Rock News 2026-02-23

• "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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• "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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• Megadeth Kicks Off Farewell Tour: Video, Set List
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of '60s New York City Artists?
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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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• "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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• Winger Books 2026 Shows After Supposedly Retiring From Touring
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• The Best (and Worst) Pink Floyd Solo Albums
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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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• “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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• "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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• "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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• Ozzy Osbourne Was Told He'd 'Probably Die' Weeks Before Last Show
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• 35 Years Ago: R.E.M. Hurtles to Stardom With 'Losing My Religion'
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• Phish Sets Summer 2026 Tour Dates
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• Alex Van Halen Confirms Work on Album of Unheard Van Halen Songs
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• Steve Perry Is Apparently Considering a Journey Reunion
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• Dave Grohl Explains Firing of Josh Freese From Foo Fighters
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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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• "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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• “At that one period in time, when something really significant and important happened to the band, we weren’t there to enjoy it”: Martin Barre was as surprised as Metallica when Jethro Tull won a Grammy
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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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• “People have this image of David Lee Roth as being this rock star with a crazy of personality, and he is that. But he listens”: The second solo album from rock’s greatest entertainer divided fans. Forty years on, it sounds like an underrated masterpiece
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• Why Are Mick Jagger, Bono and Other Rockers in the Epstein Files?
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• Dee Snider Explains Reunion Tour Cancelation: 'I'm Not Dying'
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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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• Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith brought a mega-famous friend to guest on a classic Maiden anthem at a gig in London last night
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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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• Oneness 2026 Tour: Santana and Doobie Brothers Summer Concerts
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• Eagles' 'One of These Nights' Songs Ranked Worst to Best
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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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• "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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• “He wanted me to introduce him as the biggest rock star on the planet." Comedian Jack Whitehall says Jared Leto tried to alter his Brit Awards script
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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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• Underrated Music Albums From 1976 You Might Have Missed
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• Jon Anderson Expands 2026 Tour With the Band Geeks
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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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• Slipknot, Papa Roach, The Offspring and more have been added to the Battlefield 6 videogame soundtrack
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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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• The 25 Biggest Rock Stars Who Never Issued a Solo Album
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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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• "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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• “I think I have 11 counts of breaking and entering on my criminal record": How Nickelback's nostalgic Photograph spawned a flood of memes and the unwanted attention from a soon-to-be-impeached American President
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• 23 Everyday Objects From the '70s That Would Confuse Kids Today
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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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• 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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• "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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• Bruce Springsteen Announces Surprise 2026 Tour Dates
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of ’80s New York City Artists?
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• Scorpions Announce 2026 Las Vegas Residency
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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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• "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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• "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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• Jonathan Cain Opens Up About Leaving Journey and His New EP
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• Steve Perry Responds to Journey Reunion Rumors
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• “I knew it was a hit, but I didn’t really like the song. It was difficult to imagine what kind of touch we could put on it”: How Aerosmith scored their very first No.1 single – with help from a hit songwriter, Bruce Willis and a giant killer asteroid
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• “I have an audio recording of a Black Mass from San Francisco. I’ve never played it all the way through”: The legendary album Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt wishes he had made – and the rock band he thinks are a “joke”
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• U2 Releases 'Days of Ash' EP on Ash Wednesday
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• Robert Duvall, Hollywood Legend and ‘The Godfather’ Star, Dies
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• “It’s like our Free Bird – something we always have to do. But Free Bird is thirteen minutes long,and Taillights Fade is just three and a half”: The cult college rock band from Boston behind one of the most emotional anthems of the early 90s
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of '70s New York City Artists?
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• Why Adam Sandler's Aerosmith Sketch Nearly Sparked an 'SNL' Fight
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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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• "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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• “He was just lying there, howling on his guitar with blood pouring down his face. It was a very dramatic moment”: How Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne and half a million insane Brazilians introduced metal to an entire continent
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• Foo Fighters Share Title Track Off New Album 'Your Favorite Toy'
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• How to watch BBC iPlayer from anywhere– stream music documentaries, Glastonbury festival and more
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• “When we got back from the pub they presented us with this six-part piece of music. We were like, ‘We can’t record this! Oh, wait a minute…’”: The Stranglers’ Golden Brown started as a prog suite
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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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• “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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• “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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• “Everyone said we would never get signed if we didn’t drop the witchcraft. But I refused”: They had a song called Black Sabbath and a bassist named Oz Osborne – but this pioneering US occult rock band aren’t who you think they are
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• Gene Simmons Plays Two Ace Frehley Songs Live for the First Time
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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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• Paul Rodgers Explains Why He Said No to Recording With Van Halen
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• What to Expect From the 'Queen II Collector's Edition' Box Set
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• “I can’t think of anyone like her. Joni Mitchell was also a one-off, an original, but she is nothing like that”: From David Gilmour to Stranger Things – how Kate Bush became one of the most influential artists of the last 50 years
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• “I completely understand why people would hope for that. The music we created together means a great deal to me too”: Journey fans think legendary singer Steve Perry is going to rejoin his former band on their farewell tour – but he’s having none of it
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• “He was a titan, a giant. He could have been as famous as any songwriter in the world, but chose not to be”: The doomed singer who played with a world-famous comedian and had one of the most famous hit singles in history - but couldn’t escape his demons
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• How a Secret Eagles Album Became Their Biggest Success
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• Iron Maiden Will Celebrate 50th Anniversary With EddFest
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• Here's Why Hagar and Roth Won't Be on Van Halen’s New Album
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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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• "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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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of '60s Los Angeles Bands?
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