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THE 12 ESSENTIAL NEW ROCK TRACKS YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS MONTH AND THE BANDS TO HAVE ON YOUR RADAR

In a new regular feature we look at 12 essential new rock tracks you need to hear and the artists to have on your radar. This month they include Greta Van Fleet, Larkin Poe, Empyre, Hawxx, Moon City Masters, Starbenders and more…

So it’s been a busy month or so, wouldn’t you say? We lost the great Eddie Van Halen. AC/DC released their new single. Rammstein started posting videos from the studio. Covid-19… ah fuck, who knows where that’ll be by the time you read this, so we’ll refrain from commenting on it. But between all the big-hitting, news-feed-filling headlines there was new music being released. Good new music, and lots of it. In these strange times we’re living in it’s a reassuring constant to find ourselves continually picking up on first-rate new tracks from big names, unknowns and rising stars.

Clearly the 12 tracks we’ve chosen here don’t represent them all (we’d need a lot more pages to do that), but as a snapshot of the crème de la crème of box-fresh tunes we reckon it’s pretty damn good. There’s gloriously sleazy rock’n’rollers Neon Animal, politically attuned newcomers Hawxx, glam-punk wunderkinds Starbenders, not one but two Phil Campbells (both of them excellent, in very different ways)… Oh, and there’s one cover, but it was just too good to leave out.

Check out more tips, and vote for your favourite every Monday, at loudersound.com with Classic Rock’s Tracks Of The Week.