Rock News 2025-11-18

• “It’s been three, nearly four months, so it’s still pretty fresh”: Jack Osbourne discusses “shock” of his father Ozzy’s death during latest episode of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
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• Marillion's Steve Hogarth shares cover of Leonard Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat as he announces new live album
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• How Kiss Got Closer to Their Fans
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• 'The Future of Kiss' Revealed in Las Vegas
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• "You ready?" Greta Van Fleet guitarist Jake Kiszka's new band Mirador play London for the first time and there's a lot of screaming
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• From someone who’s already seen the show twice, here’s 10 songs Radiohead should try and get into the setlist on their triumphant comeback tour
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• Here's who I'd put on my Mount Rushmore of nu metal (three spots were easy, one was excruciatingly hard)
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• Limp Bizkit show in Estonia cancelled after Fred Durst's previous support of Vladimir Putin resurfaces online
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• "The sound of an enduring rock'n'roll firm updating the business": The Rolling Stones' first album without Mick Taylor, now available in super deluxe form
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• "In 1985 Theatre Of Pain sounded flaccid and 40 years on it's still drooping": Mötley Crüe's third album gets an undeserved anniversary makeover
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• “Recorded at a time when progressive music was anathema, it deserves recognition alongside some of the more leftfield heroes of the genre”: Why The Only Ones’ Even Serpents Shine is actually a prog album
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• Supertramp Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• Motley Crue Announces 2026 Tour With Extreme and Tesla
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• “You’re hanging out with Steven Tyler; James Hetfield is there and Tom Morello and Axl Rose, but everybody was the same. No head was higher”: Halestorm describe what it was like backstage at Ozzy Osbourne’s retirement show Back To The Beginning
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• "I'm sure he was thinking of Stevie Nicks." From Public Enemy and Tom Waits to Spider-Man, the ten songs that changed the life of Clutch's Neil Fallon
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• Joe Walsh Wants to Sell You His ‘Barnstorm’ Guitar
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• “I’ve been in bands that really felt like you were creating something new – but you were just another band doing what had already been done”: Blending Tool, Bjork and Black Sabbath helped Swedish psych-proggers stand out from the start
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Aerosmith and Yungblud, 'One More Time': EP Review
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• "Some kid is driving inside the residence of the president, and you’ve got girls making TikToks in front of burning buildings." Deadly earthquakes, addiction and revolution: the story of Underside, Nepal's biggest metal band
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• "I came in like, ‘Doc, I know you like Rush. I’m in a metal band, we’re flying out in a week to go do one of our biggest shows in a long time. Any way you can help me out?’" An interview with metal's busiest man, Matt Heafy
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• Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta names the essential hardcore bands everyone needs to hear
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• Alex Van Halen's Second Book to Focus on a Crucial Van Halen Era
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• "What would Van Gogh be worth if he had other artists dabbing their paint brushes on his canvas?" How Trent Reznor wrote Nine Inch Nails' first big hit - and why it annoyed the hell out of him
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• Kiss Kick Off First Show in Two Years With Ace Frehley Tribute
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• Who is the prog-powered creator of “revenge pop” targeting? “All those people who didn’t think I could do it. Isn’t that what all musicians are doing?”
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• Warren Haynes Announces 2026 Solo Tour Dates
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• “​​I think Prince wanted a romance, but I didn’t because then we wouldn’t have had a musical relationship.” Stevie Nicks on why she turned down Prince's biggest song, and how their flirty friendship influenced three hit singles
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• "There’s nothing quite like playing live in the UK!" Marillion announce UK tour dates in September and October
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• Win a Foreigner '4' Box Set
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• “I don't know if she'd heard of us…” Cyndi Lauper, Chrissie Hynde, Aimee Mann and the Rush duets that got away
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• "I showed up with Tibetan Singing Bowls, some percussion instruments and champagne, and asked them permission to do some experiments." The strange story behind Deftones and Maynard James Keenan's incredible collab, Passenger
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• Pink Floyd share new stereo mix of Shine On You Crazy Diamond, presented for the first time as a single continuous piece of music
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• Lynyrd Skynyrd and Foreigner Announce 2026 Summer Tour
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• John Lennon's 'Double Fantasy' Songs Ranked Worst to Best
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• Win a Trip to See the Trans-Siberian Orchestra in Philadelphia
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• Revisiting Cher's Debut Performance on 'Saturday Night Live'
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• 'Weird Al' Yankovic Announces 90 New Tour Dates for 2026
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• Nu metal kids, rejoice! Full videos of classic Deftones and Linkin Park festival sets have just been released online
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• How Jimi Hendrix Erupted With ‘Axis: Bold as Love'
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• "I saw they sent a bunch of celebrities into space and I thought 'Well, if them, why not me?!'" Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine wants their final show to be in outer space
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• Santana's 2026 Tour Dates Announced
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• Why Bruce Springsteen Hated His Live Debut in Europe
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• Bruce Kulick Honors Late Kiss Alumni at Scorching Las Vegas Show
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• Squeeze's New Album, 'Trixies,' Revisits Their Early Songwriting
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• The Biggest Rock Tours Announced for 2026: Updated
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• “You simply can’t point to anybody and say they’re better than this guy”: Hear John Petrucci add lightning to new Steve Morse Band song Triangulation
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• BoDeans Announce 40th Anniversary Tour Dates for 2026
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• “Whether I’ve denied the world a lot of great music, I don’t know. Maybe they’ve done that to me. Maybe they should have”: Steve Hogarth’s first 30 years with Marillion
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• "No question this will be the go-to event of the summer!" Foreigner and Lynyrd Skynyrd announce Double Trouble Double Vision tour
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• Deep Purple announce UK tour with Mammoth
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• "It really bothers me. I think it's severely inappropriate." The Osbourne family speak out against musicians lying about their final interactions with Ozzy - and "nutters" pretending to speak to him from beyond the grave
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• Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, My Chemical Romance, Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy, Turnstile, Rise Against and more than 150 other rock and metal bands have just been announced for Welcome To Rockville festival 2026
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• "It's not hard to see why they got left behind by Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon": Praying Mantis fail to surf the NWOBHM wave on Time Tells No Lies
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• Amyl and the Sniffers get the drinks in for Melbourne after free show cancelled at last minute
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• “Our connection was so special, I would probably be able to feel him if he weren’t here anymore, and I don’t”: Wolfgang Van Halen details his spiritual struggle following the death of his father Eddie
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• Ringo Starr's All Starr Band Announces 2026 Tour Schedule
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• Kiss Turns Back Time With Powerful Vegas Show: Video, Set List
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• Watch unmasked Kiss pay emotional tribute to late Ace Frehley at Las Vegas show
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• "This isn’t just a screening; it’s a full-scale adrenaline rush." Iconic sci-fi action sequel Terminator 2: Judgement Day will be getting a live concert screening - and its premiere will take place in London
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• "It was pretty surreal. All of our families, friends and haters saw that live on TV!" The surprise smash hit 90s single that saw an underground punk band beat Alanis Morissette, Weezer and Portishead in one of the biggest award upsets ever
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• Paul Stanley Admits He's Outgrown Some Kiss Lyrics
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• Tedeschi Trucks Band Adds More 2026 Concerts
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• "Is it OK if we look like this?": Two years on from their farewell show in New York, Kiss return to the stage in Las Vegas
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• AC/DC bring earthquake-level noise to first Australian show in 10 years
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• Dennis DeYoung Wants Rock Hall to Change Their ‘Shameful’ Ways
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• “Think of it as the metal version of Goodbye by the Spice Girls!” Leading lights of the UK underground Svalbard have just released their final song
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• "Lemmy goes and sees his doctor, and the doctor is like, ‘Holy ****! If you’d waited another week, you’d have died!'" How Motörhead legend Lemmy Kilmister shrugged off his health issues for years
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• The Top 35 Southern Rock Songs That Shaped the Genre
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: November 17, 2025
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• Def Leppard Has Big Plans for 2026 Concerts
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• "Prepare yourselves for a night of epic music!" Voivod announce UK tour dates in June 2026
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• Jane Weaver to release 15th Anniversary edition of psych folk album The Fallen By Watch Bird
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• Pink Floyd Previews 'Shine On' as Complete Nine-Part Opus
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• Ian Gillan Considers Deep Purple Retirement Over Health Issue
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• “It was beginning to feel like everyone’s mind wasn’t on the job… a feeling that there should be some hiatus”: Jethro Tull’s saddest, darkest album could have been even darker
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• Whitesnake's David Coverdale Announces His Retirement
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• Graham Nash Announces Tour Dates for 2026
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• "It’s about those times when you’ve got no feeling left or you just don’t care." The song that helped Linkin Park kiss goodbye to the nu metal era - and that got a new lease of life courtesy of one rap megastar
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• "I went to a party in San Francisco...there were all these freaks shooting up and this girl was real sick." How Metallica wrote their most iconic anthem - and how Stranger Things made it relevant to a whole new generation over three decades later
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• “Pavarotti is our hero, he’s more rock’n’roll than anyone we’ve ever met before”: the story of Bono’s favourite U2 song, even though it isn’t by U2 and features an operatic legend on vocals
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• Drive-By Truckers Set to Reunite With Jason Isbell
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• Choir of survivors, relatives and witnesses marks 10th anniversary of Paris terrorist attacks with poignant Rival Sons song
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• ZZ Top Sets First Dozen 2026 Concerts
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• "I still have so much music in my heart." The frontman of one of nu metal's coolest bands has been found living on the streets - and fans are desperate to help him
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