BIZARRE: 60 - What They Never Told You

IQ to release new live performance of Frequency in January

IQ's performance of Frequency at this year's IQ weekend in Poland will be released on CD as part of the band's Archive series

Louder · Dec 23, 2025

“He was unable to write something with delight in it. Suffering battle fatigue, he wrote of asking what it’s like back home. It’s epic”: William Shatner’s surprising Christmas album with Jethro Tull, Yes and King Crimson alumni

The Star Trek icon gets silly and serious in turns as he discusses what the season means to him, the secret to living long and prospering, and the presents Kirk and Spock might give each other

Louder · Dec 23, 2025

"Nothing's changed really apart from I can’t pole vault any more": Ian Gillan on getting older, losing his vision, and his unexpected new collaboration

His pole vaulting days may be behind him, but even at the age of 80, Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan is still in demand

Louder · Dec 23, 2025

"A blistering, molten metal masterpiece": Judas Priest revive themselves on Painkiller before Rob Halford's decade-long hiatus

Judas Priest follow up the lukewarm Turbo and the tepid Ram It Down with the red-hot Painkiller

Louder · Dec 22, 2025

“He didn’t want to put his masterpiece on an album where the vibes were so bad. It’s probably the best thing he’s ever done”: Rick Davies’ greatest Supertramp songs – including Roger Hodgson’s favourite

Late co-founder always felt that collaborating was like “two people painting a picture on the same canvas.” But that didn’t stop him succeeding

Louder · Dec 22, 2025

"He is no longer with the band": Nazareth part ways with Carl Sentance, announce new singer

A decade after replacing founding frontman Dan McCafferty in Nazareth, Carl Sentance has left the band

Louder · Dec 22, 2025

Surgeon defends video of Allen Collins playing guitar in hospital shortly after Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash

The footage shows Allen Collins wearing hospital pyjamas, neck brace and orthopaedic fixator

Louder · Dec 21, 2025

“We made a concerted effort to move away from the long thematic songs into something shorter”: Rush were one of the proggiest bands of the 70s. Then they discovered The Police and reggae and wrote the hit that reinvented them

Goodbye sci-fi epics, hello surprise hit singles

Louder · Dec 21, 2025

“When we did Top Of The Pops we were introduced as being avant-garde. It would have been closer to call us ‘aven’t-a-clue!” Fired from his own band Blodwyn Pig, Jethro Tull co-founder Mick Abrahams could only regret the wasted potential

Unable to perform towards the end of his life, the singer and guitarist maintained a philosophical viewpoint, and was proud of making “good, honest music without prejudice”

Louder · Dec 21, 2025

Original Jethro Tull guitarist Mick Abrahams dead at 82

Mick Abrahams played on Jethro Tull’s first album, This Was, before launching Blodwyn Pig

Louder · Dec 20, 2025