Rock News 2026-04-24

• ZZ Top Expands 2026 Tour With New Concert Dates
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• How the Ramones Shaped Punk Music With Their Debut Album
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• Warrant Announces More 2026 Tour Dates With Fellow '80s Rockers
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• "You make one record, and now you have your own fried chicken restaurant and your own hovercraft company!" The Black Crowes reflect on success and longevity, and answer the question: Why do they still bother making albums?
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• What Are the 'Big 4' of Weed Songs?
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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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• "The Ramones rescued rock 'n' roll." How Ramones' first album changed the lives of punk rock icons Henry Rollins, Bob Mould, Ian MacKaye and Steve Albini, in their own words
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• Pink Floyd collaborator Polly Samson, wife and creative partner of David Gilmour, has a London photo exhibition featuring her documentation of the creation, recording and live performance of Gilmour's Luck and Strange album
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• "The toughest thing I've ever done." The trauma behind Otis Redding's tragic classic (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
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• "We didn’t talk to each other for three months." Haunted houses, fallouts and a drunken singer: inside Slipknot's experimental masterpiece, Vol. 3
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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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• Former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg reveals he first jammed with the band just 24 hours before they announced the departure of Joey Jordison
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• Ringo Starr, 'Long Long Road': Review
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• “The people who I know who’ve been on this journey… we’d never go back”: Ex-Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley opens up about quitting alcohol
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• Revisiting Dave Mason's Final Concert
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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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• "One of the year’s most instantaneous, joyous, technicolour listens." Mixing reggae, heavy metal, punk, hip hop and pop and never missing a beat, Skindred's You Got This is the burst of sunshine you need
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• Could Oasis Help Peter Hook and New Order Reach Rock Hall Truce?
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• “Maybe they thought we wanted out of our contract, like when a band does a deliberately bad album”: Opeth gave their label two records for the price of one, and it nearly cost them their career
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• Sammy Hagar downsizes Best Of All Worlds UK tour to more "intimate" venues
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• Why the Rolling Stones' 'Black and Blue' Divided Fans
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• The Top 100 Rock Songs in Music History
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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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• "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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• Slayer to play two special US shows celebrating 40 years of Reign In Blood this autumn
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• The Day Prince Died
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• Jason Newsted and the Chophouse Band Announce Summer 2026 Tour
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• Prog, power-balladry and arena rock: Nine Styx albums you should listen to and one to avoid
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• "One love for the world!" French psychedelic rock mind expanders Slift announce North America, Europe and UK tour dates
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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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• George Lynch to Perform 'A Night of Dokken' on New Tour
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• Kiss Kruise '26 Lineup: Night Ranger, Kulick, Slaughter and More
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• Yes reschedule postponed UK Fragile tour to May 2027
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• 10 Years Ago: The World Lights Itself Purple After Prince's Death
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• "It's like The Who channelling Cheap Trick, filled with catchy pop songs slathered with hard rock guitars." How the folk songs of Pope John Paul II buried one of rock'n'roll's great lost albums
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• Guns N' Roses Cover Rare Sex Pistols Song Live for the First Time
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• Foo Fighters, 'Your Favorite Toy': Review
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• 24 Things You'd See in Every 1980s Garage
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• Thomas Dolby Headlines Totally Tubular 2026 Touring Festival
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• When Dolly Parton Released Her Debut Single
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• Nashville Session Musician Wayne Moss Dead at 88
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• BBC's 2026 Proms season to feature a Prog Prom for the very first time!
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• "It was like a little vacation." The Tool and Failure side project which dissolved before most people knew it had ever existed
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• Porcupine Tree offshoot Voyage 35 unveil full band line-up
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• David Byrne Extends His 'Who Is the Sky?' World Tour
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• "He's jumping up in the air and breathing really heavily, making these animal noises. I'd never seen anything like it." The story of Andrew W.K. and the strangest TV performance in music history
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• "Veering between sweet and sour, violent metal, disturbing imagery and cutesy melodies." A guide to every Poppy album so far
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• Korn return with pounding single Reward The Scars, in collaboration with new Diablo IV expansion Lord Of Hatred
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• Read the 'Sticky Fingers' Letter Mick Jagger Sent to Andy Warhol
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• “It was cheaper to come here and rent a whole hotel out of season. The bar was open 24/7”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson recalls writing classic albums in empty Jersey hotel
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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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• “Bruce Dickinson’s manager was really angry. He cancelled the whole project”: Arjen Lucassen stupidly talked himself out of making an album with Iron Maiden’s singer
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• Win Iron Maiden 'Burning Ambition' Movie Tickets
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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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• "A reminder of just how powerful and wonderful music can be in a world where little else makes sense." Frank Turner charms the capital with a celebration of twenty years of punk rock honesty
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• Hear New Music From Skid Row's Rachel Bolan
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• 40 Years Ago: Ranking Every Song From Journey's 'Raised on Radio'
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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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• "I wrote a lot of the tracks envisioning powerful live drumming – enter Dave Grohl." How the former Nirvana drummer shaped the sound of Nine Inch Nails' album With Teeth
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• Ted Nugent Adds a Dozen Shows to His Summer 2026 Schedule
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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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• "On his final performance, he wields words like a weapon." Following the death of their beloved frontman Tomas Lindberg, death metal legends At The Gates' produce one final triumph with The Ghost Of A Future Dead
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• 10 Best Prince Songs Released Since His Death
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• "We were just jamming, making stuff up. Our session went totally out of the window." The true story of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin's lost jam
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• Traffic founder Dave Mason dead at 79
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• Bob Dylan Shares Over a Dozen More 2026 Tour Dates
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• The niece of late Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr has become a WWE wrestler – and her gimmick is pure 80s metal
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• Slayer to Play 'Reign in Blood' in Full at 2 Upcoming 2026 Shows
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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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• "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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• "His songwriting, musicianship and distinctive spirit helped create music that has lasted far beyond its era." Steve Winwood pays tribute to fellow Traffic founder Dave Mason
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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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• "His music reflects the joy and the pain of his life experiences." Watch the trailer for the upcoming Gregg Allman movie
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• Traffic Co-Founder and 'We Just Disagree' Singer Dave Mason Dies
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• "I was really glad that she never asked me what I thought of her singing." What happened when Gregg Allman appeared on Cher's TV show
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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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• “Something we never could have imagined when this all began”: Songs by melodic death metal pioneers In Flames, At The Gates and Dark Tranquillity to be performed by Gothenburg orchestra
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• Watch Phish Honor Joe Walsh at the Sphere
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• “Even when I got pretty good fees, I lost money on everything. I was thinking so idealistically”: Leprous’ Einar Solberg releases Vox Occulta, with hard lessons learned from the past
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• "This is the new sound – it's hyper, it's energy, it's urgent.” Nine Van Halen albums to listen to and one to avoid
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• Win a Van Halen '5150' Box Set
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• Carl Palmer announces An Evening With Emerson, Lake & Palmer shows in England for February 2027
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• The Cure Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• Hear Sebastian Bach Sing a Uriah Heep Classic
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• 55 Years Ago: Rolling Stones' 'Sticky Fingers' Songs Ranked
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