Rock News 2026-03-20

• “It was like, ‘Are we going to work on Peter Gabriel’s stuff or our stuff?’ Everybody said, ‘Our stuff! We just like it better’”: The American band who decided to stick to their own course… and ran aground
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• How Eagles' Sphere Show Has Changed Over the Years
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• "Bringing the bass and drums down so you can't hear them makes the lead guitar sound fantastic. Jack White made a career out of it." The story of the ferocious classic that was inspired by Vietnam and set a template for punk
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• Judy Collins Announces Farewell Tour Dates for 2026 and 2027
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• "It's not a whitewash... and we don't try and hide anything." Heart's Ann Wilson confirms In My Voice documentary and screening tour
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• Paul McCartney Announces 2026 Concerts
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• "I always came home with my head full of blood. They were punching holes in my head with umbrellas." Head wounds, hardcore gigs and homophobes: Paleface Swiss are changing what it means to be masculine in metal
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• "Raw, hungry, and already road-honed by years of gigging." The Legendary Edition of Aerosmith's debut album expands the original with live and session tracks
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• Sole surviving Moody Blues member Justin Hayward announces UK tour for October
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• Bonnie Raitt Extends Her 2026 North American Tour Again
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• Kraftwerk announce 50th anniversary reissues for Radio-Activity
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• "When we played Chicago it was like Led Zeppelin. It was all there for us to take." The frazzled story of the stoner rock supergroup who should have been massive - but were crushed by the music business
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• Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien announces second solo album, Blue Morpho, will be released in May
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• "He communicates at a very deep emotional level with the electric guitar." Dr. Who actor Peter Capaldi on the music that has soundtracked his life
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• Motorhead's Phil Campbell Dies: Loving Tributes From Rock Stars
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• “This was a journey of me saving myself, staying alive, keeping my family together and continuing to make music”: Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine’s memoir In My Darkest Hour, looking back on his cancer battle, to come out in September
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• “My life was going down the toilet. I was trying to stay out of everybody’s way, just to finish what I’d started." The story behind the troubled birth of Foo Fighters' second album, The Colour And The Shape
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• "Kind of rebels, both of them." Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy draws parallels between his Peaky Blinders anti-hero Tommy Shelby and Birmingham's true Prince Of Darkness
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• "He had to talk down agun-toting S.W.A.T. team after AceFrehley accidentally shot himself." For 40 years, Danny Francis kept rock stars out of trouble - and his stories prove it
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• "A mix of surreal, supercilious satire and puerile lewdness." Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and The Mothers' Bongo Fury, revisited and expanded
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• "I won't go through treatment. I've lived the life of ten men and will die with dignity." Ginger Wildheart diagnosed with cancer, says he has "2-3" years left
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• Things You Saw at Grandma’s House in the 1980s
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• "I was afraid of silence, afraid of having to feel." Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl reflects on the aftermath of the death of his best friend and bandmate Taylor Hawkins
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• "I never thought someone would actually run with that song title. I suppose it's all my fault." The story of the extremely silly but surprisingly poignant Limp Bizkit anthem that made them the biggest (and most hated) metal band of their generation
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• Enter to Win Signed Vinyl + Concert Tickets From the Black Crowes
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• Listen to the New Cactus Single Featuring Dee Snider
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• Marvin Gaye's 'I Want You': A Deep Dive Into Its Legacy
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• Muse return with bombastic new single as they announce tenth studio album
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• "It was like pulling teeth. Which is among the reasons why we stopped writing together." The story of the Status Quo song that ended a partnership and became a roller-coaster live classic
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• Quirky YouTube sensations Angine de Poitrine announce new album for April
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• 5 Reasons Why Black Crowes Should Be in the Rock Hall
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• Wayne Perkins, Influential Session Guitarist, Dies at 74
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• How the Van Halens Saved an Opening Band From Sammy Hagar's Wrath
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• James Hetfield Proposes to Girlfriend During Underwater Dive
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• Judas Priest Adds New Stops to 2026's Faithkeeper Tour
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• Public Image Ltd Announces 2026-27 North American Tour
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• "It'll be a fat cheque!" This thrash guitarist reckons he's due some cash from Metallica for his role in writing Creeping Death — and it's not Dave Mustaine
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• Peter Frampton Announces Guest-Heavy New Album ’Carry The Light'
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• Sebastian Bach Performs Twisted Sister Classic With His Solo Band
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• "I had women with babies they said were his, women stripping their clothes off on the doorstep." My chaotic life as Phil Lynott's girlfriend
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• How to listen to BBC Sounds from anywhere
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• Watch the Trailer for 'Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition' Documentary
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• "One of America's great bands just got alittle bit greater."Tedeschi Trucks Band continue the search for transcendence on the sublime Future Soul
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• Kiss' Future Plans: Cartoon Show, a Second Las Vegas 'Kruise'
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• Official Alan Parsons Project 50th anniversary book now available for pre-order: Watch Sally Woolfson explain why it’s special
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• Trent Reznor Addresses Nine Inch Nails' Future at Tour Finale
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• "He is undergoing ​a full battery of tests": AC/DC's Stevie Young hospitalised in Argentina
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• “There’ve been times where I’ve come back from a tour and my kids don’t know who I am”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on 25 years of Blackwater Park, another Steven Wilson team-up, hating the road and why he might stop growling again
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• "He meant so much to me." The verses on Peter Frampton's new single Buried Treasure are crafted entirely from Tom Petty song titles
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• The forthcoming Oasis Live ’25 tour documentary is "phenomenal" says producer Stephen Knight, with Liam and Noel Gallagher delivering "one quote after another"
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• Rich Robinson: 'F—ing Toxic' Dynamic Nearly Doomed Black Crowes
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• "She dumped the baby on me and Joe Strummer and f***ed off for three days." That time a world famous rock star got shocked members of The Clash and The Damned to babysit her daughter while she went out partying
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Canadian Rock Bands?
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• Vote for the Best Album of the '70s Round Two: Meet the Sweet 16
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• "The song is about escape." A seventh Linkin Park song has achieved over one billion streams on Spotify
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• "We had expected empty rooms, possibly even bottles of urine, but from the first night everyone knew the words." The sudden rise, spectacular fall and slow road to recovery of America's great lost AOR band
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• Stevie Young of AC/DC Hospitalized After Concert
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• Phil Collins No Longer Leads the Rock Hall of Fame Fan Vote
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• From child prodigy to platinum star: Nine Steve Winwood albums you should listen to and one to avoid
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• Billy Idol Announces Summer 2026 Las Vegas Residency
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• "We had friends film us and then went to bed. Imagine our surprise the next morning: we woke up and it was already viral." How one powerful video turned a group of outcasts who'd escaped war into Ukraine's biggest metal band
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• What to Expect From Ann Wilson's Documentary Tour
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• "The view is always better when you leave the wasteland behind." Rising Irish artist Sister Ghost channels Patti Smith and Kate Bush on new EP Oracle, lines up UK shows
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• "It was like something from Mad Max, with all the fires and steaming bodies." Meet the rock'n'roll Forrest Gump, who turned down Jimi Hendrix, butted heads with Lemmy, and was saved from a bad trip by Pete Townshend
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• Paul McCartney Took a Countryside Drive and Found a Beatles Gem
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• “We lived through a mudslide, a flood, a fire and an earthquake, and we were living on 20 bucks a day”: Lzzy Hale looks back on the industry mishaps and natural disasters Halestorm endured to make their first album
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• Dave Grohl Used Music as a 'Crutch' After Taylor Hawkins’ Death
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• Pro-Ject E1.2 turntable review: A stellar turntable that's simply hard to beat for the price
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• "Gods of metal!" Watch Dune star Javier Bardem, Metallica's Lars Ulrich, Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello and more in the first trailer for new Iron Maiden documentary Burning Ambition
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• "It’s a celebration of where we began, and a meeting point between who we were then and who we are now." Placebo announce reimagined version of 1996 debut album, plus 30th anniversary arena tour
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• Revisiting Randy Rhoads' Final Show With Ozzy Osbourne
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• Can You Answer These 50 Beatles 'Jeopardy!' Questions?
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• "She looks happy, but you see a little fear and uncertainty behind her eyes." How a wedding, a shocked Simon Cowell and an iconic horror movie helped a viral pandemic metal video become a modern classic
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• Paul McCartney Reveals ‘The Man on the Run'
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• How to watch "raucous, moving, and surprisingly tender" film The Rise Of The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel
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• “If he knew karate, he would have broken the table with how hard he hit it. He said, ‘That has to be on the album!’”: Can you imagine Pink Floyd’s The Wall without Comfortably Numb? Roger Waters once did
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• “A triumph in prog, and a masterclass in storytelling”: Members of Dream Theater, Nightwish, Gentle Giant and others on the power of Jethro Tull’s Aqualung
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• "At the height of Britpop, it was like music was a joke." The truth behind the '90s highly entertaining Mogwai vs Blur feud
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• Orleans Reveal Plans to Stop Touring After This Year
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• Geoff Tate Shares New Details About ‘Operation: Mindcrime III'
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• "We miss your smile, your warmth, your creativity, your compassion and your humour." Following his death last year, metal legends At The Gates have posted a moving new tribute to their singer Tomas Lindberg
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• Vinnie Vincent's New Album Can Be Yours for $2 Million
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• "What a voice. What a moment." Start your St. Patrick's Day celebrations the right way by watching Jessie Buckley, the first Irish winner of a best actress Oscar, absolutely smash a Primal Scream classic in a bar
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• "Can you believe it? I only found out in January." Suzi Quatro discovers she's been breaking the law for over half a century
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• "I'm not quite sure what the song is about, but there's a lot of anger, a lot of despair and a lot of frustration." The story behind the global Phil Collins hit that Genesis wish they'd recorded
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