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Apple versus Samsung. iPadOS versus Android. Apple Pencil versus S Pen. It’s one of the biggest tablet scraps around, but we’re not interested in sitting on the sofa watching Netflix or playing Candy Crush while pretending we’re being productive. We’re talking proper photo editing. 📸 More specifically: Adobe Lightroom. Adobe Photoshop. RAW photographs. Concert photography. Festival editing. Exporting images while...

If you’re a photographer who spends weekends wedged against a barrier, dodging crowd surfers while trying desperately not to get a £2,000 camera covered in lager, eventually you’re going to face another problem: How the hell do you edit all those photos afterwards? 😂🤘 For years, the obvious answer was a laptop. MacBook. Windows laptop. Lightroom. Photoshop. Job done. But...

Sometimes the song a band isn’t convinced about ends up becoming the one that follows them around for the rest of their career. For Hoobastank, that song was “The Reason”. 🤘🔥 It became an absolutely massive early-2000s rock anthem, dominated radio, earned Grammy nominations and eventually smashed through the one-billion-view mark on YouTube. Yet according to the story surrounding its...

Well then. MTV has managed to kick the hornet’s nest, throw the hornet’s nest into the pit, and then wonder why everyone wearing a battle jacket looks annoyed. 🤘😂 The nominations for the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards have arrived — but one familiar category is conspicuous by its absence. 🎸 BEST ROCK IS GONE Yep. The Best Rock category...

The rock world has lost another absolute legend. Frank Beard, the longtime drummer of ZZ Top and the man whose unmistakable groove helped power the Texas rock giants for more than five decades, has died at the age of 77. Beard passed away on Monday, 17 August 2026, while receiving hospice care at his ranch in Richmond, Texas, surrounded by...

BABYMETAL have given fans a proper look at one of the coolest pieces of vinyl to hit the metal world this year — and yes, mun, we absolutely want one. 🤘💿🔥 SU-METAL, MOAMETAL and MOMOMETAL have appeared together in a new video showing off the spectacular Deluxe Edition of METAL FORTH, including its eye-catching zoetrope vinyl design. And this isn’t...

18 August 1986. Some albums arrive. Some albums become successful. And then there are albums that kick the bloody doors off, take over radio, MTV, bedrooms, pubs, cars and arenas, and become permanently welded into rock ’n’ roll history. Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet was one of those albums. 🤘🔥 Released on this day in 1986, the New Jersey rockers’...

The Prince of Darkness may have left us, but the festival carrying his name is preparing to roar back into life. Ozzfest has officially confirmed that its huge 2027 return will take place at Villa Park in Birmingham — and now attention is turning towards one massive question: WHO THE HELL IS PLAYING? Oh yes, butt. This is getting serious....

YouTube is changing the way it counts views — and on the surface, it could make some video numbers look absolutely massive. For years, creators have obsessed over that little number underneath their videos. Ten thousand views. One hundred thousand. A million. It’s the digital equivalent of looking across a packed festival field and thinking: “Bloody hell, there’s a few...

There are cover songs that are decent. There are cover songs that make you go, “Fair play, that’s tidy.” And then there are those rare covers that grab a legendary song, crank the amps until the walls start sweating and somehow manage to create something completely different without disrespecting the original. Bad Wolves’ version of “Zombie” belongs firmly in that...

The death-pop troublemakers are back with a new lyric video, a monster North American tour alongside Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson, Sick New World Texas and a UK invasion featuring Skindred, Alien Ant Farm and Spineshank. Some bands mellow with age. ORGY clearly didn’t get that memo. 😈 The multi-platinum Los Angeles outfit are continuing to drag their unmistakable cocktail...

One day. One stage. One monster rock show… and apparently one very dangerous merch tent. STONedead Festival 2026 has revealed its official festival merchandise, and if you were planning on wandering into Newark with a healthy bank balance, you might want to rethink that strategy. 😈💰 From classic event T-shirts and hoodies to football shirts, trucker caps, mugs, patches, beanies...

Stonedead Festival 2026 isn’t just bringing the rock ‘n’ roll to Newark Showground — it’s bringing some serious festival scran too. 🔥 Let’s face it: a full day of riffs, singing, wandering around the arena and generally behaving like you’re still 21 requires fuel. And Stonedead has revealed its food traders, with everything from fresh coffee and breakfast rolls to...

Break out the red caps, dust off the baggy jeans and prepare to start breakin’ stuff again, because Limp Bizkit are gearing up to make another record. Yep. Fred Durst, Wes Borland and the gang are heading back into the studio, with work on what could become Limp Bizkit’s seventh studio album gathering momentum. And considering their last full-length record,...

There are bits of festival memorabilia… and then there’s a signed teddy bear wearing a Steelhouse Festival shirt covered in autographs. Yep. We’re absolutely here for this. 😂🤘 A rather brilliant piece of Steelhouse Festival memorabilia featuring Dan Byrne has appeared on eBay, giving rock fans and Steelhouse faithful the chance to get their hands on something considerably more unusual...