"I felt like Tom Cruise, and I'm nearly eighty": Dave Hill's Slade are hitting the road for the last time, but he isn't finished There’s still time to feel the noize Louder · Nov 20, 2025
"If I mess that up, I'll never forgive myself." How Billie Eilish's favourite Paramore song went from being one of Hayley Williams' biggest fears to one of their most powerful live moments It may be a mainstay in setlists these days, but there was a time when Hayley Williams was adamant that she would never perform this emotional rollercoaster of a track Louder · Nov 19, 2025
"The music is perfectly in sync with the visuals!" Noel Fielding opens up on his love for Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here Noel Fielding has created several paintings of Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett to help promote the upcoming reissue of Wish You Were Here Louder · Nov 19, 2025
"I believe it has the potential to be something very special". Steven Wilson's Hand. Cannot. Erase. to be adapted for theatre stage New stage adaptation of Steven Wilson's fourth album, Hand. Cannot. Erase. has the musician's full backing Louder · Nov 19, 2025
“We made bad albums. Two of them should be melted down into flowerpots. But how many great pieces of artwork are you going to create in your career?” What Carl Palmer really thinks of ELP Comparing his band to Yes and Pink Floyd, the sole surviving member looks back on OTT productions, getting carried away with overdubs and constant criticism – but insists: “We were setting a standard” Louder · Nov 19, 2025
Genesis made long, complex, instrumentally elaborate rock for hirsute proggers: Then they wrote the song that brought women to their shows Genesis's first single since becoming a three-piece was a savvy change of tack Louder · Nov 19, 2025
"It sounds very pure and sweet. It's beautiful, like a flower child of an album": Heart's Ann and Nancy Wilson look back on the album that changed their lives Fifty years ago, Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilsongatecrashed the male-dominated, payola-fuelled rock scene Louder · Nov 19, 2025
"I don't know if she'd heard of us": Cyndi Lauper, Chrissie Hynde, Aimee Mann and the Rush duets that got away For their 1987 single Time Stand Still, Rush wanted a female singer. They got someone who turned them into "complete goofballs" Louder · Nov 18, 2025
Jane Weaver to release 15th Anniversary edition of psych folk album The Fallen By Watch Bird Modern psychedelic artist Jane Weaver will perform the whole of fourth album, The Fallen By Watch Bird, on tour in April Louder · Nov 18, 2025
Pink Floyd share new stereo mix of Shine On You Crazy Diamond, presented for the first time as a single continuous piece of music Pink Floyd will reissue their ninth studio album, Wish You Were Here, on various formats on December 12 Louder · Nov 18, 2025
Deep Purple announce UK tour with Mammoth Rock's old guard collides with new on five-date tour Louder · Nov 18, 2025
“Whether I’ve denied the world a lot of great music, I don’t know. Maybe they’ve done that to me. Maybe they should have”: Steve Hogarth’s first 30 years with Marillion He discusses embracing artistic tension, avoiding the well-trodden path, escaping his narcissism, what really went wrong with the record industry, the band’s decade in the wilderness and why it took him 28 years to get them to the Royal Albert Hall Louder · Nov 18, 2025
"The sound of an enduring rock'n'roll firm updating the business": The Rolling Stones' first album without Mick Taylor, now available in super deluxe form Mick Taylor exits the Stones and fun times return Louder · Nov 18, 2025
"In 1985 Theatre Of Pain sounded flaccid and 40 years on it's still drooping": Mötley Crüe's third album gets an undeserved anniversary makeover Theatre Of Pain: Still painful Louder · Nov 18, 2025
Louder · Nov 18, 2025 "No question this will be the go-to event of the summer!" Foreigner and Lynyrd Skynyrd announce Double Trouble Double Vision tour Lynyrd Skynyrd and Foreigner will hit the road with Six Gun Sally
Louder · Nov 17, 2025 "This isn’t just a screening; it’s a full-scale adrenaline rush." Iconic sci-fi action sequel Terminator 2: Judgement Day will be getting a live concert screening - and its premiere will take place in London He told us he'd be back!
Louder · Nov 17, 2025 Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: November 17, 2025 Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Massive Wagons, Black Stone Cherry, Starbenders and more
Louder · Nov 17, 2025 "There’s nothing quite like playing live in the UK!" Marillion announce UK tour dates in September and October UK prog rockers Marillion follow selling out two nights at Italy's prestigious amphitheatre in Pompeii with UK tour announcement
Louder · Nov 17, 2025 "It's not hard to see why they got left behind by Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon": Praying Mantis fail to surf the NWOBHM wave on Time Tells No Lies Life at the melodic end of the hard rock spectrum was not always kind
Louder · Nov 17, 2025 “Recorded at a time when progressive music was anathema, it deserves recognition alongside some of the more leftfield heroes of the genre”: Why The Only Ones’ Even Serpents Shine is actually a prog album Vocalist Peter Perrett used his voice to disorientate, just like Peter Gabriel, while the band felt like XTC, produced by Joe Meek, steeped in Van der Graaf Generator
Louder · Nov 17, 2025 “It was beginning to feel like everyone’s mind wasn’t on the job… a feeling that there should be some hiatus”: Jethro Tull’s saddest, darkest album could have been even darker Death, dysfunction and ecological disaster surrounded Ian Anderson as his changing world shaped a “forever tainted” record
Louder · Nov 16, 2025 "It was pretty surreal. All of our families, friends and haters saw that live on TV!" The surprise smash hit 90s single that saw an underground punk band beat Alanis Morissette, Weezer and Portishead in one of the biggest award upsets ever No one saw this coming in 1995!
Louder · Nov 16, 2025 “Pavarotti is our hero, he’s more rock’n’roll than anyone we’ve ever met before”: the story of Bono’s favourite U2 song, even though it isn’t by U2 and features an operatic legend on vocals The epic ballad that was the sole high point of the Irish rockers’ ill-fated and experimental side-project in the mid-90s
Louder · Nov 16, 2025 “I’ve been in bands that really felt like you were creating something new – but you were just another band doing what had already been done”: Blending Tool, Bjork and Black Sabbath helped Swedish psych-proggers stand out from the start The five-piece group surpassed their own expectations at their first-ever rehearsal. Now, as a four-piece with their fourth record out, they’re more impressive than ever
Louder · Nov 15, 2025 Here's who I'd put on my Mount Rushmore of nu metal (three spots were easy, one was excruciatingly hard) Nu metal has produced some of heavy music's biggest bands - and here are the four artists I'd hold up as the genre's Big 4