Rock News 2025-12-20

• "Owning a balaclava, having our song on your computer, or liking one of our posts could lead to prison time": Pussy Riot declared extremist organisation in Russia
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• 40 Jewish Rock Stars
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• Los Angeles judge dismisses sexual assault and battery lawsuit filed against Marilyn Manson by former assistant
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• "The song is rarely asked out for a dance." There's a Peter Gabriel deep cut on the soundtrack to the new Timothée Chalamet A24 movie, and he couldn't be happier about it
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• Foreigner and Lou Gramm Extend Reunion Run With New 2026 Dates
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• “My first boyfriend introduced me to The Wall. It was the only interesting thing about him”: Author and musician Joanne Harris on having the audacity to perform Pink Floyd, Rick Wakeman and Genesis music in her school band
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• "I sent that song to Elton and asked him to play piano on it...it meant the world to us." How Elton John and Dave Grohl helped one of the grunge era's greatest bands heal from an unimaginable loss
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• John 5 Has 'No Idea' Why Motley Crue Isn't in the Rock Hall
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• Jane’s Addiction Release Farewell Statements After Ending Feud
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• "I was 21 years old. I don’t think it matters how old you are – there’s no way to be prepared for it." The story of the one simple but devastating question that led to Evanescence writing their biggest hit
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• George Harrison's Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) has a new video - directed by Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard
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• “That was pretty sad”: Watch Avengers megastar Chris Hemsworth’s shambolic attempt to play drums with Parkway Drive earlier this year
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• "The audience for heavy music is absolutely growing. It feels like expansion, not nostalgia" Sleep Token's manager has been speaking about the band's extraordinary success in 2025, and what it means for rock and metal as a whole moving forwards
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• "I was trying to be nasty, then she opened the door and was like: 'What's that? I really like it!'" Inspired by domestic tension, Nickelback's breakthrough hit was defined by a climax suggested by their drum roadie
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• Classic Rock Christmas Playlist: 42 Songs to Make the Season Loud
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• Debate: “They were never the same after…” What’s the most seismic line-up change in prog history?
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• On This Day in 1955: Carl Perkins Records 'Blue Suede Shoes'
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• "You know that feeling you get when somebody embarrasses themselves so badly you feel uncomfortable?" How a grunge legend alienated his entire fanbase with a curveball solo record, and why he had zero regrets about doing so
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• "It was a time of turmoil. Writers had it in for us: 'Oh my God, haven’t you died yet? Don’t you know, grunge is here!'" The story behind the underrated Iron Maiden classic that helped keep them alive in the 90s
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• “We’d jump off roofs or off bridges into water, knock the wind out of ourselves and almost die. We lived very aggressively because that’s who we were”: The story of Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. – the secret debut album that started Slipknot’s ascent
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• "I have been living with mental health problems which have led to addiction issues that I have concealed for a long time." Biffy Clyro's James Johnston is taking a step back from the band to address issues that have led to "significant problems"
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• "We're going at it and The Queen was like, 'Whooh! I love this prog rock!'" Decades after a spliff-weilding start, Solstice have finally hit their stride
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• "We don't rehearse - I just show the band my notes and it becomes something else": Garage queen Holly Golightly on new music, Jack White and the black tongue hex
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• Def Leppard Is Hitting the Road for an Epic World Tour
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• "The Prime Ministers of Canada and France were there in the front row. It was pretty stressful": The Trews on their most significant gig, kitchen parties and Prince William
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: December 15, 2025
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• "I'm packing all my stuff and Courtney's like, 'Amy Lee wants to meet you.' We never expected any of this to happen." From getting arrested at BLM protests to hanging with Evanescence and Limp Bizkit icons, the story of rising metalcore stars Dying Wish
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• The Rolling Stones Reportedly Cancel 2026 Tour Plans
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• Beat to Continue Honoring King Crimson on 2026 Tour
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• Vote for Rock's Best Christmas Song: UCR's Holiday Bracket
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• UB40's Big Love Tour Kicks Off in 2026
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• What to Expect From Styx's Second Rockin' In Paradise in 2026
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• "He was funny, he was smart, he was a mensch": Spinal Tap and Paul McCartney pay tribute to murdered film director Rob Reiner
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• Alice Cooper Unveils Dates for 2026 U.S. and European Tour
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• Speculation Surrounds Journey's Lineup Ahead of Final Tour
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• How Musicians Embraced, Rejected and Utilized the Early Internet
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• AC/DC Has a Song About Donald Trump?
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• Captain Beefheart Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• "We are here to announce that we have come together one last time to resolve our differences": Jane's Addiction are talking again after last year's acrimonious break-up
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• The Impact of 'Hunky Dory' on David Bowie's Career
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• Reissue Roundup: Fall Sets From Pink Floyd and Others
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• Lynyrd Skynyrd Confirms More 2026 Tour Dates
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• "You only get in trouble if you steal people’s melodies and words, as Led Zeppelin did": The story of the classic "inspired" by John Lee Hooker that paid for Foghat's drummer's Lamborghini
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• Joe Ely, Clash and Bruce Springsteen Collaborator, Dead at 78
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• “The others kept putting it further back on the list. Finally I said, ‘No, we’ve got to do it now’”: After five albums, this unique band accepted it was time to face the climate crisis head on. They don’t regret it
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• “The hundreds of new followers we have over the last few days are most welcome, but I’m not entirely sure they are all genuine”: Simon Cowell’s new boyband December 10 could be in legal trouble after getting confused for a Scottish metal group
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• Jon Anderson shares video for Time Has Come as he announces new reissues
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• Vote for the best metal album of 2025
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• "I had abreakdown. But what we get with this album is a breakthrough": Heartbroken and stricken with cancer, Stephen Dale Petit built his masterpiece, Be The Love
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• "The fuse has been lit and the desire is there." Trent Reznor is prioritizing writing a new Nine Inch Nails album over any other projects
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• "In a lot of abusive relationships, the hardest thing is to break away from it. That song helped break that stigma." How a bold, boundary-breaking song with some taboo lyrics helped break one of America's best modern rock bands
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• “I’ve been doing 20-minute guitar solos for a long time. There’s a whole other world out there”: A bright spark of modern prog brought in big prog names to make an album that’s not prog – and he’s not sorry
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• Bryan Adams’ Epic 2026 Tour Will Cross Five Continents
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• "Ozzy told me he hated Sabotage because it reminded him of being in the studio and having a bad time. This was similar": The story of the era-defining classic recorded on the verge of implosion
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• “We were asked to do Glastonbury. I had no intention, but I was outvoted… If I’d been told first instead of the band, I might ‘not have remembered’ to say!”: John Lees’ on playing live again and the new Barclay James Harvest album, Relativity...
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• 38 Special Sets 2026 Dates in Support of First LP in 20 Years
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• Tom Hamilton's Close Enemies Set 2026 Tour Dates
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• "I landed up in the hospital with 11 staples in my head. It was a wild experience and pretty much an awakening for myself to pull my life together." How one of nu metal's biggest bands dropped the raps and wrote a power ballad instead
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• Peter Wolf Announces Concert Return After Long Hiatus
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• Prog's special Christmas Tracks Of The Week
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• Eric Clapton Follows Busy Year With First Confirmed 2026 Shows
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• Rick Springfield Announces 2026 Tour Dates
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• "You disgusting, vile, egomaniac loser." Jack White calls out Donald Trump for his bizarre and insensitive take on the killing of Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer
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• “Cliff Richard was trying to dance along, only to realise the song was in 5/4 time and his left foot was where his right foot should be!”: Jethro Tull’s manager asked Ian Anderson to write a hit. He tried not to, but failed
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• "25,000 of them didn't have a clue who I was. 15,000 of them thought I was a poser." Yungblud looks back on his life-changing "David and Goliath" moment at Black Sabbath's final show
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• Fire Alarm Can't Stop Bruce Springsteen's Surprise Set
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• Best Christmas gifts for Ozzy and Black Sabbath fans: Don't be Paranoid and Bark At The Moon instead with our festive picks
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• Cheap Trick Defends Kennedy Center Honors Performance for Kiss
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• Notorious cop killer celebrated in song by multi-million-selling punk band dies aged 89
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• "We were just tired, so we were like, 'Let's go live together in a cabin and take psychedelics', because that'll help, I guess." How The Beatles inspired one of emo's breakout bands to completely reinvent themselves
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• “They were sprawled out in their birthday suits, bottles all over the place... it was a scene!”: Rob Halford remembers the chaotic time Ozzy Osbourne visited Judas Priest in the studio
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• Vote in the 2025 Prog Magazine Readers' Poll
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• Styx and Cheap Trick Team Up for 2026 Tour Dates
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• 10 Keith Richards Collaborations Outside of the Rolling Stones
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• Classic 1970s Fashion Looks We Can’t Forget
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• Debate: What's the best album of 2025?
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• "It was terrible! I was naked and I just froze. There was blood everywhere." Haunted houses, "turf wars" and Mimosa Mondays: the story of the album that confirmed Deftones as one of the most important bands of their generation
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• "Writing a line here and there doesn't make someone a songwriter, and singing my material doesn't make it theirs": Shred king Yngwie Malmsteen slams all the singers he's ever worked with
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• Jethro Tull Schedules Massive 2026 Tour With 45 Stops
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• "A picture-postcard Christmas, with morbid edges..." New animated video released for Greg Lake's perennial seasonal favourite I Believe In Father Christmas
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• Tesla Adds More Dates to 2026's Still Keepin' It Real Tour
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• A really useful guide to the music of George Harrison in 24 albums - and none are by The Beatles
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• The ultimate Goth quiz: How much do you know about music's spookiest genre?
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• "We almost got taken off air! Thanks Green Day!" The morning that Green Day took over a live TV show, used some very rude words, hijacked the house band's instruments and nearly got the show cancelled
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• Scorpions Bounce Back From Challenging Year With 2026 Tour
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