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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: October 6, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from A Thousand Horses, Mirador, The Sheepdogs and more

Louder · Oct 6, 2025

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds announce new European dates for next summer

In addition to a sold out UK show, the Aussie icon and his band will be heading on tour across Ireland and the Continent

Louder · Oct 6, 2025

"Carl McCoy's voice sounds like that of a man who dug himself out of an unmarked grave": Fields Of The Nephilim take 80s goth to its logical extreme on The Nephilim

Fields Of The Nephilim's second album blends mysticism and the occult, referencing Aleister Crowley and HP Lovecraft

Louder · Oct 6, 2025

"I want to try your clothes on!" Toyah and Robert Fripp explore uncharted musical territory in new Sunday Lunch video

They're back! Again!

Louder · Oct 5, 2025

“If you strip away the images you could put us beside King Crimson. The musicality and ambition would fit. But for us it’s 50 per cent about music, 50 per cent about hair”: Sparks’ commitment to silliness is very prog indeed

Ron Mael (the operatic one) and Russell Mael (the staring one) never discussed being different; but as LA brothers inspired by British prog and glam, they always were. They only rule they made was: “Shake up the universe”

Louder · Oct 5, 2025

“Let me just put this record on and clear the room! Or play it to a girlfriend and then wonder why she threw herself out the window”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson on the cult prog rock mavericks who inspired him – but were too out-there to be successful

They played a gig at Bruce Dickinson’s school when he was 15 years old

Louder · Oct 4, 2025

Kraftwerk announce their first UK and Ireland tour for eight years

Electronic music pioneers Kraftwerkwill play 15 dates across the Uk and Ireland in May and June

Louder · Oct 4, 2025

“He thought: ‘I’m just going to do an over-the-top pop song’ – a heavy metal pop song”: The flop single that became a power-pop classic thanks to one of the greatest live albums of the 70s

It finally launched the career of one of rock’s greatest bands

Louder · Oct 4, 2025

“It was a moment to reassess everything we were trying to do as a band”: the song that saved U2 when it looked like they were on a downward spiral

How one of the Irish rockers’ biggest hits got them back on track after a patchy period

Louder · Oct 4, 2025

“There was a sense of humour. We were taken very seriously by the world at large, but there was always an edge of fun”: The grimness of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here may have been overstated

1975 album remains a fan favourite – and despite their struggle to make it, the band insist the spirit of love shines through the grief and anger amid the theme of absence and their feelings about Syd Barrett

Louder · Oct 4, 2025