Classic Rock
STEVEN WILSON
The Overview FICTION
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January 2026
Classic Rock
CLASSIC ROCK'S ULTIMATE PLAYLIST OF 2025
Take any style of music, and there's good and bad. Here we've collected tracks from across the board that, no matter which way your musical taste usually swings, are all worth a listen.
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January 2026
Classic Rock
DANKO JONES
By their own admission, you know what to expect with a new Danko album. With this year's Leo Rising being met with more positive responses than they're used to, things are looking good.
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January 2026
Classic Rock
Fields Of The Nephilim / Balaam And The Angel / Claytown Troupe
Glasgow O2 Academy
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January 2026
Classic Rock
The Soundtrack Of My Life
H.e.a.t frontman Kenny Leckremo on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.
4 min |
January 2026
Classic Rock
The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins
Magic-fingered piano player gets his dues.
2 min |
January 2026
Classic Rock
The Rolling Stones
Mick Taylor exits. Fun times return.
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January 2026
Classic Rock
Casket Rats
The sound of crazy motorcyles ripping through your living room at 3am.
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January 2026
BBC Music Magazine
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Pick a theme... and name your seven favourite examples
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Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Richard Morrison
There are far too many wonderful carols that have faded into obscurity
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Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
A vivid and intimate portrait of Mahler
Anna Lucia Richter brings striking depth and expressive insight to the composer's song-settings
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Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Bach's recycled choral music brings festive cheer to Leipzig
Shout, exult, arise, praise these days! Glorify what the Almighty today has done!' Early on the morning of 25 December 1734, these words resounded from the choir stalls of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig, to a jubilant accompaniment of festive timpani, pealing trumpets and scampering violins. Seated at a keyboard, the church's director of music Johann Sebastian Bach marshalled the musicians in a performance of the cantata Jauchzet, frohlocket! Auf, preiset die Tage, which preceded the sermon in the morning service.
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Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Extremely good ideas
Bizarre they may seem, but music's most outlandish inventions and notions can also be just what is needed to unleash truly original thought
2 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
In dulci jubilo
When Christopher Gray became director of music at St John's College, Cambridge in 2023, he stepped into a tradition 350 years in the making
9 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
In good faith
Composer Roxanna Panufnik and writer Jessica Duchen tell Amanda Holloway how they have joined forces for a new choral work that looks well beyond Christmas for its festive celebrations
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Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Westward Ho!
Composer Alex Ho is part of a growing community of musicians combining their British and Chinese heritage in fascinating ways
7 min |
Christmas 2025
Record Collector
BLACK AND WHITE MISFITS
Arty oddities on the late-70s punk scene, The Monochrome Set did things their way, alienating some. Generations that followed have been more appreciative, which is why they have intermittently regrouped and have a new album and book in the pipeline, as they tell Rob Hughes
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Christmas 2025 - Issue 578
Record Collector
CAN YOU DIGIT?
FLACS, WAVs, MP3s, M4As... to many record collectors, files on a computer hold little interest, even though they may contain the actual sounds that fuel our passion for music in the first place. But even if they don't exist in physical format, the emergence of downloading and streaming platforms since the turn of the century, and the subsequent removal of some of the \"content\" therein, has made some of the music circulated rare and sought-after.
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Christmas 2025 - Issue 578
Record Collector
I AM A LASER
Laser-etched and hologram discs had their day in the sun. Joe Geesin focuses on some of the landmark innovations that haven't entirely faded away
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Christmas 2025 - Issue 578
Record Collector
The Collector
Warren Kurtz began collecting records in the 60s and has written about music since the 70s.
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Christmas 2025 - Issue 578
Record Collector
UNDER THE RADAR
Artists, bands, and labels meriting more attention
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Christmas 2025 - Issue 578
Record Collector
BOB'S FULL HOUSE
As our Christmas present to you, Record Collector spent several hours over several weeks in the company of this issue's editor: Bob Geldof, Knight of the Realm, Live Aid hero, sometimes conscience of the world, but deep down a music nut to the tips of his toes.
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Christmas 2025 - Issue 578
Record Collector
'WE'D JUST WALLOW IN HOW FUCKING BRILLIANT WE WERE'
Graham Gouldman on I'm Not In Love, The Original Soundtrack and 10cc's next-level pop.
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Christmas 2025 - Issue 578
Record Collector
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKERS
In 1975, 10cc and Queen reigned supreme with I'm Not In Love and that also happened to be the Christmas No 1. But how did both Bohemian Rhapsody. The former was the chart-topping sound of the game-changing singles happen that year, and which, wonders Paul summer and a production landmark, the latter a multi-part song-suite McNulty, remains the most revolutionary example of 70s songcraft?
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Christmas 2025 - Issue 578
BBC Music Magazine
Morten Lauridsen
Terry Blain explores the life of a self-imposed recluse whose magical O Magnum Mysterium beguiles millions of listeners each Christmas
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Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Rakhi Singh
Violinist and Composer
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Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Eric Lu takes coveted Chopin prize
American pianist adds to his Leeds victory in 2018
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Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Jingle hell!
As the Christmas season approaches, the BBC Music Magazine team share the festive tunes that make our hearts sink
9 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
It's all in the genes
Is it a bonus or a burden to be the musical child of musical parents?
7 min |
Christmas 2025
BBC Music Magazine
Hiss and make-up
From boos to vegetables, opera stars have had to put up with all sorts being aimed in their direction over the centuries
8 min |