Latest Classic Rock News
Ross 'The Boss' Friedman, founding guitarist with Manowar and The Dictators, dead at 72
News of Friedman's death comes just weeks after he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease
The Black Crowes' Chris Robinson looks back on a turbulent decade
The Black Crowes did a lot of growing up in the '90s
Pink Floyd to release 1975 Los Angeles Sports Arena concert on vinyl and CD for very first time in April
Pink Floyd Live From The Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th, 1975 has been restored and remastered by Steven Wilson
Metallica producer: “Nothing happened in the band unless Cliff Burton nodded ‘yes’”
80s producer Flemming Rasmussen remembers Cliff Burton being the heavy metal titans’ unofficial musical leader
Judas Priest have started recording their next album: “I don't know if I’m allowed to say that, but I’ve said it”
Guitarist Richie Faulkner says the British metal veterans were in the studio for a month earlier this year
Paul McCartney announces new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane, shares first single Days We Left Behind
Paul McCartney announces 18th solo album
Slayer soundtrack a fist-fight featuring Bruce Campbell as Satan in the new episode of Invincible, and TV doesn’t get much cooler than that
SPOILER ALERT: watch a snippet of the blood-soaked battle here
Latest Classic Rock Features
How the very first song Queen ever played live went on to become a 70s rock classic covered by the world’s biggest metal band
It took Queen four years to record Stone Cold Crazy – but when they finally did, they nailed it
Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament on Ten, Temple Of The Dog, Mother Love Bone and working with Neil Young
"We didn’t expect Ten to be a huge deal. But I guess it kinda became one"
The drama behind the recording of Smashing Pumpkins' era-defining, bombastic masterpiece
Thirty years after its release, Billy Corgan looks back at the making of The Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
The bloody-minded duo who dared to delete a Robert Fripp solo in front of him
Their groundbreaking 1994 album has stood the test of time – but their refusal to compromise with label and management made it look as if their time was up
The surprisingly contentious origins of Gimme Some Lovin' by the Spencer Davis Group
Gimme Some Lovin’ by the Spencer Davis Group was written in minutes - but its roots are still debated
The fabulous adventures of one of America's greatest cult artists, Jesse Malin
From DIY punk to major label almost-stardom, from supporting Kiss and Green Day to being honoured by (and making friends with) Bruce Springsteen, Jesse Malin's career has been a wild ride
Latest Classic Rock Reviews
Suzi Quatro refuses to dim the lights on 18th album Freedom
Freedom is Suzi Quatro's third album in collaboration with son LR Tuckey
The Expanded Edition of Van Halen's 5150 is bigger but not necessarily better
Exit Dave, enter Sammy, and Van Halen's first No.1 album
Opeth's Blackwater Park: A mesmerisingly brilliant prog-metal album’s quarter-century celebration
In which Steven Wilson helps Opeth emerge from the musky cocoon of their darker 90s albums with a wider and brighter sound
Melissa Auf der Maur's 90s rock memoir Even the Good Girls Will Cry is a frank, fearless and fabulously revelatory read
You won't read a better '90s music biography than former Hole / Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur's new memoir
Linda Ronstadt gently explores an eclectic selection of songs on Heart Like A Wheel
Heart Like A Wheel was a key step in Ronstadt's mid-70s rise, thanks to an astute choice of songs, smart production and *that* voice
Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and The Mothers' Bongo Fury, revisited and expanded
A six-disc, 57-track edition of the legendary 1975 collaboration, featuring live recordings and outtakes
