Rock

Metallica’s Kirk Hammett is set to publish his first comic book, Nights of Lono. The comic, which will launch this year but has yet to receive a firm release date, was announced on Monday (March 1), along with the news that AMC Networks is launching a new book publishing arm, AMC Networks Publishing. For Nights

The most difficult song to record on Nirvana’s 1991 masterpiece Nevermind wasn’t “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “Come as You Are,” “In Bloom” or any of the other radio hits. It was the album’s poignant closer, the hauntingly fragile track “Something in the Way.” Kurt Cobain penned the song in 1990, several months before Nirvana headed to Southern California

Yard Act have cancelled their scheduled performance in Newcastle tonight (March 1) due to illness. The band are currently out on a headline tour of the UK in support of their debut studio album, ‘The Overload’, which was released on January 21. In a statement posted on social media today, Yard Act frontman James Smith

Skills, a newly formed band featuring members of Night Ranger and Mr. Big, will release its debut album Different Worlds on May 13. The group is fronted by Renan Zonta, vocalist for the Brazilian rock band Electric Mob. A press release notes that Frontiers record label president Serafino Perugin was “blown away” by the singer’s talent. “Knowing

During the first of his two gigs at London’s O2 Arena last night (February 28), Dave paused to pay tribute to his late friend and mentor Jamal Edwards, who died earlier this month at the age of 31. Though no specific cause of death has been formally confirmed, friends of Edwards have claimed (via Metro)

Talking Heads played the cards close to their chest early on, even turning down initial record-label deals. It wasn’t that they weren’t uninterested in success or distrustful of the industry. Instead, the band was intently focused on honing their sound as part of a burgeoning musical community that frequently shared bills or opened for each other, including

Spotify has agreed to change its rules on playlists following the release of a 1000-track protest album by cult indie band The Pocket Gods, which railed against the streaming platform’s payment rates. Spotify has been accused of paying artists as little as £0.002 for each stream on its service, with royalties only being activated if

Dave Grohl said he’d kept his eyes on Ringo Starr while watching the recent Beatles documentary Get Back. The Foo Fighters leader – who’s played drums with Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures and others – found himself in familiar territory as Starr sat in silence amid long conversations between Paul McCartney, John

Billy Joel has paid tribute to Procol Harum‘s Gary Brooker with a cover of the band’s classic, ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ – watch it below. During his performance at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium on Saturday night (February 26), Joel delivered a moving rendition of the 1967 single to celebrate the life of Brooker, who died

Freddy Krueger, the charred dream demon with a killer glove, was unleashed on the world in 1984 with Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street. Slasher villains who came before hid behind a mask, from Michael Myers (Halloween) and Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th) to Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre). Krueger showed off his disfigured face,

PC Music’s Danny L Harle has shared a massive remix of Griff and Sigrid‘s recent collaborative single ‘Head On Fire’ – hear it below. The song was released last month and will get its live debut next week (March 2) when the pair perform at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 at London’s Brixton Academy. Speaking

Metallica played their first concert of 2022 in Las Vegas last night. The show was opened by Greta Van Fleet. You can see our exclusive photos from the show below, as well as fan-filmed footage of the performance and the full set list. When asked recently about their role as opening band, Greta Van Fleet’s Sam

Dave Grohl has spoken about his recent collaboration with Liam Gallagher, and has called the former Oasis frontman “one of the last remaining rock stars”. Earlier this month, Gallagher released ‘Everything’s Electric’, the first single to be taken from his upcoming new solo album ‘C’MON YOU KNOW’, which is set for release on May 27

Mick Jagger supported a Rolling Stones movie project that would have starred Ben Stiller and Brad Pitt, but Stiller was unable to convince the rest of the band the project was worth their time. “I’m not good at pitching stuff,” the comedian admitted on the Howard Stern Show, reflecting on the time in the ’90s that he had

When Jason Pierce surfaced during that sweltering summer of 2018 to promote the new Spiritualized album And Nothing Hurt – his first for six years – he spoke of its protracted gestation in gruelling terms, as if producing and mixing the record on his own had pushed him to the edge of madness. With typical

Enter Skikari’s Rou Reynolds has criticised the government over its treatment of Ukrainian refugees. Ukraine has officially severed diplomatic ties with Russia and declared martial law after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an attack on the neighbouring nation on February 24. Many Ukrainians are now trying to escape the war zone as the fighting continues. The

By the time Night Ranger arrived at the release of their fourth album, they were poised to repeat the success of the previous three. But record company politics and a movie opportunity that soured took the band on a different ride. Released Feb. 25, 1987, Big Life wore the scars and effects of nearly a decade

At Blossom Toes’ 1960s pad, a stone’s throw from Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium, things could get pretty lively. “There were people coming and going all of the time,” guitarist Jim Cregan tells Uncut. “You’d go into the kitchen and there would be Eric Clapton hanging out with Stevie Winwood, then you’d have Captain Beefheart on