Rock News 2025-11-21

• Motley Crue Announces 2026 Tour With Extreme and Tesla
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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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• "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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• "The way he trusted me gave me the confidence I needed early in my career": Longtime Ozzy Osbourne photographer Mark Weiss remembers the Prince of Darkness
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• "Prepare yourselves for a night of epic music!" Voivod announce UK tour dates in June 2026
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• Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta names the essential hardcore bands everyone needs to hear
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• Grab an exclusve Orbit Culture/Metal Hammer T-shirt & Magazine bundle now
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• After 20 years of thought, a prog metal band recorded three albums in one go. “I wouldn’t recommend it,” says their singer, who has now realised the challenge is just beginning
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• "I felt like Tom Cruise, and I'm nearly eighty": Dave Hill's Slade are hitting the road for the last time, but he isn't finished
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• Deep PurpIe's Ian Gillan Hints at Retirement Amid Health Troubles
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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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• Paul Stanley Admits He's Outgrown Some Kiss Lyrics
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• "I let my father know there were no bad feelings. I sorted out a lot of my anger in his departure." A death, Nirvana, U2 and a crucifixion: the surprising story behind Metallica's most successful single (and no, it isn't Enter Sandman)
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• “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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• Ozzy's eldest son Louis Osbourne on being stunned by "awe inspiring" turnout at Prince of Darkness' funeral
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• Paramount+ just chopped 50% off monthly and annual plans for Black Friday - here's 5 unmissable music docs that are worth a sub alone
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• The Best Prog Song by 5 Hair Metal Bands
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• Lynyrd Skynyrd and Foreigner Announce 2026 Summer Tour
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• "I think that realism is missing from a lot of modern music of any genre, but especially our genre" Legendary hardcore heavyweights Converge have announced their first new album in five years, Love Is Not Enough
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• Ghost’s Tobias Forge wants to start scuba diving so that wearing a mask onstage feels less claustrophobic: “In my alternative life, I’m a wreck diver!”
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• Why Bruce Springsteen Hated His Live Debut in Europe
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• Genesis made long, complex, instrumentally elaborate rock for hirsute proggers: Then they wrote the song that brought women to their shows
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• UK government confirms it will introduce ban on selling secondary gig tickets for a profit
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• Deep Purple announce UK tour with Mammoth
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• Ulver share ambient new single Weeping Stone as they announce "largely instrumental" new album Neverland
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• The Legacy of John Lennon's 'Double Fantasy' Album Explained
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• “We made bad albums. Two of them should be melted down into flowerpots. But how many great pieces of artwork are you going to create in your career?” What Carl Palmer really thinks of ELP
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• "Winona Ryder was confused. She wanted to know why we'd write a song about her. I told her: 'It has nothing to do with you.'" How a cult 90s rock band's song about a beaver sparked a surprise encounter with a Hollywood A-lister
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• “People like Elon Musk are looking towards Mars, but I think we have issues to look at here first”: Why is heavy metal so obsessed with space all of a sudden?
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• "Music is fun when it’s bisexual and sexy and silly and over the top, when an artist struts across the stage like David Bowie." Heavy metal, severed heads and Rocky Horror: an audience with Creeper, Britain's most theatrical band
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• The Evolution Of Yacht Rock: Music's Smoothest Era Explained
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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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• The 50 Best Title Tracks That Define Iconic Albums
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• "We are not a political band. Everybody wants to have an opinion, and save the world with their opinions, but it doesn’t change the world." Why Sabaton won't sing about current conflicts
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• “There was no way we were gonna put out the full hour-and-a-half video, because it would have been a rip-off”: The story of the great Iron Maiden live album that was lost for 20 years
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• "When I left the band, I should have stayed left": Francis Rossi has some regrets about Status Quo's 1985 reunion
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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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• "If I mess that up, I'll never forgive myself." How Billie Eilish's favourite Paramore song went from being one of Hayley Williams' biggest fears to one of their most powerful live moments
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• Mötley Crüe announce mammoth Carnival Of Sins tour with Tesla and Extreme
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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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• “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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• Why Peter Frampton Left Humble Pie Before 'Rockin' the Fillmore'
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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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• Top 25 Rock Myths: Chasing the Truth Behind the Music
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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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• How a Bottle of Vitamins Helped Save a Tom Petty Hit
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• Nikki Sixx Defends Vince Neil's Vocals After Fan Criticism
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• The Stone Roses bassist Mani dead at 63
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• Aerosmith and Yungblud, 'One More Time': EP Review
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• Cheap Trick Announces 2026 ‘All Washed Up’ Tour Dates
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• Steve Vai Praises Coverdale and Reflects on Final Whitesnake Show
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• Iconic Rock Star Hotel Closing After Nearly 40 Years
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• Win a Trip to See the Trans-Siberian Orchestra in Philadelphia
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• Exclusive: Jon Anderson Shares His New Album Plans
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• 'Weird Al' Yankovic Announces 90 New Tour Dates for 2026
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• Santana's 2026 Tour Dates Announced
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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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• 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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• The End is only The Beginning: The Kiss Kruise in Las Vegas kicks off a new chapter in Kisstory
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• Tom Morello Has Bad News for Audioslave Fans
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• Ritchie Blackmore Postpones 2025 Tour Due to 'Medical Reasons'
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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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• "It sounds very pure and sweet. It's beautiful, like a flower child of an album": Heart's Ann and Nancy Wilson look back on the album that changed their lives
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• Warren Haynes Announces 2026 Solo Tour Dates
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• Revisiting Cher's Debut Performance on 'Saturday Night Live'
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• Tedeschi Trucks Band Adds More 2026 Concerts
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• Guns N' Roses Announce First US Concert of 2026
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• "I didn’t like the stigma of being a YouTuber." How The Darkness' Justin Hawkins became metal's least likely influencer
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• What to Expect From ZZ Top's 2026 Tour Across America
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• "Do you know how much fun it is to scream, 'I'm never gonna work another day in my life' really loud? It feels good!" How Monster Magnet came up with metal’s greatest f**k-you anthem
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• "The music is perfectly in sync with the visuals!" Noel Fielding opens up on his love for Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here
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• Bruce Kulick Honors Late Kiss Alumni at Scorching Las Vegas Show
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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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• “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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• ZZ Top Expands 2026 Tour With New Dates
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• “We knew we were messing with prog royalty. It could have been like painting a moustache on the Mona Lisa”: Welsh duo covered Peter Gabriel, Mike Oldfield and others on their latest side-project album. They think they’ve got away with it
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• Doc McGhee: 'I Don't Believe Bon Jovi Would Have Made It' Today
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• "I believe it has the potential to be something very special". Steven Wilson's Hand. Cannot. Erase. to be adapted for theatre stage
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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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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: November 17, 2025
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• Win a $1200 Steelheart Leather Jacket
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• John Hiatt's 2026 Tour: Cities and Dates Revealed
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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's New 25-Minute Tribute to Syd Barrett Unveiled
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• Simon Kirke Says Singer Change 'Tarnished' Bad Company
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