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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: February 2, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Skindred, Suzi Quatro, Karnivool and more

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“We’re not flower children and we’re not yuppies. We’re somewhere in between – the Van Der Graaf Generation”: They had links to Jethro Tull, Voivod and The Cure. Did you really think Men Without Hats were all new wave and no prog?

The classically-trained Canadians were wearing their influences with pride by fifth album Sideways. And they were making a concept album about UFOs when their label dropped them

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"There was no real sign that it was abig protest song, so most people listened to it and didn’t realise": The story of the anti-war commentary disguised as a four-minute pop song that set R.E.M. on the path to global success and stardom

R.E.M. countered accusations of selling out to a major by using their commercialclout to promote their political activism

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"Highly listenable background music." The Alan Parsons Project bake up the ear candy on Eye In The Sky like punk, NWOBHM and new wave pop rock never happened

Alan Parsons' most commercially successful album bore fruit with the sports anthem Sirius and the hits Eye In The Sky and Old And Wise

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"He asked me 'Do you have long hair? Are you willing to wear a dress and high heels? Are you willing to wear lipstick?' Those questions fascinated me." Peter Criss recalls his first conversation with Gene Simmons and the birth of Kiss

Founding Kiss drummer Peter Criss was intrigued by a strange phone conversation that led to rock and roll greatness

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“I wrote it on a piece of paper somewhere on tour, and I thought, ‘That’s an album!’” A glimpse of how Ian Anderson creates Jethro Tull lyrics

He recalled the spark that ignited Thick As A Brick when he decided to publish a lyric book – which he admitted nobody needed, and feared would be a cringe experience

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"The ‘bucket’ is all the crap that goes around our head all the time." Peter Gabriel shares new single Put The Bucket Down

Peter Gabriel will release new single every full moon at midnight in the build-up to new studio album o\i.

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“The two Johns very began to hate doing TV shows that wanted us to mime. For a band that worshipped Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy and UFO, it became a really big problem”: The huge 80s hard rock hit that drove a wedge between the band that made it

The Final Countdown pushed Europe into the pop charts – and not everyone was happy about it

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"We don't accept the brutality, the lies, the loss of our simplest pleasures": Joan Jett joins growing list of musicians to voice solidarity with anti-ICE protesters

Jett read a prepared statement during a show in New Zealand

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Cool new proggy sounds from Arcane Roots, Karnivool, Crippled Black Phoenix and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog you must hear from Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns, plantoid, Maebe and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

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"He came down with this battered old Telecaster and played the best solo I’ve ever heard in my life": The debauched story of the Britrock classic made perfect by the last guitar solo from a legend

All the elements of the classic rock'n'roll lifestyle fed into a storming tune about a crazy ex-lover

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"I sang Smoke On The Water with Deep Purple when they came to our school for a music clinic": This is the soundtrack of H.E.A.T frontman Kenny Leckremo's life

H.E.A.T frontman Kenny Leckremo picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and talks a lot about Iron Maiden

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"Some horribly lame moments slip into that horribly twee dad-rock territory that blighted so much of his recent work with Status Quo": Francis Rossi doesn't quite return to the pile-driving sound of his old band on The Accidental

Status Quo frontman surprises himself with unexpected fifth solo album

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"Being in a band with someone is very intimate. You exchange ideas, you have arguments, it’s exciting." The story behind the Fear City punk rock demo that Madonna recorded before becoming one of the world's biggest pop superstars

Madonna has a punk rock past, and we have the receipts

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"Going back to our roots, we felt that spark in the studio and how we work together": The Black Crowes announce new single and massive co-headline tour with Whiskey Myers

It's Like That is the third song to emerge from the Black Crowes upcoming album A Pound Of Feathers

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"There were bloody footprints where mercy should have stood.And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets, Alex Pretti and Renee Good." Bruce Springsteen releases moving anti-ICE protest song Streets of Minneapolis

Bruce Springsteen rush-releases song "in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis"

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"It's a more sinister sound, because these are sinister times." Kneecap announce new album Fenian, share its politicised, hard-hitting punk-rave single Liars Tale

Kneecap announce UK shows around release of new album Fenian, share video for single Liars Tale

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Jeff Buckley finally scores an entry on the US singles chart nearly three decades after his death

TikTok users ensure that Lover, You Should’ve Come Over finally breaches the Billboard Hot 100 chart

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"I knew something was wrong. I went to the bar and my girlfriend was there with another guy." The dagger-through-the-heart memory which inspired the biggest rock song of its generation

The story behind "the UK's alternative national anthem", inspired by heartbreak, David Bowie and Iggy Pop

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“I felt a little bit grubby. I knew it hadn’t come from a place of complete integrity”: Steven Wilson tried to forget his shamelessly commercial Porcupine Tree song, but met it again in a strip club

The band leader learned a valuable lesson about himself after an attempt to do his record label’s bidding

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"If you have a sixteen-bar guitar solo, please don't turn into Yngwie Malmsteen or Joe Satriani": Ian Anderson on Jethro Tull, the right kind of guitarist, and forgetting what he's done

Ian Anderson talks about Jethro Tull’s latest album Curious Ruminant and ponders the itch to make another

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"There are people who are almost tainted by their knowledge of music. It's almost like they know too much": How we got over ourselves and learned to love The Darkness

On October 7, 2003, The Darkness released their debut album Permission To Land. Many were resistant to its obvious charms, including us

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"I preferred the Chili Peppers' cover to what Guns N' Roses did, but I was really happy about the royalty cheques": Stooges guitarist James Williamson looks back at the proto-punk ass-kicker David Bowie didn't understand

Stooges guitarist James Williamson looks back at this proto-punk ass kicker that opened many a show circa ’73

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The new collector's edition of Aerosmith's debut album comes with unreleased music, a satin tour jacket and a 3D pop-up diorama

Dream on and on and on and on

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"It was the requiem for the kind of life that we all had dreamed would be in the sixties": More than half a century on, a folk-rock anthem about the souring of the American Dream continues to confound and inspire

The story of the song about America that's been a global hit for two different musicians

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