Rock

Former Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi revealed he’d wanted to see the Time Lord having adventures with rock and blues themes, suggesting one episode could have focused on Jimi Hendrix. The Oscar-winning actor and director played the 12th incarnation of the Doctor from 2014 to 2017, and managed to have his electric guitar playing featured

Professor Green has announced a 10 year anniversary tour of his landmark album ‘At Your Inconvenience’. The rapper – real name Stephen Manderson – will hit the road for five UK dates in 2022 kicking off at London’s O2 Shepherds Bush Empire on March 8 before wrapping up at Glasgow SWG3 on March 13. Tickets

Robert Plant said he’d started becoming a “rock ’n’ roll cliche” at an early stage in his life, and hailed Alison Krauss for helping him move away from that position by teaching him about “strict melodies” and harmonies. The pair’s second album, Raise the Roof – released on Nov. 19 – followed their acclaimed 2007

Tidal have hinted at the release of a deluxe version of Kanye West‘s 10th studio album ‘DONDA’. The Twitter page for the streaming service tweeted: “Kanye West presents Donda Deluxe”, which follows the appearance of numerous billboards around Los Angeles with the same message over the weekend. Kanye West presents Donda Deluxe. — TIDAL (@TIDAL)

Pick your cliché for Def Leppard‘s “Bringin’ on the Heartbreak”: “If at first you don’t succeed” or “second time’s the charm.” Either is appropriate. The power ballad from the British quintet’s second LP, High ‘n’ Dry, spent its first few years as an album track. It was the set’s second single but didn’t chart on either

The tambourine Liam Gallagher used to record much of Oasis‘ classic album ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory’ has sold for thousands at auction. The instrument was used on hits such as ‘Wonderwall’ and ‘Champagne Supernova’ when the band recorded the ‘Definitely Maybe’ follow-up at Rockfield Studios in Wales in 1995. When recording for the album

Despite being one of the most grandiose-sounding rock records of all time, Led Zeppelin‘s untitled fourth album was born out of hardscrabble recording conditions. They began recording the album colloquially known as Led Zeppelin IV in December 1970 at London’s Basing Street Studios. Soon, though, they sought a change of scenery and decamped to Headley Grange, a

Griselda‘s Benny The Butcher has inked a new record deal with legendary rap label Def Jam Recordings. Snoop Dogg – who was appointed Def Jam’s executive creative consultant back in June – shared the news during his interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast yesterday (November 12). “I’m on Def Jam Records right. I’m a creative consultant

The Band said goodbye to their days as a performing outfit in a big way on Thanksgiving 1976 with The Last Waltz, a mega-concert event at Bill Graham’s Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Thanks to a guest list of performers including Eric Clapton, Neil Young and Van Morrison, the show would quickly achieve legendary status,

When Paul “Top Dollar” Major promises to “go full condor” in Admonitions’ opener The Offender, he doesn’t need to explain what he means. Besides recasting Endless Boogie’s sexagenarian frontman as an ’80s action-movie hero about to open a can of whup-ass, the line serves as a handy description for the many moments when he and

KISS’s Gene Simmons has hit out at anti-vaxxers, saying “if you’re willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy”. Speaking to Steve Harkins on Talkshoplive’s Rock N’ Roll Channel, Gene Simmons said: “I don’t care about your political beliefs. You are not allowed to infect anybody just because you think you’ve got rights

Covering Led Zeppelin is always a dangeorus game. If you get too quirky with such distinctive songs, you’ll lose the essence of what makes them great; if you stick too close to the script, well … let’s face it — you’re no Jimmy Page. (Remember that scene from Wayne’s World where the music store employee

For more than 20 years, Damon Albarn seems to have been desperate to escape the suffocatingly restrictive straitjacket of Britpop and engage with a wider world. There have been collaborations with musicians from Mali, Senegal, Nigeria, Syria, Japan, Cuba and Iceland; charity projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Chinese operas commissioned in Paris;

Big Sean and Hit-Boy have dropped a video for their latest collaborative track ‘Chaos’ – you can watch it below. READ MORE: Big Sean: “God has taken away all these special people – there has to be a reason I’m still here” The two artists released their surprise EP, ‘What You Expect’, last month (October 28),

Andy Summers says the Police “didn’t get anything” for their contribution to Puff Daddy’s 1997 chart-topper “I’ll Be Missing You.” During an exclusive conversation with UCR, the Police guitarist looked back at the hip-hop hit, which famously sampled their song “Every Breath You Take.” “It was one of those funny things,” Summers recalls of the

Tears For Fears have announced their first UK tour dates in three years, riding on the high of their first album in almost two decades. The duo – comprised of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith – have 16 dates on the itinerary for next summer, kicking off in Shropshire on Friday July 1; take a

Given Pink Floyd‘s rare level of dysfunction, it’s shocking they had survived through the early ’80s at all. But even after the departure of Roger Waters — bassist, co-singer and overall ringleader for much of their lauded run — David Gilmour and Nick Mason refused to fold up shop. The band’s 12th studio LP, 1983’s The Final Cut, had essentially been a

Nile Rodgers has said in a new interview that he wants to release several unheard collaborations that he did with Avicii. The Chic star – who first worked with the late EDM producer on the track ‘Lay Me Down’, taken from the latter’s 2013 album ‘True’ – stopped by Swedish TV show Skavlan last week to discuss his

In order for an album as misguided as Kiss‘ Music From “The Elder” to even see the light of day, a lot of things have to go wrong from the start. And that’s exactly what happened when the ’70s rock heroes tried to pull out of an early ’80s commercial tailspin by abandoning just about everything that

Damon Albarn delivered a piano-led cover of The Human League‘s ‘Don’t You Want Me’ during a BBC live session last night (November 10). READ MORE: Damon Albarn: “I had to do something to lift me out of these storms” The Blur and Gorillaz frontman performed a special ‘Sofa Session’ on Jo Whiley’s Radio 2 show in