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- August 31
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- The story behind the song: Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas
- High Hopes: Black Foxxes – "ragged noise" trio from Exeter
- Rickey Medlocke’s 5 essential guitar albums
- Roger Dean: Art For Art's Sake
- Transylvania's Negura Bunget unveil a spectacular video
- "We'll do early songs to prove we can rock:" REO Speedwagon are back on the road
- The 10 essential grindcore albums
- There is a Transformers rock band
- Knocked Loose release new song The Rain
- A Day To Remember's Bad Vibrations: Your Track-By-Track Guide
- The rise and rise of Marillion – the band that refuses to die
- Counting Days release new video for Beaten & Scarred
- Gallery: Bob Dylan and The Who play the second Isle Of Wight Festival
- The A-Z of Josh Homme
- "Quo were always cocky": the gospel according to Francis Rossi
- Slipknot – The TeamRock Archive
- Sum 41: Deryck Whibley's Long Hard Road Out Of Hell
- Cats In Space – the rock band, not actual cats in space...
- August 30
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- The Dirty Strangers: Fast times, famous friends and filthy rock'n'roll
- Welcome Back: Saga – Canadian prog/pop/pomp/AOR veterans return
- The top 10 best Uriah Heep songs from the 70s
- The 40 Best Songs Of 2016 So Far
- Thinking Out Loud: Dez Fafara
- The First Album I Ever Bought: Mike Duce, Lower Than Atlantis
- The 10 most underrated Soulfly songs
- All aboard: Billy Bragg and Joe Henry's homage to the great American railroad
- Can you identify these emoji classic rock songs?
- Six things you need to know about Crobot
- The 11 Best Slipknot Memes
- Meet the man behind viral sensation Sweet Indian Child O' Mine
- How to metal scream while jumping out of a plane
- "I'm no dope-smoking, vegan, PC leftie": the confessions of Jah Wobble
- Welcome Back: Hiss Golden Messenger – masters of alternative country
- 10 songs inspired by serial killers
- Play Stage Surfers - The New Game From Team Rock
- Who are Band-Maid and what do they want?
- Welcome Back: Feeder – "Finally, after 20 years, I'm happy with how I'm singing"
- August 29
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- Supersonic Blues Machine head to Norway for Notodden Blues Festival
- Queen albums ranked from worst to best
- The Top 10 Greatest Metallica Riffs Ever
- The Tubes: They came, they outraged, they conquered
- Inside the mind of the guitarist: Blackberry Smoke 's Charlie Starr
- Top 10 Oddest Covers Of Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O’ Mine
- Famous Firsts: Zakk Wylde on destroying houses and getting wasted with Ozzy
- The Top 10 best metal bands from Iceland
- The 10 Best Nirvana Songs For Elvis To Sing
- In Pictures: Reading Festival 2016 – Day 3
- What we learned during the final day of Reading 2016
- Slain: Back From Hell Review
- New Band Of The Week: Casey
- August 28
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- The 30 Greatest Metal Hammer Front Covers Of The Last 30 Years
- The top 10 best Sweet songs
- My Top 5 Punk Guitarists by Gallows' Laurent Barnard
- What we learned during the second day of Reading 2016
- Life And Death And Iron Maiden
- In Pictures: Reading Festival 2016 – Day 2
- Testament's Chuck Billy: the 10 records that changed my life
- August 27
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- The Bizarre Life & Sad Death Of Nikki Sixx’s Doppelganger
- The Story Behind The Song: Soul Asylum's Runaway Train
- Stevie Ray Vaughan: The Making Of Texas Flood
- In Pictures: Reading Festival 2016 – Day 1
- Heavy Load: Hawkwind
- Anthrax: Scott Ian's guide to life
- What we learned during the first day of Reading 2016
- The 10 Worst Songs By Queen
- Video Breakdown: Slipknot – Duality
- August 26
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- Who's really the biggest rock band in the world right now?
- This Man Is The Most Metal Swordmaker On The Planet
- The 10 albums that changed my life, by Blackberry Smoke's Charlie Starr
- Etta James: Buyer's Guide
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- 25 times Puddle Of Mudd’s Wes Scantlin completely fucked up
- Opeth's track by track guide to Sorceress
- Attention, uber-geeks! Space Engine IS the No Man’s Sky you’ve been looking for
- Every Converge Album Ranked From Worst To Best
- The six best new songs you'll hear all week
- The story behind Slayer's Reign In Blood album artwork
- Technology is Your Enemy – 5 Games That Play Out Like Fear Factory Songs
- August 25
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- Interview: Glenn Hughes explains the meaning of life
- How Boston Flew So High And Fell So Far
- Sweet Child O' Mine covered by thumb puppet band Thumbs N' Roses
- 10 Songs I Wish I'd Written by Deaf Havana's James Veck-Gilodi
- The top 10 best Disturbed songs
- This man has turned a microwave into a guitar – and it works!
- The Top 10 Best Alkaline Trio Songs
- Heavy Load: Rob Halford
- Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson: The Blues Roots Of A Prog Hero
- The confessions of Slash “The strangest thing a fan ever gave me? Crabs!”
- Rock Icons: Trent Reznor by King 810's David Gunn
- August 24
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- Kevin Cronin: The 10 Records That Changed My Life
- Inside the mind of the guitarist: Blackfoot's Rickey Medlocke
- The 10 Essential 90s US Punk Albums
- Why Turnstile refuse to follow the rules of hardcore
- In Pictures: The ultimate jam tribute to Lemmy
- The A-Z of Red Hot Chili Peppers
- The Top 10 Best Lamb Of God Songs
- 10 Bands You Can't Afford To Miss At Reading And Leeds
- Sweet Indian Child O' Mine
- August 23
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- Leslie West: First Time I Met The Blues
- Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction voted best debut of the last 30 years
- 12 Prog Albums We Can't Wait To Get Our Hands On Before The End Of 2016!
- Thinking Out Loud: Dee Snider
- What really happened the night Keith Moon died?
- The Top 10 Best Fall Out Boy Videos
- Pete Way: "If I’d have put it off another day... it would have been too late"
- Watch Cannibal Corpse played on the ukulele
- How did Kurt Cobain dislocate his shoulder during Nirvana's Reading debut?
- August 22
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- The Top 10 best Ministry songs
- The 12 Best Metallica Memes
- 10 of the best metal bands from Indonesia
- Six Things We Learned At Ministry's London Show
- Lamb Of God's Long, Strange Road Out Of Hell
- Nuno Bettencourt's 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- The Top 10 Best Indonesian Metal Bands
- The Best New Metal Album Releases This Week
- How terror attacks and spiritualism inspired the new Alcest album
- Charlotte Wessels' track-by-track guide to Delain's new album Moonbathers
- The First Album I Ever Bought: Will Gould, Creeper
- New Band Of The Week: Cold Years
- August 21
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- Fantastic Voyage: A Diary of Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp
- Pantera: A Vulgar Display Of Photos
- Architects’ Tom Searle was a true innovator – and a fighter to the end
- Glenn Hughes Keeps On Moving
- Blues Pills: from cigars and ski-hire to heavy soul and international success
- "You're All F**ked!" The story behind Marillion's 18th album F.E.A.R.
- 10 Songs Inspired By London
- Why does A's drummer spend breakfast time making toast sculptures?
- August 20
- August 19
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- Remembering L’Amour: America’s greatest metal club
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- Conjurer release Scorn video
- Wardruna unveil mesmerising new track Odal
- Every Fear Factory album ranked from worst to best
- 10 things you need to know about Metallica's producer Greg Fidelman
- What does the new Metallica song say about their new album?
- The story behind Black Sabbath's Heaven And Hell album artwork
- The A-Z of Tool
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: The Best Reactions To The New Metallica Song
- The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years review
- Q&A: Why Wes Borland's turned to the prog side
- 20 of the most obscure prog albums
- Sammy Hagar Has The Blues
- The Six Best New Songs You’ll Hear All Week That Aren't By Metallica
- "Marillion and Yes? Nah, I liked Motörhead": Inside the world of Devin Townsend
- My Record Collection: novelist and Hawkwind fan Martin Millar
- Ashley Hutchings on the progressive spirit that fuelled his classic albums
- Dream The Electric Sleep: "Peter Gabriel is a part of my life."
- The Top 10 Best Songs About Coffee
- Fad Gadgets: cassette synth, DIY speakers and a Bluetooth tennis ball
- Rick Wakeman's Caped Crusades: The Prog Awards... 2052!
- Aisles: determined to put Chilean prog on the map
- Circuline reveal their second album's secret ingredients
- August 18
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- Andy Partridge: The Big Interview
- The first reaction to Metallica's new song Hardwired
- Bon Jovi: Songwriters, Strippers and Suds – the Story of Slippery When Wet
- "We owe nothing to any stereotype.” Swedes Wolverine go forth on latest album
- Prog manager Andy Farrow lists his favourite live shows and recordings
- Tony Iommi on inventing heavy metal, drinking with Gillan, and not being evil
- Why Russian Circles would rather be called prog than post-rock
- No Man's Sky Review [PS4]
- Opinion: Hey Corey Taylor, call people out – but don't kick them out
- 5 Game Soundtracks That Sound Like Mad Prog Music
- 10 reasons why Heavy Montreal might be your new favourite festival
- Venom Prison release new song Abysmal Agony
- Watch 130 Russian rock fans cover Linkin Park and Bon Jovi
- Rammstein: the story behind their debut album Herzeleid
- Exclusive: Revered doom trio 40 Watt Sun unveil a devastating new track
- Every song on ZZ Top's Eliminator ranked from worst to best
- Exclusive interview with Barclay James Harvest founder Les Holroyd
- Barclay James Harvest: the British pioneers who led prog to glory
- The 10 best Aerosmith videos
- Life on prog's outer limits with Trevor Horn and Buggles
- How I got Lemmy into No Man's Sky
- Pledge Pioneers: How Marillion invented crowdfunding
- The Alligator Records Story
- Ben Chatwin swaps dystopian fiction for post-rock on his latest album
- FOES on creating big soundscapes for their debut album
- August 17
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- The Managers That Built Prog: Andy Farrow
- Ian Hunter - The 10 Songs That Changed My Life
- Vertigo Records: the label that changed the world
- Remi Gallego from Algorithm on combining Meshuggah with Aphex Twin
- Joe Bonamassa: The Real Me
- Paul Rodgers: “My greatest regret is not having Paul Kossoff around."
- How the Buzzcocks changed my life, by John Feldmann
- The Top 10 Essential 90s Metal Albums
- Japanese synchronised swimmers set routine to Kamelot
- Epic black metallers Imperium Dekadenz stream their stunning new album in full
- The A-Z of Fall Out Boy
- "F**k you, I'm Bruce Soord!" Have The Pineapple Thief become rock stars?
- Meet TTNG: the band so technical they've got songs in 22½/8
- Carnifex: What does it mean to be deathcore?
- The Top 10 Best Rancid Songs
- There's a metal cover of the Stranger Things theme song
- August 16
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- The Golden Grass want to take you higher
- That Time Sammy Hagar Was Abducted By Aliens
- The Top 10 Best David Bowie Lyrics
- The 10 most underrated UK punk albums of all time
- Muddy Waters: Life After Chess
- Thinking Out Loud: Bill Stevenson
- Inquisition stream their spectacular new album in full
- Daniel Lioneye streams new album Vol. III in full
- Every song on Pantera's Vulgar Display Of Power ranked from worst to best
- 12 things we learned at Atlanta's Wrecking Ball festival
- Of Mice & Men come back swinging in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- Of Mice & Men are on the rise – but they're facing their biggest challenge yet
- August 15
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- The Top 10 Best Mastodon Songs
- Motorhead Studio Albums Ranked Worst to Best
- Five things I can't live without: Creeper's Will Gould
- Mavis Staples: The Life And Soul Of A Legend
- Need something to watch? Here's 10 of the Best Rock Biopics ever made
- Watch Yoda and 108 film stars sing Green Day's Basket Case
- Video: pop star Rick Astley plays AC/DC's Highway To Hell
- Famous Firsts: Anthrax's Frank Bello on surviving smelly tours and loving Kiss
- Deathcore: that genre that refuses to die
- ‘I took mushrooms and thought I was God’: inside the brain of Devin Townsend
- Bloodstock 2016: Day Three Review
- New Band Of The Week: Schnarff Schnarff
- The Top 11 Best Songs About Motorbikes
- Tales From The Crypt: The return of The Misfits
- August 14
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- Bloodstock 2016: Patchwatch photo gallery
- Deathcore brutes Osiah are probably the heaviest band in the UK
- Bloodstock 2016: Day Two Review
- Max Cavalera: 10 Albums That Changed My Life
- “Metal needs a good f**king kick up the ass”: the story of Metallica’s Load
- Can there be such a thing as ‘real blues’ in the 21st century?
- Fresh meat: the three best new bands from metal's underground
- The 10 Worst Guns N' Roses Songs
- August 13
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- Is 2016 the year of the supergroup?
- How Yes ruled the 1970s
- Parkway Drive's Winston McCall: the 10 albums that changed my life
- The Story Behind The Song: I Want You To Want Me by Cheap Trick
- Epica's Simone Simons loves Opeth and here's why
- Simone Simons’ Guide To Life
- Bloodstock 2016: Day One Review
- The Top 10 Best Album Opening Songs Ever
- August 12
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- Rik Emmett's 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- The Top 10 Best Metallica Songs Of The 90s
- The darkness within: how did the The Amity Affliction survive meltdown?
- The Nu Gospel: Cane Hill's controversial stance on, well, everything
- In The Woods…: Norway's psychedelic black masters branch out again
- Imperium Dekadenz: obsessed with ancient Rome and ready to do black metal battle
- The Confessions Of Roddy Bottum
- New blood – Arctic, Integrity & Power Trip and Loathe
- Baroness mainman John Baizley: "To love art is to love life"
- Forget their famous parents, Shvpes are blazing their own trail
- Metallica: the epic story behind the Black album
- Mudface are on a mission to bring back straight-up, Bay Area metal values
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- Why did Death Spells receive hate mail after My Chemical Romance broke up?
- How Gary Moore reignited the British blues scene with the help of a famous guitar
- The six best new songs you'll hear all week
- The A-Z Guide To Mastodon
- Every Deftones album ranked from worst to best
- No Man's Sky: How We Made The Music by 65daysofstatic
- When Wakrat's #generationfucked hit Parliament
- The 1000 days that changed Metallica
- Watch out world – Sabaton are coming!
- Ten things we learned watching We Are Twisted F*cking Sister on the big screen
- August 11
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- Exmortus on why, erm, screenprinting is as metal as it gets
- What happened when Nightwish brought their full production to Canada?
- Green Day’s new song Bang Bang: The First Opinion
- The top 10 best Emperor songs
- What would happen if metal stars became supervillains?
- Meet VOLA: Denmark's latest head-turning, genre-bending prog crew
- Meet Wild Throne, the alt.rock square pegs on a mission to rule the world
- Satyricon: The Making Of Nemesis Divina
- XII Boar stream new album Beyond The Valley Of The Triclops in full
- Thy Art Is Murder and the story behind the Depression Sessions EP
- Every song on Korn’s debut album, ranked from worst to best
- 7 things we learned from David Brent: Life On The Road
- The confessions of Glen Benton: “Meth’s not my game anymore. I’m healthy living now.”
- Albert Collins Buyer's Guide
- What happened when Manic Street Preachers met Fidel Castro
- The 10 most Manowar Manowar songs ever
- August 10
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- Inside the mind of the guitarist: ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons
- The top 10 best Clutch songs
- The Top 10 Essential Nu Metal Albums
- Pain release bizarre video for Call Me
- Why did Coca-Cola object to having their advert appear on this Rush album cover?
- What happened when thousands of punks descended upon a British seaside town?
- Seven reasons why you should be excited that Avenged Sevenfold are back
- 13 Bassists Who Look Like They've Left The Oven On
- A Metalhead's Guide to Space Games
- ZZ Top are on the cover of the new issue of Classic Rock - out now
- Lost Classic: Wing Commander
- August 9
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- The 14 Greatest Comebacks in Rock
- Here's Motörhead's Ace Of Spades as you've never heard it before
- Salt Lake City doom crew SubRosa release an enrapturing new track
- Rock Icons: Rob Halford by Whitfield Crane
- Disturbed’s David Draiman: My Life Story
- Randy Blythe has a fight with GWAR's mascot
- 10 Things You Might Not Know About The Film Sid & Nancy
- The Top 10 Best 30 Seconds To Mars Videos
- How the UK changed Twisted Sister
- How Trivium Came Back From The Brink
- When Reboots Attack – 5 of the Worst
- Between A Rock And A Hard Place - Motörhead's Troubled Times
- August 8
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- 20 of the Greatest Rock'n'Roll Movies Ever Made
- The top 10 best Moody Blues songs
- Every Jethro Tull album, ranked from worst to best
- The top 10 best Cancer Bats songs
- What if James Hetfield was the Cowardly Lion? Microsoft's MurphyBot goes mental
- Wardruna reveal details of their new album, Runaljod - Ragnarok
- How The Dillinger Escape Plan changed metal
- Someone's made The Offspring's Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) using 230 film clips
- 10 of the best metal bands from Norway
- Brutai release new song Of Ashes
- Avenged Sevenfold’s M Shadows: “My 25-year-old self would punch me in the face”
- The best Scott Stapp memes on the internet
- Flash Metal Suicide: the wibbly-wobbly world of Green Jello
- Famous Firsts: Korn's Munky on discovering Ozzy and smoking crack
- New Band Of The Week: Big Jesus
- August 7
- August 6
- August 5
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- Alice Cooper: "Trust me, rockstars are dumber than anyone else out there"
- U.K. Subs frontman Charlie Harper looks back on four decades at punk's frontline
- Think you're unlucky? You're lucky you weren't in Spider
- Ozzy Osbourne: why I can't stop working, TV stardom, and being crap at parking
- The first reaction to Devin Townsend's new song Failure
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- Michael Schenker: how I came up with the classic riff for Doctor Doctor
- The A-Z of Rage Against The Machine
- Al Jourgensen previews Ministry's rare UK visit
- Beer Drinkers & Hellraisers: Meet The Cadillac Three
- Coheed And Cambria's Claudio Sanchez on Reading, Pink Floyd and extreme metal
- The six best new artists making country rock their own
- Meet the people behind Stranger Things' brilliant soundtrack
- “Fame was the least fun I ever had.” So what's Eric Church's problem?
- Mastodon's Brann Dailor discusses his pre-Bloodstock nerves
- Steeleye Span's Maddy Prior on Cropredy, the 70s and boozing with Status Quo
- What's the Mercury Prize's problem with rock?
- Steven Tyler: a little bit country, a little bit rock'n'roll
- Walter Trout: "I would put on a British accent and pretend to be John Mayall"
- The 25 best country rock songs of all time
- August 4
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- Interview: Alice Cooper on God, golf, heroes and villains
- Trevor Rabin on the reunion of three former Yes members
- Rock Icons: Dimebag by James Monteith
- Love, death and HIM: a classic interview with Ville Valo
- Stressful day? Unwind with this jazzy version of Dio's Holy Diver
- Deep cuts: The Savage Resurrection, the forgotten West Coast freaks from 1968
- 10 of the best metal bands from Canada
- What Classic Rock staffers have been listening to this month
- Enslaved premiere Lifandi Lif Undir Hamri from their remastered vinyl debut LP
- Descendents and the story of Milo, punk's most nerdy mascot
- When Reboots Attack – 5 of the Best
- Get closer to The Edge with his new signature guitar and amp
- The 5 worst rock star sex tapes ever made
- Meshuggah's Bleed recreated using gunshot noises
- Meet Welcome Back Delta: the Essex boys specialising in smut and swamp rock
- August 3
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- Interview: Love's Arthur Lee - "I was gonna start a band with Jimi Hendrix"
- Teenage Fanclub on being the second-best band in the world
- Def Leppard's Hysteria: Every Song Ranked From Worst To Best
- The Top 10 best Korn videos
- Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard stream new track Y Proffwyd Dwyll
- Ricky Gervais – "At 55 I still have a little bit of punk in me"
- How a Marlene Dietrich photo inspired one of Queen's most iconic album covers
- 40 albums that are 40 years old in 2016
- We Interviewed The Man Behind Canada's Biggest Metal Festival
- Cradle Of Filth: Dani Filth's Guide To Life
- The 10 best rhythm sections in rock and metal
- Six batshit crazy TV talent show Rammstein covers we never thought we’d see
- Shakey Graves wants to soothe you with his folky blues
- Warren Haynes: First Time I Met The Blues
- August 2
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- Six Things You Need To Know About Scorpion Child
- The top 10 best U2 songs
- Thinking Out Loud: Pete Wentz
- What happened at Cane Hill's Download festival debut?
- A Metalhead's Guide to eSports
- Three men have parodied Korn in this video and it's brilliant
- Tarja Turunen: "music has no boundaries, it's about breaking borders"
- Airbourne's top 6 new bands from Australia
- San Francisco's occult rockers Castle unveil a transcendental new track
- Kansas on music, departed band members and being better than Aerosmith
- Rob Halford: My Life Story
- Relive the original Woodstock festival with this new photography exhibition
- Interview: Twisted Sister's Jay Jay French
- Watch a brass band cover Slayer on flaming drums
- August 1
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- "We're going to make it the mother of all concept albums!" The story behind Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick
- This is what Rage Against The Machine would sound like if everything was fine
- Official Olympic Swearathon
- The 10 heaviest Faith No More songs
- The Top 10 Best Red Hot Chili Peppers Videos
- Robert Cray: President Obama's Favourite Bluesman
- New Band Of The Week: The Kenneths
- Black Sabbath: The TeamRock Archives
- Queen – The TeamRock Archive
- Aerosmith: The TeamRock Archives
