Rock News 2026-03-25

• Lord Of The Rings star Elijah Wood can no longer listen to Metallica’s Enter Sandman, and his infant son is to blame
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• Todd Rundgren's 2026 Summer Tour Dates and Cities Revealed
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• "I took my scooter up the lift and rode it through the corridors naked in drag make-up with just a tie on." A brilliant and bonkers interview with Motorhead's late, great Phil Campbell
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• How Queensryche Opened a New Chapter With 'Operation: Mindcrime'
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• “I said, ‘It’s more interesting to just hint. We don’t want to give the game away”: The unloved movie script that soundtracked Porcupine Tree’s Deadwing
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• "Yo, Jim. This is Sylvester Stallone. Gimme a call. We need to talk." How one of Hollywood's great action heroes turned Survivor from no-hopers to heavyweight champions of AOR
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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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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of New York City Rock Bands?
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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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• "Determined to expand beyond the restrictive confines of goth, they were victims of their own ambition." Nine albums by The Mission to listen and one to ignore
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• "I was like, Get out of this studio right now. And his jaw hit the ground." The day Anthony Kiedis was fired from Red Hot Chili Peppers, and why it was the wake-up call he desperately needed
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• Parkway Drive distance themselves from former employee who pleaded guilty to underage sex offence: “We support the victim 100 percent. She deserves justice.”
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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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• AC/DC Returns to the Stage After Stevie Young's Hospitalization
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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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• They were bottled off stage by Alice Cooper's audience, derailed by a death in The Pretenders and made U2's producer cry: How Big Country made one of the biggest albums of the 80s
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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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• "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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• "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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• "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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• Terry Cox, Drummer With David Bowie and Elton John, Dies at 89
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• Melissa Etheridge Challenges Gene Simmons on Hip-Hop in Rock Hall
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• Dave Grohl Says Taylor Hawkins Visited Him in Dream
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• How George Clinton's 'Kidd Funkadelic' Found His Groove
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• Pentangle drummer Terry Cox, who also played on David Bowie's Space Oddity, has died, aged 89
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• 20 Pinball Machines Rock Fans Wish They Owned
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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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• Soundboks raise the roof once again with their latest heavyweight Bluetooth speaker
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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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• "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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• “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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• April 2026 New Music Releases
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• "There was no facade, this was genuine." Take a first look inside Oasis Live ‘25 Opus, the official photo book of "the most anticipated reunion of all time"
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• From Drakkar Noir to Lip Smackers: 18 Classic '80s Smells
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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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• Foreigner Extends 50th Anniversary Tour Into the Fall
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• "I felt like an absurd grunge Cinderella, who’d found herself with VIP access to the ball." Melissa Auf der Maur's '90s rock memoir Even The Good Girls Will Cry is frank, fearless and fabulously revelatory
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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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• “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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• ZZ Top Announces New Concert Dates for 2026
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• Flea, 'Honora': Review
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• Hotel bombings, car crashes, conspiracy theories, towering infernos and more: The A to Z of B.B. King
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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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• Graham Nash Announces Summer Tour Dates
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• Foo Fighters Say Taylor Hawkins Is Still a Member of the Band
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• Chuck Norris, Movie and TV Star, Dies at 86
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Australian Rock Bands?
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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 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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• The 30 best metal albums of the decade (so far)
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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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• Watch lyric video for new Foo Fighters single Caught In The Echo
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• Eagles Have Extended the Long Goodbye: Act III Tour Again
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• 40 Years Ago: Why Rolling Stones Struggled Through 'Dirty Work'
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• Partial Guns N' Roses Reunion Highlights Troubadour Show: Videos
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• Bryan Adams Announces New 2026 US Tour Dates With Pat Benatar
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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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• Vote for the Best Album of the '70s: Only The Elite Eight Remain
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• “I’d never heard of them before I got the request. But my assistant said they were very good, so I agreed”: The ambition behind Nightwish’s collaboration with Richard Dawkins
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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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• Dave Davies 'Highly Insulted' by Moby's Rebuke of Kinks' 'Lola'
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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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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 23, 2026
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• 50 Years Ago: Shooting Starts on ‘Star Wars’
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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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• Bob Dylan Launches 2026 Tour With Acoustic Set and Surprise Cover
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• Rolling Stones 'Jeopardy!' Questions: Can You Answer All 40?
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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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• "There's no reason why you can't get better as you get older." Nine Thunder albums to listen to and one to avoid
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• AFI announce UK and European headline shows
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• Ranking Every George Harrison Top 40 Song
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• The Doobie Brothers Announce Fall 2026 Tour Dates Across the U.S.
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• How to watch Prime Video from anywhere: Stream award-winning music documentaries, live performances and more
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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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• "In pursuing my own fake band I stumbled upon something that had real potential." The miraculous rise of the modern prog superstars who started out as a joke
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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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• Ted Nugent Announces New 2026 Tour Dates
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• Every Classic Rock Artist Who Released More Than 1 Diamond Album
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• New Ad With Bruce Springsteen Hit Takes on Trump Executive Order
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• Stray Cats' Brian Setzer Shares Scary New Details About Illness
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• The Best Hair Metal Band for Each Letter of the Alphabet
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• George Thorogood Announces ‘The Baddest Show on Earth’ Live Album
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• Bryan Adams and Pat Benatar announce extensive run of US shows
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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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