Latest Classic Rock News
Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx: "I don't believe in making full-length records anymore."
Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx says full-length albums are a thing of the past
Paul Di'Anno is the only legendary frontman of Iron Maiden, according to Blaze Bayley
Former Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley hails the late Paul Di'Anno as the band's most iconic vocalist
Lindsey Buckingham hints at a new project with Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac reunion or a new Buckingham Nicks album? We’ll take either
Mercyful Fate, Electric Callboy and Motionless In White announced as Bloodstock 2027 headliners
Children of Bodom, Corrosion of Conformity, Acid Bath and Green Lung also on bill for Bloodstock Open Air in 2027
Heart have finished recording their first album in a decade
Nancy Wilson says Heart are working on an album, a world tour, a documentary and a live-action feature film
Henry Rollins announces "searing" new memoir Bait Dog Boy
"An unforgettable tale of what it means to not quite fit in anywhere, except on stage"
Pre-order Classic Rock’s ultimate Europe fan package: magazine with exclusive cover, marble vinyl of new album Come This Madness plus signed lyric sheet
Celebrate the release of the Swedish rockers’ 12th album with this huge collector’s bundle, only available through Louder!
Latest Classic Rock Features
In 1988, Blue Oyster Cult made the weirdest album of a very weird career and nearly sank the band
How a concept album about an alien race arriving upon Earth in the Middle Ages and baffled the band that made it
How Gregg Allman turned late-night despair into the classic Soiuthern anthem Whipping Post
Written in the dark on an ironing board cover, Gregg Allman's raw heartbreak became an explosive blues-rock masterpiece that defined Southern rock
How The Black Crowes went from rock’n’roll outcasts to MTV superstars – and kept their souls while they did it
The Black Crowes’ Shake Your Money Maker turned an unpopular local band into MTV-era superstars
The mad genius of The Beatles’ Revolver, the album that changed the 1960s
The Beatles landmark seventh studio album was released 60 years ago this month
How Bad Company karate chopped their way through burnout to make their great ‘lost’ album
If ever a gold-selling Top 20 album can be overlooked, then Bad Co’s Burnin’ Sky is it
Sevendust's 30-Year odyssey: Success, near-bankruptcy and new purpose
Sevendust were a gold-certified, shit-hot live act making serious money – but they weren’t seeing any of it. Staring down bankruptcy and on the brink of collapse, they refused to be knocked down
“Bands like ELP, Yes and Genesis were seen as over-the-top, showing-off kinds of performers. And to some extent I felt that, too”: Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson decided to lampoon prog and ended up making “the mother of all concept albums”
Song? Album? Fake newspaper? Jethro Tull’s mad masterpiece is all of them and more
Latest Classic Rock Reviews
L7's Bricks Are Heavy was a breath of fresh air in a scene that quickly became stale
Pretend We’re Dead might be Bricks Are Heavy's best-known track, but Shitlist, Everglade and Wargasm proved L7 were canny songwriters.
Stuart Adamson's guitar work elevates Skids' Scared to Dance above the ordinary
The sound of a bunch of scrappy youths from Scotland's industrial heartland
Mongol champions The Hu take after their hard rock heroes on long-awaited new album Hun
The folk metal horde have been endorsed by Metallica and Iron Maiden – and their third album bears those icons’ influence
Robyn Hitchcock's enigmatic The Confuser is the best album he's released this century
The Confuser is the twenty-fifth post-Soft Boys waxing from alt. stalwart Robyn Hitchcock
Foreigner's new album is a pleasant souvenir with almost zero atmosphere
Not a lot of thunder and lightning (or original members) on Foreigner's’s 50th-anniversary live album In The Eye Of The Storm
Pete Townshend finds stable ground away from The Who on Empty Glass
Empty Glass was Pete Townshend’s response to the death of Keith Moon and the arrival of punk
