The issue is The ultimate review of 2025: the best albums, the biggest events and the megastars who rocked our world. Including Albums Of The Year, Reissues Of The Year and our 2025 Playlist. Plus The Darkness, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Cheap Trick, Jethro Tull, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath, Halestorm, Guns N’ Roses and more.

After leaving Jethro Tull, Abrahams went on to found Blodwyn Pig, a blues-rock group that earned critical attention in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The band released two studio albums, Ahead Rings Out and Getting to This, both of which showcased Abrahams' gritty guitar work with its heavy blues influence.

John Mayall and Eric Clapton were both relatively well known when they joined up for an album on July 22, 1966. But Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton took both artists' careers to new levels and set them on the paths to their respective futures. Clapton ...

Blues rock will never die, even if its biggest era has since passed. Countless artists made it big in the 1960s and 1970s with their unique spins on blues rock, and some of them are still making music today. However, a few short-lived groups in the blues ...

Dan Aykroyd, Stevie Van Zandt, Public Enemy frontman Chuck D and others are mourning the loss of Steve Cropper, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer whose guitar was omnipresent on classic recordings by Booker T. & the MGs, Otis Redding, the Blues Brothers, and other rock and soul hits over the years.

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place. A few months ago, when I saw that ...

The Moody Blues were enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tonight, some five decades after they helped give rise to progressive rock by adding symphonic elements to pop songs. They celebrated by performing "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll ...

Incredible. This might be the best cover of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues," I've ever heard, and it's by rock artist Sawyer Hill. He released a rendition of the classic country song with a bit of a twist,

Following their Grammys victory this past weekend, the Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas dissmisses blues rock when discussing genres in modern music. The group took home the award for Best Rock Album with their 2020 effort The New Abnormal. “I kind ...

Fleetwood Mac’s shape-shifting legacy spans blues, pop and rock classics. Here’s how their eclectic albums stack up, from worst to best