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DARK SECRETS: 20 - The Real Truth

Brian Fallon and The Painkillers announce US, UK and European tour dates

Brian Fallon announces dates in support of recently announced solo album Not Bad For New Jersey.

Louder · Jun 18

"It feels like a Camel band effort." Andrew Latimer releases new suite of music, From The Vault

From The Vault a suite comprising eight songs, also features Camel members past and present

Louder · Jun 18

"America is not the same place as it was." Mick Jagger reveals why The Rolling Stones' new album Foreign Tongues features a political message about modern-day America

"The American Dream is intact for some people"

Louder · Jun 18

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"While Damon Albarn is mainly known as a charismatic Britpop darling, we’d argue that he's actually music's ultimate wingman." Gorillaz charm and delight Rock For People during a varied and entertaining headline set

Damon Albarn's genre-hopping alt pop cartoon project shows off the Blur man's penchant for letting others take centre stage

Louder · Jun 18

"I don't think there is any musician that I've worked with that has ever come close to that." How Jimi Hendrix recorded Purple Haze – on a guitar he'd never played before

The story behind the song that established Jimi Hendrix's psychedelic credentials

Louder · Jun 18

"They're not gonna get anybody heavier than me, are they?" In 1971 Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant was asked how he dealt with bootleggers

The BBC footage also shows Pink Floyd hearing one of their own bootlegs for the first time – and they're not happy

Louder · Jun 18

"It was just magical. You're part of a magical event where this incredible band is getting back together." Aimee Mann reacts to performing with Rush in Los Angeles

Initially reluctant to perform, Aimee Mann didn't respond to Geddy Lee's invitation to Rush's reunion shows for a month

Louder · Jun 18

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"NME said we were the best thing since the Sex Pistols. Sounds said we were the worst group they'd ever seen." Why William and Jim Reid feared that The Jesus And Mary Chain's classic debut album Psychocandy might never get released

"It's such a shame that you've made a record full of pop songs and wasted them with all this noise"

Louder · Jun 17

"Foreign Tongues had been rock's worst-kept secret for some time before album opener Rough And Twisted dropped in April to acclaim and relief. Media duly frenzied. Mission accomplished." The Rolling Stones roll on with album number 25

The Rolling Stones follow up Hackney Diamonds with assistance from Paul McCartney, The Cure's Robert Smith, Steve Winwood and more

Louder · Jun 17

Syd Barrett 80th birthday celebrations include tribute concert in Cambridge and tribute album featuring Pink Floyd, David Gilmour and more...

A special tribute concert at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, where Syd Barrett played his last ever live show, will take place in October

Louder · Jun 17

8 totally wildcard artists that we'd love to see play Download 2027

With Download now booking everything from Scooter to Five, here are eight other out-of-the-box ideas for artists that could be booked for next year

Louder · Jun 17

New charity launches in honour of former Big Big Train frontman David Longdon on what would have been his 61st birthday

The David Longdon Foundation will support young musicians, as well as fund music therapy for those in need

Louder · Jun 17

"A vibrant tribute to a band of brilliant misfits, whose unique blend of irony, rebellion, and razor-sharp social commentary helped define an era of British culture." New Pulp documentary What Do You Do For An Encore? to stream this autumn

New film will chronicle Pulp's “extraordinary journey from obscurity to cultural touchstone"

Louder · Jun 17

"John orders 12 bottles of champagne. I thought he was going to treat everybody in the club, but he turned to me and said, 'Go on, drink it – that's yours.'" What happened when John Bonham was best man at Tony Iommi's wedding

Led Zeppelin's famously revelrous drummer John Bonham was Best Man at Tony Iommi's wedding in 1973

Louder · Jun 17

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Louder · Jun 17

"I'd listen to Great Balls Of Fire on repeat for hours at a time." For Jim Jones, rock'n'roll is way more than just music, it's something other-worldly, something sacred

Now signed to The Black Crowes' Silver Arrow Records, the Jim Jones All Stars are fervently preaching the gospel of rock’n’roll

Louder · Jun 17

Jimi Hendrix was here: An interactive London map

Hotels, hangouts, crash pads, recording studios, sweaty gigs, swanky nightclubs… and where it all ended in tragedy: Jimi Hendrix was here

Louder · Jun 17

"It was construed as being about a sex worker." The story behind Blondie's misunderstood debut single, released on this day 50 years ago

"I don't think there's a song on the first record without a reference to someone getting shot, stabbed, degraded, or insulted"

Louder · Jun 16

"We did seven encores. We ran out of material and were forced to play Jimi Hendrix tunes. Imagine that, opening for Cream and finishing with Hendrix tunes?" The story of the legendary James Gang

With a classic funk-rock sound, the rise of rock'n'roll cowboys the James Gang looked unstoppable, inspired by a real kick-ass guitarist who would both make and break the band

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Louder · Jun 16

"We're splitting up. We're washed up, finished." Why making In Rainbows almost destroyed Radiohead, with even their management suggesting they should break up

"It had stopped being fun"

Louder · Jun 16

"By the time you get to the end, it's like, Okay, that's a classic." Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan recalls the first time he heard Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit

The night that Butch Vig played Billy Corgan an unreleased cassette of Nirvana's Nevermind album

Louder · Jun 16

Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell records new songs with Metallica-endorsed NWOBHM veterans Sweet Savage, the band he co-founded in 1979

Def Leppard guitarist makes full circle return to band he formed as a teenager

Louder · Jun 16

“If you'd have told the 15-year-old me, just discovering Genesis, that one day Steve would be a friend of mine, I’d have fallen over!" Steve Rothery and Steve Hackett announce their long-awaited collaborative album, The Roaring Waves

Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery's collaborative instrumental guitar album, The Roaring Waves, will be released in August

Louder · Jun 16

"We got mad at a promoter and threw donuts at the wall backstage. Then we cleaned it up, because we felt guilty." The unlikely triumph of rock'n'roll's greatest nerds, the B-52s

How new-wave eccentrics The B-52s spun lobsters, aliens and Yoko Ono into floor-shaking hits and became massive

Louder · Jun 16

“The area was being evacuated. The police knocked our door and the letting agency told us to leave. We decided to stick it out”: Marillion’s Pete Trewavas on the storms, earthquakes and blizzard that birthed the third Edison’s Children album

Assisted by a lunar astronaut’s son and a Hollywood special effects creator, 2019’s The Disturbance Fields defined the band’s mission to save this world, and others

Louder · Jun 16

"I was transfixed. I thought it was someone else. I said: 'Is that us? That's us!'" The fractious story of the Kinks classic they're still arguing about

For a song at Hard Rock Ground Zero, there sure is a lot of disagreement about You Really Got Me

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