Rock News 2025-01-16

• "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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• Last day to cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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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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• New Zealand groove metallers Alien Weaponry announce new album Te Rā, launch epic Mau Moko video
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• "We were even rebelling against the people who embraced us": A brief history of cult Paisley Underground psychonauts The Dream Syndicate
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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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• "We had turned into grotesque prog creatures": How Rush reinvented themselves
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• "Right now nobody gives a flying **** when your record drops or the next concert is!" Motley Crue's Tommy Lee isn't impressed by tone-deaf musicians self-promoting while Los Angeles is burning, but there's a plot twist
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• Trixy Tang unveil current 2025 show dates
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• Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is an enthralling depiction of the emergence of a singular musical genius and cultural disruptor, with Timothée Chalamet superb as a young Dylan
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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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• Sabaton to release World War I-themed movie on streaming services this spring
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• "Dance, drink, and be merry!" Green Day's "glorified karaoke" side-project The Coverups host a joyously messy party in London
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• Super Deluxe edition of classic Yes album Close To The Edge on the way
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• Wheels of Fire to release new album ‘All In’ on March 21st
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• Osibisa founding member and singer Teddy Osei dead at 88
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• "I did have a multitrack tape of that, but it got mislaid": The secret history of Led Zeppelin’s lost masterpiece
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• Löanshark unleash video for new single “Another Man In The Trunk”
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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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• "My friend’s mom had connections with the Grateful Dead and could score good acid." Kyuss legend Brant Bjork was destined for a life in rock'n'roll
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• Nine Inch Nails confirm they’ll announce first dates on long-anticipated world tour soon
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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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• Desperate to master “the art of growling”? This Dutch university offers degrees in heavy metal music. Seriously.
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• “Hendrix took a look at my first album and said: ‘I’ll try it this way’. I don’t appreciate that. But then I can’t play the guitar like him”: The chaotic story of Arthur Lee and Love, the 60s renegades who helped invent the LA scene
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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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• Listen to thunderous new Architects single Blackhole
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• Former 24-7 Spyz vocalist and Black Rock Coalition co-founder Peter 'P. Fluid' Forrest, murdered in New York
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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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• Alt.rock icons Swervedriver release first new music in five years and it's predictably epic
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• Dirty Honey drop live video for track “When I’m Gone” from upcoming album ‘Mayhem & Revelry Live’
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• 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
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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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• "Just as Dave pioneered a genre with Megadeth, we wanted to pioneer something new in the world of wine": Dave Mustaine's wine company is now offering luxury wine-related excursions
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• “Turn the lights off, put the music on, close your eyes and start to have a waking dream… it might even inspire people to create movies that could be scored with this music”: John Carpenter’s second career in prog
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• Lady Beast share new single “Inner Alchemist” from upcoming album ‘The Inner Alchemist’
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• Robin McAuley unveils lyric video for new track “Soulbound”
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• “He was wearing a red satin suit and he’d closed his eyes to do existential-style doodles. Then he got ink on his suit and was pissed off”: Why Captain Beefheart is The Primevals frontman Michael Rooney’s prog hero
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• Gyasi launches new single “Cheap High” from upcoming album ‘Here Comes The Good Part’
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• "I sometimes struggled to convey what we were just talking about, and not everyone understood it": A story of Ghost's concert movie, logistical complexity and Hollywood finance
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• Michael Sweet aiming to finalize and release ‘inspirational / worship’ album
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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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• “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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• "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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• "We can't quit, we don’t know how, we've come too far": Those Damn Crows release thumping new single No Surrender
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• Rikki Rockett feels rock and metal outlets are quickly becoming the “soundtrack of the grumpy”
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• Three days left to cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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• "I certainly did not imagine that a son of mine would get rich from being obnoxious!" In 1987, the Beastie Boys were portrayed as the world's most outrageous, offensive band, a danger to civilised society. Their parents found it all hugely amusing
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• Watch Dream Theater's prog metal legend Mike Portnoy attempt to play along to Taylor Swift's Shake It Off with absolutely no idea what he's listening to
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• “I borrowed an iPod for a flight and put Moonmadness on it. Flying through the clouds, I was listening to Air Born thinking, ‘This is great!’” Why Baroness ex Peter Adams loves Camel
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• Evick drop new single “Your Last One”
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• “I’d rather be remembered for our legacy than returning as the top Rush tribute band”: Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee are jamming together – but they have no plans to resurrect Rush with a new drummer
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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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• Stephan Pearcy reveals when he played guitar in Ratt and whether he enjoyed it or not
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• “I’m too old to be famous.” Paramore's Hayley Williams has discovered an unreleased album her 78-year-old grandfather Rusty recorded almost 50 years ago, and you can hear its first single now
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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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• "When you're young you've got all this violence in you, and that music released it for me." U2's Bono on the "genius" musician he considers an "exorcist"
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• Eagles donate $2.5 million to upcoming LA wildfires relief concert
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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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• "The whole evolution of electric guitar-driven, album-oriented music can be traced directly back to him": The Bob Dylan albums you should definitely listen to
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• "It's chock full of fist pumpers, head bumpers, stinky dumpers, meaty thumpers and toe stumpers." Cult legend John Reis announces new album Time To Let You Down, shares single Fed To The Dogs
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• “You have to destroy things in order to create things. And I did destroy a really beautiful life.” Lucy Dacus announces new album Forever Is A Feeling, shares two new singles and North American tour dates
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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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• “Something we did do was throw out the rulebook”: Arch Enemy discuss “chaotic” new album Blood Dynasty
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• “He couldn’t understand amidst the noise that I was the other singer! I almost enjoyed it better that way”: The underwhelming moment when Yes’ Jon Davison met predecessor Jon Anderson
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• Envy Of None detail upcoming second album Stygian Wavz
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