Concerts
Concerts, tours and festivals across Europe: who is playing, where, and the venues that matter.
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“I remember them telling me, ‘You don’t play angry’”: Bassist in Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian’s pre-System Of A Down band was fired for not being “angry enough”
David Hakopyan was a member of Hollywood rockers Soil before they re-named themselves and dominated the nu metal era
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Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien Stunned By Obscure ’70s Track That Sounds Like “Paranoid Android”
Ed O'Brien has been making the rounds to promote his new solo album Blue Morpho , including a lovely We've Got A File On You inter…
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Noah Kahan Makes Toronto Concertgoers Pledge Not To Shit On The Floor
When someone took a shit in the Turnstile pit in 2021, it was the conversation topic of the week. Now Noah Kahan's concert seat po…
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Walton Goggins Boogies With Julian Casablancas in New Strokes Video
A bunch of clowns show up too
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B-52s Call Out French Festival For Making Them Set Up As Tornado Neared
This summer Europe has been enduring unprecedented heatwaves. Last week, temperatures in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and pa…
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The Who's Pete Townshend believes that Keith Moon once bought dinner in Seattle for a nine-year-old Kurt Cobain
Amazing if true, but...
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"The floor descends into an orgiastic frenzy of moshers, dancers and crowdsurfers while cups fly overhead offering relief from the clammy press." Cult heroes Acid Bath put on the hottest gig in metal as they make their UK debut
Acid Bath's first ever UK gig comes almost 30 years since the band split - and weeks before they play stadiums with System Of A Do…
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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: June 29, 2026
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Green Lung, Bad Nerves, These Wicked Rivers and more
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“I’d look at this mysterious fog in the ceiling. It looked like God was up there in Heaven. The ‘fog’ was tobacco smoke”: Roy Harper’s son Nick on growing up around folk rock icons Pentangle
He recalls discovering what Bert Jansch was really like, leaving Danny Thompson on stage, and the band’s artistic connection to Ji…
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“Oh God, it’s hard to listen to.” The story behind Nirvana’s final song, You Know You’re Right
On January 30, 1994, Nirvana entered the studio for the last time. The song the trio taped that day would become the subject of a …
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Peter Hammill returns with Tears In Time, his first new album for five years
Van der Graaf Generation frontman Peter Hammill will release new album, Tears In Time, in September
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“It feels like the start of something heavier and more direct”: Nightwish’s Floor Jansen returns with metallic new single Run and announces 2027 tour dates
The symphonic metal singer is keeping busy during her band’s live hiatus
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“It’s an incredible amount of money which will replenish our empty shelves”: Metallica donated £20,000 to local foodbank ahead of Cardiff concert last weekend
The heavy metal giants have also teamed up with the NHS to encourage blood donations as their UK tour continues
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15 of the best Prime Day deals still going strong – grab them now while you still can
Amazon Prime Day came to an end last week, but I’ve discovered a bunch of bargains that are still live – but you’ll have to be qui…
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“I formed this band, for God’s sake! And I helped Roger a hell of a lot because he wasn’t a musician when we started”: The lost Richard Wright interview
On the back of a Classic Rock cover story for Pink Floyd's The Wall back in 2000, keyboard player Richard Wright was determined to…
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“I get into arguments with fans all the time about this. Everybody’s like, ‘Oh, it’s just a leftover Stone Sour song.’ No, I wrote that for Slipknot!” How Slipknot made the greatest metal ballad of the 21st century
Inspired by Corey Taylor’s divorce and redefined after the death of Paul Gray, Snuff shows The Nine at their most beautifully vuln…
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"It was darker than other bands but it really got me to let go of the old and embrace the new." The late 80s alt-metal album that Korn guitarist Head says accidentally invented nu metal
The alt-metal classic that came out of nowhere and changed everything
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"A nurse came in and said, 'You should stay another night or two because you almost died yesterday.'" How a near-death experience inspired the making of Failure's Location Lost
Failure's seventh album Location Lost was shaped by frontman Ken Andrews’ long road back to full health
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"Ma, I'm real sick. I need help. I got to come home": The trauma and triumph of Stevie Ray Vaughan
After almost dying at a London show, Stevie Ray Vaughan was given two weeks to live - it was the wake-up call he needed
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“Having ADHD isn’t a superpower. But we can turn pain into poetry, and this album does that’’: TesseracT and Chimp Spanner friends team up for Prince Of Failure debut
Daniel Tompkins and Paul Ortiz smash prog together with nu metal on their cathartic self-titled record
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Watch Ms. Lauryn Hill Tribute With SZA, Doechii, and Nas at BET Awards 2026
She received the inaugural Living Legend Icon Award at tonight’s awards ceremony
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"Give The People What They Want proves that The Kinks were still alive and kicking as the 80s began." Ray Davies successfully trades music-hall whimsy for slabs of radio-ready arena rock
The Kinks' 19th studio album explored the band's harder edges and saw the reintroduction of an old friend
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Lorde Uploads 49 Demos From Virgin for Album’s Anniversary
The XRAYS page also features new photos, notes, and artwork ideas for her 2025 LP
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“I imagined playing in San Francisco. I didn’t even know where it was! But within a few months, there we were”: In a world of smiling 60s beat bands, Procol Harum were serious – and it paid off
The proto-prog debut album that followed blockbuster single A Whiter Shade Of Pale contained an 18-minute suite and challenging ly…