Legendary blues singer and guitarist John Hammond has died aged 83, ending a six-decade career dedicated to preserving and performing traditional blues music.

In a 2008 interview with Q magazine, Diamond talked about the album he made with Robertson as his producer – titled Beautiful Noise. He began by explaining how he and Robertson first became acquainted ...

Elvis Costello looks back on 40 years of King Of America, the 1986 masterpiece that saw him drop the New Wave sound for a raw, Americana-infused reinvention.

Steve Stevens remembers the early days of true international stardom, when he and Billy Idol utilized their creative freedom ...

The news bulletins in February 1996 were dominated by weighty stories: a brace of IRA bombs in London, a devastating oil spill off the Pembrokeshire coast. Viewers of BBC News on the evening of ...

Plus: Drum and bass contemporaries can't catch Calibre, The Necessaries anthology pays homage to prescient indie rock, more.

No band was more suspect for a straight-edge Eighties kid than the Grateful Dead. But slowly a fan was born — one shaggy jam at a time.

"Rock music has always been as much about narrative as it is about noise" — Stephanie Mackey breaks down some fictional representations of rock music.

In 1985, rock music continued its evolution by adopting the trends of the time. Many bands blended their guitars with synthesizers, embraced new wave, and gave the blues-based genre a new glossy ...

These classic rock jams from the 1980s were great, but one memorable line really brought them to charting acclaim.

Do you love music that doesn’t ask for permission? What about music that doesn’t worry about whether it fits neatly into a scene, a moment or even a genre? It wouldn’t surprise me if right now, here ...

Glixen’s new single ‘Unwind’ – out this Friday (February 20) – channels the kind of brooding angst that defined a whole generation of alt-rock superstars. Sludgy guitars wash over the listener before ...