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BRAVE NEW WORLD

With a new album that's their heaviest, rockiest yet, Rodrigo y Gabriela are boldly taking metal and rock to where no one has so successfully taken it before

SPIRITS PAST SPIRITS PRESENT

Re-made and remodelled, and with a critically acclaimed new album that echoes moments from their post-punk past, The Damned head into the future still with plenty to offer and to thrill

LANDS OF HOPE AND GLORY

Rising Canadian hopefuls Crown Lands are modern proggers taking threads from the genre's illustrious past and weaving them into the present

ANDY SUMMERS

The unfeasibly young-looking 80-year-old talks about conquering the world alongside two total arseholes” in The Police, his apprenticeship’ with Zoot Money and others, life after The Police, the reunion, his long-time passion for photography, and much more

bloody hell

Write some songs, get into studio, come out with an album. It worked before. But when it came to making the follow-up to Vol. 4, Black Sabbath couldn't even get started. \"We'd spend all day farting about and end up with nothing usable.\" This is the story of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Arielle 6 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT...

The guitarist and singer-songwriter on choirs, clowning and heartto-hearts with Brian May, ahead of her game-raising new album

Alice Cooper

The godfather of shock-rock on the Hollywood Vampires, having a stress-free life, and never expecting to live past 30

George Harrison My Sweet Lord

Written after the former Beatle had been inspired by an old gospel song, it’s remembered as much for the plagiarism legal battle it led to as it is for just being a lovely song.

RESURRECTION DAYS

After a career peppered with notable successes – and a fair few line-up changes and fall-outs – in the mid-80s Kansas came close to being dead and buried. But, taking the advice of their most famous song title, they picked themselves up and carried on…

STRING THEORY

Next month Def Leppard release Drastic Symphonies, reworked classic Leps tracks accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. They invited us to Abbey Road Studios to watch it take shape.

TIME BANDITS

Some bands are retro. Some bands are very retro. Dutch trio DeWolff take that to the max in everything they do, looking back for inspiration and feeding it into something new.

THE MAGIC FLUTE

The second new Jethro Tull album in two years, Rokfléte, explores Ragnarok, the Norse interpretation of the apocalypse. So naturally, we spoke to lan Anderson about the end of the world.

IAN HUNTER

He's older than rock'n'roll itself, and back with an all-star cast on his new album on Sun Records. Here he talks to CR about working with Jeff Beck and Taylor Hawkins, punk rock, Alex Harvey, David Bowie, and sex and drugs in the 7Os. This is what he’s here for.

MEN FOR ALL SEASONS

Stranger things: in their 40-plus years Metallica have gone from being a cult metal band to a commercial juggernaut and a household name. But even with new album 72 Seasons ready to storm charts worldwide they're still angry, still insecure.

Inspector Cluzo

Environmentally-friendly French farming is a proving ground we didn't predict, but blues rock has always been rooted geddit?) in the country.

Richard Marx

Hazard He only recorded it to prove people wrong and he considered it his worst ever song. So just how did the AOR singer’s global smash hit come about?

GARY ROSSINGTON - December 4, 1951 - March 5, 2023

We look back at the life, times and music of the Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist who survived the band's plane crash in 1977, and also survived all the band's other founder members.