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The Truth Is Out There
Journey cancel UK tour, new row erupts over private jets, but are poor ticket sales the real reason?
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RIP
Thank you… and good night.
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Mick Underwood
September 5, 1945 – July 28, 2024
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Charles R Cross
Died August 9, 2024
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Aerosmith Call It A Day
Train’s finally stopped a-rollin’ for the Boston band.
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Lone Justice
Almost 40 years after they called it a day, does their new album mean there’s a reunion taking place?
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Forgotten Pharaohs
Meet the rising band making nods to Steely Dan, Neil Young and Led Zeppelin.
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Lemmy Returns To Rock City
Ashes of late Motörhead man arrive at new home.
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“David and Roger could be friends again”
Nick Mason encourages AI Pink Floyd ‘reunion’.
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The Jesus Lizard
They’re back with a bang, referencing their past, building on it and retaining their sense of humour.
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Louise Patricia Crane
Informed by childhood memories, her new album is an intensly personal dark fantasia.
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Motörhead Overkill
“Once we’d cracked the formula of how to work together on Overkill,” said Eddie Clarke, “that’s when we really started to take off.” And it was all thanks to Phil Taylor’s new drum kit.
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Jerry Cantrell
The Alice In Chains guitarist on his forthcoming album and its guests, songwriting, AI, algorithm bots, AIC’s legacy…
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THROUGH THICK AND THIN
In 1976, Thin Lizzy were touring Jailbreak in the US and were breaking big. Then disaster struck. Band manager Chris O’Donnell details the roller-coaster year in which they were cruelly robbed of their American dream.
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“I JUST WANTED TO BE RESPECTED FOR BEING IN A KICKASS BAND.”
1976 was a pivotal year for Thin Lizzy. Guitarist Scott Gorham, one half of the band’s classic twin-guitar sound, takes a trip down memory lane to the year that was…
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JON ANDERSON
Fronting Yes he was one of the architects of prog rock, and now he fronts his own band. But that’s only part of his wondrous story. He was a decent footballer as a kid, believes in elves and fairies… Let him tell the rest. It really has been, he’ll tell you, a wonderful life.
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DON’T FENCE US IN
Embracing their roots on record for the first time, “Don’t call us southern” band The Cold Stares’ seventh album is both a love letter to Kentucky and a call for unity in volatile times.
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LOST IN SPACE
In this exclusive extract from his new Fleetwood Mac book, Mark Blake tells the tale of late guitarist/songwriter Bob Welch, the man Mick Fleetwood credits as having played a crucial role in keeping the Mac together.
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MADE FRIENDS. INFLUENCED PEOPLE.
In the 90s they were high flyers, then the fall hit them hard. Having picked themselves up, Terrorvision are back with their first new album in more than a decade, and it’s full of top tunes.
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LET’S DANCE
Dialling back on the aggressive approach that has helped bring Idles this far, and putting swing to the stomp, their new album is intended to make you shake a leg rather than a fist.
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HAPPY RETURNS
With guests including Axl and Slash, for his new album maverick guitarist Michael Schenker has re-recorded songs he first did with his former band UFO.
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Bright Sparks
Undertakers, band managers and museum workers by day, pop-charged rockers by night, The Hot Damn! are a gang you’d want to join.
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BEST OF THE REST
Other new releases out this month.
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BEST OF THE REST
Other reissues out this month.
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Bad Religion
With 17 albums in 44 years, here’s how to approach the band who wrote the book of SoCal melodic punk.
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Steve Hackett
The former Genesis guitarist’s latest ‘themed’ tour enables him to visit “the best of both worlds”.
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Elles Bailey
The British blueser begins a UK tour in late September.
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Monster Magnet
“It’s all-energy. It’s rock excitement, psychedelic glory and space-rock hooks.” Sounds good to us!
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Garbage
Wolverhampton Civic Hall
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Hillbilly Vegas / The Howling Tides
Hastings The Carlisle / Hastings The Painted Maiden
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Japanese Television
London The Moth Club
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Patti Smith Quartet
London Somerset House
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Frank Carter & The Sex Pistols
London Bush Hall
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Yard Act / English Teacher
Leeds Millennium Square
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Exodus / Exumer / Hirax
London Islington O2 Academy
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The Wedding Present
Brighton Concorde 2
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Bloodstock 2024
Catton Hall, Derbyshire
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Wacken Open Air 2024
Wacken, Germany
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The Soundtrack Of My Life
Mr. Big guitarist and solo artist Paul Gilbert on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.