Rock News 2026-03-02

• “A 15-minute discussion with the Hells Angels ensued, prior to me being hit in the mouth with the end of a pool cue and having my front teeth knocked out”: In 1969, the world’s most dangerous band toured America – and changed rock’n’roll forever
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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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• Ozzy Osbourne Was Told He'd 'Probably Die' Weeks Before Last Show
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• Watch star-studded BRIT Awards tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
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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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• John Mellencamp Slams the Grammys: 'It's F—ing Nothing'
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• "We’re jamming, so it’s possible..." Rush discuss the possibility of new music as they announce second shows in Manchester and Glasgow
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• Rush Extends Fifty Something Tour to 2027 With New Dates
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• “Everyone goes, ‘We pour our hearts into these things.’ But this genuinely was us, tears down our cheeks, trying to be manly”: How Big Big Train survived the death of David Longdon
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• 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Revealed: See all 17 Names
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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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• “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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• “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 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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• "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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• Sammy Hagar 'Disappointed' at Exclusion From Van Halen Project
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of ’60s London Bands?
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• 15 '80s Albums That Stopped Rock's Biggest Stars in Their Tracks
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• Top 20 Jonathan Cain Songs
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• Iron Maiden to Take a Break From Touring for All of 2027
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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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• "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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• “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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• Queens of the Stone Age Announce First Headlining Shows of 2026
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• Rock Hall 2026 Nominees Roundtable: Snubs, Surprises and More
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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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• Why Fans Love Marshall Tucker Band’s ‘Can’t You See’
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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 '70s London Bands?
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of New Orleans Rock?
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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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• "I could feel the power behind me and it was like being in front of a locomotive." The Swedish metal icons whose biggest hit was so confusing even Metallica's Kirk Hammett struggled to keep up
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• "If I didn’t have songs, we wouldn’t make an album. I didn’t do anything, and nobody asked!” How Everon returned after 16 years with a new studio album, Shells
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• “He was seeing the devil in everything. To him, his whole life had been in service to Satan...” This LA band had the world at their feet. Then their guitarist joined a religious cult while their bassist faced 11 years in jail for trying to rescue him
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• Tom Morello Reschedules Solo Dates to Tour With Bruce Springsteen
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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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• "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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• Reb Beach Reflects on Whitesnake's 'Terrible' Farewell Tour
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• Eagles to Visit Three New Cities on 2026 Tour
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• “I woke up in a panic – a door in my mind had opened which I couldn’t close”: How a psychotic reaction triggered the cult 70s album that fused progressive rock and the blues – and influenced Queens Of The Stone Age, The Damned and Nirvana’s producer
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• "You make money touring and you give your music away for free, which is why tickets cost so much." Twisted Sister's Jay Jay French on making a living in music
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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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• The Song That Proved Van Halen and Hagar Could Succeed Together
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• Journey Kicks Off 'Final Frontier' Tour: Set List, Video
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• 45 Years Ago: 'You Better You Bet' Becomes the Who's Final Hit
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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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• "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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• “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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• 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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• Eagles' 'One of These Nights' Songs Ranked Worst to Best
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• “Unmistakably the work of metal’s mouthiest frontman”: Every Megadeth album ranked from worst to best
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• Carole King Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• Radio Legend Uncle Joe Benson Dead at 76
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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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• Robbie Williams and Zakk Wylde Lead Ozzy Brit Awards Tribute
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• “It’s brutal. Energy and power and speed… without that album, there would be no Metallica or Slayer or Sepultura”: Soulfly frontman Max Cavalera names the greatest riff in heavy metal – and the controversial 80s album he thinks is a “joke”
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• Eagles' Sphere Show Continues to Amaze: Live Review
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• Legendary Songwriter Neil Sedaka Dies: Rockers React
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• Tomahawk and Melvins Reveal 2026 Tour Dates
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• "An unexpurgated burst of creativity with no nuance or tact or second-guessing. Just raw, hard rock frenzy unleashed." Japan's Flower Travellin' Band aren't for the faint-hearted on proto-prog-guitar-wigout Satori
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• What Does Michael Anthony Think About a New Van Halen Album?
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• “What Keith Moon did on drums, he did on keyboards. Without him the genre would be much poorer”: When Geoff Downes saw Keith Emerson live, he found immediate inspiration
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• The Sebastian Bach Vocal Warm-Up Axl Rose Does All The Time
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• “We couldn’t have really fitted in with grunge, because we were a different type of a band. We were Irish and from Limerick, and we had our own ideas”: The tragedy that inspired an iconic grunge-era anti-war anthem – and reinvented the band that wrote it
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• Enter to Win Trip to See Metallica at the Sphere in Las Vegas!
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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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• "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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• "It didn’t hurt or anything. It was just ****ing scary.” We threw one of metal's most promising bands off a bridge
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• Iron Maiden announce final two gigs before stepping away from the live stage until 2028
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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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• Rush Adds the Who and Chicago Touring Vet Loren Gold to Lineup
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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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• "There's no tanks, fantastical swordfights or bloody executions, just sweat, songs and almighty sing-alongs: rock'n'roll at its very best." Foo Fighters return to their punk roots in a very sweaty Manchester club
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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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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now!
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• If You Grew Up in the ’80s, You Had These at Home
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• Metallica Announces 2026 Las Vegas Sphere Residency
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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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• Wolfgang Van Halen Offers His Support to New Van Halen Album
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• "Tyler The Creator made me realise that I don’t need to scream for a song to be heavy.” Freedom-fighting hardcore punk, Victorian doom metal and 'angry dance music': the best new metal bands you need to hear this month
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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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• "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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• “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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• 'Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition' Documentary Coming to Theaters
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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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