Rock News 2026-01-13

• Mike Campbell Joins Chris Stapleton's 2026 All-American Road Show
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• 30 Major Rock Albums Turning 30 in 2026
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• Pat Smear to miss upcoming Foo Fighters shows after "bizarre gardening accident"
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• "It was like sleeping with your ex-wife." Why a one-off reunion convinced one of the world's best-loved bands to turn down a $250 million offer to tour again
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• Glenn Hughes Cancels 2026 US Tour Due to 'Minor Health Issue'
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• Triumph Expands 2026's Long-Awaited Reunion Tour
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• Foo Fighters Play First Show of 2026: Set List and Video
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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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• “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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• "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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• Grateful Dead founding guitarist and singer Bob Weir dead at 78
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• Surviving Doors Perform 'Riders on the Storm' With Global Artists
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• Close Call: How Stephen Pearcy Stared Down Death
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• 10 '90s Rock Bands That Deserve More Respect
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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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• “We are still getting compared to artists that have nothing to do with us. And not always good or talented artists”: Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk takes aim at the term “female-fronted band”
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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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• "Every time I opened Rolling Stone there was a picture of him in his underpants." How Mariah Carey, Cher, Whitney Houston, Courtney Love, Michael Stipe and more got savaged by one of the 90s' most brutal diss tracks
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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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• "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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• "We're celebrating the legacy of the music and bringing it to a whole new generation of fans": Sammy Hagar promises "deep dive into the Van Halen years" on Best Of All Worlds tour dates with Rick Springfield
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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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• "I was on top of the world... and then I'm back where I started, on the ground": The man who became Boston's singer but wasn't allowed to tell anyone has finally broken his silence
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• Black Label Society's New Album to Feature Ozzy Osbourne Tribute
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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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• "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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• The Best Rock Films From Every Year: 1955-2025
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• David Bowie's Childhood Home Opens for Public Visits
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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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• Hear New Two New Black Crowes Songs
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• Stephen Pearcy Says Ratt's Demise Was Like 'Mutiny on the Bounty'
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• Bob Weir's Pursuit of a New Sound with Don Was
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• 1996's 20 Biggest Rock Tours
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• Inside John Mellencamp's Long Battle to Escape 'Johnny Cougar'
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• 1976's 20 Biggest Rock Tours
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• 20 Classic Rock Songs That Enjoyed a Second Life as TV Themes
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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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• Renaissance drummer Terry Sullivan has died
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• Bush Announces 2026 Tour Plans — Cities and Dates Revealed
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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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• Grateful Dead's Bob Weir Dies: Rockers React
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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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• "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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• “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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• Halsey, Iron Maiden, Gorillaz, Limp Bizkit and Bring Me The Horizon to play Rock For People 2026 – day splits announced
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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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• "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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• Grateful Dead Co-Founder Bob Weir Dead at 78
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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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• The Album That Helped Aerosmith Find Their Real Sound
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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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• "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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• How Kendrick Lamar Inspired David Bowie's 'Blackstar'
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• Bad Company Album-Opening Songs Ranked Worst to Best
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• 10 Years Ago: David Bowie Transforms Once More, Then Vanishes
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• “What happens when a guy can decide everything when he owns everything?”: Elon Musk inspired the bad guy on the new album by synthwave maestro Carpenter Brut
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• The Black Crowes to Release New Album, 'A Pound of Feathers'
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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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• “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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• Lynyrd Skynryd Plots a Busy Future With a Book, Biopic + More
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• Gene Simmons Says Peter Criss 'Had Nothing to Do' With 'Beth'
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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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• Los Lobos Returns to the Road With 2026 Tour Dates
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• Top 10 Bob Weir Songs
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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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• "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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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• "He was trying to get his life off the ground, and he's handed this $100,000 check." The story of the unknown musician who helped Axl Rose write a Guns N' Roses classic
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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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• Queen Quiz: How much do you know about A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races?
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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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• “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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• "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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• How Pope John Paul II forced Queen to cancel a planned appearance at Manchester United's 'Theatre Of Dreams'
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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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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: January 12, 2026
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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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• Peter Wolf Adds More New 2026 Concerts
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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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• Arena singer Damian Wilson to leave the band at the end of this year. Paul Manzi to return...
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• Sammy Hagar and Rick Springfield Announce 2026 Tour
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• Lynyrd Skynyrd and Creed Set for 2026 ‘Rock the Country’ Tour
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• On This Day in 2016: David Bowie Dies After Quiet Cancer Battle
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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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