Rock News 2025-01-14

• Three days left to cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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• “Our manager started making up rumours that I was back on heroin and the band were breaking up”: How Aerosmith defied grunge and a giant meteor to become bigger than ever in the 1990s
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Skunk Anansie release spiky new single An Artist Is An Artist, and if you hate saxophone Skin has news for you
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• Robin McAuley unveils lyric video for new track “Soulbound”
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• Now you’re playing with power! Lego level up the retro vibes with the new Lego Nintendo Game Boy
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• Evick drop new single “Your Last One”
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• Primus guitarist Ler LaLonde's home decimated by California fires
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• Listen to thunderous new Architects single Blackhole
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• "After a lifetime listening to hard rock and heavy metal I discovered Talking Heads and realised how good music could really be": Talking Heads open up new worlds on Remain In Light
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• Trixy Tang unveil current 2025 show dates
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• "Haters gonna hate while I live my dream." Seattle R&B/Soul singer Shaina Shepherd responds to hot takes on her one-off performance fronting Soundgarden
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• Mastodon’s new album is “all over the place” musically, teases Brann Dailor
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• Last day to cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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• English Teacher, Du Blonde, Nadine Shah and more join Iggy Pop, Manic Street Preachers and Sisters of Mercy on Bearded Theory festival bill
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• Wheels of Fire to release new album ‘All In’ on March 21st
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• “I thought it was just going to be a fun little party record, but my grief started leaching into the music”: Devin Townsend is slightly embarrassed by his new album, and that’s a good thing
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• “I like to push some of those buttons. I like the fact that people have a problem with what we’re doing”: How Metallica kicked back against the 1990s haters with Reload
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• “We demonise the concept of being angry. But it needs to be used as a tool”: The game-changing 2015 album that reinvented metalcore
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• "We’ve played shows on mushrooms in the past." Blood Incantation made one of 2024's trippiest, most ambitious metal albums, and we're starting to see why
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• Nine Inch Nails confirm they’ll announce first dates on long-anticipated world tour soon
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• Michael Sweet aiming to finalize and release ‘inspirational / worship’ album
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• "These eighteen months have been the hardest thing I've ever been through in my life": Jesse Malin on the spinal stroke that left him paralysed from the waist down and the long road to recovery
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• Alabama Shakes leader Brittany Howard just played her first gig with her new hardcore band Kumite, and personally offended punk rock gatekeepers are already crying hot salty tears just thinking about it
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• "Starr's semi-spoken, shoulder-shrugging vocals sit well with these jaunty but wry earworms": Ringo Starr sets sail for unchartered waters on languid country album Look Up
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• “It’s a case of writing something you thought was wryly amusing, then it just won’t leave you”: Horrified by his own mission statement, Public Service Broadcasting’s J. Willgoose Esq. calls himself a pessimist with impostor syndrome
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• “I’ve had prog dates because of our concerts… the great thing is that you don’t have to explain your weird musical tastes!”: Focus guitarist Menno Gootjes’ prog life
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• The Darkness reveal track listing for their upcoming studio album ‘Dreams On Toast’
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• “You’re 17, it’s a normal dumb night, then someone’s screaming, ‘Get on the floor!’ I’m gonna die. This is the end of my life”: The armed hold-up that set the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne on the road to music
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• "Marriage is f*cking metal." Cradle of Filth members Marek Šmerda and Zoë Federoff married in Arizona
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• Neil Young once threw Bob Dylan off his tour bus because he didn't recognise the legendary singer/songwriter
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• “Righteous proof that rebel music and irony are alive and well”: Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name amasses one billion Spotify streams
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Gyasi launches new single “Cheap High” from upcoming album ‘Here Comes The Good Part’
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• The miraculous journey of an Angry Young Man: The Elvis Costello albums you should definitely listen to
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• “Part of the attraction for Lou Reed was that I had an ample supply of hash”: how a British 70s cult hero became a member of famously grumpy Lou’s crew
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• “We’re all doing things. I think that keeps Creed healthy”: Mark Tremonti on the importance of Creed’s members working on other projects
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• Former Skid Row lead vocalist Erik Grönwall unveils his plans in 2025 for music releases and livestreams
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• “We were supporting a third-rate slide guitarist in an empty roadhouse”: Pulp guitarist Mark Webber on the Britpop legends’ weirdest ever gig
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• "We had turned into grotesque prog creatures": How Rush reinvented themselves
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• “Metal is the only genre that’s open to so many different types of music. That’s why Babymetal is here right now”: How Babymetal smashed the barriers and defied the haters to become Japan’s biggest metal band
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• Feel old yet? These classic metal albums turn 20 in 2025
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• Lady Beast share new single “Inner Alchemist” from upcoming album ‘The Inner Alchemist’
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• Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale once dumped a guy for falling asleep during a Tool show
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• Ablaze to bid farewell to band co-founder and guitarist Matty D
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• "All had this feeling that it was something really momentous": Bruce Dickinson looks back on his solo albums and forward to Iron Maiden's big year
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• “Prog rock is to music what sci-fi is to literature: a desire to further the imagination, to push the music to the edge”: How William Shatner learned to love prog and make an all-star album with all the humanity of classic Star Trek
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• Tigertailz’s box set ‘For A Few Dollarz More (The Archives Vol 1: 1984–1991)’ available on January 24th
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• Stephan Pearcy reveals when he played guitar in Ratt and whether he enjoyed it or not
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• "It's interesting that metalheads resonate with us.” Kalandra mix ethereal prog, Nordic folk and, er, bird songs. So why can't metal fans get enough of them?
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• "Fake blood starts pouring from an amateurish-looking skull incorporated into a plank of wood": A night out with Iron Maiden before they were famous
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• "I was definitely doing too much Bolivian marching powder." Hollywood star Rob Lowe reveals that he once "cut a demo" with AOR superstars Toto, which might just be the most '80s thing ever
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• “Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to talk to me. They thought I would be right for the part of The Terminator”: WASP frontman Blackie Lawless’ wild tales of Lemmy, Gene Simmons and The Village People
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• "It was an unmitigated disaster." Beatles legend Ringo Starr reveals why he and Elton John's mother walked out of one of her son's most legendary stadium shows
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• “You only get caught when you’re successful”: Robert Plant and Jimmy Page on the time Willie Dixon came calling for his Whole Lotta Love songwriting credit
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• "It might kill me to be on the road, but it will certainly kill me to not be on the road": Sweet guitarist Andy Scott reveals why he won't stop touring
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• "Slipknot took care of us!" Knocked Loose's Bryan Garris on rubbing shoulders with metal icons, taking hardcore mainstream and what comes next
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• Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith loses Malibu home to Los Angeles wildfires
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• The 50 best metal songs of 2024
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• Rachael Yamagata teams up with TESSAN to inspire journeys through music and connection
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• “There’s a lot of jeopardy involved for them”: Marilyn Manson: Unmasked director applauds accusers who came forward ahead of series’ UK broadcast
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• "It's only afterwards that you realise, 'Hey, Kayak could really have been something'": the story of the Dutch proggers and their 2018 album Seventeen
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• Stryper clarify the “official” dates for their album releases
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• “We were doing things that would have been beyond us with Ozzy. With Ronnie James Dio, there were so many more options”: How a reinvented Black Sabbath saved themselves from oblivion with Heaven And Hell
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• “We really weren’t compatible. It was kind of cool, but there was a lot left to be desired”: The singer who briefly replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath in 1977 – and then was forgotten
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• “I just want to roll into it with an energy like it’s all starting again”: Slipknot’s Clown teases new album (and Look Outside Your Window) coming soon
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