Rock News 2026-04-06

• 10 Kiss Songs for People Who Don't Like Kiss
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• Suki Lahav, Former Bruce Springsteen Violinist, Dead at 74
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• “We’d been getting a battering about how polished we sounded. So we started to search for a little more earthiness”: How a hard rock band who made Johnny Rotten “jump around like a lunatic” made a gritty 70s classic – and caused uproar with the cover
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• "We don't write songs which shy away from witnessing a world in its trauma, its rage and pain." U2 surprise-release new six-song EP Easter Lily
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• Blackie Lawless Reveals the Title of His Upcoming Memoir
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• "It takes me back to my schooldays." Peter Gabriel shares his latest single Till Your Mind Is Shining
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• Eric Clapton Announces 2026 Crossroads Guitar Festival
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• The Black Crowes Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• "I wanna write lyrics that have real weight in real life experience. I don’t wanna write about still dyeing my hair black!" Members of influential bands Crowbar and Type O Negative unite in dour new supergroup Sun Don't Shine
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• Deep Purple and Kansas Announce 2026 Tour Dates
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• Yes postpone this month's Fragile UK tour as guitarist Steve Howe requires surgery
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• "Good luck with your music, I will continue to not listen to it." Gloves are off in Arch Enemy v Kiko Loureiro copyright beef as former Megadeth man and Michael Amott trade barbs
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• "It wasn't quite working with the three of us. We were thinking that maybe we should continue with someone else." Alex Lifeson says he initially had doubts about new Rush drummer Anika Nilles
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• “He may be alluding to life, the universe or a balance sheet, for all the listener knows”: The 1980 album that brought George Orwell, Casio calculators and a pop producer into the realm of prog
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• “Gram had this idea of ‘Cosmic American Music’. Music had no rules back then. There was so much freedom”: The trailblazing ’60s country-rock band who pioneered a whole new sound – only for the Eagles to steal their thunder
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• "When you live in Mexico there is always this thought in the back of your head that you are not safe. You’re always alert."Meet the band bringing true heavy metal back to Mexico - while trying to escape it
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• Exploring 50 Songs That Celebrate the Moon
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• Voyage 35 share their first music with a cover of Porcupine Tree's The Nostalgia Factory
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• Win an Aerosmith 'Aerosmith' Deluxe Vinyl Box Set
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• Longtime Van Halen Engineer Donn Landee Dead at 79
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• "We like going places where it's a challenge." How Queen helped tear down the Iron Curtain
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• Geddy Lee on Using Rush Name: 'What Else Do You F—ing Call It?'
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• Gene Simmons Announces Summer 2026 Solo Dates With '80s Rockers
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• "I want to do lots of different things. I'm always on some sort of learning curve." Every album Robert Plant has made since Led Zeppelin broke up, ranked from worst to best
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• Listen to Jack White's Two New Singles
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• “Our peers – Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Green Day – see the honesty and they get it. A lot of people never will, but that’s not important”: Horror-punk icons the Misfits recorded their classic debut album in 1978. It took 18 years for it to be released
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• “He asked, ‘Who owns the rights to your albums?’ I was like, ‘We should.’ He said, ‘How about I buy them for you?’” It took nearly 50 years for Happy The Man to hear their music the way they’d intended
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• Masked-up Canadian math rockers Angine de Poitrine announce new EU and UK tour for October
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• Bruce Springsteen Blasts Trump at Tour Launch in Minneapolis
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• “I cried my eyes out when I heard Maiden’s Brave New World. There was this sense of great loss that hit me really hard”: Blaze Bayley comes clean about leaving Iron Maiden, clashing with Rick Rubin and the heart attack that nearly killed him
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• "I started chemo and got in touch with my Native American roots." How Testament's Chuck Billy survived cancer (and grunge) to become a thrash metal legend
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• "I could feel his heart through his chest and he passed away right there." Childhood tragedy, unlikely success and emotional reunions: Max Cavalera on how he reshaped metal with Sepultura and Soulfly
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• Lindsey Buckingham Attacked by Alleged Stalking Suspect
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• How Arthritis Made Keith Richards Adapt His Guitar Playing
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• Veteran R&B, Funk and Rock Drummer James Gadson Dead at 86
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• "The America that I've written about for 50 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous administration." Bruce Springsteen launches his fiercest attacks yet against "criminal clown" Donald Trump
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• Former Turnstile guitarist Brady Ebert facing charge of attempted murder of Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates' 79-year-old father
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• "We're exploring the similarities between recycling and horror. For example, zombies are recycled flesh and bones." Sweden has a new face in the war against household waste: heavy metal monster band Lordi
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• "I put my hand up and said I'm bringing trouble to them. Here we are." Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova added to Russian federal wanted list
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• "If you’re trying to have followers and make them think like you do, you’re just building a cult." How Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer explore comedy and tragedy
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• 5 insanely obscure 1980s rock albums that are a perfect 10/10
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• Neal Schon Is Over Journey Drama: 'I Just Want Some F—ing Peace'
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• Watch Guns N' Roses Play 'Bad Apples' for First Time Since 1991
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• "Our goal is to be the biggest heavy metal band in the world." Tailgunner want to be the new Iron Maiden. Or the new Metallica. Or the new Judas Priest. And KK Downing is convinced
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• “There would be no Holiday In Cambodia without Hawkwind”: Jello Biafra discovered the space rockers in a copy of Penthouse – and wound up singing Silver Machine with Nik Turner
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• Vote for the Best Album of the '70s: Pink Floyd vs. The Who
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• Harm's Way guitarist Bo Lueders dead at 38
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• Hear Peter Gabriel's New Song 'Till Your Mind Is Shining'
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• "Not just a way to disrupt the status quo, but perhaps to destroy it completely." Sub Pop announces details of what promises to be the best record on the label since its '90s heyday, and you can hear the first single now
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• Iron Maiden Announces 2 Major Additions to EddFest Lineup
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• Inside Corrosion of Conformity's 'Love Letter to Rock and Roll'
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• "When I started playing guitar at 14 I was watching Alice Cooper live shows on YouTube, dreaming of joining one day!" Alice Cooper announces new guitarist Anna Cara
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• “His legend has only grown since his death. He comes closer than anyone to being the best guitar player that ever lived”: In 1989, this cult rock’n’roll musician was called “the world’s greatest unknown guitar player”. Five years later he was dead
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• Guns N' Roses' Massive Reunion by the Numbers
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• Cool new proggy sounds you need to hear from Plini, Chimpan A, William Gilmour & John McGuigan, Playgrounded and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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• “When Eric Clapton left, we tried different guitarists. Peter Green told me he was better than everybody else. Once I heard him play, I realised he was”: How the most influential British blues band of the 60s replaced one brand new guitar god with another
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• If you think Bruce Springsteen should shut up about politics and just play his songs, you obviously have no idea what Bruce Springsteen has been singing about for the past 50 years
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• Crowdfunding campaign launched to support the family of late GosT mastermind James Lollar
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• How Would Neil Peart Feel About the Rush Reunion?
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• Bonnie Raitt Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• "I lost it. I was just screaming and swinging at people. I’m not proud of it." How Red Hot Chili Peppers made By The Way, in their own words
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• Is WKRP Coming to Cincinnati for Real?
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• Why and How Neil Young Drove a Hearse Across America
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• “David Coverdale believed those things were alright to say. Jon Lord and I would see something he’d said and wrinkle our noses”: How a controversial album cover and cheeky T-shirts helped turn two ex-Deep Purple members into stars all over again
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• Lost treasures: Ten cult classic albums worth scouring second-hand record stores for
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• “Spielberg requested a meeting. They’d written a movie and decided their hero’s favourite band would have been Huey Lewis & The News”: How a Hollywood legend and a time-travelling teenager turned a veteran rocker into an unlikely 80s superstar
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• "I just want her to leave me alone and not hurt anyone else." Woman charged with alleged stalking of Ghost singer Tobias Forge
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• "This record could change your life, if itneeds changing. It's adefiant burst of joy for a world in flames." Jim Jones All Stars' Cat Fight is a record for people who wanna have a good time, all the time
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• “Taking up music was a rebellion against order… I realised I was never going to be the most studious guitarist”: Why Steve Howe didn’t join The Nice or Atomic Rooster, and didn’t even go to his Jethro Tull audition
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• “Whoever listens closely to Hallelujah will discover that it is a song about sex, about love, about life on earth”: How Jeff Buckley turned a Canadian troubadour’s forgotten song into a one-man tour de force – and launched a million bad cover versions
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• U2 Releases New 'Easter Lily' EP
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• Meet Alice Cooper's New Guitarist
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• James Lollar, the mastermind behind dark synthwave trailblazers GosT, dead at 46
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• Can You Answer These 50 Bob Dylan 'Jeopardy!' Questions?
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• The Black Crowes Dig Out Rarities for First Concert of 2026
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• Arnel Pineda Tried to Pull Out of Journey's Farewell Tour
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• 15 of Rock's Funniest Pranks and Jokes
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• "Bonzo picked George Harrison up and launched him into the swimming pool. He said it was the greatest night of his life!" How Led Zeppelin seized control of the industry and became the biggest rock band on the planet
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• Yes Postpones Fragile UK Tour So Steve Howe Can Undergo Surgery
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• “There’s a man trapped inside my cat!” – genre-smashing star Poppy is on the cover of the new issue of Metal Hammer with an exclusive new interview
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• "It was an experiment, and not everyone was ready for that kind of change!" Jethro Tull announce six-disc reissue of 1984 album Under Wraps
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• Fleetwood Mac star Lindsey Buckingham attacked in Santa Monica
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• “I wake up in the middle of the night thinking, ‘What if we hadn’t gone with him?’ I can’t see how it would have worked”: If Big Big Train hadn’t met Alberto Bravin, they wouldn’t have been on tour to discover the inspiration for Woodcut
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of New Jersey Rock Bands?
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