
Classic Rock Magazine
Classic Rock is the online home of the world's best rock'n'roll magazine. We bring you breaking news, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes features, as well as unrivalled access to the biggest names in rock music; from Led Zeppelin to Deep Purple, Guns N’ Roses to the Rolling Stones, AC/DC to the Sex Pistols, and everything in between. Our expert writers bring you the very best on established and emerging bands plus everything you need to know about the mightiest new music releases.
Latest articles by Classic Rock Magazine

The Grateful Dead accidentally invent the alt.country movement on American Beauty
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Having discovered they could harmonise, Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead released what many consider to be their most user-friendly album

Album Of The Week Club review: Paul McCartney rails against everyone on Wings' Band On The Run
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Recorded in Nigeria as his bandmates deserted him, Band On The Run might just be the best post-Beatles work by any Beatle

Lucifer's Friend mix it up with wild abandon on fourth album Banquet
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In which four Germans and a Brit hook up and invent prog-jazz-rock showtunes

Muse polarise opinion on third album Absolution, even if everyone seems to like the guitars
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Dismissed initially as Radiohead copyists, Muse were blasted into the stadium-slaying stratosphere by Absolution

Rush successfully cover the basics on straightforward debut album
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The sound of Rush finding their way

Album Of The Week Club review: B.B. King - Live At The Regal
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Released in 1965, Live At The Regal is the blues equivalent of The Who’s Live At Leeds – an exhilarating, honest account of an artist at the top of their game

Up-and-coming rockers Starbenders get bouncy on new single Tokyo
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It’s taken from the Atlanta troupe’s next album, which is due in 2025

Album Of The Week Club review: Poison: Look What the Cat Dragged In
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Poison were a cheap date, but by the end of the night you knew you'd had a lot of fun

Album Of The Week Club review: Kingdom Come by Sir Lord Baltimore
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Hailed as a proto-metal classic, Sir Lord Baltimore's debut album is perhaps more 60s than 70s

Album Of The Week Club review: Great Western Valkyrie by Rival Sons
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After turning heads with Pressure & Time in 2011, Rival Sons returned to the studio with a new bassist and a fistful of big ideas

Album Of The Week Club review: The Grand Illusion by Styx
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The Grand Illusion was the first of four consecutive triple-platinum albums for Styx, establishing them as one of America’s biggest rock acts

Album Of The Week Club review: De-Loused In The Comatorium by The Mars Volta
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From the ashes of post-hardcore punks At The Drive-In something stirred, and it was proggy

Album Of The Week Club review: Captain Beyond by Captain Beyond
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Legend tells us that Captain Beyond were pioneers of stoner rock, a supergroup who should have been super-massive

Album Of The Week Club review: All Night Long by Sammy Hagar
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Sammy Hagar's puffed-up personality oozes from every pore during a short, sharp, scintillating set

Album Of The Week Club review: Born In The USA by Bruce Springsteen
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Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A. is big and bombastic, but you can’t argue with stadium-tooled juggernauts

Album Of The Week Club review: Nine Lives by REO Speedwagon
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In which the midwestern rockers rock a little harder than normal, but not everyone is convinced

Album Of The Week Club review: Seasons End by Marillion
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How could Marillion ever replace Fish, their charismatic and beloved frontman? With relative ease, it transpired

Winger attempt to avoid the 80s hard rock formula on their debut album with mixed results
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A more serious proposition than many of the Sunset Strip generation, Winger's debut combined melodic hooks with no small amount of technical skill

Black Sabbath's least-loved album re-examined, four decades on
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What happened when Tony Iommi brought two familiar faces back on board for Forbidden, an album produced by an extremely unexpected choice

Is Iron Butterfly's iconic second album the most lopsided hit record ever?
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America's first platinum album was a cultural phenomenon, albeit almost accidentally

Album Of The Week Club review: Contraband by Velvet Revolver
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Did Velvet Revolver produce an album to do the legacy of Guns N' Roses proud? Or was it just another under-achieving and short-lived side-project?

Competition: Enter for a chance to win every AC/DC album on gold vinyl
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Celebrate AC/DC's 50th anniversary by winning the band's back catalogue on limited edition gold vinyl

Album Of The Week Club review: Cactus by Cactus
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What do you get if you mix men from Vanilla Fudge, Amboy Dukes and Mitch Ryder’s Detroit Wheels? The first album from Cactus
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