
Ken McIntyre
Classic Rock contributor since 2003. Twenty Five years in music industry (40 if you count teenage xerox fanzines). Bylines for Metal Hammer, Decibel. AOR, Hitlist, Carbon 14, The Noise, Boston Phoenix, and spurious publications of increasing obscurity. Award-winning television producer, radio host, and podcaster. Voted “Best Rock Critic” in Boston twice. Last time was 2002, but still. Has been in over four music videos. True story.
Latest articles by Ken McIntyre

Psychopunch: Sweet Baby Octane
By Ken McIntyre published
Scandinavian rockers deliver the punk-rock goods.

The Carburetors: Laughing In The Face Of Death
By Ken McIntyre published
Norwegian hellraisers return for another round.

Leslie West: Soundcheck
By Ken McIntyre published
Half a century in, the Mountain man shows he’s still at the peak of his game.

Where The White Buffalo Roams
By Ken McIntyre published
Sons Of Anarchy, murder ballads and craft beer: it's been a wild ride for The White Buffalo

No Sleep 'Til… Boston
By Ken McIntyre published
The best bands, the best NEW bands, and the coolest places to visit: a rock'n'roll city guide to the place where the American Revolution began…

Def Leppard flying high in the USA
By Ken McIntyre published
Like the last few decades never happened, Def Leppard are riding high, with a fine new album and a US arena tour. So where did it all go right for the Sheffield rockers?

Blitzkrieg: A Time Of Changes: (30th Anniversary Edition)
By Ken McIntyre published
Blitzkrieg’s frontman revisits the dawn of NWOBHM.

Clutch: Rock'n'roll outlaws
By Ken McIntyre published
No clichés. No fashion statements. No hits. So when the music industry imploded around their ears, it didn’t matter a jot. If anything, it only made Clutch more successful than ever…

Maynard James Keenan invited us to his vineyard – and we couldn’t turn him down
By Ken McIntyre published
Tool singer, prog-metal provocateur… wine-maker? We spent an afternoon at Maynard James Keenan’s Arizona vineyard

Flash Metal Suicide: Love/Hate
By Ken McIntyre published
This week: how culture recoiled when it met Love/Hate's debut album Blackout in the Red Room... and created Kurt Cobain

Devil's Train: party like it's 1987
By Ken McIntyre published
After a pair of spectacular videos, the outlaw Germans are ready to unleash a second album

Orange Goblin: lock, stock, the fucking lot
By Ken McIntyre published
Orange Goblin are back after facing the most difficult year of their career and staking their claim in British Metal history

Godsmack: "We want to remind people what real hard rock music is."
By Ken McIntyre published
We catch up with Sully Erna's multi-platinum band as their hometown celebrates Godsmack Day

Tapes Of Wrath: The Cassette Review Column
By Ken McIntyre published
Ken McIntyre launches our new cassette review column

Archive: Blue Cheer - LSD. Rehab. Whisky. Fights.
By Ken McIntyre published
...And in their spare time they invented heavy metal. Blue Cheer's Peterson, McDonald and Whaley tell their twisted tale.

Kyuss: It Came From Out Of The Desert...
By Ken McIntyre published
Torn apart by the corporate machine, Kyuss went up in smoke in 1995, having seeded the stoner movement they should have led. Now they're back.

Q&A: Steve Miller
By Ken McIntyre published
Soft rock's venerable guitar man looks back over six decades of rock music; from the birth of rock'n'roll and white-boy Chicago blues to San Francisco psychedelia and the 70s/80s hit machine.

The Life and Times of Linda Ronstadt
By Ken McIntyre published
She's moved seamlessly from easy listening to folk, pop and been a country rock pioneer. Ladies and gentlemen, Linda Ronstadt...
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