Rock News 2025-12-06

• Why Cheap Trick's 'At Budokan' Was Not Recorded at Budokan
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• "I liked her masculinity. I liked that she wasn’t embarrassed to have that side of her as a woman, and she was also very sexy" Hayley Williams has revealed the first female figure she found herself looking up to when Paramore started touring
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• "There's so much material at this point": Guns N' Roses release two new singles but there's still no news about an album
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• Megadeth Will Play This Country for the First Time on 2026 Tour
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• Neal Morse Band share video for Fully Alive, their first new music for five years
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• What to Expect From Foghat's 2026 Twang and Bang Tour
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• “The hidden gem in their sometimes bewildering catalogue. Had they made it in the 80s it would have given them a credible contemporary footing”: Yes’ Fly From Here – Return Trip glows in reissue
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• Lou Gramm Says Foreigner Nearly Ended After 'Head Games'
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• "I thought it was terrible. I didn’t like it. Honestly, I thought it was stupid." The story of the song that turned a cult alt funk metal band into poster boys for a music scene they absolutely despised
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• Chicago And Styx Announce Joint Summer Tour For 2026
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• Mega new prog you must hear from Big Big Train, Karnivool, Textures, Les Penning & Robert Reed and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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• “Mikael Åkerfeldt and I were close for a while. We wound up with the same management and drifted apart”: Devin Townsend discusses his prog world (while he’s hiding from his dogs)
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• "We shall finally meet again. See you around Europe...” Gazpacho to play first UK show in four years as they announce UK and European tour
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• Six Rockin' Covers of Roy Orbison's 'Pretty Woman'
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• Foreigner Confirms New Dates With Original Frontman Lou Gramm
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• Previously unheard Scott Weiland song released to mark 10th anniversary of singer's death
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• The Osbournes Mock Roger Waters With Limited Edition Ozzy Shirt
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• 'Double Fantasy' Producer Recalls Wild Court Battle With Yoko Ono
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• The Day Roy Orbison Performed His Last Show
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• 45 Years Ago: Ace Frehley Plays His First 'Last' Kiss Concert
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• "We have our own airport and our own postage stamp!" Rudolf Schenker and Klaus Meine look back at 60 wild years of Scorpions
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• Soul guitar legend and Blues Brother Steve Cropper dead at 84
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• Aerosmith Becomes Fifth Act to Achieve Rare Billboard Chart Feat
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• Twisted Sister Announces First 2026 US Reunion Tour Date
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• "It's full of light and love and guitars that rip": The Sheepdogs announce new album Keep Out Of The Storm
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• "The more we listened to the recordings, we realised how on fire we were": Canadian roots-rockers The Commoners on why the UK is becoming their second home
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• Why Aerosmith Replaced Joe Perry on Some 'Get Your Wings' Tracks
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• How 'December's Children' Captured the Rolling Stones' Early Sound
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Sleep Token have released the official colouring book you never knew you needed
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• “We heard King Crimson synchronised music with visuals at gigs. I thought we could use that, since we didn’t have Mick Jagger to run around or anything”: Remembering Rick Davies, from tramping around Germany to leading Supertramp around the world
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• Long-delayed Slipknot project Look Outside Your Window will finally drop in 2026, Shawn “Clown” Crahan promises
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• "Don't miss this chance to hang out with us one final time" One of hardcore's most influential and forward-thinking bands are about to play their last ever show, and you're going to be able to livestream every minute of the chaos
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• "There was a period during my teenage years where I felt emotionally abandoned, so to speak." Wolfgang Van Halen has a thing or two to say about living up to expectations
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• "It’s strange when you’re playing in front of 30 people, lip-syncing. Especially when you’re hanging upside down with a piece of meat behind you." How Nine Inch Nails' anthem of self-loathing and sleaze got twisted into the ultimate horny metal track
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• Hear Guns N' Roses' New Songs 'Nothin'' and "Atlas"
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• "The goal is to make it feel really nostalgic, like people are back in time." Reunited rock legends promise fans "awesome" experience at upcoming Las Vegas residency
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• "I saw him mosh to a death metal band. I saw what changed my perspective on music" For one of deathcore's pioneering bands, it was a show in Montreal back in 1998 that helped them to kickstart the genre
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• 15 Artists on the Influence of the Beatles' 'Rubber Soul'
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• One of the greatest 'lost' grunge supergroups of the '90s are returning in 2026 with new music and a worldwide tour
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• Pink Floyd to open Wish You Were Here pop-up stores across Europe and in LA in December
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• “Crucially it succeeds in nailing the driven personality of a self-starter motivated by a steely self-belief”: Unofficial Peter Hammill biography Rock And Role is perfect companion to recent box set
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• "I really wanted to do it justice": The Struts singer Luke Spiller releases mournful version of Slade Christmas classic
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• From Sleep Token to Ghost, metal is full of gimmicks right now. Is it helping or hindering the culture?
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• How AC/DC Remained ‘Gods of Rock and Roll’ in the ‘90s
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• "I can't listen to any more of this, this is a f***ing disgrace" An AI song posing as a new Architects release was published under the band's name on streaming services, and it sets a worrying precedent for where things may be heading
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• Phish Announces 2026 Concert Dates
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• Foo Fighters to Play 2026 Benefit Show in Los Angeles
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• Mammoth Announces 'The End' 2026 North American Tour Dates
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• "Freddie Mercury in flippant, throwaway, disco-jazz cabaret mode could still muster flashes of Olympian pop-rock genius": Mr Bad Guy at 40: Still the great album that might have been
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• 60 Years Ago: Beatles' 'We Can Work It Out' Becomes Group Triumph
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• Hear Aerosmith, Yungblud and Lainey Wilson's New Collaboration
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• What To Expect From the B-52s’ 2026 Concert Tour
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• Guns N' Roses Post-Reunion Songs Ranked Worst to Best
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• “A caustic David Gilmour guitar attack, with Roger Waters equally venomous in his lyrical delivery”: Pink Floyd’s 10 heaviest songs
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• 2025's Top 20 Rock Albums
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• Avenged Sevenfold have just released a brand new song and it's packing riffs, autotune and all kinds of weirdness - listen to Magic now
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• “I was in my boxers and my mother caught me in this heightened creative moment. It was pretty embarrassing”: Inspired by Tool, Led Zeppelin and classic sci-fi, Coheed And Cambria turned a tumultuous break-up into a landmark prog metal song
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• Why John Lennon Threatened a Partygoer at Knifepoint
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• “The Alamo incident, bat-biting, dove head-biting, snorting ants”: Ozzy Osbourne was at his “wildest” during early days of solo career, says Black Sabbath bandmate Geezer Butler
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• "Wildflowers scared him, because he's not really sure why it's as good as it is": As Tom Petty’s world fell apart, he took refuge in the studio and made his most deeply personal album
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• Alanis Morissette announces UK and Ireland 2026 outdoor tour with Skunk Anansie
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• Legendary Guitarist Steve Cropper Has Died
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• The Kiss LP That Put Paul Stanley in a 'Very Difficult Position'
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• “There were certainly cries of ‘sell-out’ and people wondering how watered down we had become”: After one hit song, this band toured with Foo Fighters and became alt-metal’s next big thing – until record label woes sent them back to the underground
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• Swallow The Sun's best-selling official biography to be translated into English
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• Sharon, Jack + Kelly Osbourne Share Ozzy Birthday Tribute Posts
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• Def Leppard quiz: How much do you know about Joe Elliott & Co.'s near-half-century career in rock?
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• Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea Goes Full Jazz on New 8-Minute Song
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• Aerosmith removed from Rock 'n' Roller Coaster at Disney World and will be replaced by the Muppets
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• “When he gave the family car back, his father tried to sell it as ‘formerly driven by Frank Zappa’”: The background that gave rise to music’s most eclectic iconoclast, by his wife and son
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• “It all feels shamanic and otherworldly, and it only gets more so when a pair of horned belly dancers come out”: British-Iranian metal mystics Lowen prove themselves as the next big thing with spellbinding London show
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• Tangerine Dream to release 50 Years Of Phaedra: At The Barbican in January
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• "Bowie was standing there and for a split second you could see the panic in his eyes": The story of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the moments that made him a star
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• "Everyone was talking about the effect that YouTube has had on their life. They were all really fascinated with each other." How a song born out of frustration helped Weezer create a GRAMMY-winning portrait of a pivotal moment in Internet history
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• "We were stupid kids, just trying to survive, with this really weird music that we were so stubborn about." How five chaos-addicted Californian misfits helped pave the way for the 90s rock revolution with their fabulously freaky debut record
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• Birmingham Airport CEO says name will not be changed in memory of Ozzy Osbourne, despite petition nearing 80,000 signatures
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• Tom Scholz’s Secret Plan to Save Boston
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• The ultimate review of 2025: The best albums, the biggest events, and the megastars who rocked our world - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• "He would always say, ‘I don’t care if they are laughing at me or with me, as long as they’re laughing'" When it came to the longevity of his career, Ozzy Osbourne had a typically carefree approach to things, according to son Jack
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• "She was like, ‘This is what happens when you die young’. I thought it was this cool gesture, but it wasn’t a fun gift." Courtney Love gave this indie frontman a lock of Kurt Cobain's hair after he punctured a kidney on broken glass at an awards ceremony
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• The Sons of Kiss' Stanley and Simmons Release Their Debut Single
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• "I listened to track one and I was like, Ooh, that was nasty!" Hollywood superstar Adam Sandler reveals the iconic '90s rock album that he can't stop listening to
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• John Densmore Reflects on the Doors' Lasting Legacy
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• Judas Priest Announces 2026 'Faithkeepers' Tour
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