Latest Classic Rock News
AC/DC announce 2026 tour with 21 new dates confirmed
AC/DC will hit up North and South America next year, with over 20 dates confirmed
Two Metallica fans have been arrested after climbing over part of the band's set at a show in Perth, Australia on Saturday
Campaign launched to posthumously award Ace Frehley honorary astronaut status
NASA, are you listening?
King Diamond given lifelong honorary award by Danish Arts Foundation
Award will see King Diamond paid up to £22,000 ($26,000) every year to continue creating "art of the highest quality"
“Learned from the greatest". Watch Ozzy Osbourne's toddler grandson bite the head off a toy bat
Cuteness overload as Kelly Osbourne's two-year-old son pays unique Halloween tribute to the late Ozzy
Asia announce a low-key UK warm-up charity show ahead of next year's Japanese tour
Asia will play a one-off show at The Corn Exchange, Ross-On-Wye, in January to raise money for Mike Peters' Love Hope Strength Foundation
Scott Sorry, former bassist with The Wildhearts, dead at 47
Singer-songwriter Scott Sorry also played with Brides Of Destruction and Sorry and the Sinatras
Latest Classic Rock Features
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: October 27, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Starbenders, Crobot, Dirty Blonde and more
Gong may have lost some humour and older songs, but Kavus Torabi says they’re still supernatural
Daevid Allen’s appointed replacement on keeping the spirituality alive without becoming overwhelmed, the respectful use of acid, and the late band leader’s similarity to Cardiacs’ Tim Smith
In 2009 this notorious workaholic was trying to do less. His career suggests it didn’t go that way
After over two decades making music, his main band had recently achieved global recognition and he’d just launched his debut solo album. Did he ever really slow down?
The bassist who survived Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull and believing he’d murdered his bandmate on stage
Veteran admits he sailed close to the wind as he taught prog giants to drink – but he learned how much it means to play live with a band
How Sebastian Bach went from playing to Jon Bon Jovi’s parents to singing a classic hair metal anthem
The story of Skid Row’s classic hair metal anthem Youth Gone Wild
How Status Quo turned a minor John Fogerty hit into an all-time classic that kicked off the biggest gig in history
Status Quo beefed up John Fogerty’s ‘piddly’ original and struck rock’n’roll gold
Latest Classic Rock Reviews
Wolfgang Van Halen finds his voice and sets a high bar on third Mammoth album
The third Mammoth album feels like the work of a musician settling comfortably into his own space and comfortable with all that attention
The latest edition of The Bootleg Series tracks Bob Dylan from Minnesota to Greenwich Village
A legend ascends in the latest forensic deep dive into Bob Dylan’s back pages on Volume 18: Through The Open Window 1956-1963
The latest upmarket makeover of The Who's Who Are You is interesting and exhaustive
The Who’s last blast with Keith Moon
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
