From the Classic Rock archive: July 2005
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- » STYX SUMMER IN THE CITY
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- » Ah, it's you. Welcome back you old wizard, and steady yourself for a bumper-...
- » THE GREAT MISSING DRUMMERS Have you guys never heard of the great Aynsley...
- » MEET CLASSIC ROCK Steven Rosen LA-based writer Steven Rosen doesn’t own those...
- » PINHEAD
- » THE CLASSIC ROCK GANG Writing (well, typing) to let you know that I have...
- » DON’T MENTION THE BEATLES Congratulations on your recent 100 Reasons Why The...
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- » UGLY KID JOE: THE COMEBACK STARTS HERE
- » THE NEW SCHOOL OF ROCK I have been an avid reader of your fantastic magazine...
- » THE CLASH GO GINGER Loved the Velvet Revolver editorial bits in the June...
- » LETTER OF THE MONTH THE PUNK METAL LOVE-IN Thanks for your article on Punk Vs...
- » TEXT CROCK!
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- » Stones roll again
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- » Ronnie James Dio is to appear in the forthcoming movie Tenacious D: In The...
- » Rollins defends ‘murderers’
- » Alice in warning land
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- » STEVE HOGARTH MARILLION
- » Uriah Heep are not holding their traditional Magician’s Birthday Party show...
- » Get ready for DualDisc
- » “Wank for peace”
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- » ★JULIETTE & THE LICKS
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- » FENDER
- » Security guards interrupted Garbage’s recent Washington DC concert when...
- » KING’S X
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- » ROCK’N’ROLL SUICIDE
- » The Dave Matthews Band have paid $20,000 to an environmental fund to settle...
- » PETER MURPHY
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- » WORLD TOUR ROCK’N’ROLL LANDMARKS
- » Former Warrant singer Jani Lane has agreed to appear in the US version of...
- » Don’t Quote Me
- » HEAVEN AND HELL ★BLACK SABBATH
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- » ★TOWERS OF LONDON
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- » BRITAIN’S BEST TRIBUTE BANDS
- » The man accused of stabbing former Grand Funk Railroad manager and producer...
- » CANDLEMASS
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- » ★WRATHCHILD
- » Stryper’s reunion album (with three- quarters of the Christian rock band’s...
- » PHIL COLLEN
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- » ★METALLICA
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- » ★SLUNT
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- » EIGHT MILES HIGH
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- » NODDY HOLDER
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- » Monkey see, Mötley Crüe
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- » PRIME MOVER ★ZODIAC MINDWARP AND THE LOVE REACTION
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- » Heavy metal is the new classical
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- » The band hated each other. Mötley Crüe were over. Finished.
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- » In 1985, Deborah Frost took her life in her hands and sampled the madness of...
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- » MOTLEY’S SIMPLE PLAN
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- » Mötley Crüe is just the latest in a series of high-profile re-formations. The...
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- » Millions, schmillions. How to bring a US band to the UK for a few grand.
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- » In the late 60s, Jeff Beck put Hi-Ho Silver Lining behind him and went into...
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- » THE BIG TIME
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- » WHEN THE MUSIC’S OVER
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- » Drink, drugs, expectations, management problems: things haven’t been easy for...
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- » We know what happened when three members of Rage Against The Machine got...
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- » Just how ‘super’ are/were some of the best-known supergroups? ‘Super’ is...
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- » Udo Dirkschneider has dusted off his military fatigues for one last swansong...
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- » GET WITH IT
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- » ACCEPT: THE AC/DC CONNECTION
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- » CONNECTION
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- » SPIRITUALISED?
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- » ROLLING WITH IT
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- » AFTER FINALLY ADMITTING TO HIMSELF THAT HE WAS IN THE MERCILESS GRIP OF...
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- » the way
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- » Under the
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- » engineering
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- » Slaves and masters
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- » BIOMECHANICAL The Empires Of The Worlds
- » THE UNSEEN State of Discontent Nice racket, boys, shame about the image.
- » DAVID KNOPFLER Ship Of Dreams
- » RY COODER Chávez Ravine Nonesuch/Perro Verde Elegiac concept album from this...
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- » ALABAMA 3 Outlaw
- » CHRIS HILLMAN The Other Side Cooking Vinyl Byrds man’s rootsy Americana.
- » ROGER DALTREY Rocks In The Head Castle Music
- » QUEEN ADREENA The Butcher And The Butterfly
- » TURBONEGRO Party Animals Burning Heart The Village People of 21st- century rock.
- » EVIL
- » ROUND-UP: EXTREME METAL By Tommy Udo
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- » HARTMANN Out In The Cold Frontiers
- » IMAGIKA Devils On Both Sides Mausoleum Bay Area thrash lives – head for the...
- » SUNSHINE Moonshower And Razorblades
- » MENNEN Freakazoid Escapi European melodic rock with tricks up its sleeve.
- » Friends reunited
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- » Less is more
- » JACOBS DREAM Drama Of The Ages Metal Blade
- » EDGE OF FOREVER Let The Demon Rock ‘N’ Roll MTM/SPV Effortless retro-rock...
- » MIKE WATT The Secondman’s Middle Stand Easy Action Why people sneer at the...
- » AIMEE MANN The Forgotten Arm SuperEgo An affecting Mann-tra.
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- » ARISE The Beautiful New World Spinefarm Records Is ‘trad thrash’ a genre? To...
- » ZENO
- » NIHILIST Nihilist
- » BRAND NEW SIN Recipe For Disaster Century Media Blue-collar American hard...
- » RAGING SPEEDHORN How The Great Have Fallen
- » THE VOYEURS The Voyeurs Bang!
- » ROUND-UP: PROG By Nick Shilton
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- » IGGY & THE STOOGES Telluric Chaos Skydog/Jungle Bus-pass punks are still...
- » LIMP BIZKIT The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) Flip/Geffen Rap metalheads get...
- » MIOCENE A Perfect Life With A View Of The Swamp Corporate Risk 10/10 for...
- » ALKALINE TRIO Crimson Vagrant Goth-punks grow up.
- » THE JEFF HEALEY BAND Live At Montreux 1999
- » VARIOUS This Is indie Rock Volume 2
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- » LIZARD Tales From Artichoke Wood
- » GIZMACHI The Imbuing
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- » Dream weavers
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- » GRAHAM PARKER Songs Of No Consequence
- » MISS BLACK AMERICA Terminal
- » Devilishly good
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- » THE HURT PROCESS A Heartbeat Behind Golf British post-hardcore crew’s second...
- » THE PEER GYNT BAND Ten Years On The Road – Alive!
- » Punching their weight
- » BETZEFER Down Low Roadrunner
- » HEARTLAND Move On Escape Music Practice makes almost perfect for UK hard...
- » VENEREA One Louder
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- » ART BRUT Bang Bang Rock’n’Roll
- » GENE LOVES JEZEBEL Exploding Girl
- » CAESARS Paper Tigers
- » THE SMACKDOWN Calling The Spots Goodfellow Recordings Post-hardcore goes...
- » MIRADOR The Azrael Tales
- » ROUND-UP: SLEAZE By Sleazegrinder
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- » Corgan’s bluff?
- » RYAN ADAMS AND THE CARDINALS Cold Roses Lost Highway Patchy double album from...
- » MESHUGGAH Catch Thirty-Three
- » DEATH BY STEREO Death For Life Epitaph In-your-face sound, emotions worn on...
- » PONY Live At The Harlequin Copro Skilful Surrey rockers rock Surrey skilfully.
- » MARIA MCKEE Peddlin’ Dreams Cooking Vinyl Great lo-fi singer, this time let...
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- » SILVERSTEIN When Broken Is Easily Fixed Victory
- » IAN MCNABB Before All Of This Townsend/Universal Ex-Icicle Works man delivers...
- » 10,000 THINGS 10,000 Things
- » HOT HOT HEAT Elevator
- » ZZZ Sound Of zZz Howler Records You know you want it.
- » And other new releases out this month...
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- » EAST OF EDEN Graffito
- » THE GLITTERATI The Glitterati
- » THE DUKE My Kung Fu Is Good Spitfire Records Nu-metal pioneer’s soundtrack to...
- » THE MOANERS Dark Snack
- » ALBERT HAMMOND Revolution Of The Heart
- » THE LEVELLERS Truth & Lies Eagle All hail a Jethro Tull for the new millennium.
- » INME
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- » LIFE OF AGONY Broken Valley Epic Cult alt-rockers stage surprise comeback.
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- » ROUND-UP: MELODIC ROCK By Dave Reynolds
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- » TEENAGE CASKET COMPANY Dial It Up Trashpit Nottingham’s answer to Pretty Boy...
- » SMOTHER Great White Hoax Global Warming Heaviocious debut by gigantic-...
- » MUDVAYNE Lost & Found Epic Million-selling metallers ditch the masks. And the...
- » And other new releases out this month...
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- » The colour Purple
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- » ANTHRAX Fistful Of Metal/ Armed & Dangerous Megaforce Classic thrash double...
- » DAVID BOWIE The Collection
- » CLUTCH Reissues Megaforce Retro rockers in top form.
- » KEITH EMERSON
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- » Pillow talk
- » ELVIS PRESLEY The King Of Western Bop
- » BUZZOV-EN Welcome To Violence Alternative Tentacles
- » VARIOUS ARTISTS The Original Driving Rock Album Another compilation. Yawn.
- » THE FAT LADY SINGS The Fat Lady Singles (& Opera Obscura)
- » MALICE Reissues
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- » GUSTER Keep It Together Fenway Recordings Guster sell-out with gusto.
- » VARIOUS Empire Of Thunder
- » DEFAULT Reissues
- » BEECHER Breaking The Fourth Wall
- » NEW MODEL ARMY Reissues
- » REISSUES: THE CURE
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- » SPIRIT Future Games/
- » PAUL WELLER Stanley Road (Deluxe Edition)
- » JIMMY EAT WORLD Futures Interscope Emo brilliance reissued with bonus disc.
- » ORANGE JUICE The Glasgow School
- » PETER GREEN Reissues
- » KINRICK Sense Your Darkness Majestic Rock Hard and heavy, like metal should be.
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- » VARIOUS ARTISTS Original Seeds Vols 1 & 2
- » WITCHFYNME Stagefright
- » CHRISTIE For All Mankind Repertoire Without a paddle.
- » THE EASYBEATS The Singles As And Bs Repertoire Aussie pop with AC/DC and...
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- » ROUND-UP: Lost and obscure Krautrock rediscovered
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- » Calling cards
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- » ’vnting high and low
- » IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS Mr Love Pants Edsel
- » TRIUMPH Livin’ For The Weekend – The Anthology Castle Music
- » AUDIENCE Audience Repertoire Please remain seated throughout the performance.
- » EPISODE SIX Love, Hate, Revenge
- » STEVE GAINES One In The Sun Lemon
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- » VARIOUS ARTISTS Indie Anthems
- » NOTHINGFACE Skeletons
- » CHILDREN OF BODOM Reissues
- » PETER BARDENS Write My Name In Dust: The Anthology 1963-2002 Sanctuary One...
- » THE ORIGINAL PUNK ALBUM Various Artists EMI
- » It’s a right Scream
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- » THE RASMUS Hell Of A Collection Warner
- » KGB
- » GENE LOVES JEZEBEL
- » SON VOLT A Retrospective: 1995-2000 Rhino
- » REFUGEE Affairs In Babylon
- » IAN GOMM Hold On: The Very Best Of Ian Gomm Cherry Red Career highlights from...
- » Pearly greats
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- » DARKTHRONE Reissues
- » LEGS DIAMOND Uncut Diamond Majestic Rock A gem from the vaults.
- » CARDINAL Cardinal
- » SAVOY BROWN Raw Sienna/
- » Flag elation
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- » *Roxy Music
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- » Three into one does go
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- » Strat’s the way I like it
- » IGGY POP Live San Fran 1981 Music Video Disributors Just another night of the...
- » DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Live At The 40 Watt New West
- » MAGNUM Live In Birmingham
- » ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS Club Date – Live In
- » ALANIS MORISSETTE VH-1 Storytellers
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- » PRONG The Vault
- » ICED EARTH Gettysburg (1863)
- » IAN HUNTER AND THE RANT BAND Just Another Night – Live At The Astoria Secret...
- » VARIOUS Punk Rock Holocaust Springman Warped Tour disgraces itself.
- » VAN HALEN Live Without A Net Warner Music Division Eddie VH runs the show.
- » The Moogy blues
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- » UNIVERSAL DISC PLAYERS
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- » DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL
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- » BLOODSTOCK OPEN-AIR
- » WEEZER
- » SNOWY WHITE & THE WHITE FLAMES
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- » FIREFEST Town & Country Club, Bradford
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- » ROBERT PLANT & THE STRANGE SENSATION Scala London
- » TERRORVISION Academy, Manchester
- » CREAM Royal Albert Hall, London
- » VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR Royal Festival Hall, London
- » WEDNESDAY 13 London Islington Carling Academy
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- » PHUCT
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