When the Ramones released their eponymous debut album in 1976 it wasn’t so much a stovepipe to the back of the head of mainstream rock music as a complete evisceration of it, spilling its guts to expose once and for all the rancid, festering stench of a long- moribund art form.
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10 years after the untimely death of legendary musician Warren Zevon, here are 5 of his greatest moments in music.
Ghost Outfit are a band with nothing to lose, but they’re trying anyway.
A new Queens of the Stone Age album is always an event and, come June 3rd, ‘Like Clockwork...’, the band’s 6th LP, will be bringing the dark and twisted carnival roaring back into town.
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Guitar legend and serial-shagger John Mayer is set to play London's O2 Arena this October, here's why you should grab a ticket sharpish.
After a life of booze, the blues and driving lawnmowers, the onetime Mr Wynette has died aged 81...
With the future of Kele and co shrouded in mystery, we have decided to indulge ourselves with 5 of their best efforts.
The recent BBC documentary and his latest work with Daft Punk has given Nile Rodgers a whole new audience.. Here's 10 of my favourite that he's either performed, written or produced...
“I can make it longer if you like the style I can change it round and I wanna be a paperback writer”
I catch up with Olaf Diegel, a design engineer and professor of mechtronics with a passion for 3D printing – a re...
Punks plus exhaust fumes plus a dangerously long drive plus legal energy supplements can only lead to misadventure ...
Kiss's serpent-tongued, bass-playing geriatric of rock on the evil of marriage, the joy of money and how he's slept...
Did someone say deep tissue?
“It lived on for days afterwards,” says my Dad. “Everybody was talking abo...
Welcome to politics in the internet age...
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If you need a laugh, read this man's inbox...
They'll go down in music folklore, and in many cases nearly finished off their c...
Currently undergoing harrowing political instability, Toby L goes in search of r...
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Overly long, needlessly confusing and all in all, pretty frustrating. Greatest f...
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He might have had the world purring with Yeezus, but increasingly average gigs a...
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"OMG David.....I think I'm in The Matrix"
Two international trade agreements are currently being negotiated which, if rati...
In the first of what will probably be a pretty irregular feature, we have a look...
It's 36 years since Georgi Markov died from poisoning in London, and his assassi...