Latest articles by Scott Rowley
Black Friday streaming deals 2025: How to get the best bang for your buck streaming deal
Black Friday always brings excellent deals on TV, film & music streaming services - here's what you need to know before the sales officially get under way
Black Friday record player deals 2025: Everything you need to know ahead of the big turntable discounts
Black Friday will be the perfect time to grab yourself a record player discount - get up to speed before the big day arrives next month
Black Friday vinyl deals 2025: Here's how you can best prepare for all the LP discounts coming next month
Black Friday is hurtling towards us and it's going to be a great time to pick up some discounted vinyl box sets, limited edition pressings and more. Here's everything you need to know
Black Friday music deals 2025: Everything you need to know ahead of the Black Friday sales... and some early deals too
The annual Black Friday sales will take place next month - and Louder will be on-hand once again to bring you all the best bargains as they happen
“There are two types of bands. One is s**t. The other is The Hives”: 45 minutes with the world’s greatest band, The Hives
Our reviewer tries and fails to take notes every minute of a gig by The Hives at The Outernet, London
Did David Bowie really have a hand in NINE classic albums in a three year period? Yes, he did.
After two failed solo albums, in the period between 1971 and 1974, David Bowie worked on nine of rock's greatest albums. WTF?
The book that Axl Rose doesn't want you to read: Alan Niven’s incredible book takes you inside peak Guns N’ Roses like no other
Sound N' Fury, due to be published in July, has been pushed back. But it might be the best book about Guns N' Roses ever written.
"Y’know what I'm proud of? That they're all alive": Machine guns, snakes and missing millions – Alan Niven, the first manager of Guns N' Roses, looks back
When Guns N' Roses released Appetite For Destruction they were managed by Alan Niven. This is how he dealt with The Most Dangerous Band In The World
Oh Lord, yeah: Black Sabbath have teamed up with the Big Issue, Classic Rock and Metal Hammer for the Back To The Beginning official programme
The official programme Back To The Beginning is a unique collaboration between Black Sabbath, the Big Issue, and Metal Hammer and Classic Rock
What is it about Zach Bryan that has convinced the youth of Britain to lose their cynical minds?
Zach Bryan at Hyde Park: 20-somethings sing along with his songs about death, trauma and loss, like they are party anthems
PiL, Johnny Marr and Death Cult thrill at 'post-punk festival' Forever Now
The National Bowl at Milton Keynes plays home to an underserved tribe in a celebration of 80s alternative music
Flesh For Lulu could have been one of the biggest bands of the 80s. So what went wrong?
Fistfights with John Lydon, sword fights with the Sisters of Mercy, gangsters, goth and Ferris Bueller: The epic story of Flesh For Lulu
"The record company thought Never Take Me Alive was commercial suicide!” Spear Of Destiny's Kirk Brandon on hits, heart attacks and Theatre Of Hate
The indestructible Kirk Brandon on the unlikely origins of Theatre Of Hate and Spear Of Destiny and why he really is a dead man walking
10 new wave and post-punk albums you should definitely listen to
After punk came a new wave of bands determined to do things differently, frequently sounding nothing like each other
11 Ian Hunter albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
A true songwriter's songwriter, Ian Hunter has improved with age, racking up critically acclaimed albums well into his ninth decade - and these are his best
The Alarm's Mike Peters has died after a 30 year battle with blood cancer
Songwriter, singer, campaigner and force of nature Mike Peters has died, aged 66.
Psychic tests! Pet wolves! Chicken coops! Guns N' Roses and the wild ride towards Chinese Democracy
Ever wondered why Chinese Democracy took so long to make? This is the truly unbelievable story of a year in the life of Axl Rose
If you don’t like Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home, you don’t like music. You should hand your ears back
Yeah, I said it.
"Serious amounts of lunacy": The mad, bad and dangerously daft story of The Damned
A fast history of punk legends The Damned. Includes: spit, vomit, cider, sulphate, haunted mansions, and "serious amounts of lunacy".
How The Breakfast Club ruined Simple Minds – and made them
John Hughes' 80s teen movies were the kiss of death for every band they featured
Saturday Night: It's like A Complete Unknown but with far more people dressed as bees
SNL's first night: Drugs, obscenity, and a fight for the soul of America
Garth Hudson, the last surviving member of The Band, has died
Keyboard player Garth Hudson, who also played with Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Roger Waters and more, has died aged 87
This is the best punk-pop album you haven’t heard this year
Punk-pop: they’re still making it and Liquid Mike is single-handedly saving it
