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“Whole Lotta Love was clearly the track that everybody would go to”: A classic interview with Jimmy Page
The Zeppelin legend spoke to Total Guitar's Chris Bird in 2020
How a frosty band meeting in a fish and chip restaurant signalled the end for the Smiths
The Smiths story came to a close shortly after completion of 1987 album Strangeways, Here We Come, and a tense exchange of words over fish and chips…
I tried a music tracker and it rewired my brain (in a good way)
Beloved by artists from Aphex Twin to Deadmau5, trackers swap the trusty piano roll for a text-based, vertically-scrolling interface that looks like something out of The Matrix. Let's find out how deep the tracker rabbit hole goes
The day Rage Against the Machine struck at the very heart of capitalism
The Wall Street shoot for Sleep Now in the Fire ended up making history as RATM descended on the New York Stock Exchange
“It’s a unique sound, the divinity of my vocal cords”: How Perry Farrell defined alternative rock with Jane’s Addiction
The album Nothing's Shocking was the antidote to hair metal
Ethan Ives on the guitars, tones and “indie Motörhead” energy of Car Seat Headrest’s epic rock opera
Ives’ playing on the Seattle indie-rocker’s audacious new album, The Scholars, is a masterclass in tone and melody, and maybe also how stylistic slipperiness is key to holding our attention
The Beatle who had to be cut from Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon
The making of Pink Floyd’s 1973 masterpiece originally featured a cameo from one Paul McCartney - but his contribution didn’t impress Roger Waters…
How Chris Isaak's masterpiece Wicked Game could have been lost if not for David Lynch
Chris Isaak’s steamy 1989 masterpiece took the intervention of David Lynch before it started turning heads
