Rock News 2025-02-18

• "Thank you so much for really changing my life with your music": Watch Paramore's Hayley Williams do a surprise performance of crushcrushcrush with Finneas at his show in Nashville
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• “Anybody down there on acid seeing this figure flying down with flames coming out of his head must have thought God was coming”: The crazy life of Arthur Brown, the wildman who set rock’n’roll on fire
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• Prophets of Addiction unveil video for track “Walk The World”
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• "A ninth album would have been about riffs - interestingly constructed riffs and hypnotic music": Jimmy Page looks back on the tests and turmoil of Led Zeppelin's final albums
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• “Even at their most blistering there’s a blazing technicality to everything they do”: Jinjer’s virtuosic Duél is not for the faint-hearted
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• “The facts don’t matter. Whoever has the better story wins!” When Pink Floyd, Arthur Brown, Rush and others got in trouble with the law, the results were remarkably prog
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• "The feedback is humbling and inspiring": Jimmy Page reacts to fan response to Led Zeppelin movie
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• “You’re getting ’druff everywhere, dingwad!” This shampoo advert about a metal band with dandruff is the cringiest thing you’ll see today, or your money back!
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• AC/DC, Metallica, Iron Maiden & Slayer t-shirt prices slashed in Amazon's massive Presidents' Day sale
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• Steven Tyler's recent live performance got Aerosmith fans' hopes up –but the vocalist will never tour again
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• Helloween to release compilation album ‘March of Time (The Best of 40 Years)’ on March 28th
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• "There's never been a blueprint for the dictatorship of the proletariat": That time Aerosmith appeared on Saturday Night Live with Tom Hanks and discussed the decline of communism in Eastern Europe
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• “Axl only wanted to play industrial and Pearl Jam-sounding crap”: the story of Slash’s Snakepit and how it marked the beginning of the end for Guns N’ Roses mark one
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• Michael Wilton & Eddie Jackson have decided they’re going to continue with Queensrÿche into their 80s
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• “We ended up hating Rick Rubin. He didn’t get what made this band happen”: The rollercoaster story of Wolfsbane, the British metal band who should have been superstars
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• Chris Holmes claims W.A.S.P.’s live album ‘Double Live Assassins’ was recorded in a studio
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• “When I met Bono for the first time, I was like, ‘I used to sing Pride (In The Name Of Love) in my rock band growing up!’” Lady Gaga used to front a classic rock band who covered U2 and loved Led Zeppelin
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• Sebastian Bach drops video for new single “To Live Again”
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• Foxy Roxx re-release debut album ‘Shake The Foundation’ w/ bonus tracks + record ‘Mixed Up World’
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• "Fuelled by despair as usual but also simplicity, the songs are rock throughout": Manic Street Preachers show that rage never sleeps on Critical Thinking
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• “A classic style of hopeful, melancholy which will pleasantly trigger Moody Blues fans”: John Lodge’s Love Conquers All EP
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• “Go down in a ball of flames, you deserve it!”: safe to say that Thom Yorke is not a huge Muse fan
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• “I had some criticisms of Dark Side Of The Moon. One or two of the vehicles carrying the ideas were not as strong as the ideas that they carried”: How David Gilmour attempted to lay the ghost of Pink Floyd to rest
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• “I don’t believe I have to forgive them. They replaced me when I was sick. They even said I had ruined the band”: Styx fired Dennis DeYoung in 1999, but he still wants a reunion for the fans
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• New single “You’re Gonna Burn” from Jizzy Pearl’s Love/Hate now available
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• 51% off the special edition of Mastodon’s Crack The Skye is the best Presidents’ Day box set deal I’ve seen today
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• The Dead Daisies launch video for new single “Love That’ll Never Be”
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• "I feel like crying, that was beautiful." Spiritbox's Alexandra Palace show is the end of an era: where they go from rising stars to metal's next big thing
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• “She grew up in Russia and bootlegged banned Deep Purple and Scorpions albums. It’s one of the reason I married her”: Kansas’ Joe Deninzon left the USSR and built a musical world out of a surprising coincidence
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• 40 years ago, The Breakfast Club annoyed me for many reasons – but mostly for the way it ruined Simple Minds
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• “Paul McCartney was an unusually dour person and John Lennon was drunk and inanimate”: Todd Rundgren’s wild tales of The Beatles, New York Dolls, Grand Funk Railroad and more
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• First-ever pic of classic Police line-up revealed as Stewart Copeland announces his Wild Concerto
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• Löanshark’s new album ‘No Sins To Confess’ now available
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• Tesla unleash video for electric version of track “All About Love”
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• “You deserve more and we have more.” Pulp announce summer arena shows in the UK and Ireland, and frontman Jarvis Cocker is teasing more news to come
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• "I'm not planning on doing a set with Black Sabbath": Ozzy says he'll only do "little bits and pieces" with Sabbath at final reunion show
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• Rich Kid Express drop lyric video for new single “The Rules of Love”
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• Five truly brilliant and cruelly underrated British rock albums turning 25 this year which I can't believe no-one else is banging on about
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• Striker’s album ‘Ultrapower’ nominated for Juno Award for ‘Metal / Hard Music Album of The Year’
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• "Something that was a big event for me had become an instrument of ridicule": The Kinks' Dave Davies on the double-edged sword of solo success
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• Babylon A.D. launch lyric video for latest single “Pain”
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• “The wolves are howling with great soul, great passion... it's jazz, the jazz wolf of the Arctic tundra.” Former Police drum legend Stewart Copeland on recording his new album with wolves, hyenas and a black-footed albatross
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• W.A.S.P. announce digital release of ‘Bonus Tracks & B-Sides’ from their ‘The 7 Savage’ Boxset
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• Ace new prog you must hear from Solstice, Vennart, John Lodge, Dim Gray and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
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• Watch video for Billy Morrison's Gods of Rock N Roll featuring Ozzy Osbourne
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• Happy Valentine's Day to goths everywhere as Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy hooks up with Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor for new single Swoon
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• New six-disc edition of Tangerine Dream's Phaedra to be released to celebrate the album's 50th anniversary
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• “Way Of The Exploding Dickhead is a modern parable, without the parable bit.” Noise-rock veterans mclusky announce first album in over 20 years, share two new songs, and reveal UK and Australia tour plans
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• I'm going off the rails for these Presidents' Day deals on Ozzy merch, Lego sets, Bluetooth speakers & more
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• “Death happens to everyone and if it hasn’t happened yet it’s going to happen. So what better way to deal with it?”: How Mastodon found light in darkness with The Hunter
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• “I’d get up in the morning, practise scales at my piano, go off dancing, and then in the evening I’d come back and play the piano all night.” The story of Kate Bush's debut album The Kick Inside
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• The Rock’n’roll Activist: Nine albums by Tom Morello you should listen to... and one you should ignore
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• "My funeral was cancelled, so I’m taking the show on the road instead." Halsey announces 32-city North American tour with Evanescence, The Warning and more among the "ensemble cast" supporting
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• “We jumped offstage and took our masks off and started swinging at people at the end of one song”: The wild story of Slipknot vs Mushroomhead, the masked band feud that lit up nu metal
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• Tool, Guns N' Roses and Rival Sons added to Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning final show line-up
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• “Ozzy called me a rock-and-roll icon, and I was like, Whoa!” Having helped honour Ozzy Osbourne at last year's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony, Billy Idol admits he's “knocked out” to be among the nominees for induction this year
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• Thom Yorke unveils new collaboration with electronic artist Mark Pritchard
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• HoneyBombs share lyric video for new single “Berserk” from upcoming sophomore album
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• "I've never asked for help in my life": David Johansen thanks fans for support as he continues to receive around-the-clock medical care
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• "A glossy heavy metal album that doesn't quite have the songs to make it stand out from the crowd, despite the talent of the players": John Sykes, Carmine Appice and Tony Franklin conjure up a cult favourite on debut Blue Murder album
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• “We listened to it and said, No, that's crap, and put it aside.” Brutally dismissed by one music critic as “like a turd floating down a river of ****”, one of rock's most romantic songs is getting a 50th anniversary re-release today
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• Watch Post Malone join the surviving members of Nirvana for a frenzied blast through Smells Like Teen Spirit
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Listen to Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante guest on re-recording of Pvris’ My House
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