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Original Alice Cooper lineup reunites after more than 50 years – and announces brand-new album
By Janelle Borg published
The Revenge of Alice Cooper – the lineup's first record since 1973's Muscle of Love – promises to deliver all the shock rock goods of the band's heyday

The Aristocrats' Bryan Beller recalls the moment he met Guthrie Govan and formed a new kind of supergroup
By Janelle Borg published
As per Aristocrats lore, the power trio formed right after an impromptu jam at NAMM 2011

Assembled on 24 hours' notice, this John Lennon-led supergroup marked the beginning of the end of the Beatles
By Jackson Maxwell published
Though the band's set at the 1969 Toronto Rock and Roll Revival was ragged, it confirmed in stone a hugely consequential decision Lennon had made just before the festival

How Killswitch Engage went to thrash metal bootcamp to deliver their face-ripping return
By Jon Wiederhorn published
This Consequence is the sound of pent-up aggression, a creative release after Killswitch were stopped in their tracks. Dynamic duo Adam Dutkiewicz and Joel Stroetzel talk frontmen, riff tactics, and why nothing was too grimy for this

Joe Perry on working with Van Halen producer Ted Templeman
By Phil Weller published
Having been impressed by the producer’s touch on Van Halen's “monstrous” records, Templeman was tasked with reigniting the band’s spark

David Gilmour and Roger Waters hit back at criticism of the band's over-reliance on gear and synths when crafting The Dark Side of The Moon in unearthed clip
By Janelle Borg published
The clip is featured in Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, the newly restored version of the band's groundbreaking Live At Pompeii film

Great Grandpa on moving slowly, song-glue – and the charm of $100 acoustics
By Matt Parker published
The mercurial Seattle indie rockers have returned with their first album in six years, Patience, Moonbeam – they tell us how their lush, multifaceted arrangements all begin on the humble six-string
![The Grateful Dead: Pigpen [left] and Jerry Garcia in action at Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San Jose, May 18, 1968.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/SiXNMdzjN4PJYWg6TaRqwg.jpg)
How legendary photographer Jim Marshall became part of the Grateful Dead family
By Bill DeMain published
An upcoming book of photos captures Marshall's unique relationship with the Dead. His former assistant, the photographer Amelia Davis, explains how he became part of the Dead family
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