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How Caravan’s In The Land Of Grey And Pink became an unheralded prog classic
The leading lights of the Canterbury Scene’s third album is a genuine masterpiece – but pitifully few people heard about it on its arrival
Hayley Williams is low-key taking over the world, and the misogynist music industry can't do a damned thing about it
The unstoppable rise of Hayley Williams, an icon for our time
The Moody Blues on their albums, Charles Manson, and the mood-altering magic of Nights In White Satin
The Moody Blues were just another British R&B band. Then they got into some old clothes, mind-expanding drugs and lashings of Mellotron… and helped invent prog rock
Pearl Jam albums ranked from worst to best
Dismissed by many of their peers as grunge interlopers, Pearl Jam have out-written, out-sold and outlived most of those detractors
“He said, ‘We can’t use this – people will think we’re a Christian rock band!’ I went and got myself a drink. There was no arguing with that kind of thinking”: Marillion’s battle over the cover for Afraid Of Sunlight
Diplomacy abandoned singer Steve Hogarth and keyboardist Mark Kelly in disagreement over 1995 artwork, which was later reinstated. In the end it was just another fight between mates
How AC/DC's plan to conquer the world began in the back of a squalid bus
We travel back to 1976 to spend time with AC/DC as they clamber the first few rungs on stardom’s greasy ladder
How Bleed From Within became Slipknot-endorsed international metal stars
From touring with Slipknot to opening for Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine in the US, Bleed From Within are a band on the rise
"Nobody wanted to sign us, because we didn’t sound like Korn or Limp Bizkit."
System Of A Down might not've fit in, but they helped reshape metal for generations to come
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 1, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Cheap Trick, the Vintage Caravan, Foxy Shazam and more
The brilliant new metal bands you need to hear in September 2025
From Gates To Hell's Kentucky fried death metal, to the shimmering industrial metal of The Defect, riffy stoner rock'n'roll of King Kraken, crossover thrashers Inhuman Nature and nu gaze champions Split Chain, these are the metal bands you need to hear in September 2025
