Rock News 2026-02-02

• Bret Michaels Denies Thwarting Poison Tour With Financial Demands
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• How to watch the 2026 Grammy Awards: Ghost, Deftones, Sleep Token & Amyl And The Sniffers among this year’s nominees
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• Guns N' Roses Members Lead Grammy Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
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• "I knew something was wrong. I went to the bar and my girlfriend was there with another guy." The dagger-through-the-heart memory which inspired the biggest rock song of its generation
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• "There was no real sign that it was abig protest song, so most people listened to it and didn’t realise": The story of the anti-war commentary disguised as a four-minute pop song that set R.E.M. on the path to global success and stardom
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• Steve Lillywhite: 'It Was Hell' Working With the Rolling Stones
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• Zak Starkey Will Never Forget His First Who Performance
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• "Sometimes all your fans want is to keep living the same experience over and over again": The story of the love/hate hit that split the Judas Priest fan base
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• Motley Crue 'Fully Vindicated' With Legal Victory Over Mick Mars
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• "I was trying to make a butt sex joke and it was dumb." Maynard James Keenan regrets some of the lyrics he wrote on those early Tool records
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• Bruce Springsteen Surprises at Tom Morello's Benefit: Video
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• "We don't accept the brutality, the lies, the loss of our simplest pleasures": Joan Jett joins growing list of musicians to voice solidarity with anti-ICE protesters
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• 10 Memorable Moments in the History of Madison Square Garden
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• "There were bloody footprints where mercy should have stood.And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets, Alex Pretti and Renee Good." Bruce Springsteen releases moving anti-ICE protest song Streets of Minneapolis
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• “The economy of 80s synthpop made it so attractive. Within us were the seeds of something much more musicianly – whether you like it or not”: Tears For Fears sneaked prog into a run of hit singles in 1984 and 85. So why weren’t they at Live Aid?
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• "Some horribly lame moments slip into that horribly twee dad-rock territory that blighted so much of his recent work with Status Quo": Francis Rossi doesn't quite return to the pile-driving sound of his old band on The Accidental
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• What to Expect From Zappa's 'Bongo Fury' 50th Anniversary Box
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• "Being in a band with someone is very intimate. You exchange ideas, you have arguments, it’s exciting." The story behind the Fear City punk rock demo that Madonna recorded before becoming one of the world's biggest pop superstars
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• "New York is an eccentric city. We met a police officer smoking a cigar outside JFK and got in a cab while Africa by Toto blasted out of the radio." How memories of a "surreal" first US trip re-lit a fire under one of Britain's best young bands
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• “I had a conversation once with William Burroughs about trance music and riff music, and repetition”: Jimmy Page on the secrets behind his most iconic guitar solo – and the solo he found hardest to play live
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• “We ended up getting really, really hammered and commanding the stage. We were terrible, but we knew there was something magical about it”: The US band who stepped out of Bon Jovi’s shadow to become hair metal’s last superstars
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• “It makes you wanna hurt someone real bad. They always have the most violent pits. Their riffs just bring out the aggression in people”: The three iconic metal albums that changed Ice-T’s life
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• Here are 5 ways to watch the 2026 Grammy Awards for less – find out if Sleep Token, Deftones, Linkin Park, Spiritbox and Ghost scoop any gongs this year
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• Parliament-Funkadelic Founding Bassist Billy Bass Dead at 75
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• “I wouldn’t say I’m an alcoholic – but then, you know, alcoholics say they’re not alcoholics”: The chaotic and confusing story of Metallica’s abandoned album
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• Why Poison’s Rikki Rockett Made Cash Claim About Bret Michaels
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• "I said, 'Only call me if it’s AC/DC or the Rolling Stones.' A week in, the phone rings, and it’s my agent saying AC/DC called. What?!" From her dad touring with Aerosmith to singing in The Grinch, Taylor Momsen on her life in music and movies
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• The Cure Win Their First Grammys 50 Years After Forming
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• George Clinton’s P-Funk Takes It to the Opera Stage: Full Report
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• Ozzy Osbourne Honored With All-Star Grammy Tribute
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• The New York pioneers who took pop-rock to new and hugely successful heights: Nine Blondie albums you should listen to and one to avoid
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• 15 Artists Worthy of Doing the Next 'James Bond' Theme
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• Remembering The Music Legends We Lost In 2006
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• Top 20 Acoustic Beatles Songs
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• “We played at a punk club in Germany and this guy was pointing a gun at me the whole time. That was uncomfortable!”: The pioneering European metal queen loved by Dio, Lemmy and Gene Simmons
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• “It was something Ozzy was very passionate about: giving young talent a stage in front of a lot of people”: Sharon Osbourne is talking to Live Nation about bringing Ozzfest back
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• What To Expect From Deep Purple's Upcoming Album
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• “We didn’t expect to be Bon Jovi. We didn’t go into this band wanting to own 15 houses and have 17 supermodels on speed dial”: The 90s alt-rock superstars who lost half their audience and angered Axl Rose by making the most antagonistic album “in history”
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• The Black Crowes Share 2026 Summer Tour Dates
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• From reggae/metal mash-ups to riff-stacked prog, these are the 11 new metal tracks that everybody needs to hear this week
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• How Warren Haynes Shaped His Career With The Allman Brothers Band
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• Bruce Springsteen's 10 Strongest Political Songs
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• “I had the door slammed in my twice. I decided I’d make damn sure it never happened again”: The iconic singer who rose from the ashes twice to make one of metal’s greatest ever debut albums
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• Hear Bruce Springsteen's Anti-ICE Song 'Streets of Minneapolis'
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• Slash Says GN'R Have Released Final 'Chinese Democracy'-Era Songs
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• "Mars was forced to admit under oath that his statements were false": Mötley Crüe claim comprehensive victory in legal battle with Mick Mars
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• “Every song we came up with was like the greatest thing. Every time we’d write another it was like, ‘Oh my god’”: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax and more remember how thrash metal took over the world 40 years ago
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• “We knew costumes wouldn’t be part of it. Phil wouldn’t have been good in a flower mask”: Peter Gabriel’s exit could have finished Genesis. Instead Phil Collins stepped up and they delivered prog classic A Trick Of The Tail
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• Yungblud Honors Ozzy Osbourne Following 'Changes' Grammy Win
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• Cool new proggy sounds from Arcane Roots, Karnivool, Crippled Black Phoenix and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week
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• “We got airplay with that song, and that was remarkable. Unless you were Nirvana or Pearl Jam, radio stations weren’t interested”: How William Shakespeare inspired the song which became a surprise grunge-era hit and saved an entire genre
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• “He’s always had more to say than can be expressed in just one band”: Every solo album by Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson ranked from worst to best
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• “Everyone thought we were going to make an album that sounded like Green Day. So we made one that was even heavier than anything we’d done before”: How the reluctant ‘Godfathers Of Hardcore’ wrote the mosh-pit classic that put East Coast punk on MTV
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• "It's a more sinister sound, because these are sinister times." Kneecap announce new album Fenian, share its politicised, hard-hitting punk-rave single Liars Tale
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• "I sang Smoke On The Water with Deep Purple when they came to our school for a music clinic": This is the soundtrack of H.E.A.T frontman Kenny Leckremo's life
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• ‘The Beatles’ Four-Part Biopics Debut First Look at Cast
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• "You guys got more money than God, why do you have to take my money?" Dave Mustaine on his conversation with James Hetfield that ended Metallica's plan to release their legendary No Life 'Til Leather demo on vinyl and CD
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• “Strange people just appeared. We had awful visions of ghosts in the room. There was rustling and scraping at the window. It was happening every full moon”: The creepy tale of Camel’s Moonmadness
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• “The two Johns very began to hate doing TV shows that wanted us to mime. For a band that worshipped Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy and UFO, it became a really big problem”: The huge 80s hard rock hit that drove a wedge between the band that made it
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• Listen to Peter Gabriel's New Song 'Put Down the Bucket'
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• Wilco Sets 2026 Tour Dates in U.S. and Europe
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• "The ‘bucket’ is all the crap that goes around our head all the time." Peter Gabriel shares new single Put The Bucket Down
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• Mick Mars' Attorney Hits Back After Motley Crue's Big Legal Win
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• Brian May Says Queen Won't Tour America: 'It's a Dangerous Place'
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• "Some other very well-known people were at that first jam": Adrian Smith on how Smith/Kotzen got started, bonding over British rock and Iron Maiden's big homecoming
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• “Why would I want to play with those guys?” Dave Mustaine doesn’t want to reunite with certain former Megadeth members because they bad-mouthed him in interviews
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• “He wrote, ‘Eat more **** – 100,000 flies can’t be wrong.’ He hated us”: German prog icon was regarded with suspicion by other artists, the target of vegetables at concerts, and witness to a label boss jumping out a window to escape his band
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• “There’s no other explanation for how bad we looked”: Basketball fan goes viral after suggesting their team lost because a Ghost concert cursed the arena
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• Jeff Buckley finally scores an entry on the US singles chart nearly three decades after his death
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• "Highly listenable background music." The Alan Parsons Project bake up the ear candy on Eye In The Sky like punk, NWOBHM and new wave pop rock never happened
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• “I wrote it on a piece of paper somewhere on tour, and I thought, ‘That’s an album!’” A glimpse of how Ian Anderson creates Jethro Tull lyrics
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• "The community we found through punk and hardcore music has given us a safe place to swing in the dark." Turnstile win big in the rock and metal categories at the 2026 Grammys, Yungblud and Nine Inch Nails also winners
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• "He asked me 'Do you have long hair? Are you willing to wear a dress and high heels? Are you willing to wear lipstick?' Those questions fascinated me." Peter Criss recalls his first conversation with Gene Simmons and the birth of Kiss
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• Judge Rules Steven Tyler's Sexual Abuse Trial Can Go Forward
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• Joni Mitchell, the Cure and NIN Lead Rock's 2026 Grammy Winners
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• "The real ideological Nazis began coming out of the closet and attacked our shows." How pockets of mindless violence inspired the most important 63 seconds of punk you'll ever hear
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• "He came down with this battered old Telecaster and played the best solo I’ve ever heard in my life": The debauched story of the Britrock classic made perfect by the last guitar solo from a legend
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• Guess Who Launches 2026 Reunion Tour: Set List
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• Does the Hall of Fame Have a Prog Rock Problem?
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• The Best Song Off Every Megadeth Album
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• “I’m taking care of myself for the first time ever”: Metallica, Slayer and Kiss members appear in new trailer for Paul Di’Anno documentary Di’Anno: Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer
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• "Going back to our roots, we felt that spark in the studio and how we work together": The Black Crowes announce new single and massive co-headline tour with Whiskey Myers
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• 40 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Challenger Breaks Apart on Live TV
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• Rock Stars at the 2026 Grammy Awards: Photo Gallery
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• “I think we’re headed to some really ugly terrain”: Ice-T explains why he changed lyrics from Body Count’s Cop Killer to ‘ICE Killer’ last year, as government agency faces heightened backlash for 2026 killings
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