
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

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including Mother Vulture, Sludge Mother, and six other acts whose names don't contain the word 'mother'

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including Larkin Poe, Ricky Warwick, the Doobie Brothers and five other rockin' rebels, rampagers and rioters

“This could be our last show!” Bad Nerves prove why they're Billie Joe Armstrong's favourite band
By Polly Glass published
Pure punkoid speed: Bad Nerves at London's Electric Ballroom

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including Skunk Anansie, Billy F Gibbons, Thundermother and five other storm bringers and lightning riders

"I first heard it when I started taking acid": Devin Townsend picks the soundtrack of his life
By Polly Glass published
Canadian maverick Devin Townsend names his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the music he listens to while mowing the lawn

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including Bob Mould, The Cold Stares, The Hellacopters and five other warriors on the edge of prime-time

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including Bonnie Tyler, Thundermother, Mary Spender and five other resolute New Year rockers

25 things we’re looking forward to in 2025
By Dave Ling, Polly Glass published
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, and we're feeling good - and here's 25 reasons why

Von Hertzen Brothers on new album In Murmuration, masculine music and band economics
By Polly Glass published
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

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including Black Spiders, Nate Bergman, Ally Venable and five other bearers of festive rock'n'roll gifts

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including The Darkness, Black Eyed Sons, Those Damn Crows and five other bohemian rock'n'roll rhapsodists

The 50 Best Rock Albums of 2024
By Classic Rock Magazine published
A-listers, established artists, up-and-comers, previously unknowns and more

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including The Wildhearts, Larkin Poe, Dorothy and five other guardians at the rock'n'roll gates

Myles Kennedy on how Jim Carrey changed his life and why he worries about Billie Eilish
By Polly Glass published
For some people, travelling life’s road is easy. For lifelong worrier Myles Kennedy it’s anything but

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including Crossbone Skully, Three Days Grace, Eisbrecher and five other leaders of the rock'n'roll pack

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including Smith/Kotzen, Those Damn Crows, The Sheepdogs and five other riders on the rock'n'roll storm

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including Blackberry Smoke, Orianthi, Bruce Springsteen and five other not-so-secret members of the Musical Illuminati

Meet the Southern River Band, Aussies with fire in their bellies and classic rock in their veins
By Polly Glass published
Already confirmed for Download 2025, the Southern River Band are about to kick off a UK tour

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including The Sheepdogs, Ricky Warwick, The Band Feel and five other members of the new rock power generation

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including Black Stone Cherry, CJ Wildheart, Night Flight Orchestra and five other rock-it scientists

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including Larkin Poe, The Sheepdogs, Beth Hart (featuring Slash) and five other players, performers and portrayers, each another's audience outside the gilded cage

Meet The Hot Damn!, the colourful, chaotic party crashers intent on enlivening everything
By Polly Glass published
Undertakers, band managers and museum workers by day, pop-charged rockers by night, The Hot Damn! are a gang you’d want to join

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including Devin Townsend, The Struts, Fantastic Negrito and five other explorers of rock's brave new world
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