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Watch Alanis Morissette celebrate the new year, and the 30th anniversary of her hugely successful Jagged Little Pill album, on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve show

Let's hope 2025 continues as it started

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“I thought, I gotta have some real track marks before I quit heroin.” The Lemonheads' frontman Evan Dando knows that he's lucky to be alive

Evan Dando was already using hard drugs before The Lemonheads ever existed, but his appetite for self-destruction went into overdrive when his band were tipped to become 'The Next Nirvana'

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Mystic Festival is boasting one of 2025's best lineups and one of the most unique and great value metal festival experiences in the world

From its historic and unique location to its incredible lineup, Mystic needs to be on your festival shortlist for 2025

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“Some thought it inspired; others heard an epic train wreck… His palette broadened, the songs lengthened, the lyrics became more personal”: The prog credentials of Sufjan Stevens’ The Age Of Adz

After a long illness and the admission that his promise of writing an album about each State of the US had been a gimmick, he wobbled then reset with 2010 album that’s a prog-tinged curio

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“Who is gonna sing that to who? Cos you sure ain’t singing it to me and I sure ain’t singing it to you”: the reason that Prince turned down Michael Jackson’s request to do a duet on an 80s classic

Michael Jackson wanted the pair to team up on a huge hit but the Purple One wasn’t having it

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“I got him a drink and it went from there”: how Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher buried the hatchet and became unlikely friends and collaborators

The Blur frontman and Oasis leader spent the 90s at loggerheads but a chance meeting paved the way to a blossoming friendship

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“I chose to leave, to focus on myself… It was a very difficult, painful, sad time for everyone”: Vincent Cavanagh had to quit Anathema to become The Radicant

After abandoning a fully-written solo album in 2021, former frontman looks forward to a life without a leather jacket – and possibly without a guitar – with his debut EP We Ascend leading the way

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"He was trying to numb the past, dull the present and look for comfort in the future. He found it there and it killed him": Dan Aykroyd on the tragedy of John Belushi and the making of The Blues Brothers

Cult movie The Blues Brothers exposed a generation to the brilliance of blues and soul legends like John Lee Hooker and Aretha Franklin

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"We just went in and just destroyed San Francisco, and that was it": Jimmy Page on Led Zeppelin's historic arrival in America

Jimmy Page talks absent friends, superstar fans, bad reviews and the next best thing to playing with Led Zeppelin

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Broadcasting legend Johnnie Walker dead at 79

The death of Johnnie Walker has been announced by his BBC Radio colleague Bob Harris

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"It'll be a setlist for the ages": Bruce Dickinson promises fans things they've never seen before on Iron Maiden's Run For Your Lives tour

Bruce Dickinson ends the year with a special message for fans

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“We once did a gig for deaf kids. They sat at the front of the stage, put their ears to the ground and soaked up the vibration. They loved it!”: An epic interview with Angus and Malcolm Young, the heart and soul of AC/DC

AC/DC played their very first gig on New Year’s Eve 1973 – 51 years ago today

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We celebrate 50 years of Yes's Relayer on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Plus Marillion, Clannad, Pavlov's Dog, Klone, Swallow The Sun, Dilemma and more

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“Bowie comes in wearing a black jumpsuit, holding a can of Heineken and a big bit of cheese”: Simple Minds on the night David Bowie and Iggy Pop invaded their studio

The pair roped in the Scottish rockers for some football-style chanting when they found themselves working in the studio next door

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“It was me being a complete and utter dunderhead”: Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield on the guitar solo where he went full method

There was more to Bradfield’s searing guitar part on this classic Manics cut than flashy playing, the singer and guitarist explains

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“When I found out you could do the Hawaii Five-0 theme in chicken noises, that became the challenge”: Robert Ramsay’s silly and serious album Confound And Disturb

The self-described “Chief Audience Abuser” with Tinyfish and Shineback explored the idea that he might be a musician on 2017 release – but also expounded his theories on the nature of reality

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Former Skid Row singer Erik Grönwall has taken Europe's euphoric anthem The Final Countdown and made it "slow and dark"

Happy New Year!

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"There's a nod to Thin Lizzy's unmistakable dual guitars in there": Gary Moore's son Jack Moore releases debut solo single In My Shoes

Jack Moore's In My Shoes is inspired by the relationship between parents and their sons

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In Memoriam: A tribute to the musicians we lost in 2024

Musicians who died in 2024 include Paul Di'Anno, Wayne Kramer, Dickey Betts, Steve Harley, Duane Eddy, Steve Albini and more

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"We'd be up for days drinking, getting stoned and making music": How the Rolling Stones channelled chaos to make the final album with their most potent line-up

When Ronnie Wood, the Stones and some A-list mates holed up at his house to help with his solo album, it sparked a days-long party and a Rolling Stones hit

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“Biker festivals booked us for some reason… Four songs in, when we were actually about to die, we’d launch into some Status Quo to save our lives”: When the unclassifiable Haze finally got to play for a prog audience, they found it refreshingly easy

80s outfit never had a record deal or management – instead they“got good at being poor” to avoid compromising their musical values, and it’s kept them going through the decades

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Antimatter share video for brand new single Angelic

UK dark proggers Antimatter celebrate their 25th anniversary next year with the release of Parallel Matter

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"Strong evidence that classic rock as an ongoing and healthy genre is worth checking out": The Temperance Movement don't reinvent the wheel on A Deeper Cut, but they sure keep it spinning in the right direction

A Deeper Cut was the last album The Temperance Movement made before parting ways with now-returned frontman Phil Campbell

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“Ian’s flute solo got stretched out… Martin Barre and I would sit and play cards on stage, with a pot of tea. He had no clue what was happening”: Former Jethro Tull members share their favourite moments

Mick Abrahams, Clive Bunker, Jeffrey Hammond, Peter John Vettese and Tony Iommi recall what they learned from – or what they did to – band leader Ian Anderson

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"What a man! What a life!What a loss!": Peter Gabriel pays heartfelt tribute to 'the rock'n'roll president' Jimmy Carter

Former US President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100

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