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"You are not what you own." Why you still can't buy an official T-shirt from one of the greatest American rock bands ever

Fugazi owe you nothing

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"I remember listening to it and freaking out – I couldn't believe how authentic it sounded." How The Darkness created the ultimate modern power ballad

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins looks back at how he and his bandmates created a “power ballad for the age” – and a breath of fresh air in an era when rock wasn’t exactly in fashion

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"He wanted my shotgun – he'd just have these total freakouts. There were so many wonderful moments and terrible mayhem with him." Fuelled by bipolar disorder, the 70s' most outlandish concept album predicted a political meltdown

In the time before punk, there was only one place to go for anarchic, pile-driving hypno-rock

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"I was angry at them for writing that song. I thought, You don’t know. You weren’t there." The tragic and horrifying true story behind one of the biggest rock anthems of the 90s

"We heard a girl running down the hall screaming. It was a scream from the heart"

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“I said, ‘Just start again. It would be good for you.’ He persuaded me to stay. I never felt good about it”: Martin Barre tried to quit Jethro Tull in 1980, but Ian Anderson wouldn’t have it

Their musical partnership finally ended after 43 years – but the guitarist says he wanted to break it up decades earlier

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"If we were legendary for anything, it was for bringing Jello to a show and getting it all over the monitors." The story of the hate song that kick-started the entire grunge movement

A song about a disintegrating relationship, Swallow My Pride spread ripples that are still being felt today

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"Eddie completely changed this couple's life." Hollywood superstar Kate Hudson reveals how Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder played a pivotal role in the story behind her new movie

How Eddie Vedder helped a dream come true

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"A verbal contract was not worth the paper it was written on." Paul McCartney admits he was fuming after allegedly being lied to by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the '90s

Paul McCartney wasn't impressed by his overdue induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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"The noise is deafening. The whole hotel shakes. It’s very frightening." Asia guitarist John Mitchell caught up in Middle East conflict

Prog musician John Mitchell is currently holed up in Dubai as the Iran conflict literally explodes all around him!

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"It’s a song about inventors and invention." New Peter Gabriel single What Lies Ahead was a work-in-progress performed during 2014's Back To Front tour

Peter Gabriel is releasing a new single every full moon at midnight in the build-up to new studio album o\i.

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"Nothing Is What It Seems was written about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. They're the liar and the thief in the song": Brinsley Schwarz on his state-of-the-world album Shouting At The Moon

A key figure in 70s pub rock is back with more songs "about politics or idiots with fingers on buttons"

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"It's not something I'd like us to be remembered for. It was a thorn in our side but I'm stuck with it." After lacing their neighbour's water supply with LSD, the Small Faces wrote the hit that ended their career

Not representative of the Small Faces' style and released without their knowledge, Sunday Afternoon became a big hit – and “was the final nail in the coffin in finishing us off"

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"The jams that turned into songs on the album began with us playing out in the woods at night. Crazy spirit." Meet Ever Age: The 21st-century power trio whose debut album might just be a once-in-a-generation record

Something strange is happening in the Vancouver woods

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Eric Clapton announces US tour dates

Clapton's US dates are in addition to his previously announced run of European shows and Royal Sandringham Estate festival appearance

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Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter announce rescheduled and expanded North American tour

Additional anarchy in the US

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“It’s inherent in the fanbase. You’re always measured against this yardstick. People comment, ‘This isn’t Yes!’ Where did we say this was Yes?”: Arc Of Life’s struggle to self-identify

Featuring three members of the prog giants, their 2021 debut received mixed reactions. But Jon Davison, Billy Sherwood and Jay Schellen decided to focus on the follow-up record rather than fight with a few armchair generals

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Audio-Technica AT-SB727 Sound Burger turntable review

The Audio-Technica Sound Burger is a delightfully moreish morsel of retro-styled, portable record-playing magnificence

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 2, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from The Sheepdogs, Starbenders, Crossbone Skully and more

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"I said, 'This is our last show.' He said OK. We never, ever talked about why it was so easy to break up the band." The curious story of the thinking man's hair metal band, and where it all went wrong

Two million sales. A dizzying rise. And a cataclysmic fall

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"Future generations will consider it one of the most important recordings of all time." Rising Southern rock star Marcus King picks the soundtrack of his life

Singer/guitarist Marcus King picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the song that brought him to tears - even though he didn't understand the words

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"Those teenage kids could be kind of wild. It could be downright frightening at times." The story of the tongue-in-cheek classic that slammed manufactured pop music, aided by a pair of South African legends

A light-hearted pop at the superficial workings of the pop industry in the 60s, it remains a minor classic. And if you saw the band live in Bournemouth in 1965, you might actually be on it!

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"An unexpurgated burst of creativity with no nuance or tact or second-guessing. Just raw, hard rock frenzy unleashed." Japan's Flower Travellin' Band aren't for the faint-hearted on proto-prog-guitar-wigout Satori

Bored with covering Western blues bands, the Flower Travellin' Band set out on their own sonic adventure

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“What Keith Moon did on drums, he did on keyboards. Without him the genre would be much poorer”: When Geoff Downes saw Keith Emerson live, he found immediate inspiration

The Yes man hails ELP counterpart as a musician and entertainer

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"If I didn’t have songs, we wouldn’t make an album. I didn’t do anything, and nobody asked!” How Everon returned after 16 years with a new studio album, Shells

A light-hearted comment with their record label saw German proggers Everon make their first album for 16 years, although it wasn't all plain sailing

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“David Gilmour says, ‘I will never play with Roger Waters again’, and I know what he means. I feel that way about Alex Van Halen. They’re negative people”: The two iconic musicians who left Sammy Hagar starstruck – and the guitarist he calls “an asshole”

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