Rock News 2026-04-13

• "I’m not the first woman in metal. I just did it a little more my own way." The trailblazing black metal star who worked with Martin Scorsese and Michael Bolton before taking on the mother of all career changes
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• "They were the inadvertent godfathers of the independent music scene." Power-pop nirvana met emotional baggage and personal tragedy in the story of Big Star, a band destined to fail
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• "There was that feeling of like, ‘Wait, are we breaking up?'" Why Dave Grohl walked out on Foo Fighters and joined Queens of the Stone Age in 2002
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• "It's been a struggle, it's a struggle every day." No Doubt guitarist Tom Dumont diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson's disease
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• “It was the first keyboard solo I’d heard on the radio for a very long time”: The Marillion song that proves Mark Kelly’s genius, by Adam Wakeman
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• 10 TV Shows From Your Childhood You Won’t Believe Were Real
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• How One of the Who's First Managers Met a Tragic End
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• “I’d love it to become a musicians’ platform – curated, high-quality, and fair”: Why Steven Wilson launched Headphone Dust
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• "The band's accountants possibly didn't figure in the cost of their eccentric new guitarist insisting upon recording his parts inside a bespoke chicken coop." The 10 most eye-wateringly expensive rock albums ever recorded
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• “Two iconic albums! One unforgettable night!” Thirty Seconds To Mars announce A Beautiful Lie vs This Is War arena tour
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• "There are a lot of people who don't seem interested or even notice that the world's on fire." Puscifer's Maynard James Keenan and Carina Round discuss soundtracking the end times
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• A Second Wild Animal Has Bitten the Singer of AC/DC's Opening Act
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• The Rolling Stones are releasing a new song tomorrow, but under a fake name
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• The Best Albums From Progressive Rock's Iconic Artists
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• Yes Previews Upcoming 'Aurora' Album With Epic Title Track
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• Jack White Expands 2026 Tour Schedule With New Dates
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• Joe Jackson's 'Hope and Fury': Album Review
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• David Lee Roth Joins Teddy Swims to Perform 'Jump' at Coachella
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• Jack White expands 2026 tour, with UK and Irish headline dates sandwiched between American tours
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• Watch Robert Plant and Saving Grace breathe new life into a Led Zeppelin classic on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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• Triumph Kick Off 2026 Reunion Tour: Video, Set List
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• Great new proggy sounds you need to hear from Einar Solberg, Evergrey, MONO, Crippled Black Phoenix and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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• Win Tickets to See Black Crowes and Whiskey Myers Live
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• “I listen now and think, ‘This is a young man’s game!’ I’m proud of the albums”: How future members of Marillion, Soft Machine and Caravan got their start via Darryl Way’s Wolf
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• Hear Kurt Deimer + Geoff Tate’s New Version of ‘Silent Lucidity'
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• "Everybody I know is sending me the clip!" Kansas react to viral Carry On Wayward Son sketch on Saturday Night Live
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• All hail the Rat Queen! Hotly-tipped fantasy doom metallers Castle Rat launch video for bombastic single Siren
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• The Oasis Hit Written and Recorded in a Single Day
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• "Its venom did a number on my system." The Pretty Reckless' Taylor Momsen has been bitten by yet another animal on the AC/DC tour
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• "On our first tour one of the venues burned down, and the cops would shut things down." Police raids, venue fires and murderous rednecks: the story of Converge, the band who defined metalcore for a generation
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• Hear Ratt's Stephen Pearcy Perform 'I Need U' From New Solo Album
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• Howard Jones, Wang Chung and English Beat Announce Summer Tour
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• Attention all planets of the Solar Federation! Rush have assumed control of the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
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• "Their record label couldn't figure out whether they were the next Poison or the first Guns N' Roses." The story of Jetboy, the band who could have saved glam metal but didn't
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• The genre that refuses to die: A history Of Southern rock In 40 songs
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• Pink Floyd Set to Release Rare Extended Version of '70s Favorite
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• Hear Eagles' Previously Unreleased Rendition of 'Lyin' Eyes'
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• "Making this record was joyful." Yes share first music from brand new studio album, Aurora
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• "Then there was this. I was floored!" Long-lost promo video for Led Zeppelin's Good Times Bad Times found in University of Georgia archive
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• "That dude just showed me a dead alien." Foo Fighters drummer Ilan Rubin on his wedding day – when Blink 182's Tom DeLonge let Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor see something very odd on his phone
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• "We’re here for you, Randy. Might be time for a beer or three." Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan offers support to the US Army's top general ousted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Foo Fighters Release 'Of All People' Ahead of New Album
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• How Graham Nash is Keeping the CSN Legacy Alive
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• "The production is so polished and shiny that magpies tried to steal my stereo every time I pressed play." Supergroup Bad English's debut album is a perfect time capsule of late-80s AOR
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• Watch Paul Stanley Perform 'Detroit Rock City' at Kiss Fan Expo
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• “I’ve often wondered if other people knew what I was talking about!” This is why Roger Chapman sings about his shoe in Family classic Burlesque
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• The Gaping Hole in Paul McCartney's Resume? His Solo Career
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• "There can be more spices – we have a choir on three songs – but the foundation must be secure." 16 albums into a 44-year career, German thrash veterans Kreator are still doing their own thing
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• "I’d have to be careful if I did wear a big, flowing dress onstage… I’d be worried about pyro setting me on fire." Cliff Burton, Wicked and real-life High School Musicals: Five fun minutes with Amaranthe's Elize Ryd
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• "I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned I was dead." How one final, heartbreaking TV performance marked the end of an era for Alice In Chains - and a swan song for their brilliant but troubled frontman, Layne Staley
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• “We weren’t after our version of Iron Maiden’s Eddie, but it needed to be striking.” The story behind Slayer's grim Reign In Blood album artwork
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Rock Supergroups?
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• "Slipknot is a big scary monster and we're losing control of it." How Slipknot's angriest and sweariest song helped the metal icons land the heaviest number one album in history
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• 25 Songs for National Beer Day
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• "What began to change us was success. When your dream comes true, where do you go from there?” Kansas: an everyday story of success, failure, religion, drugs, booze and jealousy
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• How Peter Frampton Learned He Had a No. 1 Album
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• Exclusive Magenta Tarot bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now!
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• Why Did Bob Dylan Change His Voice for 'Nashville Skyline'?
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• Turnstile open Coachella set with video of singer Brendan Yates' father who is recovering from alleged attempted murder attack by band's former guitarist Brady Ebert
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• "You are my god!" Watch Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi praise Ian Paice as she meets her Deep Purple heroes
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• “This wasn’t party rock any more. It was fusion and progressive music, and I absolutely loved it”: Paul Gilbert on the genius of Allan Holdsworth, and the one song that proves it
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• King Crimson Legends Highlight Cruise to the Edge 2026: Review
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• "No-one writes rock ’n’ roll better than this.” The story of the AC/DC album that true AC/DC fans love best
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• Five '70s Bands That Should Have Been Bigger
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• "There was an old fella who screamed that we'd been sent by Oliver Cromwell. He jumped on the bonnet of the car and tried to boot the windscreen to pieces." Not everyone was pleased to see The Rolling Stones on their first Irish tour
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• How to watch the Coachella 2026 livestream: Iggy Pop, Wet Leg, Turnstile, David Byrne, Die Spitz, Interpol & Nine Inch Nails' set with Boys Noize just some of this weekend's highlights
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• "It felt more punk rock than anything anyone was doing at the time. People were ****ed off at us." How an underground metal band became championed by Metallica and the Stone Roses through one breakout hit
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• Night Ranger Sets Huge U.S. Tour for 2026
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• Hear Peter Frampton's New Song With Tom Morello
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• "A starting point for new listeners to discover the depth and breadth of their peerless album catalogue." Pink Floyd announce new compilation album including extended version of classic track
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• "English people don't really want to feel that much." The curious tale of Robert Smith's least favourite Cure album, despite him telling the world "anyone who doesn't like this just doesn't like the Cure"
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• "I had a bad flu and was delirious, but the lyric was so great that it lifted me up in my sick bed." How Ann and Nancy Wilson poured their feelings about love and the state of the world into a debut single that became an evergreen rock classic
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• Bob Dylan Adds More Dates to His Summer Tour
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• "He was in chainmail, said he needed it for protection." From communist Hungary to joining metal's most murderous band and working with Slipknot's Joey Jordison, Attila Csihar is an extreme metal pioneer
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• A 'Secret' New Rolling Stones Single Is Arriving Tomorrow
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• Ozzy Osbourne's Los Angeles Home for Sale at $17 Million
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• “It sits between Genesis, Van der Graaf Generator and Roxy Music – all viewed through a haze of spectral menace”: Before Crowded House, before their new-wave hits, Split Enz were unabashedly prog
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• "Growing up, I noticed bands like Motorhead, Limp Bizkit and Drowning Pool were always part of it. Now I understand why." How heavy metal became a lifelong passion for WWE Women's Champion Stephanie Vaquer
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• Twisted Sister Announces 2026 Tour Dates With Sebastian Bach
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• "People were throwing coins and smashed up cups. It was horrifying!" This is what it's like supporting metal legends Iron Maiden in front of a hostile crowd, according to Atreyu guitarist Dan Jacobs
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• No Doubt Guitarist Reveals Parkinson's Diagnosis
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• Watch the Black Crowes’ New Cover of Rolling Stones’ ‘Star Star'
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' Bands of Heavy Metal?
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• “I didn’t do terribly well with solo work compared to my colleagues in Genesis. But I had a golden period, and I bought the Steinway piano I play on this record”: Anthony Phillips’ fight through pain barrier to make Gemini
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