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Debate: What's the greatest live album ever?

Please help us settle one of rock’s most enduring arguments

Louder · Aug 29, 2025

“An old-fashioned, listen-in-one-sitting record – they’ve pair have done more than talk a good game”: Chimpan A battle the TikTokification of music on M.I.A. Vol 1

Rob Reed and Steve Balsamo’s unique approach delivers an ambitious and unorthodox triumph

Louder · Aug 29, 2025

“They reveal clever nuances over repeat listens – but it’s enigmatic and unskippable from the offset”: Ihlo finally return with Legacy

Six years after beloved debut Union, the British prog-metallers deliver a record that floats and comes crashing down at all the right moments

Louder · Aug 29, 2025

Entire Genesis 1973 Bataclan show made available online

Genesis's show at the Paris Bataclan on 1973's tour in support of Foxtrot can now be viewed in its entirety

Louder · Aug 28, 2025

"The band were honoured to have two Knights grace them with their presence." Film director Rob Reiner reveals how he got Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Elton John to appear in the new Spinal Tap movie

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues comes complete with two Knights of the Realm

Louder · Aug 28, 2025

"It's kind of a concept record, if the word ‘concept’ didn’t suck." Josh Homme and Dave Grohl spill the tea on Queens Of The Stone Age masterpiece Songs for the Deaf

QOTSA's Songs for the Deaf has just turned 23. This is the story behind a modern classic

Louder · Aug 28, 2025

"This record changed our lives forever." Fall Out Boy prepare 20th anniversary edition of breakthrough album From Under The Cork Tree

One of the classic emo / pop-punk records of the modern age is getting a deluxe reissue

Louder · Aug 28, 2025

Norwegian proggers Gazpacho share video for 8-Ball, their first new music for five years

Gazpacho will release Magic 8-Ball, their brand new studio album, in October

Louder · Aug 28, 2025

Sting's former bandmates in The Police, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland, are suing him claiming that they're owed unpaid royalties for the trio's 1983 mega-hit Every Breath You Take

The Police are heading to court

Louder · Aug 28, 2025

“Do I ever look at Steven Wilson and think, ‘Why is he having top-five albums and I’m not?’ No”: Tim Bowness found catharsis in exploring forced isolation on Late Night Laments

With songs for the lost and the lonely, detailing trauma and loss – but hardly ever his own – Bowness’ intensely personal sixth album is another fine addition to his impressive body of work

Louder · Aug 28, 2025