This week we’ve got the new Van Halen, we’ve got the old Tubes, we’ve got the new Orange Goblin, we’ve the old Procol Harum. Look at all the albums here today! (more…)

This week’s Cult Heroes looks at the rather up-and-down career of southern confederate rockers Doc Holliday. Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a whole crop of American southern rock bands – such as The Allman Brothers, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Blackfoot, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet and .38 Special – were regularly breaking into the US Top 30 album charts and selling millions of records. So where do the Docs fit in? Oh yeah… and you can check out all the previous Cult Heroes here. (more…)

Frankie Miller is to release a single next week – and to celebrate Rock Radio is having a Frankie Miller Day on May 3. (more…)

In the latest of our ongoing series Then And Now, Xavier Russell looks at one of the great dinosaurs of British rock, Bad Company, travelling back to Olympia 1976 and then forward to Wembley 2010. Check out our previous Then And Now features on Lynyrd Skynyrd and Kiss. (more…)

This week we shave a slice of Canvey Island madness, go Down Under for some psychedelic infusions, get all power metal-like in Scandinavia and Germany, and take a trip back to the 1970s on the prog-rock express. (more…)

The long-running dispute between two members of Procol Harum who both claim to have written the intro to the band’s biggest hit, ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’, is about to draw to a close. (more…)