Rock News 2026-03-23

• "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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• Peter Frampton Announces Guest-Heavy New Album ’Carry The Light'
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• “When people dismiss it as Spinal Tap, I find that offensive, because these guys were brave and honest and dealt with issues that all creative people go through”: How metal’s biggest band went to the edge and made one of the greatest documentaries ever
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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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• "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 said, ‘To be honest, our first single was a fast, punky version of your song.’ They all chorused, ‘Yes, we know!’”: How Kraftwerk influenced a band who influenced a whole era of British music
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• “Something had changed. The music was becoming more commercial. We’d lost something of our punk-type edge. It was getting a bit too arty-farty”: How Iron Maiden fought back against a press backlash and accusations of “hype” to deliver a classic album
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
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• Paul McCartney Reveals ‘The Man on the Run'
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• Kiss' Future Plans: Cartoon Show, a Second Las Vegas 'Kruise'
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• Geoff Tate Shares New Details About ‘Operation: Mindcrime III'
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• Kraftwerk announce 50th anniversary reissues for Radio-Activity
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• “Melodic death metal didn’t exist when we wrote it. We were just a death metal band and we wanted to incorporate more classic songwriting into our sound”: The Swedish extreme metal anthem that sparked a whole new genre into life
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• The Best Hair Metal Band for Each Letter of the Alphabet
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• Paul McCartney Announces 2026 Concerts
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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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• How George Clinton's 'Kidd Funkadelic' Found His Groove
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• “I was feeling a bit despondent because Free had broken up. I met a lady who was Brazilian and she said: ‘Come down and stay with me’”: How a supergroup formed from the ashes of one of the UK’s greatest bands wrote one of rock’s ultimate outlaw anthems
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• "This is a song about one of Ben’s friends that has multiple sclerosis. I am that friend with MS." How one Canadian punk band turned a life-altering diagnosis into an anthem of resilience
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• 50 Years Ago: Shooting Starts on ‘Star Wars’
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• Public Image Ltd Announces 2026-27 North American Tour
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• What to Expect From Ann Wilson's Documentary Tour
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• “I wound up in a place that I needed to stop and sit with myself”: Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl addresses infidelity and social media fallout in new interview
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• Bloody Well Right! Breakfast In America might have had the bangers, but it was Crime Of The Century that truly saved Supertramp's bacon
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• “We heralded a change that culminated with everyone buying Appetite For Destruction. We were treated badly for saying there’s nothing wrong with rock music”: How a group of AC/DC-loving ex-goths helped make hard rock cool again – with help from Rick Rubin
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• Things You Saw at Grandma’s House in the 1980s
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• Revisiting Randy Rhoads' Final Show With Ozzy Osbourne
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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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• Chuck Norris, Movie and TV Star, Dies at 86
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• "We need this, perhaps more than ever, and we suspect we are not alone." Hugely influential post-metal pioneers Neurosis return with stunning new album and an underground metal legend as their new frontman
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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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• "It's probably the heaviest thing I've written in terms of lyrics." Ex-Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz’s new band Blue Medusa release debut single Checkmate
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• “We were musicians and we knew how to play. We weren’t just a bunch of hippies running around playing three chords”: This rock icon broke away from her band to launch a solo career with an album that divided the critics. A year later she was dead
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• “The Genesis guys said they liked the track, which was ironic. It was one of the reasons I’d left. I thought there was no chance of getting them to do it”: How Steve Hackett’s risky solo move paid off
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• Orleans Reveal Plans to Stop Touring After This Year
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Canadian Rock Bands?
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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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• “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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• “My kids sat me down and said, ‘Please stop, because you are gonna kill yourself’”: Dee Snider opens up about health issues that made him step away from Twisted Sister
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• Stevie Young of AC/DC Hospitalized After Concert
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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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• Dave Grohl Used Music as a 'Crutch' After Taylor Hawkins’ Death
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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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• "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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• From Drakkar Noir to Lip Smackers: 18 Classic '80s Smells
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• "The songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars stole was real." American fraudster earns eight million dollars streaming AI songs that no human has ever listened to
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• "If you ask me what it's like to be a woman in rock, I'll scream." Slipknot, snow fights and sexism: the summer that changed everything for Italy's biggest metal band
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• “The Eagles were recording next door, but we were too loud for them. It kept coming through the wall into their sessions”: How Black Sabbath nearly ruined one of the most famous American rock songs in history
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• “Some bands wouldn’t function without each other, like Led Zeppelin. I was never like that. I was thought of as an egomaniac”: The Swedish shredder who compares himself to Beethoven, hates the blues and loves being rock’s most divisive guitarist
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• Foo Fighters Say Taylor Hawkins Is Still a Member of the Band
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• Can You Answer These 50 Beatles 'Jeopardy!' Questions?
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• "I am highly insulted that Moby would accuse my brother of being 'unevolved' or transphobic in any way." Dave Davies fires back after criticism of The Kinks' classic Lola
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• Cool new prog you must hear from Crown Lands, Tarja, Ed O'Brien and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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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 started shooting up heroin when I was 13. I didn't want to be left out of all the fun." How a damaged teenage drug dealer channelled black days into platinum records
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• Dave Grohl Says Taylor Hawkins Visited Him in Dream
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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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• "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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• Listen to the New Cactus Single Featuring Dee Snider
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• 5 Reasons Phil Collins Should Be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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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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• Paul McCartney Took a Countryside Drive and Found a Beatles Gem
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• Watch lyric video for new Foo Fighters single Caught In The Echo
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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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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of New York City Rock Bands?
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• "Steven's happy we're doing this and thinks it'll be great fun." Porcupine Tree offshoot Voyage 35 tease first new/old music
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• “To my shame, I did have big hair when I was a teenager – the full Mötley Crüe. But I could never get with Poison”: The 80s thrash classic Korn guitarist Head calls “the ultimate metal album” – and the record he thinks should be thrown in the trash
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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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• How Queensryche Opened a New Chapter With 'Operation: Mindcrime'
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• Wayne Perkins, Influential Session Guitarist, Dies at 74
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• Vote for the Best Album of the '70s: Only The Elite Eight Remain
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• Rich Robinson: 'F—ing Toxic' Dynamic Nearly Doomed Black Crowes
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• Billy Idol Announces Summer 2026 Las Vegas Residency
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• “I was working with Pete Townshend just after Moon died. I said: ‘Have you got anybody? I’ll leave Genesis’”: Phil Collins comes clean about wanting to join The Who, Led Zeppelin at Live Aid and the young rock legend who sent him a letter of support
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• "I remember getting the award from Aerosmith and I went to an afterparty with Bono. It was all mad." How a comedy song about a posh lady getting her kicks from the homeless community became an impossible hit
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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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• Every Classic Rock Artist Who Released More Than 1 Diamond Album
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• Ted Nugent Announces New 2026 Tour Dates
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• "We jokingly called the album Commercial Suicide while we were making it." Why one of the world's biggest rock bands had to go back to "ground zero" on their riskiest and darkest record
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• "He is undergoing ​a full battery of tests": AC/DC's Stevie Young hospitalised in Argentina
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• 5 Reasons Why Black Crowes Should Be in the Rock Hall
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• Muse return with bombastic new single as they announce tenth studio album
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• “40 years later, I still get to do the thing I love the most. I truly have to pinch myself.” One of America's greatest alternative rock bands announce 40th anniversary tour
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• Phil Collins No Longer Leads the Rock Hall of Fame Fan Vote
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• Watch the Trailer for 'Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition' Documentary
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