Polly Glass

Including Battlesnake, Those Damn Crows, Brass Camel, Gorilla Riot and four other artists who don't happen to be named after animals

Including Tyler Bryant, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Samantha Fish and five other creatures of the rock'n'roll night

Including Mother Vulture, Sludge Mother, and six other acts whose names don't contain the word 'mother'

Including Larkin Poe, Ricky Warwick, the Doobie Brothers and five other rockin' rebels, rampagers and rioters

Including Skunk Anansie, Billy F Gibbons, Thundermother and five other storm bringers and lightning riders

Canadian maverick Devin Townsend names his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the music he listens to while mowing the lawn

Including Bob Mould, The Cold Stares, The Hellacopters and five other warriors on the edge of prime-time

Including Bonnie Tyler, Thundermother, Mary Spender and five other resolute New Year rockers

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, and we're feeling good - and here's 25 reasons why

With their ninth studio album In Murmuration, Finnish rockers Von Hertzen Brothers have replaced their erstwhile prog epics for a more honest approach to songwriting reflecting their personal lives

Including Black Spiders, Nate Bergman, Ally Venable and five other bearers of festive rock'n'roll gifts

Including The Darkness, Black Eyed Sons, Those Damn Crows and five other bohemian rock'n'roll rhapsodists

A-listers, established artists, up-and-comers, previously unknowns and more

Including The Wildhearts, Larkin Poe, Dorothy and five other guardians at the rock'n'roll gates

For some people, travelling life’s road is easy. For lifelong worrier Myles Kennedy it’s anything but

Including Crossbone Skully, Three Days Grace, Eisbrecher and five other leaders of the rock'n'roll pack

Including Smith/Kotzen, Those Damn Crows, The Sheepdogs and five other riders on the rock'n'roll storm

Including Blackberry Smoke, Orianthi, Bruce Springsteen and five other not-so-secret members of the Musical Illuminati

Already confirmed for Download 2025, the Southern River Band are about to kick off a UK tour

Including The Sheepdogs, Ricky Warwick, The Band Feel and five other members of the new rock power generation

Including Black Stone Cherry, CJ Wildheart, Night Flight Orchestra and five other rock-it scientists

Including Larkin Poe, The Sheepdogs, Beth Hart (featuring Slash) and five other players, performers and portrayers, each another's audience outside the gilded cage

Undertakers, band managers and museum workers by day, pop-charged rockers by night, The Hot Damn! are a gang you’d want to join

Including Devin Townsend, The Struts, Fantastic Negrito and five other explorers of rock's brave new world