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The Pineapple Thief's early years on Kscope celebrated with new box set

The eight-disc The Pineapple Thief anthology Retracing Our Steps will be released in December

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“Some of the police were dealing dope! They’re knocking at the door and we stop rolling joints, but the promoter says, ‘They have marijuana for us!’” When America fell in love with an eccentric British prog band

A change of line-up, a change of style and Timothy Leary’s plans for a concert suspended in the air helped made their 1974 album a classic

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"Getting a pair of nunchucks. That was such a part of my childhood": After 10 years, American sleaze merchants Zig Zags still want to steal your motorbike

LA punk metallers with Iggy Pop connections return with head-crunching new album

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"It's the first time ever you can see me without make up!": See Michael Monroe as you've never seen him before in new Rockin' Horse video

Rockin' Horse is the first track from the Hanoi Rocks frontman's new album Outerstellar

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"I'd argue that it was the single most important thing that happened in the history of MTV": The story of the song that found 21 missing children

The song made Soul Asylum superstars, if only for a little while

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"I can't imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us": Even Kenny Loggins is angry with Donald Trump over viral poop video

Kenny Loggins' hit Danger Zone was used in a controversial post by the US President on Truth Social

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“Some might wonder why Steven Wilson was brought in. But the art-rock credentials are never in doubt and its songs are progressive in an anarchic way”: XTC’s Drums And Wires returns

Their 1979 commercial breakthrough benefits from Wilson’s finesse, while Steve Lillywhite’s original mix remains daisy-fresh

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With roots in the Peruvian jungle and influenced by an apocalyptic screenplay, Neil Young's most mysterious song became one of his most enduring

"Neil never told me what the song was about": Even Nils Lofgren doesn't know, and he played on it

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"Are they gonna think I'm Beelzebub taking their precious baby away, breaking their hearts and defiling him?": What happened when Greta Van Fleet's guitarist got himself a new band

When the worlds of Greta Van Fleet’s Jake Kiszka and alt.folkie Chris Turpin collided, it was musical love at first sight. After a whirlwind romance, new project Mirador was born

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“A forensic foray into an album that changed how many thought about recorded music”: The Alan Parsons Project’s I Robot: Super Deluxe Box Set

Despite a number of previous reissues, 1977 man-versus-machine concept album has never been explored so comprehensively

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"For a song about facing death it's remarkably joyous": Former world snooker champion and modular synth player Steve Davis picks 10 favourite experimental music songs

Snooker star, DJ, broadcaster and Utopia Strong musician Steve Davis picks 10 favourite pieces of music from his vast collection

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"We are blown away!" Rush share new video as they add 17 more US and Canadian cities to Fifty Something tour

Rush will play their first live shows in eleven years in 2026 on their Fifty Something tour

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: October 20, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Orianthi, Sugar, Heavy Pettin and more

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"It’s about an ex-girlfriend who'd moved to Ecuador. I tried to be level-headed about her leaving...I was completely ****ed off." How one cosy but spiteful ballad helped fast-track the rise of the world's biggest punk band

Many thought this song was written with warmth and goodwill towards its subject. They were wrong

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"You can't dance or clap along to it. When we play it live, you can always see the audience getting caught out": How Genesis wrote the career-changing song that confused their fans - and Peter Gabriel

Deceptively straightforward but with a rhythmic banana skin, Genesis's transformation from major cult band to stadium-filling hit-makers started here

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"The realisation that life is not for ever made me very sad": Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez on why songs become more personal with the passing of time

Self-described “slightly bizarre band“ Coheed & Cambria are currently on tour in the UK

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"The 'lost chord' they were searching for may have been a power chord": The Moody Blues attain peak psychedelic whimsy on In Search Of The Lost Chord

Join the Moody Blues for a psychedelic voyage through mysticism, melody, and late-60s cosmic curiosity

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“People have a hard time understanding how unsurprising Bohemian Rhapsody was to us”: These are the two early Queen songs that Brian May says paved the way for Bohemian Rhapsody

Bohemian Rhapsody didn’t appear out of nowhere

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“If it gets a bit tense we chill out with a joke. He’s good at that. Most of our messages are in a West Country dialect!” Thom Yorke isn’t the very serious character you may have thought, says one collaborator

Electronic artist reveals Radiohead vocalist is more likely to say “Wasson there, bey?” than “What’s your problem, eh?” – and their new album might just contain a pinch of King Crimson and Gentle Giant

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Intellectual, cynical, logical: The hit song about divorce and disillusionment that was Paul McCartney's favourite single of 1979

A Beatle approved it. The record company hated it. How an existential pop-rock masterpiece turned its creators into unlikely transatlantic superstars

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“I was already a loony tune before I joined Kiss”: Ace Frehley on what went wrong with Kiss – plus his relationship with Gene and Paul… and the biggest mistakes he made

In 2014, the late, great Space Ace looked back on his time in Kiss

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“He sounds like he just smoked a big fat doobie”: Comedy fan Geddy Lee on the stand-up comedians he loves

Rush's Geddy Lee on his favourite funny people

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"I was blown away!" The greatest prog albums, as chosen by prog legend Geoff Downes

He's been in The Buggles, Yes and Asia – but what does Geoff Downes consider the finest prog albums ever?

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“Vanilla Fudge had covered a Supremes hit and turned it into something else. That’s what the band tried to do – put their own spin on it”: The iconic cover version that launched a legendary hard rock band – but nearly turned them into one-hit-wonders

It came a year before Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath released their debut albums

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“He sent back a really beautiful letter, allowing us the usage of one of his most famous and brilliant songs ever”: the 90s alt-rock anthem that stuck a Beach Boys chorus in the middle of the track and got the seal of approval from Brian Wilson himself

The band’s drummer didn't think they could get away with it, but the band’s drummer was wrong.

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