Rock News 2026-03-10

• “Lady Gaga is awesome. Have you seen her play piano? She’ll sit down and throw down something. Aside from all the crazy outfits, she’s a great musician”: The classic 1983 album that Zakk Wylde says defines metal – and the unlikely pop megastar he loves
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• "I have the power!" Queen's Brian May is working on the soundtrack to the new, long-delayed He-Man movie, featuring Jared Leto as Skeletor
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• "There’s going to be everything from his hairbrushes to his smelly socks to his dirty paint chair." Unique Ozzy Osbourne museum exhibition to go on world tour
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• “Oh look, we’re rich. We set out to achieve what we set out to achieve. What do we do now?” How a freak meeting with a lost friend shocked one of rock’s biggest bands to tears - and inspired one of their greatest ever songs
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• 30 of the Best Rock Covers by Women
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• "She steps in the room with us, a rock'n'roll band that's fronted by a guy she adores": How a song from Tom Petty's reject pile unwittingly became the massive hit single that launched a Fleetwood Mac icon's solo career
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• The 'Brady' House Is a Landmark Now — Guess These Other TV Homes
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• Stray Cats Announce 2026 Tour After Health Challenges
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• Steve Vai’s Spark That Rewired a New Version of Van Halen’s “Jump
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• The Guess Who Confirm Summer 2026 US Tour Dates
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• Jon Anderson Shares New 2026 Tour Dates
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• 5 Other Bizarre Quotes From John Lennon's 'Jesus' Interview
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• 5 Reasons Jeff Buckley Should Be in the Rock Hall of Fame
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• “Anyone who tells you it’s not a Genesis album isn’t a real fan. Come at me!”: Camel’s Peter Jones stands up for two records that others love to hate
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• "It seems like a really fitting time." Watch hardcore heroes Turnstile perform faithful cover of Stone Roses indie classic I Wanna Be Adored
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• "If you’re getting compared to bands like Genesis, who’s going to complain?” Why UK prog rockers Ghost Of The Machine's 'difficult' second album, Empires Must Fall, wasn't so difficult after all
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• Country Joe McDonald, Singer and Woodstock Legend, Dead at 84
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• How Zakk Wylde Is Remembering Ozzy Osbourne
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• “There was a lot of violence. We were fighting off stage moshers, people were running in and crashing into us. Those were violent times”: How a “desperate” band dived into Egyptian myth and made the album that reinvented death metal in the 21st century
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• "I was walking down the street and I saw this junkie washing out his needle with wine." How one of the most hyped metal bands of the 90s bounced back from firings, studio disasters and, erm, constipation
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• "We were like, ‘What if we take speed? Maybe we can play even faster!’ We were definitely better without the drugs." How Europe's biggest thrash band went from getting their mum to sign deals to satanic metal mastery
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• Dee Snider Jokingly Blames Bruce Dickinson For Abandoned Comeback
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• REO Speedwagon and Kevin Cronin Play Surprise Reunion Concert
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• Twisted Sister Will Tour in 2026 With Sebastian Bach
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• The holy grail of '90s post-hardcore, Fugazi's fabled In On The Kill Taker sessions with Steve Albini, has finally been released 34 years after being shelved
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• Paul McCartney Says Rock Hall Boss Broke His Induction Promise
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• Billy Idol Details Near-Death Overdose: 'I Was Going Blue'
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• You Won't Believe These Baffling Classic Rock Lyrics
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• Bruce Johnston Exits Beach Boys After 60 Years
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• “I was in an airport and these people went: ‘Hey Steve! Thumbs up, man! Tony Soprano loves Journey!’ It was amazing”: This multi-million selling rock singer disappeared from music for more than 20 years. It took a personal tragedy to bring him back
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• “The label said, ‘We find the cover a bit dark, the logo is ugly and, frankly, we don’t hear a single’”: Amazingly, a prog supergroup soundtracked the summer of 1982. The secret of their success? English church music
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• “He wanted to do something heavy. My mindset at the time was, I’d rather not”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt reveals why collaboration with Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy hasn’t happened yet
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• 18 Famous Rock Stars Whose Solo Careers Flopped
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• Metallica Reveals Six More Dates for Sphere Residency
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• "Why have Kiss lasted in a town like Detroit? 'Cos we appeal to the real masses, the great unwashed of America." In 2003, Kiss fans coughed up $1,000 for front-row seats on their 2003 US tour with Aerosmith, and we joined the throng
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• “You could barely drive down Sunset Strip because of the drunk people. A couple of my friends got hit. Luciky, they lived and partied on, like good headbangers”: The outrageous movie which captured the debauched 80s scene that “made Caligula look tame”
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• “Our first logo was a couple of witches throwing stuff into a cauldron. It was mystical – hobbits and the Bible and the Koran. We didn’t know what we were doing”: The cult band who made one of the greatest albums of the 70s – but struggled to match it
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• "The house had a big electric fence around it and every single window was blacked out." How a progressive rock legend helped make a 90s alt. rock masterpiece at the site of the infamous Manson Family murders
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• Dead Kennedys legend Jello Biafra hospitalised after suffering stroke
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• “I met Billy Corgan at a funeral. I said: ‘Are you aware of my band?’ He goes: ‘You kidding? I got your album in my car’”: The cult hair metal band with links to Styx, Smashing Pumpkins and Kanye West who had the world in their hands –but threw it away
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• John Fogerty Adds Shared Steve Winwood Dates to Ongoing 2026 Tour
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• Jon Anderson announces more UK live shows for September
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• Alice Cooper Announces 'Devil on My Shoulder' Autobiography
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• "To us, this was a decent album track, no more. We certainly did not think it could be a single!" Without the support of two American DJs, one of rock's classic singles might never have been released
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• Woodstock legend Country Joe McDonald dead at 84
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• Guns N' Roses announce stadium tour in Australia and New Zealand with Airbourne
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• “I drove a different Ferrari to the studio every day. David Gilmour and Nick Mason would wait outside to see which one”: How Sammy Hagar tried and failed to become a prog star after falling for Pink Floyd
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• "Me and Alice were getting creative with the truth long before the Age of Fake News." Alice Cooper announces Devil On My Shoulder autobiography and book tour
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• “The next evolution of everything I’ve been building toward for years”: Former Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz launches new band Blue Medusa
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• “Slamming started with us because of the speed. When we added reggae, and they started skanking like they’d come to see The Specials”: The cult punk icons who smashed together rock and reggae and influenced Slayer, Guns N’ Roses and Dave Grohl
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• Ringo Starr's New Album 'Long Long Road' Set for April Release
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• "That number-one hit poses the gentle question: 'Should I just kill myself?'" How a "throwaway" lyric written during a dark time helped turn some punk misfits into one of the biggest rock bands of the 2000s
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• Cool new proggy sounds you need to hear from Long Distance Calling, VLMV, Lorenzo Bedini and Amanda Lehmann and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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• Fontaines D.C., Lambrini Girls, Geese, Kneecap, Billy Bragg and more donate vinyl to Records For Palestine online raffle to raise money for Medical Aid for Palestinians
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• "We wanted a song about castles and crossbows." The magical relationship between Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio celebrated on the monumental Rainbow - The Temple Of The King 1975-76
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• All Bets Are Off: Guns N' Roses in Las Vegas
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• "Now I know that there's an audience for my voice and my songs, I want to present that to as many people as possible." Dan Byrne is ready for the world - but is the world ready for him?
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• Guns N' Roses Extend Their 2026 World Tour
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• “Jim could write a song that was so passionate you felt like you were being disembowelled, but he never had that love in his own life”: The epic power ballad that propelled an unlikely singer to stardom – and nearly provoked a “chick fight” in the process
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• Watch Black Label Society Perform a Rare Ozzy Osbourne Cover
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• "If you don't really get the concept of wanting to sing sad songs in the dark, you are never going to be a fan of this band, ever." The story behind the "nursery rhyme" 90s alt. rock classic covered by Metallica for one night only
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• The Who Celebrates a Unique Concert With 'Live at Eden Project'
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• Metallica Add Third And Fourth Sets of Las Vegas Sphere Dates
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• "I’d like to thank all the people who haven't voted for us from the bottom of my heart." Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher offers withering commentary on the band's current ranking in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame fan vote
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• "The LAPD chased down some of the miscreants and beat them to the ground with their nightsticks." How one of the worst riots in the history of music got a legendary metal band banned from a major Hollywood venue
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• "A stylus-melting red-hot riff-o-rama that demands to be played loud." AC/DC are captured in their hungry prime on If You Want Blood You've Got It
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• 5 Reasons Luther Vandross Should Be in the Rock Hall of Fame
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• Rock Purists Won't Like the Hall of Fame Fan Vote's Early Results
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• "I had a lovely chat with Princess Anne about my career and touring. She was quite genned up." Graham Gouldman on royal approval and the chances of 10cc's original lineup reuniting
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• These Photos Show Why Everyone Is Obsessed With the ’90s Again
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• Reggae-rock, Southern ballads and the sound of black metal melting: the 9 heavy new tracks that everyone needs to hear this week
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• 5 Ways Metallica's 'Master of Puppets' Could Have Been Different
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• Boston Singer Dies at Age 60 After Battle With Brain Cancer
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 9, 2026
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• Tommy DeCarlo, the childhood Boston fan who became the band's frontman, dead at 60
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• Alice Cooper Plays Live Debuts at Criss Angel Residency: Set List
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• “I want to die in Lamb Of God!” The new issue of Metal Hammer features Lamb Of God on the cover – and an exclusive all-star interview with Randy Blythe
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• Steve Vai Shreds on Van Halen 'Jump' Remix for 2026 World Cup
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• “He was, like me, wanting to focus more on creative work, as opposed to touring, touring, touring”: Steven Wilson and Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt are going to make another album together
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• "Hearing Prince covered it or Taylor Swift hand-picked it for an Apple commercial? What is that?" How an email rant inspired a song worth a billion streams and picked up some iconic fans along the way
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Sunset Strip Bands?
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• “He came on stage in a witch’s hat and cape, carrying a sword. In the second song he attacked me with the sword! What’s wrong with this picture, you know?” The flawed genius who even kept Lemmy on his toes
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• We celebrate Keith Emerson on the cover of the new issue of Prog Magazine, which is on sale now!
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• “That bloke’s right – we are crap!” The insult and the instrument that turned a failing pop act into prog giants
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• "I always took a flagon of cider on stage with me. When I'd finished drinking it I played the jug." The extraordinary story of the debut single that sold 73,000 copies before lunch and became a hit all over the world
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