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50th anniversary reissue of Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge to be released in June
Mike Oldfield's second album, 1974's Hergest Ridge, to be reissued on double vinyl and Blu-ray to celebrate the album's 50th anniversary
Employed To Serve have made an album of the year contender with Fallen Star
Employed To Serve have dished up their best album yet - and a certified metal album of the year contender
"In a word, Viagr Aboys is chaos." Swedish post-punks Viagra Boys get weirder, looser and messier than ever on their fourth album
Stockholm post-punks deliver a fever dream fourth record
Ian Anderson: Jethro Tull’s one-legged hammy past and their potential stripped-down future
Latest Jethro Tull album Curious Ruminant has Ian Anderson reflecting on his hammy stage performances of the past, working with William Shatner and Mikael Åkerfeldt, and how the band could have a back-to-basics future
The Cure launch mammoth Mixes Of A Lost World album, donate royalties to charity
Listen to remixes by Four Tet and Paul Oakenfold now
The Bonnie Raitt albums you should definitely listen to, and one to avoid
Soul-stirring singer and guitarist Bonnie Raitt has carved her niche covering celebrated songwriters in blues, folk, R&B and rock
"It sounds like Dream Theater doing a pastiche of Bon Jovi songs": Did Extreme over-egg the funk-rock pudding on III Sides To Every Story?
Extreme's third album, the three-part III Sides To Every Story, was the sound of a band over-reaching themselves
Procol Harum didn’t expect 50th anniversary album Novum to be their last
When Procol Harum released 50th anniversary album Novum in 2017, vocalist Gary Brooker and lyricist Pete Brown made it clear they weren’t expecting it to be their last
