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Dee Snider opens up about health issues that made him step away from Twisted Sister
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One of America's greatest alternative rock bands announce 40th anniversary tour
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Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl addresses infidelity and social media fallout in new interview
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"Steven's happy we're doing this and thinks it'll be great fun." Porcupine Tree offshoot Voyage 35 tease first new/old music
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Latest Classic Rock News

Dee Snider opens up about health issues that made him step away from Twisted Sister
By Matt Mills published
A planned reunion tour was scrapped after the singer walked away due to health concerns, though the band are now coming back with Sebastian Bach on vocals

One of America's greatest alternative rock bands announce 40th anniversary tour
By Paul Brannigan published
Greg Dulli's men in black are back

Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl addresses infidelity and social media fallout in new interview
By Matt Mills published
The singer/multi-instrumentalist says he’s had 430 therapy sessions in the past 70 weeks and suggests that fathering a child with a woman outside of his marriage in 2024 is part of the reason why

"Steven's happy we're doing this and thinks it'll be great fun." Porcupine Tree offshoot Voyage 35 tease first new/old music
By Jerry Ewing published
Former Porcupine Tree alumni Colin Edwin and John Wesley will release a new version of Porcupine Tree's The Notsalgia Factory in April

AC/DC's Stevie Young hospitalised in Argentina
By Fraser Lewry published
The news comes ahead of three scheduled shows at Estadio River Plate in Buenos Aires

Muse return with bombastic new single as they announce tenth studio album
By Jerry Ewing published
Muse share video for new single Be With You and will release The Wow! Signal in June

"At the height of Britpop, it was like music was a joke." The truth behind the '90s Mogwai vs Blur feud
By Paul Brannigan published
The story behind the Britpop era's most one-sided 'battle'

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine’s memoir In My Darkest Hour, looking back on his cancer battle, to come out in September
By Matt Mills published
The book will detail the thrash singer/guitarist’s life after being diagnosed with a squamous cell carcinoma at the back of his tongue in 2019
Latest Classic Rock Features

Janis Joplin broke away from her band to make a solo album that divided the critics. A year later she was dead
By Bill DeMain published
Janis Joplin’s I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama would be the last album she released during her lifetime

Bloody Well Right! Breakfast In America might have had the bangers, but it was Crime Of The Century that truly saved Supertramp's bacon.
By Daryl Easlea published
Facing the harsh reality of their first two albums being commercial flops, Supertramp were staring into the abyss when they came to make third album, Crime Of The Century...

How Bad Company rose from the ashes of Free to write one of rock’s greatest outlaw anthems
By Michael Hann published

How a damaged teenage drug dealer channelled black days into platinum records
By Paul Brannigan published
"I knew how to fail, but I didn’t know how to win"

"We jokingly called the album Commercial Suicide while we were making it." Why one of the world's biggest rock bands had to go back to "ground zero" on their riskiest and darkest record
By Paul Brannigan published
"Some reports said that it was a great record, but we should consider changing our name"

My chaotic life as Phil Lynott's girlfriend
By Mick Wall published
Gale Claydon met Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott when she was 18 years old and spent the next five years with him, through thick and thin

The story of Iggy & The Stooges' ferocious classic Search And Destroy
By Ian Fortnam published
The Stooges' Search And Destroy began with James Williamson "goofing around making machine-gun sounds" but countless others adopted its combination of pounding rhythm and aggressive guitar
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Latest Classic Rock Reviews

Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and The Mothers' Bongo Fury, revisited and expanded
By David Stubbs published
A six-disc, 57-track edition of the legendary 1975 collaboration, featuring live recordings and outtakes

The Legendary Edition of Aerosmith's debut album expands the original with live and session tracks
By John Aizlewood published
American rock giants’ debut album, with added Harmonica Jam Bass Jelly

Tedeschi Trucks Band continue the search for transcendence on the sublime Future Soul
By Fraser Lewry published
The best album yet from peak Derek and ‘punk’ Susan

David Bowie successfully charts a path into his later years with the help of a returning friend
By Classic Rock Magazine published
David Bowie transforms once again, this time into himself

Powerwolf conquer Wembley Arena: Review
By Rich Hobson published
Powerwolf might have enough pyro to level a city, but they've got singalongs to unite the masses

The Black Crowes' blessed resurrection keeps rolling on A Pound Of Feathers
By Pat Carty published
More songs about rockin’ an’ rollin’





