Rock News 2026-04-20

• "I went looking for heroin in a subterranean club and approached some guys. I got a severe beating outside instead." Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan recalls the painful day that he told his bandmates he was struggling with addiction
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• Forget Live And Dangerous, No Sleep 'til Hammersmith and At Fillmore East, The Killer's Live at the Star Club, Hamburg is the greatest live show ever committed to vinyl
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• Liam Gallagher Has Lots to Say About Oasis' Hall of Fame Honor
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• Peter Hook Reacts to Joy Division's Hall of Fame Induction
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• “The Slipknot guys are totally aware of who were are, and System Of A Down opened for us before they even got signed”: The chaotic birth of Grindcore, the scene that changed metal forever
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• A petition has been launched to save the legendary London studio where Iron Maiden recorded The Number Of The Beast and Def Leppard recorded Pyromania
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• Collective Soul Revisit New Wave Genre With Latest LP
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• “Every song I wrote came together easily. It was just one of those patches – about five years’ worth. I was really lucky to go through that”: Jeff Lynne didn’t notice he’d turned ELO into the world’s biggest rock band
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• “Shannon’s sister and Axl Rose were in school together. Labels jumped all over us cos of his connection with Guns N’ Roses”: Blind Melon were more than just a grunge-era one-hit wonder – but tragedy cut their career short
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• Record Store Day 2026's Exclusive Rock Releases
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• When Dolly Parton Released Her Debut Single
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• "I've got a couple of ideas I've been working on for quite some time": Fred Durst wants to set up an alternative to Coachella for musicians who aren't invited to Coachella
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• "There’s a dead rat hanging in my face, a guy playing a flute and this topless lady belly dancing." Ex-members of Papa Roach, Trivium, Faith No More and Opeth on what it's like being in a major metal band before it blows up
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• Iron Maiden Will Not Attend Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction
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• "This track is arriving in an atmosphere of chaos." Tom Waits and Massive Attack collaborate on haunting, politically-charged new single Boots On The Ground referencing "the militarisation of police forces fusing with neo-fascist politics"
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• "It was one of the most emotional performances I've ever done. I was in tears." How David Bowie's Heroes became his most life-changing single
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• Hear Sebastian Bach Sing a Uriah Heep Classic
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• Scorpions' Tour of India Canceled Due to 'Medical Circumstances'
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• “It became too much. It was like when Yoko came along to The Beatles and Paul said, ‘Oh no’”: The 70s rock classic inspired by a tragedy at sea which tore the band that wrote it apart
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• “She said, ‘Do you know anybody who plays keyboards?’ I lied and said, ‘Yeah – me!’” Hawkwind’s Magnus Martin isn’t actually a member of Hawkwind. He just never stopped turning up
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• Foghat Extends 2026 Tour With More Shared Nazareth Dates
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• “I hear, ‘Look who’s preparing to face his public then!’ It was Mick Jagger with Bowie. I said, ‘Well, you’re not doin’ so bad yourself after ten years’”: How Mott The Hoople fell to earth - but left one of rock’s great farewell albums behind them
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• "I honestly wondered if this was the end for Metallica." Rehab, prison and the battle for the future of music: The story of the most divisive album in metal
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• "I jumped through a window and hit one. Someone started choking me; I was basically blue by the time I was rescued." Russian Nazis, emotional encounters with Dio and rumours about Tom Hanks: Shane Embury on almost 40 years of Napalm Death and beyond
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• Joe Perry Recalls Tearful Sessions for Aerosmith's Latest EP
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• Ten albums that prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that 1980 was the greatest year ever for hard rock and heavy metal
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• "The largest tape transfer project in the history of rock'n'roll." Grateful Dead release official Play Dead streaming app
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• Led Zeppelin Quiz: The beginnings of the legend
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• The Day Joey Ramone Died
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• May 2026 New Music Releases
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• Will Oasis or Iron Maiden Show Up for Their Rock Hall Inductions?
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• How Dan Fogelberg Made His Secret Dream Come True
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• Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to duet on Macca's new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane
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• "Ever wondered what Trent Reznor would be like with a couple of glowsticks and a string vest?" Nine Inch Noize captures Coachella's most vibrant team-up in a rave-happy remix
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• Thomas Dolby Headlines Totally Tubular 2026 Touring Festival
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• Awesome Car Features From the '80s That We Miss
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• 50 Years Ago: Led Zeppelin's 'Presence' Songs Ranked
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• Cream's 'Wheels of Fire' Returns in Expanded 5CD and 3LP Sets
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• Charity cuts ties with Sharon Osbourne after social media post in which she suggests she will attend Tommy Robinson's anti-immigration rally
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• How Thomas Dolby Is Updating His ‘80s Past
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• “We played shows with all the black metal bands and I was wearing flares and had an old Gibson SG. I didn’t look right in those surroundings!” How Mikael Åkerfeldt fell in love with prog, even though his friends hated what he was doing
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• Zakk Wylde Reveals the Song That Was Cut From Ozzy's Final Show
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• “In those days a gimmick was a big deal. Bowie’s was that he’d written a song about being in space when the first moonshot was taking place”: The weird connection between Neil Armstrong, a future British Prime Minister and one of rock’s greatest icons
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• 9 stylish and affordable vinyl storage upgrades for your Record Store Day 2026 scores
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• "There were a lot of hardcore racists in the South, but we thought they were just silly." Lynyrd Skynyrd, Neil Young, and the truth about rock's most misreported beef
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• Watch Phish Honor Joe Walsh at the Sphere
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• 35 Double Albums That Matter
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• Premiere: Hear Paul Rodgers on Hillbilly Vegas' 'Mr. Midnight'
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• “I’d just come offstage at Monsters Of Rock and someone went, ‘I hear you like the Marquis de Sade. It was Bruce Dickinson”: Therapy? were three noise-rock outsiders from Northern Ireland – but they made one of the greatest alt-metal albums of the 90s
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• "A masterpiece, and yet not the band's finest hour." Every Smashing Pumpkins album ranked from worst to best
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of New Wave?
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• “The lyricists had been left to their own devices. I said, ‘For once, can we all get behind the concepts and the lyrics?’” How TesseracT’s fans helped them make fourth album Sonder
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• “I could go to a festival in a unicorn outfit and no one would bat an eyelid. Nobody cares”: From teenage rebellion to gatekeeping and mental health, we interviewed a therapist to try and understand how metalheads’ brains work
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• "Your Favorite Toy is a ferocious reaffirmation of Foo Fighters' initial post-grunge power." Troubled times call for torrential measures on hard-rocking new album from Dave Grohl and Co
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• Phil Collins Gives First Comments Following Hall of Fame Honor
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• “It was like Lord Of The Flies. You could vaguely hear music and there were giant mud puddles with naked people writhing around”: Metallica, Nine Inch Nails and 350,000 mud-caked people – the chaotic story of the biggest US music festival of the 1990s
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• “Sometimes change is hard to take for some people, but we knew how far we could push things”: How Bo Diddley, beards and a Mexican battle song set one of the greatest blues trios of the 70s on the road to 80s superstardom
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• Kiss Kruise in Las Vegas Dates Confirmed
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• “Storm Thorgerson didn’t say the pig on the cover of Animals had been Roger Waters’ idea. Roger was very angry”: Why Pink Floyd didn’t go to their go-to artwork guys for The Wall, and what The Dark Side Of The Moon cover might have looked like
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• “I moved to an old Victorian pile where the previous owners had put a swimming pool in. I said, ‘Let’s fill it in.’ Then I said, ‘You know what we need? A Viking mead hall!’” Clive Nolan built a home venue so he doesn’t have to tour
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• "It was an embarrassment, but we were desperate for the cash."How Thin Lizzy saved their career by recording an album of Deep Purple covers
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• "I have been looking for that brain forever. Someone might be using it as a paperweight for all I know." The day that surrealist art legend Salvador Dalí recreated Alice Cooper’s brain using a chocolate éclair, ants and diamonds
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• Mike Campbell's Dirty Knobs Announce New LP, 'Mission of Mercy'
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• David Lee Roth Brings Back Rare Van Halen Gem on Opening Night
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: April 20, 2026
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• What to Know About Frank Zappa's New 'Zappa 66 Vol. 1' Release
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• "We will miss you Prince!" As the 10th anniversary of his death nears, watch Bruce Springsteen, David Gilmour, Pearl Jam, Lenny Kravitz, Chris Cornell pay tribute to the legend that was Prince
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• “I had fights with band members who told me I’d completely lost it. And they were right. It was a terrible time”: The cult band who gave the world members of Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath and Yes – but only blues rock connoisseurs know who they are
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• "The fans always come first." Iron Maiden won't be attending their induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
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• “You realise the hard way that it sucks when your passion is your job”: Periphery lost their way then found it again. That’s why they don’t care about how successful they could be
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• Kiss Has Written New Songs for Upcoming Avatar Show
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• The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Record Store Day, April 18: The 164 best releases you can buy
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• “I told her to write a poem about batteries that are dying that cannot be recharged”: Slipknot’s Shawn “Clown” Crahan explains how Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia ended up on Look Outside Your Window
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• The vinyl rescue kit: 8 budget buys to protect and enhance your Record Store Day finds
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• Cool new proggy sounds you need to hear from The Anchoress, Matt Berry, Magenta, Soen and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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• Watch Alice Cooper Cover Nirvana at 2026 Tour Kickoff
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• What Are the 'Big 4' of Weed Songs?
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• "There’s injustice, and so much hate and fear, and it’s such a drag." Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl says it's difficult not to feel angry and disillusioned about the state of America in 2026
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• "Turn the lights down, put your feet up, whisky chaser in one hand, beer in the other." A grieving Gregg Allman slows things down on the late-night gospel-country-blues of Laid Back
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• Guns N' Roses Cover Rare Sex Pistols Song Live for the First Time
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• "Sometimes I get in trouble when I get naked in public. It happens when I’ve been drinking Jägermeister." How an ode to self-destructive behaviour took one Orange County band out of the clubs and onto the TV
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• Paul McCartney Confirms Duet With Ringo Starr, 'Home to Us'
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• How Three Dog Night's 'Joy to the World' Made Chart History
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• "It's been too long since we've been in the UK!" Joan Jett And The Blackhearts announce first UK headline tour in 16 years
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