Rock News 2026-02-28

• “When Geddy Lee said he’d heard this drummer the other day and her name was Anika, we should have been paying more attention”: One Rush fan’s journey from the last aftershow party of 2015 to the big comeback of 2026
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• What Does Michael Anthony Think About a New Van Halen Album?
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• 15 '80s Albums That Stopped Rock's Biggest Stars in Their Tracks
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• 45 Years Ago: 'You Better You Bet' Becomes the Who's Final Hit
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• “I really wanted the first record to be different from what I’d done with Genesis”: How Peter Gabriel made his solo debut with a group of musical misfits
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• “I have two film projects that I’m working on … I was recording another album with another thing”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge is taking a big break from touring the world, but he’s by no means idle
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• Reb Beach Reflects on Whitesnake's 'Terrible' Farewell Tour
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• Iron Maiden have been nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, 22 years after they first became eligible to enter, with Oasis, Wu-Tang Clan, Phil Collins, Billy Idol and more also on the ballot
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• Carole King Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• Metallica Announces 2026 Las Vegas Sphere Residency
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• Radio Legend Uncle Joe Benson Dead at 76
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• “Pulp Fiction was something we badly needed. But we wouldn’t have chosen a Neil Diamond cover that was made as an in-joke for our most notable single”: The Quentin Tarantino-approved trio who were set to be huge – until drugs and acrimony derailed them
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• “Being on one of the best live albums of all time gave the song a boost. Then Iron Maiden fell in love with it and made it even bigger”: The flop 70s single inspired by a pair of naughty nurses which became one of rock’s all-time greatest live anthems
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• "In the spirit of the Olympics, Team Tomahawk has decided to rise up and go for the gold once again." Mike Patton's alt. rock supergroup Tomahawk announce first tour since 2013
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• Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Evanescence and more: The 50 metal albums coming in 2026 that you should be excited about
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of New Orleans Rock?
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• “Unmistakably the work of metal’s mouthiest frontman”: Every Megadeth album ranked from worst to best
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• Paul Rodgers Explains Why He Said No to Recording With Van Halen
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• Sleep Token, Wet Leg, Wolf Alice, Pulp & Turnstile among this year's Brit nominees - here's how you can watch the 2026 Brit Awards... no matter where you are
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• Cool new proggy sounds you'll want to hear from Anneke Van Giersbergen, Gazpacho, Einar Solberg, The Claypool Lennon Delirium and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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• Tom Morello Reschedules Solo Dates to Tour With Bruce Springsteen
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• The Sebastian Bach Vocal Warm-Up Axl Rose Does All The Time
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• Primus announce first UK and European tour in almost a decade
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• Paul Weller announces 48-track Weller At The BBC Vol. 2 album, adds Irish gigs
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• Enter to Win Trip to See Metallica at the Sphere in Las Vegas!
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• "The guys from Guns N’ Roses split down the middle politically." Melania Trump documentary producer names the artists who refused to give permission for their music to be used in the film
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• “Stripped of Beatles myth, it reveals an artist rebuilding confidence during thepost-60s cultural hangover”: The “moving”Paul McCartney documentary that shows the failures between the triumphs
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• Iron Maiden announce cinema release for their career-spanning documentary Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition
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• Steve Perry Responds to Journey Reunion Rumors
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• "I was very narrow-minded. I thought they were just an annoying pop band!" One of America's greatest punk rock frontmen has come out as a huge fan of Oasis after years of "contempt" for the Gallagher brothers
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• “Paul Simon did it better. It’s the usual thing with me – take a good idea and dilute it”: South African prog hitmaker tried to tackle apartheid, but admits he failed
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• John Mellencamp Slams the Grammys: 'It's F—ing Nothing'
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• "Ya think it’s all poetry and clovers, when it’s raincoats and police Land Rovers. Salt of the earth, looking over their shoulder." Kneecap share moody and intense new single Smugglers & Scholars
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• “David Gilmour says, ‘I will never play with Roger Waters again’, and I know what he means. I feel that way about Alex Van Halen. They’re negative people”: The two iconic musicians who left Sammy Hagar starstruck – and the guitarist he calls “an asshole”
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• "Maybe it’s time." Dave Grohl might finally be ready to let Foo Fighters do something they've never done in their 30 year career
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• Tomahawk and Melvins Reveal 2026 Tour Dates
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• "I was looking to retire. It's not gonna happen if this keeps happening." One of modern metal's most influential bands just reunited, just over five years after the death of their beloved frontman
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of ’60s London Bands?
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• “It an unbelievable. Crosby, Stills and Young shoved us aside and grabbed the helicopter before us, so we caught the next one”: The blues-rock epic that turned an unknown British band into US superstars – with a little help from a legendary Woodstock set
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• The Song That Proved Van Halen and Hagar Could Succeed Together
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now!
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• Queens of the Stone Age Announce First Headlining Shows of 2026
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• If You Grew Up in the ’80s, You Had These at Home
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• "We’ve actually worked together on a bunch of stuff over the years that hasn’t even come out." Why Willow Smith is the only guest vocalist on Sean Lennon and Les Claypool's wild new concept album about AI destroying everything
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• Sammy Hagar 'Disappointed' at Exclusion From Van Halen Project
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• “There was a tremendous amount of friction between the two of them. There were stories about how they used to get drunk and abuse each other”: The doomed singer who helped invent folk-rock and sang with Led Zeppelin – but couldn’t escape her demons
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• Give World Book Day a rock'n'roll edge with my pick of 12 must-read publications: Ozzy, Lemmy, Bowie, Slash, The Boss & more
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• "We beat Britney Spears!" The song that turned a group of Dutch goths living with their parents into one of Europe's biggest bands
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• Wolfgang Van Halen Offers His Support to New Van Halen Album
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• “I put a twist on it – as if there was a crazed brother who was like Clint Eastwood coming back to murder whoever had defiled his sister”: How an unexpected pregnancy and a cheap video inspired the song that turned a British punk into an MTV superstar
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• "This is what it felt like 30 years ago!" Watch Foo Fighters perform unreleased new song Of All People at intimate London show
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• “Mike got back with Dream Theater and I started praying about what I should do”: Neal Morse Band’s L.I.F.T. is steeped in mystery – as he says all concept albums should be
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• “I don’t see it as a sad thing”: Last Faith No More tour had “unspoken” sense of closure, says Mike Patton
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• "Snatches of movie dialogue and trailers mixed with a musical wall of screaming guitars and stabs of distorted synth." Rob Zombie goes full bore, full gore on blood-soaked eighth album The Great Satan
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• "We have to do this, it’s completely uncharted territory!" Metallica announce Life Burns Faster residency at Sphere, Las Vegas
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• Rock Hall 2026 Nominees Roundtable: Snubs, Surprises and More
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• Iron Maiden to Take a Break From Touring for All of 2027
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• Ozzy Osbourne Was Told He'd 'Probably Die' Weeks Before Last Show
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• "The Beatles had been my whole life… when we split up I thought: ‘I’ll never write another note of music ever’": New Paul McCartney film explores his post-Beatles life and career with Wings - here’s how to watch Man On The Run from anywhere
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• “My wife says, ‘You write nice songs then you spoil them.’ I’ve always thought they’d have been quite successful if somebody else had done them”: Van der Graaf Generator’s Peter Hammill has calmed down, but not entirely
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• Eagles' 'One of These Nights' Songs Ranked Worst to Best
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• The guitar Kurt Cobain played in Nirvana's iconic video for Smells Like Teen Spirit is coming up for auction next month
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• Rush Adds the Who and Chicago Touring Vet Loren Gold to Lineup
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• Eagles to Visit Three New Cities on 2026 Tour
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• Gene Simmons Plays Two Ace Frehley Songs Live for the First Time
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• Dave Grohl Explains Firing of Josh Freese From Foo Fighters
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• “I rode him so hard he threatened to take me apart piece by piece if I didn’t back off”: How an ex-punk band delivered one of the greatest albums of the late 70s – with a little help from Suzi Quatro’s producer and a prog legend
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• “It was impeccable timing by George Lucas to be so considerate to bring out Star Wars at the same time as our album”: How a sci-fi icon inspired Pink Floyd’s engineer to make a wild concept album that predicted the AI revolution nearly 50 years ago
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• "I'm like, 'Guys, help me!' And my first day sober, I played in front of 14,000 people, weeping my eyes out." How Metallica helped modern metal icon and Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe quit alcohol for good
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• “I was in the mountains during a thunderstorm. It was so heavy I had to pull aside and park. That’s when ‘heavy metal thunder’ came to me”: The biker rock anthem that soundtracked a classic movie – and gave a whole genre its name
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• “They say time heals all wounds, but not completely. Even 40 years later, I often find myself thinking about him”: The electrifying life and dark times of iconic Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott, by one of the people who knew him best
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• “We spent the night in a BDSM dungeon and our tour manager slept in a coffin”: Endorsed by Megadeth and influenced by their genre’s most evil-sounding bands, Worm are a wild new force in black metal
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• “We hope the combination of Roger Dean’s artwork and these musicians really makes for something special”: Steve Howe on Yes’ new album, his solo career, and his honest take on those massive box sets
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• 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Revealed: See all 17 Names
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• "Ozzy has been a mighty force in modern music." The BRIT Awards are to honour the late Black Sabbath's contribution to music with Lifetime Achievement accolade and all-star tribute handpicked by his wife Sharon
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• Why Fans Love Marshall Tucker Band’s ‘Can’t You See’
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• "We’re jamming, so it’s possible..." Rush discuss the possibility of new music as they announce another Manchester show
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• "I drank a shot of vodka to brace myself, pulled my flaccid penis out of my pants, and casually walked past Trump." The night that a world-famous musician decided to "knob-touch" the future President of the USA, and why he has no regrets about it
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of '60s Los Angeles Bands?
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• "It was super duper heavy!" The story behind the Dave Grohl song that Ozzy Osbourne rejected, which found a home on one of the most unexpected heavy metal albums ever released
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• Iron Maiden announce final two gigs before stepping away from the live stage until 2028
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• 'Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition' Documentary Coming to Theaters
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of ’80s New York City Artists?
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• Rush Extends Fifty Something Tour to 2027 With New Dates
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• "Bands are really weird animals." How one of the world's biggest rock groups got their lives and friendships back on track following a bitter break-up and a near-death experience
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