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“We were rebels: ‘Hate us, we don’t care.’ But the more critics hated us, the more kids started showing up at shows”: The tangled tale of X Japan, Japan’s biggest rock band

Fame, death and resurrection – X Japan’s Yoshiki looks back on his band’s unique journey

Metal Hammer

“Ron played bass like John Entwistle – he was definitely into that kind of rhythmic gallop”: When Ron Asheton switched from guitar to bass, Iggy and the Stooges recorded their most influential record

How a chance meeting between Iggy Pop and David Bowie put the Stooges back on their feet

Guitar World

“I had just taken my first acid trip, and I had an African spear and a Chinese Warlord outfit”: Arthur Brown’s wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, David Bowie and more

Jamming with Hendrix, partying with The Who, getting hit on by David Bowie’s wife – The God Of Hellfire has done it all and more

Louder

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Gemma Arterton's guide to London: secret gardens, stunning stationery shops and Singer Sargent

The star on working as a karaoke hostess in Waterloo, run-ins with the law, and where she recommends for a first date

Evening Standard

"They push the genre forward." Yungblud reveals who he believes are the "best metal band under 40 years old", explains how David Bowie inspired him

Genre-hopping singer-songwriter Yungblud gives props to some British metal heavyweights and a music icon

Metal Hammer

“People coming up to me and saying, ‘Good album, good songs.’ That hadn't happened to mebefore”: David Bowie on his first classic album

“The whole album is so unusual,” says Bowie fan Boy George

MusicRadar

I was a long-haired teenage boy in the 1960s. Why did everyone hate us so much?

It wasn’t always clear why our buzz-cut parents felt so threatened by our cascading locks – but guys like me needed to express ourselves

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“We don’t want to be an old-school death metal band. But if you say ‘progressive death metal’, people expect hyper-sweeps and polyrhythms”: How Blood Incantation fused B.C. Rich, doom and David Gilmour to make one of 2024’s most talked-about metal albums

Metal Hammer named Absolute Elsewhere their album of the year. Paul Riedl and Morris Kolontyrsky explain how they made their masterpiece at the studio beloved by David Bowie, weaving ’70s prog and krautrock into death metal, and how to make a B.C. Rich sound like a Strat

Guitar World

“Far ahead of the 80s art-rock curve… forward-looking, new wave electronic music with trace elements of prog and glam”: Bill Nelson’s Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam Deluxe Box Set

Ex-Be Bop Deluxe leader’s 1981 solo release is greatly expanded to impressive effect

Louder

32 Celebrity Couples Who Had Painfully Sweet Meet-Cutes

Straight out of a rom-com.

Marie Claire

Kate Bush's only live performance on US TV didn't transform her fortunes, but she did inspire a Hollywood actor's recipe for braised spare ribs

in 1978 Kate Bush appeared on Saturday Night Live, impressing a budding musician and inspiring a future cinema star

Louder

“He had a level of charisma beyond what you normally experience”: Christopher Nolan on working with David Bowie

The Oppenheimer director worked with Bowie on 2006’s The Prestige, but the rock’n’roll icon needed some convincing first

Louder

“I’m told that I introduced Ozzy to cocaine when Black Sabbath opened for Mountain on their first American tour”: Leslie West’s wild tales of Ozzy Osbourne, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix and Tom Hanks

Playing with The Who, jamming with Hendrix, partying with Bowie, Jagger and Lennon -late Mountain man Leslie West did it all and more

Louder

Labradoodle puppy helps charity ‘spread kindness one delivery at a time’

Bowie the labradoodle puppy goes out on deliveries of essentials and makes people feel less embarrassed about receiving help, charity The Brick says.

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Metal Hammer

Metal Hammer name Blood Incantation’s Absolute Elsewhere the best metal album of 2024, top 50 revealed

Blood Incantation’s progressive death metal opus tops the Metal Hammer 2024 album of the year list. See the other 49 entries here.

The Independent UK

Fashion Awards 2024: Rita Ora pays homage to David Bowie and Ellie Goulding channels the Snow Queen

Stars including Nicola Coughlan, Maya Jama and Stella McCartney sported their best looks on the Fashion Awards red carpet.

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30 Photos From ‘Nineties Anxiety’ That Might Remind You How Incredible That Decade Was

The '90s was an iconic decade full of memorable cultural moments. Feel free to take a ride down memory lane right here! The post 30 Photos From ‘Nineties Anxiety’ That Might Remind You How Incredible That Decade Was first appeared on Bored Panda.

Louder

"He sent me an email that said, I watched. I laughed. What do I do now?" How David Bowie ended up starring in one of the most memorable TV comedy scenes of all time

Just when you thought you couldn't love David Bowie more, along came his surprise cameo in a hit British comedy series

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“I blagged my way into this band from the beginning”: Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan on tricking his future bandmates into letting him join

The story goes that the other members heard him singing Bowie’s “Heroes” in the room next door – but was it Gahan on the mic or not?

Guitar World

“I don’t believe he had any idea how rare it was before he bought it”: Kurt Cobain's $6m MTV Unplugged Martin was a historic guitar even before its Nirvana association, but a mod inspired by one of his guitar heroes made it one of a kind

According to Nirvana guitar tech Earnie Bailey, Cobain was far from a vintage guitar fiend, and had no qualms with making his already weird D-18E even more unusual

Digital Camera World

See Berlin through the eyes of one of its most iconic photographers – Helmut Newton

Taschen showcases Helmut Newton's striking work created in his home city of Berlin

Louder

“As a term, ‘prog’ only evolved in the 1990s. And I loathe it. As soon as someone sticks a label on to you, they stop listening”: How Robert Fripp brought King Crimson back for their final resurrection

In 2014, Robert Fripp brought King Crimson back from hiatus – and he was ready to make a “joyous racket”

Evening Standard

From David Bowie to Amy Winehouse: PR trailblazer to talk about 40 years of working with music's biggest stars

Alan Edwards will discuss an extraordinary career that started in the punk scene of Seventies London

Louder

“John Wayne said: ‘My daughter would be so happy to get your autographs.’ So David Coverdale and I signed his cowboy boots”: Glenn Hughes’ wild tales of Ritchie Blackmore, David Bowie, Phil Lynott and The Duke

Bowie, Blackmore, Richard Burton and Linda Blair – Glenn Hughes has crossed paths with them all

Evening Standard

Band Aid 40: Where the original singers are now as Do They Know It's Christmas? returns for 2024

A new refresh of the song, which combines vocals from three past versions, will be released on November 25

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