The Otolith: "We couldn't live without making music with each other"
Formed from the ashes of SubRosa, doom newcomers The Otolith are all about expanding your consciousness to the stars
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Six great new prog tracks to listen to this week!
Brand new music from Stuckfish, RPWL, Damanek, The Enigma Divison, Flying Caravan and The Church
“Oh God, it’s hard to listen to”: The story behind Nirvana’s final song, You Know You’re Right
On January 30, 1994, Nirvana entered the studio for the last time. The sole song the trio taped that day would become the most controversial recording of their career
Porcupine Tree: "a lot of the excitement is because people don’t know if they’ll see us play again"
Still bathing in the glow of the comeback that most people thought would never happen, Steven Wilson talks arena shows, the power of band t-shirts, and his favourite album of 2022
Rush's Moving Pictures: a tale of double-entendres and red overalls
Graphic artist Hugh Syme looks back on the creation of the iconic cover art for Rush's classic album Moving Pictures
How Joni Mitchell watched Woodstock on TV then wrote the song that captured its magic
Originally a b-side, Joni Mitchell's generational classic Woodstock found its biggest audience with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Why you should definitely own Marquee Moon by Television
With inspired poetic concision and angular six-stringed symphonics, Tom Verlaine always took the most unorthodox, yet captivating, route from one guitar chord to another
"A lesser band might have been humiliated" - the story of the first Kiss show
It's a cold night in New York, and Kiss are about to play their first show... but there's almost no one in the crowd to witness history in the making
Tracks of the Week: eight new songs to make the world a better place
Including The Answer, Mudhoney, Demob Happy, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and more
The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
Ghost team up with Joe Elliott and Avatar bring in Lzzy Hale for the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
13 rock and metal musicians hating on their own songs
Lemmy, James Hetfield, Amy Lee, Slipknot’s Clown and more open up the haterade on their own songs
Korn’s Blind: how a rewritten version of another band’s song invented nu metal
Korn’s Blind kicked off their debut album – and nu metal. But it started life with another band entirely
Watch Ben Stiller and Bob Odenkirk dress up as Metallica in 1992
Metallica's Enter Sandman gets a loving but cheeky spoof from Ben Stiller and future Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad star Bob Odenkirk
How Van Halen's debut album changed everything, by the guitarists it changed
Jason Becker, John 5, Alex Skolnick, Paul Gilbert, Bruce Kulick, Myles Kennedy and others look back at the astonishing impact of Van Halen's first album
Loudest headphones 2023: You want volume and lots of it? You got it
Shake your foundations with our pick of the loudest headphones around - wired, Bluetooth, audiophile and noise cancelling headphones that are designed for max volume
The 10 best Sleep Token songs
Sublime pop melodies, juddering tech metal and sexy bass drops: these are the best songs by metal's new favourite enigmatic band, Sleep Token
Best headphones for vinyl 2023: Amazing headphones for your record player
Get the most from your vinyl collection while listening alone with our guide to the best headphones to pair up with a record player
Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hütz on Ukraine and the power of punk-rock resistance
"As an art form that can catapult socio-political observations – there is nothing greater than punk rock" - Eugene Hütz
Tobias Forge: "I would love to play in the Red Hot Chilli Peppers"
Ghost's Tobias Forge on going viral on TikTok, the backlash from going viral on TikTok, the naming of his Nameless Ghouls, and the bands he'd like to play guitar with
