Rock News 2025-10-22

• How ‘Back to the Future’ Honored Guitar Rock Legends
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• “Some might wonder why Steven Wilson was brought in. But the art-rock credentials are never in doubt and its songs are progressive in an anarchic way”: XTC’s Drums And Wires returns
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• Kiss' 'Dressed to Kill' Box Set to Include Two Full 1975 Concerts
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• Jethro Tull's Martin Barre Announces New Memoir
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• "You can't dance or clap along to it. When we play it live, you can always see the audience getting caught out": How Genesis wrote the career-changing song that confused their fans - and Peter Gabriel
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• “I’m gonna play it with you and I’m gonna stay out of your way as much as I can”: The A-list comedy superstar who teamed up with two nu metal bands for the weirdest collaboration of the early 2000s
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• "Are they gonna think I'm Beelzebub taking their precious baby away, breaking their hearts and defiling him?": What happened when Greta Van Fleet's guitarist got himself a new band
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• "The realisation that life is not for ever made me very sad": Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez on why songs become more personal with the passing of time
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• Lynyrd Skynyrd Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• Watch Axl Rose kick drumkit and fling microphone before storming offstage in Argentina
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• "The 'lost chord' they were searching for may have been a power chord": The Moody Blues attain peak psychedelic whimsy on In Search Of The Lost Chord
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• “I said, ‘If you want a great film, watch this.’ We watched it together on the tour bus, then our singer went out and bought the entire back catalogue!” Rush inspired a collective moment for an enduring Britrock band
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• How John Lennon Ended His Fight With Todd Rundgren
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• 50 Years Ago: Simon & Garfunkel Reunite on 'Saturday Night Live'
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• "For a song about facing death it's remarkably joyous": Former world snooker champion and modular synth player Steve Davis picks 10 favourite experimental music songs
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• Neil Young Expands 'Tonight's the Night' for its 50th Anniversary
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• Slipknot are suing anonymous owner of the slipknot.com domain name
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• "All of a sudden I was like, 'I need to know where the door is...stop! Get the mask off!'" Tobias Forge reveals the moment he had a terrifying panic attack live on stage that'd change the way he approaches Ghost shows (and the mask he wears)
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• “I was already a loony tune before I joined Kiss”: Ace Frehley on what went wrong with Kiss – plus his relationship with Gene and Paul… and the biggest mistakes he made
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• Ace Frehley Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• Eric Johnson Praises Jimi Hendrix's Growth on 'Bold As Love'
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• Top 10 Ace Frehley Kiss Songs
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• "It’s about an ex-girlfriend who'd moved to Ecuador. I tried to be level-headed about her leaving...I was completely ****ed off." How one cosy but spiteful ballad helped fast-track the rise of the world's biggest punk band
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• "I can't imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us": Even Kenny Loggins is angry with Donald Trump over viral poop video
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• System Of A Down, Korn, Deftones, Slayer, Evanescence and more to play insanely stacked Sick New World 2026 events in Las Vegas and Texas
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• Is Oasis Plotting Another Tour for 2026?
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• Foreigner and Lou Gramm Have More New Music in the Works
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• “The anthems are unloaded with the speed of a machine gun but the accuracy of a sniper”: What happened when Killswitch Engage brought one of the year’s biggest metal lineups to Wembley Arena
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• "He had this ability to pull this beautiful sadness out of the bass": Watch Fred Durst pay tribute to late Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers
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• Jake E. Lee’s Producer Tried to Bribe Him $500 to Change One Note
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• Kiss Members Pay Tribute to Ace Frehley Following His Death
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• Vote for Rock's Spookiest Song: Ozzy, Sabbath, Maiden + Metallica
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• "The guitar tone could flay skin, and his lacerated barks have never sounded so raw." 40 years into his career, Max Cavalera is still finding ways to freshen up his formula with new Soulfly album Chama
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• With roots in the Peruvian jungle and influenced by an apocalyptic screenplay, Neil Young's most mysterious song became one of his most enduring
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• Top 20 Post-Kiss Ace Frehley Songs
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• Original Kiss Guitarist Ace Frehley Reportedly on Life Support
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• The new Japanese Prime Minister appeared on Babymetal's podcast and talked about her love of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Deep Purple
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• "One guy brought his mom’s ashes in an envelope and asked me to help him spread them after the show." Mortuary science, late night chats with Lemmy and a Butcher Babies exit led Carla Harvey to realise her true calling with The Violent Hour
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• Best MP3 players 2025: Regain control of your music library with these high-powered portable players
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• “A forensic foray into an album that changed how many thought about recorded music”: The Alan Parsons Project’s I Robot: Super Deluxe Box Set
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• “I know that my dad was shining down on us from Heaven with pride”: Kelly Osbourne thanks fans after accepting award for her father Ozzy
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• Revisiting Ace Frehley's Final Concert
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• “Every time we played it, a circle-pit would open up – hip hop kids spinning with punks and heavy metal guys”: The weed-fueled 90s rap song that became a huge hit after it was adopted by metal fans
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• "That means start jumping and singing. It doesn’t mean start burning the place down. That’s not what I meant." How a smash hit from some nu metal icons became intertwined with the most controversial music festival of the 90s
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• Bruce Springsteen, 'Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition': Review
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• "While we were playing, a vehicle drove into the middle of the venue. I think the guy was trying to kill his girlfriend." We asked Ice Nine Kills' Spencer Charnas to give us some life lessons and man does he have stories
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• The Five Best Stories Ace Frehley Told Us
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• Win Sammy Hagar’s New Live ‘The Residency’ on Vinyl
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• "I was blown away!" The greatest prog albums, as chosen by prog legend Geoff Downes
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• Limp Bizkit bass player Sam Rivers dead at 48
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• “He sounds like he just smoked a big fat doobie”: Comedy fan Geddy Lee on the stand-up comedians he loves
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• “If it gets a bit tense we chill out with a joke. He’s good at that. Most of our messages are in a West Country dialect!” Thom Yorke isn’t the very serious character you may have thought, says one collaborator
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• “Gloriously original, its power to intrigue, disturb and seduce remains undiminished three decades on”: This 1995 album contains hip hop, dub, soul, industrial and ambient music. And it’s very, very prog
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• “Vanilla Fudge had covered a Supremes hit and turned it into something else. That’s what the band tried to do – put their own spin on it”: The iconic cover version that launched a legendary hard rock band – but nearly turned them into one-hit-wonders
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• “He sent back a really beautiful letter, allowing us the usage of one of his most famous and brilliant songs ever”: the 90s alt-rock anthem that stuck a Beach Boys chorus in the middle of the track and got the seal of approval from Brian Wilson himself
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• Original Kiss Lead Guitarist Ace Frehley Dead at 74
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• Can You Name These ’80s Music Videos From One Frame?
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• “Overwhelming to the uninitiated… it’s progressive as hell, of course, but also utterly unique”: Peter Hammill’s The Charisma & Virgin Recordings 1971 – 1986
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• "Before she’s shot, she was eating an ice cream." From Scottish pride to writing songs for a Hollyoaks shootout, we spent five fun, chaotic minutes with Vukovi's Janine Shilstone
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• "They were ripping the whole place down. The bar was used as a battering ram to storm the stage." How a long wait for a metal singer's dealer to deliver the goods almost caused disaster at an iconic UK music venue
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• “It’s something I say in one of the songs – ‘The separation starts here’”: How ‘the Radiohead of metal’ broke free from nu metal to blaze their own unique trail
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: October 20, 2025
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• “People have a hard time understanding how unsurprising Bohemian Rhapsody was to us”: These are the two early Queen songs that Brian May says paved the way for Bohemian Rhapsody
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• 10 of John Mayer's Best Classic Rock Collaborations
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• Phil Rudd: AC/DC 'Haven't Even Picked Up the Phone'
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• Rush Thanks Fans for ‘Very Heartwarming’ Support of Anika Nilles
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• What Are the 'Big 4' of Crappy Beatles '70s Solo Albums?
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• "Seven years after they burst onto the scene, much is riding on this new album." Much hyped UK metal hopefuls Conjurer are back to their very best on Unself
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• Avenged Sevenfold’s M. Shadows defends sending video message to Israeli hostages freed by Hamas: “It really is about two human beings that have been through hell”
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• “It’s almost cooler that we never did release it. It’s become this mythical thing now”: The lost Nine Inch Nails supergroup that could have united two of rock’s most iconic singers
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• Slaughter To Prevail guitarist denies that the band have Nazi beliefs, but admits the controversy around them is their “own fault”
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• Joan Jett Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• 10 Great Rock Albums With Terrible Production
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• Rush Adds 17 More Cities to Surprise Comeback Tour
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• Intellectual, cynical, logical: The hit song about divorce and disillusionment that was Paul McCartney's favourite single of 1979
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• "He was doing something that was light years away from all of my other heroes": The five albums that changed Ace Frehley's life
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• Ranking Every Joe Walsh Eagles Song
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• Win a Trip to Las Vegas to Experience Def Leppard in Concert
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• Pretenders and Chrissie Hynde Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• "I get a message from my sister: 'Hey, I’m getting chased down the street by the riot patrol. They have the K9 unit.'" From getting the police called on their rabid crowds to becoming Australia's best live band, the incredible rise of Parkway Drive
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• 25 Female Rock Bassists
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• “This tour is us connecting with the cities and songs that help build us”: Scotland’s best metal band announce intimate UK/Ireland shows with rarities-stacked setlist
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• "We are blown away!" Rush share new video as they add 17 more US and Canadian cities to Fifty Something tour
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• Rockers React to Ace Frehley's Death
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• Farewell to music on MTV: it's the end of an era (even if that era really finished a long time ago)
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