Reviews

The Riff Master General returns: Praise the loud

Dazzling prog/math/microtonal rock fun at London’s Troxy with everyone's favourite 333-year-old aliens

In which Welsh jam legends Man make the greatest San Fransico album by a band who'd never been there

The Marantz MCR-60n DAB is a CD player, sure, but it’s also a ton of other things – practically all of which are top-shelf

More engaging stories from master craftsman Richard Thompson

Keyboard wiz Rick Wakeman's new album Return To The Red Planet documents his continuing Mars obsession

Surrounded by stellar musicians, Eat 'Em And Smile was technicolour proof that life was good for David Lee Roth outside the Van Halen compound

Modern rock heroes Greta Van Fleet are now ten years in and four albums deep – and appear to be sticking to their guns

Audience wore their soul and R&B influences on their sleeves, but theit originality put them right in the progressive milieu

The first review of Metallica’s opening two nights at the Las Vegas Sphere is in