Interviews

How Dolly Parton corralled a Who's Who of rock royalty to record her landmark Rockstar album

By Rob Hughes Published 25 August 26

Dolly Parton, the late Queen Of Country, on the road to her rock album, transcending Nashville, and what Stairway To Heaven and Free Bird mean to her

What happened when country icon Dolly Parton met Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford

By Merlin Alderslade Published 25 August 26

Two icons met in the most unusual of circumstances and it left an indelible impression on Rob Halford

Obsessive attention to detail has always been prog icon Eddie Jobson’s superpower

By Sid Smith Published 25 August 26

From a backstage performance for Curved Air to being dragged onstage by Frank Zappa and out-complicating King Crimson, the UK violinist has managed to ignore distractions from making music

What happened to prog in the year of punk? Rick Wakeman and JJ Burnel were there

By Jerry Ewing Published 24 August 26

1977 is remembered as a moment of musical revolution, when bands like Burnel’s Stranglers took crowns from bands like Wakeman’s Yes. But as the pair agreed when they discussed that time, it wasn’t that simple

Why it took Loathe six years to release new album A Stranger To You

By Emily Swingle Published 24 August 26

Loathe looked set to capitalise on the acclaim of 2020's I Let It In And It Took Everything. They didn't release a proper follow-up for six years

“We don’t care about technology. Only the result matters”: Was Jean-Michel Jarre right about the future of music?

By Dom Lawson Published 24 August 26

As he released his most recent album Oxymore, he celebrated the fact he’d lived through three moments of major disruption – and looked forward to more

Judas Priest and Elegant Weapons guitarist Richie Faulkner made us a playlist

By Paul Travers Published 23 August 26

Iron Maiden, Jimi Hendrix and Pantera are just some of the artists that make Richie tick

"I very much connect to shadow." How three family tragedies and the surprise support of Alice Cooper saw Holy Wars make one of 2026's most emotional metal albums

By Steven Loftin Published 23 August 26

Holy Wars have channelled grief into their art - but they won't be defined by it

A truck of marijuana, a synth at Stonehenge, gigs with Gong – and Ozric Tentacles’ Ed Wynne

By Chris McGarel Published 21 August 26

The space rock band’s master controller on going solo, remixing his catalogue and the philosophy of “ethnological forgery”