Latest articles by Scott Rowley
The Clash – Combat Rock album review
The Clash's best-selling album it may be – but Combat Rock also explains why the band were never destined to be as big as The Police or U2…
The Clash – Sandinista! album review
In 1980, The Clash released triple album Sandinista!, their greatest folly and an indulgence to match the worst excesses of prog rock. But is there a great 48 minute album lost within?
The Clash – Give Em Enough Rope album review
Their 1978 second album is one of the most overlooked in their canon. Was it because of the 'corporate rock' producer? The boys-own lyrics? Or maybe just the sleeve?
The Clash – Cut The Crap album review
The Clash's last album is a two-dimensional dogs-dinner, hi-jacked by their manager and unloved by the band. But it does have one saving grace...
The 10 questions we would like Marilyn Manson to answer
When Marilyn Manson hung up on our interviewer, we asked him to respond to a series of questions. He didn't, but his PR gave us a statement
Reggae and ska pioneer Toots Hibbert has died, aged 77
Family confirms death of the Toots & The Maytals singer just two weeks after releasing his latest album
The best song about giving up drugs you’ll hear this week
...is Done With Drugs by The Dirty Nil
The shape of punk to come: How punk became part of classic rock's story
Punk rock was once seen as the genre that killed the dinosaurs of rock. 40 years on, the punks have become part of the classic rock landscape. How did that happen?
The Motorhead Motorboat: 'Hard Rock Hell with hot tubs & a hard on'
Lemmy's return, superstar metal jams and… 'cod lesbian tit-licking selfies'?
Billy Gibbons’ Night of Guitars: inside Gibson’s all-star comeback gig
Billy Gibbons, Peter Frampton and Nancy Wilson head-up a generation spanning gig that shows that rock music is in good health too
Live: Flesh For Lulu
Not yet ratedMarsh and co bowl strike after strike in a beautiful and heartbreaking gig.
50 years, 50 tracks: the Ultimate Heavy Metal Playlist
As humanity celebrates 50 years of heavy metal, here’s half a century’s worth of pioneering heavy music, from the classics to the contemporary hard-hitters
What happened the night Led Zeppelin played live one last time
In 2007 Led Zeppelin played their historic Celebration Day reunion show at London’s O2 Arena. We were there.
I tried to do a review of The National and ended up writing the worst thing you can write...
...some weird old-guy waffle about what-it-were-like-in-our-day, plus stuff about The Pogues, gig etiquette, Poptimism, and why classic rock will grow old but won't grow up.
The 30 best British Blues Rock albums ever
The best British Blues Rock albums: Direct from the Delta to Dartford and beyond, the Blues turned British rock on its head
Gerry Rafferty: The Man Who Hated the Music Business
Gerry Rafferty’s former manager Jon Brewer recalls what it was like managing the Baker Street star in the wheeling-dealing 70s – the age of chart-fixing, payola and big money.
Anti-music and pro fun: Pete Shelley, the punk who changed the music business
How the Buzzcocks invented independent records and challenged ideas of what it meant to be a male rock star
Buzzcocks' Pete Shelley has died, aged 63
Updated Breaking news: punk singer-songwriter Pete Shelley, dies aged 63
Has rock music run out of ideas?
Rock music isn't dead, it's just going round in circles and eating its own tail.
Why is anyone even talking about Greta Van Fleet when we still have The Darkness?
The Darkness came to Glasgow to help launch Marshall’s new beers and reminded us of where the bar is actually set…
Britpop: A guide to the best albums
Ding-ding! Take your corners for the battle of the 90s: loud-mouthed Mancunian louts vs mockney softies
Slash interview: rejoining Guns N’ Roses; Lemmy’s last days and the #MeToo minefield
Exclusive: Classic Rock talks to Slash about getting the band back together, getting older, and getting on with Axl
