Rock News 2026-01-12

• 10 '90s Rock Bands That Deserve More Respect
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• Six Things You May Not Know About Syd Barrett
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• "Wildest night out? I'd have to say Lemmy. I don't think we got much sleep": Danko Jones on meeting AC/DC, playing with Marty Friedman and a wild night out in London
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• Grateful Dead's Bob Weir Dies: Rockers React
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• “Originally a career-staller, this version really is essential”: Ultravox’s The Collection – Deluxe Edition
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• Glenn Hughes Cancels 2026 US Tour Due to 'Minor Health Issue'
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• "I had to stick my head in the low bins - it got blown off when Bill Ward was hammering the kick drum." Alex Van Halen praises the impact of seeing Black Sabbath for the first time
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• The Album That Helped Aerosmith Find Their Real Sound
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• “It was Michael Jackson’s label. The people that worked there mostly thought that alternative, heavy music was garbage”: How cult fixtures Prong found their brief mainstream moment
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• Aldo Nova Sets New Tour Dates After Serious Neck Injury
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• “We started each day by doing yoga and breathing exercises. Then we took mushrooms and it got a little too psychedelic!” The prog duo who lost their label for being too weird, and decided to get even weirder
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• Grateful Dead Co-Founder Bob Weir Dead at 78
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• "In the mid-80s, to get your record played, you had to take the guitar solo out." Radio stations tried to cut Eddie Van Halen's solo from one of his most iconic songs
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• "The record company barely even knew who we were. When we took the demos into them, they said: 'You're Super-Who?'": The story of the Supertramp classic the band eventually found too difficult to play
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• "Rich brought a spontaneity to the record that I can't describe, but it's the best s*** he's ever done": The Black Crowes announce new album - listen to the first two tracks now
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• “Thank you for the good times. They will never rot”: David Bowie’s final message to Brian Eno – which he didn’t understand at first
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• Pat Smear to miss upcoming Foo Fighters shows after "bizarre gardening accident"
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• Bad Company Album-Opening Songs Ranked Worst to Best
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• Grateful Dead founding guitarist and singer Bob Weir dead at 78
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• “I was about to sign the form when the recruiting inspector asked a question”: Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson was once seconds away from becoming a cop instead of a prog star
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• Vinnie Vincent Defiantly Threatens to Shelve His New Album
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• "Any money I will make I will happily give away to others. Print that, because I will stand by that!" He said it would be "counter-productive" if his band's debut album was a huge success. Then it sold 20 million copies
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• Mike Campbell Joins Chris Stapleton's 2026 All-American Road Show
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• Renaissance drummer Terry Sullivan has died
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• Gene Simmons Says Peter Criss 'Had Nothing to Do' With 'Beth'
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• How Pope John Paul II forced Queen to cancel a planned appearance at Manchester United's 'Theatre Of Dreams'
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• David Bowie's Childhood Home Opens for Public Visits
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• "After he died, his body was dug up and moved seven times because people thought his fingers were possessed by the Devil": Bruce Dickinson's unreleased rock opera may be the greatest untold story of them all
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• “People were saying that the style we were playing would mean we never got signed”: Sounding nothing like anyone else, how System Of A Down overcame the odds and started their climb to dominance
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• “Playing in space would be a fitting climax!” Megadeth are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer
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• “I feel despondent about the world of humans.” Queen legend Brian May reveals the fears that keep him awake at night
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• "I looked around and nobody was happy. And I was thinking: 'This is going to be rough'": What happened when Bruce Dickinson made the decision that changed his life
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• "Towering riffs come to them as easily as dreaming does to the rest of us": Alter Bridge are at their most Alter Bridge on the unwaveringly confident Alter Bridge
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• How Bruce Springsteen's Debut Album Overshadowed Aerosmith's
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• "This is the end, my friends. To balance out the bad news, they've kindly made one of their strongest albums of the 21st century." Heavy metal legends Megadeth are going out on a high with a killer final album
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• Bush Announces 2026 Tour Plans — Cities and Dates Revealed
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• Inside John Mellencamp's Long Battle to Escape 'Johnny Cougar'
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• Stephen Pearcy Says Ratt's Demise Was Like 'Mutiny on the Bounty'
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• "A profoundly modern album - puzzling, but endearingly so." Dry Cleaning continue to charm and confuse with excellent, expansive third album, Secret Love
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• Lynyrd Skynryd Plots a Busy Future With a Book, Biopic + More
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• "I was Catholic when I put the album on. Midway through, I became a full-blown Satanist": Watch the first episode of the eagerly-awaited series Tony Iommi - The Godfather of Heavy Metal, starring Rob Halford, Zakk Wylde, Brian May, Tom Morello and more
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• “If you’re talking dazzling sleight of mind, radical ideas and a willingness to create shock-art for the masses, there was no one more brilliant”: Revisiting David Bowie’s career from a prog perspective
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• Halsey, Iron Maiden, Gorillaz, Limp Bizkit and Bring Me The Horizon to play Rock For People 2026 – day splits announced
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• "He sang it to me and I thought it was beautiful. But he was emphatic: 'No, this isn't what we do!'" The story of the classic song Red Hot Chili Peppers didn't want to record and its unexpected impact on Middle America
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• "I was naked in the vocal booth. At first, I did it as an experiment to see if it would help, then it became a tradition": The story of the spandex-clad classic that launched its creators into the stratosphere
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• "Purple Rain is like Stairway To Heaven. It's non-religious, but people feel reverent about it": The story of Prince's Purple Rain, this year's viral Stranger Things needle drop
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• Hear New Two New Black Crowes Songs
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• "We're faking it until we make it, and that seems to be working for us so far!" Blending Fleetwood Mac’s bluesy etherealness with Led Zeppelin’s grit, multi-national rockers Luna Marble are just getting started
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• Arena singer Damian Wilson to leave the band at the end of this year. Paul Manzi to return...
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• On This Day in 2016: David Bowie Dies After Quiet Cancer Battle
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• What Phish Fans Can Expect From Mike Gordon's Solo Tour
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• "Nazis popped out of a U-Haul van, walking around the city." The craziest break-up ever, political black metal and Zakk Wylde's wingman: the best new metal bands you need to hear this month
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• 1976's 20 Biggest Rock Tours
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• 10 Years Ago: David Bowie Transforms Once More, Then Vanishes
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• Triumph Expands 2026's Long-Awaited Reunion Tour
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• "It's gotta have some kind of sexuality and alcohol abuse and some kind of looseness to it": The story of Queens Of The Stone Age's signature tune, a still-mysterious banger powered by Dave Grohl and a truly whacked-out video
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• "Something has to change this. We know what to do. Rise up." One of rock music's most respected voices says that Donald Trump is "destroying America" with the support of "idiots with no conscience"
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• "Sweat was dripping off the walls!" Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood looks back on the '60s, shares memories of The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple's Jon Lord
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• Queen Quiz: How much do you know about A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races?
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• Bob Weir's Last Concert Was a Joyous Celebration of Grateful Dead
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• "I remember us saying, ‘Well, if the band doesn’t make it, we’ll join the Marines.’" The story of the song that gave thrash metal its name
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• "We'd like to discuss a chart position." How a secret $70,000 cash payment to Italian gangsters secured a British rock band their first US hit single
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• "Metallica seek raw, rowdy 'n' gutsy frontman." That time Metallica launched a worldwide search to find a new vocalist via an ad in a British music magazine
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• Surviving Doors Perform 'Riders on the Storm' With Global Artists
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• Peter Wolf Adds More New 2026 Concerts
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• Los Lobos Returns to the Road With 2026 Tour Dates
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• Ted Nugent Tells Tom Morello: 'You Are the Machine'
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• “AC/DC started calling me ‘Batgirl’. Every day I’d go into my dressing room and there’d be a little bat rubber ducky”: AC/DC threw Taylor Momsen a bat-themed birthday party, after she got bit halfway through a show
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• The Best Rock Films From Every Year: 1955-2025
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• Rick Wakeman, Steve Hackett, Asia, Caravan, Focus and more lined up for huge new prog cruise taking place this summer
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• Nikki Sixx Says He's 'Locked and Loaded' to Deal With Stalkers
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• How Kendrick Lamar Inspired David Bowie's 'Blackstar'
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• "Sprawling. Atmospheric. Cinematic. Enthralling": Chris Rea finds friends among fans of Mark Knopfler and J.J. Cale on The Road To Hell
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• "The beauty of it is that it's two minutes long. It's not like it's Free Bird where you have to suffer through 10 minutes of playing it every night": The story of the psychotic debut single that kick-started the grunge revolution
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• “War is senseless, it’s stupid, and in the end you could end up dead… but in some ways it is glorious”: From the Crimean War to the Stranger Things finale, the story of Iron Maiden’s The Trooper
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• The Black Crowes to Release New Album, 'A Pound of Feathers'
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• 20 Classic Rock Songs That Enjoyed a Second Life as TV Themes
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• David Lee Roth Announces Massive 2026 US Tour
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• "We’ve not got too many years left so every gig is sacred...you appreciate it more." Iron Maiden legend Steve Harris on 50 years of heavy metal - and what comes next
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• “He was grateful just to play some music rather than just dwell on death”: When two members of Yes and one member of Led Zeppelin got together, anything could have happened. Sadly, very little did
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• “We were supposed to sign our contract, but we had so much champagne celebrating that we forgot”: The story of Human Waste Project, the lost nu metal band who should have been huge
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• Foo Fighters Play First Show of 2026: Set List and Video
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• "At school I did a presentation about Black Sabbath! I knew I wanted to move to the UK." Jack Black, angry nuns and Duolingo: the strange story of metal's weirdest new stars, Calva Louise
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• "It did surprise us. People started calling us sell-outs." How Metallica wrote the metal power ballad that saved Miley Cyrus - and that Elton John called 'one of the best songs ever written'
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