Rock News 2026-04-07

• “I used to cringe when I heard my voice on those songs, and then it went to Number 1! I remember it blasting out of radios. I was mortified”: The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde wrote a classic late 70s hit. She’s still not sure why it was so popular
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• The Black Crowes Dig Out Rarities for First Concert of 2026
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• Longtime Van Halen Engineer Donn Landee Dead at 79
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• Guns N' Roses' Massive Reunion by the Numbers
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• Hear Peter Gabriel's New Song 'Till Your Mind Is Shining'
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• "My role in life was to be a proud, bold lion, to tell the truth, and stick up for what's right." Dave Mustaine on Megadeth's final chapter, his love for Ozzy, finger numbness, and trading mosh pits for a silver-screen future
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• "We were invited to a séance by some girls in Italy. It all got a bit out of hand, a bit freaky. That was the first and last time we tried to summon spirits of the dead." How Uriah Heep's Demons And Wizards album turned them into global superstars
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• Bruce Springsteen Blasts Trump at Tour Launch in Minneapolis
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of New Jersey Rock Bands?
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• James Lollar, the mastermind behind dark synthwave trailblazers GosT, dead at 46
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• “How dare he revolutionise rock’n’roll then give it all up and just walk away without a word!” Syd Barrett was never lost. He just didn’t want to be found
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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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• Watch Guns N' Roses Play 'Bad Apples' for First Time Since 1991
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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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• 15 of Rock's Funniest Pranks and Jokes
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• 21 Candies From the 1980s That You Haven’t Thought About in Years
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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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• “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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• The 11 best songs from 1973
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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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• Yes postpone this month's Fragile UK tour as guitarist Steve Howe requires surgery
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• 5 insanely obscure 1980s rock albums that are a perfect 10/10
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• Is WKRP Coming to Cincinnati for Real?
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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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• "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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• Geddy Lee on Using Rush Name: 'What Else Do You F—ing Call It?'
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• “My partners lived bohemian lives but ran the band like a capitalist corporation. Exploiting other people makes you feel lonely, I guess”: Why Karl Bartos had to leave Kraftwerk
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• Former King Crimson drummer Michael Giles returns with Shadows/Solo, his first album for 25 years
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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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• Can You Guess the Band Just by Looking at Their Fans?
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• "Like Blondie with Teeth." Shakin' Street mix high-energy rock with post-punk pop sensibility on album starring Ross The Boss and Fabienne Shine
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• "I first met Phil Lynott completely by accident during my first ever acid trip." Original Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell on the birth of the band and his relationship with their "gentle and romantic" frontman
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• Neal Schon Is Over Journey Drama: 'I Just Want Some F—ing Peace'
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• Metallica Announces Only 2 Non-Sphere US Shows of 2026
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• Suki Lahav, Former Bruce Springsteen Violinist, Dead at 74
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• Voyage 35 share their first music with a cover of Porcupine Tree's The Nostalgia Factory
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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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• "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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• “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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• "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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• “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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• Sons of Kiss' Stanley and Simmons Announce First-Ever Live Shows
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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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• Neal Schon Responds to Arnel Pineda's Journey Tour Allegations
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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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• Why and How Neil Young Drove a Hearse Across America
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• Blackie Lawless Reveals the Title of His Upcoming Memoir
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• Lost treasures: Ten cult classic albums worth scouring second-hand record stores for
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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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• Listen to Jack White's Two New Singles
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• Yes Postpones Fragile UK Tour So Steve Howe Can Undergo Surgery
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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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• Billy Idol Adds New Summer 2026 Tour Dates
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• Joe Jackson's 'Hope and Fury': Album Review
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• Here's How Rush Will Honor Neil Peart at Their Reunion Shows
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• Meet Alice Cooper's New Guitarist
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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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• Crowdfunding campaign launched to support the family of late GosT mastermind James Lollar
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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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• "We didn’t always know what we were doing on this record, and I think that’s the beauty of it." Jonathan Davis and Munky share the stories behind every song on Korn's game-changing debut album
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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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• "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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• “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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• Veteran R&B, Funk and Rock Drummer James Gadson Dead at 86
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• Lindsey Buckingham Attacked by Alleged Stalking Suspect
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• Exploring 50 Songs That Celebrate the Moon
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: April 6, 2026
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• Bonnie Raitt Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• “Someone put toilet paper in my back pocket and set fire to it. I sat in the sink and fell asleep. The soundtrack to that night was Gong!” How Napalm Death’s Barney Greenway got into prog
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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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• “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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• Inside Corrosion of Conformity's 'Love Letter to Rock and Roll'
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• “The atmosphere was intense. Manson said hello and I froze. There was a feeling of extreme evil in the room”: Jon Keliehor went from an unknown psychedelic group to playing with The Doors, turning down The Byrds and rubbing shoulders with Charles Manson
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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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• “When you’ve got the helicopter, the yacht, the private jet, what do you do? ‘I’ll go into space and pretend it’s for research!’” Ian Anderson wonders if he should have sent a flute into the cosmos, and regrets William Shatner went there too
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• U2 Releases New 'Easter Lily' EP
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• Harm's Way guitarist Bo Lueders dead at 38
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• Upcoming CSN Documentary Shows ‘Deep Love,’ Not Fighting
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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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• “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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• "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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• Lindsey Buckingham's Alleged Attacker Faces 7 Criminal Charges
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• "When I wrote that song I was really going through it...I was almost embarrassed by it." From Brazil to the UK, the hardcore punk four-piece channelling Distillers fury via some deeply personal lyrics
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• 10 Kiss Songs for People Who Don't Like Kiss
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• Win a Heaven and Hell 'Breaking Out of Heaven' Box Set
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