In the early '90s grunge took the world by storm. A stream of bands from the US Pacific Northwest, and especially Seattle, arrived on the music scene with their stripped-back, raw sounds, emotive ...

This post is in partnership with NME. Perhaps nothing epitomized the accessible DIY nature of punk more than what iconic fanzine Sideburns quipped in its first issue back in 1977: ‘This is a chord.

Love them, or hate them, heavy metal megastars Metallica sure know a thing or two about composition and songcraft. Sure, they may have dropped all the guitar solos at one point, and Kirk may overuse ...