Latest articles by Henry Yates
Mexican acoustic duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela's seventh studio album OurHome is a compassionate collection for chaotic times
Billy Morrison partied with Ozzy, got a bollocking from Sharon, shot up with Nick Cave, choked on Cypress Hill’s weed smoke, and was tasked with Lemmy’s backstage rider. These are his stories
Released on August 27, 1991, Pearl Jam's Ten lit grunge's blue touch paper. Here's every track on the album, re-ordered from worst to best
Bruce Watson picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names some lyrics that'd make a great tattoo
Texan guitarist Eric Johnson picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and answers a morbid question with an even more morbid answer
Keyboard icon's grandiose live shows lit up the 70s, but behind the pomp and majesty lay bad reviews, heart attacks and near ruin
Late Chicago powerhouse Howlin' Wolf was equal parts transcendent and terrifying. These are the releases that will blow down your house
Shinedown’s charmed career belies a band that has rolled with the punches
“I mean, how hard is it to have a beautiful woman around?”
This year US alt.rockers Blue October are playing their 2006 album Foiled in full on tour – and Justin Furstenfeld is just glad he can
Crown Lands' new album Apocalypse is a sci-fi story, but it echoes what's going on in the world today
Session guitarist extraordinaire Robben Ford got high with George Harrison, hit on by Barry Manilow, yelled at by Miles Davis, blanked by Bob Dylan and headhunted by Gene Simmons... and these are his stories
The Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance
How Black Sabbath pushed metal to ever heavier levels on their immortal third album
How Queen made Innuendo and Made In Heaven against the odds
"There was an equal chance that both bands would lose audiences"
Basket Case was not an overnight success – far from it
Eight Miles High was the single that should have launched The Byrds into the stratosphere. So why did it instead mark the precise moment when it all came crashing down?
Black Sabbath ditched the hippy dream and faced brutal reality on Paranoid
Dropkick Murphys' I’m Shipping Up To Boston was a collision of legless pirates and beyond-the-grave lyrics from American folk hero Woody Guthrie
For half a century, the first songs Squeeze's Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook wrote together sat on a cassette tape: Now they've finally been rerecorded and released
How Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones wrote a transatlantic hit that he believed came from "a higher force"
ZZ Top’s 1979 album Deguello marked the start of their most successful era
