Rock News 2026-03-11

• 32 Hit Albums Produced by Rick Rubin
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• Rock Purists Won't Like the Hall of Fame Fan Vote's Early Results
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• Metallica Add Third And Fourth Sets of Las Vegas Sphere Dates
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• "I remember thinking, Who in their right mind would want this to go out?" AC/DC's Angus Young on the song he wishes the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band had never released
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• REO Speedwagon and Kevin Cronin Play Surprise Reunion Concert
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• "I was like, 'This is it. This is ****ing it.' I was so obsessed." Here's what Linkin Park singer Emily Armstrong thinks about the band's legendary debut album, Hybrid Theory
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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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• All Bets Are Off: Guns N' Roses in Las Vegas
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• 18 Famous Rock Stars Whose Solo Careers Flopped
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• Alice Cooper Plays Live Debuts at Criss Angel Residency: Set List
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• "Are you a guitarist too?" The day that rock legends Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Brian May and Jeff Beck met the Queen of England
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• Alice Cooper Announces 'Devil on My Shoulder' Autobiography
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• The Who Celebrates a Unique Concert With 'Live at Eden Project'
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• "It wouldn’t be my first choice of nickname now": Gluecifer's Captain Poon on touring with Lemmy, fun with chickens and the origins of that stage name
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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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• “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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• “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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• "I know people don't want to hear me saying such things, but they're true." Francis Rossi comes clean on Status Quo, Rick Parfitt and new solo album The Accidental
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• Stray Cats Announce 2026 Tour After Health Challenges
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• Country Joe McDonald, Singer and Woodstock Legend, Dead at 84
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• Scary Things in the '80s That Kept Kids Up at Night
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• "This is a mallet to the back of the skull to anyone who believed their best days were behind them." One of metal's greatest modern bands have made their best album in over a decade: Lamb Of God's Into Oblivion slays
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• Yes to release expanded and remastered edition of From A Page in April
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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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• Eagles Reveal New 'One of These Nights' Expanded Edition
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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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• Jon Anderson Shares New 2026 Tour Dates
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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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• "Into this void of hopelessness and lack of understanding came this perfect amoral act": How a controversial song inspired by a tragic school shooting in the US became a UK No.1
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• "It's the best clapping TV theme song since Friends." Listen to the first song released by US supergroup featuring R.E.M's Michael Stipe, producer Andrew Watt, ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker
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• Midge Ure announces new album A Man Of Two Worlds and releases lead single Just Words
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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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• "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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• "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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• "A raging maniac with a head full of noise, romance and death." Nine Jim Steinman albums you should listen to and one to avoid
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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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• "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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• "Rich Robinson is an honours graduate from Keef university but he's funkier than the master has been in decades." The Black Crowes' blessed resurrection keeps rolling on A Pound Of Feathers
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• These Photos Show Why Everyone Is Obsessed With the ’90s Again
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• Dead Kennedys legend Jello Biafra hospitalised after suffering stroke
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• Steve Vai’s Spark That Rewired a New Version of Van Halen’s “Jump
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• Tommy DeCarlo, the childhood Boston fan who became the band's frontman, dead at 60
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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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• John Fogerty Adds Shared Steve Winwood Dates to Ongoing 2026 Tour
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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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• "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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• "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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• Kansas Announces More 2026 Tour Dates With 38 Special
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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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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 9, 2026
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• Billy Idol Details Near-Death Overdose: 'I Was Going Blue'
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• Amazon kick off Spring Deal Days with 3 months of Amazon Music Unlimited for absolutely nothing - get your free subscription right now
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• Dee Snider Jokingly Blames Bruce Dickinson For Abandoned Comeback
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• Steve Vai Shreds on Van Halen 'Jump' Remix for 2026 World Cup
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• Bruce Johnston Exits Beach Boys After 60 Years
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• “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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• “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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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Sunset Strip Bands?
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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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• Watch Black Label Society Perform a Rare Ozzy Osbourne Cover
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• “There was a lot of pain. My love for music was beginning to die”: He’d learned to let his brother be lead guitarist, and that many musicians lose hope. Then he changed his life, wrote a 15-minute prog epic and got signed
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• Jon Anderson announces more UK live shows for September
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• The Black Crowes, 'A Pound of Feathers': Review
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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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• Boston Singer Dies at Age 60 After Battle With Brain Cancer
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• 5 Reasons Luther Vandross Should Be in the Rock Hall of Fame
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• 5 Other Bizarre Quotes From John Lennon's 'Jesus' Interview
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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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• “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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• “He seemed very polite, kind of gentle." The vocalist who traded tapes with one of black metal's most notorious characters, learned details of his brutal murder from a fanzine
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• "Any scrape of anything interesting or off the beaten path that can be turned into drama is swarmed over and spit out as bait." For the record, despite what you may have read, Jack White doesn't consider Taylor Swift's music "boring"
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• "One of the most colourful, fascinating, exciting and unusual rock'n'roll albums we've ever heard." The story of the pioneering rockers whose career was scuttled by the Six-Day War
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• You Won't Believe These Baffling Classic Rock Lyrics
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• Vote for the Best Album of the '70s: UCR's March Madness Bracket
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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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• How Zakk Wylde Is Remembering Ozzy Osbourne
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• Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs Reveal Summer Tour Dates
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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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• “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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• Woodstock legend Country Joe McDonald dead at 84
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• "The crowd seemed more concerned with the long lines at the beer taps." In 1984 Huey Lewis invited Stevie Ray Vaughan on tour - and he tanked
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• The 'Brady' House Is a Landmark Now — Guess These Other TV Homes
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• 30 of the Best Rock Covers by Women
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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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