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"I want to be going on tour, recording albums and having millions of fans who adore me": Meet Michael Catton, the singer with Iron Maiden in his veins and the 80s in his music
British/Danish singer Michael Catton was introduced to 80s-style heavy music by playing Guitar Hero: now he's doing it for real
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Amon Amarth, The Record Company, Marillion and more
The final Tracks Of The Week contest of 2023 is officially underway
32 of the greatest onstage moments in the entire history of the rock guitar
Celebrating the pioneering, the spectacular, the unexpected and the unrepeatable
The 50 best rock albums of 2023
The past 12 months may go down in history as a period of tumult and turmoil, but on the positive side, rock'n'roll is very much alive and well – as the best 50 albums of 2023 reflect
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Sebastian Bach, Big Big Train, Lucifer and more
Eight rockin' ways to kick the week off in style
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including David Lee Roth, Ace Frehley, the Pineapple Thief and more
You wanted the best, you got the best: the hottest eight tracks in the world... Tracks Of The Week
"My advice? Buy records. And when you think you’ve bought enough, buy more": Danko Jones on barbecuing, karaoke, and why you should buy more vinyl
Danko Jones have been going 27 years, but their frontman is as much of a music fan as he ever was: he's also got a new album to talk about
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Måneskin, Bernie Marsden, Saxon and more
Eight reasons to believe
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Blackberry Smoke, The Answer, Crossbone Skully and more
Eight new songs that are better than eight other new songs we could have picked because there were a helluva lot of new songs this week make no mistake
"Let's give them a record that they can lose themselves in": Steven Wilson doesn't think rock belongs in 2023 but he'll still try and make that million-seller
Steven Wilson is the renaissance man of modern prog. He’s also something of an enigma, and new album The Harmony Codex is as enigmatic as anything he's made
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Record Company, Laura Jane Grace, Måneskin and more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Eight new songs that are better than the eight new songs you might be recommended by anyone else
