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Golden Earring sharpen their sound and score an MTV hit on Cut
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Proof that there's more to Golden Earring than Radar Love

Lacuna Coil's Bloodstock set shows they are a band operating at the peak of their powers
By Merlin Alderslade published
30 years into their career, Lacuna Coil are writing some of their very best music - and putting on some of their best live shows

Orange Goblin just played their final ever UK festival show - and it was one hell of a goodbye
By Rich Hobson published
Orange Goblin commemorate their 30th - and final - year with a barnstorming final UK festival performance at Bloodstock

Greatest Hits Expanded charts Chicago's evolution into accomplished balladeers
By John Aizlewood published
The bonkers and the ballads

The Black Keys sound euphoric on the dreamy 60s psych-soul sound of No Rain, No Flowers
By Mark Beaumont published
Beleaguered retro rockers the Black Keys sprout fresh, soulful intent on thirteenth studio album No Rain, No Flowers

Halestorm finally scale rock's summit on Everest
By Matt Mills published
US hard rockers Halestorm bring on-stage ferocity into the recording studio

"Do we have any glue sniffers in the house tonight?" Amid all the life-affirming scenes of wild collective euphoria, Oasis' superb fifth night at London's Wembley Stadium shows Liam and Noel Gallagher still have punk rock souls
By Paul Brannigan published
Thirty years on from (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, the reunited Oasis have never sounded better

Black Sabbath tweak the formula on Master Of Reality, invent even more genres
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Black Sabbath: now heavier, denser and doomier than before

De'Wayne's June is the sound of a musician with grand ambitions
By Emma Johnston published
Eclectic Texan rocker De'Wayne thinks big on third album June

Electric Light Orchestra hit the right formula on A New World Record
By Classic Rock Magazine published
A New World Record added Olympian levels of commercial success to Jeff Lynne's mix of melodic craft and production nous

"As a transitional record, More Songs About Buildings And Food is extraordinary": Talking Heads' second album, expanded
By David Quantick published
Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings And Food takes the existential blankness of European art-rock and filters it through a uniquely American lens

Priest's biggest UK headline gig is a victorious celebration
By Rich Hobson published
Judas Priest's biggest ever UK headline gig comes tinged with sadness, but also victorious celebrations

Fifty-one years on, The Revenge Of Alice Cooper finds the old band in majestic form
By Ian Fortnam published
The Alice Cooper group's first full studio album together since 1974’s Muscle Of Love is a convincing recreation of an old landscape

This is what it would sound like if The Cure were a death metal band – and it’s brilliantly bonkers
By Matt Mills published
Hesitating Lights, the second album by Swedish noise-makers Floating, pairs post-punk riffs with extreme metal aggression to amazing, disorienting effect

Keith Richards goes solo on Talk Is Cheap
By Classic Rock Magazine published
The polar opposite to Mick Jagger’s synthesised solo clatter, Keith Richards' Talk Is Cheap brimmed with soul

Bush's I Beat Loneliness review: Gavin Rossdale casts his gaze inward after putting the world to rights on The Art Of Survival
By Paul Travers published
Gavin Rossdale proves a bit of earnestness and a whole lot of heart can make all the difference on Bush's I Beat Loneliness

Introducing Die Spitz, the best new band in the world
By Paul Brannigan published
Introducing Die Spitz, your new favourite band
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