Former Guns N’ Roses manager Doug Goldstein dead at 65 Goldstein worked with Axl Rose's band for 17 years Louder · Jun 27
"We're trying to build a spaceship – as you do." Muse frontman Matt Bellamy promises blockbuster stage production for upcoming arena shows With a new album released and massive shows coming up, Muse are spending big on their stage setup Louder · Jun 27
"He wrote stories so painfully real that rock’n’roll still bears their scars." From Velvet Underground to his often divisive solo work, here's why Lou Reed is rock’s greatest storyteller "With 1989’s New York album, Reed sealed his position as NYC’s poet laureate with a concept work of rare lyrical brilliance." Louder · Jun 27
"If you have a perception of him as an out-of-control rock'n'roller, that's not the guy I worked with." Jeff Wayne needed someone to play an apocalyptic preacher in The War Of The Worlds. In Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott, he found the perfect voice Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds was released in June 1978 Louder · Jun 27
"Would all the men in the audience stand up?" It's now 25 years since The Hives teamed up with Kylie Minogue for a 96 second commercial voted the greatest cinema advert of all time Kylie Minogue, expensive pants, a bucking bronco and The Hives equals marketing gold Louder · Jun 26
“Afraid Of Sunlight escaped more than it was released." How Marillion's eighth album brought the curtain down on their time at EMI and set the band up for the rest of their career... 1994's Brave set Marillion on a collision course with their record label, EMI. A year later, they went out on a high with Afraid of Sunlight. This is the story... Louder · Jun 26
Heart's Ann Wilson and Tripsitter announce second album Consecrated Ground, share powerful psych-rock single I Will Not Be Coming Back The follow-up to 2023's Another Door will arrive this summer Louder · Jun 26
"I just couldn’t relate to him at all. I could see that he was thinking, Who is this weird guy?" When David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen first met in 1974, it did not go well at all On November 25, 1974, David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen met for the very first time at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia. It was an awkward encounter for both men Louder · Jun 26
Every Grand Theft Auto soundtrack ranked from worst to best With Grand Theft Auto VI finally coming in just a few months time, we rate the soundtrack of every main series entry so far Louder · Jun 26
Hot proggy sounds from The Pineapple Thief, Prince Of Failure, Maya Ongaku, Raphael Weinroth-Browne and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week Ace new prog you must hear from Changing Places In The Fire, Source, Datura Lodge and more in all new Tracks Of The Week Louder · Jun 26
The unlikely birth of Velvet Revolver, the supergroup who triumphed against the odds Velvet Revolver’s debut album, Contraband, was released on June 8, 2004. In this classic interview, Slash reveals how one of rock’s greatest modern supergroups got off the ground Louder · Jun 26
"We have a very special chemistry.” Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery share first new music from their upcoming album with video for The Black Sea Hackett & Rothery will release their instrumental guitar album, The Roaring Waves, in August Louder · Jun 26
"One of our videos hit 123 million views in Brazil, so we're flying out to play Monsters Of Rock." Meet Jayler, the West Midlands quartet with big dreams and even bigger plans Jayler are big in Brazil, have gigs lined up with Deep Purple and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and their debut album only came out last month Louder · Jun 26
"We owed the label half a million dollars. There was no way we're gonna pay that back." Crown Lands talk music biz, 19-minute songs, and why they'd rather be killed by robots than zombies Crown Lands' new album Apocalypse is a sci-fi story, but it echoes what's going on in the world today Louder · Jun 26
Louder · Jun 26 "We dug our teeth into that song. It was all about passion and hauling ass." The story of the last song The Doors ever recorded Ray Manzarek calls L.A. Woman "the quintessential Doors song" - but they only ever played it live twice
Louder · Jun 26 "We were playing to capacity crowds, six or seven nights a week, everywhere we went. So we figured something was about to happen." The story of 1966, the year that built rock Before 1966, the blues was tired, worn out and unsexy. But then Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Jimi Hendrix created the modern guitar hero too
Louder · Jun 26 "Super-focussed, densely layered and stacked with killer tunes." Unashamedly grandiose space-rockers Muse hit new disco-metal heights on Spielberg-sized sci-fi epic The Wow! Signal The Wow! Signal is Muse at their sharpest, eclectic and energised, but low on the bloat and bombast that sometimes marred previous albums
Louder · Jun 25 10 cruelly over-looked alt. rock albums from 1996 that should have been massive in a fair and just world Thirty years on, a salute to 10 brilliant records from 1996 that deserved better
Louder · Jun 25 "He has devoted his entire life to killing Morrissey." Morrissey launches yet another attack on former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr, and the BBC "Bigmarr Strikes Again"
Louder · Jun 25 “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” How anarchy, acrimony and apathy killed the Sex Pistols just 78 days after the release of Never Mind The Bollocks "It was ugliness personified"
Louder · Jun 25 "We have nothing to do with this." That new Fugazi x Vans trainers collection that's all over social media has no connection whatsoever with the legendary Washington DC hardcore band You are not what you own, remember?
Louder · Jun 25 “I was obsessed with him at school – it didn’t help with the girls! Because of him I got my first guitar, so he’s got a lot to answer for”: The prog hero who links The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord to Pink Floyd and The Beatles Soord’s inspiration comes from a man who made his name in the studio before releasing a series of acclaimed concept records in his own right
Louder · Jun 25 Hayley Williams, Deftones' Chino Moreno, Turnstile's Brendan Yates to appear on new Beabadoobee album Pylon Listen to Beabadoobee's fierce new alt.rock single Sun Has Set, and check out her upcoming world tour dates
Louder · Jun 25 "If I hear a white-boy blues band now where it's a squeaky clean mix, I just want to vomit." All Them Witches' new album House Of Mirrors is steeped in the blues – but it rages Having almost called it quits a couple of years ago, All Them Witches cast an excellent spell with their new album House Of Mirrors – and there’s more magic brewing for the future
Louder · Jun 25 Watch "Weird Al" Yankovic's guitarist singing Rush's Cygnus X-1 Book II in a bathroom in Missouri Meet Payton Rose Velligan: She sings Rush in the bathroom