Rock News 2026-03-28

• "Am I guilty by association, or the innocent receiver of stolen goods?" The surprisingly contentious origins of one of the greatest singles of the 60s
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• Judas Priest Announces ‘Sad Wings of Destiny’ Reissue
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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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• “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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• Ranking Paul McCartney's 'Wings at the Speed of Sound' Songs
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• Partial Guns N' Roses Reunion Highlights Troubadour Show: Videos
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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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• Ranking Every George Harrison Top 40 Song
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• 9 Rock Stars Who Were Fired and Then Outshined Their Former Bands
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• Excellent proggy sounds you must hear from Bruce Soord, Exploring Birdsong, The Claypool Lennon Delirium and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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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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• Flea, 'Honora': Review
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• “We loved being pretentious, in the best possible sense of the word”: The bloody-minded duo who dared to delete a Robert Fripp solo in front of him
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Australian Rock Bands?
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• "Blackwater Park confirmed Opeth as one of the most inventive, indefinable bands in metal." A mesmerisingly brilliant prog-metal album's quarter-century celebration
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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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• Ted Nugent Announces New Live Concert Pay-Per-View and Blu-ray
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• "I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past but then I think how can you write about anything else?" Paul McCartney announces new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane. Listen to first single Days We Left Behind
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• “Nothing happened in Metallica unless Cliff Burton nodded ‘yes’”: Producer recalls how metal’s biggest band “leaned on” their beloved late bassist
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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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• 40 Years Ago: Why Rolling Stones Struggled Through 'Dirty Work'
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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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• Fleetwood Mac and Eric Clapton Producer Mike Vernon Dies
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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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• Get the new Metal Hammer with an exclusive Lamb Of God cover and lyrics t-shirt, only through the Louder webstore
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• "He really didn’t like it the first time we played it, so he tried spoiling it." The story behind the song that made, and nearly broke up, Radiohead
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• "Notable for not including anything new or previously unreleased." The Expanded Edition of Van Halen's 5150 is bigger but not necessarily better
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• How a Lesbian Bar and Monty Python Helped Billy Idol Get His Name
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• Ross 'The Boss' Friedman, founding guitarist with Manowar and The Dictators, dead at 72
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• John Fogerty Expands 'Centerfield' Ahead of MLB's Opening Day
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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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• 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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• The 30 best metal albums of the decade (so far)
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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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• "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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• 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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• "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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• Graham Nash Announces Summer Tour Dates
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• Lou Gramm Announces 2026 Tour for New Solo Album
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• George Thorogood Announces ‘The Baddest Show on Earth’ Live Album
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• The Top 100 Albums of the 1970s
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• Terry Cox, Drummer With David Bowie and Elton John, Dies at 89
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• The Sons of Kiss' Stanley and Simmons Release Their Second Single
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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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• 20 Pinball Machines Rock Fans Wish They Owned
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• Vote for the Best Album of the '70s: Only the Final Four Remain
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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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• Foreigner Extends 50th Anniversary Tour Into the Fall
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• Todd Rundgren's 2026 Summer Tour Dates and Cities Revealed
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• Is a New Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks Collaboration Coming?
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
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• Slamdancing with John Belushi, supporting Guns N' Roses, duetting with Bruce Springsteen, and entertaining Elton John: the fabulous adventures of one of America's greatest and most under-rated cult artists
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• Guns N' Roses Announce Lineup Change for 2026 World Tour
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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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• "The success we enjoyed with Pearl Jam was a little bittersweet because our friend didn’t get to come along." Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament on Ten, Temple Of The Dog, Mother Love Bone, touring America for the first time, and working with Neil Young
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• Billy Joel 'Jeopardy!' Questions: How Many Can You Get Right?
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• Judas Priest have started recording their next album: “I don't know if I’m allowed to say that, but I’ve said it”
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• "You see a lot of kids and they're like, 'I canceled my shows because I'm having a mental-health issue.' The whole '90s was a mental-health issue for us." The Black Crowes Chris Robinson looks back on a turbulent decade
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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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• “It's unbelievable we survived.” How a gang of OC punks changed the face of metalcore - and ultimately became one of 21st Century metal's true stadium acts
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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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• 34 Things You'd See in a Typical 1970s Kitchen
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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 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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• Paul McCartney Announces New Album, 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane'
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• Bob Dylan Reveals Over a Dozen New Summer Tour Dates
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• Pink Floyd to release 1975 Los Angeles Sports Arena concert on vinyl and CD for very first time in April
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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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• Save a bundle on Sony headphones in the Amazon Big Spring Sale - including an epic 43% saving on one of my favourite pairs
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• "They told me I was insane – things like 'career suicide' and all that stuff was thrown around." The drama behind the recording of Smashing Pumpkins' era-defining, bombastic masterpiece
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• “I had to put dirt and filth in the microphone to make it sound grim enough”: Black metal giants Dimmu Borgir have announced their first album in eight years, and they reunited with their classic producer to make it sound old-school
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• "Guaranteed to turn any club, field or arena into a writhing mass of sweating, crashing bodies." Every Lamb Of God album ranked from worst to best
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• Dash Crofts of '70s Soft-Rockers Seals and Crofts Dies
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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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• AC/DC Returns to the Stage After Stevie Young's Hospitalization
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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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• Stray Cats' Brian Setzer Shares Scary New Details About Illness
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• April 2026 New Music Releases
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• "This is a record about identity, legacy, survival." Suzi Quatro refuses to dim the lights on 18th album Freedom
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• Bryan Adams Announces New 2026 US Tour Dates With Pat Benatar
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• ZZ Top Announces New Concert Dates for 2026
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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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• "A portrait of determination, self-destruction and redemption": How to watch new documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead
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• Eagles Have Extended the Long Goodbye: Act III Tour Again
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