Latest Classic Rock News
Brian May rules out Queen performing at Glastonbury festival for the foreseeable future
Queen at Glasto? Don't hold your breath
Pink Floyd's legendary Pompeii concert film to get 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray release
Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLIXXII will be released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray in February
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine on losing his friends and peers
Megadeth frontman admits that metal is going through "a changing of the guard"
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea announces first North American, UK and European solo shows
Listen to Traffic Lights, Flea's new solo single, featuring Radiohead's Thom Yorke
Sonic Youth legend Kim Gordon announces new album Play Me, shares new single Not Today
Kim Gordon's follow-up to 2024's The Collective is incoming
Peter Gabriel announces physical release of live albums In The Big Room and Live At WOMAD 82
Peter Gabriel will release live albums In The Big Room in March and Live At WOMAD 82 in May
Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with an exclusive Megadeth cover and a copy of the band’s self-titled final album
Megadeth’s self-titled swansong drops on January 23, and you can get it on vinyl in a bundle with the latest issue of Metal Hammer
Latest Classic Rock Features
How an ailing country icon made one of music’s greatest comebacks – with help from Rick Rubin and Glenn Danzig
Johnny Cash’s career was on the skids in the 1990s – and then he met Rick Rubin
The incredible story of the cult British rock’n’rollers who happen to be one of Keith Richards’ favourite bands
They’re barely even a cult band – but the Dirty Strangers have the Keith Richards seal of approval
The lost NWOBHM classic that Metallica turned into one of metal’s most famous songs
How Lars Ulrich and co gave a leg up to a cult early 80s British metal band
The story behind the Nirvana song that Dave Grohl was too nervous to include on In Utero
Dave Grohl has proven himself as a hell of a songwriter, but it took some support from his dear friend Kurt to get some self-belief
How a "feral" Ozzy Osbourne crowd, an onstage meltdown, and nudity on live TV sparked a police manhunt in South America
"I don't think I'd have enjoyed a stay in a South American prison"
The Sex Pistols, ABBA, Danny Boyle and the Olympics: the unlikely story of Pretty Vacant
The surprising tale behind the pop-influenced, Oscar-winning director-approved punk rock classic
Latest Classic Rock Reviews
Gluecifer's first album in two decades is sleazy and snotty, packed with blood-guzzling scorchers
Gluecifer bring Scandinavian action rock (back) to the Man on sixth album Same Drug New High
Chris Rea finds friends among fans of Mark Knopfler, J.J. Cale and Robbie Robertson on The Road To Hell
The Road To Hell fuses Chris Rea's weather-beaten blues instincts with serious songwriting smarts and a sharp-eyed sense of social unease
This is the end, but Megadeth are leaving us with an absolute killer of a final album
Megadeth will be missed, but what a final record to leave us with
Alter Bridge are at their most Alter Bridge on the unwaveringly confident Alter Bridge
It's more of the same on Alter Bridge's self-titled seventh album, but who’s complaining when their same is this good?
Steven Wilson seeks the sweet spot between pop and progression on Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Inspired by a tragic modern story, Steven Wilson's Hand. Cannot. Erase. is often hailed as his masterpiece. But is it?
Judas Priest revive themselves on Painkiller before Rob Halford's decade-long hiatus
Judas Priest follow up the lukewarm Turbo and the tepid Ram It Down with the red-hot Painkiller
