Latest articles by Neil Jeffries
Every Rainbow album ranked from worst to best
Rainbow took Ritchie Blackmore away from Deep Purple, introduced Ronnie James Dio to a wider audience, then went in search of America: these are their albums, ranked
"Like mid-70s Aerosmith with a dash of Led Zeppelin": Dirty Honey's Can't Find The Brakes
Dirty Honey successfully navigate the ‘difficult second album’ corner without crashing on Can't Find The Brakes
More heartache than hell-raising: The Cadillac Three have tampered with their hard-drinkin', southern-rockin' template
Album number six The Years Go Fast finds The Cadillac Three sounding all-growed up
The UFO albums you should definitely own
Hard rock institution UFO may have been dogged by unsettled line-ups and an appetite for drugs 'n' booze, but they should have been huge: these are their best albums
The 10 best Bryan Adams songs
Anthemic radio rockers, epic ballads, killer duets – these are Bryan Adam‘s 10 essential songs
The most underrated albums by 10 major prog bands
Showing a little love for the overlooked classics by prog giants Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Rush and more
30 musicians on the album that changed their life as a kid
Members of Kiss, Black Sabbath, Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Rage Against The Machine and more reveal the albums that set them on the path to rock stardom
Alcatrazz are well into their second coming, but it's confusing
Alcatrazz's Jimmy Waldo on Graham Bonnet and the other Alcatrazz, Doogie White, getting heavier, and loving 'Jack The Ripper' weather
Mammoth WVH's second album finds Wolfgang Van Halen scaling spectacular new peaks
Wolfgang Van Halen comes of age on a solo second that betters his debut in every department
"This guy Bon Scott sounds like he’s got peanut butter stuck to the roof of his mouth!": Megadeth's Dave Mustaine on how AC/DC changed his life
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine on how Let There Be Rock – and a girl called Cindy – blew his mind
Eric Clapton's deluxe upgrade of 24 Nights: a hits collection and a collectors dream
The Definitive 24 Nights is a deluxe upgrade of the original 24 Nights, the celebration of Eric Clapton's early ’90s Royal Albert Hall residencies
Hanoi Rocks' first five albums repackaged: No bells, no whistles, but what a beautiful noise
Hanoi Rocks: The Days We Spent Underground 1981-1984 celebrates the pre-major label days of the band who reinvented the template for high-energy, sleazy rock’n’roll
Ritchie Blackmore's "private music" celebrates its 25th birthday with another public outing
Originally greeted by a mixture of controversy and ridicule, Blackmore’s Night's Shadow Of The Moon has improved with age
On the Winery Dogs' third album it's the wizardry that lingers, not the songs
Who let Messrs Kotzen, Sheehan and Portnoy out again?
Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous: now more live and more dangerous than ever
Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous a.k.a. The Greatest Live Album Of All Time – reissued alongside the seven shows recorded to make it
Lee Aaron: pop music in leather trousers, and not in as good way
Canadian ‘Metal Queen’ Lee Aaron gets a fresh polish, 40 years after her debut
Guns N' Roses: a super deluxe reminder of a band who were never the same again
If the original 30 Use Your Illusion tracks weren’t enough for you, here’s a box set that adds 47 contemporaneous live performances
O.R.k pitch gentle dexterity against bludgeon on the beautiful Screamnasium
Screamnasium is the fourth album from Anglo-Italian proggers O.R.k
Rory Gallagher's Deuce expanded and remixed but still sounding good at 50
Late Irish bluesmaster Rory Gallagher's second album gets the bells-and-whistles treatment
If Britain is going to hell in a handcart then Kid Kapichi are the soundtrack
Here's What You Could Have Won is a series of potent rants from Kid Kapichi, Hastings’ four angriest young men
Marco Mendoza belts out the anthemic power pop metal on New Direction
New Direction is the fourth solo album from much-travelled singing bassist Marco Mendoza
Mike Tramp's new album is gentle, melodic, and entirely in Danish
Mike Tramp's memories of Denmark are sung in his native tongue on 13th studio album For Første Gang
Every Rush album ranked from worst to best
Canada's prog rock heroes have amassed an immense discography over a 50 year career. Here's every album ranked
