Rock News 2026-02-16

• Why Isn't 'Shot in the Dark' on Ozzy's Greatest Hits Albums?
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• Micky Dolenz Kicks Off '60 Years of the Monkees' Tour: Set List
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• "I looked over my shoulder, saw Ronnie Wood and thought: 'That's nice!' I didn't meet the Rolling Stones, but I waved at them from a golf cart." Samantha Fish on playing with the Stones and her complicated relationship with the blues
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• Why Don Henley Never Listens to This One Eagles Classic
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• "I've got to be careful about what I say about it. But I've got a lot to say." Superstar drummer Josh Freese on his enforced "mystery" exit from Foo Fighters
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• "It's as if overnight the world decided Deftones were the most culturally important band since Nirvana." Alternative metal's original baddies get hot and heavy as they kick off their UK tour in Birmingham
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• “Who else other than Mortiis can make sense of the lyrics? I still can’t, but there’s an energy behind them that just fits”: The enigmatic Norwegian anthem that became black metal’s first ‘hit’ – and even the band that made it don’t understand
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• Rock's Best Breakup Albums
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• Marillion share new remix of Go! as they announce 25th anniversary reissue of marillion.com
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• "Fuelled by booze and pills, they cut their teeth delivering approximations of Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran." Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson on why the early Beatles were so dangerous
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• What Everyday Life Looked Like in the 1990s
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• "He locked himself in the studio and threatened to burn the tapes. It was a stand-off for almost a day." How Sammy Hagar helped Van Halen win the war against David Lee Roth
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• March 2026 New Music Releases
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• What To Expect From Sebastian Bach's 'The Party Never Ends' Tour
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• "Under any authoritarian government, bad laws are there to be broken." Massive Attack react to High Court ruling that the UK government acted unlawfully when classifying Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation
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• Devo Extends 2026 Mutate, Don't Stagnate Tour Into June
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• "My brother died a year and a half ago...he got me into Iron Maiden when I was eight years old." How a tragedy, heavy metal and a cult 90s classic inspired one of 2026's best horror movies, Whistle
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• Nancy Wilson Recalls the Album Cover That Splintered Heart
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• “Everything’s changed. We’re going to be rich.” How a song about gang wars helped a Ph.D. student and a school janitor become the '90s most unlikely rock stars
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• "I didn't even realise. I was like: 'Why are you doing a big cock-rock move?' But he was getting electrocuted!" Prog-metallers Karnivool are back to reclaim their crown – if they don't die on stage first
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• “It would be interesting to revisit some of the songs, but it’s never going to happen. I don’t know who isn’t talking to who these days”: Judy Dyble was always amazed at the quality of her collaborators
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• “It’s no good saying, ‘I’ll be dead by the time this becomes a crisis.’ We are the generation who created the problem. We owe it to the generations to come to clear it up. If it hasn’t gone too far”: Jethro Tull – a warning from history
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• “I think we met with his approval. If I find him haunting me, I’ll know I did something wrong”: Tim Smith left an unfinished Cardiacs album when he died. Five years on, his bandmates released the finished version of LSD
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• 3 Doors Down Frontman Brad Arnold Dead at 47
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• What To Expect From Stewart Copeland's 2026 Summer Tour
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• "Gandalf is rocking out to dwarven metal while the guitarist from Anthrax commandeers soft serve ice cream." Mosh pits in hot tubs and stage dives over the sea: what it's like on the world's biggest heavy metal cruise
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• The Pogues drummer Andrew Ranken dead at 72
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• "This is a much more insular record." Steven Wilson reveals details of his upcoming studio album
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• "After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record." The story of the mongrel mix of blues, country and pop that sold a million and became the original rock’n’roll anthem
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• "Anyone that wants to succeed in anything knows that it comes at a sacrifice." One of the UK's best metal bands announce that they won't be touring for the foreseeable future, fiercely criticise the cynical grind of the modern music industry
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• Black Keys Set World Tour Dates Ahead of New 'Peaches!' LP
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• “There was a sweet side to him when he came out of one of these weeks of debauchery. There were some good times. But not many”: Fleetwood Mac made an album that sold five million copies but no one talks about it –not even the band
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• Dee Snider Explains Reunion Tour Cancelation: 'I'm Not Dying'
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• Cool new proggy sounds you need to hear from Crown Lands, System 7, Major Parkinson in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
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• “I would’ve loved to sing like Ozzy. But these horrible noises came out of my throat instead!”: The trailblazing German thrash queen who inspired a generation of female metal singers
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• "The tribe explained to us that the only way they wrote music was if someone dreamed of it." How a cult band headed deep into the Brazilian jungle, got help from an indigenous tribe and emerged with one of the 90s' defining metal songs
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• Five Famous '90s Acts That Have Been Snubbed by the Hall of Fame
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• "I was intubated, put in a coma for seventeen days. I had to relearn how to walk and talk – and my voice was completely different." Elles Bailey talks fame, vanity, mental health and the childhood trauma behind her smoke’n’honey battle cry
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• In Memoriam: 2026 Deaths
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• “I got three whacks with the cane for lying and skipping school. So I blame The Beatles for me being in the music business. I also blame them for getting a whacking!” Derek Shulman’s path to Gentle Giant
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• "The pursuit of immortality? I'll chase that as hard and fast as the next guy": Why the world is seeing a lot of Bruce Springsteen
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• “I’m not in any way afraid of death." The triumph and tragedy of Nirvana's final album
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• "When it ended, I asked, “Do you hate it?” How an old rap-rock demo, a Chris Farley skit and an all-star jam helped turn one Canadian pop-punk band into megastars
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• Eagles Add Two More 2026 Concert Dates
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• Slade Drummer Recalls Life-Changing Car Accident: 'I Died Twice'
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• The Australian Pink Floyd Show Announces 2026 Summer Tour
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• Rush's 'Moving Pictures': 5 Facts About Their Biggest Album
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• The Beach Boys, 'We Gotta Groove': Album Review
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• The Dillinger Escape Plan announce first UK show since 2017, alongside only European shows of 2026
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• "I was sitting near Judas Priest, Sharon and Ozzy, Joey from Slipknot was there...three surreal days." The cult Italian band that broke boundaries and became household names in metal thanks to this classic 00s album
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• “I was surprised that it was the one everybody knows about. Metallica must have thought it was a decent song. We got some street cred from that”: The cult 70s anthem that Metallica turned into one of metal’s most famous cover songs
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• 25 Platonic Love Songs
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• “The studio had a rancid swimming pool. We bet our drummer £50 that he wouldn’t jump in. He did”: Skin disease, an unhinged producer and weird bets around the swimming pool – the story of the one of British metal’s greatest albums
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• "I and so many others have experienced gaslighting, vilification, monitoring and covert manipulation." Sister Ghost shares raging punk single Not Your Toy, lines up special Valentine's Day show
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• The Best Solo Album From Every Classic-Era Guns N' Roses Member
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• "There was about 380 people in the hall, sold out. There wasn’t a woman in sight." Carl Palmer looks back on the earliest Emerson, Lake & Palmer shows
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• The Top 30 Albums of 1986
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• Gene Simmons Doubles Down on Controversial Rap 'Ghetto' Comments
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• Was Kid Rock Lip-Syncing on Super Bowl Sunday? Watch the Video
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• The Best (and Worst) Genesis Solo Albums
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• "He would blow a fuse and get p**sed off at us and scream!" How an irate producer and 'Chris Rock' convinced Beastie Boys to finish what would be their biggest-ever song
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• "The stage became electrified. It severely shocked two guys in our crew." Avatar cut short London Valentine's show after deeming venue unsafe
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• "We’re in the lab, we’re woodshedding, excited." Eddie Vedder says that Pearl Jam are preparing for a new era
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• Why John Mellencamp 'Hated' His 'F---ing Stupid' Smash Hit
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• Buddy Guy Shares 2026 Tour Dates Celebrating His 90th Birthday
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• C.O.C. Announce New 'Good God / Baad Man' Double Album
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• Nancy Wilson Wants One More Heart Album and 'Victory Lap'
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• “Whenever someone’s said to me, ‘Oh, didn’t you write this about the superhero?’, I’d just say: ‘Sorry, never heard of him’”: The misunderstood metal classic that gave an iconic Marvel movie character his theme song
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• The Best (and Worst) Pink Floyd Solo Albums
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• Why Counting Crows Were Banned From 'Saturday Night Live'
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• “We have an identity crisis. People say, ‘I knew every one of those songs, but I had no idea they were yours’”: Mike + The Mechanics’ history is a bit more rock’n’roll than Genesis’
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• “It was just weird. It wasn’t working, whatever we tried. I think it created a negative association”: Tom Sawyer started out as Rush’s least favourite track on Moving Pictures. It later made them big in Brazil
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• W.A.S.P. Announces '1984 to Headless' Tour With KK's Priest
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• Jefferson Starship Extends 2026's Runaway Again World Tour
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• "He thinks so far ahead you can only marvel." Nine Jack White albums you should listen to and one to avoid
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• "Everything I've done in my life so far seems to have led up to this moment." Dee Snider details the emotional mushroom ceremony he participated in to resolve health issues
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• “I was talking to Kerry King, and that Slayer album – Jesus Christ, did you see that cover?! That stuff is pretty vivid”: The classic metal album wrestling legend Stone Cold Steve Austin wishes he’d made – and the band he thinks should have been huge
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• "How would anyone feel when one is the principal songwriter in the band and along comes this upstart and spoils everything?" What happens when your bass player accidentally writes your first big hit
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• Nobody Was More Surprised Than Carl Palmer When Bandmates Died
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• “We’re selling out shows, we’re climbing the bills, but there’s so much pressure to reach more success”: As one of the UK’s leading bands stop touring, we need to talk about the toxic effect a ruined music industry is having on heavy metal
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• Lamb of God changed their logo because the old one looked like "a falafel restaurant menu"
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• “Of all the entertainment businesses, the music business is the worst of all them. It attracts the lowest form of life”: The maverick ‘mad scientist’ who created an entire genre in his basement – and stuck it to the music industry
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• Alanis Morissette and Skunk Anansie added to inaugural State Fayre Festival line-up following the cancellation of Neil Young's European tour
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• "He says, 'Everyone knows what ****er means there. You can't show that in England. They'll edit it out.'" A wrestling legend shares how Ozzy Osbourne was "the voice of reason" when he appeared on WWE RAW
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