Refused's The Shape Of Punk To Come, released on October 27, 1988, was born from conflict and contempt for the scene from which it came

Prince’s Estate apparently refused to allow “Nothing Compares 2 U” to be used in Showtime’s documentary on Sinéad O’Connor, Nothing Compares, which premiered yesterday (September 30). As Billboard notes, the documentary instead uses an ambient score with scenes from the music video as the clip&a...

Have advertising firms just been waiting decades for a chance to put a Neil Young song in a TV commercial? Has that been their white whale? Neil Young always famously refused any and all requests to license his music for advertising purposes, and he made a big point about it. Young’s 1988 song “This Note’s For You&a...

“Having Meat Loaf as a father-in-law was fantastic”: you ask the questions, Anthrax riff king Scott Ian answers them

He may be one of the world's biggest DJs, but Steve Aoki has always been a punk rock kid at heart. We asked him to talk about his favourite hardcore records, and damn, the guy went OFF...