Steve Harley, the lead singer and songwriter for Cockney Rebel, has died of cancer. The 73-year-old, one of the more colourful rock stars of the 70s and beyond, passed away at his home in Suffolk one month after pausing his latest run of live shows i

The poet, counterculture figure, political activist and manager of the MC5 has died of congestive heart failure. He was 82. John Sinclair was forging a reputation as a poet when MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer requested guidance for the fast-emerging Detr

Silveroller aren’t here to start a revolution. The UK-based Gen-Z blues rockers are a proudly traditional band, with a bone-deep appreciation for “rock’n’roll in its purest form”. At the heart of their sound is a need for simplicity; a back-to-basics

With Erik Grönwall having quit Skid Row, Halestorm singer Lzzy Hale has agreed to help out the US band until they appoint what will be their seventh lead vocalist. Grönwall, who joined Skid Row in 2022, six months after completing treatment for leuka

Established 1998 Now playing: Ian Hunter, Defiance Part 2: Fiction Chelsea Wolfe, She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She Bad Nerves, Still Nervous Paul Henderson Robin Trower, Bridge Of Sighs Ian Fortnam Upploppet, Road Runner Fraser Lewry

Scarborough-born Jepson began his career in the mid-80s as the singer with Little Angels, and then had a spell as asolo artist. After leaving the music business, he returned under his own name in 2001, followed by stints as the frontman with Fastway,

Promoter and nighttime industry kingpin Vince Power has died at the age of 76. The Irishman ran some of Britain’s top venues and festivals, and has been credited with revolutionising live music. In 2006 he was awarded a CBE for services to the music

Sebastian Bach’s enthusiasm for life in general and music in particular is permanently off the scale. Within the first 10 minutes of our conversation today he has already excitedly namechecked Kiss, Van Halen, Twisted Sister, Rush, Queensrÿche and, m

Kerry King wasted no time in getting back on the horse after his band, thrash metal juggernauts Slayer, called it a day in 2019. “I had a few months off, and that was enough for me,” says the guitarist. “I’ve had a long career, and I’m a lot closer t

Chris Cross, a long-time bassist with Ultravox, has died at the age of 70. Ultravox colleague Midge Ure described Cross as “the glue that held the band together”, adding: “You were the logic in the madness in our lives. It was great to know and grow

Let the subtly melodic, sporadically explosive and pleasingly edgy times roll. Fun, you say? In these times of war, famine, economic strife and queues in pubs for seven-quid pints, Nashville’s space-country glowerers Kings Of Leon make for unlikely M

The day after a “rager” playback party in NYC for their heavy, darkly twisty new album Rockmaker, Classic Rock caught up with Dandy Warhols frontman/guitarist Courtney Taylor-Taylor in Montreal at the start of a Canadian tour. “We’ve immersed ourselv

Iwas really lucky that I heard so much great music growing up,” says Walter Trout. Over a fifty-plus year solo career, including shifts with Canned Heat, John Lee Hooker and Big Mama Thornton, Trout has let everything from blues to rock to jazz flow

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Troy Redfern is a blues rocker with a few twists. Recent success has planted him squarely in the blues world (he was nominated for Contemporary Artist Of The Year at the latest UK Blues Awards), but at heart he’s an eclectic soul, with roots that spa

It comes from all sorts of ideas,” David Gilmour said in 2014, of Pink Floyd’s then-new album The Endless River. “Some of it is improvised, quite a bit of it is just the two of us, Rick [Wright] and me, or the three of us, improvising together. Some

A week of charity shows gets a heavyweight opening night. This year is the final year that Roger Daltrey will curate the annual Teenage Cancer Trust concerts at the Albert Hall, having helped raise £32 million for the charity over 24 years. And by th

Lenny Kravitz says that when you’ve had a career stretching over three and a half decades, you learn to accept that your fortunes will shift every now and then. “The surf changes,” says the singer, guitarist and producer (and actor, fashion designer,

Spring has well and truly sprung, bringing an abundance of gigs for our diaries, new tracks for our playlists and bands to get stuck into. Our Tour Dates pages have got you covered for live action (p95), but where to start on the newtuneage front? Ri

Scott Gorham launches his first ever art exhibition, in London on April 22. You were probably unaware that the Thin Lizzy and Black Star Riders guitarist likes to wield paintbrushes and pens as well as a Gibson Les Paul, probably because Gorham hid t

In late June last year, Louder, Classic Rock magazine’s website, re-posted an epic interview with Nazareth’s Pete Agnew and Dan McCafferty. First published way back in 2004, and conducted over an Olympic-level drinking session in the bar of the Pitfi

Comprising Louisiana-born singer and musician Greta Valenti and guitarist and British Blues Hall Of Fame inductee Robin Davey, California-based Beaux Gris Gris &The Apocalypse are taking their blend of blues, rock, country and soul around Britain on

Lightshine were formed by five students in Emmerich, Germany in 1974. Their sound was perhaps considered too out of date for 1976 (the album sounds like it could have been recorded at least several years earlier), so Feeling was released on the small

Slash is holed up in Birmingham, preparing for the second night of his UK tour with Myles Kennedy &The Conspirators. But, to paraphrase Billy F Gibbons, his head’s in Mississippi as he talks with urgent passion about his new album of mostly blues son

Karl Wallinger, best known as the frontman and songwriter with World Party, has died of a stroke at his home in Hastings. He was 66. Born in Prestatyn, Wales, Wallinger was educated at Charterhouse, the boarding school famously attended by the origin