Latest Classic Rock News
Ministry announce Goodbye Europe farewell tour
"It doesn't matter if you're left or right, we're all dead unless we all unite"
Watch Jack White and Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson cover a Free classic
Black Crowes vocalist and former White Stripes frontman get their blues on in the Windy City
Watch Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson perform a Mott The Hoople classic at surprise appearance with Billie Joe Armstrong's covers band
Watch Bruce Dickinson onstage with The Coverups at San Diego Comic-Con
Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford reunite for remixed and remastered deluxe five-disc reissue of Genesis's 1969 debut album
From Genesis To Revelation will be reissued as a five-disc set and as a double vinyl release in October
David Lee Roth has cancelled his US tour – and he’s got a message of support from Sammy Hagar
“Come on, join us in Vegas, sing a couple of songs, MC the damn show”
Bob Seger releases Face The Promise on vinyl for the first time: Unreleased song Little Jane out now
Bob Seger's platinum album Face The Promise has been expanded to celebrate its 20th anniversary
Ray and Dave Davies are getting on well and would "never say never" to a Kinks reunion
The Kinks: Brothers exhibition of paintings is currently showing in London
Latest Classic Rock Features
How Angel Witch wrote one of the great overlooked metal anthems of the early 80s
Angel Witch’s Angel Witch was one of the great anthems of the NWOBHM era – so why didn’t it turn them into stars?
Peter Gabriel could have made another pop album like So. Instead he turned to the dark side of prog
Hit singles Sledgehammer and Don’t Give Up brought the ex Genesis singer enough financial security to do whatever he liked – which is exactly what he did
The Iron Maiden album that was “locked in a vault” for two years
Iron Maiden finished their epic Senjutsu album in 2019 – but the pandemic meant it wouldn’t be released for two more years
The story behind Metallica's apocalyptic thrash masterpiece, Blackened
“Dude, that riff’s good enough to open our album."
“I said: ‘I’ll give it a go but don’t expect me to wear costumes!’” Phil Collins’ first show as Genesis frontman
It took the revamped band months of worry off stage but just half an hour of fun on stage to secure their future in 1976
The riotous gig which got the Rolling Stones banned from an English seaside town for 44 years
"Some people in the audience obviously didn’t like us"
Latest Classic Rock Reviews
Mongol champions The Hu take after their hard rock heroes on long-awaited new album Hun
The folk metal horde have been endorsed by Metallica and Iron Maiden – and their third album bears those icons’ influence
Robyn Hitchcock's enigmatic The Confuser is the best album he's released this century
The Confuser is the twenty-fifth post-Soft Boys waxing from alt. stalwart Robyn Hitchcock
Foreigner's new album is a pleasant souvenir with almost zero atmosphere
Not a lot of thunder and lightning (or original members) on Foreigner's’s 50th-anniversary live album In The Eye Of The Storm
Pete Townshend finds stable ground away from The Who on Empty Glass
Empty Glass was Pete Townshend’s response to the death of Keith Moon and the arrival of punk
Some of Small Faces’ greatest songs - and a managerial battle – documented on Decca Singles 1965-1967
Still small but perfectly formed after all these years
System Of A Down's UK return was electric, euphoric and one of the best stadium shows in recent memory
"Are System Of A Down back?!" one fan on our row remarked. Yes, yes they absolutely are
