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The 2025 Grammy nominations are here and they've broken records

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“A lot of people are feeling the same way. They're like, ‘I’m covered with Superstrats and Strats, but I don't have an offset…’”: Misha Mansoor on the emergence of offsets in metal music – and why he should have seen it coming

The Periphery guitarist recently worked with Jackson to produce one of 2024's most talked-about custom builds – but he's not the first player to have dragged the offset into heavy territory over the past few years

Guitar World

“It reinforced believing in something even if you don’t have any cause to”: Gavin Rossdale looks back on the moment Bush blew up big

The grunge-rockers' multi-million selling debut turned 30 this month and the singer says success was a long time coming

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Boyzlife stars Brian McFadden and Keith Duffy share 'excitement' of playing America for the first time

EXCLUSIVE Despite their global success with Westlife and Boyzone, Brian McFadden and Keith Duffy never performed in the US

Evening Standard

“You know the way drummers get, they get a bit weird when they start singing”: watch a drunk U2 completely rinse Phil Collins at an awards ceremony

The Genesis frontman was tasked with presenting to an inebriated Bono & co. in 1992 and they were in a cheeky mood

Louder

“I wanted to give it everything – to be self-indulgent or whatever”: Breaking the rules of single lengths, using an air conditioner as a musical instrument, confounding guest musician Steve Howe… these are Queen’s proggiest moments

Their music ranged from all out hard rock to big pop hits (and occasionally funk). But here’s undeniable proof they could prog out with the best of them as well

Louder

Scottish folk-punk band Brògeal: ‘There’s no singular British culture and if there was, we’d reject it’

NEW SENSATIONS: The Pogues-inspired five-piece are at the forefront of a new wave of rock bands revitalising a music scene dominated by pop stars and mopey singer-songwriters. Ahead of a headline gig in east London, they talk to Roisin O’Connor about going wild on stage, the impact of the Scottish…

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Alien Ant Farm kick CKY off co-headlining tour as Dryden Mitchell claims he was punched in the face by Chad I Ginsburg

CKY frontman accused of punching Alien Ant Farm singer –resulting in swift removal from UK and Ireland tour

Metal Hammer

“I’d indulge in all-night orgies of sex, violence, fighting, drinking and driving. Sometimes I even bit people on the street”: The chaotic story of Love/Hate, the greatest Sunset Strip band nobody cared about

Love/Hate blazed out of late 80s LA with killer debut Blackout In The Red Room – only to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

Louder

“I wanted to be in a band that would appeal to younger musicians like Pink Floyd or the Ramones did to me. That’s the pinnacle of our success”: How Soundgarden returned from the wilderness with King Animal

Soundgarden’s 2012 comeback album King Animal was their first in 16 years –and it found the grunge pioneers finally comfortable with their legacy

Metal Hammer

Dave Keuning’s uncanny ability to craft huge songs like Mr. Brightside from simple melodies is at the heart of the Killers’ blockbuster sound – here’s how you can use his rhythm approach and hook-filled lead style

There are many lessons to be taken from Dave Keuning’s work with the Killers, not least that an appreciation of melody, a diverse musical vocabulary, and an ear for hooks makes for a crowd-pleasing set

Guitar World

Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie hits out at Blur’s Alex James for ‘hanging out with David Cameron’

‘That’s obviously social climbing going on there, right?’ he said, adding, ‘I don’t mean it like that’

The Independent UK

O.R.k. share video for acronymically titled new single PUTFP

O.R.k. will tour the UK in May, supported by UK proggers The Paradox Twin on all dates

Louder

“The idea of lead guitar is that there’s focus put on it, and during this period I just didn’t want any focus to be on me”: How Devin Townsend relied on his production process to deliver his new album from the depths of depression and grief

The first of a four-album cycle on death and rebirth involved a serious stack of gear and staggering new speakers – and the Canadian prog-metal maverick says the process was cathartic in its own way

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Dua Lipa ‘heartbroken’ as gig cancelled over safety concerns

‘Radical Optimism’ singer had been set to perform in Jakarta this weekend

Louder

Watch footage from David Bowie’s last ever live performance

The rock'n'roll icon drew a line under his live career with a charity gig performance in New York in 2006

Metal Hammer

“Am I Evil? was me trying to beat Black Sabbath’s Symptom Of The Universe. I was determined to come up with something heavier”: The story of Diamond Head’s Lightning To The Nations, the cult album that invented Metallica

Diamond Head’s Lightning To The Nations should have turned them into NWOBHM-era superstars, but instead it inspired Lars Ulrich to start his own band

Louder

“I remember knowing deeply it was a very special song”: Stone Temple Pilots’ Dean DeLeo on the making of their classic hit Interstate Love Song

Written in a parking lot, titled on a tour bus, Scott Weiland & co.’s biggest hit truly was one for the road

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“He wanted his version of the song to be a stark, heavy solo-piano thing, but they convinced him to turn it into a grand, crashing, theatrical monster-ballad, complete with orchestra”: The story of Nilsson's Without You

How the singer transformed an album track into one of the most abiding love songs of all time

Louder

“She’s a furious texter. It’s a text storm!”: Billy Corgan on where his love-hate relationship with Courtney Love is currently at

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman also looked back to working with the Hole singer on some of her band's biggest hits

The Independent UK

UB40: ‘We should be as big as Oasis – we’ve sold twice as many records’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: Last week the 1980s reggae icons, known for blending political dissent with easy-going pop grooves, played a sold-out show at Wembley Arena. But they haven’t always had the recognition they think they deserve. They talk to Annabel Nugent about cultural appropriation and selling out, being bugged by…

The Independent UK

13 hit songs hated by the musicians who wrote them

THE LIST: We all have those tunes that just get under our skin, but what happens when it’s one you came up with in the first place? Kevin E G Perry takes a look at artists who’ve come to loathe their own creations

Louder

"A sonic maelstrom of whooshes, burbles and monumental, monochord riffing": Hawkwind's DoReMi FasOl LaTiDo, now more earthshattering than ever before

Hawkwind's space rock classic remixed and expanded, leaves no star unturned

Guitar World

“I wanted a portable amp that I could use backstage before a show to warm up with. I like to plug my PRS right into it – there are no pedals required”: Orianthi and Orange team up to create the 20RT, a portable, versatile amp with high gain tones aplenty

The 15.9 lb Orange Crush 20RT comes fully equipped with an 8-inch, custom-designed ‘Voice Of The World’ speaker, a 3-band EQ, chromatic tuner, and “spring-inspired” reverb

Guitar World

“Wolfgang knows more Intervals songs at any given moment than I do – on guitar and drums”: Intervals' Aaron Marshall on making the impossible possible, and jamming with Wolfgang Van Halen

Memory Palace is another dizzying work of instrumental genius from Aaron Marshall and co, but creating all this on record presents a challenge when it comes to the live show. Marshall's approach? Play it by any means necessary...

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