RARE PHOTOS: 6 | Rare Historical Photos

Ritchie Blackmore is planning on playing with Deep Purple tonight, an occurrence more rare than today's total solar eclipse

Ritchie Blackmore will join Deep Purple onstage tonight for the first time since 1993

Louder · Aug 12

Thunder frontman Danny Bowes announces Under Pressure spoken word tour – and it's going to be entirely unscripted

Danny Bowes, who suffered a serious stroke in 2022, has been unable to sing since the incident

Louder · Aug 12

Rival Sons' frontman Jay Buchanan announces solo acoustic tour. "I'll be running lean and mean out to see my country and telling some stories"

Jay Buchanan's Storyteller tour will take place ahead of Rival Sons' upcoming US dates

Louder · Aug 12

The story of the anthem that broke Free in America - then broke up the band. "I'll never forget Koss's reaction. He slumped like he'd been hit in the stomach"

All Right Now was an instant classic, but it also created instant problems for Free

Louder · Aug 11

"I wanted to get Jeff Beck in the band. Then I wanted to get Keith Moon. I went for the big time." George Thorogood is at peace with not being Bob Seger or Steve Miller

George Thorogood turned barroom blues into arena rock, traded licks with greats, and missed out on dates with the Stones when commitments got in the way... and he's done it all his own way

Louder · Aug 11

Sopranos star Steven Van Zandt has written a TV show about three brothers - a rock star, a gangster and a FBI agent - and he wants Johnny Depp to take a starring role

E Street Band legend Little Steven has written six TV show scripts and he's hoping a network will option at least one

Louder · Aug 10

Oasis: The story of a very British phenomenon in 12 songs

It's 30 years since Liam and Noel Gallagher's band played their history-making two night stand at Knebworth. Here's a reminder of what makes Oasis so special for so many

Louder · Aug 10

“I said, ‘I quit!’ He said, ‘Take six months off, then I’ll call and find out if you’ve still left.’ When he called I couldn’t remember what we’d been arguing about”: Steve Hogarth, Marillion and several false starts

Why wasn’t the singer bothered about singing? Why did miners keep attacking him in Doncaster? How did the music industry break his heart? Which collaborator makes him worry about being strangled? The “hippie in the jaws of punk” looks back

Louder · Aug 10

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 10, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Grace Bowers, the Pineapple Thief, Crossbone Skully and more

Louder · Aug 10

"A master at bringing the guitar to life and giving it a voice." Fifty years on, Robin Trower's Bridge Of Sighs is still an all-time blues rock classic

Bridge Of Sighs was the second of Robin Tower's power trio’s superb trilogy of back-to-back albums in the mid-70s, and sealed his reputation

Louder · Aug 10