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April 2017
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- April 28
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- Heavy Rotation: What Classic Rock have been listening to this month
- Greg Dulli: "I’ve made peace with the inevitability of dying"
- Tracks Of The Week: new music and videos from Bad Company, Stone Sour and more
- Sammy Hagar on self-belief, Van Halen and the bright side of fame
- Cory Branan: "It’s not an anti-cop song. It’s supposed to push some buttons"
- Tygers Of Pan Tang: "Rock’n’roll is the nicest, deadliest disease you can catch"
- Six things you need to know about Jim Jones & The Righteous Mind
- Meet Tequila Mockingbyrd, the Aussies looking to make a big noise
- Introducing Low Cut Connie: "We play heavy rock’n’roll you can move your ass to"
- Aviv Geffen on why Blackfield must tour – with or without Steven Wilson
- The best new rock albums you can buy this week
- Meet the ten-year-old drummer who won Denmark's Got Talent
- The best new metal albums you can buy this week
- Mick Ronson: the legend behind David Bowie - in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Cypress Hill and London Symphony Orchestra to bring The Simpsons joke to life?
- Hellbound Hearts embrace doom and gloom on new track Broken Hearted
- TR+ Singles Club: Delta Howl
- April 27
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- Devon Allman picks up his solo career again
- Blondie: Back with a buzz
- Phil Rudd: "I'm a changed man, but I'm still every bit the rock drummer I was"
- Yes And Journey Join Hall Of Fame Inductees
- 10 bands you need to see at Desertfest 2017
- UFO's Pete Way reflects on the decade of decadence he spent with Ozzy Osbourne
- Coulda, shoulda, didn't: Why did Kings X never make it big?
- Restless Soul: Why Joshua James might give it all up for a life making soap
- Is the guitar hero an endangered species?
- The gospel according to Hawkwind's Dave Brock
- How Steely Dan made their classic album Pretzel Logic
- 19 songs that would never have existed if it wasn't for Chuck Berry
- Chuck Berry: October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017
- Deep Cuts: Riches from the rock underground
- How I fell in love with Roadburn festival
- Goldray: "One of the most outrageous things you can do is be a rockstar"
- Mick Box on why his journey with Uriah Heep isn't over yet
- The Story Behind The Song: Fox On The Run by Sweet
- Metalhead on The Voice advances to next round with black metal cover
- April 26
- April 25
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- The rise and fall of Mick Ronson
- The story behind John Baizley's Jane Doe artwork
- Mike Portnoy lets us into his prog world
- Rock Goddess: NWOBHM's female pioneers are ready to roll once more
- White Willow: "We're restless, adventurous and willing to push boundaries"
- Uneven Structure: Why the metallers turned to prog for album number two
- "I was very involved in Opeth. Now when I have my band, I’m not going to avoid doing the music that I like." Soen and the making of Lykaia
- New Issue Of Prog On Sale Today
- Re-wired: How post-rock became part of prog
- April 24
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- The TeamRock+ Singles Club
- Enjoy the trip: The Physics House Band are back
- Method Men: Meet experimental instrumentalists The Parallax Method
- The Outer Limits: How prog was Ryuichi Sakamoto?
- 10-year-old drummer joins Steel Panther for Van Halen cover... and slays!
- Mike Rutherford: "Prog is brave people trying to do something challenging"
- Danish alt.rock collective Mew on the power of blending art and music
- Mostly Autumn: "We could be an arena band"
- Dave Brock discusses Hawkwind's new lease of life
- Big Big Train: "We're proud to be defined as a prog rock band"
- The story of Badfinger: the torment of rock'n'roll and the tragedy that follows
- April 22
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- April 20
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- 2 Girls and 3 Harps versus Black Sabbath's Iron Man
- Yes Fan Celebrates Band's Impending 50th With Free Pass!
- Scandinavian supergroup Night Flight Orchestra launch epic He-Man-style video
- The best new rock albums you can buy this week
- Eddie Jobson Talks About The Fallen Angels Tour
- Brit Rock saviours Inglorious launch Hell Or High Water video
- The Barnum Meserve: Complex music for complex times
- April 19
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- April 12
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- Watch 12-year-old Indonesian girl's triumphant version of Rush classic YYZ
- We catch up with the Trinity 2 organisers about the prog rock charity event
- Veep writer Will Smith gives us a look at his record collection
- Meet Kairon; IRSE!, the concept-loving Scandi proggers
- How Aussie proggers Anubis are bringing their own modern take to the genre
- Chuggaboom: 'It feels like my mum doesn't want to chugg'
- The sizzling story of the J. Geils Band, Boston's original R&B bad boys
- The Story Behind The Song: The Killing Moon by Echo & The Bunnymen
- Harry Potter fans react to heavy metal
- Toys Against The Machine: Killing In The Name as you've never heard it before
- Esprit D'Air premiere video for new single Guiding Light
- April 11
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- Leeds noisescapers Koyo on blending sax, drugs and angry cows
- Meet Ghost Against Ghost: The New York experimentalists born out of tragedy
- Watch this man cover Eleanor Rigby on guitar and synth at the same time
- Meet Quinn Sullivan, the blues prodigy with friends in all the right places
- Left Lane Cruiser: where yellow dust hallucinogens and howling blues meet
- April 10
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- Meet the men on a mission to raise Chicago’s progressive music profile
- Now yer squawkin': The story of Burke Shelley and Budgie
- Paperlate: Could bands do more to help the live music scene?
- All Around The World: Rainburn's Vats Iyengar discusses India's prog scene
- It's Prog, Jim, But Not As We Know It: Everything Everything
- My Prog Hero: Kip Winger on why he loves Peter Gabriel
- Rick Wakeman's Caped Crusade: Toodle-loo!
- Glam Skanks: the riotous Los Angeles band who want to kickstart a revolution
- Fad Gadgets: The gizmos currently putting the prog in progress
- Public Service Broadcasting pay tribute to Welsh coalminers on new album
- Musician performs Metallica on Elton John's piano – and kicks ass!
- The 10 songs we wish we'd written, by Courtesans
- Video: Depressed 7ft clown sings Pinball Wizard in the style of Johnny Cash
- April 9
- April 7
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- First Look: KOYO Live At The Joint
- The best new rock albums you can buy this week
- Tracks Of The Week: music and videos from Black Star Riders, Volbeat and more...
- This is the most metal song about cereal we have ever heard
- The best new metal albums you can buy this week
- Watch 77 AC/DC songs performed in 5 minutes at an electrical substation
- April 6
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- TR+ Singles Club: Brother Firetribe
- The 10 best underground Australian artists, according to The Smith Street Band
- California Screaming: How the California Jam banished Altamont's demons
- How metal is Emmure's Frankie Palmieri?
- Black Sabbath receive unlikely Balearic makeover
- Fresh Meat: Introducing your new favourite metal bands
- Our new issue is an Iron Maiden spectacular with the most Eddies ever
- Memoriam are back with a new and mighty battleplan
- Oxbow: "We’ve always aimed to link into the human soul, spirit and psyche"
- Reclaiming the light: How Royal Thunder found solace in rock'n'roll
- April 5
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- Eternal devastation: the untold story of thrash metal’s other Big Four
- Life Of Agony frontwoman Mina Caputo: "I feared coming out more than death"
- Boss Hog premiere new video for track Shh Shh Shh
- How black metallers Ghost Bath found their voice
- The ultimate Peter Grant interview: Life with Led Zeppelin and the death of John Bonham
- Why the future's bright for Motionless In White
- Converge’s Jane Doe: revisiting the album that changed hardcore forever
- April 4
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- How While She Sleeps have taken control of their own destiny
- Metal Kombat: Parkway Drive and Asking Alexandria go to war
- Enter the war-torn world of Lebanese groove/thrash standard bearers Blaakyum
- We meet the people behind Crypt Of The Wizard, London's new metal record shop
- The 10 best DIY punk bands, according to Great Cynics' Giles Bidder
- Fast-rising doom crew The Crawling unveil their devastating debut album
- Brinsley Schwarz and the press trip from hell
- April 3
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- How Ohhms are bringing the sounds of Swans, Crass and Genesis together
- Introducing Beachheads, the Kvelertak side-project with a difference
- "This album is a journey": Meet genre-melding duo Asira
- Mathcore brutes Bear are here to rip a hole in your eardrums
- The story behind the song: We Will Rise by Arch Enemy
- Despite Black Sabbath retiring, the Home Of Metal project is rolling on
- Boston tech-heads Replacire are making death metal weird
- Are Stone Sour about to drop the album that’ll define their career?
- Five minutes alone with Body Count's Ice-T
- 12-year-old kid stuns TV talent show judges with Kiss cover
- Coming home: Iron Maiden gear up for their first UK tour in six years
- Michael Chiklis: My Top 10 Classic Rock Albums
- New band of the week: Waco
- Peter Hook & The Light premiere unheard version of Love Will Tear Us Apart
- April 2
