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Alt.rock legends Sugar launch first new music in three decades, announce live shows
By Fraser Lewry published
They're back!

Watch Nickelback's Chad Kroeger serenade Sammy Hagar with Metallica's Enter Sandman for his birthday
By Rich Hobson published
Sammy Hagar's birthday bash featured performances from Jerry Cantrell, Chad Kroeger and Belinda Carlisle

"We are cooking." New Slipknot music is on the way
By Rich Hobson published
A follow-up to 2022's The End, So Far could be just around the corner

Watch Gene Simmons officiate at 2025's most rock'n'roll wedding
By Fraser Lewry published
The Kiss man presided over the wedding of Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante and former Butcher Babies singer Carla Harvey

Yes guitarist Steve Howe to release limited edition vinyl 10 inch EP of Bob Dylan covers
By Jerry Ewing published
Steve Howe follows his reissue of 1999's Portraits Of Bob Dylan with the three-track Signals Crossed EP in December

Australian punk legends Hard-Ons launch vinyl record containing their actual blood
By Fraser Lewry published
The album is packaged with a deluxe edition box set of the Hard-Ons' award-winning documentary The Most Australian Band Ever!

Eagles break venue record by extending run of shows at Sphere in Las Vegas
By Fraser Lewry last updated
Eagles will now play a total of 52 shows at the 20,000-capacity Sphere
Latest Classic Rock Features

An audience with Spinal Tap legend David St. Hubbins
By Rich Hobson published
Spinal Tap singer/guitarist David St. Hubbins on beefing with Metallica, hanging with Ronnie James Dio and why they could never be Slipknot

"I've heard it's responsible for a whole generation being conceived": The epic story of rock's ultimate aphrodisiac anthem
By Henry Yates published
"I did feel like making love at the time... that happened a lot" - Paul Rodgers

After 50 years, 38 Special have learned a thing or two about keeping a band together
By Dave Ling published
38 Special were too big at home in the US to return to the UK during the past 40 years, but new album Milestone might bring them back

How a duo who never intended to be a real band had a 1980 hit that changed prog for ever
By Paul Lester published
When an experimental project escaped from the studio in 1980, no one could have predicted the consequences for both prog and pop music – and not everyone was happy about it

"Hello, cheeky!" How MTV made Whitesnake into megastars
By Jon Hotten published
As MTV announces it will no longer play music videos in the UK and Europe, we look back at the moment it helped reinvent Whitesnake

How an iconic Alice In Chains song brought Jerry Cantrell closer to his estranged dad
By Henry Yates published
Rooster by Alice In Chains was Jerry Cantrell’s tribute to his Vietnam veteran dad, and it showed a different kind of dark side to the band
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Latest Classic Rock Reviews

Review: Bruce Springsteen strips things back on expanded Nebraska '82
By Paul Whitelaw published
Bruce Springsteen's stark acoustic masterpiece Nebraska now available in full-bodied form

Chrissie Hynde & Pals' Duets Special is a quiet, low-key joy to behold
By Emma Johnston published
Old faithfuls and a few surprises revisited by the Pretenders frontwoman and some peers

Night Ranger's place in rock history settled by first album Dawn Patrol
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Night Ranger hit the ground running with their platinum debut Dawn Patrol

"Some Time In New York City is an album that suffers from being terrible": John & Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band compiled on Power To The People
By David Quantick published
A collection of live, studio and demo tracks and an almost-album from John Lennon’s political New York City years

Fields Of The Nephilim take 80s goth to its logical extreme on The Nephilim
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Fields Of The Nephilim's second album blends mysticism and the occult, referencing Aleister Crowley and HP Lovecraft

Ozzy: No Escape From Now is an imperfect but essential look at Ozzy Osbourne’s final years
By Matt Mills published
Though it’s sometimes slapdash, Paramount Plus’s two-hour documentary offers impressive insight into the Prince Of Darkness’ late-life struggles