Rock News 2026-02-06

• Van Halen's '5150' Reissue Features Live Recordings and Rarities
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• "Not just a world-class guitar player but an all-around creative force." Nine Joe Bonamassa albums you should listen to, and one to avoid
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• Hear Roger Taylor's Seething New Single, 'Chumps'
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• "I started meeting all these really warm, nurturing moms in school…and that wasn’t what I was experiencing at home."The heartbreaking tragedies behind the rise of metal's latest sensations
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• Twisted Sister Cancel Reunion Tour Plans Due to Snider's Health
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• Steve Lillywhite: 'It Was Hell' Working With the Rolling Stones
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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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• Joni Mitchell, the Cure and NIN Lead Rock's 2026 Grammy Winners
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• "If they ever approached me, of course I would have done it...but I'm kind of relieved they didn't." Mike Portnoy responds to rumours he was in the frame to join Rush following the death of Neil Peart
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• "Once you're comfortable in this space, don't overthink it, just enjoy it." A new recording studio at a historic English school has been named after Justin Hawkins
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• “We’re not flower children and we’re not yuppies. We’re somewhere in between – the Van Der Graaf Generation”: They had links to Jethro Tull, Voivod and The Cure. Did you really think Men Without Hats were all new wave and no prog?
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• Yungblud Honors Ozzy Osbourne Following 'Changes' Grammy Win
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• How Brian May Connected With Guns N' Roses
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• "If there was another way around this, I would swallow my pride and say, 'I was able to find some miracle cure.'" Heavy metal legend and Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine on why now is the right time to say goodbye
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• "He was a big, burly dude who would go to the beach in a Speedo at 65 years old and hit on women with the most confidence you’ve ever seen." How the death of a loved one, pig squeals and TikTok helped crown a modern metal classic
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• “The email said, ‘John Cale is looking for you.’ It absolutely terrified me. I thought I was in trouble!” How the Velvet Underground icon voiced a powerful song on Cate Le Bon’s new album
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• Parliament-Funkadelic Founding Bassist Billy Bass Dead at 75
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• Rock Stars at the 2026 Grammy Awards: Photo Gallery
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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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• "I was being bombarded with Madonna's image on TV." How a beloved rock band took aim at a pop megastar, sampled Simon & Garfunkel and ushered in a genre-mashing masterpiece with a 90s classic
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• "Queen's music doesn't belong to Freddie. It doesn't even belong to Queen any more." Writer/comedian Ben Elton reveals why Robert DeNiro's dream of making a musical about Freddie Mercury's life was vetoed by Brian May and Roger Taylor
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• "We are watching people be pushed out of their homes here in America, in Palestine, in Sudan, in Iran, everywhere." Turnstile reflect on their historic Grammy Awards triumph and vow to keep making music in solidarity with "voices that are buried"
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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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• "This is far and away the best live version of Paradise City I've ever seen": Rare footage of Guns N' Roses playing live in 1987 surfaces online
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• The Cure Wins Their First Grammys 50 Years After Forming
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• "A one-man calamity, catastrophe. No trace of sanity, an empty shell": Queen's Roger Taylor releases surprise protest song Chumps and doesn't pull his punches
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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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• No rules. No limits. No quarter. Led Zeppelin: 18 months on the road with the biggest band in the world - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• “The lyrics were for people on the fringes”: He made a prog album to inspire positivity. Tragically, one song inspired the man who killed John Lennon
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• Listen to Peter Gabriel's New Song 'Put Down the Bucket'
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• "I shifted from Garbage, Radiohead and Silverchair to black metal." The classic 90s album that changed the life of the singer who'd go on to front one of her country's biggest bands
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• "They're lining up six hours before the show. They just scream when you go out on stage as if it's Beatlemania." Nine Inch Nails and Korn love them and they might have invented metal's sleaziest subgenre. This is the story of Health
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• "I miss Ukraine very much. I missed it even more when I realised that I cannot go back there." The Soviet-born heavy metal singer who had to flee war to make her rock star dreams come true
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• "When people hear my versions of pop songs, they're shocked. They never expect to hear Adele sound like that." Meet Solomon Hicks, the New York guitarist bringing the blues to a new audience
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• Classic Rock Releases Set for Record Store Day 2026
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• How John 5 Ended Up on Peter Criss’ New Solo Album
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• George Clinton’s P-Funk Takes It to the Opera Stage: Full Report
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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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• “The school would kick everybody out with hair that touched their ears. Someone on the board found out we were wearing short-haired wigs!” Steve Morse endured educational woes, dodgy gear and jazz snobbery, but knew he could make it as a guitarist
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• Ozzy Osbourne Honored With All-Star Grammy Tribute
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• "Iʼm not doing it out of guilt. Even if I didnʼt do it, the poverty would still be there." How getting stuck in a "rut", some tempting by Bob Geldof and the most A-list bill in history helped Queen pull off the greatest rock set of all time
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• "It's intense back there. Everybody is nervous. And everybody's really emotional because we know it's the last time." Halestorm's Lzzy Hale on Back To The Beginning: The build-up, the show and the aftershow... and the loss of Ozzy Osbourne
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• "We have no use for a standalone singer who doesn't play an instrument, preening themselves like a rock god": Atomic Rooster guitarist Steve Bolton on reviving the band, changing frontmen, and John Entwistle's phallic number plate
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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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• "The aspects of America that are really magical to us are the things it seems to reject, like black music or the Beat poets": The story of the multi-version David Bowie song that captured his revulsion of American corporate dominance
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• "It was this dream song that just turned up as I was waking up one morning. It came to me fully formed." The story of the cinematic classic that kick-started Bob Mould's second life
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• "There were no rules; ideas could come from anywhere: subtle drum loops, bits of organ or abstract guitar noise, even samples of frogs or crickets." Long-awaited Slipknot project Look Outside Your Window is finally being released
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• Top 20 Acoustic Beatles Songs
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• "It was a nightmare to mix, but we got it sounding raw and filthy." The Black Keys announce "primal" new album Peaches!, launch first single
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• "When Robert Plant introduced me I achieved closure. I had my song back for the first time since 1961." How Bonnie Dobson's post-apocalyptic first song finally found its way home via the Grateful Dead, Nazareth, Jeff Beck, the Allman Brothers and more
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• Top 10 Chuck Negron Three Dog Night Songs
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• Guess Who Launches 2026 Reunion Tour: Set List
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• Here's How You Could Become Skid Row's New Singer
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• “They all chimed in, ‘We want some crazy Spanish guitar. Improvise!’ I thought, ‘I’ve bitten off more than I can chew’”: When Queen pressganged Steve Howe into appearing on Innuendo
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• “We have the same management, and we both wear masks. Is that it?!” President vocalist blasts comparisons to Sleep Token as “lazy”
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: February 2, 2026
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• Brian May Comments on Trump Using Queen Song in Social Media Post
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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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• New Metallica x Dr. Martens collection are Hardwired to impress… wherever you may roam
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• Def Leppard Shakes Things Up in Las Vegas: Video and Set List
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• Former Guess Who Members Are Headed Back in Court
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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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• “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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• Bruce Springsteen's 10 Strongest Political Songs
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• Three Dog Night Singer Chuck Negron Dead at 83
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• "I'm a grownass woman. I’m a female in the world taking care of myself. I can do whatever I want." Femme Fatale singer Lorraine Lewis on relaunching the band, skydiving in a bodysuit and joining OnlyFans
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• Hear Bruce Hornsby’s New Single, ‘Indigo Park’
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• "He looked at the lyrics and goes, ‘Rock ’n’ roll cocktail – I think I invented that!'" How Queens of the Stone Age got a metal legend to sing on a single US radio would not touch
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• What the 2026 Grammys got right about rock and metal this year - and what they got very wrong
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• Spring Into It: You Could Win a $500 Visa Gift Card
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• "We've experienced the biggest loss we will ever go through." Kelly Osbourne reveals why the Osbourne family are "closer than ever" following Ozzy's death - and has an emotional reaction to the epic Grammys tribute starring Post Malone and Slash
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• Deep Purple announce one-off show at London's iconic Royal Albert Hall
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• Why Poison’s Rikki Rockett Made Cash Claim About Bret Michaels
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• "Having to resort to writing something like this is so embarrassing." The story behind the extremely controversial Nirvana song that almost got them banned and made a US President smash up his own daughter's CD
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• Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson’s next album features Sepultura members and is being recorded at Dave Grohl’s studio
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• The Best (and Worst) Eagles Solo Albums
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• 40 Influential Black Female Singers of the '60s and '70s
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• Watch 12 New Super Bowl Commercials Featuring Classic Rock Songs
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• The 40 Best Songs of 1976
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• Paul Simon's 2026 Tour Details: Cities and Concert Dates Revealed
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• Stephen Pearcy Reveals 2026 Undercover Tour Dates
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• "I go onstage, I battle death, I die and I come back to life." From sword-waving rat queens to alpha bro-baiting metal singers, the new issue of Metal Hammer has four exclusive covers: Castle Rat, Sleep Theory, President and Paleface Swiss
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• Remembering The Music Legends We Lost In 2006
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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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• UB40 Featuring Ali Campbell Expands 2026 Tour With New Dates
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