Latest Reviews on Classic Rock
Billy Idol reflects on the good, the bad and the ugly sides of his life on Dream Into It
The UK punk who conquered the US looks back on his life and the scene that made him on ninth solo album
"It sounds like Dream Theater doing a pastiche of Bon Jovi songs": Did Extreme over-egg the funk-rock pudding on III Sides To Every Story?
Extreme's third album, the three-part III Sides To Every Story, was the sound of a band over-reaching themselves
After six albums of Beelzebub-bothering, Ghost's melodic metal is more tempting than ever
Swedish purveyors of satanic arena rock Ghost camp it up on sixth album Skeletá
In the age of dystopian catastrophe Hawkwind are still looking to space
Hawkwind's 37th album There’s No Space For Us finds the space travellin' veterans in cosmic shipshape form
The big hits are nowhere to be heard as Neil Young digs deep on the unusually atmospheric Coastal
Neil Young's millionth live album just happens to be a good one
Eric Clapton fails to wake up the neighbours on the cathartic but glum Pilgrim
Stick a pin in Eric Clapton’s late-period work and you’re liable to hit a stinker, but for sheer lack of invention, Pilgrim is routinely held up as his lowest ebb
Masters Of Reality's seventh album The Archer is lean, graceful and magnificent
A welcome return of cult desert-rock mystic Chris Goss
Those Damn Crows prepare to go international on God Shaped Hole
They’re ready to take on the world
The Band's second album is an acknowledged classic, but there are some dissenters
For their second album, The Band relocated from upstate New York to California and turned Sammy Davis Jr.’s poolhouse into a makeshift studio
L.A. Guns appear impervious to age on Leopard Skin
Sunset Strip veterans L.A. Guns' late-career hot streak continues on album number 15
The Datsuns back themselves into a musical cul-de-sac on Outta Sight / Outta Mind
The trousers were tight, the guitars were wielded like weapons, but The Datsuns' second album hasn't aged well
The mightiest Fleetwood Mac line-up albums in one handy box
Pulchritudinous platinum perfection
An overview of the solo career of Pete Townshend, the man who never meant to have a solo career
The Who lynchpin’s deeply uneven solo odyssey receives the box-set treatment
In a world of bread-and-butter rock bands, The Darkness remain the toast of the town
Grain expectations: Lowestoft legends The Darkness mix it up on eighth studio album Dreams On Toast
That time The Darkness added a riot of colour to a grey musical landscape
Two decades on and people still can't decide whether Permission To Land is parody, pastiche or perfection
Fifty reasons why three Canadian oddballs became a treasured part of rock history
Rush's career-spanning box set R50 is a chronological 50-track anthology that documents the trio's five-decade arc
10 years in, Dorothy delivers her best album yet with The Way
Dorothy’s The Way is a modern rock gem – with added Slash
