Latest articles by Philip Wilding
It's not just the familiar names on Young & Wild glam metal compilation
The good, the bad and the ugly from a colourful 10-year period of American hard rock gathered together on Young & Wild - A Decade Of American Glam Metal 1982-1992
Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher wrote songs for Emperor Of Sand at his mum’s deathbed
A cancer tragedy and other real-life dramas inspired Mastodon’s seventh album Emperor Of Sand, which they believe was 17 years in the making
Ginger Wildhearts’ wild tales of Lemmy, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Cheap Trick and more
Meet Ginger Wildheart, the multi-tasking musical superhero who's shared stages with Cheap Trick and Motörhead and drinks with Axl Rose, Tony Iommi and Liza Minnelli
A mountain monastery, a bus in a snowstorm: Von Hertzen Brothers’ Nine Lives was tough work
The Finnish brothers created a different working method for their fifth album, but to their surprise the results weren’t much different from the previous four. Which was no bad thing
A Farewell to Kings - Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson look back on 50 years of Rush
We sat down with Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson at the end of 2024 to speak about their 50-year journey from there to here - and what might happen next
The explosive story of The Darkness’ OTT hard rock masterpiece Permission To Land
How an unfashionable band from the UK defied the critics to become the biggest British hard rock stars of the mid-2000s
Marillion were facing oblivion. Then they made This Strange Engine and found a way forward
They still don’t agree over the contents of their make-or-break 1997 album – except on one thing they did wrong
How Fish escaped his Marillion train wreck and scored a Top 5 album
On the cusp of retirement, the singer looks back on how the 1988 split came about, how it could have been avoided, and how his debut solo record Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors rose from the ashes
Acoustic Sessions might make you miss Phil Lynott, but a ‘new’ Thin Lizzy album? We should be so lucky
Acoustic Sessions features original vocal parts from Lynott paired with brand-new pieces from founding guitarist Eric Bell
"We had turned into grotesque prog creatures" How Rush reinvented themselves
After the "soul-crushing" slog of Hemispheres, Permanent Waves returned Rush to the peak of their powers and put them in a different league
Jesse Malin on the spinal stroke that left him paralysed from the waist down and the long road to recovery
One spring day in 2023, Jesse Malin suddenly fell to the floor, and his life effectively fell apart
A personal tribute to Neil Peart
A personal look back at the music, life and times of Neil Peart, the Rush drummer/lyricist and cornerstone who died on January 7, 2020
“His strident yet emotive voice is a remarkable legacy”: John Wetton’s Concentus live box set
Expansive 10-disc collection is the first of three charting decades of his onstage work
Beardfish sound like they’d never been away in Songs For Beating Hearts
First new music in almost nine years picks up where the acclaimed +4626-Comfortzone left off in 2015
Ginger Wildheart on friendship, the fans and the return of The Wildhearts
Two years on from their less than amicable split, The Wildhearts are back, re-energised, with a reconfigured line-up and live shows on the way
Beth Hart proves she's far more than a blues siren on You Still Got Me
Beth Hart delivers soul, swagger and Slash on album number eleven
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Long After Dark, perhaps as it was always meant to be
A remastered Tom Petty classic, with previously unreleased and extra tracks
Def Leppard's homecoming captured on the slick One Night Only Live at The Leadmill
Def Leppard’s spectacular homecoming show, now available on CD and DVD
"I've mastered what I was aiming for thirty years ago": Neil Peart - The Clockwork Angels interview
In 2012 Rush's drummer Neil Peart told us about modern alchemy, thinking big, how Nirvana influenced Rush, and why he'd never watch Beyond The Lighted Stage
Why you should definitely hear Love Junk by The Pursuit Of Happiness
Power-pop bristling with poignancy and pathos, Love Junk is packed full of enduring, impassioned classics
Rick Wakeman looks back over his career with the glittering, limited edition Yessonata
This Rick Wakeman medley reworks and reimagines some of his greatest moments
The Hot Damn! bring the party on the dazzling Dancing On The Milky Way
The soundtrack to the summer: glorious Technicolor power-pop-rock from The Hot Damn!
What went right for 10cc, what went wrong, and how they could have avoided it
Graham Gouldman explains why the art-rock icons believed in themselves so much, the album that best represents them, and why he’d never release new music using the band name
