Rock News 2026-04-25

• "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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• ZZ Top Expands 2026 Tour With New Concert Dates
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• Ted Nugent Adds a Dozen Shows to His Summer 2026 Schedule
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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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• Read the 'Sticky Fingers' Letter Mick Jagger Sent to Andy Warhol
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• Nashville Session Musician Wayne Moss Dead at 88
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• Win a Van Halen '5150' Box Set
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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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• 55 Years Ago: Rolling Stones' 'Sticky Fingers' Songs Ranked
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• Revisiting Dave Mason's Final Concert
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• 10 Years Ago: The World Lights Itself Purple After Prince's Death
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• Yes reschedule postponed UK Fragile tour to May 2027
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• "I didn't want to be like stage dad." Dave Grohl shares his pride in his daughter Violet's emergence as a star on her own terms
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• Foo Fighters, 'Your Favorite Toy': Review
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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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• See Michael Stipe Perform a New Song, 'The Rest of Ever'
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• 40 Years Ago: Ranking Every Song From Journey's 'Raised on Radio'
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• "I said to Phil on the side of the stage: 'What are we going to do? I can't distinguish between the songs!'" Brian Robertson played with Thin Lizzy, Motörhead and Wild Horses: Now he finally reveals all
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• Warrant Announces More 2026 Tour Dates With Fellow '80s Rockers
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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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• Thomas Dolby Headlines Totally Tubular 2026 Touring Festival
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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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• Hear New Music From Skid Row's Rachel Bolan
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• George Lynch to Perform 'A Night of Dokken' on New Tour
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• Traffic founder Dave Mason dead at 79
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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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• "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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• 50 Years Ago: Ramones Shape Punk Music With Their Debut Album
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• 24 Things You'd See in Every 1980s Garage
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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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• "They blame us as musicians because it's easier than blaming family or society." How Brazilian metal legends Sepultura were demonised and scapegoated by the media following the horrific murder of a 12-year-old school girl
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• New Muse single Cryogen recalls classic earlier years with spiralling guitar riffs
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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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• "We had a song that was humongous, but we were just dumb and young." How Hoobastank wrote a billion-streaming hit single and entrenched themselves in pop culture forever
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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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• The Cure Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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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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• Could Oasis Help Peter Hook and New Order Reach Rock Hall Truce?
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• 10 Best Prince Songs Released Since His Death
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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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• David Byrne Extends His 'Who Is the Sky?' World Tour
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• "I want to dedicate this next one to a dear friend of mine in the sky tonight!" Watch a tearful Yungblud pay emotional tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with his cover of Black Sabbath's Changes in Birmingham last night
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• “It’s historically important for music lovers of that genre”: The legal dispute over Black Sabbath’s earliest recordings has been settled – and they could finally be released
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• Traffic Co-Founder and 'We Just Disagree' Singer Dave Mason Dies
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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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• Great new proggy sounds you need to hear from Crown Lands, A.A. Williams, Devin Townsend, Tarja and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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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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• “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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• 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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• Win Iron Maiden 'Burning Ambition' Movie Tickets
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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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• The Top 100 Rock Songs in Music History
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• The Day Prince Died
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• "This is the sound of a band finding their spark again amid the wreckage." Foo Fighters bounce back from turbulent few years with punky, at-times surprisingly thrashy new record Your Favorite Toy
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• Summer 2026 Preview: Rock's 85 Biggest Tours
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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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• "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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• "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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• Think You Know ’80s Movies? Try to ID These From Just One Frame
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• "Look at the bands that are out there now, crap like Radiohead. You can't tell us that we don't deserve to be more than that." On the eve of the release of Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness, Smashing Pumpkins wanted to take on the world
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• "One of the songs is the sound of a tree hearing itself for the first time." The forthcoming solo album from former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe sounds like it'll be quite a trip
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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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• "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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• Ringo Starr, 'Long Long Road': Review
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• When Will Skid Row Tour Again?
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• Porcupine Tree offshoot Voyage 35 unveil full band line-up
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• Slayer to Play 'Reign in Blood' in Full at 2 Upcoming 2026 Shows
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• Kiss Kruise '26 Lineup: Night Ranger, Kulick, Slaughter and More
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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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• "I had to fight for everything I wanted and got treated like a child." How Amy Lee fought to take back control of Evanescence
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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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• "I was grossly overconfident because I was 21 years old: ‘Of course I’m going to get the gig.'" Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson opens up on what it was like joining the metal legends just as they were blowing up
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• Jason Newsted and the Chophouse Band Announce Summer 2026 Tour
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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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• "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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• "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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• "Veering between sweet and sour, violent metal, disturbing imagery and cutesy melodies." A guide to every Poppy album so far
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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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• Tree Tracks: 40 Songs for Arbor Day
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• 50 Years Ago: Rolling Stones' 'Black and Blue' Divides Fans
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• Carl Palmer announces An Evening With Emerson, Lake & Palmer shows in England for February 2027
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• Marillion are "cooking with gas" as new album nears completion
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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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• "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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