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"When I heard that on the radio, I went, Dammit, I should have written that song": Alice Cooper names the emo and grunge anthems he wishes he had written

The Godfather of Shock Rock singles out the emo and grunge classics that he wishes were his songs

Louder · Aug 29, 2023

"It appeared that he had fallen down an elevator shaft, but we knew that he was murdered": the traumatic story of Deep Purple's visit to Indonesia in 1975

At the beginning of the Come Taste The Band tour, Deep Purple stopped off in Jakarta to play a show en route to Japan. It did not go well

Louder · Aug 29, 2023

Cliff Richard honours ‘dear friend’ Olivia Newton-John with ‘emotional’ reworked song on new album

‘Grease’ star died last year, aged 73, from longstanding breast cancer diagnosis

The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2023

With 'Goodbye Mary,' Molly Tuttle extends country music's lineage of reproductive rights songs to the post-Roe era

Jason Aldean’s song “Try That In A Small Town” extols small towns as bastions of conservative values standing up against a litany of violent big-city bogeymen. The song, and the backlash against it, threatens to strengthen popular conceptions about the inherent conservatism of country music.

The Conversation · Aug 29, 2023

“It was a finished product, called A for Anderson, intended as a solo record. Then the record company heard it." The story of Jethro Tull and A

When 1980's A came out it featured a new Jethro Tull line-up, a new sound and songs about the threat of nuclear war and terrorism. Not everyone was impressed.

Louder · Aug 29, 2023

Unlock Josh Homme’s QOTSA tones with the Skeleton Key, the new £99 drive pedal from Funny Little Boxes

Is this the pedalboard solution that Queens Of The Stone Age fans have been waiting for?

MusicRadar · Aug 29, 2023

"It would just have reminded me of being back in Nirvana. It would have been sad, for me personally": Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl on why he turned down joining Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty once asked Dave Grohl to become an official Heartbreaker, but the Foo Fighters frontman wasn't keen

Louder · Aug 29, 2023

“The first time I saw a Martin, it was like an exotic creature”: Watch Eric Clapton run the rule over his Guitar Center exclusive signature acoustics

Check out the other models in a limited run that celebrates 25 years of Crossroads Guitar Festival – including signature Clapton Strats and a PRS Private Stock Carlos Santana

MusicRadar · Aug 29, 2023

"That kind of bare-bones grit they had in the early days was replaced with this driving sonic overload": Why I ❤️ AC/DC's Back In Black, by Kiss's Paul Stanley

Kiss legend Paul Stanley has a theory about what makes great bands great

Metal Hammer · Aug 29, 2023

The KLF remake scrapped 1987 album and donate it to British Library

1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) was withdrawn from sale following a dispute with ABBA over unauthorized samples

MusicRadar · Aug 29, 2023