Latest articles by Philip Wilding
In 2019 Classic Rock accompanied Geddy Lee on the road as he promoted Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book Of Bass
After exploring personal turmoil on Coheed And Cambria’s last release, frontman Claudio Sanchez is now relaxed, revitalised and ready to take us back into his Amory Wars universe.
In the 80s they looked like they should be prowling the sunny Sunset Strip rather than the rainy streets of South Wales. Four decades on Tigertailz are still here, older and a lot wiser
The best live albums are defining moments in any band’s career, when the music, the performance, and the atmosphere generated between band and audience are captured on tape
At the end of 2007, there was a clash of cultures as Welsh rockers the Manic Street Preachers went head to head with Rush and probed their inner secrets
Buying guide A renowned chronicler of broken hearts for nearly five decades – first with The Babys, then with Bad English and solo – there's a lot more than love to John Waite, and these are his best albums
Showboating fourth album Chronicles Of The Kid propels Ayron Jones into the rock’n’roll stratosphere
Songs From The Blue Room is an eclectic, occasionally introspective surprise solo album from Thunder songwriter/guitarist Luke Morley
Inspired by old books and new technology, Tom Sawyer was the song that reinvented prog giants Rush – but it almost never made the album
John Mellencamp's 25th album Orpheus Descending is still flecked with melancholy and socially minded ire
Six is Extreme's first new material since 2008's Saudades de Rock
A plush reissue for Season's End, Marillion’s first album with post-Fish singer Steve Hogarth
Whitesnake’s tenth studio album Good To Be Bad reissued with added bells, whistles and horns
Mastodon's 2017 album, Emperor Of Sand, continued the prog theme of Crack The Skye. But behind the heaviness, lay a family tragedy
Crown Lands' Fearless may sound exactly like vintage Rush in parts, but it's an album peppered with great songs and pulls off some daring feats of pomp, pop and rock
Norwegian art rockers Gazpacho discuss their seventh studio album, 2012's March of Ghosts
The very best Rolling Stones tracks, as chosen by those best qualified to judge: their fellow musicians
Producer Terry Brown gives a view of Moving Pictures from the other side of the glass
Released in 1981, Rush's eighth studio album Moving Pictures not only helped define Rush, but also rock music in the early 80s
Graphic artist Hugh Syme looks back on the creation of the iconic cover art for Rush's classic album Moving Pictures
The Goo Goo Dolls have returned with a new album partly inspired by the state of the USA, and it’s not a smiley record
Lamb Of God's Omens is music to crash cars to (and that’s a good thing)
Country, soul and rock’n’roll from the musically wandering Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners
