Latest Classic Rock News
Marillion announce live at Pompeii show for July 2026
UK prog rockers Marillion. will play the world-famous Pompeii amphitheatre on July 25
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are definitely speaking again
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham appear on podcast to discuss their debut album and the influence of Led Zeppelin
Brass bat attached to the birthplace of heavy metal in unauthorised Ozzy-themed guerrilla protest
It's all kicking off in Birmingham
A new Tony Banks biography is to be published in February
Tony Banks: Man Of Spells – The Magician Of Genesis has been written by Genesis biographer Mario Giammetti and will be published in February
Porcupine Tree offshoot Voyage 35 announce European and UK tour dates
Former Porcupine Tree alumni Colin Edwin and John Wesley will be performing the band's earlier material in the live arena
Wolfgang Van Halen reacts to the term ‘nepo baby’
Naturally, the son of Eddie Van Halen has a complicated relationship with the phrase
“People deserve to hear that music. And I wouldn’t play it if we didn’t do it justice”: Sammy Hagar announces a UK arena tour – and he’s bringing the Van Halen songs
Sammy Hagar & The Best Of All Worlds Band will hit the UK for four arena dates in July 2026
Latest Classic Rock Features
How The Nice offended Leonard Bernstein and the US Embassy
The story of the song that crystallised the burgeoning prog-rock movement and turned The Nice into one of the most controversial bands of the day
Steve Howe’s favourite moments as a guitar for hire, and the one that got away
Yes icon on guesting with Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Propaganda, his 1960s session career, and never listening to what he recorded for Lou Reed
Every Meat Loaf album ranked, from worst to best
The six-decade career of Meat Loaf was a carnival of excess, full of theatre, motorcycles, teen lust, and soaring, roaring guitars. Here's Meat's albums from disappointing worst to dizzying best
The Hives on making their Back In Black and how the official franchise programme is going
The Hives' Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist on Outkast, the Beastie Boys, the Rolling Stones and becoming rock royalty
Luke Morley on his band, his other band, his solo career and wearing silver suits in the sun
Luke Morley doesn't know what the future holds but right now he's busy
The story of Ian Dury's biggest hit, a song that was never actually a hit at all
Its riff was stolen, twice, but its title defined an era and introduced a new phrase into the English vernacular
Latest Classic Rock Reviews
British goth rockers Creeper outdo themselves on fangtastic fourth album
British goth rockers Creeper outdo themselves on fangtastic fourth album
Jeremy Allen White shines in the Boss’s breakdown biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
The review of the film of the book about the making of Bruce Springsteen's bleak masterpiece, Nebraska
Review: Ace Frehley annoys Gene and Paul by releasing the most successful of the Kiss solos
Kiss famously released four solo albums on the same day. Just as famously, only one of them was truly worthy of the Kiss name - Ace Frehley's
Review: Elton John - Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (50th Anniversary Edition)
Peak 70s Elton John, a songwriting triumph
"Love Chant is a wonderful and surprisingly vital return to the fray": The Lemonheads' first album of original songs in 20 years is up there with their best
The Lemonheads' eleventh album is fun, frantic, and full of classic hooks and self-deprecating refrains
Jon Bon Jovi gets by with a little help from his friends on revised version of Forever album
Bruce Springsteen, Joe Elliott, Avril Lavigne, Robbie Williams, Ed Sheeran and more clamber aboard the legendary Forever train from New Jersey
