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“It’s one thing to try to plan it, but the way we play together is something you can’t really calculate”: Backed by Fugazi’s rhythm section, even guitarist Anthony Pirog can’t signpost the turns in The Messthetics’ avant-jazz sound

On The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis’ latest collab, all bets are off on where Pirog will take his guitar next

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"It blew Ian's mind!" Why Dave Grohl gifted punk rock legend Ian MacKaye a personalised message from right wing motormouth Ted Nugent for his 63rd birthday

Foo Fighters frontman reveals how he surprised Ian MacKaye with a bespoke birthday present

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"I could be talking to you from my Burger King castle. That's my biggest regret." The beloved hardcore band that turned down a big pile of money to wear chicken masks for a Slipknot-aping fast food advert

The Bronx kept their punk rock cred intact, while the Coq Roq commercial caught the eye of Slipknot's legal team

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The holy grail of '90s post-hardcore, Fugazi's fabled In On The Kill Taker sessions with Steve Albini, has finally been released 34 years after being shelved

Fugazi's Albini Sessions is available now to purchase for a brilliant cause

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"You are not what you own." Why you still can't buy an official T-shirt from one of the greatest American rock bands ever

Fugazi owe you nothing

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“My mom said, ‘What are you doing? Your kind of music has gotten popular. Why are you changing it?’ I thought it was a good idea – just like Mrs. Robinson was a bad idea”: The Lemonheads’ Evan Dando on the art of cover versions

The Lemonheads mastermind discusses the value of being lectured by your heroes, rolling between grunge and metal, his favorite Gibson, and that time he played a Minor Threat song in front of Ian MacKaye… drunk

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"I'm sure he was thinking of Stevie Nicks." From Public Enemy and Tom Waits to Spider-Man, the ten songs that changed the life of Clutch's Neil Fallon

Clutch's firebrand preacher explains how blues, funk and hip hop all set him on the path to music

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“Proof they can go for the heart as well as the head, encouraging thought and emotional commitment”: Marillion’s 20 best songs as chosen by Prog readers (the band can’t believe Number 7)

Does the only album with four entries suggest there’s a definitive record from the neo-prog giants? Does the split between the Fish and Steve Hogarth eras reveal a preferred vocalist?

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Foo Fighters release punk cover song that was recorded across three decades

The American rock icons offer their own take on track ‘I Don’t Wanna Hear It’

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Foo Fighters release 80-second cover song recorded across three decades, statistically working at a rate of 2.67 seconds a year

Listen to the post-grunge icons’ take on I Don’t Wanna Hear It by hardcore legends Minor Threat

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“Journalists who’d said we were Genesis copyists suddenly went, ‘This is a happening band!’” One TV smile made Marillion’s name, and made Misplaced Childhood a hit

A pill in the post, a mystery woman and a chat show appearance helped turn the band into rock stars and took their 1985 dark prog masterpiece to Number One

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My cultural awakening: a punk band told me quit drinking. So I did

As a teen, I was surrounded by binge culture. But then a band called Minor Threat taught me it was radical to be sober – and it changed my life

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"7) Metronome-like precision behind the kit deemed 'soulless'": Josh Freese just served up 10 reasons why he got sacked from The Foo Fighters

Big names from Stewart Copeland to Michael Buble have all waded in to offer Freese their support

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"We were hoping to get as big as Fugazi. So it was really exciting and really frightening." Billie Joe Armstrong looks back on Green Day's "out of control" rocket ride to success, as his band celebrate getting star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

"It was a really scary time because it was definitely do or die."

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“I don’t have my original Epiphone Casino anymore. It was stolen out of a dressing room. I was really heartbroken”: Daniel Kessler on making Interpol classics, the lessons he took from Fugazi and the art of six-string minimalism

As the New Yorkers set out on the anniversary tour for their 2004’s classic second album, we catch up with Kessler totalk rejection, hollowbodies, andwhy you won’t catch him playing major chords

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"There was a decadent, hedonistic atmosphere in Berlin. It was a great time for making music": Marillion look back on the making of the album that tore the band apart

Fish, Steve Rothery and Mark Kelly look back at the making of Marillion's best-known and most successful record, Misplaced Childhood

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“There’s always a lingering chance that we’re going to get back together," says Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty

Post-hardcore heroes Fugazi have been on indefinite hiatus for more than 20 years

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“I imagine there’s more unlistened to copies of Killtaker than any other Fugazi album.” Nirvana may have brought 'alternative rock' to the masses, but for Fugazi, America's greatest punk band, the fall-out proved to be “a real nightmare”

Released on June 30, 1993, Fugazi's In On The Killtaker may have been the Washington DC quartet's best-selling record, but it emerged at a time when the alt. rock 'revolution' was proving to be a "headache" for Ian MacKaye and co.

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“The promoter came in and told us a bomb threat had been called in.” Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna lays bare the violence, abuse and misogyny directed at her fearless feminist punk band in brutally honest memoir Rebel Girl

Bikini Kill vocalist Kathleen Hanna shares her truth in raw, unflinching and unforgettable memoir Rebel Girl

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“This could be our best album yet”: Converge drummer compares upcoming music to Fugazi, The Mars Volta and Entombed, and we sorely need to hear it

Ben Koller says the metalcore firebrands’ next album “feels like the most evolved, natural and fully realised bunch of material we have ever written”

Guitar World

“I view everything from the pick to the speaker as my instrument”: Meet John Frusciante favorite Anthony Pirog – the boundary breaking guitarist who’s jamming jazz, punk and fusion with Fugazi’s rhythm section

The D.C. virtuoso has joined forces with his heroes as The Messthetics

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"At one point an aggrieved producer threatened to attack them with a machete": Say what you want about Marillion's second album, but it was not easy to make

Buoyed by the success of Script For A Jester's Tear, follow-up Fugazi was a victim of extremely difficult second album syndrome

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Fugazi: A great title but no songs to go with it… even the pathologically casual Marillion started to worry they’d never write the record, and they’d never get a drummer to play on it if they did

The story of how Marillion made their second album, 1984's aptly titled Fugazi

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"When we signed to a major, one guy wrote to tell us he hoped we died in a firey van accident": Your ultimate guide to every Jawbox album in the band's own words

J. Robbins takes us on a scuzzy, back-of-the-van tour through the Jawbox back catalogue, from their Dischord incubation up to the major label years

Guitar World

“Springsteen taught me how to write songs, but Pearl Jam, Dinosaur Jr., Fugazi and Sonic Youth taught me how to play those songs I’d learned to write”: Brian Fallon is breaking out the guitar solos for The Gaslight Anthem’s second coming

Brian Fallon and co. bring the noise – and the solos – on their first album since reforming. And they invited Bruce Springsteen along for the ride

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