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If Id started having hits early on, I may never have wound up playing so much with Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen: Most people are lucky if they play with one iconic artist. Nils Lofgren has played with two
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Nils Lofgren is the sort of musician they don’t really make anymore. An extravagantly gifted guitarist and otherwise jack of…
Muse have announced arena dates for their The Wow! Signal Europa tour in support of their forthcoming tenth album.The English…
Father’s Day will be with us on Sunday, June 21 so if you’ve been struggling for ideas, I’ve picked out…
In a world where way too many bands outstay their welcome and plod on to diminishing returns, there is almost…
We were young men, living hard and out of control, and we lost our heart and soul. The story behind the John Frusciante song which saved the Red Hot Chili Peppers in their darkest hour
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Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea remembers exactly what he was doing on the evening of June 27, 1988. Jane’s…
Another band said they were going to shave all our hair off and beat us up: Bring Me The Horizon cancelled a 2006 festival appearance for fear of being attacked
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Bring Me The Horizon dropped out of a 2006 festival after being threatened by another artist on the lineup.Talking in…
They said a four-minute single containing lyrics about Jesus would never get played on pop radio: The US singer loved by John Lennon and hated by right-wing Christian groups who wrote the last great hippie anthem – and then vanished into obscurity
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Norman Greenbaum was working as a cook in Northern California in 1986 when he heard that a cover of his…
Derek Shulman took me to a Bon Jovi show. The whole audience was freaking out, and Derek said to me: Are you ready for this? Its going to happen to you. And I fully believed in it.: The unlikely rebirth of Dan Reed Network, funk rocks nearly men
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In the late 80s, funk rock five-piece Dan Reed Network were on the verge of superstardom – only to be…
We smoked so much weed that we set off the fire alarms and almost killed everybody with the gas that was going to be released. The story of Machine Heads Burn My Eyes, the debut album that revitalised 90s metal
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“I rode my bike through the riots,” Robb Flynn remembers, thinking back to the disorder that spread across San Francisco’s…
On the sliding scale of surreal rock collaborations, it isn’t quite up there with Motörhead and The Nolans. All the…
Porcupine Tree offshoot Voyage 35, the band spearheaded by former bassist Colin Edwin and live guitarist John Wesley, have shared…
People heard it and found it deeply offensive because they didnt have the brain capacity to realise what its about. The story behind Ghosts most famous song – and what it really means
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Ghost’s Tobias Forge has always had a knack for combining blasphemous lyrical imagery with the sweetest of musical caresses. If…