The Butthole Surfers have been in retrospective mode this year, which both makes sense and doesn’t compute. The band’s brand of dangerous dirtbag chaos is not congruent with reverential nostalgia, but it’s also exactly the kind of unrepeatable phenomenon that deserves to be preserved by history. Their legend is tied...

None of the members of MC5, the rabble-rousing Detroit proto-punk legends, are with us anymore. MC5 only released three albums, and they broke up after the release of 1971’s High Time. In recent years, guitarist Wayne Kramer and drummer Dennis Thompson toured with a revived version of MC5, with various rock icons standing in for the la...

Massive Attack last played shows in 2019 on their Mezzanine XXI tour. Tonight, the band performed their first gig since then at Gothenburg Film Studios in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The band take their latest material to new heights, as 30 years of experience and living inside ‘Fear Inoculum’ produce their greatest spectacle yetThe post Tool live in London: A mesmerising portrait of a band with a vision appeared first on NME.

It’s hard to imagine any version of the Sex Pistols existing without John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten, the sneering and malevolent figure who fronted the band during their brief existence and who came back for the Pistols’ various reunions over the years. The late Sid Vicious was arguably just as important to the Pis...