Rock News 2025-11-22

• Pink Floyd's New 25-Minute Tribute to Syd Barrett Unveiled
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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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• The Marshall Black Friday sale is stacked with up to 46% off headphones and speakers – including our favourite AirPods rivals
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• Lawsuit Seeking Millions from Eagles' Don Henley Dismissed
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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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• Top 25 Rock Myths: Chasing the Truth Behind the Music
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• What to Expect From ZZ Top's 2026 Tour Across America
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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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• "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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• 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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• Paramount+ just chopped 50% off monthly and annual plans for Black Friday - here's 5 unmissable music docs I think are worth a sub alone
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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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• “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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• Iconic Rock Star Hotel Closing After Nearly 40 Years
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• The Best Prog Song by 5 Hair Metal Bands
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• The Stone Roses bassist Mani dead at 63
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• “I get into arguments with fans all the time about this. Everybody’s like, ‘Oh, it’s just a leftover Stone Sour song.’ No, I wrote that for Slipknot!” How Slipknot made the greatest metal ballad of the 21st century
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• Mötley Crüe announce mammoth Carnival Of Sins tour with Tesla and Extreme
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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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• "We owed everybody money. We knew that if the next album didn't succeed, the ship would sink": The inside story of the album that saved Queen
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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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• Paul Stanley Admits He's Outgrown Some Kiss Lyrics
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• "I started feeling the political wheels starting to turn toward conservatism a little bit" How a song on Green Day's most misunderstood album set the groundwork for one of their biggest acts of protest
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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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• 'Weird Al' Yankovic Announces 90 New Tour Dates for 2026
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• Steve Vai Praises Coverdale and Reflects on Final Whitesnake Show
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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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• Nikki Sixx Defends Vince Neil's Vocals After Fan Criticism
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• Where to See Neil Young on His 2026 Love Earth Tour
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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 Peter Frampton Left Humble Pie Before 'Rockin' the Fillmore'
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• The 50 Best Title Tracks That Define Iconic Albums
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• Why Bruce Springsteen Hated His Live Debut in Europe
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• "As a Beatles record, it is not very good, offering nothing exciting": Anthology 4 is more evidence of original reality turned distorted mythology
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• Tom Morello Has Bad News for Audioslave Fans
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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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• "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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• "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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• "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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• Doc McGhee: 'I Don't Believe Bon Jovi Would Have Made It' Today
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• Ulver share ambient new single Weeping Stone as they announce "largely instrumental" new album Neverland
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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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• Ozzy's eldest son Louis Osbourne on being stunned by "awe inspiring" turnout at Prince of Darkness' funeral
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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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• The first two albums recorded by what became their definitive line-up: Now a seven-CD countdown to Thin Lizzy's lift-off
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• Cheap Trick Announces 2026 ‘All Washed Up’ Tour Dates
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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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• 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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• Aerosmith and Yungblud, 'One More Time': EP Review
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• Stevie Nicks' Men: 16 Guys Linked With the Fleetwood Mac Singer
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• "I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure." Steve Harris had his doubts over Bruce Dickinson's 1999 return to Iron Maiden
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• Charlie Sheen remembers his “private concert” from Eddie Van Halen on the set of Two And A Half Men: “They did five takes of it, and I was like, ‘Are you sure we don’t need a sixth?’”
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• “The first minute confirms that their musical identity is intact – complex and multilayered without becoming bewildering”: Spock’s Beard reference their own past and future on The Archaeoptimist
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• Watch Robert Plant Perform 'Gallows Pole' on NPR's 'Tiny Desk'
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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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• Great new prog you need to hear from Einar Solberg, The Blackheart Orchestra, Blanket and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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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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• The story of Porcupine Tree's Deadwing is on the cover of the new gift-packed issue of Prog, which is on sale now
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• Grab an exclusve Orbit Culture/Metal Hammer T-shirt & Magazine bundle now
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• Guns N' Roses Announce First US Concert of 2026
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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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• ZZ Top Expands 2026 Tour With New Dates
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• Exclusive: Jon Anderson Shares His New Album Plans
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• Revisiting Cher's Debut Performance on 'Saturday Night Live'
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• Win a $1200 Steelheart Leather Jacket
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• UK government confirms it will introduce ban on selling secondary gig tickets for a profit
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• Motley Crue Announces 2026 Tour With Extreme and Tesla
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• 45 Years Ago: REO Speedwagon Releases 'Hi Infidelity'
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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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• "Prepare yourselves for a night of epic music!" Voivod announce UK tour dates in June 2026
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• Santana's 2026 Tour Dates Announced
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• Simon Kirke Says Singer Change 'Tarnished' Bad Company
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• "Like the best modern prog rock, The Archaeoptimist reveals more and more at every new sitting": Spock’s Beard are still pushing boundaries on first album in seven years
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• "It's abundantly clear that this is some of Aerosmith's best work in nearly a quarter of a century." Aerosmith and Yungblud's One More Time EP is a surprising but welcome triumph
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• Ritchie Blackmore Postpones 2025 Tour Due to 'Medical Reasons'
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• How 'All Right Now' Became an 'Albatross' Around Free's Neck
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• Rock's Most Famous Post-Breakup Album Battles
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• How a Bottle of Vitamins Helped Save a Tom Petty Hit
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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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• "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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• What do Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson, extreme icons Napalm Death and the cold expanses of space have in common? A new documentary featuring music from some of metal’s finest
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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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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