Rock News 2025-04-20

• In this year's least surprising news, Fyre Festival 2 has been postponed
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• “He was, without question, the best rock drummer in the world”: What Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward really thought of Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham
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• "I'm not pulling any punches for probably the first time in my life": Stevie Nicks is working on a new album and she's not holding back
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• “When my friend turned to me with a face as scrunched-up as Jim Carrey’s Grinch, I knew this band were special”: Why you need to care about Glassing
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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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• Notörious launch new single “Shout Out For Love” from upcoming self-titled EP
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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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• "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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• “What angle have we missed on this? Ah yeah, getting some other ****er to sing it!”: the 10 best Manics songs featuring a guest singer (and the odd bassist and guitarist)
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• "He threw me in the lake and I had to learn to swim": Remembering Dickey Betts, southern rock pioneer
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• “I’ve had dreams about a meteor hitting us. It’s only a matter of time. We deserve it, to be honest”: Doom high priests Electric Wizard are the perfect band to soundtrack the end of the world
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• The big hits are nowhere to be heard as Neil Young digs deep on the unusually atmospheric Coastal
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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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• "There have been some communication issues": Zak Starkey returns to The Who just days after being dismissed
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• “Everyone in our circle was listening to a lot of West Coast hip hop, and it was minor key and dark. If you could take that to the next level, you could make it heavy metal”: How hip hop changed metal forever
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• “He thought that the band should be a democracy, and it was more like a brutal dictatorship as far as he was concerned”: The tangled story of Dire Straits, the million-selling band who quit at the height of their fame
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• Direwolf share lyric video for debut single “Thunder Calls”
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• “He’s gone from being unable to do the shows to clearly being unwilling to do shows with us”: Faith No More drummer Mike Bordin doesn’t see estranged singer Mike Patton rejoining the band any time soon
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• “Out of nowhere, all these frat kids are all doing this weird dance, all in lines. ‘You’re ruining my band!’ Then it was no longer ours”: From bitter experience, Maynard James Keenan conspires to keep knuckleheads away from his music
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• “It was a great antidote to American earnest rock bands who seemed to think it was all about them”: Supergrass on the making of their timeless Britpop classic I Should Coco
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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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• Helloween to release new studio album ‘Giants & Monsters’ on August 29th
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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 made a decision that essentially was very selfish”: Mike Portnoy admits he “hurt” Dream Theater bandmates with 2010 exit
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• "Expect glorious spectacles of foot-stomping, guitar-wailing and face-melting, high-octane joy. Tell your mates. Tell your mum." The Darkness announce North American tour in typically low-key fashion
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• "I have to prove myself with every album. I have to fight every time. But I like getting into the octagon." Gavin Rossdale on Bush's new album I Beat Loneliness, silencing critics, and why bands in 2025 have a duty to make "wild, interesting" records
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• “We blew this whole scene open, I don’t care what anybody says. We did all the work, and now all these other bands are popping up”: How Korn changed up their sound and left the copycats behind with Follow The Leader
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• “They sounded like screams of anguish, screams of war, screams of where humanity is headed – they were perfect”: The feral story of Discharge’s Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, the punk album that changed metal
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• From ecology to the occult: the dark secrets of Led Zeppelin IV
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• In the age of dystopian catastrophe Hawkwind are still looking to space
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• “I had a massive animosity towards those fans”: Soundgarden’s manager thought it would be a great idea for them to support Guns N’ Roses, the band disagreed
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• Judas Priest and Alice Cooper announce co-headlining tour across North America
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• Zak Starkey shares epic unreleased studio recording of Guns N' Roses, Ringo Starr and Elton John covering T. Rex's Children Of The Revolution
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• "Metal's messiah has officially returned - and his name is Tobias Forge": Stand aside Jesus - Ghost’s devilish Skeletour show is the perfect Easter resurrection
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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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• Livesay and singer Mike Gill part ways + Ronny Munroe to be the guest vocalist on band’s next release
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• The Screamin’ Lords share new track “Steppin’ Over You”
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• R.I.P. former Judas Priest drummer Les Binks (1951-2025)
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• Teaser Sweet drop video for track “Turn Me On” from upcoming album ‘Night Stalker’
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• The Hair Metal Fan ranks his Top “52” Glam/Sleaze Metal Revival albums
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• “I had to focus on something or I wouldn’t get through those next few months. I thought of Lennon wearing his army jacket: I went to war against the illness”: The turbulent story of The Alarm, the band who could have been the new U2
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• “I don’t think anybody can be prepared for how big the crowd was. A sea of denim and leather as far as you can see”: The epic story of Monsters Of Rock, the greatest heavy metal festival of them all
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• "We were essentially a blues band with adventurous leanings": Every Free album ranked, from worst to best
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• Buckcherry unleash lyric video for new single “Come On”
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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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• "I grew up loving watching Roy Keane!" Linkin Park on their new football-inspired remix of Numb, their upcoming Champions League final show, Lionel Messi, Roy Keane, and America's chances of winning the next World Cup
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• “We just told them to get out!” Why Iron Maiden have banned record label staff from the studio since 1982
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• “Power and momentum allied to a vivid, panoramic sound”: Hawkwind’s late-career purple patch continues with There Is No Space For Us
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• “I was always hoping that I would be taken away by aliens at some point”: The strange story of Devin Townsend’s Ocean Machine: Biomech, the album which launched his solo career
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• Watch UK metalcore firebrands Loathe play an apocalyptic-sounding new song live, with help from Code Orange’s Jami Morgan
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• Watch Love on the Spectrum star James B. Jones meet his metal heroes Disturbed
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• “Everything I’m doing is purposely very different. If I’d wanted to keep doing what Dream Theater do, I’d still be in Dream Theater”: How Mike Portnoy reinvented himself after the trauma of leaving two massive bands
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• Heart announce tour with special guest Todd Rundgren
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• Mädhouse unveil video for new single “Wicked Hearts”
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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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• Alice Cooper to release new album ‘The Revenge of Alice Cooper’ with original members
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• The 50 greatest Iron Maiden moments
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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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• Kickin Valentina unveil new single “Wild Ones”
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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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• “Driven by a mammoth riff that could give Black Sabbath a run for their money, they never recorded anything so primitive or heavy again”: Four songs that will make you rethink everything you know about Queen
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• “In walked this clown, dressed in silk pyjamas, huge shades on. I shouted, ‘Get out!’ and pushed him into the corridor. That was Steven Tyler”: Randy Bachman‘s wild tales of Pete Townshend, Neil Young, Little Richard and Frank Sinatra
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• Rich Kid Express launch new single “It’s Bad To Be Good”
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• Those Damn Crows score their first UK No.1 album with God Shaped Hole
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