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  Chances are, if you’ve been in the music industry for the majority of your life that some songs will stick with you, close to your heart and others, well, they’ll follow you around like a bad smell. For the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, he has struggled with both, sometimes within the same track. That’s because the song Robert Plant hates from the band’s back catalogue is quite possibly their most adored hit. So “hate” may be a bit strong. It’s not like Jimmy Page’s least-liked songs ‘Livin’ Loving Maid (She’s Just a Woman)’ and ‘All My Love’, which he described as “not us” and refused to play live. This song was consistently played at Led Zeppelin shows; in fact, for many, it was the main attraction. Of course, we’re talking about one of the most famous tracks in the world, Zeppelin’s masterpiece ‘Stairway To Heaven’. For Plant, the song is no longer a transcendent moment of rock ‘n’ roll purity but a trip and fall down the spiralling staircase to hell. Plant has ne...

  Welcome to National Chop Suey Day (Aug. 29), and while we're certain the national day was designed to salute the American Chinese culinary cuisine, we've chosen to pay homage to the greatest song ever titled after the dish,  System of a Down 's "Chop Suey!" Why? We wanted to, of course. So go ahead, grab a brush and put a little makeup and leave your keys upon the table. You don't need to go anywhere and we won't be forsaking you. In fact, you'll get a full on selection of just about every version of "Chop Suey!" you could ever imagine -- some great, some .... well, at least they tried. So, without further adieu, we commend our spirit to deliver you these 25 "Chop Suey!" covers. Motionless in White Let's start with a few acts you know. Motionless in White have been rocking it for years and the Chris Motionless-led band decided to serve up their version of the System of a Down classic during their 2017 touring. This footage com...

  The metal dons are releasing an album with the San Francisco Symphony. The band never shy away from experimentation, as we shall see... Few bands have had careers quite like  Metallica . They were arguably heavy metal’s first superstar band (“Oi!”, says someone from Iron Maiden; “Hang about!” adds a Black Sabbath member), and their career has been – at once – magnificent, hyper-creative, ridiculous, thrilling, heart-breaking, pioneering – and occasionally total dogshit. With more releases than we’ve got fingers, theirs is a discography that’s easy to lose yourself in. Here is, then, a rundown and reappraisal of all the metal titans’ releases, from thrashy beginnings to stadium rock triumph and beyond. No need to thank us. Don’t headbang too hard. ‘Death Magnetic’  (2008) First things first: Metallica’s ninth studio album isn’t a bad album. So why’s it listed here, so low in this rundown? Well, as we shall see, the San Francisco quartet have rarely ever played things saf...

  The Beatles legend also weighs in on what he considers his best solo Paul McCartney is, like all of us, in lockdown, but as he says in a new interview with  GQ , he considers himself “lucky, because what I do, it all starts with writing, and I can pretty much do that anywhere, so long as I’ve got a  guitar .” And throughout the interview, the Beatles legend discusses his guitars in depth, including relating a story about how his admiration for Jimi Hendrix led him to one of his most-loved electrics. “I have an Epiphone Casino, which is one of my favorites,” he says. “It’s not the best guitar, but I bought it in the 1960s. I went into a shop on Charing Cross Road and asked the guys if they had a guitar that would feedback, because I was very much into Jimi Hendrix and that kind of thing. “I loved that kind of stuff and so I wanted a guitar that was going to give me feedback, as none of the others could. So they showed me the Casino. Because it’s got a hollow body, it fee...

  (Credit: Pink Floyd) Syd Barrett was the definition of a tortured genius, one who sadly succumbed to a drug addiction that made him increasingly more erratic during the late 1960s. The result, of course, left his bandmates with no choice but to remove him from Pink Floyd in 1968. His last ever show with the band would be in Hastings on January, 20th, 1968, one which they didn’t know at the time would be his final performance but the situation soon worsened just as the bandmates had foreseen. The year prior to this moment the band had already drafted in old school friend  Dave Gilmour  to provide a helping hand on guitar, a necessity as Barrett’s mental health worsened and he could no longer fulfil the basic demands of playing live. After this performance in Hastings, the band thought that Barrett had become more of a hindrance than anything else and, at that point, they all knew that they couldn’t carry on in this state any longer or Floyd would be no more. On their way...