Henry Yates

Portsmouth's Brave Rival have more than their share of rafter-shaking riffs, but there's soul and blues and sensitivity too

Born out of an identity crisis and resurrected by superhero show Peacemaker, Wig Wam's 2010 anthem Do Ya Wanna Taste It was a cautionary tale of flying too close to the sun

Coheed And Cambria's Claudio Sanchez on fantasy worlds, inhabiting the Star Wars universe, and recording while "high as f**k"

Debut album Tales Of Torment channels the spittle of punk and the spook of Alice Cooper

The Belfast guitarist's new solo album, The Fighter, is out now

Thunder guitarist Luke Morley picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the sport Jimmy Page is terrible at

Anglo-American roots duo Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse are darting between genres and dancing as the world crumbles

Glenn Hughes and Joe Bonamassa discuss their careers, wonder why rock’s future will suffer from a lack of small venues, and mention something about a new Black Country Communion album

South African blues-rocker Dan Patlansky on corrupt governments, nursing his wife and giving up smoking

Written in the late 1950s by Sonny Curtis, I Fought The Law took on a new and decidedly grittier life when The Clash put their stamp on it in 1979

A song without a writer, Ram Jam’s (or was it?) version of Black Betty was one of 1977's most memorable hits

Only a special Hendrix cover can sit comfortably alongside the original. Stevie Ray Vaughan's Little Rare is a rare example that does

Upon its release in 1977, God Save The Queen become punk’s most provocative statement, one that led to the band being violently attacked in the street

From The Byrds to Guns N’ Roses via Jimi Hendrix’s unimpeachable All Along The Watchtower, we look at the Bob Dylan covers where the students eclipsed the master

A Bruce Springsteen song of hardship, it’s easy to see why Rage Against The Machine were inspired to cover The Ghost Of Tom Joad

With his extraordinary and extraordinarily affecting cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley polished something lustrous to an even greater sheen

Tennessee’s next great blues band are Naked Gypsy Queens, who follow some good advice from from Alice Cooper

Massive Wagons frontman Baz Mills picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals that he wore a Shakin' Stevens outfit as a boy

Slash’s fourth album with Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators was shaping up to be the smoothest sailing of his chaotic career. Then covid blew in and rocked the boat

Let Slash and Myles Kennedy be your expert guides to the fourth Conspirators album

In 1986, Letchen Grey were the Sunset Strip’s hottest tip – until their rise was halted by cancer and cruel fate

How Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones wrote a transatlantic hit that he believed came from "a higher force"

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?

As the theme song from the blockbuster Spielberg movie Back To The Future, The Power Of Love made Huey Lewis an overnight superstar – but not rich