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The Pogues drummer Andrew Ranken dead at 72

Londoner Andrew Ranken is the fourth member of The Pogues to pass away

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“I think we met with his approval. If I find him haunting me, I’ll know I did something wrong”: Tim Smith left an unfinished Cardiacs album when he died. Five years on, his bandmates released the finished version of LSD

A brother who took over the band, a singer who struggled to keep the secret and a determination to do exactly what their late leader would have wanted led to the end of an 18-year journey

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"There was about 380 people in the hall, sold out. There wasn’t a woman in sight." Carl Palmer looks back on the earliest Emerson, Lake & Palmer shows

The birth of a prog rock legend

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“I got three whacks with the cane for lying and skipping school. So I blame The Beatles for me being in the music business. I also blame them for getting a whacking!” Derek Shulman’s path to Gentle Giant

Singer and future A&R icon recalls what the Fab Four meant to him, why Hendrix made him break up his first big band, and the truck stop where he met Syd Barrett, Eric Clapton and others

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“It’s no good saying, ‘I’ll be dead by the time this becomes a crisis.’ We are the generation who created the problem. We owe it to the generations to come to clear it up. If it hasn’t gone too far”: Jethro Tull – a warning from history

Ian Anderson believes he has a duty to tackle global issues, and argues it’s a very folky thing to do

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"How would anyone feel when one is the principal songwriter in the band and along comes this upstart and spoils everything?" What happens when your bass player accidentally writes your first big hit

Making Plans for Nigel established XTC as the intelligent arm of the post-punk movement – and it's still being directed at current Nigels

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"How is it possible we've given this evil man so much power?" Jack White calls for US President Donald Trump to be arrested, impeached and jailed

Jack White isn't holding back with his latest blast at Donald Trump

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"I don’t really know what I’m talking about, I’m just doing it. There’s no art to it." How a meaningless French silent movie inspired the surreal alt. rock anthem that helped launch a musical revolution

The making of the alt.rock classic that inspired Kurt Cobain and took 10 minutes to write

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Paramount+ review: A well-priced streaming service with a host of huge IPs, but not enough music content

This streaming platform is a sometimes-buggy, often-charming collection of nostalgic media and trailblazing TV - but music obsessives might be disappointed

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"Pat Smear left me a voicemail and said, 'I have the weirdest request and it involves Mariah Carey'." How Taylor Momsen and Foo Fighters thrilled Mariah Carey by performing two songs from her secret alt. rock album for the very first time

Mariah Carey's 'lost' alt. rock anthems finally get the public performance they deserve

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"I'd like to see more of the world before it all gets vaporized." One of the biggest rock bands in history are set to bring the curtain down on their storied career this year

"This year will probably be it, and I'm okay with that"

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“Every time it seems their direction is clear, the rug is swiftly pulled away”: Open your mind and embrace Biffy Clyro’s Infinity Land as a prog album

The trio’s 2004 release is driven by a bullish, bloody-minded determination to challenge the listener

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"We were seen as a band that wouldn't last, so I think they wanted to milk us for everything we were worth." How an off-the-cuff cover of a 60s song became an era-defining hit and an albatross around the neck of the band that recorded it

Recorded and mixed in just three hours, one of grunge's biggest songs was hated by the man who wrote it

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"They got signed on their talent, on their original material, but also on their looks. They looked like Robert Plant and Jimmy Page." The story of the album that rescued rock'n'roll from the darkness and built a brighter future

Rock was stale, and dinosaurs were lumbering. Then an album arrived that was an effervescent shot in the arm for an entire genre

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"We have the best fans in the world": Much-loved Brit rockers Little Angels announce first shows in over a decade

Little Angels' original lineup will play 11 dates later this year, with Luke Morley supporting

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Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood wants his music removed from the much-mocked Melania Trump documentary

Radiohead guitarist distances himself from First Lady propaganda film

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“We honestly thought that it couldn’t harm us. How wrong we were.” One of the biggest albums of the 1970s would have carried a 'thank you' credit for the band's drug dealer if he hadn't been murdered before the record was released

"If there was a rule book, nobody gave me one"

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The Black Crowes announce UK and Europe summer shows

The Black Crowes line up shows in the UK, Germany, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland

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Rick Wakeman launches new weekly podcast with comedian Griff Rhys Jones

Rick Wakeman and Griff Rhys Jones will launch new podcast, The Sound Of The Seventy Year Olds, on February 27

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: February 9, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from The Cold Stares, Norah Jones & Josh Homme, Tailgunner and more

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Disney+ review: An all-singing, all-dancing family streaming service with music docs and more

Disney+ is a mecca for family-friendly programming, but also a font of excellent adult-oriented media, music content and more

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"It reminded me of the politics of fear, like we're doing today": How the LA club scene in the 1960s shaped American rock then sparked a revolution

The Doors to a riot: Six months in the life of Sunset Strip

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“The real 10 best albums in the world are lying on cassettes in someone’s drawer. They didn’t get released. It’s all luck”: How to beat fate by scrapping an album over a movie, relating to a suicidal joyriding pilot and feeling for flat Earthers

Norwegian artist makes music for commercials and knows how to hook someone in 30 seconds. That’s why he doesn’t want his band’s songs to be catchy

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"This is not their most exhilarating release, nor probably their absolute finest, but creativity is at an all-time high": Scorpions mix hard rock, pop and metal on the pre-stardom classic Taken By Force

The Scorpions' last album with Uli Jon Roth and first with Herman Rarebell sums them up in the year that punk broke

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Immigrant Song, a lost cymbal and a suitcase full of cash: Rare footage of Led Zeppelin on tour in 1972 has surfaced online

The newsreel footage was filmed by Dutch music show Popzien in 1972

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