Latest Classic Rock News
Heart's Ann Wilson and Tripsitter announce second album Consecrated Ground, share powerful psych-rock single I Will Not Be Coming Back
The follow-up to 2023's Another Door will arrive this summer
You can now pre-order the official Iron Maiden Eddfest programme and museum guide
Heading to Eddfest? Or just want to own a piece of Iron Maiden history? You can pre-order the official programme and museum guide right now!
Celebrate Global Beatles Day this weekend with these 5 essential Fab Four documentaries you can stream right now
It was Global Beatles Day earlier this week, but if you been waiting for the weekend to get your Fab Four fix, here are my streaming recommendations
Metallica's Kirk Hammett thinks modern pop is "crap"
Safe to say that Kirk is not a big fan of the modern pop music scene
The clock’s ticking to save up to 30% on Metallica, Motörhead and Ozzy tees before Prime Day ends tonight
There's still time to grab cut-price rock and metal t-shirts before the Prime Day door slams shut. Here's my picks on both sides of the Atlantic
"We have a very special chemistry.” Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery share first new music from their upcoming album with video for The Black Sea
Hackett & Rothery will release their instrumental guitar album, The Roaring Waves, in August
Watch "Weird Al" Yankovic's guitarist singing Rush's Cygnus X-1 Book II in a bathroom in Missouri
Meet Payton Rose Velligan: She sings Rush in the bathroom
Latest Classic Rock Features
The Hives, Kylie Minogue and 'the greatest cinema advert of all time'
Kylie Minogue, expensive pants, a bucking bronco and The Hives equals marketing gold
“Afraid Of Sunlight escaped more than it was released." How Marillion's eighth album brought the curtain down on their time at EMI and set the band up for the rest of their career...
1994's Brave set Marillion on a collision course with their record label, EMI. A year later, they went out on a high with Afraid of Sunlight. This is the story...
When Bowie met 'The Boss'
On November 25, 1974, David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen met for the very first time at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia. It was an awkward encounter for both men
The unlikely birth of Velvet Revolver, the supergroup who triumphed against the odds
Velvet Revolver’s debut album, Contraband, was released on June 8, 2004. In this classic interview, Slash reveals how one of rock’s greatest modern supergroups got off the ground
Meet Jayler, the West Midlands quartet with big dreams and even bigger plans
Jayler are big in Brazil, have gigs lined up with Deep Purple and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and their debut album only came out last month
Crown Lands talk music biz, 19-minute songs, and why they'd rather be killed by robots than zombies
Crown Lands' new album Apocalypse is a sci-fi story, but it echoes what's going on in the world today
The story of The Doors' L.A. Woman – the last song they ever recorded
Ray Manzarek calls L.A. Woman "the quintessential Doors song" - but they only ever played it live twice
"We were playing to capacity crowds, six or seven nights a week, everywhere we went. So we figured something was about to happen." The story of 1966, the year that built rock
Before 1966, the blues was tired, worn out and unsexy. But then Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Jimi Hendrix created the modern guitar hero too
Latest Classic Rock Reviews
Unashamedly grandiose space-rockers Muse hit new disco-metal heights on The Wow! Signal
The Wow! Signal is Muse at their sharpest, eclectic and energised, but low on the bloat and bombast that sometimes marred previous albums
The Stooges mark the post-Altamont death throes of the hippy zeitgeist on Fun House
The Stooges' second album Fun House is a beautiful seven-track study in the feral and unhinged
The Rolling Stones' 25th album Foreign Tongues isn't just Hackney Diamonds II
The Rolling Stones follow up Hackney Diamonds with assistance from Paul McCartney, The Cure's Robert Smith, Steve Winwood and more
Electric Warrior – T.Rex's collection of sun-dappled narco-rockers – is more than the two hits
Marc Bolan sheds his hippy skin and reinvents himself as a golden god with a gleaming, screaming electric guitar
Guns N' Roses' Download set is a slog , but when they lock in, they still show greatness
Shave an hour off this set and we could have had something special
Flames, confetti, screams and Lady Gaga: Halestorm's Download set is a rock 'n' roll masterclass
Could Halestorm headline Download one day? This set certainly suggests they could pull it off
