
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, including The Record Company, Laura Jane Grace, Måneskin and more
By Polly Glass published
Who needs a new Beatles song when Tracks Of The Week is here? Quite frankly, no one

Why I ❤️ Led Zeppelin IV and Stairway To Heaven, by Goldray guitarist Kenwyn House
By Polly Glass published
Kenwyn House recently became the first guitarist to play Stairway To Heaven's guitar part with Robert Plant onstage apart from Jimmy Page himself

"We're buddies and brothers first and a band second": Twenty years and eight albums in, Black Stone Cherry reflect on life, love, and what they've learned
By Polly Glass published
Black Stone Cherry have been playing their unyielding brand of southern rock for more than two decades: with recent album Screamin’ At The Sky another Top 10 album, we sat down with each member

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Struts, The Hot Damn!, Deap Vally and more
By Polly Glass published
Eight newly discovered planets in the spectacular solar system of rock'n'roll

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Lucifer, DeWolff, The Hives and more
By Polly Glass published
Eight newly discovered rock'n'roll comets, each screaming towards planet Earth, all ready for impact

“Maverick in scope and enormous in scale… but it owes much of its sprawling nature to its contributors”: Steven Wilson’s The Harmony Codex
By Polly Glass published
Modern prog’s great visionary throws away the stylistic rule book to deliver an enigmatic, luxurious post-pandemic masterwork

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Struts, the Cadillac Three, Dirty Honey and more
By Polly Glass published
For those about to vote, we salute you

"They do this crazy thing – they write good songs! And it doesn’t sound dated!": My 80s Mixtape, by Clutch's Neil Fallon
By Polly Glass published
Clutch mainman Neil Fallon curates a playlist of his favourite 1908s and names the classic album that inspired his art class project

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Bush, Joanne Shaw Taylor, CJ Wildheart and more
By Polly Glass published
Eight songs so good they'll rock the free world and probably the not-so-free world too

"You don't look like a rock star, you don't write music like a rock star": how Joe Satriani confounded his label and recorded the one-take wonder that changed his life
By Polly Glass published
Completely at odds with the guitar styles of the time, Joe Satriani’s out-of-this-world instrumental Surfing With The Alien caught the imagination of a generation

"The eighties was permission to be your biggest, loudest self": My 80s Mixtape, by Halestorm's Lzzy Hale
By Polly Glass published
Halestorm leader Lzzy Hale revisits the 1980s to select a 10-track playlist from the decade she was obsessed with

These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Cadillac Three, Sophie Lloyd, Vixen and more
By Polly Glass published
Eight songs you could play to an arriving alien to prove that rock is happily thriving this week on Planet Earth

These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right, now featuring Europe, The Lazys, Florence Black and more
By Polly Glass published
Eight new songs that are better than the eight new songs you might be recommended by anyone else

"AC/DC is a cookie-cutter band. That’s what every band should strive to be": Danko Jones loves AC/DC's Fly On The Wall and he's puzzled why other people don't
By Polly Glass published
Canadian rocker Danko Jones mounts a passionate defence of AC/DC’s least-loved album, Fly On The Wall

These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring The Cadillac Three, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Micky Dolenz and more
By Polly Glass published
Yes, that Micky Dolenz

"It's sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Those are our languages. We probably speak those better than we do English": Why The Bites might herald the return of the good-time Hollywood party band
By Polly Glass published
Taking inspiration from the 70s and 80s is easy. Getting results as good as The Bites isn’t

These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring Dirty Honey, Chris Shiflett, L7 and more
By Polly Glass published
Eight tunes guaranteed to take you places you haven't been before

These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring The Struts, Steven Wilson, Danko Jones and more
By Polly Glass published
Also featuring five other absolute treats

These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring Måneskin, Steven Wilson, Michael Des Barres and more
By Polly Glass published
Eight songs to make your head bang, your feet move or your heart soar (delete where appropriate)

These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring Blackberry Smoke, In This Moment, Elles Bailey and more
By Polly Glass published
If music be the food of love, then this week's audio feast might just be the romantic dinner you'll have in a while

These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring Scott Stapp, Starbenders, Baroness and more
By Polly Glass published
Reasons to be cheerful, part 34,839

These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring Creeper, The Struts, Alice Cooper and more
By Polly Glass published
Listen to the best rock songs of right now, then choose one to represent you during this week's battle for supremacy

30 musicians on the album that changed their life as a kid
By Classic Rock published
Members of Kiss, Black Sabbath, Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Rage Against The Machine and more reveal the albums that set them on the path to rock stardom
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