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Alter Bridge have dropped the new single "Scales Are Falling" ahead of the Friday release of their self-titled eighth studio ...

Matt Cameron has shared a breakdown of his drumming on the Soundgarden classic "Spoonman." Watch the Drumeo clip.

I ask Andy Cory how he came to live on the remote South Pacific island of Niue tending hives abuzz with one of the world’s most isolated populations of honeybees. A 100-square-mile dot on the map loca ...

Syd Barrett’s myth is as powerful as ever. Here, Nick Mason remembers the mercurial brilliance of his former Pink Floyd ...

The ragtag group of respected hardcore and punk figures are six albums deep and still packing hefty riffs into their songs.

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Local musician Dave Zerr has many talents, but the one that gets him the most notice is his skill as a bass player. He said ...

How did an Aussie, a Texan, an Irishman and three Cumbrians find themselves on the road on the Ukrainian frontline? For classic rock collective Hardwicke Circus, it was a no-brainer: ‘We thought they’ ...

John Fogerty talks to us about his new Las Vegas residency, his favorite guitarists and why he always wants to 'honor the ...

By the mid-80s, the huge success of Back In Black was a fading memory, AC/DC were on the ropes, and there was worse to come ...

Billy Steele, Deputy Editor, Reviews I didn’t discover Bandsplain in 2025, but I definitely listened to it more than any ...