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These are the 19 best 1980s album covers – ranked
We count down the greatest album artworks of the 1980s, where bold visual ideas matched the groundbreaking musical statements within...
The crazy albums that nearly sank 13 rock legends
Disasters on vinyl: The expensive, career-crippling masterpieces that bankrupted rock's greatest bands and tore them apart.
Best album closers: rock's 21 greatest final tracks, ranked
The final tracks that make the perfect climaxes to some of rock's most epic albums
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Best Christmas carols: the 37 greatest festive hymns of all time
Here's a list of the best-ever Christmas carols for the festive season, as voted for by 50 top choral experts from across the UK and US. Do you agree with their choices?
Your guide to the best audio gifts this Christmas 2025
Psychedelia! The 21 greatest psych albums of all time, ranked
Step into a kaleidoscopic soundworld, as we rank the 15 most mind-expanding psychedelic rock albums ever recorded
Here's an underrated classic album from each 1970s year
The 1970s were the age of the Classic Album. But it wasn't all Floyd and Zeppelin. Try these ten underrated Seventies gems for size
Live fast… die young? 15 bulletproof rock legends who cheated the cliché
15 rockers who have somehow managed to combine legendary excess and hedonism with a frankly very respectable time upon this earth
Deviations: the strangest songs by 15 rock icons
Everyone has an off day. Or even just a strange day. Here are the strange tracks that stick out like a sore thumb in the catalogues of the rock demigods
Public voting opens for the RPS Inspiration Award 2026
Awarded annually at the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, the Inspiration prize recognises UK amateur music making
Peer Gynt: a guide to Edvard Grieg's popular masterpiece
When asked to write music for Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt, Grieg thought he was facing an impossible challenge. But, as Terry Blain relates, the composer’s perseverance resulted in a masterpiece
of matchless character and colour
Feel the bass! Rock's 18 greatest basslines, ranked
From psychedelic grooves to minimalist pulses and stadium-shaking riffs, these are the basslines that have shaped rock music from the 1960s to today
These 13 bands should have been immortal.... but each had one fatal flaw
From Badfinger to XTC, these bands had enough magic to conquer the world - but there was always a chink in their armour
Beatles albums ranked: all 13 Fab Four LPs, graded and rated
Journey with us through seven years of astonishing sonic experimentation, as we rank the 13 Beatles studio albums
These 15 iconic albums very nearly crashed before takeoff
Near-breakups, chaos and doubt: these 15 iconic albums almost never existed
The best headphones to help you listen while you work
These 13 bands got themselves banned from America
Banned for drugs, chaos, or politics: the 13 bands America wouldn't let in
These 12 Seventies rock gods struggled through the Eighties
The '70s more or less invented the rock gods. But the '80s found many of these icons struggling to adapt to the sounds of a new decade
Music is helping prisoners turn away from crime. Here's how
Organisations providing musical opportunities in prisons do much to preserve dignity and encourage rehabilitation, discovers Abigail Frymann Rouch
What can musicians do to help tackle climate change?
Delia Stevens from percussion and harmonica/melodeon duo Stevens & Pound writes about her relationship with music and the climate
Greatest symphonies: the 21 best orchestral masterpieces, ranked
Which is the best-ever symphony? 151 of the world's leading conductors voted for what they thought to be the greatest symphonies ever written
Fusion! Jazz-rock's 15 greatest albums (one decade rules here)
From Miles Davis to Mahavishnu Orchestra, we run through the 15 greatest albums fusing jazz and rock into captivating new forms
Ageing disgracefully: 13 rock stars raging against the dying of the light
This rogue's gallery of rock's elder statesmen (and women) are all (in different ways) refusing to trade youth and rebellion for pipe and slippers
Prog, glam, funk: 1972 blew rock wide open. And its 21 greatest albums are...
These 15 seminal albums from 1972 defined rock’s golden era - and shaped the music landscape forever