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Dream Theater were drained after The Astonishing, but wrote Distance Over Time in three weeks
The prog metal giants’ sleek, super-powerful 14th album was a conscious move away from its complex, opinion-splitting predecessor
Jack Bruce’s wild tales of Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Leslie West and more
From Ginger Baker’s genius to Leslie West’s food roadie, former Cream man Jack Bruce saw it all
Why is buying gig tickets such a terrible experience?
From the agony of trying to get Black Sabbath tickets to the ongoing Oasis reunion ticketing fiasco, buying tickets to big shows has got worse than ever - here's how to try and navigate the madness
Recorded in secret, Sweet's Fox On The Run was given a second life by the Guardians Of The Galaxy
Recorded while their regular songwriters were away, Fox On The Run gave Sweet a huge hit and a song that would never go away
Mark Tremonti on the political climate, being a guitar hero and Frank Sinatra
Take care of business. Quit your comfort zone. Don’t listen to rock journalists. And never forget you could still be washing cars. Life advice from The Book Of Tremonti
How Rush and Pink Floyd led James Dean Bradfield to Man – a band he’d previously dismissed
Manic Street Preachers frontman wasn’t convinced by his fellow Welsh musicians, until he discovered the Steely Dan and Little Feat elements of their 11th album
Goth is the coolest it’s been in decades – and these 9 rising metal bands prove it
From Crippling Alcoholism to Kælan Mikla, these goth metal up-and-comers show it’s hip to be sad
Led Zeppelin albums ranked from worst to best
From anonymous sixties session men to globe-straddling seventies rock goliaths - the albums that soundtracked Led Zeppelin's conquest of Earth
The Yes Album was very nearly Yes’ final release. But fate intervened three times
The then-unknown band lost their management, got hurt in a serious road crash and cut a dodgy deal – and that’s why they’re still around today
The anarchic early years of one of rock's most enigmatic groups, The Mars Volta
An interview with The Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala
"He was such an interesting man. A funny combination of intensity and craziness." King Crimson's Jamie Muir remembered...
King Crimson biographer and Prog writer Sid Smith pays tribute to percussionist Jamie Muir, who died this weekend, aged 82
The rebellious making of Bon Scott: AC/DC frontman, sun-worshipper and night-crawler
45 years on from the death of AC/DC singer Bon Scott, we look back at the greatest rock’n’roll frontman of them all
“It was part of the job to destroy Genesis and Yes”: Captain Sensible loved prog, but hid it
The Damned guitarist on spending years ripping off the genre he professed to hate, and the obscure tracks he’d play on Desert Island Discs – if they’d ever let him appear
The story behind The Kinks' brilliantly subversive classic Lola
A tale of sexual ambiguity in 60s Soho, Lola provided The Kinks with a worldwide hit at the exact moment they needed it most
Everything you need to know about the Black Sabbath reunion and Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert
Why are Black Sabbath coming back? Who else is on the bill? Can I still get tickets? We answer all your questions about this summer’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza
Nine albums by Tom Morello you should listen to... and one you should ignore
Tom Morello is best known as the guitarist with RATM, but there’s much more of his playing to marvel at than that - and these are his best albums
Styx fired Dennis DeYoung in 1999, but he still wants a reunion for the fans
Co-founding singer and keyboardist on his prog influences, hiring a shouting woman to conserve his voice, taking a rock-is-dead approach to his final solo albums – and why he doesn’t care if he isn’t remembered
Death Of A Clown: The Kinks' Ray Davies on the double-edged sword of solo success
The artist formerly known as Dave The Rave explains how his disenchantment with Swinging Sixties culture spawned an unlikely solo hit
