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25 complicated concept albums explained as simply as possible

The music might be brilliant, but how do concept album plotlines fair once they're distilled to their bare bones?

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“I once played with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. You can imagine how I was feeling… I got through YYZ. They told me I was playing too fast!” Taylor Hawkins’ love for prog stars Rush, Genesis, Yes and more

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins discusses how he got into prog rock

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"The stench of success was horrible for a lot of people": Whipping boys of the music press in the 90s, Bush are still fighting back

Gavin Rossdale on thirty years of Bush, the mysteries of music making, Steve Albini and the defiance of gravity

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The Who announce super deluxe version of Who Are You including 71 unreleased tracks

The news arrives with just 112 days left until Christmas

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The A-Z of Britpop Anthems

Mid '90s nostalgia is at a peak, but there was much more to Britpop than scene figureheads Oasis, Blur and Pulp

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“We were virtually given free rein. In fact, they spent so much money on studio time, there was very little left for promotion”: How Caravan’s In The Land Of Grey And Pink became an unheralded prog classic

The leading lights of the Canterbury Scene’s third album is a genuine masterpiece – but pitifully few people heard about it on its arrival

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Sennheiser SoundProtex Plus earplugs review

Plug your lugs with these highly-versatile earplugs from a seminal audio heavyweight

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Hayley Williams is low-key taking over the world, and the misogynist music industry can't do a damned thing about it

The unstoppable rise of Hayley Williams, an icon for our time

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"I'm outside of the mainstream, and that's how I like it": Blaze Bayley's debut solo album flopped 25 years ago - but now he's taking it on the road

Blaze Bayley and his band are playing the whole of Silicon Messiah live and it's finally coming to life

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"One song took about seven weeks to do. It was insane": The Moody Blues on their best and worst albums, Charles Manson, and the mood-altering magic of Nights In White Satin

The Moody Blues were just another British R&B band. Then they got into some old clothes, mind-expanding drugs and lashings of Mellotron… and helped invent prog rock

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“He said, ‘We can’t use this – people will think we’re a Christian rock band!’ I went and got myself a drink. There was no arguing with that kind of thinking”: Marillion’s battle over the cover for Afraid Of Sunlight

Diplomacy abandoned singer Steve Hogarth and keyboardist Mark Kelly in disagreement over 1995 artwork, which was later reinstated. In the end it was just another fight between mates

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"We dreamt of coming here for such a long time." How Bleed From Within went from British metalcore underdogs to Slipknot-endorsed international metal stars

From touring with Slipknot to opening for Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine in the US, Bleed From Within are a band on the rise

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 1, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Cheap Trick, the Vintage Caravan, Foxy Shazam and more

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“Life changed. Time healed wounds. No more feeling alone or depressed – it’s like, ‘Let’s do something positive. Let’s fight’”: When Mariusz Duda escaped the darkness on Lunatic Soul’s Through Shaded Woods

The Riverside leader’s seventh side-project album, intended to be its penultimate release, continued his personal life-and-death story cycle

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Hawklords announce twelfth studio album Faith will be released in October

Space rockers Hawklords also announce UK tour dates for October and November

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"It's going to be an incredible night for all the fans!": Def Leppard announce 2026 European tour with brand new show

News of Def Leppard's plans for next year breaks as they gear up for their only UK show of 2025

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"A little more restraint in the number of extra notes would help let things shine": Camel break out the complexity but fail to enthral on Mirage

Mirage: a flute-heavy mix of symphonic sweep, jazz fusion and melodic subtlety

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Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp are back and they're more brightly-coloured than ever

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“Mr Blue Sky is the song I always go back to. It’s such a feelgood track and it’s never aged”: The ELO classic led Crobot’s Brandon Yeagley to Frank Zappa, Protest The Hero and a whole world of prog

From a box of his parents’ cassettes to voracious filesharing, the vocalist always wanted to be the one bringing strange new music to his friends

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"There are no sprawling fantastical epics here, no dragons or orcs or magical pumpkins": Helloween's Giants & Monsters is a thoroughly modern melodic metal album

Retooled German metal meisters Helloween show their class on seventeenth studio album

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Watch Brian May and superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli sing Queen's Who Wants To Live Forever

"An astrophysicist, and an intellectual with a noble soul" - Andrea Bocelli

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Alabama Shakes release first new song in a decade

A third album is finally on the horizon as Alabama Shakes promise to "unleash more music"

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"Vibrant, loud and sure to destroy dance floors worldwide": The Hives celebrate sweat and rock'n'roll glory on The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

The Hives are back to ruin your bad mood

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Lunatic Soul announce new studio album The World Under Unsun

Riverside frontman Mariusz Duda will release his new Lunactic Soul album, The World Under Unsun, in October

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“The idea was to put a ‘fragile’ label on the album cover. I didn’t want to do anything so literal. I wanted to take the idea of fragility and wrap it round the world. Yes liked it and it worked”: The attitude behind Roger Dean’s album art

Inspired by real-life landscapes and knowing what he didn’t like, the forthright creator of remarkable worlds explains his partnership with Yes

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