Latest articles by Scott Rowley
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?
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'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...
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
Family confirms death of the Toots & The Maytals singer just two weeks after releasing his latest album
...is Done With Drugs by The Dirty Nil
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?
Lemmy's return, superstar metal jams and… 'cod lesbian tit-licking selfies'?
Billy Gibbons, Peter Frampton and Nancy Wilson head-up a generation spanning gig that shows that rock music is in good health too
Marsh and co bowl strike after strike in a beautiful and heartbreaking gig.
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
In 2007 Led Zeppelin played their historic Celebration Day reunion show at London’s O2 Arena. We were there.
...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.
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.
How the Buzzcocks invented independent records and challenged ideas of what it meant to be a male rock star
Updated Breaking news: punk singer-songwriter Pete Shelley, dies aged 63
Rock music isn't dead, it's just going round in circles and eating its own tail.
The Darkness came to Glasgow to help launch Marshall’s new beers and reminded us of where the bar is actually set…
Ding-ding! Take your corners for the battle of the 90s: loud-mouthed Mancunian louts vs mockney softies
Exclusive: Classic Rock talks to Slash about getting the band back together, getting older, and getting on with Axl
Honest. And it has a trippy video too.
We went to see Pearl Jam play the O2. We got the Trump balloon, a set that smashed the curfew, and a whole load of hysteria
