The AIDS charity set up in Freddie Mercury’s memory is inviting people to dress as the flamboyant Queen vocalist for a day. But it’s all too easy for Queen cosplay to go terribly wrong…

A Russian rock legend dared to question Vladimir Putin on live, state-controlled television, and awoke the Russian new media in the process.

One of southern-fried stadium rock's lesser lights still has a hedonistic charm well worth rescuing from a smalltown op shop.

After a month of solid listening, The National's High Violet has revealed itself as a likely Album of the Year.

Big, loud and dizzyingly enjoyable, the debut album from this blogged-about Brooklyn duo is possibly too much of a good thing.

Twenty years after their last album (and almost forty since first freaking out the squares by being freaky squares), Devo have returned just in time to see devolution in action.

On his most accessible record yet, Ariel Rosenberg mines pop music's past and mashes it into something seriously weird… and seriously enjoyable.

Eminem makes the "ehhhh!" sound about Relapse on his new single 'Not Afraid'. What other revelations about his next album can come from this 'inspirational' tune?

Midnight Juggernauts round past Saturn and head back to Earth with album number two of proggy, dizzying electro. I kinda preferred it when they were aiming for the stars.