Rock News 2026-01-02

• "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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• “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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• Oasis sold more tickets in 2025 than Beyonce
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• Five Classic Rock Acts We'd Love to See Do an Eras 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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• Lynyrd Skynyrd Has 'About 30 Songs' Written With Gary Rossington
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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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• The Day Joe Strummer Died
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• Top 25 Rock Songs of 2025
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• "I said, 'I think we should write the best song in the world.' Jack Black said, ‘You can’t do that!'" How Dave Grohl, Ben Stiller, Bob Odenkirk and Maynard James Keenan helped Tenacious D bring the greatest tribute song ever to the world
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• “I was very aggressive. I’d survived this terrible pop thing, so I became mega-paranoid. Hard to work for? Very”: The trials and triumphs of Chris Rea, rock’s most misunderstood star
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• “Kate Bush gave me a copy of Aerial at a party. I knew it was a gentle, emotional record. She said, ‘Don’t fall asleep while listening!’” Simon Drake’s career as a magician was inspired by prog
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• The 10 best doom and stoner metal albums of 2025
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• The 31 best rock reissues and deluxe editions of 2025
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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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• Zak Starkey ‘Still Confused’ Over Double Dismissal From the Who
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• "I'm not a punk rocker. I don't make punk music. I don't walk around calling myself punk." How Shania Twain, Christina Aguilera's songwriters and an iconic neck tie helped Avril Lavigne launch her career-defining song
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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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• Vinnie Vincent's New Single Can Be Yours for $225
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• Vinnie Vincent to Critics of His Song Prices: 'Grow the F--- Up'
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• "We'd stay up all night drinking, chasing girls, partying – and our pilot was with us. The next morning, he was flying the plane!" The rise, fall and rehabilitation of REO Speedwagon
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• Whiskey Myers: What rock'n'roll would say if it was a person
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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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• "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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• The Cure's Perry Bamonte Dead at 65
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• The 20 best prog reissues of 2025
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• Guitar God Nita Strauss announces 'miracle' pregnancy as she and husband look forward to welcoming their first child
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• “We didn’t make music for radio. But I thought: ‘Why not try it this time?’”: Sampled by Michael Jackson and namechecked in The Simpsons – the surprise hit that transformed a washed-up 70s prog group into 80s superstars
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• Nazareth Announces New Singer Ahead of Busy Touring Year
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• Which Classic Rock Acts Played The Most Concerts in 2025?
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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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• Ian Gillan Didn’t Know of His ‘Stranger Things’ Soundtrack Spot
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• The Best 50 Rock Songs of 2025
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• Prog's 50 best albums of the year 2025
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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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• Classic TV Shows With Only One Surviving Cast Member
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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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• Black Crowes Set 2026 Headlining Dates Before Guns N' Roses Tour
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• “Once James Hetfield said he liked it, that was it. He said that it kicked his ass”: Nineteen years ago, this US metal band released their sixth album. Today it sounds like a Master Of Puppets for the 21st century
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• Alex Van Halen Teams Up with Toto's Steve Lukather for New Album
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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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• "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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• “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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• Revisiting When Brian Wilson 'Quit' the Beach Boys
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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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• Debate: What’s the best prog album of 2025?
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• "I don’t think I have to forgive them. They replaced me when I was sick and said I ruined the band" Styx fired Dennis DeYoung in 1999, but he still wants a reunion for the fans
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• Megadeth Release New Video for 'Let There Be Shred'
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• New issue of Prog is on sale now! The essential end-of-year issue!
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• Rock's Best Christmas Song Bracket Finals: Lennon vs. Bowie
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• In Memoriam: A tribute to the musicians we lost in 2025
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• In Memoriam: 2025 Deaths
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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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• Jon Anderson Has Been Working on an Album for 25 Years
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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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• Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley gives "major health update" and reveals his body is operating at level of someone 8 years younger
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• “It might be like The Exorcist, which was touted by the Catholic Church because it showed on-screen what they’ve been talking about”: Ice Nine Kills have finished writing their horror film The Slashin’ Of The Christ and want to cast some familiar faces
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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 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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• Don Dokken Blames Himself for 'Disaster' Dokken Reunion
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• What to Expect From Steve Hackett's Upcoming World Tour
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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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• Rock’s Biggest Christmas Haters: Ozzy Osbourne and Noel Gallagher
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• "In 2026 I shall have definitely, definitely have my solo album out": Tony Iommi films New Year message, reflects on the "Summer of Sabbath"
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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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• Top 12 Classic Rock Christmas Albums
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• Jack White Slams 'Embarrassing' Congressman Over AI Video
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• Michael Lippman, Manager for Bowie and George Michael, Dead at 79
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• "Really, the whole scene was very Spinal Tap. It was almost beyond parody": The true story of Hear 'n Aid, the heavy metal Band Aid
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• Radiohead, Pulp, Alice Cooper, Johnny Cash and Lana Del Rey: the surprising list of artist who made James Bond themes only to have them rejected
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• Oasis Sold More Tour Tickets in 2025 Than Beyonce
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• When Black Sabbath Played Its Final Concert Without Ozzy Osbourne
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• John Lydon Didn't Hear From Sex Pistols After His Wife's Death
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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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• 40 Classic Rock and Metal Albums Turning 40 in 2026
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• Myles Kennedy looks back on the time he refused to audition for Slash and Velvet Revolver: “I knew that I wasn’t mentally prepared to jump into something of that magnitude”
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• Peter Criss Was Selling Downloads of His New Album for $1,000
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• Peter Gabriel 'Delighted' About 'Marty Supreme' Feature
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• Serial killers, sex and Satan-crazed filth: How the 1980s tried to destroy AC/DC
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• “We partied every night! We would have a hotel room and just give the details out to friends and girls, ‘We’ll see you there!’” The story of the song that made Judas Priest icons in America
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• “I don’t think Janis was living a life with the inevitability of death. She was getting cleaner and stronger”: The turbulent story of how Janis Joplin tried and failed to get off the rock’n’roll rollercoaster
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• See the First Ever Music Video for Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were'
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• Five Rock Legends Who Said Farewell to the Stage in 2025
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• Dave Mustaine Has a Painful Hand Condition
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• The Biggest Rock Acts Who Aren't Touring in 2026
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