DARK SECRETS: 11 | Rare Historical Photos

"I went to the Job Centre, and someone recognised me and started laughing. I went back to the car and cried my eyes out." Britrock's cheekiest chaps A have returned, older and wiser – and they've made the album they needed to

Prang is A's first new album in over 20 years

Louder · Jul 21

Hollywood Vampires: Alice Cooper and Joe Perry lift the lid on life inside rock's superstar garage band

As Hollywood Vampires gear up for a run of European shows, we talk to Joe Perry and Alice Cooper about Johnny Depp, compiling setlists, and what's going on with Aerosmith

Louder · Jul 21

Mexican reggae! Gunslinger duels! Chainsaws! The making of the Eagles' 1976 masterpiece Hotel California

Fifty years after it was recorded and released, Don Henley and producer Bill Szymczyk revisit the making of the Eagles' most successful album

Louder · Jul 21

"I put myself on the line to potentially get the s**t kicked out of me." Producer Andrew Watt on working with rock legends The Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney

Andrew Watt: the man who makes rock legends sound like excited teenagers jamming in a garage

Louder · Jul 20

“His songs remain timeless. His bass lines still burrow deep into the ear – and the heart”: Moody Blues icon John Lodge Remembered

His unique voice and playing helped shape the band’s pioneering progressive approach, and he kept the flame burning long after they’d stopped touring

Louder · Jul 20

"Let My Love Open The Door is one of the most perfect pop songs ever written." Pete Townshend finds stable ground away from The Who on Empty Glass

Empty Glass was Pete Townshend’s response to the death of Keith Moon and the arrival of punk

Louder · Jul 20

"We certainly weren't strutting around like Deep Purple. My God, they had a lot of fun. We did not have fun." How the UK college rock scene shaped the genesis of Genesis

An excerpt from a new book celebrating the endearingly amateurish British university gig scene that launched the career of some of the world’s most famous bands

Louder · Jul 20

“Steve Lukather’s guitar collided with a mic stand. He banked the guitar against it and made it a feature of the song. I don’t even understand!” Toto’s Dennis Atlas and his star-studded solo album

Listen to Principle and you’ll hear Bumblefoot, David Paich, Marco Minneman and others, plus Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and Jordan Rudess influences

Louder · Jul 19

“The front row was always diehard Journey fans and they would flip me off”: The story of Journey’s lost singer and the classic song he helped write

Journey are in the middle of their farewell tour - but it’s unlikely Robert Fleischman will be joining them onstage

Louder · Jul 19

“It could hardly have been more in tune with the gothic scene’s aesthetic preferences if it had come with free bat wings”: The pioneering British punk band who embraced the darkness to make a classic 80s goth album

With 1985’s Phanasmagoria, The Damned made one of the great goth-punk albums

Louder · Jul 19