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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including The Darkness, Larkin Poe, Devin Townsend and five other upstanding members of the rock'n'roll royal family

Louder · Sep 23, 2024

Slayer have just played their first set in five years - see their reunion setlist and watch fiery video footage here

Thrash titans Slayer have just returned to the stage after a 1759 day hiatus

Metal Hammer · Sep 23, 2024

Liam Gallagher hits back at "s***c***s" who criticised his vocals after he sang Oasis classics at Joshua v Dubois fight

Liam Gallagher performed Oasis hits at heavyweight title fight in London – and some observers were unimpressed

Louder · Sep 23, 2024

Los Campesinos! review – a hero’s welcome for cult indie stars

Despite having only spent £190.86 on marketing their new album its songs are greeted with sweaty glee by new fans and old alongside the band’s indie disco stalwarts

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2024

Rock in Rio's sign language pumps up Brazil's deaf audience

Brazil's mega music festival Rock in Rio has sign language interpreters on its screens around main stages for the first time in its 40-year history

The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2024

“It’s sloppy and out of tune, but it seems to benefit the track”: How Ryan Martinie redefined metal bass playing for a new generation with Mudvayne

Ryan Martinie stepped out as a 21st-century bass hero on Mudvayne’s The End of All Things to Come

Guitar World · Sep 22, 2024

Oasis would ‘snub’ Glastonbury because it ‘can’t afford them’, claims Isle of Wight boss

Band have ruled out performing at any festival next year

The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2024

“We were torn between trying to make it big and making our music more crossover, but failing… that happened because we became conscious of what we were doing”: The Power And The Glory signalled the beginning of the end for Gentle Giant

They’d reasserted themselves after a line-up change and enjoyed the results – but the surprisingly polarised response to their sixth album led them to start second-guessing their own work.

Louder · Sep 22, 2024

"I remember being sat in the car the day after I got arrested and Danny was coming up with lines in the car, going ‘Caught by the fuzz!'": Supergrass on the making of their classic debut single

Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey on how the Britpop scamps made their riotous debut single

Louder · Sep 22, 2024

“I had become Musical Director, which I always hate. But I took the money and took the title and did the job!”: The Cure’s Reeves Gabrels on the time he became David Bowie’s touring MD

Bowie needed someone to be his first lieutenant in the 90s, and his ex-Tin Machine bandmate was the person he turned to

Louder · Sep 22, 2024