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Metallica gave Wolfgang Van Halen a ‘Perfect Attendance Award’ for playing every venue on their 2023 and 2024 tours

Wolfgang’s band Mammoth supported Metallica on every leg of their M72 world tour for two years

Metal Hammer

“Let me see you lay down a groove like Poundcake. That’s harder than getting up there and soloing”: The lead single from Van Halen’s 1991 album with Sammy Hagar combines a thunderous bassline with a revved-up power drill

Michael Anthony’s 16th-note bass grooves remained as much a part of the “Van Hagar” sound as Eddie Van Halen’s guitar pyrotechnics

Guitar World

Bizarrap, Daddy Yankee to headline halftime show at NFL's first-ever game in Spain

The NFL's first game in Spain will feature a Latin music showcase with Bizarrap and Daddy Yankee performing at halftime

The Independent UK

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Paul Kelly: Seventy review – reflections on ageing from a musician bigger than ever

After five decades, the songs are still memorable, warm and a little sex-mad. It’s classic Kelly – and Joe’s back, too

The Guardian - AU

Hatchie: Liquorice review – dizzying dreampop with welcome flashes of depravity

Eschewing the fairyfloss hooks of her earlier work, the Australian’s third album is both more mature and less immediately palatable

The Guardian - AU

"Jonathan was just bugging out. So we thought, ‘That may work out if Chester sang on the verse’”: The unreleased Korn album we’ve been waiting 20 years to hear – complete with Chester Bennington collaboration

It features on one of metal’s great lost albums

Metal Hammer

“I was staring at the LA cityscape wondering what the hell I was doing with my life. I was examining every awful thing about myself”: How My Chemical Romance took alienation, anxiety and hair bleach and turned it into the emo Bohemian Rhapsody

My Chemical Romance’s 2006 mega hit was the pinnacle of emo

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Danny Brown: Stardust review – hyperpop-rap powered up with post-rehab positivity

The Detroit rapper feared his music would get dull after he went sober, but no-one could be bored by this guest-stuffed, chaotically swaggering new album

The Guardian - UK

Turnstile at Alexandra Palace: 'The biggest hardcore punk crossover in years'

5/5 The Baltimore band topped off a breakthrough year with a wild show at Ally Pally

Evening Standard

Joji Released New Song, Announced Upcoming Album And Collab—Here Are The Fans' Theories On The 21 Tracks

Joji dropped 'If It Only Gets Better' and announced his 21-track album, 'Piss In The Wind,' teasing another single, 'Past Won't Leave My Bed,' and several collaborations.

International Business Times UK

“There’s a synergy between you and a great instrument. That could be a $300 Squier or a$5,000 Gibson. It doesn’t matter”: Chris Buck on vintage “dogs”, signature model intrigue, and how rock royalty helped his regal blues-rock tap into America

How many bands take 16 years to craft their debut album? This one did… But Chris Buck and Cardinal Black are making up for lost time

Guitar World

"It had a second life through social media, eight years after the album!" This is what it’s like when your song goes viral almost a decade after you released it, according to Swedish power metallers Sabaton

2016 single The Last Stand has racked up some impressive numbers through social media, despite not being the album’s biggest hit when it came out

Metal Hammer

Jimi Hendrix's giant-steps second album Axis: Bold As Love, now upgraded with bonus tracks and new cover art

The deluxe edition reissue of Axis: Bold As Love includes 40 bonus outtakes, alternative versions, TV and radio appearances

Louder

“It’s the moment the cracks appeared and their decline into preposterousness began. It sinks under the weight of its own self-importance”: What members of Marillion, Dream Theater, Asia and more think of Yes’ Tales From Topographic Oceans

It was the double-album that split critics, fans and the line-up who recorded it. We asked a range of prog stars for their thoughts on the 1973 release

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Creative Bloq

Apple TV's new sonic logo is a certified banger

The Apple TV rebrand is off to a beautiful start.

Metal Hammer

“Dave and I were in a position where there was no Plan B. There was no escape hatch”: Megadeth were broke, homeless and way behind Metallica. But this thrash classic inspired by Patti Smith and written on a borrowed bass would change everything

How Megadeth wrote a landmark thrash metal classic in the midst of personal and financial chaos

Louder

Yes announce 15-disc super deluxe edition of Tales From Topographic Oceans

At last! Tales From Topographic Oceans is now even bigger

The Guardian - UK

Jack DeJohnette obituary

Thrilling American jazz drummer, pianist and composer who played with some of the genre’s greatest stars

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“We’ve played some big shows in England, but I don’t know about that one": Lindsey Buckingham claims not to know if he’s ever played Glastonbury as he reacts to Florence and the Machine’s cover of Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain at the 2010 festival

Could that be a subtle indication that plans are afoot, or are we reading too much into it?

Guitar World

“Bernie was playing right out of Randy’s pedalboard and amp. He said Randy’s pedalboard was doing changes on its own”: Bernie Tormé only played seven gigs with Ozzy Osbourne – but he saved the Black Sabbath frontman’s career

Flown in at short notice after Rhoads' death, the Irish Strat magician would soon leave Ian Gillan, Phil Lewis, and Tracii Guns – among many others – with blown minds

Guitar World

“It was not only an honour but deeply moving”: Bernie Marsden’s $1million ‘The Beast’ Les Paul was just played on stage by Slash’s favorite current British blues rock guitar hero

Chris Buck paid homage to both his father and the late Whitesnake guitarist with the performance

Evening Standard

The top Beatles landmarks in London

From Abbey Road to the Palladium , we go through the top landmarks in the capital related to the Fab Four

Guitar World

“He screams across from the bar, ‘What you doing, boy! Put that guitar down. Nobody knows my tuning!’” Journey’s Neal Schon on that one time he tried Albert King’s mythical Gibson Flying V

Schon cut his teeth playing the blues and jamming with some of the genre’s greats – including Albert King

The Independent UK

Bad Company, one of rock's supergroups, pushes the doors open at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Bad Company singer-songwriter Paul Rodgers treasures one of his last phone calls with guitarist Mick Ralphs

Metal Hammer

Henry Rollins is coming back to music after over 20 years - and has been working with another iconic punk legend

21 years since his last solo album, Henry Rollins has returned to the Washington D.C. studio where it all began

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