Rock News 2025-07-22

• “It’s very Spinal Tap of us to have this many drummers”: With Matt Cameron now added to the list, here’s a reminder of all the drummers Pearl Jam have had and lost…
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• We've introduced comment sections to our website so you can now comment directly on our stories
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• Starlight launch video for debut single “Into The Night”
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• Police confirm that their much-publicised investigation into Kneecap's Glastonbury set is closed, the band have no case to answer, and no further action will be taken
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• “They said that even if we sold out, we’d lose £5,000. We thought the label would cover the loss. In the end, the band paid”: Camel and a tale of two visits to the Royal Albert Hall, 43 years apart
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• "The one thing that stuck in this witness's mind when he shot someone at point blank range was that he was quoting one of our lyrics." How a thrash classic from Metallica's Kill 'Em All album got linked to a brutal murder in Texas in the 1980s
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• Mädhouse share video for latest single “It’s a Monster In My Head”
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• Who do we contact about putting this photo of Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler with the Backstreet Boys up in the National Portrait Gallery?
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• 40 from 40 — Taking a Sleaze Roxx dive back into 1985
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• Sleazy Money unleash video for new single “It Ain’t EZ”
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• "A band reaching out to the listeners they know are already there": Bush toy with invention but ultimately lack ambition on I Beat Loneliness
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• Masked metal enigmas President announce six-track debut EP, release new single Rage
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• "It's okay to be a good-looking girl and to be able to sing your arse off": Lita Ford's upcoming shows might be a girl's night out, but boys are welcome too
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 21, 2025
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• Halestorm to release new studio album ‘Everest’ on August 8th
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• Reunited Original Alice Cooper Group shares single “Up All Night” & to attend event in London on July 24th
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• "With Grizzly, Slaughter To Prevail might complete the Mount Rushmore of great deathcore escapologists." Alex Terrible's mob stake a claim on the best deathcore album of 2025
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• Ellefson-Soto drop video for title track from upcoming album ‘Unbreakable’
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• “It was loosely based on a character who’d rant at passers-by in the market square. I squidged a Polaroid, added running make-up and a cockade hat. Bish bosh, I had a jester!” How Mark Wilkinson’s artistic genius helped define Marillion’s image
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• Christian Shields shares video for new track “Fall Like Rain”
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• YouTube star shows just how easy it is to create a fake, but entirely convincing, new musical artist using AI
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• "You've been a rainbow in my life, and this song has a rainbow in it": Watch John Fogerty play Have You Ever Seen The Rain? at intimate London show
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• "When gangsters hustled me, I showed no fear because I was unaware of what was going on": What happens when you buy one of the UK's most iconic venues for £1
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• “These up-and-comers feel fully formed and vital”: Mawiza are endorsed by Gojira, Slipknot and King Diamond, and they’ve just put out one of 2025’s most important debut albums
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• Damon Albarn says Oasis won the war, but here’s 10 songs that prove the Battle Of Britpop sent the Blur man in a more daring direction and changed the course of his career
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• "In a world where we can’t have System Of A Down, this will more than do nicely." Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway make a brilliant, bonkers comeback with Addicted To The Violence
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• "Mick Jagger needs Keith Richards as much as Keith Richards needs Mick Jagger": Keef goes solo on Talk Is Cheap
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• Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are teasing something cryptic together and fans are getting very excited
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• Dirty Skirty to release third studio album ‘Aces In Your Faces’ on August 1st
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• "The whole point was to put on a party with our mates and the music we loved." How Wacken became one of metal's biggest and most beloved festivals
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• No Bull’s new album ‘Rock N Roll Remains Forever’ now available
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• Slipknot's 25th anniversary re-release of their game-changing debut album includes a box set with 'blood-filled' vinyl and 40 previously-unreleased songs
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• Metallica save dance music festival from cancellation after fire destroys main stage
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• It's now illegal in Russia to search for Pussy Riot videos - and culprits can be fined
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• Pentagram tour shelved after online protests
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• "They said, ‘Can you get Rob off the bloody Teletubbies set, please?'" How Rob Halford's return to Judas Priest on Judas Rising rebuilt one of metal's greatest bands
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• Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza is coming out in cinemas
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• "Las Vegas has always been such a main attraction for Def Leppard." Def Leppard announce 2026 Las Vegas residency
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• “There’s nobody to mentor us these days. People at the label encouraged us to write and record – those people have gone”: When John Lodge accepted there’d be no more Moody Blues music
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Apocalyptic Lovers unveil track list for forthcoming album ‘And The World Tomorrow’
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• "Being in this band is like home. I enjoy being a Doobie Brother": 50 years down the tracks, the Doobie Brothers remain friends - even when they argue
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• Fastride release new EP ‘Goes Like Hell’
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• “I said, ‘You won’t get anywhere with that name!’ Then they went on to be one of the biggest bands in the world and the guy married Courteney Cox”: The heavy metal veteran who talked smack to Snow Patrol
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• “We were working on Oranges And Lemons. I was putting on a bass part. You don’t want Chris Squire walking in, do you?” XTC’s Colin Moulding on meeting his hero, declining to join Pink Floyd, and working on Billy Sherwood’s Dark Side tribute
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• Ghost will perform on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next week
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• Black Sabbath had no idea they were being "ripped off" in the 1970s until prog legends Gentle Giant exposed the truth
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• “Nothing I do is ironic. Irony is the last refuge of the scoundrel”: When Julian Cope immersed himself in the prog-pop world of Syd Barrett, 13th Floor Elevators and Love
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• "It was a cracking night!" Solstice share video trailer for new live release Clann Live
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• "It doesn't matter to us who you're mingling with, or tingling with." Oasis reference Coldplay's "kiss cam" controversy at their last-ever hometown show
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• Bush's I Beat Loneliness review: Gavin Rossdale casts his gaze inward after putting the world to rights on The Art Of Survival
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• People lashed out at Linkin Park's Emily Armstrong "because she wasn't a guy" says Mike Shinoda
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• "I did all my research in his home in his record collection": A tribute to John Mayall, November 29, 1933 – July 22, 2024
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• “I’m in cricket gear and a duffle coat, side parting, being all spiritual. And people wonder why I’ve been stylistically challenged ever since!” Level 42’s Mark King saw the Mahavishnu Orchestra on colour TV and a fashion crime followed
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• "An evolving creation to pay tribute to the voice of a generation": Listen to new supergroup King Ultramega's cover of Soundgarden's Rusty Cage
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• Creedence Clearwater Revival's John Fogerty on recriminations,revivals and reunions: Only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• Rust N’ Rage launch lyric video for title track of upcoming album ‘Songs of Yesterday’
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• “Lyrics invoke rifles, scythes, sailors, saints, cowboys, floods, Mother Earth, Joan of Arc, and blazing infernos." The Last Dinner Party announce second album From The Pyre, share dark, dramatic new single This Is The Killer Speaking
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• This is what it would sound like if The Cure were a death metal band – and it’s brilliantly bonkers
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• Watch Alex Lifeson play Rush cover with Tom Morello and 15-year-old drumming prodigy
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• Warrant legend Jani Lane’s voice returns with songs re-imagined by Chris Laney
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• “I can’t force other people to do something just because I wanted it”: Daron Malakian admits System Of A Down’s hiatus was “difficult”
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• Uncompleted song by Jani Lane just finished by Warrant bassist Jerry Dixon & two Frontiers songwriters
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• Yungblud’s career-affirming cover of Black Sabbath’s Changes from Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show is now available to stream
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• If you haven't seen the best new band in the world live yet, you really, really, really should
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