Rock News 2025-03-31

• “It came very close to where I wasn’t going to do the album; I didn’t feel that what we’d agreed was fair”: How Pink Floyd made The Division Bell
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• “Our manager said Mick Jagger and Jeff Beck were in the crowd. I had to put it out of my mind and play”: The epic story of Living Colour, the band that revolutionised 80s hard rock
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• “You only have to hear the opening sweep to reach for your lighter and wave it in the air”: Tony Banks' greatest Genesis moments
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• “Kenneth Anger laid a terrible curse on me. It was written out in blood. I burnt it at a crossroads”: Marianne Faithfull’s wild tales of Keith Richards, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and more
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• “She was literally getting onto the plane. I felt awkward about it, but I’ve got a bad enough reputation and so has she”: The classic Megadeth song that was originally supposed to feature Lisa Marie Presley
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• “I’ve been touring around indie record stores, and I’ve yet to meet anyone who’s even heard of Playboi Carti”: Steven Wilson comments on chart battle with superstar rapper
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• The Dead Daisies to release new album ‘Lookin’ For Trouble’ on May 30th
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• Toyah and Robert Fripp return to action with spirited cover of Tina Turner's evergreen sporting anthem The Best
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• "It’s a thin line between child and genius." Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell reveals how a drum machine confused the hell out of Bob Dylan when he tried to write a hit single in the mid '80s
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• Watch Paramore’s Hayley Williams join Deftones to sing Minerva in Nashville
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• "The soundtrack to the greatest rock'n'roll soap opera ever": The mightiest Fleetwood Mac line-up albums in one handy box
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach’s health takes an unexpected turn
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• W.E.T. unleash visualizer video for new single “What Are We Fighting For”
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• Watch Ed Sheeran cover Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club on the New York subway while disguised as an emo busker
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• Her Grammy-slaying supergroup boygenius may be on hiatus, but the much-anticipated Forever Is A Feeling finds Lucy Dacus looking to the future with optimism instead of dwelling on the past
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• "This is a song that I always always go back to, it’s one of my favourites ever.” Watch pop superstar Dua Lipa cover a classic INXS anthem, live in Sydney
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• Listen to Sum 41's ferocious cover of Rage Against The Machine hit Sleep Now In The Fire
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• “It got to the point where I didn’t want to go in. It was painful”: the story of the lost Supergrass album that led to their split
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• Daevid Allen's final album with Gong to be reissued
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• Deraps unveil lyric video for new track “Setting Sun”
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• GoFundMe set up to assist cancer stricken Junkyard frontman David Roach with his medical expenses
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• The Dirty Denims launch video for new single “We Won’t Stop” from latest album ‘Party On!’
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• “Justin Hawkins has got a crazy brain. He kept giving me all of these great lines”: How The Darkness persuaded a Hollywood A-lister to appear on their new album
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• Ablaze share video for new single “Next Train Out”
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• "This collection embodies both the best and worst of Townshend the artist and arch conceptualist": An overview of the solo career of Pete Townshend, the man who never meant to have a solo career
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• Evanescence release new song Afterlife from Devil May Cry TV series soundtrack, have their next album in the works
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• Ministry announce summer headline shows in the UK and Europe
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• Watch Bruce Springsteen unleash his inner guitar hero, and jam with Flea, Johnny Depp and R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, in powerful tribute to Patti Smith at New York's iconic Carnegie Hall
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• "I consulted with high-end industry pros, undertaking a meticulous dismemberment process to ensure this is built to last." Ice Nine Kills' singer Spencer Charnas launches Pretty Evil cosmetics range, "for those who live for the limelight or the moonlight"
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• New album ‘Magic Power: All Star Tribute to Triumph’ to be released on June 6th
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• Sleazy Sweet drop new single “Don’t Shoot”
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• The Gems drop video for new single “Live and Let Go”
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• “This is less a concert than a hard rock workout”: Bloodywood’s energetic Indian folk/nu metal fusion makes for one of London’s sweatiest gigs in recent memory
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• Deafheaven transcended black metal and the elitists hated them for it - now they've embraced it again with their heaviest album yet
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• My Bloody Valentine announce first UK headline tour in over a decade
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• Kissin’ Dynamite’s video for “Money, Sex & Power” reaches one million views
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• “It’s not about that guy from Rush any more,” says Alex Lifeson. But with four and a half solos, it’s great to have him using those colours again on Envy Of None’s Stygian Wavz
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• I’ve never seen the Marshall Major IV headphones this cheap before - get them for half price in Amazon’s big spring sale
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• "Everybody needs this band right now. America is screaming out for a band like the Sex Pistols." Sex Pistols, with Frank Carter, announce first North American tour in over two decades, starting at a venue where they had pig hooves thrown at them in 1978
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• Prog and Metal Hammer partner with this year's post-rock and prog metal two-day event Pelagic Fest
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• "This song is our tribute to Winnipeg": Bachman-Turner Overdrive team up with Neil Young for first new song in 40 years
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• Ghouls Aloud: The Horrors come back from the dead with "a dazzling nocturnal spectacle of sombre reflections and oozing catharsis"
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• “This deluxe edition contains actual soil from the grave of William Blake”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson is releasing a comic book compilation with dirt from the resting place of one of England’s most famous poets
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• “We don’t write love songs, we write hate songs”: how Skunk Anansie gave 90s British rock a shock to the system
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• “I was living a couch, with no food and no money, just hoping the band would come through this”: The epic story of Meshuggah’s rise from thrash metal wannabes to tech metal giants
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• “We were a bit drunk, and I slurred to Ronnie, ‘Do you fancy doing an album?’ It was as simple as that”: How Heaven & Hell resurrected Black Sabbath’s other classic line-up with The Devil You Know
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• "The haters won’t stop us from doing what we do": Geoff Downes on Asia's new lineup and the band's future plans
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• "I thanked Corey Taylor for existing!" From collabing with Babymetal to hanging out with Bollywood stars, Bloodywood are breaking down barriers
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• Bad Marriage to release new album ‘Match Made In Hell’ via RFK Media during the summer of 2025
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• "We wanted something raw." The Young Gods announce imminent arrival of their 14th studio album, Appear Disappear, share its hard-hitting title track, and reveal UK/Europe tour dates
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• Linkin Park launch "the best song we've ever made" Up From The Bottom
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• "It's the father and mother of The Dark Side Of The Moon!": The full inside story of Pink Floyd's Live At Pompeii - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• A rare studio recording of Yes playing a wild version of The Beatles' Eleanor Rigby has surfaced online
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• Gentle Giant share brand new live video for Free Hand
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• The Conjuring star Vera Farmiga announces debut album with her heavy metal band The Yagas
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• The greatest gig I've ever seen: 24 writers pick the most memorable live show of their lives
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• “You’ve no idea how cold it was – totally freezing. I know we’re a doom band, but this was suffering way beyond the call of duty”: How Candlemass changed metal forever with doom landmark Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
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• "No guitar solos! No belly dancing music!" Metallica's Kirk Hammett looks back on working with Lou Reed on their controversial, much-mocked and largely-misunderstood collaboration Lulu
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• Harem Scarem share video for track “Better The Devil You Know” from upcoming album ‘Chasing Euphoria’
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• Wild Talk unveil lyric video for new single “Hold Me Down”
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Carlos Cavazo to play live once again with former Ratt bandmates Stephen Pearcy and Warren DeMartini
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• "I am deeply disturbed and hurt by all of this": Kevin Cronin slams REO Speedwagon concert organisers after being "knowingly excluded" from hometown show
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• "Lemmy was the real deal, right to the end." Metallica's Kirk Hammett on his love for Motorhead
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• Foreigner will complete their Historic Farewell Tour with four different singers – and one of them has recorded Spanish versions of their hits
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