Rock News 2025-04-17

• ZZ Top add yet more dates to ever-expanding Elevation tour as Frank Beard continues to miss shows
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• Order your Those Damn Crows x Classic Rock bundle with hand-signed lyric sheet, art print, exclusive t-shirt and Classic Rock cover variant
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• Helix to release album ‘Helix 50 – The Best Of’ consisting of remastered, unplugged and bonus tracks
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• Livesay and singer Mike Gill part ways + Ronny Munroe to be the guest vocalist on band’s next release
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• In this year's least surprising news, Fyre Festival 2 has been postponed
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• “We’d stay up all night drinking, chasing girls, partying – and our pilot was with us. The next morning he was flying the plane!”: The rise, fall and rise of AOR superstars REO Speedwagon
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• Notörious launch new single “Shout Out For Love” from upcoming self-titled EP
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• Alice Cooper and Judas Priest announce co-headline tour
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• “Rush fans know Alex Lifeson has moved away from soloing. You probably wouldn’t know it’s him unless you were told”: What happened when Tiles’ Chris Herin gathered Peter Frampton, Martin Barre and others for his first solo album
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• Helloween to release new studio album ‘Giants & Monsters’ on August 29th
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• Ian Anderson laments Jerusalem's current plight as Jethro Tull share brand new video for Over Jerusalem
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• "You won’t want to miss the gig of the year." Fontaines D.C. and Lankum will play a one-off Dublin show together next month, and a tickets ballot is now open
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• R.I.P. former Judas Priest drummer Les Binks (1951-2025)
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• "They'd throw shrapnel at us - coins. I collected enough to buy a beer." Burton C. Bell recalls the trials of supporting Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath in the 90s
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• “I saw my life flash by. I found myself as an orb of energy… I was out of my mind on a couch somewhere and somebody was afraid I was dying”: Claudio Sanchez reveals the truth behind some of Coheed And Cambria’s latest songs
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• "People started to leave. I was terrified": The story of Elton John's favourite Elton John album and the calamitous stadium show that followed
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• Cÿanide launch title track from upcoming new album ’21 Gun Salute’
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• “Clever flurries of musical activity keeping multiple balls in the air. Then it all goes, against expectations, a bit King Crimson”: A prog band won last year’s Mercury Prize. Did you notice?
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• “We’ve always been true to ourselves. Motörhead has never told you a lie. And that’s very important to me”: A classic audience with Lemmy, rock’n’roll’s greatest warrior
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• Buckcherry unleash lyric video for new single “Come On”
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• Video footage and setlist from Rockin’ Dave’s Rough Cutt’s debut gig
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• "I never thought I’d make my living playing heavy metal." How Sabaton's Joakim Broden became the singer of the biggest power metal band in the world
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• “We opened for the New York Dolls in 1974. The crowd was excited to see them. Not so much us”: An epic interview with Rush‘s Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee about the rollercoaster career of ‘rock’s biggest cult band’
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• The Lazys to embark on ‘Hot Under The Collar Tour 2025’ across Europe with special guests Junkyard Drive
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• "I will not just ask you for money but I will drop some merch with these lil' cutie pies and you will buy it. All money will go to them": Slaughter To Prevail frontman Alex Terrible has adopted two bear cubs and our hearts might just explode
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• "Axl wants to be in control of everything": Former Guns N' Roses manager claims Axl Rose now takes 50% of the band's income
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• “There’s a danger we could become slaves to our own equipment – and in the past we have been”: Watch a new video clip of Pink Floyd making The Dark Side Of The Moon
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• “I feel a sense of purpose to put something good into the world”: Amy Lee reveals which videogame changed her life – and that Evanescence are hard at work on their new album
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• Rare, recently found 1976 Van der Graaf Generator live footage hailed as "extraordinary" by Peter Hammill
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• "I think that he was just on one that night, feeling saucy and having a good time." Blink-182's Mark Hoppus says The Cure's Robert Smith tried to make out with him at a party
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• “I needed to cleanse my soul from stupidity”: Tobias Forge “shied away” from the media when writing new Ghost album Skeletá
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• Kick N Fight’s new EP ‘A Tribute To Britny Fox – 4 Song EP’ now available
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• "There is a big difference between being funny and being ridiculous." Why Electric Callboy don’t want to be known as metal’s silliest band
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• Linkin Park will headline this year's UEFA Champion's League Final
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• Watch Montrose play a sizzling version of Bad Motor Scooter on the Midnight Special in 1975
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• From ecology to the occult: the dark secrets of Led Zeppelin IV
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• Watch Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante join Megan Thee Stallion onstage at Coachella to sing their team-up track, TYG
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• How Lollapalooza helped lay the foundations for a cultural revolution, via alternative rock, heroin, pierced penises, stomach bile cocktails and a shotgun
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• Direwolf share lyric video for debut single “Thunder Calls”
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• “The lyrics just blew my mind. That song changed the way I write. I think Steven Wilson is really poetic”: Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach loves Porcupine Tree
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• "The guy who was in charge of the label hated us": Black Spiders' 20-year career has been littered with hurdles and drawbacks, but now they're back
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• “A strobe light mounted on a replica of the album art had this amazing psychedelic effect. Especially if you were tripping – as a lot of people were”: When Curved Air released the first rock band picture disc
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• These 2005 metal albums are so incredible that they should have been chart-toppers
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• Ghost have played the first show of their Skeletour World Tour - setlist details now online
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• Former Judas Priest drummer Les Binks dead at 73
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• Fleetwood Mac legend Stevie Nicks announces 2025 tour dates
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• "Life became dark." Pulp's Jarvis Cocker says that fame became "difficult to handle" for him after he pretended to fart on Michael Jackson's stage
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• Heart announce tour with special guest Todd Rundgren
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• "It was the worst tour of my life." Nothing More's Jonny Hawkins on cursed tour with Sleep Token and In This Moment
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• The 50 greatest Iron Maiden moments
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• "Wildhearts fans have come to my aid. And it's a two-way street": Ginger Wildheart on beautiful connections, our beautiful planet, and his beautiful new album The Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts
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• "The truly terrifying voice of a psychotic Republic": How Jimi Hendrix's iconic Woodstock performance was an expression of national nervous breakdown
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• "At first, they thought it was a marvellous distraction, a joyous kink. Then there was a sense of, 'You can go back to the hole that you crawled out of'." Garbage's Shirley Manson on how the patriarchy seeks to crush women's voices in the music industry
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• “The record label took a million dollars from us. There was nothing we could do because it was our fault”: How Deftones helped create nu metal – then escaped it
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• Sven Gali launch live video for their cover of Motörhead’s classic track “Ace of Spades”
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• “He says he’s mediocre. I understand – I say the same thing. But he’s a great musician, and that has nothing to do with ability”: What Mikael Åkerfeldt’s peers really think of him
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• Airbourne’s storage locker in Melbourne broken into with thieves stealing gear including six guitars
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• Marketing move of the century? This hardcore band just released a music video that’s four minutes of cats being cute
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• Mädhouse unveil video for new single “Wicked Hearts”
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang share video for new track “It Takes Two To Tango”
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• "So determinedly understated it's almost soporific": Eric Clapton fails to wake up the neighbours on the cathartic but glum Pilgrim
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• Heilung are the most captivating live act in the world – here’s why
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• “We asked Perry: ‘Do you want to write a new record?’ ‘No, no, no.’ At that point you’re wondering, why did we even bother putting Journey back together?” How Journey found a brand new singer on YouTube and banished the ghost of Steve Perry
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• Coachella crowd called out for underwhelming response to surprise Brian May performance
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