
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
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Including Quireboys, Joane Shaw Taylor, Marjana Semkina and five other bohemian rhapsodists

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Including Starbenders, Massive Wagons, Fantastic Negrito and five other big winners at the super casino of rock

The Cadillac Three's Jaren Johnston should be on top of the world – but real life hits hard
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Haunted by grief, driven to succeed: an intimate portrait of The Cadillac Three

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Including The Darkness, Larkin Poe, Devin Townsend and five other upstanding members of the rock'n'roll royal family

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Including The Damn Truth, DeWolff, Cardinal Black and five other bringers of the rock'n'roll noise

“The way he uses all his drum kit; no one else really sounds like that." How Gavin Harrison's arrival inspired The Pineapple Thief's Dissolution
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The Pineapple Thief are back with album number 12, one that perfectly encapsulates their style. Bruce Soord and Gavin Harrison talk dark lyrics, ‘cyber jamming’ and battling demons…

How Orange Goblin's Ben Ward turned his life around
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With their frontman now slimmed down and sobered up, Orange Goblin’s new album Science, Not Fiction is similarly fat-free, ferocious and muscular

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Including The Sheepdogs, Von Hertzen Brothers, Devin Townsend and five other captains of the good ship Rock'N'Roll

Black Smoke Trigger come from a small city in New Zealand but their ambition is global
By Polly Glass published
With A-list album production and a Bruce Dickinson tour behind them, Black Smoke Trigger aren't settling for anything

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Including Nightwish, Texas Hippie Coalition, Devon Allman and five other sonic sensations

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Including Tremonti, Massive Wagons, Sólstafir and five other carriers of the rock'n'roll flame

Black Country Communion and the proud return of classic rock
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Black Country Communion's new album V is the best one they’ve made so far. But will it be their last?

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Including Blues Pills, The Sheepdogs, X and five more rockabilly rebels from head to toe

Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan picks the 10 albums that changed his life
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Rival Sons frontman Jay Buchanan picks ten records that inspired his career in rock

The Lemon Twigs have spent their lives in search of perfect pop: Now they may have found it
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"We didn't let anything fly that wasn't perfect" - Michael D'Addario on the Lemon Twigs' latest album, A Dream Is All We Know

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Including Dorothy, Jane's Addiction, Trucker Diablo and five other guardians of the rock'n'roll galaxy

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Including Orange Goblin, Tuk Smith, Weather Systems and five other righteous rock'n'roll reprobates

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Including Larkin Poe, Blues Pills, Joanne Shaw Taylor and five other future rock superstars

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including The Virginmarys, Beth Hart, Keel and five other bearers of the good flag of rock'n'roll

Bad Nerves are ready to take on the world - even if it means living at home with mum
By Polly Glass published
Having put an end to booze-and-drug-fuelled days-after-the-night-before, Bad Nerves are heading for more than just big-name support slots

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Including The Sweet, Fantastic Negrito, The Hot Damn! and five other wild things

"The biggest compliment ever is when someone says: 'I've just seen a stadium show in a club'": Meet the Karma Effect, classic rock revivalists with big ambition
By Polly Glass published
Meet the Karma Effect, classic rock revivalists with big ambition

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including Massive Wagons, Bones UK, Orange Goblin and five other movers, groovers, shakers and quakers
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