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Kerry King, Creeper, Bambie Thug and more added to Download 2024

Download adds eight new names to its 2024 bill

Metal Hammer

A beginner's guide to desert rock in five essential albums

A brief history of desert rock as told through five albums that have helped define it

Metal Hammer

"It sounds like the inside of my brain most days": The Struts release breezy new single Heaven's Got Nothing On You

The Struts release the second of two new singles this month, in the wake of How Can I Love You (Without Breaking Your Heart)

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The Struts conjure up a Rod Stewart vibe on "brutally honest" new single How Can I Love You (Without Breaking Your Heart)

How Can I Love You (Without Breaking Your Heart) is the first of two new songs The Struts will release this month ahead of dates with Slash, Queens Of The Stone Age and Staind

Louder

“We were all delusional enough as kids to think this might happen to us”: boygenius, Metallica, Paramore, Larkin Poe, Jason Isbell and Joni Mitchell win big at the Grammys 2024

Molly Tuttle, Chris Stapleton and newly anointed Fender signature artist Juanes also took home awards during the 66th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony

Guitar World

Here are the 2024 Grammy Award winners

Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Victoria Monét and Billie Eilish were among the winners of major awards at the 66th Grammy Awards, presented on Sunday, February 4, but no one artist dominated prizes.

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“We are the most difficult simple band. I’ve often heard guys coming up to us saying, ‘You guys are just playing barre chords!’ I am glad you think it is that simple!”– Troy Van Leeuwen on QOTSA's musical illusions and gear secrets

Troy Van Leeuwen checks in from The End Of Nero Tour to talk fuzz favourites, filling in for Dave Navarro in Jane's Addiction, and why no one pedal alone can recreate Queens Of The Stone Age's guitar tone

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“At its best, the solo can tell a story, give us a sense of spectacle, and even offer a window into a player’s soul”: These are the best guitar solos of 2023

Guitar World staff and readers choose the outstanding lead efforts of the year – including “this decades's Eruption”

Guitar World

"People who want to tell you what to do?They should shut the f**k up": Josh Homme on Queens Of The Stone Age providing a "safe space" for personal expression

For Josh Homme, Queens Of The Stone Age will always be a sanctuary for those who refuse to toe the line

Metal Hammer

Queens of the Stone Age at the O2 Arena review: returning with heft and heart – and a gargantuan light show

The band was clearly relishing the chance to be back in London

Evening Standard

"Now it's like one big giant robot made of everybody": Queens of the Stone Age's Jon Theodore on adapting to QOTSA's drumming alumni, a decade in the band and In Times New Roman…

The QOTSA drummer talks In Times New Roman…rediscovering wood drums and firing Dave Grohl's Song For The Dead drum intro into space

MusicRadar

“We are the most difficult simple band. I’ve often heard guys coming up to us saying, ‘You guys are just playing barre chords!’ I am glad you think it is that simple!”– Troy Van Leeuwen on QOTSA's musical illusions and gear secrets

MusicRadar

There’s only one metal headliner at Download 2024 - and as a dedicated metalhead, I think that can be a good thing for the genre

Complaining about Fall Out Boy and Queens Of The Stone Age headlining the UK rock’s biggest event is to overlook the incredibly brutal bill beneath – and the new ears these bands can bring to heavy music

Metal Hammer

When is Download Festival? 2024 Limp Bizkit join line-up for metal event

Download Festival is coming back once again for a weekend packed with moshpits and rock icons

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Download 2024 lineup announced: Queens Of The Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold to headline, plus Royal Blood, The Offspring, Corey Taylor, Machine Head, Babymetal, Bad Omens and dozens more bands also confirmed

Download's 2024 lineup is officially here

Zenger

Kurt Cobain’s Last Show Guitar To Fetch $1-2 Million At Auction

The Fender Mustang played by Cobain before his death is set to go under the hammer, along with other iconic rock memorabilia.

Chicago Sun-Times

As emo reigns elsewhere, Queens of the Stone Age rock Riot Fest

Nuanced sound made for one of the best-sounding sets of the weekend at Douglass Park.

Metal Hammer

Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme thinks bands who don't want to play their biggest hits for their fans are "a little c**ty"

Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme explains why he disapproves of bands who are reluctant to play their biggest songs

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Inside the new issue of Total Guitar: Wolfgang Van Halen – Believe The Hype!

Also in issue 373! Interviews: Nita Strauss, Jake Kiszka, The Lemon Twigs and more! Reviews: Gibson Kirk Hammett Greeny Les Paul Standard, Walrus Audio Fundamental Series, EVH 5150 Iconic Series 15w 1x10 Combo, IK Multimedia TONEX Pedal, Two Notes ReVolt Guitar, Apogee Jam X. Learn songs by Kiss, Red Hot…

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Remembering when Trent Reznor, Lindsey Buckingham, Josh Homme and Dave Grohl formed a supergroup at the Grammys

An infamous TV performance, and the original song that hinted at what could have been

The Independent UK

NOS Alive festival 2023 review: Eclectic European festival proves variety truly is the spice of life

You’re as likely to see teens running to alt-pop star Rina Sawayama as you are 60-year-old rock dads en route to Puscifer

Guitar World

Oddball studio experiments, going “full Spinal tap,” and “stinky riffs“: how Tigercub’s Jamie Hall is bringing bonkers guitar to the mainstream

Step inside the weird world of Tigercub, where no-name transistor amps, headphones used as microphones and abyssal drop-tuned riffs helped concoct their most recent album, The Perfume of Decay

The Guardian - UK

‘The real story is more confusing than any lie’: the Armed’s Tony Wolski unmasks the punk collective

They’ve spent years toying with journalists, using fake names or sending actors to interviews. Now the ad guy behind the elusive Detroit band lifts the lid on the Armed multiverse

Metal Hammer

Watch a young Queens Of The Stone Age tear up an unsuspecting CBGBs in this rare early footage

Josh Homme’s rock crew Queens Of The Stone Age played a formidable set at New York’s famous CBGBs in 1999, to a crowd that included a whiskey-swilling Dave Grohl

Metal Hammer

10 surprising Elton John covers by rock and metal bands

From Queens of the Stone Age and Dave Grohl to the most offensive grindcore band ever, these reimagined Elton John songs are worth your time and ears

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