Rock News 2025-12-31

• Prog's 50 best albums of the year 2025
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• Chicago's NSFW Response When Jimi Hendrix Invited Them on Tour
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• “There was a picture of me in a ‘wanted’ sign on the stage screen. It was a red rag to a bull”: Pagan band harnessed a fake feud, kickboxing and a Cornish faery, and it all ran out of control
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• "I interrupted the passage of this chalice to the great one!" The night that The Police's Stewart Copeland "mortally embarrassed" himself in front of a Beatles legend
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• The Day Joe Strummer Died
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• See the First Ever Music Video for Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were'
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• “That was the one time Kiss succumbed to the critics. We wanted a critical success. And we lost our minds”: This sci-fi concept album was Kiss’s attempt to match The Beatles and Pink Floyd. Instead it became their most epic fail
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• Number one in a field of one: Every album by The Cramps ranked, from worst to best
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• "This one song is worth more than most entire albums. Consider yourself lucky": Vinnie Vincent defends $200 price tag on new CD single
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• Jon Anderson Has Been Working on an Album for 25 Years
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• “Ozzy Osbourne opened with I Don’t Know in front of 80,000 people, who went nuts. If you ever want to play bigger places, you need to have records that sound like you’re playing in big places”: The story of Rats and Ghost’s ascent to arenas
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• Ian Gillan Didn’t Know of His ‘Stranger Things’ Soundtrack Spot
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• The 10 best metalcore albums of 2025
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• “Without small venues, there is no starting line for musicians. It’s crucial to keep these places alive”: I’m a metal musician who tours the world, and this is why I refuse to let my local venue die
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• "While so many of their peers have faded, disappeared or lapsed into pure nostalgia, Suede continue to make music that matters." Every Suede album ranked from best to worst
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• The Cure's Perry Bamonte Dead at 65
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• “2025 has seen tentpole releases from Ghost and Sleep Token, but for each of them, there’s been at least a dozen records begging for attention”: The best metal albums that you almost definitely missed this year
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• Rock Christmas Songs Bracket Round 2: Only the Elite Eight Remain
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• “I’d have to stop, gather myself, get through two lines, start crying, leave the room, come back in”: When Linkin Park exposed a different side of themselves with Breaking The Habit
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• Five Classic Rock Acts We'd Love to See Do an Eras Tour
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• Megadeth Release New Video for 'Let There Be Shred'
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• Top 12 Classic Rock Christmas Albums
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• “It was me digging in and lightening up. Cheap Trick’s In Color was a big touchstone for that record”: His first band inspired Nirvana but sold no records. His next band finally gave him the success he deserved
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• “He thought that the band should be a democracy, and it was more like a brutal dictatorship”: The tangled story of Dire Straits, the million-selling band who quit at the height of their fame
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• “We were being thrown to the dogs. It felt like our hard work was being chucked away for this crap idea that girls couldn’t possibly be decent musicians”: They were American rock pioneers loved by David Bowie. But they’ve been virtually forgotten today
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• The Biggest Rock Acts Who Aren't Touring in 2026
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• “We’re always going to be responsible for making some of the most fun music that bassists and guitarists and drummers will ever want to play”: Dave Mustaine doesn’t know what he’ll do with himself after Megadeth call it quits
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• He hung out with Hendrix, got shock treatment with Ronnie Wood, shared girlfriends with Keith Moon, and was friends and rivals with Clapton and Page: Jeff Beck’s wild times
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• “We all looked at each other and said, 'We gotta get out of here!’”: the story of the night a synth-pop sensation caused an LA riot featuring 200 police officers, helicopters, barricades, smashed windows and a queue that stretched on for 15 blocks
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• “We weren’t scared of grunge. We would see Dave Grohl wearing Sepultura t-shirts”: It was built on death metal – until three iconic bands helped turn this underground record company into the most influential metal label of the 90s
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• Top 25 Rock Songs of 2025
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• “I didn’t expect him to get busted in that bathroom. But his misfortune actually helped us. We couldn’t have asked for more of a buzz!”: How an unexpected arrest accidentally gave Limp Bizkit their big break
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• "The first time I heard his voice it was like, ‘Does this guy smoke 40 cigarettes at once?!’" Metallica, Judas Priest, Halestorm, Body Count members and more pick the ultimate Motorhead playlist
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• Vinnie Vincent to Critics of His Song Prices: 'Grow the F--- Up'
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• Bill Nelson's Orchestra Futura share trailer video for new live release
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• "What guitar meant for everyone, he changed it, and he did it with incredible songs": Living Colour's Vernon Reid picks the soundtrack of his life
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• 40 Classic Rock and Metal Albums Turning 40 in 2026
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• Classic TV Shows With Only One Surviving Cast Member
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• Oasis sold more tickets in 2025 than Beyonce
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• Michael Lippman, Manager for Bowie and George Michael, Dead at 79
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• Oasis Sold More Tour Tickets in 2025 Than Beyonce
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• The 15 Best Hard Rock and Metal Albums of 2025
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• “One day Ronnie came in and said he was leaving. I went: ‘Yeah, right.’ He said: ‘No, I really am. Plus I’m running off with my best friend’s wife’”: These 70s icons were rock’s ultimate party band – and gave the world Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood
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• Peter Gabriel 'Delighted' About 'Marty Supreme' Feature
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• Original Jethro Tull Guitarist Mick Abrahams Dead at 82
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• Rock's Best Christmas Song Bracket Finals: Lennon vs. Bowie
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• "It changed everything. I had to adjust my life": The story of the career-defining song that began with a lyric scribbled on a takeaway bag –and a riff written by someone else
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• How a disintegrating relationship and a Beatles obsession inspired Kurt Cobain to write his first love song, and to plot Nirvana's escape from punk rock prison
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• Nazareth Announces New Singer Ahead of Busy Touring Year
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• “The stupidest thing I could have done was put myself out as much as I did. I’ll never make that mistake again”: Inspired by astrology and personal tragedy, Tool’s Maynard James Keenan wrote his most personal song. He came to regret it
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• Lynyrd Skynyrd Has 'About 30 Songs' Written With Gary Rossington
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• Best vinyl records of 2025: The rock, metal, prog and alternative albums you need in your collection
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• "The world has lost someone incredibly special." Kate Bush pays tribute to friend lost in Devon swimming tragedy
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• "What kind of joke are we all living in now?": Jack White blasts US congressman who shared laughably bad AI-generated Jack White video
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• Megadeth's Dave Mustaine reveals he's suffering from hand condition that makes it "really painful to play"
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• Peter Criss Was Selling Downloads of His New Album for $1,000
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• “Lemmy was very forceful and pushy because he took a lot of speed. He got the job because he elbowed everybody else out the way!” How Hawkwind made Silver Machine, and gained the respect of Dave Brock’s bank manager
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• "They're doing anything to try to destroy me": Graham Bonnet slams former bandmates over accusations of lip-synching
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• Serial killers, sex and Satan-crazed filth: How the 1980s tried to destroy AC/DC
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• Which Classic Rock Acts Played The Most Concerts in 2025?
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• Rock’s Biggest Christmas Haters: Ozzy Osbourne and Noel Gallagher
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• Don Dokken Blames Himself for 'Disaster' Dokken Reunion
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• Jack White Slams 'Embarrassing' Congressman Over AI Video
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• "I went into a coma!" Jack Black's spontaneous take on Nickelback's biggest hit single is every bit as entertaining as you're already imagining
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• Vinnie Vincent's New Single Can Be Yours for $225
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• The Best 50 Rock Songs of 2025
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• “The publisher told us to forget it. But I didn’t give up so easily – I got his home number and called him”: How Emerson, Lake and Palmer charted with Aaron Copland’s Fanfare For The Common Man in the year of punk
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• “There is absolutely nothing you can do with a broken soul. He sank into an abyss that he wasn’t able to dig his way out from”: He played with Traffic, Hendrix and Free. But this doomed musician has been all but forgotten today
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• “If we’re stuck with stories about Satan, it’ll mean that people will never understand us”: How Iron Maiden pushed metal to its most colossal, then pushed a bit further, to make Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
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• Dave Mustaine Has a Painful Hand Condition
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• What to Expect From Steve Hackett's Upcoming World Tour
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• Revisiting When Brian Wilson 'Quit' the Beach Boys
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• Black Crowes Set 2026 Headlining Dates Before Guns N' Roses Tour
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• “I refused to believe the negative things he said because I couldn’t lose hope. But everything he said came to pass”: Terry Bozzio asked a question when he joined Frank Zappa. He asked the same question when he left
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• "I’m still confused." Zak Starkey still doesn't know why he was fired – then rehired and fired again – from The Who
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• “We knew we’d done something great, but we didn’t know we’d written a defining album for that era”: How 747 (Strangers In The Night) made Saxon unexpected stars of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal
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• “It’s about trying to get into the middle of life – not the extreme left or right. It had to do with drinking”: Written in a church, inspired by excess and disliked by their guitarist, this dark Scorpions classic is still one of their strangest songs
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• The 10 best alt-metal and nu metal albums of 2025
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• "It was the perfect tragedy. Heavy metal albums found in their rooms, antisocial behaviour." How Lemmy, Corey Taylor, Henry Rollins and the metal community united to save three teenagers at the heart of a murder case that shocked America
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• Debate: What’s the best prog album of 2025?
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• Zak Starkey ‘Still Confused’ Over Double Dismissal From the Who
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• “It is a professor in my pocket who only wants to do what I ask it”: Slipknot’s Clown defends AI, breaking rank from other high-profile metal musicians
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• StubHub sorry for "confusion" over Christian Christmas concert promoted with a picture of metal giants Lamb of God
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• John Lydon Didn't Hear From Sex Pistols After His Wife's Death
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• Whiskey Myers: What rock'n'roll would say if it was a person
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