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WELCOME
WELCOME
H ave you ever stopped for a second
The Dirt
All The World’s A Stage
Ozzy and Tony reunite for Commonwealth Games ceremony, Geddy and Alex play together live again.
RIP
Thank you… and good night.
Mo Ostin
March 27, 1927 – July 31, 2022
Steve Grimmett
August 19, 1959 – August 15, 2022
Nicky Moore
June 21, 1947 – August 3, 2022
Ray Majors and Sandy Dillon
July 16, 1949 – August 2022
Darryl Hunt
May 4, 1950 – August 8, 2022
Joni To Record A New Album?
Mitchell insider says: “I wouldn’t be surprised.”
Ronnie Dio Film Out Soon
Documentary to be shown for two nights only.
NEWS
Next summer’s Wacken Open Air Festival sold out
The Godfathers
With a new line-up behind him, Peter Coyne reckons the band pack “a whole lot of rock’n’roll dynamite”.
Spirit Adrift
Meet the trad-metal revivalists who went from doomed to heavy metal’s rising stars.
MY FIRST LOVE
Nine Inch Nails THE FRAGILE
NEWS
Metallica sold more concert tickets (19,468,173) over the
Goo Goo Dolls
They’re back with a new album partly inspired by the state of their USA home. And it’s not a smiley record.
Welshly Arms
They’re not Welsh and they don’t sell beer. So please don’t ask: “What flavour crisps you got?”
The Stories Behind The Songs
Queen
Radio Ga Ga
Q&A
Steve Diggle
The Buzzcocks leader on following his dream, the toll of partying too hard, and continuing after losing Pete Shelley.
Cover Feature
PETER FRAMPTON
Over a six-decade career, Peter Frampton has lived the rock life to its fullest, playing many parts – prodigy, teen idol, guitar hero, global superstar, forgotten man, comeback kid, survivor. Through it all, he’s returned to one defining thought: “I’m a musician, first and foremost.”
HERE COMES THE SUN
They intended to make “a party record“. Instead, Sunrise On Slaughter Beach is “a moody record, a darker record, and in some ways a heavier record than previous Clutch albums”. Neil Fallon and Jean-Paul Gaster talk livestreams, impenetrable lyrics, jazz and getting the funk in.
WHO DARES WINS
It takes a brave man to change his band’s style of music. It takes an even braver, and smarter, man to then do it again, as Darren Wharton did with Dare.
MIDNIGHT COWBOYS
The Cult have always seen themselves as outsiders, “never really accepted into the rock buddy club”. Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy talk about new album Under The Midnight Sun, and their “simple vision to make guitar-oriented rock”.
IT'S BLOODY ROCK 'N' ROLL!
Hounded by self-appointed guardians of the world’s uncorrupted youth, stalked by religious groups, shot at, WASP could easily have packed it in. But after 40 years “we’re still here”, says mainman Blackie Lawless. “Which I’m sure some people aren’t happy about.”
INSIDE THE ELECTRIC CIRCUS
From shock tactics to hard-rock hymnals, here’s the best of four decades of WASP and Blackie Lawless.
MADS PERCH/PRESS
With their sparkling alt.rock and lascivious androgyny, Placebo aimed high and set the 90s alight – and got the nod from Bowie. “All I wanted was never to have to get a real job,” says frontman Brian Molko.
The Hot List
The HOT List
THE ESSENTIAL NEW ROCK TRACKS YOU NEED TO HEARTHIS MONTH AND BANDS TO HAVE ON YOUR RADAR
Reviews
The Cult
Under The Midnight Sun
ROUND-UP: BLUES
Son Little: mindexpanding stuff. CYNTHIA PEREZ/PRESS Son Little
Skid Row
The Gang’s All Here THE SKIDS ARE ALRIGHT
ROUND-UP: MELODIC ROCK
Perfect Plan: making great music sound easy. Perfect
Alter Bridge
Pawns & Kings NAPALM
ROUND-UP: SLEAZE
Sick Thoughts: irresponsible, sloppy, nihilistic and utterly delicious.
Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners
Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners WICKED COOL
BEST OF THE REST
Other new releases out this month.
Venom
In Nomine Satanas BMG
Slade
All The World Is A Stage BMG
The Kinks
Muswell Hillbillies / Everybody’s In Show-Biz BMGA
Joe Strummer
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Emerson Lake & Palmer
Singles BMG
BEST OF THE REST
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Gary Moore: The Official Biography
Harry Shapiro JAWBONE PRESS
Buyer’s Guide
The Smashing Pumpkins
With albums that were at times sublime, at times challenging, at their best the band cooked up some delicious musical flavours.
Back To Live
THE HIGH-VOLTAGE WHAT’S ON GUIDE
P92 INTERVIEWS P97 TOUR DATES P103 LIVE REVIEWS
Richard Marx
The veteran singer plays acoustic shows in the UK in September and October.
Headswim
The long-gone band reunite to play a one-off show in London.
Cardinal Black
“The oldest new band in the world” are currently touring the UK, with the final date on October 8.
Tour Dates
The Gaslight Anthem
London Wembley Arena
Cropredy Convention
Cropredy, Oxfordshire
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls / Amigo The Devil / The Bronx
Las Vegas House Of Blues
The Stranglers
Wolverhampton KK’s Steel Mill
Ginger Wildheart & Jon Poole
Hastings The Crypt
The Soundtrack Of My Life
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