Classic Rock

Classic Rock is a UK magazine that focuses on rock music, published by Future PLC, which also produces Metal Hammer and Prog magazine. While it primarily highlights major bands from the 1960s to the early 1990s, it also features articles and reviews about current and emerging artists that they find significant. Originally launched as a sporadic project, Classic Rock has grown to become one of the best-selling music magazines in the UK. In September 2010, it celebrated the release of its 150th issue and has since surpassed the NME in circulation.

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“Why not go out swinging with the angriest sounds you can?”: Metal Hammer writers name the albums they’d listen to during a zombie apocalypse

17 hours ago | loudersound.com | Matt Mills |Serena Cherry |Stephen Hill |Merlin Alderslade

Zombies are metal as fuck. Emaciated, blood-soaked and ravenous for human flesh, they’ve been inspiring brutal music and album covers for decades, and they’ve proven just as fascinating to the mainstream as well. So, as 28 Years Later proves the enduring popularity of the undead by dominating the box office, we at Metal Hammer asked our writers what albums they’d pick to soundtrack their post-apocalyptic killing spree.
"One of the most vital creatives working in the metal scene right now." A guide to every Poppy album so far

1 day ago | loudersound.com | Dannii Leivers |Merlin Alderslade

Over the last decade, Poppy has made the jump from bizarre YouTube content creator to avant-garde pop provocateur, to a bright rising star in alternative music, even landing her first ever Metal Hammer cover in 2024. Last year's excellent Negative Spaces was a career high-point, firmly establishing her as one of the most vital creatives working in the metal scene right now. With all that said, here's our handy guide to every album she's released so far.
12 alternative acts you should try and watch at Glastonbury 2025

1 day ago | loudersound.com | Merlin Alderslade |Liz Scarlett

It's Glasto week, people! The world's most famous music festival touches back down at Worthy Farm this Wednesday for another five days of music, art, creativity and chaos, with Pyramid Stage headliners The 1975, Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo heading up another stacked bill of the very biggest and best in pop, rock, dance, hip hop, reggae and just about everything in between. 'But where are the 'proper' alternative bands?!' I hear you yell.
"It sounds like an effective pastiche of Phil Spector, but lacks both Spector's passion and his genius": The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds is revered by the critics - but not everyone is on board

2 days ago | loudersound.com | Paul Lester

The Beach Boys - Pet SoundsWouldn't It Be NiceYou Still Believe in MeThat's Not MeDon't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)I'm Waiting for the DayLet's Go Away for AwhileSloop John BGod Only KnowsI Know There's an AnswerHere TodayI Just Wasn't Made for These TimesPet SoundsCaroline, NoHistorically, Pet Sounds has never been taken quite as seriously as the other biog albums from 1966, Bob Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde or The Beatles’ Revolver.
The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

4 days ago | loudersound.com | Rich Hobson

Happy Friday! Summer is well and truly heating up now with Mystic, Rock Am Ring/Rock Im Park and Download all done and dusted for the year, and Hellfest underway as we speak. That doesn't mean it's getting any quieter for new music though - quite the contrary, in fact!So before we get stuck into this week's new releases, here are the results of last week's vote. Power metal veterans Helloween took a very respectable third place, but it was a tight race for top spot.
"I was looking for something darker." Bruce Springsteen reveals that he's never been happy with his world-conquering Born In The USA album, and says the 30-million-selling collection didn't "connect" like his other records

4 days ago | loudersound.com | Paul Brannigan

Christmas is coming early for Bruce Springsteen fans this year, with the release, on June 27, of Tracks II: The Lost Albums, a set of seven complete, unheard records that the New Jersey superstar committed to tape between 1983 and 2018.
Six of the newest, coolest proggy sounds around from Sam Vallen, Heather Findlay, Esoterica and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

4 days ago | loudersound.com | Jerry Ewing

It's Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week! Six brand new and diverse slices of progressively inclined music for you to enjoy. Congratulations to young Leoni Jane Kennedy, whose ode to friendship, Jesse, won out in the end last week after quite the tussle with Chimpan A's cover of Wichita Lineman, and with young UK prog rocker Reubes in a very credible third.
"Total bollocks!" Contrary to what you may have heard, Rick Wakeman wasn't responsible for the Sex Pistols getting dumped by their record label in 1977, just seven days after signing their contract

4 days ago | loudersound.com | Paul Brannigan

Following their infamous December 1, 1976 appearance on Thames Television's Today show with host Bill Grundy, the Sex Pistols instantly became Britain's most notorious new band. The outrage which erupted in the wake of the show's transmission thrust punk rock rudely into mainstream consciousness in the UK and changed the lives of John Lydon, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook forever.
How Dire Straits outsold everyone, hijacked MTV, and accidentally made a classic

4 days ago | loudersound.com | Sian Llewellyn

There’s a part of me that refuses to believe that Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms can be celebrating its 40th birthday this year. It seems only a few years ago that I listened to it on a cassette that a friend’s elder brother taped for me (yeah, we were killing music, remember?). I remember it being a staple on my stereo for a very long time. Then, as these things have a habit of happening, I didn’t listen to it for an absolute age.
Muse share suitably bombastic new single Unravelling, their first new music for four years

4 days ago | loudersound.com | Jerry Ewing

UK trio Muse have shared a video for their suitably epic and OTT new single Unravelling, their first new music for four years, since they released 2022's Will Of The People. The band had set fans' pulses racing earlier this month with a series of teasers on their social media before they debuted Unravelling at an intimate show at the House of Culture in Helsinki, before performing the dynamic new song during their headline set at Finland’s Rockfest last week.