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Suzi Quatro refuses to dim the lights on 18th album Freedom
By Everett True Published
Freedom is Suzi Quatro's third album in collaboration with son LR Tuckey

The Expanded Edition of Van Halen's 5150 is bigger but not necessarily better
By Hugh Fielder Published
Exit Dave, enter Sammy, and Van Halen's first No.1 album

Opeth's Blackwater Park: A mesmerisingly brilliant prog-metal album’s quarter-century celebration
By Dan Peeke Published
In which Steven Wilson helps Opeth emerge from the musky cocoon of their darker 90s albums with a wider and brighter sound

Melissa Auf der Maur's 90s rock memoir Even the Good Girls Will Cry is a frank, fearless and fabulously revelatory read
By Paul Brannigan Published
You won't read a better '90s music biography than former Hole / Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur's new memoir

Linda Ronstadt gently explores an eclectic selection of songs on Heart Like A Wheel
By Classic Rock Magazine Published
Heart Like A Wheel was a key step in Ronstadt's mid-70s rise, thanks to an astute choice of songs, smart production and *that* voice

Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and The Mothers' Bongo Fury, revisited and expanded
By David Stubbs Published
A six-disc, 57-track edition of the legendary 1975 collaboration, featuring live recordings and outtakes

The Legendary Edition of Aerosmith's debut album expands the original with live and session tracks
By John Aizlewood Published
American rock giants’ debut album, with added Harmonica Jam Bass Jelly

Tedeschi Trucks Band continue the search for transcendence on the sublime Future Soul
By Fraser Lewry Published
The best album yet from peak Derek and ‘punk’ Susan

David Bowie successfully charts a path into his later years with the help of a returning friend
By Classic Rock Magazine Published
David Bowie transforms once again, this time into himself

Powerwolf conquer Wembley Arena: Review
By Rich Hobson Published
Powerwolf might have enough pyro to level a city, but they've got singalongs to unite the masses

The Black Crowes' blessed resurrection keeps rolling on A Pound Of Feathers
By Pat Carty Published
More songs about rockin’ an’ rollin’

AC/DC are captured in their hungry prime on If You Want Blood You've Got It
By Classic Rock Magazine Published
Recorded in front of a rabid Glasgow audience, If You Want Blood is AC/DC and Bon Scott at their live peak

Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio celebrated on Rainbow - The Temple Of The King 1975-76
By Paul Elliott Published
Nine CDs of Ritchie, Ronnie and Rainbow

Japan's Flower Travellin' Band aren't for the faint-hearted on proto-prog-guitar-wigout Satori
By Classic Rock Magazine Published
Bored with covering Western blues bands, the Flower Travellin' Band set out on their own sonic adventure

Foo Fighters return to their punk roots in Manchester
By Rich Hobson Published
Dave Grohl winds back the clocks with a very sweaty, very intimate show in Manchester

The “moving” Paul McCartney documentary that shows the failures between the triumphs
By Julian Marszalek Published
Paul McCartney: Man On The Run spotlights the trials and triumphs of the post-Beatles 70s

Rob Zombie goes full bore, full gore on blood-soaked eighth album The Great Satan
By Philip Wilding Published
After a four-year hiatus, Rob Zombie returns to his frantic and frenetic Hellbilly roots
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