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“Dom has one of the greatest voices in the history of music, and as grand as that may sound there is no hype in what I’m saying”: Billy Corgan heaps praise on Yungblud, who the Smashing Pumpkins have just collaborated with… By any reasonable measure, Yungblud had an exceptional 2025. His fourth studio album, Idols, … Read more

Billy Idol Should Be Dead: New documentary “digs deep” into star’s “emergence as a prototypical punk rocker” and transformation into an MTV superstar… A full-length documentary exploring the wild, improbable journey of Billy Idol is finally arriving—and few careers feel more deserving of such close examination. Titled Billy Idol Should Be Dead, the film made … Read more

“Ozzy came to see us in Los Angeles and said it was the creepiest thing he’d ever heard, which coming from him is the biggest compliment”: Nina Persson on the Cardigans’ Sabbath covers… Swedish indie favorites The Cardigans have kept a low profile for years, with their last studio album arriving back in 2005. That … Read more

“I couldn’t look away.” — The one-minute spotlight on the empty stage That made fans feel the singer’s presence. For a brief moment, the arena went silent, and it was as if the music and memory merged into one. Every beam of light carried the weight of his legacy, reminding everyone why he was irreplaceable. … Read more

By the mid-1970s, Neil Diamond was already firmly established as a major music star when he connected with influential musician and Bob Dylan collaborator Robbie Robertson. Their collaboration would ultimately result in one of Diamond’s most inventive and celebrated albums. Diamond, a New York-born singer-songwriter, had been dominating the charts since the late 1960s, scoring … Read more

When fans ask who can “match” Neil Peart, they usually mean a blend of speed, precision, endurance, musicality, compositional drum parts, and jaw-dropping solos—delivered live, night after night. No one replaces Peart’s voice, but several elite drummers operate at a similar technical and creative altitude. Here’s a clear, easy guide to the players most often … Read more

Ritchie Blackmore’s earliest guitar heroics were sparked the moment he heard Jeff Beck with The Yardbirds on “Shapes of Things.” The track floored him. His first reaction was pure shock: “My God, who the hell is this? This shouldn’t be allowed, it’s too good.” What fascinated him most was Beck’s uncanny ability to squeeze out … Read more

Songwriting was never meant to be a contest. The songs that last aren’t born from rivalry or one-upmanship, but from honesty—moments where an artist opens a door most people keep locked. Even when a bitter or defiant song becomes a hit, it rarely carries the same emotional weight as music that exposes something fragile and … Read more

Certain songs don’t just stay with us—they unsettle us. They crack open our sense of who we are and suggest entirely new ways of living. Bob Dylan’s music did exactly that to Robert Plant when he was still a teenager, long before stadiums and superstardom entered the picture. At the time, Plant was growing up … Read more

Because The Beatles and The Rolling Stones rose to prominence at nearly the same moment, comparisons between the two were inevitable. Decades later, Paul McCartney recalled a conversation with Keith Richards that captured one of the most fundamental differences between the bands—and it was something McCartney hadn’t fully considered until Richards pointed it out. Richards’ … Read more