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Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil said the band’s final album, featuring recordings of late singer Chris Cornell, will likely arrive in 2027. He said work was continuing on the project they’d started several years ago, and didn’t rule out the possibility of touring to promote the release.

How many of these songs from 1996 do you still sing along to? It's easy to credit the songwriting for delivering something memorable that sticks with you, but there are often more elements that go into it. How did the singer deliver the track? Is the music catchy behind it? Is it a challenging song to sing that leaves you wondering what was just said? Does a certain word catch your ear?

When spring evolves into summer, it can feel as if every band is on tour. The weather begins to turn and the idea of hanging on for a warm evening at the local music shed finally starts to make sense again. Bands start playing shows in support of their latest material, or simply to enjoy the roar of the crowd as they return to old favorites. Fans gather for first-ever concerts, long-hoped-for reunions and a few fond farewells.

Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl might have just debunked a huge myth about Kurt Cobain. The rocker discussed quite a bit of his career with Nirvana during a recent appearance on Apple Music 1's The Zane Lowe Show. One of the longest-standing assumptions about Cobain is that he never wanted to be a famous rock star and that Nirvana were totally anti-establishment.

More than 100 metal and hard rock acts tore up the stages of Ozzfest over the years, but how many of them do you actually remember? We tracked down the names of every act that played Ozzfest. The first Ozzfest was held in 1996 with, of course, Ozzy Osbourne as its headliner. But the festival had a much different look to it compared to the Ozzfest music fans fell in love with in subsequent years.

Metallica have just announced a reissue of their classic '90s album Reload with a "massive" box set, totaling nearly 1,700 minutes of audio. The metal giants have remastered and reissued several of their albums over the last few years, including Metallica in 2021 and Load in 2025. Reload, the band's seventh record, has been remastered by Reuben Cohen and the reissue will be available June 26 on a variety of formats including CD, cassette, digital and a deluxe box set.

After previously digging into pop-punk albums from the 1980s and 1990s, we’re looking at the best album from each year of the 2000s. This era saw pop-punk become a dominant musical force, with its cultural impact on full display. Every MTV program – whether it was TRL, Laguna Beach or Next – seemed to have a pop-punk soundtrack. Radio airwaves were flooded with power chords and angsty vocals, Warped Tour was the biggest show in town, and the local malls echoed with soaring guitar riffs.

Tool's chart-topping, multi-platinum third album Lateralus is largely considered one of the biggest and best metal albums of the 21st century — but that didn't stop a Pitchfork celebrity guest interviewer from eviscerating it in a new retrospective review. Comedian and internet personality the Kid Mero (who rose to prominence co-hosting the Desus vs.

The Ramones sounded like everybody and nobody else. When their self-titled debut album was released, the punk music scene wasn't what it would become a year later, and the band's ancestral forefathers — at least as far as bands playing guitar-fueled garage rock — were few and far between: MC5, the Stooges, maybe some of the groups found on the Nuggets compilation. But the Ramones' link to the past went further back, and deeper, than that. They were into girl groups. And beach music.

The busy summer of 2026 touring schedule will be marked by heralded reunions, long-awaited comebacks and some very lengthy goodbyes. Rush is getting back together for the first tour since the death of drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. The Robinson brothers put their differences aside to mount another sweeping Black Crowes tour. Triumph is also back with their foundational trio for the first time in ages.