more also confirmed
- John Hackett and John Mitchell head up this weekend's new prog night in Reading
- “That’s a gutless thing to say!” Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine once walked out of spinal surgery because Metallica’s manager insulted him
- Linkin Park go full nu metal on new single Two Faced, which lands ahead of tomorrow’s comeback album From Zero
- "I went home and I wept that night": Actor Timothée Chalamet on filming the emotional scene in which Bob Dylan visits the ailing Woody Guthrie in hospital and plays him a song
- November 13
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- Tesseract announce expanded edition of latest album War Of Being, featuring new live tracks
- Epica release their second song in a month, tease even more music for 2025, will sleep when they’re dead
- If anyone fancies giving us £50,000 so we can buy Prince's beautiful bespoke guitar, we'd be most grateful. Thanks in advance, friends
- Imperial Triumphant continue to confound with new single Hotel Sphinx, announce 2025 album Goldstar
- "We wanted to create something almost joyous in its disgust at the world." Benefits share new single Relentless, featuring The Libertines' Pete Doherty, announce new album Constant Noise, UK tour plans
- “It deals with the intense depression that I’ve dealt with most of my life”: Trivium’s Matt Heafy names the most personal song he’s ever written
- Mark Wilkinson to appear at art and music event at Sudbury Arts Centre this Saturday
- Jomo Tuun announce second album Critical Density Of Mankind
- In a year of unexpected rock teamups, Alt Blk Era x Wheatus may be the least expected
- I’ve just subscribed to Amazon Music Unlimited for 3 months free: Here’s why you should too
- The UK is currently going nuts about Chris McCausland, the blind comedian who dances to Kiss
- Jerry Garcia's voice can now read you bedtime stories and recipes in 32 languages
- November 12
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- "We found out last minute that it was the 'new Foreigner' who was gonna be playing... it sticks in my craw": Lou Gramm slams the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame for snubbing the original Foreigner members
- Download festival announces more than 90 bands for 2025, including headliners Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn
- My Chemical Romance announce stadium tour to play their classic album The Black Parade in full, with Alice Cooper, Devo, Evanescence, Pixies among special guests
- “I couldn’t just stay on my sofa and not tour, tempting though that obviously is.” Public Image Ltd announce 23-date This Is Not The Last Tour tour
- "I'm just very grateful that I'd had a bowel movement before I arrived!" Rick Wakeman on his unexpected audience with Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother as a teenager, and how she trolled him in public years later
- “I gotta get it on pop radio!” Michael Jackson’s Beat It was “too metal” before Quincy Jones stepped in, claims guitarist
- Maud The Moth shares video for haunting new single Siphonophores
- “You think we’d go across the pond for one show only? No way!!” Weezer reveal European headline shows and festival appearances booked around previously-announced UK show supporting Deftones
- Ex-Iron Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno’s cause of death revealed
- Paul Weller, Primal Scream, Kneecap and more to play Gig For Gaza charity fundraiser in London
- Gary Kemp shares video for reflective new single Put Your Head Up
- “Fans will experience something unprecedented”: Sabaton announce 2025 European tour featuring biggest-ever UK shows
- November 11
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- "Even on our bad day we’ll still wipe the floor with majority of bands out there." Liam Gallagher promises that Oasis will be returning with all guns blazing in 2025
- "Detroit reflects on the worst manifestations of male jealousy and resentment." Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs share new single Detroit, reveal 2025 UK and Europe tour plans
- “Here we go again!” The Who's Roger Daltrey announces Alive And Kicking...And Having Fun solo tour, featuring nightly audience Q&A sessions
- Olivia Rodrigo to play huge London show, headlining BST Hyde Park, with The Last Dinner Party, Girl In Red and more
- Echolyn announce Kickstarter campaign for two new albums
- "This will be the best damn tour of 2025." Papa Roach announce huge US tour with Rise Against and Underoath
- "It's not the high operatic singing thing!" Queensrÿche guitarist Michael Wilton announces new solo album
- Sendelica to headline Welsh prog/psych show in London in April
- "We have a special treat for you tonight." Watch Linkin Park debut brand new song Casualty and play a deep cut for the very first time with Helmet's Page Hamilton on guitar at Texas show
- "It's the most people I’ve ever been ignored by when I’m playing": Eagles guitarist Vince Gill on performing at Sphere in Las Vegas
- Saturday Night Live ran a hair metal sketch this weekend and it was exactly as bad as that sounds
- November 10
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- Stevie Nicks has released a Christmas single with Taylor Swift's boyfriend's brother
- Dave Bainbridge details new solo album On The Edge (Of What Could Be)
- Jerry Cantrell says some bands earn just "1000th of a cent" each time their song is streamed
- Alien Ant Farm kick CKY off co-headlining tour as Dryden Mitchell claims he was punched in the face by Chad I Ginsburg
- November 9
- November 8
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- 2025 Grammy nominations revealed: Metallica, Judas Priest, Spiritbox, Knocked Loose, Gojira, Pearl Jam and St. Vincent amongst metal and rock names nominated
- "This is like WWE." What happened when Papa Roach met Justin Timberlake - and got some sage advice from Korn bassist Fieldy
- Brian May opens up about Queen's doubts on having Freddie Mercury as their frontman in their early days: "He did a lot of running around the place and screaming his head off. So we thought, ‘Is this going work?’"
- Elbow share video for brand new single, the motorik-driven Adriana Again
- Unique Steven Wilson video props are up for sale!
- At war with their producer. At war with their label. At war with each other: The chaotic making of Van Halen's 1984 - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- "This is song packed with pure naughtiness and fun": Witness Brian May as you've never seen him before in the video for Talia Dean's You Made Your Bed
- November 7
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- Stop the presses! Maynard James Keenan has named his favourite tool
- "We were on a wave that hadn’t been ridden before." Papa Roach recreate the Last Resort video on Metal Hammer's new cover as they get ready to celebrate 25 years of Infest
- Airbag announced as third headline act for next year's Winter's End Festival
- The time My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way hit out at nu metal: "It set us back to the stone age...it's like a bunch of neanderthals had a microphone for 8 years and everybody had to deal with it"
- Watch Sleep Token perform live without their bassist and guitarist this week
- November 6
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- “Possibly the most aggressive, ignorant and direct song we have ever written.” Get your head caved in by nasty new Malevolence single Trenches
- Judas Priest to celebrate Painkiller’s 35th anniversary on 2025 European tour
- The world’s smartest guitar amp just got 27% cheaper thanks to Positive Grid’s huge early-Black Friday sale
- “Shamans retreat, sometimes very long, to be reunited with their power.” Heilung to go on hiatus
- Midsummer Prog Festival under threat after venue hit with noise restrictions
- “The first thing on my mind is, am I gonna get through this and be alive? And the last thing on my mind was would I ever sing again?” Bruce Dickinson would have helped Iron Maiden replace him if cancer stopped him from singing
- Solstice announced as extra night headliners as Summer's End celebrates three full-day 20th anniversary
- “Let’s jam, let’s have a good time for the fans, for us, for ourselves.” Andreas Kisser invites Max and Iggor Cavalera to play final Sepultura show
- Judas Priest's historic three-guitarist, two-drummer performance at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame is now online
- Watch Stevie Nicks perform dramatic protest anthem The Lighthouse on Jimmy Kimmel Live
- "I am very much alive and kicking, although angry as a MF!" Scorpions drummer Mikkey Dee takes to social media to refute reports of his death
- November 5
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- Oasis announce five huge stadium shows in South America
- Kneecap to headline Wide Awake festival 2025, with English Teacher, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Sprints, CMAT among first wave of bands confirmed
- “A very expressive song with a serious subject”: Watch the music video for brand-new Delain single The Reaping, ahead of this Friday’s Dance With The Devil EP
- “Once you hit that first note and get into the groove, and you hear the roar from the crowd, any feelings of tiredness or whatever, I don’t really get”: Jerry Cantrell names the riff that “defines” Alice In Chains
- What's in the box? No pain, just an awesome Lego Dune Atreides Royal Ornithopter kit with 40% off ahead of Black Friday
- "People would vomit when they saw it": Shawn 'Clown' Crahan on the worst injury he ever sustained with Slipknot
- Tim Bowness announces replacement drummer for Prog The Forest charity event
- November 4
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- Robert Plant is the star of a new promotional film extolling the virtues of luxury high-speed Italian train travel
- Bill Nelson announces previously unreleased guitar instrumental album Studio Cadet
- O.R.k. announce UK live dates for May 2025
- Watch Zakk Wylde bring some metal to the US national anthem ahead of last night's NFL game between the Seattle Seahawks and LA Rams
- Iggy Pop announces huge London show for summer 2025
- "There’s a lot of swearing in Hindi, which won’t run well with our parents." Indian nu metallers Bloodywood talk their "surprising" new album, THAT Monkey Man scene and why they're not expecting a call from Linkin Park any time soon
- Incubus will perform Morning View in full at 2025 headline London show
- Watch Bruce Springsteen open his Halloween show in Montreal with a fun cover of Ghostbusters
- “I don’t know who caught me but thank you so much”: Watch Coldplay’s Chris Martin fall through a stage trapdoor in Melbourne
- Deftones announce biggest ever UK show with Weezer and High Vis
- Court rules that Ed Sheeran did not steal song idea from Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On
- Best punk band of all time according to The Offspring? Creedence Clearwater Revival...
- Music Venue Trust warns of "complete collapse of live music" in the UK as government cuts business rate tax relief
- November 3
- November 2
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- Nightwish manager Ewo Pohjola charged in Finland with assaulting two women
- Tim 'Herb' Alexander opens up on his decision to quit Primus
- "I have left every single band I am in!" Andy Edwards steps back from Rain, Butterfly Mind and more...
- Watch trailer for Mars Volta documentary exploring intense friendship between band's two stars
- November 1
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- Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel on sharing her political views in the band's songs: "What kind of world do we want to live in?"
- “He’d been getting out of it, being drunk, unprofessional, unreliable, and all the rest of it. But I had a feeling of: ‘I’ve got to do this.’” Original Ozzy Osbourne bassist Bob Daisley was “warned” against joining The Prince Of Darkness’ band
- Crowdfunding started for Trivium drummer Alex Bent’s baby daughter, now hospitalised for 70 days
- Alien Weaponry documentary Kua Tupu Te Ara to get theatrical release in 2025
- “We’ve never made a song as close to our core”: Deftones- and Alcest-approved synth-punks Kælan Mikla release new single Stjörnuljós
- VOLA celebrate release of new album Friend Of A Phantom with two new videos
- According to science, metal is the most “intelligent” genre of music you can listen to - and these are its most intelligent bands
- Jean-Michel Jarre to release newly remastered 40th-anniversary version of Zoolook
- Mastodon's Bill Kelliher says bands are still trying to recover from "irreparable damage" to touring business
- Who's gonna tell him? Busker drums Red Hot Chili Peppers song without realising drummer Chad Smith was watching
