Rock News 2026-03-13

• Ghostly keychains, vinyl box sets & classic tees: Ditch the chocolates and discover an alternative take on Mother's Day gifts
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• Live Nation Employees Caught Mocking Customers In Leaked Comments
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• "At one point I felt like soaking myself in vodka, setting myself alight and flinging my body from a balcony in protest." The explosive story of the little-known band who inspired The Who and influenced punk
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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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• “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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• "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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• “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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• "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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• Will Billy Joel Ever Tour Again?
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• Yes to release expanded and remastered edition of From A Page in April
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• Film From John Lennon's Last Concerts Set for Theatrical Release
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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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• Classic Rock Songs That Were Never Released as Singles
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• Boston Singer Dies at Age 60 After Battle With Brain Cancer
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• "They combine the best parts of Rammstein, Iron Maiden and Ghost". Flame-throwing organs, witch burnings and inflatable pickaxes: Heavy metal's nerdiest subgenre just conquered one of the UK's most iconic arenas
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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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• How Zakk Wylde Is Remembering Ozzy Osbourne
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• "There’s a guy here who you can pay five dollars to kick in the crotch.” A wild and weird weekend in Las Vegas with metal's most colourful band
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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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• John Fogerty Adds Shared Steve Winwood Dates to Ongoing 2026 Tour
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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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• David Gilmour's iconic black Strat has just sold for $14.5 million and is now the most expensive guitar ever
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• Stray Cats Announce 2026 Tour After Health Challenges
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• Midge Ure announces new album A Man Of Two Worlds and releases lead single Just Words
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• Alice Cooper Announces 'Devil on My Shoulder' Autobiography
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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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• "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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• Jon Anderson Shares New 2026 Tour Dates
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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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• "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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• Rock Connections in Harry Styles' New 'Disco, Occasionally' Album
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• The Black Crowes, 'A Pound of Feathers': Review
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• Hear the Debut Album From Tom Hamilton's New Band, Close Enemies
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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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• "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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• "Looking at these things gave me some feelings I wasn't sure about. So I took these things outside and I burned all of them." Why Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan destroyed his past
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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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• "It was construed as being about a sex worker." The story behind the Blondie classic that everyone misunderstood
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• “I know Deftones don’t like to be coined as nu metal, but…”: Nu metal favourites Papa Roach have just named the best nu metal songs of all time – and, yes, one of them picked Last Resort
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• "I don’t know who’ll be listening to my music in 100 years but I know they’ll be listening to Shane’s." Bruce Springsteen honours the late Shane MacGowan, shares cover of A Rainy Night In Soho from tribute album featuring Tom Waits, Kate Moss
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• Country Joe McDonald, Singer and Woodstock Legend, Dead at 84
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• Neal Schon Has Much Bigger Plans for Journey Beyond
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Sunset Strip Bands?
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• 'Indescribable Hell' Hotel Causes Morrissey to Miss Another Show
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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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• "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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• "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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• Bruce Springsteen Pays Surprise Tribute to Pogues' Shane MacGowan
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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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• Pearl Jam's Mike McCready Has a Rock Opera for Graphic Novel
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• 32 Hit Albums Produced by Rick Rubin
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• "I was crowdsurfing and someone was shoving their finger in my butt." Bike crashes, TikTok hits and personal boundaries: Sleep Theory are metalcore's fastest rising stars
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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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• Rick Wakeman Opens Historic Wakeman and Son U.S. Tour: Setlist
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• REO Speedwagon and Kevin Cronin Play Surprise Reunion Concert
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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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• Kevin Cronin: REO Speedwagon Reunion 'Exceeded My Expectations'
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• Eagles Reveal New 'One of These Nights' Expanded Edition
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• Steve Vai’s Spark That Rewired a New Version of Van Halen’s “Jump
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• Vote for the Best Album of the '70s: UCR's March Madness Bracket
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• "I was thinking about all the singers that came from the Seattle scene and how many of them had since died." Pearl Jam's Mike McCready announces rock opera about the history of grunge in Seattle
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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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• INXS Reissues Breakthrough 'Kick' LP on Limited-Edition Vinyl
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• "When we recorded that song, Jim was on a huge dose of acid." How a simple break-up song evolved into The Doors' darkest, weirdest and most disturbing freak-out
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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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• "One guy brought a homemade metal blade to a fight. It lasted about 25 seconds. Phil completely laid the fella out. Phil was tough. You didn't mess." From teenage fan to first-name pals - The Phil Lynott I knew
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• I just got a £50 Amazon gift card to spend in the Spring Deal Days sale thanks to this epic 67% saving on NordVPN - protect your browsing for only £5.19 per month
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• Kansas Announces More 2026 Tour Dates With 38 Special
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• Watch Sammy Hagar Dig Out Two Long-Lost Songs at 2026 Tour Debut
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• Watch Black Label Society Perform a Rare Ozzy Osbourne Cover
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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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• Scary Things in the '80s That Kept Kids Up at Night
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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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• “Introducing Ozzy Matilda Osbourne”: Jack Osbourne and wife Aree welcome baby daughter and name her after the Prince Of Darkness
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• Jack Osbourne Welcomes New Baby, Named After Ozzy
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• Do You Recognize These ’80s Faces?
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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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• “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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• 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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• "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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• 30 of the Best Rock Covers by Women
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• "A load of old characters came out to see us and one of them got arrested. It was a full-moon vibe." Weird and wonderful alt.rock Brits Marmozets fizz back witha new album after a seven-year absence
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• Dead Kennedys legend Jello Biafra hospitalised after suffering stroke
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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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• Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs Reveal Summer Tour Dates
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