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Tom Scholz reveals the secrets of Boston's masterful debut album. "I don't know what's wrong with me... I've spent six months making a recording of a song that I've thrown out"

Driven on by one man’s perfectionism, Boston’s debut took seven painstaking years to complete, yet its creation was inspired by just 20 seconds of music

Louder · Aug 26

17-disc Soft Machine box set, Slightly All The Time Recordings 1970-1974, due in October

Mammoth new Soft Machine box set the most comprehensive anthology of the band ever released

Louder · Aug 26

"Thank you, Dolly, for a lifetime of giving back and making the world a little brighter." Watch Jack White pay tribute to Dolly Parton onstage in London by covering Jolene

Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Elton John among other stars saluting the late queen of country

Louder · Aug 26

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How Dolly Parton corralled a Who's Who of rock royalty to record her landmark Rockstar album: "There's more aggression in rock'n'roll – you've got to treat it with respect"

Dolly Parton, the late Queen Of Country, on the road to her rock album, transcending Nashville, and what Stairway To Heaven and Free Bird mean to her

Louder · Aug 25

"Every song sounds like it's from a different world." Queens Of The Stone Age announce details of ninth album Perfecth, share new single Insignificant Other

QOTSA's follow-up to 2023's In Times New Roman is incoming

Louder · Aug 25

Dolly Parton dead at 80

Country ⁠music legend ⁠Dolly Parton ⁠has died at the age of 80, her family have confirmed

Louder · Aug 25

“It would be awesome to do it one night – the guys ask, ‘Where did he go?’ And I text them, ‘Couldn’t do it. Too nervous’”: Enslaved will be finished if Ivar Bjørnson stops getting stage fright

The story of the Norwegian prog metallers’ 2023 album Heimdal includes a mysterious Norse god, a line from Blackadder Goes Forth, cross-country skiing and childhood pop influences

Louder · Aug 25

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Marshall expand their Jimi Hendrix anniversary range with Purple Haze-infused hardware line-up

Trio of new limited-edition products includes Major V headphones and Emberton III speaker and celebrates Jimi Hendrix’s association with the Marshall brand

Louder · Aug 25

Crowdfunding campaign set up to support Television guitarist Richard Lloyd as he battles cancer

Richard Lloyd played guitar alongside Tom Verlaine on Television's classic Marquee Moon album and its two follow-ups

Louder · Aug 25

Mike Portnoy has filed his review of Rush's Fifty Something tour. "Was able to spend some time with the Queen before the show!"

Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy reports on Rush and Anika Nilles

Louder · Aug 25

Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen admits that super-producer 'Mutt' Lange was "about 99%" responsible for the phenomenal success that the English hard rock band enjoyed in the 1980s

"He taught us how to sing, he taught us how to play guitar"

Louder · Aug 24

Rush ascend to prog rock nirvana on the superhuman but radio-ready Moving Pictures. "The crowning achievement in one of the greatest consecutive album runs in music history"

Bridging the gap between 70s Rush and 80s Rush, Moving Pictures remains a benchmark release

Louder · Aug 24

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 24, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Joanne Shaw Taylor, Earth Tongue, De Staat and more

Louder · Aug 24

Bret Michaels cancels all upcoming shows on doctor's orders. "I may have just chosen to go sooner than I should have"

Michaels played a comeback show on Friday after recent surgery but cannot go on

Louder · Aug 24

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Louder · Aug 23

Carmine Appice names the forgotten rock drummer who “started everything”: “The playing, the showmanship, the twirling – he was a monster player and never got credit”

The Vanilla Fudge drummer salutes a rock pioneer – and clears up a famous Led Zeppelin rumour

Louder · Aug 23

"It's not made for radio, it's not made for MTV, it's just made for rock and roll." Forget what critics and sales stats might tell you, Flick Of The Switch is the finest AC/DC album since Back In Black

Flick Of The Switch is AC/DC's most under-rated album. The End

Louder · Aug 23

"It's with a heavy heart that I'm announcing my retirement from drumming." Former AC/DC man Chris Slade calls time on career at 79

Chris Slade retires from drumming after career that saw him star on AC/DC's The Razors Edge

Louder · Aug 22

“We had a good run and did some great things. That wasn’t one of them”: Abandoned songs, a broken foot and footballer-size egos destroyed a Yes album

The classic line-up fell apart after disastrous attempts to make the follow-up to Tormato in Paris, before a new line-up released Drama in 1980

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Louder · Aug 22

"It was dark and cool, really different. Beth Gibbons was one of my greatest vocal and musical inspirations." The story behind Portishead's Dummy, the album that change everything for Evanescence's Amy Lee

When Portishead released their debut album Dummy on August 22, 1994, it sounded like a transmission from the future. For Evanescence's Amy Lee, it was life-changing

Louder · Aug 22

“He was the real Voice Of Rock. Warm, rich, sonorous, resonant, deeply soulful”: James Dewar was the greatest rock vocalist you’ve probably never heard of

When James Dewar died in May 2002 aged 59, rock lost one of its greatest and most overlooked singers

Louder · Aug 22

Green Day: The A-Z of pop-punk's most important and influential band

Your handy alphabetical guide to Californian punk rock superstars Green Day

Louder · Aug 22

“We were on tour when my wife died. I flew back, arranged the funeral, did the wake, and continued with the tour. I ended up on the same psychoactive drugs as she did”: Tears For Fears’ Roland Orzabal and his songs of pain

The 80s prog-pop duo’s main songwriter had a lot to say via their first album in 17 years

Louder · Aug 22

"If I could start again, I'd pick up a saucepan rather than a guitar." CJ Wildheart on his new album, career choices, and his relationship with Ginger

With guitarist/singer CJ Wildheart's career looking uncertain, it might be a chance to swap his guitar for a set of pans

Louder · Aug 22

Ronnie Wood interview: The Stones' new album, a new Faces album, and Einstein. "We have to be honest about the sickness in the land. There's a lot of bad things going on"

Rolling Stone and solo bandleader Ronnie Wood on the Stones' new lease of life and the chances of a tour

Louder · Aug 22

All members of Buckcherry safe after tour bus involved in fatal crash

One person has died after a multi-vehicle crash in South Carolina which involved Buckcherry's tour bus

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