Twisted Sister start their own party on You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll
Hated by their US record company, Twisted Sister's You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll was a mission statement and a launchpad
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Stereophonics fail to strike a chord quite like the early days on thirteenth studio album
Some notable numbers on a record that leaves you feeling short-changed
H.E.A.T tighten their grip on the modern melodic rock crown on Welcome To The Future
Swedish kings H.E.A.T brilliantly buck fashions on seventh studio album Welcome To The Future
Billy Idol reflects on the good, the bad and the ugly sides of his life on Dream Into It
The UK punk who conquered the US looks back on his life and the scene that made him on ninth solo album
"It sounds like Dream Theater doing a pastiche of Bon Jovi songs": Did Extreme over-egg the funk-rock pudding on III Sides To Every Story?
Extreme's third album, the three-part III Sides To Every Story, was the sound of a band over-reaching themselves
After six albums of Beelzebub-bothering, Ghost's melodic metal is more tempting than ever
Swedish purveyors of satanic arena rock Ghost camp it up on sixth album Skeletá
Stand aside Jesus - Ghost’s devilish Skeletour show is the perfect Easter resurrection
Ghost return to London after three years in Satanic style, with new songs, a new look and a ban on phones
In the age of dystopian catastrophe Hawkwind are still looking to space
Hawkwind's 37th album There’s No Space For Us finds the space travellin' veterans in cosmic shipshape form
The big hits are nowhere to be heard as Neil Young digs deep on the unusually atmospheric Coastal
Neil Young's millionth live album just happens to be a good one
How Lollapalooza helped lay the foundations for a cultural revolution, via alternative rock, heroin, pierced penises, stomach bile cocktails and a shotgun
Eye-popping and wildly entertaining oral history of Perry Farrell's groundbreaking travelling circus (and freak show)
Eric Clapton fails to wake up the neighbours on the cathartic but glum Pilgrim
Stick a pin in Eric Clapton’s late-period work and you’re liable to hit a stinker, but for sheer lack of invention, Pilgrim is routinely held up as his lowest ebb
Killing Joke, Ministry, The Mission supergroup Sevendials deliver a deliciously warped mix of camp thrills and tense gothic drama on kaleidoscopic debut album A Crash Course In Catastrophe
Chris Connelly-fronted alt.rockers Sevendials get their groove on with A Crash Course In Catastrophe
"Skeletá is Ghost at their most confident, flamboyant and defiant."
Ghost aren't sweating their metal cred with the massive songs of Skeleta
Masters Of Reality's seventh album The Archer is lean, graceful and magnificent
A welcome return of cult desert-rock mystic Chris Goss
Those Damn Crows prepare to go international on God Shaped Hole
They’re ready to take on the world
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs hone their dream to be as potent a live band as Download festival favourites Vengaboys
Newcastle's finest Pigs x 7 deliver a masterclass in stoner/doom/psych riffathons on the release day for their new album Death Hilarious
The Band's second album is an acknowledged classic, but there are some dissenters
For their second album, The Band relocated from upstate New York to California and turned Sammy Davis Jr.’s poolhouse into a makeshift studio
L.A. Guns appear impervious to age on Leopard Skin
Sunset Strip veterans L.A. Guns' late-career hot streak continues on album number 15
The Datsuns back themselves into a musical cul-de-sac on Outta Sight / Outta Mind
The trousers were tight, the guitars were wielded like weapons, but The Datsuns' second album hasn't aged well
