
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 Lemon Twigs have spent their lives in search of perfect pop: Now they may have found it
By Polly Glass published
"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
By Polly Glass published
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
By Polly Glass published
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
By Polly Glass published
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
By Polly Glass published
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

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Including Terrorvision, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Those Damn Crows and more - vote for your favourite

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
More quality rock than a mile-deep quarry

How Failure found themselves at odds with everyone
By Polly Glass published
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
By Polly Glass published
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
By Polly Glass published
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
By Polly Glass published
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
By Polly Glass published
Eight songs so good they'll impress your friends and your enemies

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
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
By Polly Glass published
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
By Polly Glass published
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
By Polly Glass published
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
By Polly Glass published
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
By Polly Glass published
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
By Polly Glass published
You put your left leg in, put your left leg out: In-out, in-out, shake it all about
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