Rock News 2026-04-22

• "A masterpiece, and yet not the band's finest hour." Every Smashing Pumpkins album ranked from worst to best
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• BBC's 2026 Proms season to feature a Prog Prom for the very first time!
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• Jason Newsted and the Chophouse Band Announce Summer 2026 Tour
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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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• 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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• The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• The Cure Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• Slayer to play two special US shows celebrating 40 years of Reign In Blood this autumn
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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 won't stop until I'm able to actually sit down with Bob Seger, ideally playing darts, hopefully having a beer." Boston man goes viral for certifying bars as Bob Seger-friendly
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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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• “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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• ZZ Top Expands 2026 Tour With New Concert Dates
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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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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of New Wave?
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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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• 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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• Cream's 'Wheels of Fire' Returns in Expanded 5CD and 3LP Sets
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• Kiss Kruise in Las Vegas Dates Confirmed
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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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• “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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• Paul McCartney Confirms Duet With Ringo Starr, 'Home to Us'
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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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• Sammy Hagar downsizes Best Of All Worlds UK tour to more "intimate" venues
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• David Lee Roth Brings Back Rare Van Halen Gem on Opening Night
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• "I feel like a robot and I can’t believe a crowd can care about what we’re doing." The genre-smashing underground band who recorded one of the best metal albums of the 21st century - and then disappeared
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• Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Paul Weller, Massive Attack, Sigur Rós, Mogwai and more sign open letter asking the European Broadcasting Union to ban Israel from participating in Eurovision 2026
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• "Discharge meets GBH and Motörhead at an anti-Nazi demonstration after drinking cider all afternoon in a Hackney squat." Ten obscure and criminally under-rated UK punk albums
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• Nashville Session Musician Wayne Moss Dead at 88
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• “Professional pianists are the only ones who say, ‘I understand why he wanted to kill himself. I would think the same thing’”: Keith Emerson’s partner says his health issues were caused by his fear of letting people down
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• How Three Dog Night's 'Joy to the World' Made Chart History
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• Collective Soul Revisit New Wave Genre With Latest LP
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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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• “With all the stuff surrounding his illness and eventually passing, I had a hard time listening to it”: At The Gates drummer couldn’t listen to new album until “recently”, due to late singer Tomas Lindberg’s cancer battle
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• Bob Dylan Shares Over a Dozen More 2026 Tour Dates
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• Hear Sebastian Bach Sing a Uriah Heep Classic
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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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• 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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• "I think he is a genius. He's the master of the middle eight." Big Big Train's Gregory Spawton picks the soundtrack of his life
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: April 20, 2026
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• How Dan Fogelberg Made His Secret Dream Come True
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• Win a Van Halen '5150' Box Set
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• 40 Years Ago: Ranking Every Song From Journey's 'Raised on Radio'
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• "Only a couple of us saw that it was giving a glimpse of the future." How Aerosmith changed the internet as we know it
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• The Day Prince Died
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• "Basically all their songs are about loss and dying." Emo-loving pop star PinkPantheress on her favourite My Chemical Romance song
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• Foo Fighters, 'Your Favorite Toy': Review
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• David Byrne Extends His 'Who Is the Sky?' World Tour
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• 24 Things You'd See in Every 1980s Garage
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• The vinyl rescue kit: 8 budget buys to protect and enhance your Record Store Day finds
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• What Are the 'Big 4' of Weed Songs?
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• Premiere: Hear Paul Rodgers on Hillbilly Vegas' 'Mr. Midnight'
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• What to Know About Frank Zappa's New 'Zappa 66 Vol. 1' Release
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• How Thomas Dolby Is Updating His ‘80s Past
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• "Jaw-dropping from start to finish, Offering is a once-in-a-lifetime sort of album." A heartfelt salute to Axe's forgotten blue-collar gruntrock party classic
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• Record Store Day 2026's Exclusive Rock Releases
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• Ted Nugent Adds a Dozen Shows to His Summer 2026 Schedule
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• 10 Years Ago: The World Lights Itself Purple After Prince's Death
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• "People turned on us. It was as if they resented their big secret band suddenly being the property of the mainstream." After a decade's hard slog, a sublime ballad made stars of REO Speedwagon - and their die-hard fans didn't like it one bit
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• Watch Phish Honor Joe Walsh at the Sphere
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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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• "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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• Slayer to Play 'Reign in Blood' in Full at 2 Upcoming 2026 Shows
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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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• “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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• “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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• Scorpions' Tour of India Canceled Due to 'Medical Circumstances'
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• Guns N' Roses Cover Rare Sex Pistols Song Live for the First Time
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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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• “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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• "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 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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• “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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• "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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• When Dolly Parton Released Her Debut Single
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• Thomas Dolby Headlines Totally Tubular 2026 Touring Festival
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• Iron Maiden Will Not Attend Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction
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• Watch former WWE World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk walk out to an AFI song and pay tribute to Harm’s Way’s Bo Lueders during his WrestleMania entrance last weekend
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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'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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• 10 Best Prince Songs Released Since His Death
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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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• “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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• "If there’s one thing that we hate, it’s being compared to Korn or Tool. We’re far better than that.” The mystery of the 90s band that almost gave the UK an answer to Limp Bizkit - then vanished without a trace
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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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