Rock News 2026-01-22

• “Dream Theater have been completely unchallenged until now. There’s only so much room at the top of prog metal. We intend to have our thrones put in there”: How supergroup Sons Of Apollo flew before they fell
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• What To Expect From Bruce Hornsby's 2026 Concert Tour
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• "I did my last school exam and played Glastonbury two days later. Two weeks after that we went into the chart at number 11": The story of the joyous breakthrough hit inspired by Thin Lizzy, Star Wars and Dutch cigars
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• Midnight Oil Drummer Rob Hirst Dead at 70
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• Still to watch The Beatles Anthology or Tron: Ares? Now’s the perfect time with a Disney+ subscription up for grabs from only £3.99 a month
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• "I just wish that Rage Against The Machine would make a new record!": Buckcherry's Josh Todd on the state of the nation, managing old habits, and going back to school
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• "They used to describe us as the Rush of thrash metal": Coroner invented a genre. Decades on, they know how to write less complicated songs but they won't
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• "Mike is a complicated person, but he is not a thief." NOFX reveal that guitarist Eric Melvin is suing band leader Fat Mike, accusing him of "financial malfeasance" after 42 years together
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• How Bob Dylan's 'Desire' Captured a New Musical Journey
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• Hollywood Vampires Announce Summer 2026 Tour Dates
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• Bret Michaels Reacts to Nixed Poison 40th Anniversary Tour Claims
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• "It's not a well-written song by any means but it worked and became what it is...nostalgia." How one "stupid" song helped put one of the biggest metal bands of the 21st century on the map
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• "We invited our families along, not thinking how it would be for them. When we came off, my sister was crying." How a teen pop duo earned the respect of Slipknot and Rage Against The Machine by getting bottled off stage by furious rock fans
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• Poison Nix Tour After Bret Michaels Demands 600% More Than Band
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• "We're looking forward to incredible crowds, massive energy and more unforgettable nights!" Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and Johnny Depp announce Hollywood Vampires tour
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• “They wanted to get us away from the clubs, bars and dark influences. We were going to be good little boys and write an album. And it was just awful”: How Clutching At Straws broke Marillion and Fish apart
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• Roger Waters Has No Regrets About Ozzy Osbourne Comments
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• Is a Second Sphere Venue Coming to the US?
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• How Frank Zappa Figured Alice Cooper Out
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• 64 Women Who Deserve to Be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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• The Best (and Worst) Solo LP From Every Member of Led Zeppelin
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• Seven classic metal albums you forgot came out in 2016
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• "We expected a few hundred people to be there and it was several thousand. We were terrified!" Deftones, Sleep Token, Bad Omens...The Pretty Wild? Meet the viral metal duo officially embracing that controversial 'baddiecore' tag
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• What to Expect From the Beach Boys' New Box Set Release
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• When Jimmy Buffett and Bono Were Nearly Killed by Jamaican Police
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• "If The White Album had been whittled down to 45 minutes, it would have gone down as one of The Beatles' definitive statements": Decades on, The Beatles' White Album is still igniting pub arguments
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• See the Black Crowes' New 'Profane Prophecy' Video
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• Watch John Mayer's Moving Tribute to Bandmate Bob Weir
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• The Human League Announces First North American Tour Since 2011
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• "Our state is the best place in the country to bring dreams to life": A second Sphere venue is coming to the US
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• Moody Blues' Justin Hayward Sets 11-Date U.S. Tour
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• 37 Movie Sequels That Will Rule the Box Office in 2026
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• "I used to sleep with my guitar next to the bed": Born in a dream, the guitar solos in one of classic rock's greatest songs were out of key, but band superstition kept them in
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• Rush to release Super Deluxe box set of 1984's Grace Under Pressure in March
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• Motley Crue Eyeing 'Real Time Off' Following 2026 Tour
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• The demise of wired headphones has been greatly exaggerated - here are 9 pairs still going strong
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• “One of the guy’s friends came at Joacim from behind and smashed a glass in his face. Then they all ran away like scared rats”: The violence and defiance behind the 2000s metal anthem that accidentally inspired an Olympic gold medal
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• "We don't let many people use our music but we felt it was a calculated risk." Iron Maiden respond to the jaw-dropping 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple scene that might have already produced 2026's best needle drop
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• "I gave away all my records, I started giving away my guitars, I was fantasising about my own death." The horrifying origin story behind one of the most uplifting rock songs of the '90s
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• "The impact he left on art is truly magical." Dave Grohl's daughter Violet, and Gary Numan's daughter Persia, team up to salute one of America's greatest film-makers on what would have been his 80th birthday
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• Men at Work's Summer 2026 Tour Dates Unveiled
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• “Birmingham has always been embarrassed about its heavy metal heritage - and that’s unacceptable.” The story behind the petition to get Birmingham Airport named after Ozzy Osbourne - and why its founder is refusing to give up
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• "We are monitoring Mick's progress daily": Uriah Heep founder Mick Box to miss dates on farewell tour after falling ill
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• 16 Classic American Meals That Could Be Making a Comeback
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• Blues Traveler and Gin Blossoms Set 2026 Tour Dates
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: January 19, 2026
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• "Ireland's greatest, man-of-the-people guitar hero": Nine Rory Gallagher albums you should definitely listen to and one to avoid
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• "He could send masked men around to shoot me in the head." Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters says that his vocal opposition to "evil" US President Trump could get him killed
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• "This footage is absolutely unbelievable, and nobody can deny it": Ten minutes of previously unseen live film of Pink Floyd has escaped onto the internet
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• FireHouse Sets 2026 Tour Dates
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• Why Sammy Hagar Is Switching Keyboardists for Summer Tour
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• “It might be the most words I’ve ever had to sing, which is why you see me reading them off a cheat sheet”: That time Steven Wilson covered a Taylor Swift song, proving he’ll always do what he likes
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• “I thought, ‘I can’t hear guitar. This isn’t right.’ I pushed that fader up. He turned to me, smiling, and pulled it back down. I haven’t forgotten that”: How Alex Lifeson survived the challenge of Rush’s 80s synth obsession
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• "We’re broke. We can't get jobs – and we just did two months in arenas and stadiums." One of the UK's best young bands have revealed the depressing reality of playing rock music in 2026
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• “We did it all ourselves. We used vinyl instead of leather, and our bondage outfits were held together with Velcro and glue”: The 70s art-rock provocateurs who stole Alice Cooper’s crown as America’s most deviant band
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• Inside Rush's New Box Set for 'Grace Under Pressure'
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• Richie Sambora Thanks Fans for Support Following Mother's Death
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• Five Famous '80s Acts That Have Been Snubbed by the Hall of Fame
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• “He hit me and he started crying and I remember thinking, ‘Weak as I am, I’ve got no tears for you, I’ve got tears for myself’”: The harrowing moment from a toxic relationship that this singer turned into a 90s rock classic
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• The 40 Best Songs of 1986
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• "I felt like I’d fallen into the bowels of the earth." Fears that witches under the spell of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page had targeted him to help birth the Antichrist led a paranoid David Bowie to store his bodily fluids in the fridge
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• "It sounded like the way ice cream on a hot summer day tastes." How a Marquis de Sade biography, Willy Wonka's Oompa-Loompas and a bum note helped "a metal girl from Ohio" write a rock anthem that wowed Nirvana and changed Olivia Rodrigo's life
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• Talking Heads' New CD Set Features Rare Early Demos
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• "Whoosh! A big flame goes right up under me. My arm, my hand, burnt down to the bone. Hair's gone." Inside the night Metallica's James Hetfield caught fire - and Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose caused a riot
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• “The producer is looking at me across the room, eyebrow askew. Finally he says, ‘I don’t think so’”: The story of how Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudess didn’t play on Pink Floyd’s The Wall
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• "Like a fantastic beast sprung from Dante's Inferno": Meet the 67-million-year-old Triceratops skull named after Ozzy Osbourne
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• “Here was a song I’d written, and it sounded absolutely magnificent. If I was to fall down a hole and never play again, I’d have that”: The legendary punk single that beat the Sex Pistols out of the gate by a month
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• "All of a sudden, she started biting my tongue and wouldn't let go. There was blood everywhere. Then she went for my forehead": How Thin Lizzy made the albums that saved them, only to be plunged into chaos
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• "People said it was something they’ve never heard before." A camel, a wedding, the streets of India and seven million views: how one song and a crazy video turned an unknown Indian metal band into internet superstars
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• Why Iron Maiden Fans Need to Go See 'The Bone Temple' Right Now
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• "People worried about their brain should always wear a helmet": Watch Geddy Lee give celebrity tobogganing advice
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• "We pulled off the impossible. We wanted to do something fun and screw with people's heads." How Korn, Snoop Dogg, Lil Jon, Xzibit and David Banner teamed up to make one of the funniest music videos ever
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• 1986's 20 Biggest Rock Tours
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• “When I look back, there’s never been any one thing that’s been normal about this band. I’m used to strangeness in my world!”: The controversial dance band who lit a fire under the 90s metal scene
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• "I was literally dumbfounded and shocked that it had happened":John Fogerty sprinkles rock'n'roll magic with songs and stories at intimate Tiny Desk Concert
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• "They took a record that I'd made and erased all my songs, all my vocals. I thought, 'I won’t let you get away with this'": From goth glory to bad blood - the Gene Loves Jezebel story
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• Bob Mould's Reunited Sugar Confirms 2026 World Tour
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• "It was a long year with many rewards. A couple of us developed expensive hobbies involving white powder and noses": The song that turned an English blues outfit into globe-trotting rock stars with high-maintenance habits
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• “I was 100 per cent sure I was going to die. They were slamming my head against a railway track”: Leprous’ Einar Solberg faced his teenage demons on his solo debut 16 – and enjoyed the experience
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• Phil Collins Hopes to Make New Music Despite Ongoing Health Woes
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• “Suddenly I was popular with the record company again – people going, ‘Hello! Where have you been?’” How Mike Oldfield made Maggie Reilly sing in an odd style to make Moonlight Shadow
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• George Thorogood’s 2026 Tour: More Cities And Dates Revealed
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• Bruce Springsteen Makes Surprise Concert Appearance
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• "There was a lot of tension throughout. I’m surprised they didn‘t fire me early on!" Producer Michael Beinhorn reflects on the "difficult" challenges he faced recording Soundgarden masterpiece Superunknown, and how Frank Sinatra helped
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• "Dementia? What is? NO! Trump smart, pass brain test, name giraffe!" Jack White mercilessly mocks Donald Trump over "365 wins in 365 days" claims
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