Rock News 2026-03-26

• Hotel bombings, car crashes, conspiracy theories, towering infernos and more: The A to Z of B.B. King
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• 20 Pinball Machines Rock Fans Wish They Owned
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• The Top 100 Albums of the 1970s
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• Ranking Paul McCartney's 'Wings at the Speed of Sound' Songs
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• "By writing obsessively in my diary I was admitting, This is madness, you are in danger, be careful." Hole, Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur on surviving the '90s, love, loss, and her brilliant memoir Even The Good Girls Will Cry
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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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• How a Lesbian Bar and Monty Python Helped Billy Idol Get His Name
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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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• “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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• Billy Joel 'Jeopardy!' Questions: How Many Can You Get Right?
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• Sepultura founders Max and Iggor Cavalera declined invitation to perform at band’s final show, claims guitarist Andreas Kisser: “They don’t want to be a part of it”
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• Foo Fighters Say Taylor Hawkins Is Still a Member of the Band
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• "Eyes pop, brains explode, jaws smack hard on the venue floor." Mogwai summon a post-rock apocalypse in London's most refined concert hall by invitation of The Cure's Robert Smith
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• AFI announce UK and European headline shows
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• Bob Dylan Launches 2026 Tour With Acoustic Set and Surprise Cover
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• I’ve just kitted out my summer festival wardrobe with huge Amazon Spring Sale savings on band tees: Maiden, Korn, Sabbath, Slipknot, Green Day & more
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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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• Melissa Etheridge Challenges Gene Simmons on Hip-Hop in Rock Hall
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• Eagles Have Extended the Long Goodbye: Act III Tour Again
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• George Thorogood Announces ‘The Baddest Show on Earth’ Live Album
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• "I don't know what to think. This was never on my bingo card." The Beach Boys replace Bruce Johnston with singer found on social media
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• Todd Rundgren's 2026 Summer Tour Dates and Cities Revealed
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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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• Dash Crofts of '70s Soft-Rockers Seals and Crofts Dies
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• Dave Davies 'Highly Insulted' by Moby's Rebuke of Kinks' 'Lola'
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• Bryan Adams and Pat Benatar announce extensive run of US shows
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• “Somebody said I was the ice queen, because I just didn’t move on stage – I was terrified!” The woman who became a prog star after being asked to lead the singing at anti-nuke marches
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• Every Classic Rock Artist Who Released More Than 1 Diamond Album
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• How Queensryche Opened a New Chapter With 'Operation: Mindcrime'
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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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• One of metal’s biggest bands soundtrack a fist-fight featuring Bruce Campbell as Satan in the new episode of Invincible, and TV doesn’t get much cooler than that
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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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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Australian Rock Bands?
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• "Queen, Muse, black metal…I want to be able to be eclectic with it." Former Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz reveals her surprising influences, clarifies the situation about the next phase of her career
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• The 30 best metal albums of the decade (so far)
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• How to watch Prime Video from anywhere: Stream award-winning music documentaries, live performances and more
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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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• "A portrait of determination, self-destruction and redemption": How to watch new documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead
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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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• Ever wanted to hear Blink-182, Creed and Chris Stapleton hail Satan? This guitarist is turning pop-punk, country and classical songs into black metal riffs
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• Soundboks raise the roof once again with their latest heavyweight Bluetooth speaker
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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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• Terry Cox, Drummer With David Bowie and Elton John, Dies at 89
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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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• "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 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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• “You’re doing all the work, selling your own merch, but they’ll still come at the end of the night and take 25 percent. For what?!” UK metal band on the cusp of breaking up detail the ludicrous costs of touring in the 2020s
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• 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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• "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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• Rolling Stones 'Jeopardy!' Questions: Can You Answer All 40?
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• Stray Cats' Brian Setzer Shares Scary New Details About Illness
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 23, 2026
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• Flea, 'Honora': Review
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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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• The Doobie Brothers Announce Fall 2026 Tour Dates Across the U.S.
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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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• Vote for the Best Album of the '70s: Only The Elite Eight Remain
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• Ted Nugent Announces New Live Concert Pay-Per-View and Blu-ray
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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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• 50 Years Ago: Shooting Starts on ‘Star Wars’
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• Judas Priest Announces ‘Sad Wings of Destiny’ Reissue
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• "I think a lot of people in rock culture can smell it." Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix loves how rock is pushing back against A.I.
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• ZZ Top Announces New Concert Dates for 2026
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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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• "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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• Graham Nash Announces Summer Tour Dates
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• "The Island record came out the same time as Bob Marley, and the Epic one at the same time as Boston. We were buried, and both became Frisbees." The story of the southern rock legends who took ten years to become an overnight success
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• "They sounded like Hanoi Rocks after somebody hit them in the head with a frying pan." 40 years ago The Babysitters were the best-worst band in the World. Perhaps they still are
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• "I did some crazy s**t, you know!" Remembering Ozzy Osbourne's bizarre '90s collaboration with Miss Piggy
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• “Over the years there have been people claiming I nudged Peter Gabriel out. That’s complete rubbish”: Phil Collins’ first show as Genesis singer, 50 years ago
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• Foreigner Extends 50th Anniversary Tour Into the Fall
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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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• AC/DC Returns to the Stage After Stevie Young's Hospitalization
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• Bryan Adams Announces New 2026 US Tour Dates With Pat Benatar
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• April 2026 New Music Releases
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• 40 Years Ago: Why Rolling Stones Struggled Through 'Dirty Work'
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• "I've always been drawn to the energy and storytelling of heavy metal." William Shatner announces Rob Halford will guest on his eagerly-awaited all-star heavy metal album
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• Partial Guns N' Roses Reunion Highlights Troubadour Show: Videos
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• Ranking Every George Harrison Top 40 Song
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• “They chose to make this buck-wild album. If Metallica can do that, then we can do that”: Why Avenged Sevenfold “fell in love” with the ever-controversial St Anger
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• New Ad With Bruce Springsteen Hit Takes on Trump Executive Order
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