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“Are you trying to get us killed?” The explosive story behind System Of A Down’s Toxicity album

System Of A Down’s second album Toxicity gave nu metal’s most political band a platform to be heard . But some people wanted to shut them up –permanently

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“It was a one-day marathon. We cut 13 tunes in 14 hours, all old blues songs, with Mick singing live”: In 1992, Mick Jagger made a blues album with an obscure LA bar band. It’s never been released

The Rick Rubin-produced album featuring Mick Jagger and The Red Devils has sat on the shelf for 34 years

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"The senseless, random act of violence against someone so full of life and innocence was mind-blowing, and I hated Los Angeles for a long time after that." How the murder of Henry Rollins' friend inspired two songs on Sonic Youth's 1992 album Dirty

The killing of roadie and documentarian Joe Cole remains unsolved 35 years on

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“Rick put me on the spot. He said, ‘So, this is a Les Paul.’ I was like, ‘I know.’ Then he went, ‘Okay, and this is a Marshall…’”: Why The Cult scrapped an entire album and re-recorded it with Rick Rubin

“It was the record we needed to make”

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The Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi taking 'temporary break'

Nick Valensi is sitting out more shows with The Strokes.

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"We thought Venom were excellent. But then they came to New York and we found out that they weren't joking." Why the Beastie Boys were disappointed to discover that British metal legends Venom weren't a comedy band

Venom: unlikely heroes to the New York hardcore community

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"He took me out to his Rolls-Royce and played it. I was a little bit embarrassed because it's a bit saucy." The day that Spice Girl Mel C learned that Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis had written a song about her

"Were we in a relationship? We did go on a date."

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‘I did receive bottles on stage. There might have been urine’: Melanie C on Spice Girls mania, impostor syndrome and her date with a Chili Pepper

As she releases a clubby new album, Sweat, the former Sporty Spice answers your questions on her raver days, scouse cuisine and Sex Pistols covers

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“We thought it would be a taster single to set the scene, but when it came out, it went crazy": The almost unbelievable story of how EMF went to No 1 in the US with their debut single, which came with a huge guitar riff and a helping hand from Rick Rubin

“The guitar riff goes from blues mode to flamenco mode, like the two conflicting sides of my life”

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"We didn’t talk to each other for three months." Haunted houses, fallouts and a drunken singer: inside Slipknot's experimental masterpiece, Vol. 3

After the phenomenal success of Iowa, Slipknot took a break. But where there had once been unity, there was now conflict. Yet they produced something that defied any expectations...

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"I wrote a lot of the tracks envisioning powerful live drumming – enter Dave Grohl." How the former Nirvana drummer shaped the sound of Nine Inch Nails' album With Teeth

Trent Reznor wanted his drummer to play like Dave Grohl on their 2005 album, so he got the Foo Fighter frontman stop by the studio instead

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“I decided it would be funny to write a song about how he was holding us all down, how he was trying to mess it all up, sabotaging our great works of art”: The story of the Beastie Boys' incendiary Sabotage

Its legendary DIY video was hugely influential, but few realise that the fury of the Beastie Boys’ Sabotage was triggered by real studio pressure

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Neil Diamond releasing new album after retiring from touring

Neil Diamond is releasing a new album of songs which were recorded during his studio sessions with superproducer Rick Rubin marking the pair's third project together.

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‘The male ego is even more fragile than it ever was’: Kim Gordon on shyness, AI and Zohran Mamdani’s cool

As she releases her new solo album, Play Me, the former Sonic Youth star answers your questions on acting for Kristen Stewart, doing Basquiat’s photocopying, and who really invented punk rock

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“I had just finished a Christmas album; he had just finished a Metallica album”: It might have been “a bit of a whiplash” for some of his fans, but Josh Groban says he has no regrets about his “ballsy” decision to make an album with Rick Rubin

“I found myself bored, so I wanted to learn again, get the good fear again," he says of 2010's Illuminations

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"They asked if I knew who Johnny Cash was. I was like, ‘Of course I f**king know who he is!" How a punk legend helped resurrect the career of an American icon in less than half an hour

Glenn Danzig wrote Thirteen for Johnny Cash's 1994 album American Recordings

Guitar World

“Rick Rubin heard something. He had to convince those guys – they were kind of tentative. But Aerosmith was up for anything”: Joe Perry on how Aerosmith and Run-D.M.C. united rock and rap – and the secret role the Beastie Boys played

Walk This Way was a seminal moment that gave an iconic track a second lease of life as it crossed genres and became one of 1986's most explosive pop-cultural moments

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“Rick said, ‘I think we need to put a bass on it’. One of the kids said, ‘My apartment ain’t too far, I got a bass there’”: How the Beastie Boys saved the day on Aerosmith and Run D.M.C.’s Walk This Way

The Def Jam community spirit was alive and well in NYC's Chung King Studios

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“It was amazing to hear keyboards with that kind of power. He really changed my life”: Jordan Rudess would have been a classical pianist if he hadn’t discovered this prog icon

Dream Theater genius’ musical world includes Steven Wilson, Van der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant, Leprous, Rick Rubin and Neil Young

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“I heard a few of those things he did with Johnny Cash and I was impressed. So that was one of the reasons I was interested in working with him”: Neil Diamond scored his first US No.1 album at the age of 67 – with help from producer Rick Rubin

“We went in to make demos. We didn’t go in to make a record”

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“The reaction was overwhelming. We didn’t think it was going to be a big hit, but people were loving it”: How a range of musicians revitalised their careers by shaking up their attitude to songwriting

From Depeche Mode to Aerosmith, we examine those artists who’ve managed to successfully pivot and reach an entirely new audience

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"He sang it to me and I thought it was beautiful. But he was emphatic: 'No, this isn't what we do!'" The story of the classic song Red Hot Chili Peppers didn't want to record and its unexpected impact on Middle America

People thought the Red Hot Chili Peppers were just zany frat boys who sang about sex and partying – until they released a gentle and heartfelt ballad about heroin

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“People were saying that the style we were playing would mean we never got signed”: Sounding nothing like anyone else, how System Of A Down overcame the odds and started their climb to dominance

1998 single Sugar brought the future nu metal superstars to the dance – and they were weird as hell

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“I turn and I'm, like, 'Hey.' It's Lars, it's Kirk, it's Jason Newsted. They're, like, 'What do you know?' I go, 'I don't know. Master of Puppets. OK. Count it in'”: Daron Malakian recalls the time he fronted Metallica

Tonight Matthew I’m going to be… James Hetfield

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Bob Dylan introduced him to The Beatles, he married the girlfriend of a Rolling Stone, and he played with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page and meditated with David Lynch. Donovan looks back...

Folk-rock pioneer Donovan on jamming with Macca and Dylan, butting heads with John Paul Jones and meditating with David Lynch

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