Latest articles by Polly Glass
“Love is like a mental disease that everybody wants to catch”: How Opeth made Sorceress
Mikael Åkerfeldt on his violent games, hotel balcony prank, soaking a label exec in vodka, and being left to make music his own way
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 22, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Creeper, Gluecifer, The Hot Damn! and more
Greta Valenti picks the soundtrack of her life
Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse singer Greta Valenti chooses her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and admits to having multiple guilty pleasures
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 22, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Black Stone Cherry, Karnivool, Royal Republic and more
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 15, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Mammoth, Biffy Clyro, Dirty Honey and more
De'Wayne's been working for 10 years, but people are finally paying attention
Listening to De'Wayne's genre-flipping new album, it’s clear Taco Bell’s loss is very much rock’s gain
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 8, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Alter Bridge, The Struts, Castle Rat and more
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 1, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Cheap Trick, the Vintage Caravan, Foxy Shazam and more
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 25, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Castle Rat, Märvel, A Thousand Horses and more
Christian Rockers Wytch Hazel on atheism, conservatives and organised religion
Wytch Hazel may be believers, but their righteous influences and almighty folk metal rocks harder than Gabriel’s Judgement Day trumpets
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 18, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Ricky Warwick, Deep Purple, Paradise Lost and more
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 11, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Foxy Shazam, Royal Republic, Halestorm and more
After six years as a Nameless Ghoul in Ghost, Chris Catalyst just wants to play with his mates
The new album by Eureka Machines, Everything, is the band's first in seven years
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 4, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Eric Gales, Tyler Bryant, Starbenders and more
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 28, 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Skunk Anansie’s future hung in the balance, but a new album and the power of love changed everything
