Rock News 2025-12-22

• "Quite simply, one of the very best British bands of the past three decades." Every Biffy Clyro album ranked from worst to best
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• “We made a concerted effort to move away from the long thematic songs into something shorter”: Rush were one of the proggiest bands of the 70s. Then they discovered The Police and reggae and wrote the hit that reinvented them
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• Alice Cooper Unveils Dates for 2026 U.S. and European Tour
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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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• "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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• “Gather ’round… it’s story time with Papa Het”: Metallica’s James Hetfield has just dropped a surprise spoken word version of one the most famous Christmas stories of all time
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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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• Jon Anderson shares video for Time Has Come as he announces new reissues
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• “When we did Top Of The Pops we were introduced as being avant-garde. It would have been closer to call us ‘aven’t-a-clue!” Fired from his own band Blodwyn Pig, Jethro Tull co-founder Mick Abrahams could only regret the wasted potential
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• “I said, ‘If nothing has changed, I might quit.’ But it was my baby from the start. I didn’t want to quit it”: How a sick and disillusioned guitarist turned his bitter resignation letter into one of metal’s greatest anthems
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• Vote for Rock's Best Christmas Song: UCR's Holiday Bracket
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• Nazareth Announces New Singer Ahead of Busy Touring Year
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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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• "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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• Ghost team up with charity to deliver food packages in Los Angeles via branded robot
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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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• Beat to Continue Honoring King Crimson on 2026 Tour
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• The Day Joe Strummer Died
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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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• "When I see him in my dreams, he hasn't changed a bit. He is still my best friend." How Dave Grohl channelled his heartbreak over a devastating personal loss into one of Foo Fighters' most raw, emotional songs
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• "He is no longer with the band": Nazareth part ways with Carl Sentance, announce new singer
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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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• "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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• Rick Springfield Announces 2026 Tour Dates
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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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• A really useful guide to the music of George Harrison in 24 albums - and none are by The Beatles
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• Singer-songwriter and guitarist Chris Rea dead at 74
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• “Once people were talking about us as the No.1 band in the world, some people took that as the sign that they could do anything they wanted”: The apocalyptic 1969 hit that marked the beginning of the end for one of America’s greatest rock’n’roll bands
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• “I had a thought: ‘I wonder if she could foresee her own death?’ I went to Bruce and he said, ‘Yeah, it’s a great idea!’”: How a dead psychic and singer with a point to prove inspired Iron Maiden to make one of the maddest concept albums of the 80s
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• Jethro Tull Schedules Massive 2026 Tour With 45 Stops
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• Vote for the best metal album of 2025
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• “I opened my guitar case and nearly fainted because I thought there was a human hand in there. It turned out, it was half a pig’s head”: Girlschool look back on their wild life with Mötorhead
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• The 15 Best Hard Rock and Metal Albums of 2025
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• Notorious cop killer celebrated in song by multi-million-selling punk band dies aged 89
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• Vinnie Vincent to Critics of His Song Prices: 'Grow the F--- Up'
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: December 22, 2025
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• Scorpions Bounce Back From Challenging Year With 2026 Tour
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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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• "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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• Peter Gabriel 'Delighted' About 'Marty Supreme' Feature
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• Def Leppard Is Hitting the Road for an Epic World Tour
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• “Usually there would be a hero who destroys the asteroid. I didn’t want that. I wanted to end humanity!” Self-confessed egomaniac counts the ways of our deaths on his first solo release in 13 years
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• The Impact of 'Hunky Dory' on David Bowie's Career
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• Cheap Trick Defends Kennedy Center Honors Performance for Kiss
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• AC/DC Has a Song About Donald Trump?
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• Classic 1970s Fashion Looks We Can’t Forget
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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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• Vote in the 2025 Prog Magazine Readers' Poll
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• Megadeth Release New Video for 'Let There Be Shred'
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• "A blistering, molten metal masterpiece": Judas Priest revive themselves on Painkiller before Rob Halford's decade-long hiatus
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• The 10 best progressive metal albums of 2025
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• How Musicians Embraced, Rejected and Utilized the Early Internet
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• Sleep Token accused of copyright infringement by photographer who claims picture was used on merch without permission
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• Captain Beefheart Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• Classic TV Shows With Only One Surviving Cast Member
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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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• Original Jethro Tull guitarist Mick Abrahams dead at 82
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• 38 Special Sets 2026 Dates in Support of First LP in 20 Years
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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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• Peter Criss Is Selling Downloads of His New Album for $1,000
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• Prog's special Christmas Tracks Of The Week
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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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• Rock's Best Christmas Song Bracket: Only the Final Four Remain!
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• “It was like a demonic, otherworldly séance going on in there with one person”: A Perfect Circle have made four albums. These are the stories behind them all
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• Chicago's NSFW Response When Jimi Hendrix Invited Them on Tour
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• 10 Keith Richards Collaborations Outside of the Rolling Stones
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• Bryan Adams’ Epic 2026 Tour Will Cross Five Continents
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• "Be it Eddie Van Halen, Mick Mars or anyone like that, I have such respect for the person that I'm stepping in for." Motley Crue guitarist John 5 reveals the secret to stepping into the shoes of some of the world's most respected guitarists
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• Original Jethro Tull Guitarist Mick Abrahams Dead at 82
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• The Orb announce live performance of Metallic Spheres with Saucerful Of Secrets musicians in August
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• Vinnie Vincent's New Single Can Be Yours for $225
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• The ultimate Goth quiz: How much do you know about music's spookiest genre?
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• Surgeon defends video of Allen Collins playing guitar in hospital shortly after Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash
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• Tom Hamilton's Close Enemies Set 2026 Tour Dates
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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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• What to Expect From Styx's Second Rockin' In Paradise in 2026
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• Ghost's Mary On A Cross has officially just gone platinum in the UK
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• Peter Wolf Announces Concert Return After Long Hiatus
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• Rock Christmas Songs Bracket Round 2: Only the Elite Eight Remain
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• "This was the whole infrastructure behind VOLA!" Danish/Swedish quartet launch crowdfunder after losing all their gear in storage facility fire
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• “He didn’t want to put his masterpiece on an album where the vibes were so bad. It’s probably the best thing he’s ever done”: Rick Davies’ greatest Supertramp songs – including Roger Hodgson’s favourite
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• Jane’s Addiction Release Farewell Statements After Ending Feud
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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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