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

By Polly Glass Published
Eight meaty morsels of monstrously marvellous music

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Set yourself up for seven days of wholesome rockin' with our carefully curated Tracks Of The Week

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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

By Polly Glass Published
Plus five more unruly purveyors of righteous rock'n'roll

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Starbenders aren't just a great glam rock band: they're much weirder than that

By Polly Glass Published
Thanks to her debut LP Imposter Syndrome, British YouTube sensation Sophie Lloyd is becoming a star away from the internet

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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

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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

By Polly Glass Published
Joe Bonamassa is a lauded blues guitar hero and much more, but he's no stranger to self-doubt. We met him ahead of a scorching show in France

By Bill DeMain, Polly Glass, Jo Kendall, Henry Yates Published
From pleas for equality to anti-war sentiments and social commentary, we look at some of the greatest peace songs of all time

By Polly Glass Published
British/Danish singer Michael Catton was introduced to 80s-style heavy music by playing Guitar Hero: now he's doing it for real

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The final Tracks Of The Week contest of 2023 is officially underway

By Amit Sharma, Polly Glass, Henry Yates, Ian Fortnam, Paul Henderson, Richard Bienstock, Joe Bosso, Andy Aledort, Damian Fanelli Published
Celebrating the pioneering, the spectacular, the unexpected and the unrepeatable

By Fraser Lewry Published
Buying guide 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

By Polly Glass Published
Eight rockin' ways to kick the week off in style

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You wanted the best, you got the best: the hottest eight tracks in the world... Tracks Of The Week

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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

By Polly Glass Published
Eight reasons to believe

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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

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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

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Who needs a new Beatles song when Tracks Of The Week is here? Quite frankly, no one

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Kenwyn House recently became the first guitarist to play Stairway To Heaven's guitar part with Robert Plant onstage apart from Jimmy Page himself

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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
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