Rock

Metallica announced a companion to their upcoming Black Album 30th-anniversary box set: The Metallica Blacklist, a package of 53 cover songs by an array of famous artists. That list includes Weezer, My Morning Jacket, Cage the Elephant, St. Vincent, Ghost and a supergroup featuring Miley Cyrus, Elton John, Metallica’s own Robert Trujillo, Red Hot Chili

Metallica will publish a coffee-table book of photography titled The Black Album in Black & White on Oct. 19. The volume is a companion to an expansive box-set reissue of their 1991 self-titled album that will arrive a month earlier. The book features some classic images, as well as some previously unseen ones. Introductions by photographer Ross Halfin and the band members shed some light

Jake Bugg has teamed up with SBTV founder Jamal Edwards for a new video which sees him exploring his early years in Nottingham before he rose to fame. You can watch it exclusively below on NME. The first episode of a new series, it explores how Bugg grew up on the city’s Clifton estate and

Mogwai have announced a London headline show for 2022 – see all the details below. READ MORE: Mogwai – ‘As The Love Continues’ review: cinematic post-rock that loses steam The Scottish group released their 10th studio album ‘As The Love Continues’ back in February, going on to score their first-ever UK Number One with the project.

Arena rock returned to New York City on Sunday night (June 20), as the Foo Fighters tore through a collection fo their most beloved songs in front of a full-capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden. The evening started with “Times Like These,” a song that took on added poignancy during the COVID-19 pandemic. In April 2020 an

Will Smith has announced details of his forthcoming new memoir, Will. The musician and actor will publish the book in the UK on November 9 via Century. Written with The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck author Mark Manson, Will will see Smith “opening up fully about his life in a brave and inspiring book

Jack Blades, frontman for Night Ranger and Damn Yankees, detailed the ’90s cultural shift that affected label Warner Bros.’ attitude toward his music. Damn Yankees — the supergroup featuring Blades, Ted Nugent and Styx‘s Tommy Shaw — opened the decade with two popular albums, 1990’s Damn Yankees and 1992’s Don’t Tread. And after that point,

Yonaka have announced details of a new mixtape called ‘Seize The Power’ – get all the details below. The mixtape is named after the Brighton-based band’s recent single, first piece of new material since the release of their debut album ‘Don’t Wait ‘Til Tomorrow’ in May 2019. Out on July 15, the mixtape features its title

If, at any point during the recent crisis, you found yourself thinking, ‘What would Billy Gibbons do?’ – and there are probably worse role models – you might have pictured the ZZ Top frontman lighting out for some cactus-pocked desert redoubt in one of his garageful of hot rods. A scarlet coupe, perhaps, flames painted

Jeff Beck said Frank Zappa could have been a successful U.S. President as he recalled how he met the eccentric American artist. In a series of short anecdotes shared with Classic Rock, the British blues guitar icon recalled their first meeting in the ‘60s, during a Jeff Beck Group tour of America. “I loved his

An auction for a selection of one-of-a-kind Brompton Bikes designed by Radiohead, Foo Fighters and more has raised a total of $142,200 for Live Nation’s coronavirus charity. READ MORE: Foo Fighters: “Our connection is beyond music” Proceeds from the auction went to Crew Nation, a Global relief fund set up by Live Nation to support live

Take a map and find Gampo Abbey, a Buddhist monastery situated on a rugged finger of Nova Scotia, Canada, and you might notice that it sits at the end of a long track called Red River Road. David Morris, singer and songwriter in England’s Red River Dialect, wasn’t aware of the name when he applied

A seemingly innocuous vehicle, secretly enhanced with added fuel tanks, police detection equipment and various after-market gadgets, has embarked on an illegal race across America. It may sound like the plot to a blockbuster film, but this Cannonball Run is definitely real. The origins of the legendary coast-to-coast race can be traced to Car and Driver editor

Dappy has helped save a man’s life after talking him out of jumping off London’s Tower Bridge. The former N-Dubz rapper was shooting a music video nearby when he saw a number of police cars and ambulances arrive in the area. It was then he was alerted to a 27-year-old man, who was a fan

Bands like BLK JKS don’t come along often, especially in places like Johannesburg. There was no South African indie rock scene to speak of when the group emerged from the city’s Spruitview district in the mid-2000s, and their distinctive sound – a blend of kwaito, dub and township soul fired through a prism of dissonant

The ’80s were a weird time for patriotic pop, protest songs and nuanced commentary on America that fell somewhere between pop and protest. The decade was also a weird time for David Lee Roth. He’s never been described as normal, but from “Hot For Teacher” to “Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody” to re-recording his

The house that OutKast recorded many of their early hits in has now been made available to rent on Airbnb. As part of Black Music Month, Big Boi, one half of the pioneering Atlanta duo alongside André 3000, is giving fans the opportunity to stay in The Dungeon, the home of the studio where The

Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman, two of Saturday Night Live‘s original cast members, have opened up about witnessing the notorious backstage fight between Chevy Chase and Bill Murray. “I think Jane and I and Gilda [Radner] [all] witnessed it,” Newman said Thursday on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, recalling a 1978 spat between