Bill DeMain

Heart's Ann Wilson and Halestorm's Lzzy Hale on sibling bands, connecting with an audience, and staying grounded when success throws you sideways

Johnny Cash's iconic version of Nine Inch Nails’ Hurt was nothing if not unlikely, but the Man In Black was no stranger to unlikely cover versions

Step back Chuck Berry, Elvis and the rest... and meet Sister Rosetta Tharpe, one of the founding mothers of rock'n'roll

David Bowie's Earthling album was hybrid before hybrid was cool. Its featured guitarist was Reeves Gabrels, a member of Tin Machine and current axeman for The Cure

Almost 20 years into their career, Spoon are back with album number 10 and a playlist that helped inspire it

Stevie Ray Vaughan, every John Lee Hooker album, the entire genre of gospel, and much more: these are the albums that changed Eric Gales' life

Ousted from Fleetwood Mac, guitarist/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham bounced back with one of our albums of 2021, but he’s still hopeful that he can make one more record with the Mac

The Barenaked Ladies are back with a new album – and the frontman’s secret project with Geddy Lee “that I can’t talk about”

Country-rockers Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real on close encounters with marine life, backing Neil Young and continuing a family tradition

Although David Bowie’s Berlin-period anthem Heroes was initially something of a commercial failure, it became his most life-changing single

Wilson sisters Ann and Nancy poured their feelings about love and the fragile state of the world into a debut single that became an evergreen rock classic

Half a century on, Don McLean's folk-rock anthem about the souring of the American Dream continues to confound and inspire

The Bobby Fuller Four looked set for greatness after I Fought The Law hit the US Top 10, but within six months Fuller was dead

In a dry run for the sci-fi-tinged stardom he'd achieve in the early 70s, young folkie David Bowie wrote his 1969 alienation anthem of an astronaut lost in space

Eric Church, country-rock superstar, returns with a triple album, optimism for future gigs, and thoughts on *that* controversial interview

Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson talks guitars, the new solo album You And Me, and her surprise choice for the most underrated guitarist of all time

Putting Sgt. Pepper's iconic album's iconic artwork under the microscope to discover the weird, the wonderful, and what Sonny Liston thought of Ringo's drumming

In the year of Star Wars, Pink Floyd’s former engineer Alan Parsons was creating his own barmy sci-fi masterpiece, I Robot

How a young David Bowie’s artistic manifesto was captured in the three and a half perfect minutes of Changes

How London’s famous clock tower and a Jimi Hendrix groupie inspired his last great song, Dolly Dagger

David Bowie had everything to prove, but backed by his greatest band and produced by the engineer for The Beatles, he made his first classic album, Hunky Dory

In 1966, a strung-out Janis Joplin returned to Texas with everything she owned in shoe boxes, but the promise of California's bright lights was always going to draw her back to meet her fate

After the minimalism of his ‘Berlin trilogy’, David Bowie went all out for a kitchen-sink art-rock album on Scary Monsters

How a song from Tom Petty’s reject pile unwittingly became a Petty/Nicks duet, and the massive hit single that launched the Fleetwood Mac icon’s solo career

Released 50 years ago, Ladies Of The Canyon marked the moment when Joni Mitchell went from folk princess to pop star