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Latest Classic Rock News
Soundgarden's Kim Thayil reveals how he learned the devastating news of Chris Cornell's death
"I didn’t see it coming... I feel like I let Chris down"
Greta Van Fleet launch video for strutting new single Play Your Games
Greta Van Fleet premiered Play Your Games at a low-key show in New York City this week
"Everyone misses them. It’s not just me." Paul McCartney reflects on the loss of his dear friends, and Beatles bandmates, John Lennon and George Harrison
In writing his new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, Paul McCartney has had to reckon with some painful memories
Evile's Ol Drake has set up a Gofundme to help his family deal with mounting debt
Evile's Ol Drake has helped keep true metal alive in the UK scene over the past two decades, and now he could do with some help
The Stranglers laughed at AC/DC's long hair when they shared a stage in 1976. They weren't laughing after AC/DC played
AC/DC didn't appreciate being called "hippies" by The Stranglers, and weren't keen on being called "punks" either
Sixty years into his career, Slade's Dave Hill is releasing his first solo album
Dirty Foot Lane will be released in October as Dave Hill's Slade prepare for a Christmas tour
Andrew Watt says the Rolling Stones' forthcoming Foreign Tongues album is "rawer" than Hackney Diamonds
Prepare to be excited for the summer release of Foreign Tongues
Latest Classic Rock Features
John Coghlan looks back on life in Status Quo – and the explosive moment that blew it all up
How John Coghlan survived the chaos of Status Quo
The story of Giuffria, the melodic rock nearly-men who should have been the next kings of 80s AOR
The tangled story of cult melodic rockers Giuffria
I was Peter Gabriel’s stunt double for Sledgehammer
Working on the award-winning 1986 music video incorrectly convinced the future comic book creative that he’d have a career with Aardman Animations
Two guitarists battling it out and an unwanted coda – the tangled history of Derek And The Dominos’ Layla
Stripping away the myth of Derek And The Dominos’ Layla
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
"I remember us saying, ‘Well, if the band doesn’t make it, we’ll join the Marines.’" The story of the song that gave thrash metal its name
Metallica, Exodus and Slayer might've been defining thrash on the West coast, but it was in New York the genre finally got its name
Latest Classic Rock Reviews
Violet Grohl's debut album Be Sweet To Me is a love letter to the '90s
Dave Grohl's 20-year-old daughter Violet steps into the spotlight
Saint Agnes's winning formula clicks into place on Your God Fearing Days Are About To Begin
Saint Agnes's third album Your God Fearing Days Are About To Begin is a finely tuned beast
Smashing Pumpkins' Gish mixes Zep rock grooves, acid folk, shoegaze and trippy psychedelic angst
Gish is celebrating its 35th birthday in shades of variously coloured vinyl
Paul McCartney's The Boys Of Dungeon Lane is not the late-period masterpiece you were hoping for
A mixed bag from arguably the world's greatest songwriter
All Them Witches are predictably unpredictable on the delectable House Of Mirrors
The seventh album from enigmatic Nashville rockers All Them Witches comes after a period of upheaval and regrouping
A reunited Sugar roll back the years with a deafening, joyous return to London
Sugar make their first UK appearances in more than 30 years – and suddenly it feels like 1994 again
