Breaking bad: George Thorogood looks back over a tumultuous career By Nick Hasted published 7 September 17 Bad To The Bone made George Thorogood and his Destroyers stars in the MTV age. Now back with a new solo album, the bluesman looks back on the highs and lows
Hiss Golden Messenger - Hallelujah Anyhow album review By Nick Hasted published 6 September 17 Sturdily soulful Americana
Black Stone Cherry - Black To Blues album review By Nick Hasted published 6 September 17 Southern rockers bow to the blues
The Dream Syndicate - How Did I Find Myself Here? album review By Nick Hasted published 5 September 17 Paisley Underground heroes resurface
Rick Wakeman - The Art In Music Trilogy album review By Nick Hasted published 13 August 17 Remastered, committed New Age noodling
Dickey Betts & Great Southern - Southern Rock Jam album review By Nick Hasted published 13 August 17 Holding firm after the Allmans
Hard Working Americans - We’re All In This Together album review By Nick Hasted published 11 August 17 Supergroup of sorts jam for America
The Allman Brothers Band - Hell & High Water: The Best Of The... album review By Nick Hasted published 17 July 17 Best of the Brothers’ worst
Fairport Convention - Come All Ye: The First Ten Years album review By Nick Hasted published 17 July 17 Seven discs celebrate folk rockers 50th
Bill Baird - Baby Blue Abyss / Easy Machines album review By Nick Hasted published 23 May 17 Not yet rated Two sides of US indie rebel auteur
Aaron Buchanan And The Cult Classics - The Man With Stars On... album review By Nick Hasted published 19 May 17 Heaven’s Basement singer’s swaggering solo return.
X Japan's Yoshiki: "I’m almost killing myself every show" By Nick Hasted published 31 March 17 Not yet rated They’re all-conquering, Godzilla-sized monsters of rock in their home country, and now they’re bringing the X factor to the world
Alejandro Escovedo - Burn Something Beautiful album review By Nick Hasted published 3 March 17 Peter Buck collaborates with embattled punk veteran
Last Of The Giants: The True Story Of Guns N’ Roses by Mick Wall review By Nick Hasted published 24 February 17 Maximum rock’n’madness
The Molochs - America's Velvet Glory album review By Nick Hasted published 22 February 17 Garage-rock revived with conviction on duo’s second
Why Dropkick Murphys stand for hard work and doing things the right way By Nick Hasted published 10 February 17 Rebels with a cause: Holding out a hand to the the deserving, the disenfranchised and the down and out, Boston’s Dropkick Murphys are on a mission
Johnny Marr - Set The Boy Free book review By Nick Hasted published 19 December 16 Autobiography recalls much more than Morrissey
Augustines: "We knew we couldn't afford to keep doing this" By Nick Hasted published 22 November 16 The ‘Not Famous’ Augustines have been downed by money problems in 2016. And their plight is a chillingly familiar one for bands operating at a time when the record industry is in free fall
The Story Behind The Song: Neil Young - After The Gold Rush By Nick Hasted published 12 November 16 Influenced by an end-of-the-world screenplay and feverishly crafted while on tour with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, it was a leap of faith that became one of Neil Young's most enduring songs
No more troubled times: The Jayhawks head back to the stage By Nick Hasted published 25 October 16 Not yet rated After a tumultuous 31-year career of inter-band fall outs, the reunited country rockers strut their stuff at a London double-header
"Don’t fry bacon when you’re pissed..." The Gospel According To Glenn Hughes By Nick Hasted published 25 October 16 Keep your head when there’s a gun pointed at it, careful what you do when you're under the influence… And all the other things that 50 years in rock’n’roll has taught Glenn Hughes
Beth Hart - Fire On the Floor album review By Nick Hasted published 26 September 16 Blues queen stretches out
Drive-By Truckers - American Band album review By Nick Hasted published 25 September 16 Southern rockers smash a home run.
Gregg Allman - No Stranger To The Dark: The Best Of Gregg Allman album review By Nick Hasted published 1 September 16 Patchy solo picks, from ’85 to ’98
Hashish - A Product Of Hashish album review By Nick Hasted published 30 August 16 The drugs don’t work for ambient Swedes' disappointing debut