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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

‘Only three more songs till I kick your ass!’ Rock’n’roll’s biggest onstage bust-ups

Jane’s Addiction’s future is in doubt after a mid-song spat last weekend – but from the Kinks to Oasis, such squabbles are extremely common

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2024

“80 per cent of the people I meet are very boring people.” In 1975, Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore named his favourite guitarist, and shared his brutally honest thoughts on the '70s music scene

In a typically forthright 1975 interview, Ritchie Blackmore offered his thoughts on the music business, and his peers

Louder · Sep 13, 2024

"If we put a small band together and just decided to throw shit at the wall, it might be great": Pete Townshend addresses the future of The Who

It turns out there's a catch

Louder · Aug 5, 2024

"The beauty here is how far he strays from The Who": Pete Townshend finds new ways to play old songs on Live In Concert 1985-2001

Live In Concert 1985-2001 comprises 14 discs of live recordings from The Who guitarist Pete Townshend

Louder · Jul 28, 2024

“A lot of dedicated Who fans come to every show in order to see Roger hit me in the face again, for me to smash him over the head with a guitar”: Pete Townshend sets the record straight about Roger Daltrey's comments on The Who's retirement

Roger Daltrey had recently mentioned that he was “happy” that “that part of my life is over”

Guitar World · Jul 4, 2024

Pete Townshend and Paul Smith: our Mod ballet will bring the Sixties back to life

The Who’s Pete Townshend and star tailor Paul Smith are teaming up for a new version of Quadrophenia. The pair on how it wasn’t just their generation: teens are still trying to find their way

Evening Standard · Jun 26, 2024

"It's going to be poignant, tender, poetic and epic": The Who's Quadrophenia is being turned into a mod ballet

Quadrophenia: A Mod Ballet is coming to a stately theatre near you in 2025

Louder · Jun 26, 2024

The Who’s Quadrophenia to be revived as a ballet

More than 50 years on from its release, the concept album has been reimagined in a collaboration with Sadler’s Wells and will tour in 2025

The Guardian - UK · Jun 25, 2024

“People use them for fashion and shock factor. Your guitar is your workhorse, but on stage, it’s also your prop”: Phoebe Bridgers is playing B.C. Rich. Willow and Pete Townshend are picking up Jacksons. Have metal guitars gone mainstream?

When indie stars are grabbing pointy six-strings while metal musicians are eyeing up offsets, you know there’s something afoot in the guitar world. We explore the trend inverting the industry and why it’s good to shred outside the box

Guitar World · Jun 21, 2024