Latest Classic Rock News

Voyage 35 share their first music with a cover of Porcupine Tree's The Nostalgia Factory
By Jerry Ewing published
Former Porcupine Tree alumni Colin Edwin and John Wesley will tour as Voyage 35, performing early Porcupine Tree material, in September

U2 surprise-release new six-song EP Easter Lily
By Paul Brannigan published
U2 follow up their Days Of Ash EP with six new songs exploring themes of "friendship, loss, hope, and ultimately, renewal"

Alex Lifeson says he initially had doubts about new Rush drummer Anika Nilles
By Fraser Lewry published
Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and Anika Nilles are interviewed in the new issue of Classic Rock

Alice Cooper announces new guitarist Anna Cara
By Fraser Lewry published
Anna Cara is replacing Nita Stauss, who is taking a career break

Yes postpone this month's Fragile UK tour as guitarist Steve Howe requires surgery
By Jerry Ewing published
Yes's planned Fragile tour would have been the band's first English and Scottish tour dates for two years.

Lordi are the face of a new recycling campaign in Sweden (yes, really!)
By Merlin Alderslade published
In one of the strangest stories we've heard this year, Lordi will be the face of a new recycling campaign in Sweden

"It takes me back to my schooldays." Peter Gabriel shares his latest single Till Your Mind Is Shining
By Jerry Ewing published
Peter Gabriel is releasing a new single every full moon at midnight in the build-up to new studio album o\i.
Latest Classic Rock Features

How Chuck Billy survived cancer and grunge to become a thrash metal legend
By Alex Deller published
Testament, Marvel's What If...?, an upcoming biography: Chuck Billy is a man of many talents

How Whitesnake’s Lovehunter album helped David Coverdale into a star all over again
By Dave Ling published
Whitesnake slithered to success with 1979’s Lovehunter

If you think Bruce Springsteen should shut up about politics and just play his songs, you've clearly never listened to Bruce Springsteen
By Mischa Pearlman published
"We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times. But do not despair, the cavalry is coming"

Lost treasures: Ten cult classic albums worth scouring second-hand record stores for
By Fraser Lewry published
From groundbreaking psychedelia to lost folk and good-time boogie, here are ten albums truly worth stumbling across

Why Steve Howe didn’t join The Nice or Atomic Rooster, and didn’t even go to his Jethro Tull audition
By Sid Smith published
Yes guitarist looks back on starting to play without learning to read music, the wide range of career options he had, and names the album he regards as his greatest achievement

Every album Robert Plant has made since Led Zeppelin broke up, ranked from worst to best
By Paul Elliott published
Since Led Zeppelin called it quits, Robert Plant has continued to move forward, refining and redefining his art - and these are the albums that have charted his journey
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Latest Classic Rock Reviews

Jim Jones All Stars' Cat Fight is a record for people who wanna have a good time, all the time
By Sleazegrinder published
Produced by the Black Crowes' Chris Robinson, Cat Fight is a sleazy Shangri-La

Kreator bring demons, wicker men and the most fire this side of Parkway Drive to stunning London show
By Matt Mills published
Supported by Nails, Exodus and Carcass, the German luminaries reach a new level of pageantry

Todd Rundgren delights some and confounds others on A Wizard, A True Star
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Aided by magic mushrooms and a newly built studio, Todd Rundgren sets out to chart "the chaotic musical element” in his head

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






