Polly Glass

Polly is Features Editor at Classic Rock magazine, where she commissions regular pieces and longer reads (including new band coverage) and writes a few things. She also writes for Louder, Prog and Metal Hammer, and talks about songs on the 20 Minute Club podcast. In her spare time she writes fiction and cooks.

Articles by: Polly Glass

Tracks of the Week: new music from ZZ Top, Journey and more

By Polly Glass published 23 May 22

The eight new rock songs you need to hear right now

Tracks of the Week: new music from His Lordship, The Sheepdogs and more

By Polly Glass published 16 May 22

More greatness on one single local internet page than you'll find on popular music television throughout the world

Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from Slash, Halestorm and more

By Polly Glass published 9 May 22

Eight reasons to celebrate the New Rock Revival

Tracks of the Week: new music from Dorothy, The Cold Stares and more

By Polly Glass published 2 May 22

The very best new music from right this very minute, including Rammstein, Hot Breath, the Black Keys, Sheryl Crow, LostAlone and All Them Witches

Halestorm’s Back From The Dead: what doesn’t kill Lzzy Hale and co makes them stronger

By Polly Glass published 1 May 22

Album review: Lzzy Hale’s arena rockers get a post-Covid power surge on new album Back From The Dead

Goodbye June: where classic rock, gospel fire and hunger for success collide

By Polly Glass published 26 April 22

Raised in the church in Tennessee and Indiana, Goodbye June were inadvertently primed for a life of rock’n’roll

Tracks of the Week: new music from Marcus King, Classless Act and more

By Polly Glass published 25 April 22

The very best new songs of right now, including Cats In Space, Moon Tooth, Lickerish Quartet, Crobot, Bob Vylan and more

Tracks of the Week: new music from Thunder, Joe Satriani and more

By Polly Glass published 18 April 22

Oi! Gene Simmons! Rock isn't dead, and here's this week's proof!

Tracks of the Week: new music from Pink Floyd, The Sheepdogs and more

By Polly Glass published 11 April 22

Eight musical lions, ready to pounce upon their prey at the great watering hole of rock

Tracks of the Week: new music from ZZ Top, Steve Vai, RHCP and more

By Polly Glass published 4 April 22

Eight reasons to throw your hands in the air like you really don't care in the slightest and probably never did to be honest

Tracks of the Week: new music from Michael Monroe, Reef and more

By Polly Glass published 28 March 22

The very best new music from the best new (and old) bands, presented in easily digestible, primed-for-listening internet format

The worst cover versions ever - writing on a graphic image of a vinyl record

10 of the worst cover versions of classic rock songs known to humanity

By Polly Glass published 23 March 22

Once-great songs recorded by musicians who should really know better as you'll never want to hear them ever again, and we’re very, very sorry

Tracks of the Week: new music from Virginmarys, Tysondog and more

By Polly Glass published 21 March 22

Eight slabs of righteous rock'n'roll, including Thunder, Dan Patlansky, Skunk Anansie, Apocalyptica featuring Geezer Butler and more

Von Hertzen Brothers illustration by Mark Leary

Von Hertzen Brothers - Red Alert In The Blue Forest: "a masterpiece"

By Polly Glass published 18 March 22

Not yet rated

Von Hertzen Brothers, Finland’s prodigal sibling trio, serve up an early contender for Album Of The Year with their eighth LP

Tracks of the Week: new songs from Ghost, Church Of The Cosmic Skull and more

By Polly Glass published 7 March 22

Eight fully caffeinated tunes to start the week with an almighty kick

Tracks of the Week: new music from The Sheepdogs, Stone Broken and more

By Polly Glass published 28 February 22

Eight great reasons to escape the real world for less than thirty minutes

Tracks of the Week: new music from Thunder, Whiskey Myers and more

By Polly Glass, Fraser Lewry published 21 February 22

Eight reasons to drop whatever it is you're doing and reach for the nearest set of headphones

Tracks of the Week: new music from Jack White, Mammoth WVH and more

By Polly Glass, Fraser Lewry published 14 February 22

We've sifted through every single one of the 438 tracks released this week and rooted out eight of the very best

Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators: 4 cover art

Slash leans into his box of Guns N' Roses tricks on 4th album with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators

By Polly Glass published 11 February 22

The fourth album from Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators sounds more like a band and less like the sum of the parts

Inside the mind of Zeal & Ardor's subversive genius Manuel Gagneux

By Polly Glass published 7 February 22

Zeal & Ardor's Manuel Gagneux: covert activist, subversive satanist and genre-bending genius

Tracks of the Week: new music from Dan Reed Network, Goodbye June and more

By Polly Glass published 7 February 22

Eight finely-tuned, rocket-fuelled dragsters, ready to run rock's quarter-mile

Tony Iommi on collecting fragrances, getting drunk, and those Brian May rumours

By Polly Glass published 4 February 22

After Black Sabbath called time, probably the last thing anyone would have expected from Tony Iommi was for him to launch a signature fragrance

Tracks of the Week: new music from Dorothy, All Them Witches and more

By Polly Glass, Fraser Lewry published 31 January 22

Eight rock'n'roll jackpots in this week's lottery of musical magnificence

Tracks of the Week: new music from Scorpions, Ghost and more

By Polly Glass, Fraser Lewry published 24 January 22

Eight silver linings brightening up this week's otherwise dark cloud of new music

Skindred's Benji Webbe: I’d really like to do something with a 52-piece orchestra

By Polly Glass published 19 January 22

Skindred frontman Benji Webbe on early gig memories, orchestral ambitions, and writing a book about a cool kitten called Colin

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