
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

How Failure found themselves at odds with everyone
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Influential alt.rock trio Failure were tipped for stardom, but imploded in a haze of drugs and exasperation

Six things you need to know about Troy Redfern
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Troy Redfern was raised on a turkey farm. He's been an accountant and a butcher. And you can dance to his new album

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Eight rock monsters to tear the week asunder

“I’d always say you’d liken us to The Alan Parsons Project, rather than a unit like Led Zeppelin." Mostly Autumn and the story of Dressed In Voices
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UK prog rockers Mostly Autumn tell the story of their eleventh studio album, the conceptual Dressed In Voices

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Eight songs so good they'll impress your friends and your enemies

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Eight new songs have completed the weigh-in and are ready to kick each other in the ears

The label that reinvented progressive rock: 10 albums on Kscope you should definitely listen to
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Post-progressive label Kscope have been putting out quality records for more than 15 years: These are their best albums

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Eight songs to rock you baby like a wagon wheel

Gary Clark Jr. thought about quitting music to open a BBQ restaurant: Instead, he made the best album of his career
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With new album JPEG RAW Gary Clark Jr. has thrown off the labels and delivered a musically diverse record while still hitting the social commentary hard

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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Eight songs to start your week in the best possible way

Some people run away from home to join the circus: Genevieve Glynn-Reeves ran away from the circus to start a band
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Meet the "accidentally punk" rising alt.rockers fronted by a former circus aerialist, Gen & The Degenerates

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Hot Damn!, Tuk Smith, The Inspector Cluzo and more
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You put your left leg in, put your left leg out: In-out, in-out, shake it all about

Big Big Train’s battle back to make The Likes Of Us, an album for the world’s ‘shallowenders’
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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

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

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

"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

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'

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

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

“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

"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

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

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
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