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Kraftwerk announce their first UK and Ireland tour for eight years

Electronic music pioneers Kraftwerkwill play 15 dates across the Uk and Ireland in May and June

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“He thought: ‘I’m just going to do an over-the-top pop song’ – a heavy metal pop song”: The flop single that became a power-pop classic thanks to one of the greatest live albums of the 70s

It finally launched the career of one of rock’s greatest bands

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“It was a moment to reassess everything we were trying to do as a band”: the song that saved U2 when it looked like they were on a downward spiral

How one of the Irish rockers’ biggest hits got them back on track after a patchy period

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“There was a sense of humour. We were taken very seriously by the world at large, but there was always an edge of fun”: The grimness of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here may have been overstated

1975 album remains a fan favourite – and despite their struggle to make it, the band insist the spirit of love shines through the grief and anger amid the theme of absence and their feelings about Syd Barrett

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"Like a double bill of April Wine and Lynyrd Skynyrd": The Sheepdogs conjure up breezy classic rock vibes on Nobody But You single

Nobody But You is the first single from The Sheepdogs since the departure of founding drummer Sam Corbett

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Megadeth, Lamb Of God and Avatar are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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“Me and Taylor sat down, and she says, ‘I can’t sing that line’, cos it was a bit too risqué”: Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott on duetting with the teenage Taylor Swift on an 80s rock classic - and the raunchy lyric they had to change

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Foo Fighters just surprise-released a new EP - here's where you can hear it

Are Playing Where??? Vol. 1 is out now and features recordings from the band’s recent US shows

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"I'm not sure I could have been the flashy guitarist he wanted me to be": Y&T's Dave Meniketti on turning down Ozzy and improving your chances of survival

If it’s classic hard rock that flicks your switch, here’s a band to flick it for you

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AFI Silver Bleeds the Black Sun... review: Davey Havok and his crue have gone full goth, and it's resulted in their best album in over a decade

AFI embrace their love of The Cure, Bauhaus and Sisters Of Mercy to create a modern goth classic

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“Once we blew apart in 1996, we were never quite the same”: Smashing Pumpkins announce 30th anniversary edition of Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

The Chicago rockers’ masterpiece double album will come with an additional disc of previously-unreleased live recordings unearthed by Billy Corgan

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"He was a guy who would chop the bedroom door down with an axe, like Jack Nicholson": A decade on from the disease that nearly killed him, Walter Trout is on a roll, looking at a world gone wrong

Walter Trout on growing up, deep fakes, John Lee Hooker and John Mayall, defeating addiction and new album Sign Of The Times

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Review: Still mixing futuristic rock brilliance with Brit-Weezer ballast, Ash venture into space on Ad Astra

Northern Irish punk-pop trio Ash blast off with a wider perspective of sound and vision on ninth album

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“Five decades on, it’s still a bewildering but rewarding experience”: Faust’s self-titled debut album returns

The German collective’s opening salvo remains as uncompromising as ever

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From problem child to golden child: The story behind every song on Radiohead’s Kid A

A deep dive into the Oxford quintet's game-changing fourth album as it turns 25

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Review: Michael Schenker lets rip on new MSG album Don’t Sell Your Soul

Guitar hero Michael Schenker follows his re-imagined UFO favourites with a set of his own new material

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“Largely ignored – but formidable, masterly and substantial”: Darryl Way’s Wolf released three albums in two years. The Cadenza box set proves they should never have been out of the spotlight

3CD set shows the Curved Air man’s underdogs had plenty of bite in Canis Lupus, Saturation Point and Night Music

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Founding Yardbirds guitarist Chris Dreja dead at 79

Chris Dreja played in The Yardbirds alongside Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page

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I say, 'It is an honour to meet you, you are one of my biggest inspirations.' And he says 'kneel' and asks for the cane..." What happened when a goth icon had a surprise encounter with a punk rock hero

When AFI frontman Davey Havok met his hero Peter Murphy of Bauhaus, he didn't foresee what would happen next

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"The most unsubtle, one-dimensional noise": the chart-topping indie anthem that prompted an ex-member of Depeche Mode to write a letter of complaint

Safe to say that Alan Wilder is not a fan of this beloved indie-rock hit

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11 sublimely mellow Smashing Pumpkins cuts

Despite all their rage, sometimes Billy Corgan & co. made some of the most perfectly tranquil music of the 90s

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“I’m never not ready to scream about racial issues.” Hayley Williams on the importance of using her platform and why she’s pulling no punches when it comes to a certain country star

The Paramore singer has opened up on the “racist country singer” referred to in the title track of her new album, and she's done caring what he thinks

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"He was like a blubbering baby. He was crying. He was devastated": The Who's Roger Daltrey on drugs, fights, death and the music that defined a generation

The Who: From pill-popping mod figureheads to Woodstock-generation rockers and beyond

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"The place was full of chickens, pigs and goats. The whole thing was fascinating": How an acid-tinged account of a North African adventure became the sound of the counterculture

With 60s pop music going psychedelic, Morocco's hippie trail inspired a song that took three years to come to fruition

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“They’re portrayed as unhip, exploitative capitalist men of the rock world. But it’s entirely down to them that the movement can move. And they didn’t get anything out of it”: When Peter Gabriel received death threats, Genesis reunited to help him

Their former leader found himself in serious trouble after his WOMAD festival lost money. So the classic line-up returned to stage their Six Of The Best show in 1982, leaving an indelible mark on prog history

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