Steve Morse enjoyed a 28 year stint with Deep Purple, making him their longest serving guitarist. Morse played on eight ...

The Dixie Dregs founder enjoyed side quests with Kansas and Lynyrd Skynyrd before he joined Purple in 1994, just as Ritchie ...

Rainbow, the band formed by Ritchie Blackmore, had a dynamic journey from heavy metal roots to a renaissance in the 80s, ...

Chris Rea, the British singer-songwriter behind Driving Home for Christmas, has died at 74, leaving a five-decade legacy defined by chart-topping albums, blues infused rock, and enduring seasonal ...

Judas Priest, one of the seemingly few mainstream bands that embraced the “heavy metal” label, epitomised the driving, ...

Christmas is right around the corner, so you’re probably getting in the holiday spirit with a little music.Maybe it’s that ...

Veteran Scottish rockers Nazareth have parted ways with longtime lead singer Carl Sentance, and have introduced an “amazing” new frontman.

The resulting album, Squeeze, sounds less like The Velvet Underground and more like a rushed, third-rate pub-rock project. It ...

The 1970s were such a good era for music that even the "worst" albums from that decade still have some redeeming qualities.

Before music took over, Rea worked a range of jobs, including at his father’s ice cream factory, and briefly considered ...

The movement emerged in the 1970s, in a Zambia recently broken free from its British colonisers. The nation was basking in an economic boom and President Kenneth Kaunda had enforced a "Zambia first" ...

Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday ...