Rock News 2026-03-24

• Rich Robinson: 'F—ing Toxic' Dynamic Nearly Doomed Black Crowes
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• How Queensryche Opened a New Chapter With 'Operation: Mindcrime'
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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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• AFI announce UK and European headline shows
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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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• “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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• “He stopped the proceedings and said, ‘What you’re playing is crap!’” Bill Bruford’s first and best drum lesson as King Crimson recorded Larks’ Tongues In Aspic
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• Things You Saw at Grandma’s House in the 1980s
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• "If it were made today, it would sound like Green Day or a metal band." How a neurotic 19-year-old and a guitarist with a razor created the blueprint for metal and punk
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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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• "We were playing the first slot at noon. Nobody comes to the stage at noon but it was full of people. They were waiting for us and chanting!" How four Mongolian pals playing folk metal became their country's biggest ever rock band
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• Bob Dylan Launches 2026 Tour With Acoustic Set and Surprise Cover
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• Foo Fighters Say Taylor Hawkins Is Still a Member of the Band
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• “Marrying the idea of death to an upbeat, singalong chorus has always been interesting”: This band love sneaking prog into record collections
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• Orleans Reveal Plans to Stop Touring After This Year
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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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• “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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• Dave Davies 'Highly Insulted' by Moby's Rebuke of Kinks' 'Lola'
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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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• Dave Grohl Says Taylor Hawkins Visited Him in Dream
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• Can You Answer These 50 Beatles 'Jeopardy!' Questions?
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• "On paper, it's hard to imagine Ronstadt as a road-weary trucker, but she completely owns Lowell George's Willin'." Linda Ronstadt gently explores an eclectic selection of songs on Heart Like A Wheel
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• From Drakkar Noir to Lip Smackers: 18 Classic '80s Smells
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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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• “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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• "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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• "I should be dead, but someone up there likes me." Billy Idol looks back on his wild adventures in '80s New York, including the night he met David Bowie while covered in his own vomit
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• Phil Collins No Longer Leads the Rock Hall of Fame Fan Vote
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• Rolling Stones 'Jeopardy!' Questions: Can You Answer All 40?
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• Bryan Adams and Pat Benatar announce extensive run of US shows
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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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• 5 Reasons Why Black Crowes Should Be in the Rock Hall
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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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• The Doobie Brothers Announce Fall 2026 Tour Dates Across the U.S.
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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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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Canadian Rock Bands?
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• "Open your mind. Wear what you want, sing what you want to sing, be what you want to be. Be happy." Ana Popovic on fixing the craziness in the world, getting Bruce Springsteen's approval and turning funky
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• "He said: 'Hold it! Keep playing that, don't stop!' He comes down in his undershorts and grabs his guitar, then completes the riff." How London’s famous clock tower and a flirtatious groupie inspired Jimi Hendrix's last great song
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• 5 Reasons Phil Collins Should Be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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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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• Eagles Have Extended the Long Goodbye: Act III Tour Again
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• How George Clinton's 'Kidd Funkadelic' Found His Groove
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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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• Stevie Young of AC/DC Hospitalized After Concert
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of New York City Rock Bands?
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• Wayne Perkins, Influential Session Guitarist, Dies at 74
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• Ted Nugent Announces New 2026 Tour Dates
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• Revisiting Randy Rhoads' Final Show With Ozzy Osbourne
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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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• Paul McCartney Reveals ‘The Man on the Run'
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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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• "I don’t want my son disrespecting women, but he always says to me, 'Mom! You have a song called Whore!'" The misunderstood singer who became a 21st century metal icon
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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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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 23, 2026
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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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• "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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• “A lot of fans and the press didn’t like it. I agreed with them for a while”: The British blues boom band who went prog, with help from John Lennon, heatstroke and weed
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• Vote for the Best Album of the '70s: Only The Elite Eight Remain
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
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• Soundboks raise the roof once again with their latest heavyweight Bluetooth speaker
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• "I was kicked out of the Deftones show 'cos I was being too aggressive in the pit. I was like, 'I used to be in this band!'" What it was like being in one of the world's biggest metal bands in their earliest days
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• New Ad With Bruce Springsteen Hit Takes on Trump Executive Order
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• Dave Grohl Used Music as a 'Crutch' After Taylor Hawkins’ Death
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• "It has all that weight, all that history, all that pain." How Hollywood superstar Cillian Murphy convinced one of the world's most acclaimed musicians to re-record one of his best-loved songs for the new Peaky Blinders movie
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• The Best Hair Metal Band for Each Letter of the Alphabet
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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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• Kraftwerk announce 50th anniversary reissues for Radio-Activity
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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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• “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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• "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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• Every Classic Rock Artist Who Released More Than 1 Diamond Album
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• 50 Years Ago: Shooting Starts on ‘Star Wars’
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• Watch lyric video for new Foo Fighters single Caught In The Echo
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• Watch the Trailer for 'Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition' Documentary
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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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• "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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• “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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• Paul McCartney Took a Countryside Drive and Found a Beatles Gem
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• Melissa Etheridge Challenges Gene Simmons on Hip-Hop in Rock Hall
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• Bryan Adams Announces New 2026 US Tour Dates With Pat Benatar
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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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• “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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• Chuck Norris, Movie and TV Star, Dies at 86
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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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• "It touched something inside me the moment I heard it, and I’ve never been able to step away from it." The two-woman band from Istanbul bringing the Turkish black metal scene roaring into life
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