Rock News 2026-03-31

• Bob Dylan Launches a Patreon: What's on It?
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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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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
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• Is a New Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks Collaboration Coming?
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• 9 Rock Stars Who Were Fired and Then Outshined Their Former Bands
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• Guns N' Roses Kick Off World Tour With Live Debut of New Songs
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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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• Terry Cox, Drummer With David Bowie and Elton John, Dies at 89
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• The Top 100 Albums of the 1970s
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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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• “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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• “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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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of British Rock Bands?
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• How a Lesbian Bar and Monty Python Helped Billy Idol Get His Name
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• Watch Rush Make Their 2026 Live Debut at the Juno Awards
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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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• “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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• 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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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Scottish 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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• Watch Zakk Wylde in emotional video for Black Label Society's Ozzy Osbourne tribute
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Irish Rock Bands
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• Vote for the Best Album of the '70s: Only the Final Four Remain
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• Judas Priest Announces ‘Sad Wings of Destiny’ Reissue
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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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• Vote for the Best Album of the '70s: Pink Floyd vs. The Who
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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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• Deep Purple announce US tour with Kansas and Jefferson Starship
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• “Makes Hieronymus Bosch’s visions of Hell look like a nursery school”: Thrash veterans Kreator bring demons, wicker men and the most fire this side of Parkway Drive to stunning London show
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• Watch Rush debut new live line-up with powerful rendition of Finding My Way at the Junos
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• Paul McCartney Plays First Concert of 2026: Set List + Video
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• “He switched people on to jazz in the same way we made classical music available to young people”: ELP drummer Carl Palmer’s musical icon is a trumpeter
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• Ex-Iron Maiden Member Added to Rock Hall Nomination Ballot
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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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• 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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• 34 Things You'd See in a Typical 1970s Kitchen
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• Paul McCartney Announces New Album, 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane'
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• Toyah and Robert Fripp return with their most disturbing Sunday Lunch video yet
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• Ranking Paul McCartney's 'Wings at the Speed of Sound' Songs
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• “First of I’d go, ‘That’s amazing – I played that?’ Then I’d say, ‘Hey, I’m gonna have to play that live!’” Just two examples of when Rush took being Rush too far
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• "Robert Plant came up with some lyrics for my music that were extraordinary." Jimmy Page releases previously unheard home demo version of Led Zeppelin's Ten Years Gone
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• Ted Nugent Announces New Live Concert Pay-Per-View and Blu-ray
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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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• Win an Aerosmith 'Aerosmith' Deluxe Vinyl Box Set
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• Bruce Springsteen 'Jeopardy!' Questions: How Many Can You Answer?
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• Ross 'The Boss' Friedman, founding guitarist with Manowar and The Dictators, dead at 72
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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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• Billy Joel 'Jeopardy!' Questions: How Many Can You Get Right?
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• "She's skipping, spinning, hollering and slapping the hell out of her frame drum when she’s not riling the crowd up." Mysterious Viking war trance duo Eihwar bring a party like no other to London
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• "He was screaming about being in Vietnam and running in front of cars." How a childhood encounter with an absconded psychiatric inpatient inspired a song that would change the face of metal
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• Dash Crofts of '70s Soft-Rockers Seals and Crofts Dies
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• How Melissa Etheridge's 'Rise' Album Was Inspired by Tom Petty
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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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• Eric Clapton Announces 2026 Crossroads Guitar Festival
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• Watch Zakk Wylde’s New Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
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• Bob Dylan Reveals Over a Dozen New Summer Tour Dates
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• Watch close-up footage of the brand new singer of extreme metal legends Arch Enemy crushing it at the band's return show in Beijing, China on Friday night
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 30, 2026
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• John Fogerty Expands 'Centerfield' Ahead of MLB's Opening Day
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• The Sons of Kiss' Stanley and Simmons Release Their Second Single
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• “A 15-year-old girl came up and said, ‘I have a formal request from my family that you marry me.’ Her brother looked like he’d murder me if I said no”: King Crimson’s rock star moments include a food fight and an adult movie soundtrack
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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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• 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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• “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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• Deep Purple and Kansas Announce 2026 Tour Dates
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• "Olivia Rodrigo said to my daughter, Without your mother, none of this would have happened." Melissa Auf der Maur, one of the unsung heroes of '90s rock, is finally getting her flowers
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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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• Lou Gramm Announces 2026 Tour for New Solo Album
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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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• Guns N' Roses Announce Lineup Change for 2026 World Tour
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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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• "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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• "Blessedly free of vibraphones and scatological humour." Todd Rundgren delights some and confounds others on A Wizard, A True Star
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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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• “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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• Fleetwood Mac and Eric Clapton Producer Mike Vernon Dies
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• America's 250th birthday will be celebrated with a July 4 concert at a military base in Kentucky headlined by a hologram of Charlie Daniels
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• Guns N' Roses keyboardist Melissa Reese bows out of World Tour due to "personal reasons"
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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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• I’m an old-school Star Wars geek and I just can’t get enough of these 12 Death Star-sized discounts in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
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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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• 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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• How Arthritis Made Keith Richards Adapt His Guitar Playing
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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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