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The Led Zeppelin legend showed 'potential,' according to the chess club's boss. Continue reading…

Somewhere out there is a Billy Strings fan with very bad intentions and very good aim. On Thursday night, the folk/bluegrass phenom played the first of three shows at Fishers Event Center in Fishers, Indiana. In the middle of his set, someone threw an unknown object from the crowd and beaned Strings right in the head. The artist was in the middle of his crowd patter between songs, and he didn’t get injured or busted open or anything. But Strings was clearly and visibly pissed. Here’s what he told the crowd:

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Tigers in Cairo is making waves in the San Diego scene with its muscular and melodic post-punk sound. Fresh

Here are 32 '90s rock and metal songs that made their debut on movie soundtracks. Some later appeared on other albums and some didn't. Continue reading…

As of a few months ago, Neil Young was mastering his forthcoming album on the full moon. In April, Young shared that he was cooking up the follow-up to last year’s Talkin’ to the Trees at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La studio in Malibu with his backing band, the Chrome Hearts. Soon after, Young shared the album’s title, Second Song. Today, he’s returned with more information about the project, including the title track and its Sep. 18 release date.

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Rising Dublin band Basht. are today sharing new single ‘Terror TV’, the latest song to be revealed from

He says relationships within the band have "healed," and he's talking to Stevie Nicks "all the time." Continue reading…

Back in August 2004, the first issue of Decibel was independently published in Philadelphia. Considering the climate at the time, this was a truly terrible idea.

The music industry was awkwardly transitioning from physical to digital mediums while print media was soon to be overthrown by social media. And while we had some magazine experience, none of us had ever published a commercial newsstand publication.

Through limited resources and unlimited will, we slowly pushed forward. The rest of the story is for another day, but 22 years and over 260 monthly issues later, Decibel still stands. Still fully independent.

Like many of you, we’ve seen this week’s layoffs at BrooklynVegan, Revolver and Alternative Press, as well as the downsizing at Metal Injection and MetalSucks earlier this year. These are people who dedicated their lives to promoting the music that defined ours, and they now face a market more uncertain than one we stepped into decades ago. Though we do suspect that you’ll see some of them contributing to the pages of Decibel very soon.

Of course, that defies the prevailing narrative that “independent music journalism is dead.” Alongside a handful of indie outlets, we operate without a single penny from outside investors. Maybe that means our margins are thinner. Maybe that means we don’t post as many selfies with Nergal. But at least we don’t have to pretend Sleep Token are good or stock Ghost dildos in our webstore. It’s the deal we’ve enthusiastically made.

Ultimately, to ensure independent journalism, you must support independent journalism. So, ahead of our 22nd anniversary issue, please consider subscribing to Decibel. Like you, we’re in this for life. Only (Independent) Print Is Real.

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Tender Ender, the solo project of Swiss artist Thomas Schmidiger, unveils “Darkness,” the first single from his upcoming second

Slash made the introductions at Black Sabbath’s final show, then spoke to Ozzy about working together. Continue reading…