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July 2025

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July 28
- "It's not too clever, it's not contrived - it's quite simply perfect": Electric Light Orchestra hit the right formula on A New World Record
July 27
- "As a transitional record, More Songs About Buildings And Food is extraordinary": Talking Heads' second album, expanded
July 26
- "Has there ever been a more important week to celebrate heavy metal?" Judas Priest and Alice Cooper team up for massive O2 Arena co-headline show in London
July 25
- "A 12-banger cracker of a record": 51 years on, The Revenge Of Alice Cooper finds the original band in majestic form
July 21
- This is what it would sound like if The Cure were a death metal band – and it’s brilliantly bonkers
- "Mick Jagger needs Keith Richards as much as Keith Richards needs Mick Jagger": Keef goes solo on Talk Is Cheap
July 20
- “These up-and-comers feel fully formed and vital”: Mawiza are endorsed by Gojira, Slipknot and King Diamond, and they’ve just put out one of 2025’s most important debut albums
July 19
- Bush's I Beat Loneliness review: Gavin Rossdale casts his gaze inward after putting the world to rights on The Art Of Survival
July 18
- If you haven't seen the best new band in the world live yet, you really, really, really should
- "With Grizzly, Slaughter To Prevail might complete the Mount Rushmore of great deathcore escapologists." Alex Terrible's mob stake a claim on the best deathcore album of 2025
- "In a world where we can’t have System Of A Down, this will more than do nicely." Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway make a brilliant, bonkers comeback with Addicted To The Violence
- "A band reaching out to the listeners they know are already there": Bush toy with invention but ultimately lack ambition on I Beat Loneliness
July 15
- "Adheres largely to the blueprint of its warmly received predecessor." Alan Parsons' From The New World
- “Is it really a three-bagpipe and mudguard version of a Swedish cycling song?” Anthony Phillips infuses nimble guitar work with surreal intros on Radio Clyde 1978
July 14
- "Lenny has that cool attitude, swagger, and vibe; just not for the entire album": Filler rears its head on Lenny Kravitz's breakthrough collection Are You Gonna Go My Way
July 13
- The book that Axl Rose doesn't want you to read: Alan Niven’s incredible book takes you inside peak Guns N’ Roses like no other
- “Tender and free-flowing… a potent, spontaneous moment in his career”: Jack Bruce’s Harmony Row, expanded to 4 discs
July 11
- "It's still a hodge-podge... largely redundant": Jethro Tull's expanded Still Living In The Past fails to produce much magic from the vaults
July 8
- The hype, buzz and fanfare may be quieter on album two, but Moisturizer is proof that Wet Leg haven't lost their spark, charm or quirkiness, still don't care what you think
- “Some synth timbres sound a little dated; but hymnal qualities and exquisite melancholy are still to die for”: Greg Lake Live returns from 2005
July 7
- "It’s hard to believe this is a man who cheated death not so long ago when he sounds this good." King Diamond brings horror, heavy metal and a touch of welcome silliness to Rock Imperium Festival
- "Shirley Manson sings like a pissed-off angel and has attitude to spare": Garbage's classic electro-grunge-goth-pop debut, revisited
July 6
- "It's not until Ozzy's actually there, thanking fans and getting tearful, that it sinks in." Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning: our ultimate review of their triumphant final show
- Oasis smash Cardiff with an all-killer, no-filler reunion set - but what a disappointing crowd
- “Their heyday is gone but their importance has grown – this is a reminder of what an inspirational band they were”: Horslips At The BBC
July 4
- Stacked bills, short sets and stumbling singers: Slayer's first UK gig in six years wasn't perfect, but their set was
- "A reintroduction to the artist as his truest self." Kae Tempest's fifth album Self Titled cements his status as one of the most essential voices in UK music
- “Many of these workouts sound amazingly contemporary; the mixing and matching of old and new is exemplary”: Tangerine Dream’s From Virgin To Quantum Years: Coventry Cathedral 22
- "A classic that deserves better treatment": The Sisters Of Mercy's First And Last And Always gets a gimmicky 40th birthday makeover
July 3
- “The intoxicating beauty remains 20 years on, reinforcing the notion that her softly charismatic voice can enchant in any era”: Judy Dyble’s Darkness To Light – The Recordings 2004-2006
July 1
- “A lost gem featuring the best of the best being put through their paces by the ever-controlling bandleader”: Frank Zappa’s unaired TV special Cheaper Than Cheep