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WELCOME

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“IT’LL FEEL LIKE A BRAND-NEW BAND”

The Temperance Movement rise from the ashes.

RIP

Thank you… and good night.

Johnnie Walker

March 30, 1945 – December 31, 2024

Jon Camp

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Jimmy Carter

October 1, 1924 – December 29, 2024

Richard Perry

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Iommi And Hughes Team Up With Robbie

Tony and Glenn appear on new Williams track.

Fans Slate Rory Gallagher Statue

“Bloody awful” monument is unveiled in Belfast.

NEWS

Developers have expressed their “sincere regret” after the

Thundermother

Filippa and Linnéa on catching Gene Simmons’s eye, and what really happened with the old line-up.

Last Train

With album number three they’re hoping to pull into stations outside their native France.

REO Speedwagon Name Is ‘Retired’

But bitterness sours the soft rockers’ farewell.

The Boss And Metallica Rock Pollstar Chart

But Taylor Swift and Coldplay are the top dogs.

NEWS

Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith is among those

The Lumineers

On album number five they address some serious topics, but musically they like to keep things simple.

The New Roses

Formed in Germany, influenced by American bands, they’re looking to bloom everywhere.

The Knack

My Sharona

Ricky Warwick

The Almighty frontman on his new solo album, digging Northern soul, his good work ethic, quitting drinking…

Shaman’s Harvest

They’ve come through life-changing adversity. They know how to party. They’re finally coming over here…

KILLERS ,BEASTS,SLAVES, SONS ,SOULS

With Iron Maiden celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, we talk to all the members of the band and look back over the successes, trials, tribulations, thrills, spills and genre-defining records of the longest-running and arguably greatest heavy metal band of them all.

SISTERS IN ARMS

Taking care of business in all aspects of their music and career, Rebecca and Megan Lovell, aka the fast-rising Larkin Poe , really are sisters doing it for themselves.

'I WANTED A GROUP WITH GRIT EXCITEMENT AND EDGE

Between two spells with Deep Purple, singer Ian Gillan led two of his own bands, with great success. Here he looks back at Gillan, and how intra-band friction tore that group apart.

SONGS OF INNOCENCE, SONGS OF EXPERIENCE

Moving to a new studio, and with band members taking on new roles, with their new album The Manic Street Preachers continue to innovate and experiment.

THE VAGABONDS RETURN

With the release of Thin Lizzy ’s new Acoustic Sessions , with Phil Lynott’s 70sera vocals, guitarist Eric Bell and producer Richard Whittaker tell us about grass-addled sessions, unfinished business and why this project definitely isn’t AI.

BORN TO RUN

Dragging traditional folk into the rock sphere while on the precipice of international stardom, The Pogues looked like a chaotically ramshackle and dysfunctional unit in the mid-80s with second album Rum, Sodomy & The Lash . In reality they were a resolutely determined hard-working band.

"LIKE HAVING A BRICK WALL COMING AT YOU!"

In 1974 King Crimson released Red, one of their most underrated albums at the time. On its 50th anniversary, Crimson alumni discuss the continued allure of an album that has reduced some adults to tears.

Thin Lizzy

Acoustic Sessions

ROUND-UP: BLUES

Andy Fairweather Low: a musician with the blues

Larkin Poe

Bloom

ROUND-UP: MELODIC ROCK

Bonfire: tuneful radio rock and meaty riffs.

Gillan

1978-1982

The Verve

This Is Music: The Singles

Sharks

Car Crash Supergroup – The Island Records Years 1973-1974

The Creation

Our Music Is Red With Purple Flashes

The Secret History Of Kate Bush (& The Strange Art Of Pop)

Fred Vermorel

Brian Fallon

With The Gaslight Anthem and solo he’s made some marvellous records, but industry pressures extracted a heavy toll from him.

Essential Playlist

Wooderson Sink Or Swim I’da Called You

Uriah Heep

The veteran rockers are saying farewell to touring, but it’s not the end of the band.

Romeo’s Daughter

Catch the band who had the best AOR album of 2023.

Papa Roach

Don’t expect Infest in full, but you will get some old-school tracks and some re-imagined.

Paul McCartney

Paris La Defense Arena / London O2 Arena,

The Sheepdogs

London Islington Assembly Hall

Massive Wagons / Florence Black

Birmingham O2 Institute 2

The Southern River Band

London The Garage

Myles Kennedy / Devin Townsend

Birmingham O2 Academy

Mark Lanegan 60: A Celebration

London The Roundhouse

The Fleshtones

London The Roundhouse

The Damned

Southampton O2 Guildhall

Von Hertzen Brothers

London The Garage

The Soundtrack Of My Life

Von Hertzen Brothers frontman Mikko Von Hertzen on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him

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THE GUITAR SHOW

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