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

Royal Republic are planning a musical feast - and you're invited
By Polly Glass published
Livewire, turbo-harmonised, disco-rocking Swedes Royal Republic are getting ready for upgraded UK and Europe dates

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Including Starcrawler, Myles Kennedy, Beth Hart and five other possible headliners of Woodstock 2029

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
By Polly Glass published
Including Nightwish, Texas Hippie Coalition, Devon Allman and five other sonic sensations

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
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
By Polly Glass published
Black Country Communion's new album V is the best one they’ve made so far. But will it be their last?
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