From the woods of West Virginia to the north of England (via Denmark, Leicester, Nashville, the Middle East…), our selection of the best new rock draws from far and wide this month – curated, as ever, from the considerable volume of new music that reaches our ears every day. In these pages you’ll find catchy curveballs from familiar names, 21st-century glam, southern rock, blues, grunge, and plain ol’ riff-tastic bangers that never get old.
Full disclosure: right now, a lot of things aren’t easy for bands like these: touring logistics in a post-Covid/post-Brexit world; the prospect of soaring costs for US tours (as we went to press the Department Of Homeland Security was proposing to increase artist visa fees by 260%, threatening all but the Rolling Stones and Ed
