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SHOCKING: 3 - What They Never Told You

Iggy Pop has played one of the heaviest death metal bands in the world on his BBC radio show. Seriously.

A song so long and so brutal it had to be split into two parts

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The laziest bands in the history of rock: 10 follow-up albums that took decades to appear

Think waiting 53 years for a new MC5 album is a chore? They're merely the latest in a long line of slow-working, deadline-averse dawdlers

Louder

Anger is an energy! Stars and writers on the songs that define punk spirit

As Patti Smith’s debut single turns 50, punk musicians and music writers pick the songs that define the genre’s resistance, rebellion and refusal

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Countdown at 50: the powerful, messy and sexy music show that changed Australia

On this day in 1974 the show began on the ABC, introducing the nation to pop’s biggest names – Elton John, Madonna, Abba – and giving countless local acts their big break

The Guardian - AU

Iggy Pop announces huge London show for summer 2025

The punk trailblazer will be heading to Alexandra Palace next May

Louder

"If we get some shitty party canons and launch two of them at the end of the show, and they look a bit pathetic, it still works": Meet The Hot Damn!, the colourful, chaotic party crashers intent on enlivening everything

Undertakers, band managers and museum workers by day, pop-charged rockers by night, The Hot Damn! are a gang you’d want to join

Louder

“Slash and I could drink anyone under the table, but Arnold Schwarzenegger was a challenge. He was smoking and swearing all the time”: Duff McKagan’s wild tales of Iggy Pop, Aerosmith, Johnny Thunders and The Terminator

Boozing with Arnie, jamming with Iggy, ignoring Aerosmith’s phone calls – Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan has done it all and more

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"Well, you're a flash c***!" Sex Pistols legend Glen Matlock recalls a night-time drive around New York City perched on David Bowie's knee

A short story about David Bowie, Glen Matlock, Iggy Pop and a Pablo Picasso painting

Louder

“The Grateful Dead? Man, they were abysmal. After 20 minutes half the audience had gone”: Meat Loaf’s wild tales of Iggy Pop, the MC5, The Who and more

Iggy, Joe Cocker, Jerry Garcia, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – Meat Loaf crossed paths with them all

Louder

From Elton John at the piano to Stormzy at Glastonbury and Madonna snogging Britney: 41 era-defining music photos

Icons, rock stars – and divas behaving badly: these photographs of musicians struck a chord around the world

The Guardian - UK

Noel Fielding — things you didn't know about the Great British Bake Off presenter

Noel Fielding is famed for his goth image and being a former party animal, but what else is there to know about him?

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“We were courting Rick Rubin, who told us he’d listened to it with Tom Petty. ‘Wow!’ Tom said. ‘Now that’s something you don’t hear every day’”: Jet on the making of Are You Gonna Be My Girl and how it ended up in an iPod ad

“People talk about the song’s similarity to Lust for Life. It has that rhythm - but so do You Can’t Hurry Love and Town Called Malice”

MusicRadar

Actors, artists, transvestites, junkies and wannabes: How Lou Reed made the defining album of his career

Rudderless after the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed ditched New York for London and hooked upwith David Bowie: The rest is history

Louder

David Bowie in Berlin: how the German city changed him

A new radio show explores how David Bowie disappeared into the city to reinvent himself. Dylan Jones has a first listen

Evening Standard

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"Oozing with a tangible undercurrent of dark, forbidden sex": The Stooges' songs that provided a perfect blueprint for rock's future

In 1969 the Stooges shaped the future of rock'n'roll and brilliantly captured a young, fiery generation in turmoil. Punk? Grunge? Glam? So much of it started here

Louder

"There was no food allowed backstage, only drugs and booze": Clem Burke's stories of Debbie Harry, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop and more

He was a Ramone, been treated like royalty when touring withNancy Sinatra, got hot dogs from Jerry Nolan and played with Pete Townshend: He's Blondie drummer and more Clem Burke

Louder

“Iggy Pop told me he got a speeding ticket while pumping out the demo!” Asian Dub Foundation's Steve Chandrasonic on his band's collaborations with Iggy Pop, Sinéad O’Connor, Public Enemy's Chuck D, Stewart Lee, Primal Scream and more

Asian Dub Foundation guitarist Steve 'Chandrasonic' Savale gives Louder an exclusive track-by-track guide to 94-Now: Collaborations, a new album celebrating ADF's 30th anniversary

The Guardian - UK

‘The drugs were so new, they weren’t illegal yet’: the debauched rise of New York’s wildest bar

It was a seedy hotbed of sex, drugs, edgy music and A-list celebrities where Lou Reed and Andy Warhol partied alongside Blondie and Bowie. How did Max’s Kansas City fall apart?

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Guitar World

“There’s a great picture of me on my knees ripping a guitar solo, and the guitar is bigger than me”: Andrew Watt on the time he shredded at his own bar mitzvah – and what’s next for his Rolling Stones collaborations

Watt went from trying to impress his bar mitzvah guests with his guitar skills, to working with Pearl Jam, Iggy Pop and the Stones

Louder

Watch Iggy Pop perform The Stooges classics at California's No Values Festival

Iggy Pop performs The Stooges' songs for the first time in over two decades with Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ Nick Zinner, Chavez' Matt Sweeney and more on stage at California’s No Values Festival

Evening Standard

Françoise Hardy’s 7 best songs: from La Question to Tous les garçons et les filles

The French music icon was at the forefront of the yé-yé movement, and had a profound influence on rock ’n’ roll

Windows Central

This new 80s teen game about three friends' last night of high school together is already making me nostalgic thanks to its awesome music and aesthetic

Mixtape is a teen adventure filled with classic music tracks and it's coming to Xbox in 2025.

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m a fan of chaos’: Blondie’s Chris Stein on Bowie, Debbie Harry and 50 years in rock’n’roll

In his candid new memoir, the guitarist talks about the glory period of Parallel Lines and how addiction and loss altered his life

Louder

“He has that incredible baritone and that haunted, tortured persona”: these are Chris Cornell’s five favourite singers, in his own words

Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell passed away on May 18, 2017. Eight years earlier, he told Classic Rock about the singers who had inspired him

Metal Hammer

"Whether it has anything to do with being sober I don't know – but I needed a release": Slash tells the story of his star-studded debut solo album

Slash's band split. He was called a 'sell-out' and 'a cancer'. And through it all he emerged with the first great rock album of the last decade

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