Articles by Polly Glass, Deputy Editor, Classic Rock

Polly is deputy editor at Classic Rock magazine, where she writes and commissions regular pieces and longer reads (including new band coverage), and has interviewed rock's biggest and newest names. She also contributes to Louder, Prog and Metal Hammer and talks about songs on the 20 Minute Club podcast. Elsewhere she's had work published in The Musician, delicious. magazine and others, and written biographies for various album campaigns. In a previous life as a women's magazine junior she interviewed Tracey Emin and Lily James – and wangled Rival Sons into the arts pages. In her spare time she writes fiction and cooks.

Articles by: Polly Glass

"I wanted to write an album for my 15-year-old self, growing up kind of lost, but just knowing I loved music": Sophie Lloyd on the origins of her Imposter Syndrome album

By Polly Glass published 9 January 24

Thanks to her debut LP Imposter Syndrome, British YouTube sensation Sophie Lloyd is becoming a star away from the internet

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Royal Republic, The Pineapple Thief, Bob Vylan and more

By Polly Glass published 8 January 24

In which we burst into 2024 with eight songs that confirm that this year will like every other: packed with hot rock'n'roll action

"I want my Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. I want to find real love. I want to make more money than I ever have": Wild nights on the road with The Struts

By Polly Glass published 1 January 24

The Struts have made bad decisions, suffered imposter syndrome and much more, but they haven't stopped wanting to be the biggest and the best

"I have an addictive personality. I have five hundred guitars, five hundred amps. Things escalate": Joe Bonamassa comes clean

By Polly Glass published 29 December 23

Joe Bonamassa is a lauded blues guitar hero and much more, but he's no stranger to self-doubt. We met him ahead of a scorching show in France

Bob Dylan, Curtis Mayfield and George Harrison portraits

14 peace anthems and the stories behind them

By Bill DeMain, Polly Glass, Jo Kendall, Henry Yates published 25 December 23

From pleas for equality to anti-war sentiments and social commentary, we look at some of the greatest peace songs of all time

"I want to be going on tour, recording albums and having millions of fans who adore me": Meet Michael Catton, the singer with Iron Maiden in his veins and the 80s in his music

By Polly Glass published 20 December 23

British/Danish singer Michael Catton was introduced to 80s-style heavy music by playing Guitar Hero: now he's doing it for real

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Amon Amarth, The Record Company, Marillion and more

By Polly Glass published 18 December 23

The final Tracks Of The Week contest of 2023 is officially underway

Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen and Rick Nielsen

32 of the greatest onstage moments in the entire history of the rock guitar

By Amit Sharma, Polly Glass, Henry Yates, Ian Fortnam, Paul Henderson, Richard Bienstock, Joe Bosso, Andy Aledort, Damian Fanelli published 18 December 23

Celebrating the pioneering, the spectacular, the unexpected and the unrepeatable

Starbenders, Wolfgang Van Halen, The Rolling Stones, Grace Potter and Skindred

The 50 best rock albums of 2023

By Fraser Lewry published 15 December 23

The past 12 months may go down in history as a period of tumult and turmoil, but on the positive side, rock'n'roll is very much alive and well – as the best 50 albums of 2023 reflect

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Sebastian Bach, Big Big Train, Lucifer and more

By Polly Glass published 11 December 23

Eight rockin' ways to kick the week off in style

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including David Lee Roth, Ace Frehley, the Pineapple Thief and more

By Polly Glass published 4 December 23

You wanted the best, you got the best: the hottest eight tracks in the world... Tracks Of The Week

"My advice? Buy records. And when you think you’ve bought enough, buy more": Danko Jones on barbecuing, karaoke, and why you should buy more vinyl

By Polly Glass published 27 November 23

Danko Jones have been going 27 years, but their frontman is as much of a music fan as he ever was: he's also got a new album to talk about

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Måneskin, Bernie Marsden, Saxon and more

By Polly Glass published 27 November 23

Eight reasons to believe

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Blackberry Smoke, The Answer, Crossbone Skully and more

By Polly Glass published 20 November 23

Eight new songs that are better than eight other new songs we could have picked because there were a helluva lot of new songs this week make no mistake

"Let's give them a record that they can lose themselves in": Steven Wilson doesn't think rock belongs in 2023 but he'll still try and make that million-seller

By Polly Glass published 17 November 23

Steven Wilson is the renaissance man of modern prog. He’s also something of an enigma, and new album The Harmony Codex is as enigmatic as anything he's made

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Record Company, Laura Jane Grace, Måneskin and more

By Polly Glass published 13 November 23

Who needs a new Beatles song when Tracks Of The Week is here? Quite frankly, no one

The cover of Led Zeppelin IV with Kenwyn House

Why I ❤️ Led Zeppelin IV and Stairway To Heaven, by Goldray guitarist Kenwyn House

By Polly Glass published 12 November 23

Kenwyn House recently became the first guitarist to play Stairway To Heaven's guitar part with Robert Plant onstage apart from Jimmy Page himself

"We're buddies and brothers first and a band second": Twenty years and eight albums in, Black Stone Cherry reflect on life, love, and what they've learned

By Polly Glass published 8 November 23

Black Stone Cherry have been playing their unyielding brand of southern rock for more than two decades: with recent album Screamin’ At The Sky another Top 10 album, we sat down with each member

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Struts, The Hot Damn!, Deap Vally and more

By Polly Glass published 6 November 23

Eight newly discovered planets in the spectacular solar system of rock'n'roll

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Lucifer, DeWolff, The Hives and more

By Polly Glass published 30 October 23

Eight newly discovered rock'n'roll comets, each screaming towards planet Earth, all ready for impact

“Maverick in scope and enormous in scale… but it owes much of its sprawling nature to its contributors”: Steven Wilson’s The Harmony Codex

By Polly Glass published 26 October 23

Modern prog’s great visionary throws away the stylistic rule book to deliver an enigmatic, luxurious post-pandemic masterwork

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Struts, the Cadillac Three, Dirty Honey and more

By Polly Glass published 23 October 23

For those about to vote, we salute you

"They do this crazy thing – they write good songs! And it doesn’t sound dated!": My 80s Mixtape, by Clutch's Neil Fallon

By Polly Glass published 17 October 23

Clutch mainman Neil Fallon curates a playlist of his favourite 1908s and names the classic album that inspired his art class project

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Bush, Joanne Shaw Taylor, CJ Wildheart and more

By Polly Glass published 16 October 23

Eight songs so good they'll rock the free world and probably the not-so-free world too

"You don't look like a rock star, you don't write music like a rock star": how Joe Satriani confounded his label and recorded the one-take wonder that changed his life

By Polly Glass published 15 October 23

Completely at odds with the guitar styles of the time, Joe Satriani’s out-of-this-world instrumental Surfing With The Alien caught the imagination of a generation

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