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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Tyler Bryant, The Lemon Twigs, Joanne Shaw Taylor and more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Eight songs guaranteed to make you feel better about life, the universe and everything
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Struts, Orianthi, Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse and more
Eight more Tracks Of The Week contestants steel themselves for battle as we take a look back at last week's titanic contest
"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
The story of The Quireboys' infectious, rabble-rousing crowd favourite 7 O'Clock
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Warning, Lesbian Bed Death and more
Last week's triumphant winner revealed as eight more Tracks Of The Week contestants steel themselves to do battle
"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
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
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Struts, The Lemon Twigs, Sheryl Crow and more
Eight carefully curated new releases go into battle – as last week's triumphant winner is revealed
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Moon City Masters, the Pineapple Thief, Uuhai and more
Eight new songs for rockin' rockers
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Gary Clark Jr, Mark Knopfler, Mick Mars and more
Eight meaty morsels of monstrously marvellous music
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including the Blackberry Smoke, Big Big Train, Joanne Shaw Taylor and more
Set yourself up for seven days of wholesome rockin' with our carefully curated Tracks Of The Week
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
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
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including the Black Crowes, the Black Keys and the Kris Barras Band
Plus five more unruly purveyors of righteous rock'n'roll
"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
Starbenders aren't just a great glam rock band: they're much weirder than that
"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
Thanks to her debut LP Imposter Syndrome, British YouTube sensation Sophie Lloyd is becoming a star away from the internet
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Royal Republic, The Pineapple Thief, Bob Vylan and more
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
"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
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
