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 Louder · Sep 2, 2025
“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 Louder · Sep 2, 2025
Sennheiser SoundProtex Plus earplugs review Plug your lugs with these highly-versatile earplugs from a seminal audio heavyweight Louder · Sep 2, 2025
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 Louder · Sep 2, 2025
"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 Louder · Sep 2, 2025
"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 Louder · Sep 2, 2025
“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 Louder · Sep 2, 2025
"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 Louder · Sep 1, 2025
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 Louder · Sep 1, 2025
“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 Louder · Sep 1, 2025
Hawklords announce twelfth studio album Faith will be released in October Space rockers Hawklords also announce UK tour dates for October and November Louder · Sep 1, 2025
"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 Louder · Sep 1, 2025
"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 Louder · Sep 1, 2025
Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp are back and they're more brightly-coloured than ever Aaaggh! My eyes! Louder · Sep 1, 2025
Louder · Sep 1, 2025 “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
Louder · Sep 1, 2025 "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
Louder · Sep 1, 2025 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
Louder · Aug 31, 2025 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"
Louder · Aug 31, 2025 "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
Louder · Aug 31, 2025 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
Louder · Aug 31, 2025 “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
Louder · Aug 31, 2025 Sometimes bands shouldn’t be trusted to revisit their own material, as the latest Smashing Pumpkins reissue set proves Billy Corgan has made the band's 2000 Machina project even bigger and more bombastic when it needed toning down, not blowing up
Louder · Aug 29, 2025 “We were a punk band with Beatles melodies. We had no effects, barely any equipment, just loads of attitude, 12 cans of Red Stripe and ambition." Why Definitely Maybe will forever be Oasis' finest hour The greatest rock album of the '90s was released on this day 31 years ago. Now a new generation is discovering its irresistible swagger
Louder · Aug 29, 2025 "Amid the chaos and violence, Beth strains with every fibre of her being to resist, and to refuse, and to fight for what she holds dear and true." A defiant Jehnny Beth confronts an ever-darkening world with the fierce, furious You Heartbreaker, You Former Savages vocalist Jehnny Beth returns with thrillingly intense, nu metal-influenced second solo album
Louder · Aug 29, 2025 New Peter Hammill biography to be published in November The 500 plus page ROCK and ROLE: The Visionary Songs of Peter Hammill and Van der Graaf Generator features many rare and previously unseen photographs