Concerts
Concerts, tours and festivals across Europe: who is playing, where, and the venues that matter.
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"I was having a peek at his guitar and I was just about to stroke it, and he went: 'Nobody touches it!' And bam!" The night that Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards got punched in the face by his hero Chuck Berry
Perhaps there's some truth in the old saying that you should never meet your heroes
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FKA twigs & Lil Yachty – “On Your Mind”
Beautiful things can be born out of unfavorable moments. Last year, FKA Twigs had visa issues that resulted in her canceling Eusex…
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9 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Tierra Whack, Evilgiane, and More
Stream new releases from Tierra Whack, Evilgiane, and Big Freedia and SOPHIE
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Albert Hammond Jr. Explains Strokes Album Delay, Joins Kennyhoopla On “NEW AMERICA//”
The Strokes' rollout for new album Reality Awaits has not gone smoothly. Some fans have revolted against Julian Casablancas' use o…
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"She leaned over and kissed me on me lips. My knees went." The day that black metal legend Cronos from Venom met Kate Bush
"What's not to love about Kate Bush?”
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Watch Bring Me The Horizon play Sempiternal cut Antivist with Lorna Shore singer Will Ramos at Hellfest
The Sheffield band headlined day one of the Clisson heavy metal weekender on Thursday (June 18)
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Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson is on the cover of the new, gift-packed issue of Prog, on sale now!
Plus Yes, Steve Hogarth, Exploring Birdsong, The Paradox Twin, Franck Carducci. Tarja, Liminal Sky, A.A. Williams, MONO, Burning S…
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“Band members complained of a loss of feeling in their hands after only one song”: When Tesseract set a world record by playing on a stage built from ice
Lapland show at minus 20 degrees presented unique problems – and they weren’t even sure anyone would be there to watch
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"The time is right for a revolution in rock'n'roll. It's yours for the taking. I believe it’s coming." Def Leppard and Extreme are currently on tour together, so we put their guitarists in a room
Def Leppard and Extreme are currently playing a bunch of dates on what promises to be a cracking double-header
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"The magic of what these guys do. It's just so identifiable. It speaks. It's musical, powerful!" Deep Purple return to work – only in the new issue of Classic Rock
Also in Classic Rock 355: Peter Frampton, Peter Gabriel, Van Morrison, Sevendust, Ashley McBride, Fairport Convention, Rachel Bola…
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"It has never ceased to amaze me how much use that one tune gets." The story of Sirius, the dramatic prog anthem played at every World Cup game
The Alan Parsons Project's instrumental Sirius is one of the most famous pieces of music in sport – but its writers don't get the …
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“Band dynamics are always good when times are hard. When you achieve things the landscape shifts. There was an issue we couldn’t get past”: Richard Barbieri on why art rockers Japan split, and why their reunion imploded
The Porcupine Tree keyboardist explains the ambition behind his earlier band’s acclaimed fifth album Tin Drum, and what he really …
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Listen to FKA twigs’ New Electro Song Featuring Lil Yachty
“it never ceases to amaze me how pain can manifest into the hardest and most euphoric sonics”
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"Bon Scott chose to hang out with us more than AC/DC. He thought they were boring": The rollercoaster story of Y&T, the greatest hard rock band never to become huge
Headlining over Van Halen, hanging with Bon Scott, out-partying Mötley Crüe – Y&T deserve way more love than they get
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"Music of vaulting ambition, cinematic in scope, literate, endlessly witty and intelligent." Nine 10cc albums you should listen to and one to avoid
Pop-rock geniuses don’t come much more pop-rock-genius than 10cc, four men who lit up the 70s with often breathtaking music
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“Sales is not a mark of success": 10 brilliant rock bands from the '90s who should have been absolutely massive
The biggest-selling alt. rock bands from the '90s weren't necessarily the best alt. rock bands from the '90s
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Producer Tay Keith Dies at 29
The Memphis-born hitmaker behind Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” and Sexyy Red’s “Pound Town” was found dead in his Nashville apartmen…
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Hitmaking Producer Tay Keith Dead At 29
The hitmaking Memphis rap producer Tay Keith has passed away. His regular collaborator BlocBoy JB shared the news of Keith's death…
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Quicksand – “Cool Guy”
It's diss track time. Quicksand release their new album Bring On The Psychics next month, and so far we've heard " Get To It ," " …
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daine – “PQC”
You might recognize the name daine from her work with rising underground electronic artists Ninajirachi and Underscores, if not fr…
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Alicia Keys Sings You-Know-What At New York Knicks Championship Parade
Since Saturday night, seemingly the whole of New York City has been heartily enjoying the Knicks' first NBA championship since 197…
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Gizmo Announce Debut Album All Your Worships: Hear “Gift Shop”
Inspiration can strike at any moment. For Canadian quartet Gizmo, their latest single "Gift Shop" was born in the place where memo…
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“I was jolted back to life to watch America go to hell!”: What this Norwegian prog band did after their singer’s near-fatal onstage heart attack
Four years after he woke from a coma (to be told he’d soon be a dad), they’ve launched a concept album that explores the rise and …
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Nikki Nair Signs To dh2, Announces New EP The Sick Dimension
Earlier this year, Nikki Nair collaborated with the Avalanches on the single “ Together. ” Now he’s back with new music of his own…