Rob Hughes

From The Boss to Chuck Berry, Nils Lofgren has played with them all and lived to tell the tale

Informed by childhood memories, Louise Patricia Crane's new album is an intensely personal dark fantasia

Fresh from their induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, we look at the Dave Matthews Band's finest moments

The Jesus Lizard are back with a bang, referencing their past, building on it and retaining their sense of humour

Almost 40 years after the band called it a day, Viva Lone Justice is just around the corner

The Banishing is the triumphant result of Gong and Utopia Strong member’s mental battle, loss of his family, support from his friends and a “heroic dose of magic mushrooms”

BB King was the greatest bluesman the world has ever seen. We look back at his life, with a little help from his friends

The reunion of two bandmates who’d fallen out badly in the 70s, combined with the energy of a lifelong fan, resulted in a stunning album that assembled the leading lights of Crimson’s final era

Highlights from the career of the man formerly known as Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

Inspired by sharing records with Steven Wilson, he took a more melodic approach, added a vague title that just sounded cool, and forged them into a “journey through life that starts pretty good and ends shit”

A story of challenges, limitations, the completion of its 40-year journey and working with Stockhausen – who “considered himself to be made of sound”

A King Crimson show in 1981 kickstarted the duo’s partnership, powered by all kinds of prog and never completely destroyed by their battles

From punk beginnings to Britpop and avant-rock, the Woking Wonder has a thousand things he wants to say to you – and these are his best albums

Change is in the air after perplexing pair drew a line under their past with Origins anthology, and began work on their heaviest and proggiest album to date

"I feel really lucky to be given the opportunity to be truly emotive each night with people who are equally as excited to be there as I am" - Marcus King

Moby Grape had it all, and were poised to be the next truly great band. Then came the rip-offs, the drugs, the madness, and the loss of everything

Taking the blues as their starting point and then giving it a twist, the Black Keys have created an energetic new strand of an old genre

Ministry linchpin Al Jourgensen picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals what happened when GG Allin threw up on him in an elevator in New York

Andy Warhol, Studio 54, Madison Square Garden and two albums – this is what it was like being in Kiss in 1977

When the going got real tough the Texans kept going. Now they're reaping the rewards

US tour with Focus, Martin Turner and Curved Air presents possibility of completing songs left unfinished after original singer’s death

The Sex Pistols may have got all the headlines and The Clash the critical acclaim, but The Damned trumped them all

Captain Beefheart was an eccentric but hugely influential artist tortured by his failure to break into the mainstream. These are his best albums