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"I think I just played the same song the whole night." Thin Lizzy legend Brian Robertson on his controversial time in Motorhead, and why Lemmy asked him to leave

"I knew it was going to be rough"

Metal Hammer

“One day, my mom went to Costco and was like, ‘They’ve got these guitars on sale. Let’s get it for your dad’”: Kiki Wong on how a cheap Yamaha and a Metallica classic changed her musical trajectory

Wong went from playing piano and classical music – to shredding, metal and Metallica

Guitar World

"Alanis Morrisette inspired me to express how I was feeling." One of 2000s metal's early stars on being a teenage rockstar, breaking up nu metal's boys club and the art of failure

Kittie were barely teenagers when they signed their first record deal - 30 years on, they're bigger than ever

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“It’s inherent in the fanbase. You’re always measured against this yardstick. People comment, ‘This isn’t Yes!’ Where did we say this was Yes?”: Arc Of Life’s struggle to self-identify

Featuring three members of the prog giants, their 2021 debut received mixed reactions. But Jon Davison, Billy Sherwood and Jay Schellen decided to focus on the follow-up record rather than fight with a few armchair generals

Louder

“I’d been in and around music since I was 15, so I guess I wasn’t surprised. I just started to become conscious of it”: Pete Tong admits he has to wear a hearing aid these days

DJ has become an ambassador for Boots Hearingcare

MusicRadar

"If you watch closely, the cello’s slipping and I’m pulling it up while playing. It was so embarrassing. I think I faked it but it didn’t sound that great": Laufey reveals that she suffered a cello malfunction during a Grammys performance with Billy Joel

“It’s one thing to be a really good pianist, it’s another thing to be a really good songwriter and another thing to be a really good singer, and he’s all three," she says of Joel

MusicRadar

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 2, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from The Sheepdogs, Starbenders, Crossbone Skully and more

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‘My guitar was mangled – like my life!’ Goo Goo Dolls on how they made epic ballad Iris

‘I’m grateful to Taylor Swift, and others who have covered it, for introducing the song to a new generation. Three billion streams on Spotify is astonishing!’

The Guardian - UK

‘We were just astonished’: Mental As Anything on their highs and lows – and hitting the road again

One of Australia’s most successful pop bands are reliving their career, with a new documentary and a tour bringing the ‘original flavour’ back on stage

The Guardian - AU

"I definitely saw an unidentified flying object that night." Why this heavy metal icon is convinced he saw a UFO one fateful night in North Carolina

The truth is out there for Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe

Metal Hammer

“Steven grabbed it and wanted to throw it out into the audience. I had to wrestle him for it”: That time Joe Perry had to rescue a broken guitar from Steven Tyler in the middle of an Aerosmith gig

The guitar almost met a gruesome end before Perry stepped in

Guitar World

UK’s YouTube star Eurovision act reveals original song for 2026 competition

YouTube star Look Mum No Computer will represent the UK in Vienna

The Independent UK

“It’s the only guitar I’ve kept from then. I paid $900 for it. Today it might be worth $45,000”: How Europe’s John Norum learned to love The Final Countdown – and the guitar he used to track its iconic solo

The Final Countdown is one of rock's evergreen anthems, but Norum admits he thought it was “dreadful” at first

Guitar World

“The advice I give to all aspiring songwriters and performers is ‘Don’t repeat yourself. Develop and grow. Raise the bar”: Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka has died, aged 86

He wrote for Elvis, Tom Jones and the Monkees

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‘Do what you really want to do while you’re still alive’: Masayoshi Takanaka, the Japanese guitar hero surfing a second wave in his 70s

Playing a surfboard-shaped axe, Takanaka was a stadium-level artist at home but little known in the west – until YouTube brought him a huge new audience

Metal Hammer

Nine Inch Nails surprise release 44-track Tron Ares: Divergence album featuring remixes and previously unreleased material

In the mood for two-and-a-half hours of Nine Inch Nails music? Then today is a good day

Guitar World

He wrote chart-topping hits and one of the greatest Christmas songs of all time, but all he wanted to do was play deep slide blues – remembering the late, great Chris Rea

A slide master with a voice like life, the English bluesman hated the spotlight – and deserves notice beyond his perennial Christmas hit

Evening Standard

Song title confirmed for Look Mum No Computer’s 2026 UK Eurovision entry

The singer, whose real name is Sam Battle, will perform in Austria in May.

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“Where would I be right now if I didn’t have one of the biggest bands in the world spending their time trying to hold me back?” Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine claims Metallica and others held him back during early career

The singer/guitarist now believes “there’s no reason why we shouldn’t be friends”

Louder

"Future generations will consider it one of the most important recordings of all time." Rising Southern rock star Marcus King picks the soundtrack of his life

Singer/guitarist Marcus King picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the song that brought him to tears - even though he didn't understand the words

The Independent UK

Q&A: K-pop girl group Twice exploded in the last decade. Then 'KPop Demon Hunters' came calling

The massively popular K-pop girl group Twice marks a decade together by widening its sound on and stepping into a massive Netflix hit

Louder

"Those teenage kids could be kind of wild. It could be downright frightening at times." The story of the tongue-in-cheek classic that slammed manufactured pop music, aided by a pair of South African legends

A light-hearted pop at the superficial workings of the pop industry in the 60s, it remains a minor classic. And if you saw the band live in Bournemouth in 1965, you might actually be on it!

Louder

"An unexpurgated burst of creativity with no nuance or tact or second-guessing. Just raw, hard rock frenzy unleashed." Japan's Flower Travellin' Band aren't for the faint-hearted on proto-prog-guitar-wigout Satori

Bored with covering Western blues bands, the Flower Travellin' Band set out on their own sonic adventure

The Guardian - AU

Delta Goodrem to represent Australia at Eurovision 2026

One of the country’s bestselling singers is heading to a contest mired in geopolitical controversy – but, she says, ‘I believe in the healing powers and hope of music’

Metal Hammer

"There's no tanks, fantastical swordfights or bloody executions, just sweat, songs and almighty sing-alongs: rock'n'roll at its very best." Foo Fighters return to their punk roots in a very sweaty Manchester club

Dave Grohl winds back the clocks with a very sweaty, very intimate show in Manchester

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