Rock News 2025-01-09

• "It's journalistic complacency and claptrap." Robert Plant never liked the idea of Led Zeppelin being labelled a heavy metal band
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• “We’d been paying Rick Wakeman £25 a week and Yes offered him £100… We had his son Oliver with us for a while, and he left for Yes too!” Dave Cousins and the life and times of Strawbs
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• The Darkness reveal track listing for their upcoming studio album ‘Dreams On Toast’
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• "Unless your guitars and your attitude resemble these nuggets then you can kiss my tubular bells." Oasis' Liam Gallagher shares his love of the Sex Pistols, revealing how "all heaven broke loose" when he first heard the punk legends
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• Marko Hietala shares video for rocking new single Rebel Of The North
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• Dixie Dragster unleash video for track “Show & Tell” from upcoming EP ‘Dixie Dragster Comes Alive’
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• Don’t forget to cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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• Ex-Mushroomhead singer Jeffrey Hatrix diagnosed with cancer, Gofundme launched
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• "Neil would do a full hour of unrelenting drumming before he went on stage to play for another three": A personal tribute to Neil Peart
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• KK Wilde launch video for new single “Love Is A Weapon”
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• "If this album had been released 25 years ago, it would have been a revelation." New Tremonti record The End Will Show Us How is just about what you'd expect, but it's pretty damn good all the same
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• "We are genuinely sorry for this oversight": Angus and Malcolm Young's childhood home demolished despite being on National Trust Register of Historic Houses
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• The 10 best punk, metal and classic rock songs soundtracking season two of SAS Rogue Heroes, the loudest, most explosive show on TV
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• The blow that ended it all: How the return of Jane's Addiction was floored not by musical differences, but by a punch thrown by their singer
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• "Slash is the reason I picked up a guitar, when I was nine": Meet Grace Bowers, the teenage guitar sensation who's getting the attention of the A-list
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• Howzat unveil video for new single “Revolution”
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• One of Erik Grönwall’s questions to himself – “Were you loyal to those you care about?” – “Without a doubt.”
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• Lambrini Girls unpick all of modern Britain’s shortcomings and emerge as punk's most vital new disruptors on the furious Who Let The Dogs Out
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• “The arc of his life was the story of our times.” Bruce Springsteen, Fiona Apple and Steve Earle to appear on concept album about the life of Hollywood legend and counter-culture icon Dennis Hopper
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• "To connect with a little band called Body Count says a lot about David Gilmour": Ice-T on Law & Order, not blowing up the planet, and breathing new life into a Pink Floyd classic
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• “He heard this outrageously bad dance version. He was enraged; we love that song. The producer said, ‘You should cover it’”: Oceans Of Slumber’s return to prog metal
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• A back catalogue to epitomise the American Dream: The Van Halen albums you should definitely listen to
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• "We get the electric guitars going and we hit it hard": Brothers Osborne's TJ Osborne on playing out, coming out, and the fine line between country and rock'n'roll
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• "We've been to hell and back, and we came out the other side": Bullet For My Valentine almost broke up, but a billion streams says they're ready to celebrate
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• Marilyn Manson: Unmasked, a three-part documentary telling "the shocking story of one of rock music’s most polarising figures" to air on Britain's Channel 4 this month
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• Stryper clarify the “official” dates for their album releases
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• Big Big Train announce very first Canadian live dates
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• The Halo Effect have crafted the first great melodic death metal album of 2025 with March Of The Unheard
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• "Tupac stopped me from committing a murder." Public Enemy's Flavor Flav on the night Tupac Shakur talked him out of crushing a thief's skull with a fire extinguisher
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• “Andrew Loog Oldham asked if we were songwriters. I said we were – then I had to go away and figure out how you wrote songs”: The Nice helped found prog and merged classical music with rock, then they were gone
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• Mogwai's new single Fanzine Made of Flesh sounds like "ABBA meets Kraftwerk" according to guitarist Stuart Braithwaite
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• “This record is about unapologetically accepting that you are the sum of all of your parts”: Halestorm discuss their next album, inspired by Motörhead, country and Skid Row
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• Members of Yello, Daft Punk and New Order guest on new Wolfgang Flür album Times
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• "In the current world there is little that could be more challenging and complex than achieving peace and love": Slovenian industrial music titans Laibach release uplifting cover of Foreigner's I Wanna Know What Love Is
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• "He sang 'Squeeze My Lemon' and we're like, 'Oh, we must leave, we must leave the premises'": Heart's Wilson sisters once walked out of a Led Zeppelin show because Robert Plant was too suggestive
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• Adam Bomb announces European dates for ‘Livedream Tour 2025’
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• “It’s a story about artistic authenticity in an increasingly synthetic world.” Succession star Jeremy Strong talks about his experiences working on the forthcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere
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• "I had 24 hours a day, seven days a week to take drugs": Peter Perrett and the long road to a genuine late-career masterpiece
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS, Trench Dogs and Continental Lovers to embark on UK tour
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• “Mantra Of The Cosmos is like Dylan, Dali and Ginsberg on a rocket ship to the moon to have it with the Clangers.” Oasis' Noel Gallagher joins Shaun Ryder's indie supergroup for new single Domino Bones (Gets Dangerous)
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• Pattern-Seeking Animals share video for new single In My Dying Days
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• “We started by playing an old song and it was a case of the hairs standing up on your arm. I felt straight away that we were back”: The power of music compelled Beardfish to return
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• "The weirdness level is completely off the charts": Justin Hawkins explains unsettling video for The Darkness's I Hate Myself
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• Matt Berry shares psychedelic new single Wedding Photo Stranger
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• John Dallas’ video for his track “Drive Me Tonight” now available
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• “This is gonna make her cry. I don’t care!” Bill Hader, punk rock aficionado, will make his daughter love the Misfits whether she wants to or not
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• “Bet you didn’t know!” Glenn Close once drummed for System Of A Down, Daron Malakian ‘confirms’
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• The Dirty Denims’ “oldest new rookie” Han Ernest provides his highlights of 2024
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• Millennial metalheads, rejoice! Killswitch Engage announce US shows with fellow metalcore champions Shadows Fall
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• Riverside share powerful live video of Friend Or Foe?
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• Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks announce further US tour dates for April and May
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• “A great motivation at a time when I didn’t really know what to do next”: Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick remembers playing sole gig with Ozzy Osbourne
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• Crystal Steel drop video for new single “Crystalized”
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• Guns N' Roses, Sex Pistols, Lorna Shore – plus one more day – added to Rock For People 2025
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• "I went to an award show with my **** out, just wearing chains. Lordi thought I looked cool.” Five minutes with nu gen provocateur Mimi Barks
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• "Anybody who thinks they can do exactly the same thing they did 50 years ago is mad": Ian Paice on how drummers keep playing as they get older
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• David Gilmour solo albums: the essential guide
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• Cradle Of Filth announce new album The Screaming Of The Valkyries – but that Ed Sheeran track isn’t any nearer: “We’re not absolutely sure how it will emerge, but it’s been done”
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• Thundermother share lyric video for new single “Bright Eyes”
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• No Favors’ new album ‘The Eleventh Hour’ now available
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• “A lot of bands were bigger than us, but few can claim to have sucha diverse catalogue of music… I know it’s all been worthwhile”: Gryphon’s Dave Oberlé looks back
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• "I’m refining my primary sound and style through simplicity, brevity, and clarity." Bob Mould announces new album Here We Go Crazy, shares video for its title track, reveals US tour itinerary
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• Ravenøus launch debut video for new single “Streets”
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• Ramones would have been gifted Bruce Springsteen's first hit single if Springsteen's manager hadn't intervened
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• "I just thought it was a good Queen gig. I was more interested in The Who": Photographer Neal Preston on being onstage with Queen at Live Aid
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