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“I was never fired from Kiss – I was left behind for a wildly successful commercial venture. You don’t have to be an accountant to understand Paul and Gene”: Bruce Kulick shares war stories from Kiss’ no-makeup era – and the reunion that killed it

Kulick offers a front-row perspective of what went down with Kiss in the ’80s: the tension between the past and future, his six-string independence from Ace Frehley, and the coming grunge asteroid

Guitar World

Listen to new MC5 single Can't Be Found featuring Living Colour's Vernon Reid and Dennis 'Machine Gun' Thompson

Can't Be Found comes from the MC5's Heavy Lifting, their first album in more than half a century

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“A perfect example of interpretive genius from a visionary guitarist”: The 20 greatest guitar cover versions

We asked, you voted, and the results are in, with a top 20 covers list featuring Guns N' Roses, Aretha Franklin, SRV and Joe Bonamassa. But who was voted number one?

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"A perfect storm of obstacles and misfortunes": New England released one of the greatest AOR albums of all time, but their career was derailed by the Pope

With some top-drawer tunes, Paul Stanley producing and Kiss’s management behind them, New England seemed, and felt, poised for stardom. Cue bad luck and trouble

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"A snapshot of a guitar man at the height of his powers": The first MC5 album in half a century is confirmed – first single out now

Originally slated for release in 2022, Heavy Lifting will finally see the light of day later this year

Louder

“I was keen to get a new audience. It took me until album number three before I found an identity”: The adventure of Peter Gabriel’s first four solo records

Car, Scratch, Melt and Security log the incredible distance he covered between leaving Genesis and creating So

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“If I knew I was gonna influence thousands of guitar players, I woulda practiced more!” Ace Frehley struts down memory lane to shoot down Kiss myths and reveal the secrets behind an era-defining sound

The former Kiss guitarist on the “dinosaur bends” and dimed amps behind his signature style, and his guitar highlights as the rock institution's original Spaceman

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"It has a kind of sense of revolutionary message but also a good sense of humour": Producer Bob Ezrin gives update on eagerly anticipated MC5 album

The MC5's fourth album Heavy Lifting was originally due in 2022, and those involved are determined to see it released in the wake of Wayne Kramer's death

Louder

"Wayne was a force of nature. A soul man in a rock'n'roll body": Bob Ezrin pays tribute to late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer

Exclusive: Bob Ezrin, who produced the upcoming MC5 album Heavy Lifting, pays tribute to "one of the best guitar players any of us had ever heard"

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"The label said ‘What do you want to do next, lads?’ and we laughingly said, ‘Christmas song!’": Justin Hawkins on the creation of The Darkness' festive classic

The Darkness frontman on how the Lowestoft quartet made Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)

Louder

Roger Waters had a little black book with his poems in – and he turned them into a massive, multimedia masterpiece that ultimately destroyed Pink Floyd

How Roger Waters and Pink Floyd took some "unlistenable" demos and built The Wall

Louder

“After the first couple of years the darkness descended. There were some volatile individuals. We’re almost talking asylum levels”: how cult ’70s rockers The Babys blew their chance to be the next big thing

Fronted by John Waite, The Babys could have become one of the biggest bands of the 70s – if only they hadn’t torn themselves apart

Louder

Roger Waters ‘spent 30 minutes reading from unpublished memoir’ during ‘awkward’ London show

Controversial musician apparently scolded hecklers and ‘ranted about Julian Assange’ during performance described by critics as ‘uncomfortable’

The Independent UK

Roger Waters accused of repeated antisemitism in new documentary

Investigation interviews those who claim to have heard several derogatory references to Jews

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Roger Waters accused of using antisemitic language by Pink Floyd producer

Legendary Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin among those interviewed in documentary about Waters’ inflammatory behaviour

Louder

"When I heard that on the radio, I went, Dammit, I should have written that song": Alice Cooper names the emo and grunge anthems he wishes he had written

The Godfather of Shock Rock singles out the emo and grunge classics that he wishes were his songs

Guitar World

“Joe Perry had hit a block, so I was called in to play on Train Kept a Rollin’. They said, ‘Don't tell anyone – no-one can know’”: From Alice Cooper to Peter Gabriel and Aerosmith, Steve Hunter has led one of session guitar’s most remarkable careers

The session veteran tells his greatest war stories: how he wrote the epic intro to Lou Reed’s Sweet Jane, what he taught Jason Becker for his stint with David Lee Roth, and why he believes losing his sight made him a better guitar player

Louder

10 brilliant Kiss deep cuts we’re begging them to play one last time before they retire

Detroit Rock City and Rock And Roll All Nite are great, but these are the lost gems we want to hear on their farewell tour

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Alice Cooper: "There wasn’t one human being on the planet that thought we’d get past thirty years old"

Godfather of shock-rock Alice Cooper on the Hollywood Vampires, the perks of being a sober celebrity, and launching a Johnny Depp and Amber Heard soap opera

Guitar World

Michael Landau recalls recording guitar in front of David Gilmour: “Playing for Pink Floyd was one of the most bizarre things ever”

The session heavyweight was once brought onboard to record a lead line that Gilmour “didn’t want to do”

Louder

Alice Cooper is writing a concept album called Road, about life on the road

Alice Cooper is working upon his 22nd solo album

Louder

Alice Cooper's story about Kiss/Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin projectile vomiting all over The Who is one for the ages

A 1970s drinking contest between Alice Cooper's band and The Who was always going to end in tears... and vomit

The Independent UK

‘I always try to be the Randy Quaid to Dan’s Chevy Chase’: Justin Hawkins on The Darkness, Christmas traditions and life in Switzerland

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins has fond memories of childhood Christmases with his brother and bandmate, Dan Hawkins. For our ‘at home with’ mini-series, he reflects on the making of the band’s hit single, ‘Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End)’, the battle for Christmas No 1, and his own…

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MC5, a 6-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee, revs up for first album in 51 years and new tour

SAN DIEGO — How many 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees are now recording their first new album in more than half a century — and performing at a 230-capacity San Diego music bar this month?

Tribune News Service

MC5 ready to kick out the jams on first new album in 50 years

If the descriptor "first album in over 50 years" has ever been used before, it certainly hasn't been often.

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