Watch Saxon’s high-octane cover of Deep Purple’s Speed King, a celebration of rock ’n’ roll history
Saxon salute Deep Purple, with a passionate take on Speed King, set to appear on their Inspirations album
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Watch Saxon’s high-octane cover of Deep Purple’s Speed King, a celebration of rock ’n’ roll history
Saxon salute Deep Purple, with a passionate take on Speed King, set to appear on their Inspirations album
Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters and Jon Bon Jovi to celebrate Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration
Foo Fighters, Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi to play Celebrating America TV special to mark Joe Biden‘s inauguration
Listen to Thunder revisit the ’80s with strutting hard rocker Going To Sin City
Thunder offer a second slice of new album All The Right Noises with the anthemic Going To Sin City
Get 50% off an annual subscription to Fender Play and channel your inner Jimi Hendrix
With lockdown kicking in, it’s a great time to embrace guitar lessons – and with 50% off an annual subscription to Fender Play, it’s the perfect time to tune up
Lonely The Brave release Keeper documentary to tee up album number three, The Hope List
See how Lonely The Brave created The Hope List in the middle of a global pandemic
Eddie Van Halen was moved to tears upon hearing his son Wolfgang’s tender eulogy Distance
Wolfgang Van Halen recalls his father Eddie’s emotional response on hearing the song which anticipated his passing
For just €235 Brian May’s new perfume will make you smell like the British countryside
‘Compassion has never smelled so sweet!’ says Queen’s Brian May as he launches Save Me scent to benefit wild animals
Vanilla Fudge and Cactus bassist Tim Bogert dead at 76
Carmine Appice has confirmed that Tim Bogert, who played with Vanilla Fudge, Cactus and supergroup Beck, Bogert & Appice, has died
Black Sabbath launch deluxe versions of Heaven And Hell and Mob Rules
Black Sabbath's Heaven And Hell and Mob Rules will be packaged in double album format with previously unreleased and rare live tracks
Has Dave Mustaine just revealed the title of Megadeth’s new album?
Dave Mustaine lets slip with ‘tentative’ title of Megadeth’s upcoming new album
Watch AC/DC’s video for Realize, the killer opening track on Power Up
AC/DC open their 2021 account with the no nonsense video for Realize
Rare David Bowie vinyl demo featuring the track Run Piper Run heads to auction
The previously unreleased demo which is backed by Ace Kefford’s Lay Your Head Upon My Shoulder will go under the hammer later this week
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New York Dolls: the ultimate bluffers's guide
20 facts you need to know about influential glam rockers the New York Dolls
George Thorogood: the soundtrack of my life
Singer/guitarist George Thorogood picks his records, artists and gigs of significance, and reveals why Elvis Presley was a freak of nature
Keith Richards: "This thing is designed to keep us apart, and everything we want to do is be together"
Like everyone else, Keith Richards' life is currently dictated by you know what. And while he’s behind on his reading, he still found time to “sit around writing songs, basically, or parts of songs”
Alter Bridge’s Myles Kennedy: “The greatest band of all time? Led Zeppelin”
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The Top 10 best Kirk Hammett solos
The guitar solos that helped build the Metallica legend
Slade: a guide to their best albums
Behind Slade's glam-disaster outfits, the dunce spellings, Dave Hill’s haircut and a Christmas perennial there’s some classic pop-rock. Here are their best albums
Rock and metal musicians who have died in 2021
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How Led Zeppelin rewrote rock’s rulebook and changed the music business
Led Zeppelin did business like no one before, especially when it came to dealing with their record company. Former Atlantic Records Vice-President Phil Carson explains all
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Eight spectacular reasons why rock can get your week rolling
10 Essential 90s AOR Albums
Who said AOR was on the ropes in the 1990s? These 10 essential melodic rock classics from Journey, Boston, Harem Scarem and more prove it was alive and kicking during the grunge years
Fish bids farewell: the pain of the world and the album he was born to make
After spending the last four decades immersed in music, Fish is calling time. But with his farewell album, the prog legend is signing off with the best record of his solo career
Neil Peart: Hail The Professor
In 2020 Prog Magazine readers voted the late Neil Peart the greatest prog musician ever
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Hearts & Hand Grenades lack heft on debut album Turning To Ashes
Turning To Ashes is a solid debut that’s a bit more heart than hand grenade
Trampthology proves that Mike Tramp continues to improve with age
Former White Lion frontman Mike Tramp gathers together 11 album's worth of highlights on Trampthology
Clutch's mood-enhancing back catalogue thrills on Weathermaker Vault Series Vol. I
Clutch's Weathermaker Vault Series album of re-recordings, covers and previously digital-only singles is more than just a stopgap
Drive-By Truckers keep their anger sharp on The New OK
Drive-By Truckers embellish their brilliant legacy on The New OK, their second album of a troubling year
George Thorogood's Live In Boston 1982 is one of the great live albums... and now it's even bigger
George Thorogood & The Destroyers prove themselves to be badder than ever with the thoroughly expanded Live in Boston, 1982: The Complete Concert
Iron Butterfly: Unconscious Power - An Anthology 1967-1971
Unconscious Power - An Anthology 1967-1971 features 85 tracks across seven CDs from the pioneering Iron Butterfly
Manowar's Black Wind, Fire And Steel: three albums of the truest metal
Black Wind, Fire And Steel: The Atlantic Recordings 1987-1992 is a barebones repacking of Manowar's major label adventure
Hollywood Undead's New Empire: Volume 2 is another chance to bedroom mosh
The seventh album from ever-masked LA rap-rockers successfully brings the bombast
Don't Let The Devil Take Another Day finds Kelly Jones twisting his standards into fine new shapes
Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones reimagines his songbook on Don't Let The Devil Take Another Day
Live In Tokyo is a rapturous farewell to Walter Lure's LAMF
Slaughter & The Dogs guitarist Mick Rossi fills in for Johnny Thunders at Walter Lure's last stand, Live In Tokyo
Jimmy Page's new book The Anthology is a must for hardcore fans
The sonic sorcerer opens the Led Zeppelin archive to reveal how the magic was made in his new book
