Rock News 2026-02-21

• How to watch BBC iPlayer from anywhere– stream music documentaries, Glastonbury festival and more
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• Micky Dolenz Kicks Off '60 Years of the Monkees' Tour: Set List
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• “Something groundbreaking for our fans”: Iron Maiden turn only 2026 UK show into its own festival, including acts featuring band’s former members
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• Star Trek actor William Shatner is releasing an all-star heavy metal album featuring Zakk Wylde, Ritchie Blackmore and more, because you try and tell him not to
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• “We were bringing in all kinds of influences that other people in metal were scared of”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson re-releases his debut solo album – and his most controversial one
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• "This album is his legacy." Following the devastating death of their frontman, friend and beloved figurehead of extreme metal, Tomas Lindberg, At The Gates have released an emotional new video and details of new album The Ghost of a Future Dead
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• Oneness 2026 Tour: Santana and Doobie Brothers Summer Concerts
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• "I was once in a room with Kate Bush. I was too frightened to say anything." Doctor Who and The Thick Of It star Peter Capaldi on his love for Kate Bush and the Sex Pistols
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• "We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair – the cavalry is coming!" Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band announce Land Of Hope And Dreams American Tour
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• "In 2026, there's no better celebration of all that's heroic and daft and delightful about hard rock than The Darkness." The Darkness in Auckland, New Zealand - live review
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• "I couldn’t really join in the conversation because I was having an out-of-body experience." How a comedy legend ended up singing on a Kate Bush and Prince collaboration
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• "We have been talking about a Thor’s hammer that shoots fire or flashes." Viking metal's biggest band are taking cues from Iron Maiden for their next album
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• "It makes me very optimistic for a release at some point this year..." Marilllion update fans on progress on the new album
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• What to Expect From the 'Queen II Collector's Edition' Box Set
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• 35 Years Ago: R.E.M. Hurtles to Stardom With 'Losing My Religion'
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• “The last thing you want is people just deferring to you”: He may have been around for nearly 60 years, but David Gilmour’s return to form was inevitable. Here’s why
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• "Bon was the kind of person that every guy in rock'n'roll loves." Sammy Hagar, Rob Halford, Lars Ulrich, Josh Homme and more pay tribute to AC/DC's Bon Scott
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• "There were weapons tests and the windows would shake in school. I wondered, ‘What would happen if that hit here?’” Bombings, depression and Oppenheimer: Sweden's Allt are writing a soundtrack to the end of the world
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• "It's the fuse to the powder keg of songs." Foo Fighters announce new album Your Favorite Toy, share explosive title track
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• Here's Why Hagar and Roth Won't Be on Van Halen’s New Album
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• Dave Grohl Explains Firing of Josh Freese From Foo Fighters
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• “It’s not cute and it’s not nice. I was afflicted. I never conquered it, but I dealt with it”: Prog guitar icon’s struggle with shyness brought him to music and made him a success
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• Foo Fighters Share Title Track Off New Album 'Your Favorite Toy'
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• Why Adam Sandler's Aerosmith Sketch Nearly Sparked an 'SNL' Fight
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• Nancy Wilson Wants One More Heart Album and 'Victory Lap'
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• Dee Snider Explains Reunion Tour Cancelation: 'I'm Not Dying'
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• "Honestly, I didn’t want it on the record. It was unfinished." The surprising story behind the Deftones song the band hate, the fans weren't sure about and yet became one of their biggest hits
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• Thurston Moore and underground rock legend Kramer announce album They Came Like Swallows – Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza, "a prayer to the war-torn souls of the families of Palestine continually decimated by the brutality of genocide"
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• How a Secret Eagles Album Became Their Biggest Success
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• Tool hope to release a new album and put on a residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere in 2027: “I think we’re the perfect band for that”
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• "He walked into my bedroom, and he says, Darling, I think this is a hit." How a disco legend and a hotshot Texan blues guitarist helped resurrect David Bowie's career
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• "When I listen to bands like BMTH and Architects it’s very powerful, but everything is focused on the vocals, like boy bands!" A synthwave pioneer has written a Sci-Fi concept album fighting back against "the boy band-ification" of metal... and Elon Musk
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• Paramore’s Hayley Williams will appear on the new album by Failure, the best alt-rock band who never got their dues
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• “A search for spiritual redemption”: Hear new President single Angel Wings – the masked band’s first song after signing with major label Atlantic Records
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• "I have confidence the righteous will rise up against this aberration": U2 slam ICE, Putin, Netanyahu and more on surprise-released EP Days Of Ash
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• Songwriter Billy Steinberg, who wrote monster hits for Heart, Pat Benatar, The Bangles, Madonna, The Pretenders and more, dead at 75
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• “I’m not exaggerating – everybody had it. We felt it would be cheating to make them buy it again”: It’s one of the biggest-selling singles of all time, but this proto-prog band left it off their debut album
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• Jonathan Cain Opens Up About Leaving Journey and His New EP
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• "It has that outlaw quality, that dangerous quality…they’re incredible songs." Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy on the modern indie greats he loves so much that he's basically "just a groupie" for them at this point
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• AFI, Mannequin Pussy, Ecca Vandal join Deftones, Deafheaven, Amyl and the Sniffers and more on stacked Outbreak / All Points East bill
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of '60s New York City Artists?
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• Scorpions Announce 2026 Las Vegas Residency
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• U2 Releases 'Days of Ash' EP on Ash Wednesday
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• Why Are Mick Jagger, Bono and Other Rockers in the Epstein Files?
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• Slipknot, Papa Roach, The Offspring and more have been added to the Battlefield 6 videogame soundtrack
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• "Would Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin have been as cool if the internet was around to expose everything?" Black Stone Cherry's Chris Robertson on social media, the creative inspiration of dogs and battling Darth Vader
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• "People falling on top of each other, beer flying everywhere, somebody jumped off the balcony. I get kicked, I fall to the ground, someone picks me up. It was beautiful chaos." Ho99o9 vocalist Yeti Bones picks the albums that changed his life
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• Robert Duvall, Hollywood Legend and ‘The Godfather’ Star, Dies
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• Bruce Springsteen Announces Surprise 2026 Tour Dates
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• "I am so inspired by Amy Lee’s vocals and we all wanted to channel Scream." Watch Scream star Mckenna Grace go metal in the video for killer new Ice Nine Kills single Twisting The Knife - with a cool bonus cameo
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• Underrated Music Albums From 1976 You Might Have Missed
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• 23 Everyday Objects From the '70s That Would Confuse Kids Today
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• "It was just women and bottles of Jack Daniel's everywhere." The story of the Next Big Thing whose career was killed by a soppy power ballad
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• Steve Perry Is Apparently Considering a Journey Reunion
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• The vibrant, violent sounds of youth, rebellion and volume: 10 garage rock albums you absolutely need to hear
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• "We wake up in the morning and everybody just texts about how much we miss him." As Foo Fighters launch new album Your Favorite Toy, Dave Grohl reflects on life without Taylor Hawkins
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• “There were times we were just checking in on him to see if he was alive”: this grunge band did everything they could to try and keep their singer on the straight and narrow whilst making their third album, but it wasn’t enough
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• “Instead of confronting him and making an intervention, I thought, ‘I can’t allow this person to control me.’ I wish we’d had the skills to help him”: The tragedy of Spirit prodigy Randy California
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• “I actually died in her arms. You look back and say, ‘Well, that was supposed to happen’”: Jon Anderson on the song he wrote for his wife – although it’s about the time before he’d met her
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• “That’s my Porsche 911 at the beginning…”: the synth-rock anthem that kicked off with the sound of the singer’s sports car, sampled fireworks and inspired Trent Reznor to start writing Nine Inch Nails’ debut album
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• “We spent the night in a BDSM dungeon and our tour manager slept in a coffin”: The story of Worm, the battiest band in modern black metal
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• Alex Van Halen Confirms Work on Album of Unheard Van Halen Songs
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• "The whole thing was such a shock...everything was shaking and we were crying for two weeks." The inspiring, sad and triumphant story of the 'girl next door' opera singer who'd become a heavy metal icon
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• Phish Sets Summer 2026 Tour Dates
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• Great new prog you need to hear from Neal Morse Band, I Built The Sky, worriedaboutsatan and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week
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• Steve Perry Responds to Journey Reunion Rumors
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• "The brutality was still shocking, especially the violence towards families." The story of the social justice anthem inspired by a police raid on a Stonehenge beanfield
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of '70s New York City Artists?
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• Why Counting Crows Were Banned From 'Saturday Night Live'
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• "The fans want to hear it, so we still play it every night. For myself, I've had enough of that song." Recorded while intoxicated, lyrics written in the back of a van - the story of one of the all-time heavy rock classics
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• Jon Anderson Expands 2026 Tour With the Band Geeks
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of ’80s New York City Artists?
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• "He's singing and screaming his guts out in the middle of the field. I can't understand a word he's saying but I feel every syllable of it." This is what it's like at Thailand's biggest metal festival, Rock Alarm
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• The Best (and Worst) Pink Floyd Solo Albums
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• "We had the desire to create something extraordinary. And we did." Queen announce remixed, remastered and expanded Queen II Collector’s Edition
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• The 25 Biggest Rock Stars Who Never Issued a Solo Album
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• What Everyday Life Looked Like in the 1990s
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• Iron Maiden Will Celebrate 50th Anniversary With EddFest
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• "Make no mistake - this song is a reckoning." After much anticipation (and some bogus rumours), the new singer for metal veterans Arch Enemy has been revealed - alongside pulverising new single To The Last Breath
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• Limp Bizkit, Evanescence, a long-awaited Slipknot side project... 2026 could be a massive year for metal
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• Winger Books 2026 Shows After Supposedly Retiring From Touring
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• "I don't like the jock atmosphere of the travelling rock'n'roll band. It's corny, it's boring and it's silly." The story of the rock'n'roll band who aren't really a band and don't like rock'n'roll but have sold 50 million records to people who do
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• Gene Simmons Doubles Down on Controversial Rap 'Ghetto' Comments
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• "I knew what each of my friends was capable of, but I didn't know how that would blend together." How John Lydon left the trainwreck of the Sex Pistols behind with a trailblazing statement of intent
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• Megadeth Kicks Off Farewell Tour: Video, Set List
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