
Polly Glass
Polly is deputy editor at Classic Rock magazine, where she writes and commissions regular pieces and longer reads (including new band coverage), and has interviewed rock's biggest and newest names. She also contributes to Louder, Prog and Metal Hammer and talks about songs on the 20 Minute Club podcast. Elsewhere she's had work published in The Musician, delicious. magazine and others, and written biographies for various album campaigns. In a previous life as a women's magazine junior she interviewed Tracey Emin and Lily James – and wangled Rival Sons into the arts pages. In her spare time she writes fiction and cooks.
Latest articles by Polly Glass

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 28, 2025
By Polly Glass published
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Tuk Smith, Blues Pills, The Vintage Caravan and more

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 21, 2025
By Polly Glass published
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Die Spitz, Castle Rat, Bobbie Dazzle and five other holy divers and divas

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 14, 2025
By Polly Glass published
Eight new songs you need to hear right now from Jack Black, Halestorm, 38 Special and more

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 7, 2025
By Polly Glass published
Eight new songs you need to hear right now from Wytch Hazel, Steven Wilson, Robert Jon & The Wreck and more

Meet Ally Venable, who's gone from being bullied at school to playing with Buddy Guy
By Polly Glass published
Six albums into her career, Ally Venable has played with some of the greats, but she hasn't stopped lookig forward

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Featuring the Rolling Stones, His Lordship, Ashley McBryde and five other good old-fashioned lover boys and girls

Six things you need to know about When Rivers Meet
By Polly Glass published
One of When Rivers Meet's albums was a chart first and the following hit the Top 5, but they "still think we’re a little band"

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Featuring Joe Bonamassa, The Hives, Enuff Z'nuff and five other raiders of the lost art

Why Skunk Anansie stood on top of the cliff and jumped into the clouds
By Polly Glass published
Skunk Anansie’s future hung in the balance, but a new album and the power of love changed everything

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Featuring Castle Rat, Starbenders, Buckcherry and five other lords of the new church of rock'n'roll

Those Damn Crows and the search for meaning in uncertain times
By Polly Glass published
On their chart-topping album God Shaped Hole, Those Damn Crows turn their attention to the existential fears we all face

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Featuring Airbourne, Creeper, Wytch Hazel and five other kings and queens of the nighttime world

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Featuring Halestorm, The Cold Stares, Cardinal Black and five other rock'n'roll warriors on the edge of time

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Featuring Joe Bonamassa, Turnstile, Jerry Cantrell and five other scary monsters from the rock'n'roll deep

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Featuring Orianthi, Buckcherry, Steve Perry and five other representatives of rock'n'roll revelry

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Featuring Marcus King, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Bernie Marsden and five other sailors on the seven seas of rock

Deep Purple guitarist Simon McBride picks the soundtrack of his life
By Polly Glass published
Deep Purple guitarist and solo artist Simon McBride picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names a band that really should be bigger

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Featuring Halestorm, Whiskey Myers, Laura Jane Grace and five other kings and queens of the nightime world

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Featuring Buckcherry, Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Band Feel and five other rowdy rockers, rollers, rebels and reprobates

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Featuring Skunk Anansie, The Sheepdogs, The Mars Volta and five other robust defenders of the rock'n'roll faith

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Featuring Those Damn Crows, Brothers Osborne, Ally Venable and five other masters and mistresses of reality

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Featuring Joe Bonamassa, Mark Morton & Charlie Starr, The Darkness and five other tattooed beat messiahs

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Featuring Buckcherry, Luke Spiller, Battlesnake and five other speed kings and highway stars
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