Rock News 2026-04-26

• Ringo Starr, 'Long Long Road': Review
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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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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• Read the 'Sticky Fingers' Letter Mick Jagger Sent to Andy Warhol
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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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• Hear New Music From Skid Row's Rachel Bolan
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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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• "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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• "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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• "They blame us as musicians because it's easier than blaming family or society." How Brazilian metal legends Sepultura were demonised in the media following a heartbreaking tragedy
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• 40 Years Ago: Ranking Every Song From Journey's 'Raised on Radio'
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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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• "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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• "One love for the world!" French psychedelic rock mind expanders Slift announce North America, Europe and UK tour dates
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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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• "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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• "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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• "Veering between sweet and sour, violent metal, disturbing imagery and cutesy melodies." A guide to every Poppy album so far
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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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• 10 Years Ago: The World Lights Itself Purple After Prince's Death
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• The Top 100 Rock Songs in Music History
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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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• “Metallica have tried some crazy things, some which have worked better than others. That’s a part of being an artist”: Twenty thousand people, an 80-piece symphony and the world’s biggest metal band – the epic story behind rock’s greatest orchestral gig
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• 50 Years Ago: Rolling Stones' 'Black and Blue' Divides Fans
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• Think You Know ’80s Movies? Try to ID These From Just One Frame
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• "There were people that really resented me for having the audacity to keep playing music after Nirvana." Every Foo Fighters album ranked, from the worst to the best
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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 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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• Slayer to Play 'Reign in Blood' in Full at 2 Upcoming 2026 Shows
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• Tree Tracks: 40 Songs for Arbor Day
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• The Moment Ringo Starr Made His First Country Album
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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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• Ted Nugent Adds a Dozen Shows to His Summer 2026 Schedule
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• Kiss Kruise '26 Lineup: Night Ranger, Kulick, Slaughter and More
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• “You hear voices in your head or somebody’s messing with your brain. Somebody, your mind’s eye, has some talking to do to you”: The power-pop classic that finally turned four Chicago misfits into 70s rock superstars
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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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• "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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• The Day Prince Died
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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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• David Byrne Extends His 'Who Is the Sky?' World Tour
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• "You gotta hit rock bottom to move somewhere else." Earthquakes, power struggles, and 16 songs that "sounded like people fighting": the curious tale of The Black Crowes 'lost' album, Tall
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• 24 Things You'd See in Every 1980s Garage
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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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• Photos - 25 of Rock's Biggest Stars in 1976 Vs. Now
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• Porcupine Tree offshoot Voyage 35 unveil full band line-up
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• George Lynch to Perform 'A Night of Dokken' on New Tour
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• The Cure Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• See Michael Stipe Perform a New Song, 'The Rest of Ever'
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• Bob Dylan Shares Over a Dozen More 2026 Tour Dates
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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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• "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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• "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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• "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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• Nashville Session Musician Wayne Moss Dead at 88
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• Warrant Announces More 2026 Tour Dates With Fellow '80s Rockers
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• ZZ Top Expands 2026 Tour With New Concert Dates
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• Watch Queens Of The Stone Age perform Auto Pilot with their former bassist Nick Oliveri
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• Revisiting Dave Mason's Final Concert
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• Win Iron Maiden 'Burning Ambition' Movie Tickets
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• 10 Best Prince Songs Released Since His Death
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• 50 Years Ago: Ramones Shape Punk Music With Their Debut Album
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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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• Could Oasis Help Peter Hook and New Order Reach Rock Hall Truce?
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• Yes reschedule postponed UK Fragile tour to May 2027
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• New Muse single Cryogen recalls classic earlier years with spiralling guitar riffs
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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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• 55 Years Ago: Rolling Stones' 'Sticky Fingers' Songs Ranked
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• Marillion are "cooking with gas" as new album nears completion
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• Slam Dunk festival director steps down in wake of sexual assault allegation
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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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• Korn return with pounding single Reward The Scars, in collaboration with new Diablo IV expansion Lord Of Hatred
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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 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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• “Freddie said, ‘Write me stuff, I know I don’t have very long. I will sing it. And then you do what you like with it afterwards”: The tragedy and triumph of Queen’s final album and Freddie Mercury’s last goodbye
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• “We were looking for a song along the lines of The Bay City Rollers. Coming home from the grocery store, I just thought of a chant – ‘Hey! Ho! Let’s go!’”: The unlikely teenybop inspiration behind punk rock’s first classic single
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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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• “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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• 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 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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• Jason Newsted and the Chophouse Band Announce Summer 2026 Tour
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• When Will Skid Row Tour Again?
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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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• Traffic Co-Founder and 'We Just Disagree' Singer Dave Mason Dies
  Ultimate Classic Rock