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Debate: What’s the best prog album of 2025?

Steven Wilson, Dream Theater, Solstice, Cardiacs and IQ have delivered strong records this year. But what’s your number-one ...
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Serial killers, sex and Satan-crazed filth: How the 1980s tried to destroy AC/DC

As 1985 limped to a close, AC/DC were in a truly unenviable position – hated and feared by religious fanatics and nervous ...
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Whiskey Myers: What rock'n'roll would say if it was a person

Unimpressed by and distancing themselves from the trappings and demands of the music business, Whiskey Myers are for ...
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How a disintegrating relationship and a Beatles obsession inspired Kurt Cobain to write his first love song, and to plot Nirvana's escape from punk rock prison

Having been introduced by a mutual friend, Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne, Marander and Kurt Cobain had been dating for the best part of two years. Their relationship had intensified in the autumn of ...
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"I went into a coma!" Jack Black's spontaneous take on Nickelback's biggest hit single is every bit as entertaining as you're already imagining

"Took me a while dude," Black tells Rudd. "I went into a coma! You were talking by yourself, looking to me for help, and I ...
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"I interrupted the passage of this chalice to the great one!" The night that The Police's Stewart Copeland "mortally embarrassed" himself in front of a Beatles legend

Copeland shares his embarrassing anecdote in a new interview with The Guardian, revealing "I once Bogarted a Beatle." "It was ...