Rock News 2026-03-29

• Who Are the 'Big 4' of British Rock Bands?
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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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• "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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• “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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• Bruce Springsteen 'Jeopardy!' Questions: How Many Can You Answer?
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• Ranking Every George Harrison Top 40 Song
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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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• Graham Nash Announces Summer Tour Dates
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• Ted Nugent Announces New Live Concert Pay-Per-View and Blu-ray
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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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• Lou Gramm Announces 2026 Tour for New Solo Album
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• Is a New Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks Collaboration Coming?
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Scottish Rock Bands?
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• Bob Dylan Reveals Over a Dozen New Summer Tour Dates
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• 9 Rock Stars Who Were Fired and Then Outshined Their Former Bands
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• John Fogerty Expands 'Centerfield' Ahead of MLB's Opening Day
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• “We soaked up all of this great music and that song has bits of all of that – that open-stringed riff that Sepultura, Machine Head and Slipknot were famous for”: How a group of Florida teenagers wrote the anthem that gave mid-2000s metal a shot in the arm
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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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• Dash Crofts of '70s Soft-Rockers Seals and Crofts Dies
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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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• 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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• 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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• “Freddie sounded like a rather powerful bleating sheep”: How the very first song Queen ever played live went on to become a 70s rock classic covered by the world’s biggest metal band
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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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• "I would love to release a live album of this lineup." No plans for new Pantera music, but Charlie Benante wants to document the comeback
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• How Melissa Etheridge's 'Rise' Album Was Inspired by Tom Petty
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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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• "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 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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• “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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• "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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• “They perceived it to be blasphemous. It was not pornographic. It was serious. It was my first experience of the gulf between a record company and an artist”: Vangelis’ disgust at the treatment of Aphrodite’s Child masterpiece 666
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• “I said, ‘Inform Mr Jagger that the fee is a million dollars.’ He just about choked on that. But he knew the Stones needed us”: Twelve months of chaos, carnage and controversy that turned Guns N’Roses into rock’s biggest band – and nearly killed them
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• Guns N' Roses Announce Lineup Change for 2026 World Tour
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Australian Rock Bands?
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• Watch Zakk Wylde in emotional video for Black Label Society's Ozzy Osbourne tribute
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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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• "This is a record about identity, legacy, survival." Suzi Quatro refuses to dim the lights on 18th album Freedom
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• “It’s magic. You really enter into it when you listen to it – the concept, the way they played it. It still has a huge impact even now”: The epic 70s prog album Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia wishes she had made – and the album that broke her heart
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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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• I'm a life-long Rush fan and I can't believe there's an 18% saving on the newly-released Grace Under Pressure super deluxe edition in Amazon's Big Spring Sale
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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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• George Thorogood Announces ‘The Baddest Show on Earth’ Live Album
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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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• Billy Joel 'Jeopardy!' Questions: How Many Can You Get Right?
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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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• "A portrait of determination, self-destruction and redemption": How to watch new documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead
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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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• The Sons of Kiss' Stanley and Simmons Release Their Second Single
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• Guns N' Roses Kick Off World Tour With Live Debut of New Songs
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• "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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• “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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• “People would stampede like wildebeest towards the stage. They’d go wild. We’d think: ‘This is what it’s about.’ It was like the Stones, The Doors, Zeppelin”: The rise, fall and many resurrections of the goth pioneers who hated being called a goth band
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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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• Ross 'The Boss' Friedman, founding guitarist with Manowar and The Dictators, dead at 72
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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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• Foreigner Extends 50th Anniversary Tour Into the Fall
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• Terry Cox, Drummer With David Bowie and Elton John, Dies at 89
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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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• "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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• Ex-Iron Maiden Member Added to Rock Hall Nomination Ballot
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• "There’s been a constant tension that’s been an enormous challenge for us all over the years –he did what he had to do.” Did a televised protest against Limp Bizkit really force Zack de la Rocha to quit Rage Against The Machine?
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• The Top 100 Albums of the 1970s
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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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• Judas Priest Announces ‘Sad Wings of Destiny’ Reissue
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• “I became carried away with my playing and when I turned around this hard-as-nails guy had a tear streaming down his cheek”: How a million-selling hair metal band made one of the most epic ballads of the 80s – with help from the Rolling Stones’ producer
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• Todd Rundgren's 2026 Summer Tour Dates and Cities Revealed
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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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• Paul McCartney Announces New Album, 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane'
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• Vote for the Best Album of the '70s: Only the Final Four Remain
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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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• "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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• Watch Zakk Wylde’s New Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
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• Ranking Paul McCartney's 'Wings at the Speed of Sound' Songs
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• How a Lesbian Bar and Monty Python Helped Billy Idol Get His Name
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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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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
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• “There was definitely some butting of heads – between Kerry King and Dave Mustaine, myself and Dave Mustaine, Dave Mustaine and Dave Mustaine”: The chaotic early 90s mega-tour that put thrash metal in arenas – and invented ‘The Big 4’
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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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• Flea, 'Honora': Review
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• 34 Things You'd See in a Typical 1970s Kitchen
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• Paul McCartney Plays First Concert of 2026: Set List + Video
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• ZZ Top Announces New Concert Dates for 2026
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• Fleetwood Mac and Eric Clapton Producer Mike Vernon Dies
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