Concerts
Concerts, tours and festivals across Europe: who is playing, where, and the venues that matter.
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Watch Rush Play All Of “2112” For The First Time In 29 Years
Rush really are switching up their setlists on their reunion tour . Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, the two surviving members of the p…
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Graham Hunt Announces New Album American Pyramid: Hear “Waiting For You To Come Home”
This Graham Hunt guy does not slow down. One year ago today, we bestowed Album Of The Week honors upon the Wisconsin indie-rocker …
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No, There’s Not A Fake Angine de Poitrine Touring Russia
Earlier this week you may have seen headlines about a fake Angine de Poitrine supposedly "touring Russia." The claim traces back t…
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Pope Leo XIV Got To Meet Bad Bunny
Bad Bunny and Pope Leo XIV are two mega-famous Americans who draw huge crowds around the globe. Both of them also drive this count…
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L’Rain Announces New Album fata morgana: Hear “soulless cycle”
We heard from L'Rain a few weeks ago when she guested on a new Tasha track . Today Taja Cheek is ready to announce her own new alb…
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A$AP Rocky’s Chaotic Arena Spectacle: Mostly Worth The Wait
On the floor of the Baltimore Arena Monday night, a couple dozen kids with broccoli haircuts played duck duck goose. Why not? Thos…
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“Of any song that I've ever written, it's most blatantly about my time in Nirvana.” The story behind the Foo Fighters song Dave Grohl wrote about his Nirvana bandmates while crashing on Kurt Cobain's couch
Dave Grohl's tender tribute to Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain
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Nick Hakim Announces New Album I Can See: Hear The Title Track
The Queens-based musician Nick Hakim has a warm, personal sound that doesn't fit neatly into any genre categories. He's a soul sin…
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Jack White – “Dollar Bill”
Yesterday, Jack White pulled a Jack White, quietly and semi-secretly announcing his upcoming solo album Frozen Charlotte . The ann…
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“My stroke was caused by stress." Tarja Turunen on Nightwish, buried hatchets and fighting back to good health
In 2023, the original queen of symphonic metal shared some reflections on her past
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From Metallica surprise shows to Slipknot triumphs, these are the 13 greatest Download festival sets ever
For over two decades, Download has been the premiere rock and metal festival in the UK. These are its finest moments
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L’Rain Returns With New Album Fata Morgana
Taja Cheek’s project thunders back to life with infernal single “Soulless Cycle”
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Pitchfork Festival Paris Adds More Names for 2026
Quiet Light, Robber Robber, the Femcels, and Worldpeace DMT are among the 55 artists playing the Avant-Garde program this year
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Hunter Biden And Paul Rudd Agree: Sturgill Simpson’s “Turtles All The Way Down” Is A Great Song
Sturgill Simpson kept his new Johnny Blue Skies album Mutiny After Midnight off streaming services at first, but, as promised , th…
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Taylor Swift Sings With Randy Newman, Performs New Single At Toy Story 5 Premiere
Earlier this spring, The New York Times published a huge package on the 30 greatest living American songwriters. Taylor Swift was …
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10 brilliant bands that broke up far too soon
Commemorating the metal and hardcore heroes who disbanded with so much more to give
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"Getting off the bus, you could be attacked by a gang of skinheads, bikers or straights. It was hairy." Riots, teargas and slamdancing – The 80s scene that helped inspire Metallica, Slayer, Napalm Death and beyond
Thrash, black metal, grindcore - none of it would exist without UK82
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“I go onstage ready to fight”: What Dragonforce’s Alissa White-Gluz has learned during her time on metal’s frontlines
The Dragonforce, Blue Medusa and ex-Arch Enemy singer reveals her greatest life lessons
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"My wife says she's leaving the country if Nigel Farage gets in, and I don't blame her." Horrified by the state of the planet, Queen's Roger Taylor is pulling no punches on new solo album Violence Insane In A Beautiful World
"What a beautiful world we live in, don't f*** it up"
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Jack White Releasing New Album Next Month
Listen to “Dollar Bill” from No Name follow-up Frozen Charlatan
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The memory remains! Rare UK TV footage of Metallica playing Reload hit officially unearthed after almost 30 years
Just in time for the metal behemoths’ reissue of their 1997 album at the end of the month
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"I have to get people to slap me across the face in case it’s all just been a dream." For the first nine years of their career, No Doubt were seen as a joke. But when they released Tragic Kingdom, no-one was laughing at them anymore
An archive interview with No Doubt from 1997, as the world started falling at their feet
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"If you watch the video, you can see Jimmy dribbling onstage, Robert not hitting the notes, and me miming, playing the air." Phil Collins' memories of Led Zeppelin's "dark, sulphurous" Live Aid reunion are brutal, and spare no-one
The prospect of Led Zeppelin reforming to play Live Aid, the biggest music event of the 1980s, sparked great excitement. But their…
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“The kid lost his mind: ‘You’re the guy from Guitar Hero! Do you play real guitar too?’”: How a 2000s videogame phenomenon made Slash famous all over again
Guitar Hero was a worldwide smash hit – and it introduced Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash to a whole new audience