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“Utterly idiosyncratic and experimental, possessed of a frighteningly intense energy”: Throwing Muses’ debut album remains one of the proggiest and best albums of the 80s

Astonishingly, Kristin Hersh and her band were still in their teens when they released their first collection of fractured narratives and multipart, chorus-free arrangements

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"I could have gotten the elephants to stomp on their village, but I didn't": The wild story of Black Oak Arkansas, the band who had it all then gave it all away

Which band stole all their equipment, lived in a remote mountain compound for half the 70s and were buddies with Bill Clinton? Just them good ol’ boys Black Oak Arkansas

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"I grossly underestimated what I was getting into." Noel Gallagher gives his first interview since Oasis returned to the stage, says he's "completely blown away" by the reaction, and is proud of his brother Liam for "smashing it" every night

Oasis' Noel Gallagher shares his thought on the band's "totally amazing" resurrection

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"A timeless record oozing with confidence." Wolf Alice serve up one of the essential albums of 2025 with brilliant, bold fourth album The Clearing

"It’s impossible to define Wolf Alice by genre or time period"

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"There's no way I'm gonna be involved with that": Ace Frehley says he turned down an invitation to play at Kiss's Las Vegas celebration

Kiss Kruise: Land-locked in Vegas will take place in Sin City later this year – but Ace Frehley won't be there

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"This is not negative whatsoever": Sammy Hagar insists David Lee Roth's recent comments about him were an "olive branch moment"

David Lee Roth had appeared to mock Sammy Hagar during a recent solo show

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"It's huge over most of the world. I hear it everywhere I go": How a Steve Harley song that dissed his bandmates became an all-time classic

Written as a dig at the band members who quit because Steve Harley wanted to do all the writing himself, Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) became a timeless hit

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“Was air-drumming even a thing before Tom Sawyer?”: Neil Peart’s greatest moments with Rush

It wasn’t easy, but we’ve boiled the professor of prog’s most powerful percussive performances down to 10 key tracks

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"The tempos might have slowed, but they make up for it in sheer bloody-minded forcefulness": Exodus break the habit of a lifetime on Force Of Habit

With Metallica's Black album bringing them a huge new audience, Exodus clambered aboard the experimental bandwagon

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"I'm gonna go find some people and we’re gonna rock": Why country star Brent Cobb revisited the music of his youth on new album Ain't Rocked In A While

For his new album, American country music veteran Brent Cobb looked back to his youth and took inspiration from AC/DC and Black Sabbath

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"She needs to be a permanent crew member!" No-one was ever going to upstage Liam and Noel Gallagher on Oasis' return to their spiritual homeland, but the Sign Language interpreter at their Dublin shows has gone viral for her fabulous rock 'n' roll swagger

A star is born

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor have removed their entire discography from all major streaming services, with Bandcamp now the only site where you can hear their music in a digital format

Influential post-rock trailblazers Godspeed You! Black Emperor become the latest band to pull their music from Spotify, and they're not stopping there

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 18, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Ricky Warwick, Deep Purple, Paradise Lost and more

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"On this album are the feelings I don't get to express when I'm writing arock'n'roll record": Cormac Neeson on California Irish, his dreamy concoction of folk, blues rock and Americana

The Answer frontman Cormac Neeson on California Irish, the new band inspired by his parents' cassette tapes

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“Jeff Lynne and Yes are in the music of Radiohead, Sigur Rós and Muse. It’s overlooked in theirs but not in mine. I don’t have the self-validation I’d like”: Steven Wilson is grateful for prog fans’ support, but he wishes others liked him too

Arguing that pop isn’t as all-embracing as it used to be, he examines the nature of being a nerd with an ego, and wonders if the flawed musical gear his dad built him meant he was always going to make prog sounds

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David Lee Roth mocks "esteemed colleague" Sammy Hagar's claim to have been visited by Eddie Van Halen's ghost

We await the Red Rocker's response

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“I thought he was taking the piss”: The time Ozzy Osbourne planned to beat up Frank Zappa

The story of the unlikely love-in between Frank Zappa and Black Sabbath

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“We put full-sized speakers at the back of the hall for quadraphonic sound. Someone walked off with one! I’ve no idea how – it’s not like they put it in a pocket”: The story of Gentle Giant’s only live album, Playing The Fool

Presenting their concert experience on record was a steep challenge in 1976. Now they’ve reconstructed the tapes to make it feel like you’re there, complete with heckling

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“The way he plays drums without overplaying is extraordinary. He never takes over the music”: Tool’s Danny Carey managed to distract Mick Pointer from Rush

The Marillion and Arena co-founder explains how the American prog metal band astonished him with a track from 1996 album Ænima

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Watch Jello Biafra join King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard for cover of Dead Kennedys classic Police Truck

Dead Kennedys man and King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard perform lively cover of iconic punk rock track Police Truck

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Mud, mayhem and four-hour Grateful Dead sets: The chaotic story of Weeley and Bickershaw, the early 70s festivals that time forgot

Not every festival could be Woodstock or the Isle Of Wight

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“Him coming to my house at 3am and blowing my mind was incredible”: Ex-Deep Purple legend Glenn Hughes reveals the best guitarist he’s ever worked with – and it’s not Ritchie Blackmore

Look away, Blackmore fans

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“Brought back to life with tremendous care… instruments pop out that even diehard devotees may have previously missed”: Cardiacs’ On Land And In The Sea

The late, great Tim Smith’s prog-punk magnum opus returns on vinyl for the first time since 2007

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“It became a bit of a curse. We were never really a singles band”: The hypnotic 80s single that gave an apocalyptic post-punk band an unlikely Cold War-inspired hit

When Killing Joke became unlikely pop stars

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The 10 best Liam and Noel Gallagher guest spots

Ten great collaborations featuring the Gallagher brothers including The Verve, The Chemical Brothers, Ian Brown, The Prodigy and, erm, David Brent

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