Nicky Moore

WELCOME

H ave you ever stopped for a second

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

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?”

Queen

Radio Ga Ga

Steve Diggle

The Buzzcocks leader on following his dream, the toll of partying too hard, and continuing after losing Pete Shelley.

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 ESSENTIAL NEW ROCK TRACKS YOU NEED TO HEARTHIS MONTH AND BANDS TO HAVE ON YOUR RADAR

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

Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years

Emerson Lake & Palmer

Singles BMG

BEST OF THE REST

Other new releases out this month.

Gary Moore: The Official Biography

Harry Shapiro JAWBONE PRESS

The Smashing Pumpkins

With albums that were at times sublime, at times challenging, at their best the band cooked up some delicious musical flavours.

THE HIGH-VOLTAGE WHAT’S ON GUIDE

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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

Killing Joke frontman (and much more) Jaz Coleman on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him

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