Steven Adler: How Guns N' Roses made Appetite For Destruction By Henry Yates In 1987, the ‘real’ GN’R bottled the mayhem of the Sunset Strip on their classic debut album Appetite For Destruction. Ousted drummer Steven Adler tells all
The Pretty Reckless find brilliant new life on Death By Rock And Roll By Henry Yates The Pretty Reckless's Death By Rock And Roll is proof that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
Green Day's Basket Case: the story behind the song By Henry Yates How Billie Joe Armstrong wrote Green Day's game-changing three-minute classic Basket Case in a basement surrounded by pizza boxes
The story behind I Alone by Live By Henry Yates Birth, death, love and loss… Live's post-grunge hit I Alone has soundtracked them all. Frontman Ed Kowalczyk remembers the song that was born in a barn
The Moody Blues: stories of nights in technicolour satin and LSD By Henry Yates By tapping into the worries and hopes of ordinary people, The Moody Blues became a phenomenon. But a vital part of the band’s inspiration came from tapping into some mind-expanding chemicals
Phil Campbell: the family that plays together stays together By Henry Yates Former Motorhead man Phil Campbell on his family band, the tyranny of politicians, and what Lemmy would have made of the pandemic
A conversation with Leslie West By Henry Yates From the archive: Leslie West talks about dropping acid at the Fillmore, kicking methadone with Johnny Winter and missing Jack Bruce
The 100 greatest rock songs of the century... so far By Malcolm Dome, Paul Elliott, Dave Everley, Polly Glass, Dom Lawson, Fraser Lewry, Dave Ling, Sian Llewellyn, Luke Morton, Paul Rees, Johnny Sparks, Philip Wilding, David Stubbs, Henry Yates Many were longlisted, but this is the final selection – the best rock songs of the 21st century thus far, as voted for by you
Don't Let The Devil Take Another Day finds Kelly Jones twisting his standards into fine new shapes By Henry Yates Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones reimagines his songbook on Don't Let The Devil Take Another Day
Household names, hot tips and history-making reunions: How Aftershock Festival is set to rock 2021 By Henry Yates With Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth WVH joining the likes of Metallica, My Chemical Romance and Limp Bizkit in California, Aftershock 2021 is officially next year’s most mouthwatering US rock festival
How Black Sabbath ditched the hippy dream and faced brutal reality on Paranoid By Henry Yates With themes of war, madness and nuclear holocaust, Black Sabbath’s Paranoid remains the ultimate difficult second album. Fifty years on, we remember how it razed the rock’n’roll landscape
How Show4me are bringing the rock community to the palm of your hand By Henry Yates From interactive fan-only concerts to hook-ups with your favourite artists, the redesigned Show4me music interaction network is breaking down the barriers
John Fogerty and family chime with the times on the heart-warming Fogerty’s Factory By Henry Yates While self-quarantining together John Fogerty and family rolled out the classics... and now they're collected together as Fogerty’s Factory
When Rivers Meet's We Fly Free will leave a boot-print on your heart By Henry Yates Wife-and-husband duo When Rivers Meet are heavy enough to get your attention and quirky enough to hold it on We Fly Free
Michael Landau interview: the return of the master musician By Henry Yates Session ace Michael Landau on punk-jazz, pubbing with Rod Stewart, and pranks with “foul-mouthed” Steve Lukather
The story behind George Thorogood & The Destroyers' Bad To The Bone By Henry Yates George Thorogood’s ode to brawlin’ and heart breakin’ Bad To The Bone was inspired by The Rolling Stones and almost recorded by Bo Diddley. Surprisingly, it was never a big hit
10 bands whose debut album was their best By Henry Yates For some, it never gets better than the beginning: here's 10 bands who never improved on their debut albums
Howlin' Wolf - a guide to his best albums By Henry Yates Late Chicago powerhouse Howlin' Wolf was equal parts transcendent and terrifying. These are the releases that will blow down your house
John Lee Hooker: a guide to his best albums By Henry Yates From Mississippi roots to wilderness years and redemption, John Lee Hooker always played the blues his way. Here are the albums that go boom boom
Glenn Hughes: the soundtrack of my life By Henry Yates Deep Purple, Black Country Communion and Dead Daisies man Glenn Hughes picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the songs he doesn't remember singing
HIM'S Dark Light: how America fell in love with the new kings of goth By Henry Yates Rabid dogs, lost souls and the ghost of Jimi Hendrix – how HIM made the album that turned them into transatlantic superstars
Morpheus Project's new single Mozaick marks the arrival of a new force in prog By Henry Yates Morpheus Project unveil their debut single Mozaick – complete with spellbinding video
Six things you need to know about... Crown Lands By Henry Yates Introducing prog-loving shamanic prog-blues duo Crown Lands, who say “more is more” and mix brains with musical brawn.
The Pretty Reckless, Death By Rock And Roll and 2021's most anticipated rebirth By Henry Yates The Pretty Reckless have announced they'll be releasing a new album next year – as they share an acoustic version of lead single Death By Rock And Roll
Thundermother's Heat Wave: not a death rattle but a battle cry By Henry Yates Strikingly hooky return on Heat Wave from regenerated Swedes Thundermother