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The Darkness’ Dan Hawkins Recalls the Moment Brian May Leaned on Him Onstage
Brian May once leaned back against Dan Hawkins mid-performance, and Hawkins was too nervous to move in case he knocked the legend over. Continue reading… -
Top 10 Nine Inch Nails Songs
Our Top 10 Nine Inch Nails songs list looks at a legendary industrial rock band. We are hesitant to call the group a band because Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor was the only official member for most of their career. For most of its career, Nine Inch Nails was Trent Reznor, with an assortment of different musicians hired over the years for performances. Atticus Ross became the second official member of Nine Inch Nails in 2016. Nine Inch Nails’ first album, Pretty Hate Machine, was released in 1989, just a year after their formation, while Reznor was still working
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Sid Wilson Introduced Himself As A Member Of Slipknot At This Week’s ‘The World Scratch Invitational’
He didn’t indicate that he was no longer a member, despite his reported firing.
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QUEEN’S ROGER TAYLOR On New Album: “What A Beautiful World We Live In, Don’t Fuck It Up”
Roger Taylor is gearing up for album number seven. The Queen drummer, songwriter and singer has announced Violence Insane in a Beautiful World, due out Sept. 18 via Columbia Records.
The record’s second single, “I See You Now,” arrives with a companion video, streaming below.
The song had its first spin on Vernon Kaye‘s BBC Radio 2 show earlier today, opening with the line “We’ve been together for some time now, through all kinds of weather, but we’re still dreamin’.” Taylor explained the inspiration behind it: “It’s a love song. It’s really about my wife. We’ve been together for quite some time, and I think when you really get to know someone, at first you really don’t see everything about them, but when you really get to know someone, it’s, ‘Oh, I see you now.’ That’s it.”
The video itself, shot in elegant black-and-white, comes courtesy of Taylor‘s wife, Sarina Taylor, working alongside longtime collaborator Simon Lupton. The one splash of color in the frame is Taylor‘s bright red hi-tops.
Violence Insane in a Beautiful World is Taylor‘s seventh solo album dating back to 1977, and his first since 2021’s Outsider, which cracked the Top 3 and earned strong reviews across the board. He’ll support the release with a run of U.K. dates in September.
The album isn’t built around a single narrative, but Taylor said it does carry a consistent thread: “There is a theme, you know, it’s in the title really, what a beautiful world we live in, don’t fuck it up. There seems to be all this insanity at the moment. The violence in the world seems to be as bad as it ever was, at any point, and certainly in my lifetime. It’s just horrific, a lot of insane violence. And we do seem to be fucking up the world, plastics in the sea, you know, and all these awful wars everywhere and hatred born of different religions.”
Despite that grim framing, Taylor said the record ultimately lands somewhere hopeful: “It’s a beautiful world, you know. And kindness is very important, I think, it seems to be forgotten quite a lot. So, that is basically the sort of underlying theme.”
Taylor wrote, produced, sang and played nearly everything on the album himself, aside from a cover of “Jealous Guy,” which he called “one of the greatest, ballads ever written.” He got extra help from longtime collaborator Joshua J. Macrae, members of his live band, and, on three tracks, the Ndlovu Youth Choir out of Limpopo, South Africa. On working with the choir, Taylor said, “I was really happy when I became aware of this amazing South African choir, who sing in Zulu. They’re just wonderful. They did the most incredible cover version of “Bohemian Rhapsody”, and it’s fabulous. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it. So we suddenly had the bright idea of asking them to sing on some of the tracks, which they did, and I think it’s transformed those songs. It gives them a whole new dimension. I’m really thrilled with their work on that.”
There’s also an odd bit of cosmic timing tied to the album’s cover art. While Taylor was finishing the artwork, the Artemis II mission, en route to the far side of the Moon, ended up photographing Earth from a distance, and according to Taylor, the Queen fans working at NASA in Houston reportedly thought the timing felt like “definitely kismet.” Taylor described the concept behind the cover: “Well, the cover is really the story of the lead song, which is “A Beautiful World”, and it’s really an old idea, but in a way, it’s just written from the view of an alien in a spacecraft literally orbiting the world and thinking how beautiful it is. On close observation, he sees there are problems, there’s infection, all the violence and horrors that occur, and then there’s a list of all the great things about the Earth. It’s really rather strange because it was done before we got those wonderful pictures from Artemis II.”
He continued, “NASA approves! They’re very nice people. We’ve been there. Obviously. Brian knows them very well. We went whilst we were on tour in Houston. We had a fantastic tour of the whole NASA site. It’s quite something just to be sitting in the control room with all these guys and screens, and they’re actually talking to the space station, controlling it. Yeah, hell of a thing.”
Taylor‘s solo output has never shied from politics, and tracks like “Chump” continue that streak. Asked whether he feels optimistic about where things currently stand, he didn’t hold back: “To be honest, no, with Nigel Garage (sic) looming, no. My wife says she’s leaving the country if he gets in, and I don’t blame her. It’s like Trump, really. You can’t believe how popular he was. I’m not sure he’s quite as popular now; people are finally coming to their senses, but I can’t believe how popular Farage, who is intrinsically a horrible man, is, but he’s a populist, demagogue, politician appealing to the lowest sort of ideals.”
Musically, the album keeps up Taylor‘s longstanding habit of jumping between styles rather than sticking to one lane. “I like the idea of eclecticism,” he said. “I like the idea of different things, you know? I mean, the great example being The Beatles. I always thought that their albums were very eclectic, especially the later albums from Revolver onwards. You never knew what the next track was going to be, and it was totally different to the track before it. We always tried to do that in Queen. We tried to make a lot of different things and fearlessly tread where no sane man would. Yeah, I think people are really going to like the surreal stuff.”
The supporting tour kicks off in Newcastle on Sept. 21, with early ticket access going to anyone who pre-orders the album. Taylor‘s touring band includes keyboardist Spike Edney, drummer Tyler Warren, multi-instrumentalist Tina Keys, bassist Neil Fairclough and guitarist Christian Mendoza. The run continues through Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester, Swansea and London’s Roundhouse, a venue Taylor has played before, back in 2011 as a guest of Foo Fighters.
Taylor has spent more than five decades as one of the driving forces behind Queen, one of the most commercially successful bands ever to exist. Along the way, he’s helped push more than 300 million albums, leaving his stamp on songs like “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Under Pressure” and “Another One Bites the Dust,” while writing hits including “Radio Gaga,” “A Kind of Magic” and “These Are the Days of Our Lives,” among many others.
Taylor formed Smile with guitarist Brian May in 1968. Within three years, that lineup had morphed into Queen with the addition of singer Freddie Mercury and bassist John Deacon, launching one of the most influential runs in popular music history.
Taylor‘s songwriting and playing left a mark across all 15 of Queen‘s studio albums. He kicked off his solo career in the late 1970s, eventually putting out six albums under his own name plus three more with side project The Cross.
Queen‘s story got the big-screen treatment in 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody, on which Taylor served as co-executive music producer. The film went on to gross close to $1 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing music biopic ever made.
In 2011, Taylor and May brought Queen back with singer Adam Lambert, launching a string of major international tours that continue to this day. He’s balanced that ongoing work with his solo career, including 2021’s well-received Outsider. Taylor received an OBE for services to music in 2020.
More recently, Taylor and May put together a Collector’s Edition reissue of Queen‘s 1974 album Queen II, featuring a new 2026 mix along with unreleased studio audio, outtakes, demos, live tracks and radio sessions.
Music aside, Taylor has plenty of other interests. Queen‘s 1975 track “I’m in Love with My Car” doubled as a nod to his lifelong car obsession, one he’s indulged through an extensive personal collection over the years. He’s also been a dedicated sailor since the 1980s, owning a series of yachts and sailing everywhere from the Caribbean to full round-the-world routes. More recently, he’s taken a hands-on role with Queen Côtes de Provence Rosé, another extension of his taste for the finer things.
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Claud Announces New Album Me And The Music: Hear “She Doesn’t Love Me”
Look, it’s not their fault. Claud, the Brooklyn-based indie pop singer-songwriter, has nothing to do with Claude, the AI chatbot that’s currently helping drone-bomb Iran or whatever the fuck. Claud has been making music since 2018, while Anthropic introduced Claude in 2023. In any case, Claud shouldn’t have to change their name because the other one, the one with an E, is the one that sucks.
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He Is Legend To Celebrate Their Catalog On ‘The Time Travel Tour’ With In Angles And Excide
Performing songs from all of their albums.
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OSTON Announces Debut Album Isn’t That Sweet?: Hear Four Songs
LA alt-pop singer-songwriter OSTON has been ramping up to her debut album Isn’t That Sweet? Over the course of the past year or so, she’s released well-crafted singles including “True-ish,” “Placebo Effect,” and “Couldn’t It Be Me?” Today, along with details on the new LP, she’s got another new track to share.
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SCORPIONS’ “ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE” MUSIC VIDEO COMES TO LIFE IN NEW OFFICIAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
Scorpions are heading somewhere they’ve never been before: outer space.
Inspired by the iconic imagery of the “Rock You Like a Hurricane” music video, Scorpions: Hurricane is an officially licensed 96-page graphic novel that takes the legendary rock band on an outrageous sci-fi adventure.
Centuries from now, Scorpions aren’t just touring the world — they’re touring the galaxy.
Their latest stop is Venus-7, a mysterious planet rumored to be home to the greatest afterparty in the universe. But what starts as an intergalactic celebration quickly turns into a fight for survival when the band is captured by a technologically advanced society of warriors determined to keep their world free of men.
Now, Scorpions have to find a way to escape — and make it back for their next encore.
Part space opera, part action-comedy, Scorpions: Hurricane is unlike anything the band has done before.
“After more than six decades of rocking stages around the world, we’re ready to take fans on a different kind of journey. We’re excited to partner with Sumerian Comics on Scorpions: Hurricane, our first-ever graphic novel that lets us explore a bold new adventure unlike anything we’ve done before.” – Scorpions
DETAILS
- 96 full-color pages
- Oversized hardcover: 7.25″ x 11″
- Premium dust jacket
- Officially licensed by Scorpions
- Written by Nathan Yocum
- Illustrated by Daniel Maine
- Colored by Fares Maese
- Lettered by Micah Myers
- Arrives October 2026
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Godflesh – Detail New Album, First Single Streaming
Industrial metal legends Godflesh have just announced the details of their upcoming new album, Decay. Just three years after Purge, 25 years after an uncertain hiatus that nearly scuttled the band, and 38 years since the band’s inception, Justin K Broadrick and bassist Ben Green set out to release their tenth and penultimate album on September 25th, 2026 via Relapse Records. For a first taste, listen to “Living/Ending” below.
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One-Time Supergroup The Watergirls Cover “The Whole Of The Moon” In Tribute To Optimo’s JD Twitch
Lately the Waterboys’ Mike Scott has been busy posting AI slop and recording a star-studded album about Dennis Hopper. But to me, the biggest Waterboys story in recent years has been the endurance of their spellbinding anthem “The Whole Of The Moon” as a modern standard. Though 1988’s Fisherman’s Blues is arguably the UK folk-rock/post-punk band’s definitive album, noteworthy musicians keep taking stabs at the lead single from 1985’s This Is The Sea. Fiona Apple covered it in 2019, then Bleachers in 2021. Long before that, artists including Jennifer Warnes, Tom Baxter, Boys Of A New Age, and even Mandy Moore recorded the song. More recently, bluegrass group the Travelin’ McCourys and Jack Garratt released their own versions. Today, we get a pleasing addition to the canon.
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