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

Take a close look at Mother Vulture and you'll find their suits are covered in blood

By Polly Glass published 17 December 22

Meet rising British blues-punk firebrands Mother Vulture: they'll tell you about balancing chaos, what being in a AC/DC tribute band teaches you, and making people smile

Tracks Of The Week: the eight new songs we're listening to right now

By Polly Glass published 12 December 22

Featuring The Answer, Steve Vai, Steel Panther, Slift and more... plus last week's winners

The eight best new rock songs out this week

By Polly Glass published 5 December 22

Eight beautiful baubles hanging from the newly erected Christmas tree of rock

The eight best new rock songs of this week

By Polly Glass published 28 November 22

Eight songs to bring you joy, bring you fun, bring you seasons in the sun. Or the abyss. It's entirely up to you

Tracks of the Week: new music from Cats In Space, Grace McKagan and more

By Polly Glass published 21 November 22

Eight songs to take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of Rockdom

Tracks of the Week: new music from Royal Thunder, Larkin Poe and more

By Polly Glass last updated 14 November 22

Also starring: Skindred, Robert Jon & The Wreck, Skinny Knowledge, DeWolff, Curly's Jewels and Åskväder

Tracks of the Week: new music from Tuk Smith, Joe Lynn Turner and more

By Polly Glass published 7 November 22

Eight songs to celebrate the arrival of the 4044th Monday since the end of World War II

Tracks of the Week: new music from Kings Of Chaos, Nickelback and more

By Polly Glass published 31 October 22

Eight songs to improve your day by an estimated 200% or your money back

Tracks of the Week: new music from Those Damn Crows, Jaws The Shark and more

By Polly Glass published 24 October 22

Eight lovely songs to assist your escape from the ongoing apocalypse

Rock star, interrupted: the unsung story of grunge pioneer Tina Bell and Bam Bam

By Polly Glass published 20 October 22

The story of Seattle grunge forerunners Bam Bam and their incendiary singer Tina Bell is one of the most overlooked in rock’n’roll. Ten years after Bell’s tragic death, we find out where it all first went right – and then wrong

Tracks of the Week: new music from Mammoth WVH, The Answer and more

By Polly Glass published 17 October 22

Eight songs to get excited about including Rival Sons, These Wicked Rivers, John Sloman and more

Walter Trout gave himself to rock'n'roll... and it almost killed him

By Polly Glass published 12 October 22

A few years ago Walter Trout thought death was around the corner, and the American bluesman’s new album still resonates with echoes of darker times

Tracks Of The Week: new music from Larkin Poe, Måneskin and more

By Polly Glass last updated 11 October 22

Incoming excitement from The Cold Stares, All Them Witches, Bernie Tormé and other unruly ambassadors of rock

Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan: the soundtrack of my life

By Polly Glass published 11 October 22

Rival Sons' frontman Jay Buchanan picks his artists, records and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the existence of the secret solo album he made in 2007

LostAlone: what happens when you've been fed a diet of Queen records your entire life

By Polly Glass published 6 October 22

Derby power trio LostAlone have returned with megawatt fourth album The Warring Twenties after eight years away

Tracks of the Week: new music from Skid Row, Tuk Smith and more

By Polly Glass published 3 October 22

Eight new songs to revive your get-up-and-go, just in case it got up and went

Tracks of the Week: new music from The Hot Damn!, Weezer and more

By Polly Glass published 26 September 22

This week's brightest rock baubles also include Ugly Kid Joe, Massive Wagons, Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners and more

Are Deraps to Van Halen what Greta Van Fleet are to Led Zeppelin? Quite possibly

By Polly Glass published 21 September 22

Jacob Deraps was inspired by videogames, met his drummer on YouTube and played with him for the first time during a Toto soundcheck. His band's pretty good too