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From the Montreux Jazz Festival to Primavera: the 12 best music festivals in Europe for 2025

SUMMER GUIDE 2025: From a former military airfield to a stage suspended over a lake, many of Europe’s best festivals offer spectacular scenery along with the biggest and best lineups. The Independent’s culture team share their favourites

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"In Russia, when you see a bear, it's not ****ing funny." Alex Terrible is a bear-wrestling, bareknuckle fighting controversy magnet. He's also made Slaughter To Prevail unlikely metal icons

We head Stateside to speak to the man behind the mask as Russian deathcore crew Slaughter To Prevail prepare to unleash their new album

Metal Hammer

“The main acoustic is a $100 Fender – the strings were super-old and dusty. We hate new strings!” Meet Great Grandpa, the unpredictable indie rockers making epic anthems with cheap acoustics – and recording guitars like a Queens of the Stone Age drummer

The mercurial Seattle indie rockers have returned with their first album in six years, Patience, Moonbeam – they tell us how their lush, multifaceted arrangements all begin on the humble six-string

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“I’ve always embraced my musical schizophrenia, and this is just another room in that mansion of personality”: How Them Crooked Vultures became modern rock’s greatest one-and-done supergroup

What happened when Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones teamed up in Them Crooked Vu.tures

Louder

"Sometimes a gig is more than just a gig." Friends of the late, great Mark Lanegan - including Josh Homme, Dave Gahan, Chrissie Hynde and Bobby Gillespie - assemble in London for an emotional, once-in-a-lifetime celebration of a truly singular talent

On what would have been Mark Lanegan's 60th birthday, friends and peers salute a much-missed musical maverick

Louder

“Would you guys like to hear a new song?!” Watch Linkin Park play recent single Two Faced live in official pro-shot footage

Filmed during the nu metal stars’ enormous show in São Paulo two weeks ago

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“I doubt our detractors would have the balls to do what we’ve done. You have to humble yourself at the altar of rock’n’roll”: How Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme rose above the chaos to make Lullabies To Paralyze

The chaos, confusion and righteous vision of Queens Of The Stone Age and Josh Homme

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Linkin Park to screen live performance film in cinemas in 2025

Newly-reunited nu metal giants Linkin Park are set to screen their From Zero release show in cinemas worldwide in 2025

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Linkin Park announce enormous 2025 world tour, including a date at London’s 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium

Queens Of The Stone Age, Spiritbox, AFI, Architects, Grandson, Jean Dawson, Jpegmafia and Pvris will support the nu metal superstars

Metal Hammer

“I don’t normally enjoy co-writes, but when Billy Corgan says he wants to work on your stuff, you say yes”: Rosie Bones on her guitar chemistry with Carmen Vandenberg, Corgan collabs – and why Bones UK doesn’t need a bassist

Augmenting the rock with electronic elements, Bones UK are dragging it into the future, but as frontwoman Rosie explains, they have one foot in the past, with an old-school blues cat playing lead

Guitar World

“What a wonderful night this will be.” Josh Homme, Greg Dulli, Dave Gahan, Chrissie Hynde to honour the late Mark Lanegan at star-studded celebration show

Mark Lanegan – 60 A Celebration tribute will be held on what would have been the singer's 60th birthday, December 5

Louder

Queens Of The Stone Age announce first live dates since Josh Homme's emergency surgery

Queens Of The Stone Age will return to the road in June 2025

Metal Hammer

“There was some smoking and drinking but it wasn’t a lot of drugs. We weren’t coked out of our minds or shooting heroin”: The epic story of Kyuss, the stoner metal visionaries who blazed brightly and burnt out

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Queens of the Stone Age cancel all 2024 shows as Josh Homme receives ‘essential medical care’

Frontman must ‘prioritise his health’, a month after he underwent emergency surgery and two years after his cancer diagnosis

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Queens Of The Stone Age cancel all remaining 2024 shows as Josh Homme receives "essential medical care"

The latest cancellations follow the shelving of a run of festival dates in Europe earlier this summer

Guitar World

“We had so much fun recording Rated R and Songs for the Deaf. We’d do mushrooms, and the next day, we’d be drinking. We’d be being creative, wild and crazy – that led to some great moments”: Nick Oliveri on Queens of the Stone Age's “definitive” era

The veteran bassist discusses the state of his relationship with Josh Homme, the nerves that almost derailed the first Kyuss shows –and whether or not he’d rejoin QOTSA

Guitar World

“We peaked out. You had Dave Grohl on drums, Mark Lanegan on vocals, I'm on bass and Josh is on guitar and vocals. It's kind of hard to do better, you know?” Nick Oliveri on why Queens of the Stone Age will never top their Songs for the Deaf lineup

The Mondo Generator bassist also reveals whether he would ever consider rejoining QOTSA

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Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme cancels European tour to undergo ‘emergency surgery’

‘Every effort was made to push through and play for you, but it is no longer an option to continue,’ said the band

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“Every effort was made to push through and play for you, but it is no longer an option to continue”: Queens Of The Stone Age cancel European dates with Josh Homme to undergo emergency surgery

The frontman is to return to the US immediately, leaving string of dates across Europe cancelled

The Guardian - US

Queens of the Stone Age cancels European tour for Josh Homme’s surgery

Rock band canceled several European dates to allow lead singer to return to US for ‘emergency surgery’

Guitar World

“It is no longer an option to continue”: Queens of the Stone Age cancel tour dates as Josh Homme is rushed to emergency surgery

The band had been scheduled to perform a number of headline and festival shows across July

Louder

"You move at the speed of inspiration very quickly, and so things feel very possible." Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme on the lasting impact of working with his friends Dave Grohl and Trent Reznor

QOTSA's Josh Homme talks influences and inspirations

The Guardian - UK

Download festival review – the rock fest’s most cursed year ever

Plagued by rain, technical issues and boycotts – as well as by some distinctly non-metal headliners – the weekend is practically a washout, despite some virtuoso shredding and fiery melodeath lower down the bill

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The Struts announce Pretty Vicious tour dates

The hardest-working band in glam rock just keep working hard

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