Latest Classic Rock News
ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard dead at 77
The ZZ Top drummer sat out recent shows due to health issues
Megadeth have at least two songs left over from their final album – but Dave Mustaine isn’t sure he’ll release them
MegaDave names two (possibly three) offcuts from the thrashers’ self-titled swansong
Ozzfest confirms return to Birmingham’s Villa Park next year
The venue hosted Ozzy Osbourne’s final show shortly before his death last summer
Fontaines D.C. announce "mind-altering" fifth album Dopamine Chamber
Listen to the atmospheric new Fontaines D.C. single Marianne now
Ghost’s Tobias Forge remembers the severe food poisoning that forced him to cancel Mexico gig last year
The costumed hard rockers scrapped the first of three shows in Mexico City, which was set to be filmed for their upcoming documentary 2 Big To Rig
Queens Of The Stone Age announce new album title via bloody game of five-finger fillet. "Does it hurt? Of course it hurts!"
Those of a nervous disposition are advised to look away now
Ritchie Blackmore reflects on "emotional" onstage reunion with Deep Purple
Ritchie Blackmore says his recent onstage reunion with Deep Purple was about more than being note perfect
Latest Classic Rock Features
Frank Beard was the enigma at the heart of ZZ Top
Frank Beard was cool, calm and collected - but ZZ Top’s human metronome had his dark times
That time the Sex Pistols launched their own perfume
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
The story behind Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit video, by those who were there
When Nirvana shot a video for Smells Like Teen Spirit in mid-August 1991 they had no idea it would change their lives forever
How a kooky B-52s song about undersea life became a new-wave dance classic
Fact: Rock Lobster was written in the bloodletting room at a disused funeral home
After twenty years in the punk rock trenches, The Menzingers have learned a thing or two
Talking major life events, vomiting into buckets and tricky band names with US punk rockers The Menzingers
Nightwish’s Floor Jansen on her worst album – and the prog metal deep cut which makes her cry
The velvet-voiced symphonic metal singer details the soundtrack of her life
Latest Classic Rock Reviews
"The album's brevity is its biggest advantage." J.J. Cale keeps it short on the easygoing Okie
J.J. Cale's most famous songs were made famous by others, but Okie's laid-back charm is enticing in its own right
Castle Rat look like future headliners at Bloodstock: review
Castle Rat have barely played a dozen gigs in the UK, but pulled a massive crowd for their early afternoon slot at Bloodstock
Judas Priest's Bloodstock set is a triumphant homecoming: review
Rob Halford confirms Judas Priest are working on a new album as they bring some of heavy metal's greatest anthems home to Bloodstock
Fifty years on, Robin Trower's Bridge Of Sighs is still an all-time blues rock classic
Bridge Of Sighs was the second of Robin Tower's power trio’s superb trilogy of back-to-back albums in the mid-70s, and sealed his reputation
L7's Bricks Are Heavy was a breath of fresh air in a scene that quickly became stale
Pretend We’re Dead might be Bricks Are Heavy's best-known track, but Shitlist, Everglade and Wargasm proved L7 were canny songwriters.
Stuart Adamson's guitar work elevates Skids' Scared to Dance above the ordinary
The sound of a bunch of scrappy youths from Scotland's industrial heartland
