The fateful circumstances that led to Coldplay’s biggest ever song

By Andy Price published 4 April 26

Coldplay’s first stab at a euphoric crowd-pleaser was a clear indication that a stadium-filling future awaited

“Look at AC/DC. Whatever was popular, it didn’t matter. It’s like McDonald’s. ‘We make the Big Mac and we make fries and we don’t care about doing sushi’”: Zakk Wylde on musical identity, jailhouse rocking with Ozzy and the return of Black Label Society

By Jonathan Horsley published 4 April 26

The maestro of the pinched harmonic and pentatonic blitzkrieg sits in to talk Engines Of Demolition, Randy Rhoads' greatness, and the origin of his style

"The record company went berserk”: How Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo had to fight to release Love Is A Battlefield

By Beth Simpson published 4 April 26

Love Is a Battlefield introduced the Linn Drum into mainstream rock

“All I hear is ‘Auto-Tune sucks’ and 'drum machines have no soul'”: Flying Lotus on the backlash against AI music

By Matt Mullen published 3 April 26

FlyLo weighs in on Suno and talks us through the making of BIG MAMA, a chaotic speedrun of an EP that zooms through chiptune, breakcore and jazz fusion without looping a single bar

The song John Lennon called “the best I've ever written” – and Yoko Ono’s uncredited contribution

By Neil Crossley published 3 April 26

“A lot of it – the lyric and the concept – came from Yoko”