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"We're singing about hot girls and cool stuff. It's what people really need right now": Now that Van Halen are no more, BulletBoys want to revive their party spirit

After a long time away, Californian hard rock stalwarts BulletBoys return for UK dates in March

Louder · Mar 3, 2024

Warning: Deep Purple's new animated video for Dweezil Zappa's remix of Smoke On The Water contains dragons

The six-minute remix of Smoke On The Water comes from the upcoming 50th anniversary super deluxe edition of Deep Purple's Machine Head

Louder · Mar 3, 2024

“It’s about how grateful we were to have our time with Cliff”: Watch the only time Metallica have ever played emotional instrumental To Live Is To Die live

In 2011, Metallica finally unearthed their bittersweet tribute to late bassist Cliff Burton in front of one very intimate audience

Metal Hammer · Mar 3, 2024

Classic interview - Giorgio Moroder: “If you want to make a good dance song, you still need the 303, an analogue drum machine and a Minimoog”

TB-303 Day special: “The only way to get futuristic sounds was to use synthesizers”

MusicRadar · Mar 3, 2024

The stories behind Bruce Dickinson's new album The Mandrake Project

Bored vampires, inspirational graveyards and Pulp Fiction moments: these are the stories behind every song on Bruce Dickinson's The Mandrake Project

Metal Hammer · Mar 3, 2024

"Fine for off-the-cuff sequencer basslines, otherwise you have to plan what you're going to do before even switching it on": Here's what the reviews said when the dance-music-defining Roland TB-303 was released in 1981

Happy TB-303 Day! Grab your time travel machine, because back then it only cost a couple of hundred bucks

MusicRadar · Mar 3, 2024

10 of the best Roland TB-303 tracks of all time: Fatboy Slim, Voodoo Ray, Aphex Twin and more

Celebrate TB-303 Day with these squelchy bassline classics

MusicRadar · Mar 3, 2024

“I learnt such a lot from Roy Wood… when we did Northern Lights I said, ‘Why don’t we double track my voice?’ That’s all it took - but we didn’t know it would be a hit”: How Renaissance made it to Top Of The Pops and The Kenny Everett Video Show

Annie Haslam’s unintentional singing career led to helping Renaissance create one of their best-loved albums in A Song For All Seasons – but at first she didn’t even realise she was doing anything special

Louder · Mar 3, 2024

Raye’s record-breaking Brits defied the limited imaginations of the British music industry

Raye’s six Brit awards marked a huge vindication for the newly independent artist and rightly shamed the major label that apparently couldn’t see her potential

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2024

Brit awards 2024: women dominate as Raye scores record-smashing six wins

Artists have previously only managed four wins in one ceremony, capping an astonishing year for the British singer who was once left in major label limbo

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2024