Latest Classic Rock News
Woodstock legend Country Joe McDonald dead at 84
Country Joe McDonald fronted Country Joe and the Fish and wrote the Vietnam protest classic I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag
Unique Ozzy Osbourne museum exhibition to go on world tour
Sharon Osbourne says the deeply personal Ozzy exhibition currently showing at Birmingham Museum will travel the globe
The holy grail of '90s post-hardcore has finally been released
Fugazi's Albini Sessions is available now to purchase for a brilliant cause
Steven Wilson and Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt are going to make another album together
The celebrated prog musicians previously collaborated on 2012 album Storm Corrosion, and many fans are hankering for a follow-up
Metallica add six more shows to Life Burns Faster residency at Sphere, Las Vegas
Metallica have lined up ten sets of No Repeat Weekend dates in the City of Lost Wages
Guns N' Roses announce stadium tour in Australia and New Zealand with Airbourne
Guns N' Roses will head down under following dates in Latin America, the US and Europe
Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt reveals why collaboration with Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy hasn’t happened yet
Dream Theater’s drummer has said multiple times that he wants to make music with Opeth’s frontman. So, we asked Åkerfeldt what’s taking so long.
Latest Classic Rock Features
"Hearing Prince covered it or Taylor Swift hand-picked it for an Apple commercial? What is that?" How an email rant inspired a song worth a billion streams and picked up some iconic fans along the way
When the world felt very unstable in 2001, Jimmy Eat World delivered the feel good hit of the autumn
Amazingly, a prog supergroup soundtracked the summer of 1982. Their secret? English church music
With a background in three of the genre’s biggest bands, the quartet got tired of creating epics and decided to go pop. But they know their debut album would have only achieved a thousandth of its sales without the last track to be added
How a freak meeting with a lost friend inspired one of Pink Floyd’s greatest ever songs
Pink Floyd’s Shine On You Crazy Diamond is a bittersweet tribute to former frontman Syd Barrett
The cult hair metal band with links to Styx, Smashing Pumpkins and Kanye West who had the world in their hands – but threw it away
Enuff Z’Nuff could have been the new Cheap Trick, but label politics and self-destruction got in the way
The outrageous movie which captured the debauched 80s scene that “made Caligula look tame”
Who can forget WASP’s guitarist in a swimming pool with a bottle of vodka and his mom?
How Wishbone Ash made one of the greatest albums of the early 70s – but struggled to follow it up
Wishbone Ash’s Argus is 70s rock classic
Latest Classic Rock Reviews
Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio celebrated on Rainbow - The Temple Of The King 1975-76
Nine CDs of Ritchie, Ronnie and Rainbow
Japan's Flower Travellin' Band aren't for the faint-hearted on proto-prog-guitar-wigout Satori
Bored with covering Western blues bands, the Flower Travellin' Band set out on their own sonic adventure
Foo Fighters return to their punk roots in Manchester
Dave Grohl winds back the clocks with a very sweaty, very intimate show in Manchester
The “moving” Paul McCartney documentary that shows the failures between the triumphs
Paul McCartney: Man On The Run spotlights the trials and triumphs of the post-Beatles 70s
Rob Zombie goes full bore, full gore on blood-soaked eighth album The Great Satan
After a four-year hiatus, Rob Zombie returns to his frantic and frenetic Hellbilly roots
The Darkness in Auckland, New Zealand - live review
At the end of the year, The Darkness will headline the O2 in London: This week, we caught up with them at a venue 1/20th of the size in New Zealand
