Latest Classic Rock News
Slash, Halestorm, Blackberry Smoke and more line up for star-studded Bad Company tribute album
Watch now: The Struts' video for their cover of Bad Company's Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy
Actress Ione Skye recalls the night that her ex-boyfriend, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis, learned that guitarist Hillel Slovak had died of a heroin overdose
Ione Skye shares vivid memories of the night that broke Anthony Kiedis' heart
Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler recalls his very first meeting with Ozzy Osbourne, and the start of "the most incredible journey of our lives"
My brother said to me, "There’s something at the door asking for you"
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard become most high-profile band to pull music from Spotify over CEO’s investments in military technology
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard remove music from Spotify as a protest against its CEO's involvment in the 'defence industry'
"Iron Maiden's crew said, ‘We can't believe it. No middle fingers, no coins or shoes being thrown!'"
Lzzy Hale on why she relishes the challenge of winning over potential hostile crowds
"I want to lick you now!": Things are getting Extreme in the Fripp-Willcox household
Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox's ever-expanding archive of online tomfoolery has been updated
Watch Phil Rudd return to the stage – with several AC/DC classics and a full orchestra
Rudd returned to action at a sold-out, 13,000-capacity show in New Zealand
Latest Classic Rock Features
Duff McKagan: "Sabbath were there for me before punk."
Guns N' Roses legend Duff McKagan shares what Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne mean to him
"I formed this band for God’s sake! And I helped Roger a hell of a lot because he wasn’t a musician when we started." The lost Richard Wright interview
On the back of a Classic Rock cover story for Pink Floyd's The Wall back in 2000, keyboard player Richard Wright was determined to have his say. And he did
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 28, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Tuk Smith, Blues Pills, The Vintage Caravan and more
The highs, lows, controversies and epic comebacks of Slayer
How one Mercyful Fate-worshipping little band from California changed the face of metal forever
Tom Morelllo on how Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath changed his life
Rage Against The Machine's mercurial guitarist helped curate the Back To The Beginning spectacular. It was a job he'd been training for his whole life
Joseph Arthur’s first acid trip turned him on to the majesty of Rush
In an incident he doesn’t recommend emulating, the singer-songwriter’s appreciation for the Canadian giants was cemented – but that’s only one of four reasons he loves them
Latest Classic Rock Reviews
Electric Light Orchestra hit the right formula on A New World Record
A New World Record added Olympian levels of commercial success to Jeff Lynne's mix of melodic craft and production nous
"As a transitional record, More Songs About Buildings And Food is extraordinary": Talking Heads' second album, expanded
Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings And Food takes the existential blankness of European art-rock and filters it through a uniquely American lens
Priest's biggest UK headline gig is a victorious celebration
Judas Priest's biggest ever UK headline gig comes tinged with sadness, but also victorious celebrations
Fifty-one years on, The Revenge Of Alice Cooper finds the old band in majestic form
The Alice Cooper group's first full studio album together since 1974’s Muscle Of Love is a convincing recreation of an old landscape
This is what it would sound like if The Cure were a death metal band – and it’s brilliantly bonkers
Hesitating Lights, the second album by Swedish noise-makers Floating, pairs post-punk riffs with extreme metal aggression to amazing, disorienting effect
Keith Richards goes solo on Talk Is Cheap
The polar opposite to Mick Jagger’s synthesised solo clatter, Keith Richards' Talk Is Cheap brimmed with soul
