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“Drugs at our age? You don’t have to take them forever. Once you’ve opened the doors of perception you can see what’s going on; you’ve got the ideas”: Dave Brock on Hawkwind’s late-period purple patch

On 36th studio album Stories From Time And Space, released in 2024, Hawkwind showed they’d lost none of their sense of global injustice. Bandleader Dave...

Excide don’t want to be Turnstile or Knocked Loose. They want to create something new: “Post-hardcore just meant trying new and different things.”

Hardcore's rise over the last half-decade has happened for many reasons, but one of the most pertinent is young musicians remembering that this is a...

“We’ll Be the first to Go!” — Stockholm Goth Rockers Then Comes Silence Line up for “Judgement Day”

For Swedish post-punk and goth rock stalwarts Then Comes Silence, songwriting works best when it carries a little danger in its coat pocket, along with...

Guitar virtuoso Eric Johnson picks the songs that soundtrack his life: “That record was over my head. I wasn’t even sure if I liked it. But the more I listened, the more I realised how great it was”

Born in Austin, Texas in 1954, Eric Johnson is ranked among the all-time great Texas guitar slingers. His dazzling 1990 showpiece Cliffs Of Dover won...

How Photograph transformed Def Leppard into global pop-metal megastars: “I was this geeky twat who liked music and wasn’t living in the real world. All I ever wanted was to be a star.”

In January 1982, Def Leppard entered Park Gate Studios in Battle, East Sussex to make the follow-up to their breakthrough album High ’N’ Dry. Under...

“Let’s Go for a Ride” — Detroit Industrial-Punk Duo Credit Card Shares New Single “Love Crime”

I’m taking a ride with my best friend’s girlfriend, and she used to be mine. Love crime. Detroit duo Credit Card make music for the...

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