Rock News 2025-11-27

• From Bondi to the Agora Ballroom: The story of what happened when AC/DC arrived in America
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• How 'All Right Now' Became an 'Albatross' Around Free's Neck
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• "We can't wait to see you all" Skunk Anansie, Joan Jett, Interpol & more have been announced as the supports for My Chemical Romance's shows in the UK and Europe next Summer
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• The festive season just turned ugly thanks to EMP's huge Black Friday Christmas jumper sale: Up to 27% off these monstrosities from Ghost, Kiss, AC/DC and more
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• 45 Years Ago: REO Speedwagon Releases 'Hi Infidelity'
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• "Their music was about us, about you, about the big wide world that waited": Every studio album by The Clash ranked from worst to best
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• “This tour is going to be a complete blast." Big Big Train announce Woodcut European and UK tour dates for Autumn 2026
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• Steve Lukather Is Tired of Hearing 'S—' About Toto's Lineup
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• Vote: who are the Big 4 in all of metal?
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• Watch Robert Plant Perform 'Gallows Pole' on NPR's 'Tiny Desk'
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• "You should have seen us in '93, we were so much worse": The Lemonheads are back and Evan Dando says he's straight and "in heaven"
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• "There were a few people in the band who were like, ‘Hey, stupid, this is a big deal. It’s Michael Bay, don’t be an idiot.'" How one of Linkin Park's biggest songs solidified their place as an essential part of the Transformers film franchise
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• "I couldn't believe how casual she was acting. Did she not realise how insane this was?" The story of the 15-year-old boy who flew to Rio to see Ozzy Osbourne
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• “I sold out three nights at Wembley but it cost me a fortune. It always gets voted biggest spectacular and also biggest folly. I take that as a compliment!” Six myths and legends of Rick Wakeman
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• Win a Doors 'Immersed 1967-1971' Prize Pack
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• Nikki Sixx Says Motley Crue Is Changing Their Set List for 2026
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• “More like an inspired act of creativity than a raging blow-out”: Mike Oldfield’s Amarok began life as a protest against his label. But it turned out to be one of his most skilful sculptures
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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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• All the Songs John McVie Wrote or Cowrote for Fleetwood Mac
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• Rick Wakeman Reveals Recent Brain Surgery
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• “I said, ‘I don’t want to work with him!’ I was bitter that he was doing so well. But I needed the money”: How a prog supergroup with 200 hits between them got together
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• From Max levitating via Kate Bush to Eddie Munson shredding Metallica, a guide to the very best Stranger Things needle drops
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• Ritchie Blackmore Shares Health Struggles That Halted His Tour
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• Watch Tool play a bunch of rarities for the first time in 20 years, plus a Black Sabbath cover, during New Zealand shows over the weekend
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• Megadeth announce 2026 Canadian tour with Anthrax and Exodus
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• Stevie Nicks' Men: 16 Guys Linked With the Fleetwood Mac Singer
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• "People heard it and found it deeply offensive because they didn’t have the brain capacity to realise what it’s about." The story behind Ghost's most famous song - and what it really means
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• "Who would you rather sleep with, Ozzy or Geezer?": Smuggling, private jets, and expecting the unexpected with the Osbournes
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• "The record label dyed all of our food black. Black sandwiches!" Three decades in, prophets of doom Paradise Lost still haven't made their best album
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• “Our manager basically kicked us out of his house. We were supposed to go to Europe for the first time, and our gear had gotten stolen”: How Metallica turned tragedy into Fade To Black – the acoustic epic that put the elitists in their place
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• "Our fans were starting to say, ‘Hey, these guys are prophets, they’re saying things that hadn’t happened yet.'" 9/11, censorship and conspiracy theories: the bizarre story behind the System Of A Down classic that became metal's biggest song
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• Most Exciting Rock Books of 2025
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• Guns N' Roses Announce Release of First New Songs Since 2023
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• Lawsuit Seeking Millions from Eagles' Don Henley Dismissed
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• “Three hours of molten metal, raging pits and life-affirming sing-alongs!” Machine Head announce evening-with Europe and UK shows for spring 2026
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• Top 25 Rock Myths: Chasing the Truth Behind the Music
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• Top 10 Thanksgiving Movies
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• I'm shopping for an MP3 player this Black Friday and with 38% off, the stylish Activo P1 is high on my list
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• John Hiatt's 2026 Tour: Cities and Dates Revealed
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• Where to See Neil Young on His 2026 Love Earth Tour
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• “I thought it was frat boy stuff...it's my least favourite record of our history.” The story of thrash metal legends Slayer 'going nu metal' and regretting it almost immediately (and why that album is much better than you remember)
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• Guns N' Roses Announce First North American Tour Since 2023
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• See why Will Ramos has been described as the best metal vocalist of his generation with this outstanding one-take of Lorna Shore's emotional metal anthem, Glenwood
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• Great White's Mark Kendall Has Stage Four Kidney Cancer
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• 25 Must-See Classic Thanksgiving TV Episodes
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• Fuelled by humanistic thinking and pure, feminine power, Bianca's debut album is more proof that black metal has progressed far beyond Satanism and petulant rebellion
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• Former ELO bassist Michael de Albuquerque to have second solo album, Stalking The Sleeper, reissued in January
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• "When the doctor was at the house and told us, I cried right there. I couldn’t help it. And he was the one who consoled me!" Lemmy's nearest and dearest on how the Motörhead man faced death "like a champ"
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• Hear Gene Simmons Take Over for Peter Criss on an Early Kiss Gem
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• "One of the most influential and exhilarating players in rock": Nine Zakk Wylde albums to listen to, and one to avoid
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• Watch The Darkness treat commuters at London St Pancras station to a surprise live performance
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• The Time Drummer Jellybean Johnson Dead at 69
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• “The magic has gone. I’m trying to find it in other places”: The Norwegians who abandoned black metal to re-enact the psychedelic era – covering songs that weren’t always their favourites
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• "He's a legend but he’s also a great person. When I met him, he had a guitar in his hand, and we started playing right away." How a punk rock hero helped Jimmy Cliff spark a late career peak - and write a modern reggae classic
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• "Listening to this, it’s like going back to a good time, but a really horrible time at the same time."The story behind the song that saved Ozzy Osbourne's career (and why it gave him mixed emotions over three decades later)
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• “Goths would get up for their songs, then glare when the punks’ tracks came on. No one really mixed”: Paradise Lost’s Gregor Mackintosh, who’s never liked a happy song in his life, escaped genre restrictions and embraced Dead Can Dance
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• Masked metal sensations President have written four songs for their debut album, with a lot more on the way: “It takes bits of the EP, and it’s pushing certain elements even further”
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• The 50 Best Title Tracks That Define Iconic Albums
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• Quiz: How much do you know about Iron Maiden's breakthrough masterpiece The Number Of The Beast?
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• Lindsey Buckingham Teases a New Solo Album
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• "I might as well wear a cowboy hat and stick a piece of straw in my mouth!": The story of the boozy Counting Crows classic their drummer detested
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• Sex Pistols Announce 2026 Concerts for 50th Anniversary
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• Which member of Yes released the best solo album?
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• Heart Honors Soundgarden's Rock Hall Induction With Live Cover
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• "Firmly at the top of our wish lists for a very, very long time." Weird 90s alt-rock legends Primus have announced their first European show in almost a decade, headlining ArcTanGent Festival with Chelsea Wolfe and Cult Of Luna
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• The Best Prog Song by 5 Hair Metal Bands
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• "What gets you hot under the collar? Is it the implicit, the unsaid, the tension of a subtle exchange…or it is asking someone point-blank to whip it out?" Harpy's debut EP VII is the horniest release of 2025 and it's not even close
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• Rock's Most Famous Post-Breakup Album Battles
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• Guns N' Roses announce two new singles and 2026 world tour
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• Tool Kicks Off Overseas Tour With Three Big Rarities
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• "I thought this album was going to be the biggest of my career." The crazy forgotten music project featuring Ozzy Osbourne, System Of A Down, Wu-Tang Clan, Xzibit and more than was meant to be legendary, but was a total disaster
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• Why the Band's Thanksgiving Farewell Almost Didn't Happen
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• Exclusive: Jon Anderson Shares His New Album Plans
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• "When I moved to Birmingham I assumed every band was going to sound like Black Sabbath": Meet Margarita Witch Cult, the big-riffing Brummies keeping Sabbath’s traditions alive
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• “We wanted some filth on this album." How Touchstone rocked out on their fourth album, Oceans Of Time
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• “It may lack hits, but this set bulges with red-eyed, bright ideas, displaying the ethos that first endeared them to space cadets”: Ozric Tentacles’ anthology Through The Magick Valley
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• Megadeth Announces New 2026 Tour Dates With Fellow Thrash Legends
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• Debate: Which is the better album? Highway To Hell or Back In Black?
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• “Welcome to this new version of your life. Before this, I was fine, and now I’m not”: Claudio Sanchez details the “heartbreak” that inspired Coheed And Cambria’s biggest track
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• Simon Kirke Says Singer Change 'Tarnished' Bad Company
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: November 24, 2025
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• Save a fab 61% with this Disney+ Black Friday deal just in time for the new The Beatles: Anthology series
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• I’ve been looking for a no-fuss way to stream my favourite channels - and I just found an affordable solution: Save 50% on the Roku streaming stick this Black Friday
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• Graham Gouldman announces biggest Heartful Of Songs tour yet
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