Latest articles by Dave Ling
John Mitchell & Friends play Dingwalls this week - and it promises to be a night filled with surprises
Buying guide Twelve months of life-enriching, extraordinary new music
"There’s a lot of joy that we don’t see at home": Clutch begin another run of UK Christmas shows next week
Brit-loving Canadians The Commoners have just kicked off their UK tour
Just as UFO seemed poised to take the next step up, their ace-card guitarist Michael Schenker quit. So took off to the Caribbean and recorded No Place To Run without him
He only wanted a harmless distraction from No-Man – but when the debut album sold 30 times its original pressing run, he had to take things more seriously
There’s still time to feel the noize
Southern blues rockers Parker Barrow are currently touring the UK with the Damn Truth. It's not to be missed
Foghat will share a bill with Asia feat. John Payne, so we sat down with Payne and Foghat drummer Roger Earl
In 1987, Ozzy Osbourne released the Randy Rhoads-era live album Tribute, and one UK writer travelled to Los Angeles to brave the promotional chaos
After over two decades making music, his main band had recently achieved global recognition and he’d just launched his debut solo album. Did he ever really slow down?
It featured the greatest yodelling since The Sound Of Music
Self-described “slightly bizarre band“ Coheed & Cambria are currently on tour in the UK
38 Special were too big at home in the US to return to the UK during the past 40 years, but new album Milestone might bring them back
But every piece of good fortune has a downside
Why you should expect the expected and the unexpected at Todd Rundgren's upcoming shows
It was written on a $25 guitar and became one of the biggest hits of 1994
If it’s classic hard rock that flicks your switch, here’s a band to flick it for you
Buying guide For a brief period in the late eighties, White Lion were genuine contenders for Bon Jovi’s hair metal crown
Uriah Heep could have been been as big as Sabbath or Zeppelin if it wasn’t for drink, drugs and egos
Frightwigs, platform boots, fake schlongs and a 70s classic that skewered slumming rich kids
Harem Scarem have never achieved the major success their music deserves, but they’re still banging on the door
Warning: headbanging to these songs could result in serious injury
