Polly Glass

Polly Glass

Features Editor, Classic Rock

Polly is features 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 (opens in new tab) 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.

Articles by: Polly Glass

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The eight best new rock songs of this week

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Eight songs to bring you joy, bring you fun, bring you seasons in the sun. Or the abyss. It's entirely up to you

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Tracks of the Week: new music from Cats In Space, Grace McKagan and more

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Eight songs to take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of Rockdom

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Tracks of the Week: new music from Royal Thunder, Larkin Poe and more

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Also starring: Skindred, Robert Jon & The Wreck, Skinny Knowledge, DeWolff, Curly's Jewels and Åskväder

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Tracks of the Week: new music from Tuk Smith, Joe Lynn Turner and more

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Eight songs to celebrate the arrival of the 4044th Monday since the end of World War II

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Tracks of the Week: new music from Kings Of Chaos, Nickelback and more

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Eight songs to improve your day by an estimated 200% or your money back

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Tracks of the Week: new music from Those Damn Crows, Jaws The Shark and more

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Eight lovely songs to assist your escape from the ongoing apocalypse

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Rock star, interrupted: the unsung story of grunge pioneer Tina Bell and Bam Bam

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The story of Seattle grunge forerunners Bam Bam and their incendiary singer Tina Bell is one of the most overlooked in rock’n’roll. Ten years after Bell’s tragic death, we find out where it all first went right – and then wrong

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Tracks of the Week: new music from Mammoth WVH, The Answer and more

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Eight songs to get excited about including Rival Sons, These Wicked Rivers, John Sloman and more

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Walter Trout gave himself to rock'n'roll... and it almost killed him

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A few years ago Walter Trout thought death was around the corner, and the American bluesman’s new album still resonates with echoes of darker times

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Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan: the soundtrack of my life

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Rival Sons' frontman Jay Buchanan picks his artists, records and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the existence of the secret solo album he made in 2007

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Tracks Of The Week: new music from Larkin Poe, Måneskin and more

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Incoming excitement from The Cold Stares, All Them Witches, Bernie Tormé and other unruly ambassadors of rock

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LostAlone: what happens when you've been fed a diet of Queen records your entire life

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Derby power trio LostAlone have returned with megawatt fourth album The Warring Twenties after eight years away

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Tracks of the Week: new music from Skid Row, Tuk Smith and more

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Eight new songs to revive your get-up-and-go, just in case it got up and went

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Tracks of the Week: new music from The Hot Damn!, Weezer and more

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This week's brightest rock baubles also include Ugly Kid Joe, Massive Wagons, Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners and more

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Are Deraps to Van Halen what Greta Van Fleet are to Led Zeppelin? Quite possibly

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Jacob Deraps was inspired by videogames, met his drummer on YouTube and played with him for the first time during a Toto soundcheck. His band's pretty good too

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How The Pineapple Thief made Magnolia and entered a new era

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The Pineapple Thief's frontman Bruce Soord reveals the liquid inspiration, loss and life behind their 2014 album Magnolia

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In from the cold: How H.e.a.t.'s Kenny Leckremo came home

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Time apart allowed H.e.a.t to grow and returning singer Kenny Leckremo to heal

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Eight new songs to make your week as great as possible

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Tracks of the Week: New music from Suzi Quatro, The Cold Stares, The Hu, All Them Witches and more

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Tracks of the Week: Ear-pleasuring proof that rock music is in rude health

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New songs from Larkin Poe, Gaupa, Ginger & The Sinners, Ayron Jones and more

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The eight best new rock songs given to the world this week

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New music from Billy Idol, The Struts, The Hu, Clutch, Big Big Train and more

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The real story behind the return of Porcupine Tree: "We’re old geezers getting together"

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In the 1990s and 2000s, Porcupine Tree were rock’s square peg, playing beautifully twisted music to a modest but devout audience. After more than a decade away they’re back

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The eight best rock songs you need to hear this week

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New music from Tyler Bryant, Tuk Smith, Tedeschi Trucks Band and five others whose names don't start with the letter 'T'

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Tracks of the Week: eight new songs to rock literally anyone like a hurricane

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New music from Thundermother, The Mars Volta, Alter Bridge, Monster Truck and more

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The eight best new rock songs you need to hear right now

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Ghost, Ginger Wildheart, Orianthi, Whiskey Myers and more – these are the eight best new rock songs this week. Vote for your favourite!

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Tracks of the Week: eight new songs to enliven any environment

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The very best of new rock right now

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