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“The guitar players barely holding onto control as they go into the corners at top speed are my favorite players”: How the Dirty Nil’s sound runs on vintage Marshall power and a healthy serving of the Rat pedal

Weaned on the Stooges, Luke Bentham developed a taste early on for any player who could “peel paint” from the walls. Here, he walks through the high-volume approach behind the Dirty Nil's latest, which originally provoked a cease-and-desist from the Holy See...

Guitar World

"Bringing the bass and drums down so you can't hear them makes the lead guitar sound fantastic. Jack White made a career out of it." The story of the ferocious classic that was inspired by Vietnam and set a template for punk

The Stooges' Search And Destroy began with James Williamson "goofing around making machine-gun sounds" but countless others adopted its combination of pounding rhythm and aggressive guitar

Louder

“I liked Bad Company and Free. Those bands, like David Bowie and Roxy Music, were all pop. But their albums had deeper cuts. That’s what I hoped we could pull off”: Billy Duffy on the making of The Cult’s 1985 breakout album – and why Rain made him sweat

Led by the stunning She Sells Sanctuary, Love was the sound of a band experimenting at scale, finding the great enabler in producer Steve Brown, and it just so happens to be Duffy's favorite

Guitar World

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In Praise of Zeppo and Shemp

Two new biographies tell the stories of the unsung members of the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges.

Reason

Sister Midnight review – deliciously macabre Mumbai marriage-gone-wrong black comedy

A remarkable performance from Bollywood star Radhika Apte as an unhappy new bride drives Karan Kandhari’s wildly audacious feature debut

The Guardian - UK

“At full bore, it’s brilliant fun for doomy metal riffs and speaker-blowing Stooges-style punk”: Beetronics Tuna Can Fuzz Pedal review

Vintage fuzz tones from an actual tuna can that will leave you hungry for more

MusicRadar

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

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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

“We peaked too early. Bad commercial decisions and far too much drink and drug excess”: how 80s cowpunk legends Jason And The Scorchers snatched defeat from the jaws of victory

Country, rock’n’roll, a whole lot of attitude –Jason And The Scorchers were destined to be huge, but they were their own worst enemies

Louder

From Dylan to Prince, The Stooges to The La's: the 10 best covers by Pearl Jam

Eddie Vedder & co. have done a truckload of cover versions across their career - here's ten of the best

Louder

“It’s a five-string guitar, since I don’t use a high E string. That came from when I broke a tuning peg”: Pat Beers honed a one-handed, five-string guitar technique so he can cause more onstage chaos with The Schizophonics

With Hendrix, MC5, and Stooges influences, these antsy San Diego rockers put on a show you’re not likely to forget

Guitar World

Things are hotting up in the Worcestershire kitchen of Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp and Toyah's Sunday Lunch returns with a blast through the Stooges' Search And Destroy

Louder

"If anyone tries to tell you that Max’s wasn't a drug den, then they are lying to cover their now-respectable asses": the story of the club that provided a safe haven for New York's creatives, freaks and weirdos

Home to the Velvet Underground, Warhol, Bowie and the New York Dolls, Max’s Kansas City was about so much more than just the music that was played there

Louder

"If we make this record and it sells, then if nothing else some of our heroes can get some royalties": The stories of the songs that powered Guns N' Roses' strangest and most understood album

Thirty years ago, Guns N’ Roses released The Spaghetti Incident?, an album of covers, and brought a load of mostly obscure, mostly punk-rock tracks to a wider audience

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“I am always able to come up with brand-new chords that no one has been stupid enough to sing over”: Page Hamilton on harmonic curiosity and the aggressive expansion of Helmet’s musical vocabulary

Hamilton discusses how drop tunings, NYC, fine art, Led Zep, the Bee Gees, Glenn Branca, jazz and soul all played their part in shaping Helmet's unique, uncompromising sound

The Guardian - UK

Iggy Pop review – age-defying force of nature still spitting, shirtless and sounding fantastic

The veteran rock icon displays as much physicality as he did in his 20s ripping through a set of Stooges classics, Bowie-assisted solo work and unexpected curveballs

Evening Standard

God Save the Punks: London braces for Iggy Pop’s new festival Dog Day Afternoon

The new one-dayer at Crystal Palace Park pays homage to the spirit and legacy of punk

Louder

Watch Guns N' Roses duo Slash and Duff McKagan play Stooges classic I Wanna Be Your Dog with Iggy Pop in Hollywood

LA's Hollywood Palladium hosted some famous faces on April 27

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Every Mudhoney album ranked from worst to best

The collected works of grunge's definitive band, analysed and arranged in order of merit

Chicago Sun-Times

Iggy Pop unstoppable in electrifying performance at the Salt Shed

The septuagenarian delivered what is sure to be one of the best shows of 2023.

Chicago Sun-Times

Great Chicago music moments in photos, from Led Zeppelin to Liz Phair to Nirvana

Photographer Marty Perez’s new book documents decades of rock and blues on Chicago stages.

The Guardian - UK

2ManyDJs on 20 accidental years of mashups and mayhem: ‘It’s more fun when it’s a little bit naughty’

Their album As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt 2 kickstarted the mashup phenomenon. As they prepare for an anniversary concert, the Dewaele brothers discuss bootlegs, brotherhood and looking back

Tribune News Service

Jerry Zezima: I need Moe money

If I had spent $24,000 on a wrought iron weather vane depicting The Three Stooges in their famous eye-poking stance, would my wife hit me over the head with an auctioneer’s hammer?

Benzinga

10 Weirdest Mothers Of All Time: Motel Shower Homicide, Wire Hangers And The Nastiest Bird

Mothers come in all shapes, sizes and dispositions. Some of heaven-sent and some act like they came from the other place. In tribute to the Mother’s Day observances, Benzinga’s 10 Weirdest series brings for some of most off-kilter mothers ever to dabble in the maternal arts.

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