Latest articles by Scott Rowley
Includes: stuff about their hair, Mick's terrible between-song banter, what #MeToo means to them and more…
Jesus Jones were built up by the music press – and knocked right back down again when fashions changed. Frontman Mike Edwards on chart success, depression and the rise and demise of that most despised of all music genres: ‘indie dance’.
Alt.rockers Dinosaur Jr learned about music from the pages of Sounds and were grunge years before Nirvana. So why didn’t they make it big? “I was always a dick,” says frontman J Mascis.
Only one of the songs has a chorus, they were "pissed" most of the time they made it and it was their second album of 1971. So why is A Nod's As Good As A Wink… so loved?
The list of rock bands with no living members is short - but the ones that have gone are all connected
Former Big Country bassist explains why he left the band that changed his life…
Embarrassed by rock excess, ashamed to rock – Robert Plant is actually the rock star we need right now. If only he could see that.
Upset that Smoke On The Water has been voted the greatest riff of all time? Pull yourself together.
Before 2004 rolled around, Green Day looked like being another US punk band stuck in a creative cut de sac. But then American Idiot happened, and their lives changed forever...
It started with a charity bike ride across Canada and the US and ended with tales of penis linking, poo buffets and anal love. That’s what happens when you hang out with Thunder and The Union
In December, TeamRock – the company that owned Classic Rock, Metal Hammer, and Prog – went bust. So why is TeamRock still a thing?
Belfast firebrands reclaim cutting edge
Classic Rock enrols at Rock’N’Roll Fantasy Camp to jam with Jack Bruce and get a bollocking from Bill Wyman
The buzz is building for what looks certain to be one of the albums of the year, Royal Thunder's slow-burning Wick
For this year's Classic Rock Awards, we took an all-star cast to Tokyo, hired a Sumo arena, filled it with 8000 people and invited Johnny Depp. What were we thinking?
Today at the Ryogoku Kokugikan, the National sumo arena in Tokyo, the stars of rock'n'roll came together for the 12th Classic Rock awards. And our cameras were there...
Iconic Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has died, his label confirms
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An open letter to the CEO of AC/DC enterprises, Mr Angus Young, with advice on how to turn this corporate disaster around…
13 Things We Learned From The Only Ones book
If we’re going to have 90s nostalgia, can we at least make it realistic?
