WELCOME

T he saying goes: build it and they

Rick Allen Brushes Up

Def Leppard drummer unveils own fine art prints

RIP

Thank you… and good night

Darrell Bath

December 24, 1966 -September 27, 2021

Ron Tutt

March 12, 1938 – October 16, 2021

John Rossall

November 26, 1945 – October 2, 2021

Barry Ryan

October 24, 1948 – September 28, 2021

Richard H Kirk

March 21, 1956 – September 21, 2021

Steve Strange

April 17, 1968 – September 24, 2021

Two Music Icons To Call It A Day

David Lee Roth and John Mayall both set to retire

Priest Guitarist Cheats Death

Richie Faulkner survives on-stage aneurysm

NEWS

A school teacher in Canada who is an

dUg Pinnick

With King's X and solo albums due, and two another band projects, it's a busy time for the bassist/vocalist

QUELLA VECCHA LOCANDA

Quella Veccha Locanda, Help Records, Italy, 1972. £600

NEWS

The Byson Family’s frontman Philip Seth Campbell has

The War On Drugs

With a perfectionist approach, and drawing on classic 70s rock for inspiration, the Drugs do work.

Crazy Lixx

“Rock music is meant to be rebellious and fun,” say this Swedish band. Sounds good to us…

MY FIRST LOVE

Smashing Pumpkins SIAMESE DREAM

PFM

After progging for 50 years, the Italian veterans still worry if they don’t always wake up with a dream

Spidergawd

The New Wave of The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal… but from Norway

John Petrucci

Dream Theater’s guitar wizard on egos, tricky time signatures, worrying about the draft, own-brand bourbon, and beards

Florence Black

Nine years, one album and more than a million streams. The Welsh rock’n’roll trio’s gambles are now paying off

ALAN LANCASTER

February 7, 1949 – September 26, 2021

CRIMINAl BEHAVIOR

People often think a covers album is a sign of having run out of ideas, having a contract to fulfil, or maybe both. Deep Purple’s new covers album Turning To Crime is neither. Rather, it sees the band invigorated by revisiting songs that inspired them to play rock’n’roll in the first place

UNCHAINED

Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell’s first solo album in almost 20 years highlights his acoustic side. A lockdown project, he says it turned into “a pretty cool record”

LET’S GET MYTHICAL

Rush’s 1978 album Hemispheres was one of the band’s most challenging records to make, but its stunning 36 minutes are a clear indication of the trio’s chemistry. Geddy Lee recalls the album’s creation, and ponders its legacy

JUSTIN HAWKINS

Lowestoft and Glasgow are special places. Clothes maketh the rock star. You’ve got to have life goals. Success has its downsides. These are among the things that shape The Darkness man’s world view

Redemption songs

Having sunk into a dark hole of depression, Alexisonfire guitarist/Gallows frontman Wade MacNeil found the light with his psychedelic, Grateful Dead-inspired new project, Dooms Children

WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD TIMES GONE

In our exclusive book extract from Eruption: The Eddie Van Halen Story, we venture back to the early 80s, to Fair Warning and Diver Down, when Van Halen were nearly at breaking point

The HOT List

THE ESSENTIAL NEW ROCK TRACKS YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS MONTH AND THE BANDS TO HAVE ON YOUR RADAR

Communication Breakdown

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THE HARD STUFF

the ultimate ROCK REVIEWS jection

THE HARD STUFF ALBUMS

RENÉ TREIER/MARK WEISSGUY WEISS/SIMON EMMETT Deep Purple Turning

ROUND-UP: SLEAZE

Killer Hearts: the real rock’n’roll deal. VIOLETA ALVAREZ

THE HARD STUFF ALBUMS

FRANK MELFI/PRESS Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raise

ROUND-UP: MELODIC ROCK

Groundbreaker’s Steve Overland: a pure AOR record for

THE HARD STUFF ALBUMS

SIMON EMMETT/PRESS The Darkness Motorheart COOKING VINYL Lowestoft’s

ROUND-UP: BLUES

Man Made Hills: a dormant world-class songwriter finally

THE HURD STUFF ALBUMS

PENNY LANCASTER/PRESS Rod Stewart The Tears Of Hercules

THE HURD STUFF REISSUES

David Bowie Brilliant Adventure 1992-2001 PARLOPHONE/ISO Bowie goes

THE HARD STUFF REISSUES

NIELS VAN IPEREN/GETTY IMAGES Nirvana Nevermind 30th Anniversary

Jethro Tull

JETHRO TULL ARCCHIVE/CLAUDE DELORME Benefit (50th Anniversary Edition)

THE HARD STUFF REISSUES

Kiss Destroyer 45th Anniversary Super-Deluxe Edition UNIVERSAL They

THE HARD STUFF STUFF BOOK & DVDS

Tenement Kid

THE HARD STUFF BUYER'S GUIDE

Blondie

Fozzy

Frontman Chris Jericho promises their tour will be “a great package of fun rock’n’roll”

Fish

The big Scotsman on live streams and delaying his farewell tour

The Cadillac Three

Drummer Neil Mason sets the scene for the biggest tour so far from the Nashville-based trio

Tour Dates

HALESTORM

★CLASSIC ★ ROCK RECOMMENDS JAKE OWENS ‘An Evening

MARILLION

★CLASSIC★ ROCK RECOMMENDS WILL IRELAND There’s a lot

HENRY ROLLINS

★CLASSIC★ ROCK RECOMMENDS ALAMY If you think spoken-word

Festivals

Genesis

Manchester AO Arena

Patti Smith

London Royal Albert Hall

Skindred

London The Roundhouse

An Evening With Bruce Dickinson

Birmingham The Alexandra

Caravan

Basingstoke Haymarket The classic Canterbury band, rebooted. ★

Steve Hackett

Bexhill-on-Sea De La Warr Pavilion

Hawklords

Hastings The Carlisle

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

Brighton Dome

Blaze Bayley

London Camden Underworld

The Soundtrack Of My Life

Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him