Polly Glass

Polly Glass

Deputy Editor, Classic Rock

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.

Articles by: Polly Glass

Big Big Train

“Quite often I would wake up in the middle of the night, and David Longdon would be kind of with me… I’d get very upset because I was on my own”: Big Big Train’s battle back from their frontman’s death

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After a period of doubt over whether to continue, the new line-up delivered The Likes Of Us, a record that’s for ‘shallowenders’ – everyone who ever felt left behind

Tracks of the Week artists

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Blues Pills, Bill Fisher, Demon and more

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Eight songs to soundtrack this week's rock revolution

Tracks of the Week artists

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Tyler Bryant, The Lemon Twigs, Joanne Shaw Taylor and more

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Eight potent rock'n'roll cocktails from this week's packed liquor cabinet of life

Blackberry Smoke studio portrait

"We walked into the control room to listen to the first track, and everybody was grinning, like: 'Okay, this will work'": Charlie Starr on music, life, and two decades of Blackberry Smoke

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Album number eight Be Right Here is a rebirth for the southern country rock family of Blackberry Smoke as they reflect on almost a quarter of a century of keeping their dream alive

Tracks of the Week artists

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Black Country Communion, Orange Goblin, The Warning and more

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Eight righteous rockers for elevated levels of even more righteous rockin'

Tracks Of The Week artists

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Mdou Moctar, Wytch Hazel, Marjana Semkina and more

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Revealed: this week's biggest bangers in the explosive world of rock'n'roll, alongside some quieter moments

Tracks Of The Week artists

Eight new rock songs you need to hear this week

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Royal Republic, Wine Lips and The Treatment are just some of the artists pushing great new rock music our way

Gazpacho

“Thomas can listen to a single and say, ‘This is going to be a hit; this won’t be.’ He knows what’ll work on radio. And, of course, we’ve completely avoided that in Gazpacho!” The two-year making of Demon

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Released in 2014, Norwegian art rockers worried the album would make them sound like they were trying to be intellectuals - when they weren’t

Lzzy Hale

"I wrote about a threesome I had in Holland." Lzzy Hale picks the 15 greatest Halestorm songs, and explains the stories behind them

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Lzzy Hale guides us through the Halestorm songs that mean the most to her

Tracks Of The Week artists

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Blues Pills, Tuk Smith, Pain and more

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Eight magnificent monsters of rock to be excited about

Tracks Of The Week artists

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Mdou Moctar, St Vincent, Danko Jones and more

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Eight songs guaranteed to make you feel better about life, the universe and everything

Tracks of the Week artists

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Struts, Orianthi, Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse and more

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Eight more Tracks Of The Week contestants steel themselves for battle as we take a look back at last week's titanic contest

Spike from The Quireboys smoking a cigarette: studio portrait

"When we played Donington and you hear 90,000 people go 'woohooo!' it's a great feeling": How The Quireboys turned a song with no chorus into a classic singalong

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The story of The Quireboys' infectious, rabble-rousing crowd favourite 7 O'Clock

Tracks Of The Week artists

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Warning, Lesbian Bed Death and more

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Last week's triumphant winner revealed as eight more Tracks Of The Week contestants steel themselves to do battle

Dirty Honey studio portrait

"That's what Axl was most interested in, me getting eaten by a bear": Dirty Honey are ready for the big time, as long as the wildlife doesn't get to them first

By Polly Glass published

They may be firm believers in the ‘fake it until you make it’ motto, but Dirty Honey are out there holding their own in the company of Guns N’ Roses, Kiss and more

Tracks Of The Week artists

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Struts, The Lemon Twigs, Sheryl Crow and more

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Eight carefully curated new releases go into battle – as last week's triumphant winner is revealed

Tracks Of The Week artists

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Moon City Masters, the Pineapple Thief, Uuhai and more

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Eight new songs for rockin' rockers

Tracks of the Week artists

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Gary Clark Jr, Mark Knopfler, Mick Mars and more

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Eight meaty morsels of monstrously marvellous music

Tracks of the Week artists

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including the Blackberry Smoke, Big Big Train, Joanne Shaw Taylor and more

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Set yourself up for seven days of wholesome rockin' with our carefully curated Tracks Of The Week

Those Damn Crows

Those Damn Crows are flying high: they delivered one of 2023's best albums, headlined their favourite festival, and Johnny Depp knows exactly who they are

By Polly Glass published

Those Damn Crows' third album Inhale/Exhale hit the top three on the UK chart and was voted one of the 20 best albums of 2023 by Classic Rock writers

Tracks Of The Week artists

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including the Black Crowes, the Black Keys and the Kris Barras Band

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Plus five more unruly purveyors of righteous rock'n'roll

Starbenders 2023

"I was a little punk kid. I skateboarded. I had purple hair and dressed like a boy": How addiction, heavy metal and a Greek family in Atlanta helped build Starbenders, one of rock'n'roll's most compelling new bands

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Starbenders aren't just a great glam rock band: they're much weirder than that

Sophie Lloyd holding a guitar

"I wanted to write an album for my 15-year-old self, growing up kind of lost, but just knowing I loved music": Sophie Lloyd on the origins of her Imposter Syndrome album

By Polly Glass published

Thanks to her debut LP Imposter Syndrome, British YouTube sensation Sophie Lloyd is becoming a star away from the internet

Tracks of the Week artists

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Royal Republic, The Pineapple Thief, Bob Vylan and more

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In which we burst into 2024 with eight songs that confirm that this year will like every other: packed with hot rock'n'roll action

The Struts studio portrait

"I want my Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. I want to find real love. I want to make more money than I ever have": Wild nights on the road with The Struts

By Polly Glass published

The Struts have made bad decisions, suffered imposter syndrome and much more, but they haven't stopped wanting to be the biggest and the best