Rock News 2026-03-12

• “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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• Midge Ure announces new album A Man Of Two Worlds and releases lead single Just Words
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• "I love the sleazy, lustful side of Motorhead." Severed heads, strip clubs and baptism by whisky: Why the metal world loved Lemmy Kilmister, the ultimate rock'n'roll rebel
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• Guns N' Roses Extend Their 2026 World Tour
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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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• Hear the Debut Album From Tom Hamilton's New Band, Close Enemies
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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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• 10 years after promising a “symphony of c*cks and v*ginas and death”, Devin Townsend has finally announced his life’s work The Moth and released its unhinged lead single
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• Watch Black Label Society Perform a Rare Ozzy Osbourne Cover
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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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• INXS Reissues Breakthrough 'Kick' LP on Limited-Edition Vinyl
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• Jon Anderson announces more UK live shows for September
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• REO Speedwagon and Kevin Cronin Play Surprise Reunion Concert
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• Woodstock legend Country Joe McDonald dead at 84
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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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• "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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• Classic Rock Songs That Were Never Released as Singles
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• Tommy DeCarlo, the childhood Boston fan who became the band's frontman, dead at 60
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• "We took a break and made some tea. Within 20 minutes Steve had written the words." How Humble Pie made the ultimate whiplash boogie white boy blues
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• Stray Cats Announce 2026 Tour After Health Challenges
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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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• Kansas Announces More 2026 Tour Dates With 38 Special
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• "I'll be your 1-900-G spot, baby, you won't last." Violet Grohl shares phone sex-inspired new song, announces debut album Be Sweet To Me
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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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• Jon Anderson Shares New 2026 Tour Dates
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• 18 Famous Rock Stars Whose Solo Careers Flopped
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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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• The Black Crowes, 'A Pound of Feathers': Review
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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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• "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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• "To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings. It's heaven." Why Prince turned down a partnership deal with Guitar Hero, while Metallica considered it a "no-brainer"
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• How Zakk Wylde Is Remembering Ozzy Osbourne
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• Scary Things in the '80s That Kept Kids Up at Night
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• Ghostly keychains, vinyl box sets & classic tees: Ditch the chocolates and discover an alternative take on Mother's Day gifts
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• Eagles Reveal New 'One of These Nights' Expanded Edition
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• “I was naked in a shower, they held me upside-down by my legs and they poured bourbon into my mouth”: How this thrash singer became the new frontman of 21st-century metal stars Children Of Bodom
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• Dee Snider Jokingly Blames Bruce Dickinson For Abandoned Comeback
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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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• Vote for the Best Album of the '70s: UCR's March Madness Bracket
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• Alice Cooper Plays Live Debuts at Criss Angel Residency: Set List
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• All Bets Are Off: Guns N' Roses in Las Vegas
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• 30 of the Best Rock Covers by Women
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• The 'Brady' House Is a Landmark Now — Guess These Other TV Homes
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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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• The Who Celebrates a Unique Concert With 'Live at Eden Project'
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• Yes to release expanded and remastered edition of From A Page in April
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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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• Dead Kennedys legend Jello Biafra hospitalised after suffering stroke
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• Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs Reveal Summer Tour Dates
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• “I had rock stars much bigger than Dave coming to my side”: Ex-Megadeth bassist David Ellefson responds to Dave Mustaine’s jab at former member’s past “behaviour”
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• "Sangria can make you do a lot of things…" How a drunken night, and the support of Samuel L. Jackson, changed the life of Kashus Culpepper
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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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• "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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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 9, 2026
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• Country Joe McDonald, Singer and Woodstock Legend, Dead at 84
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• Boston Singer Dies at Age 60 After Battle With Brain Cancer
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• "This prosecution was a legally laughable witch-hunt. Today’s decision brings this expensive circus to an end." Kneecap's Mo Chara will not face terrorism trial
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• Steve Vai Shreds on Van Halen 'Jump' Remix for 2026 World Cup
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• "She would tune her guitar to whatever mood she was in and write the song from that tuning." The legendary singer-songwriter who changed Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan's life
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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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• John Fogerty Adds Shared Steve Winwood Dates to Ongoing 2026 Tour
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• 39% off Nevermind is just the tip of the iceberg in Amazon's epic Spring Deal Days CD and vinyl sale – score big savings on Zeppelin, Green Day, The Cure & more
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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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• "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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• "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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• With up to 33% off vinyl storage in Amazon's Spring Deal Days sale, there's never been a better time to organise your wax. Here's 9 of my top picks for record collectors
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• Metallica Add Third And Fourth Sets of Las Vegas Sphere Dates
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• Steve Vai’s Spark That Rewired a New Version of Van Halen’s “Jump
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• Bruce Johnston Exits Beach Boys After 60 Years
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• Jack Osbourne Welcomes Baby Girl: Here's How Her Name Honors Ozzy
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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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• "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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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Sunset Strip Bands?
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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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• "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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• 5 Reasons Luther Vandross Should Be in the Rock Hall of Fame
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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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• "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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• 32 Hit Albums Produced by Rick Rubin
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• "It was construed as being about a sex worker." The story behind the Blondie classic that everyone misunderstood
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• “In the 70s the support band had to blow the main act offstage. I thought it was distasteful. There’s room for everybody”: Jethro Tull ex Martin Barre insists he’s not underrated, and explains why he has no time for egos
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• Alice Cooper Announces 'Devil on My Shoulder' Autobiography
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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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• “I always try to be professional and respectful about people’s decisions. It was their band, so I had to go along with it”: When Yes told Oliver Wakeman not to come back
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