Rock News 2024-12-24

• Early career advice given to Linkin Park included a choreographer suggesting they incorporate a "gimmick" in which they would kick off a shoe onstage. Yes, seriously.
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• “A mix of killer melodies, heartbreak and nihilism that’s as timeless as Nirvana”: This is the best punk-pop album you haven’t heard this year
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• "This playlist is a mental roadmap that helps me to shape this day of festive cheer": Conjure up some Yuletide magic with Justin Hawkins' amazing Christmas playlist
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• Dominic Sanderson announces second album Blazing Revelations
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• Bombus unveil video for new single “The One” from album ‘Your Blood’
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• "When my son became aware of this Swifty classic we listened to it even more than when it was initially released." Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez shares cover of Taylor Swift's Welcome To New York
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• Dirkschneider to release re-recorded version of Accept’s album ‘Balls To The Wall’ with guest vocalists
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• Saxon unleash lyric video for track “Pirates of The Airways”
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• “Crowds would get agitated as soon as they heard Slash’s intro riff”: Duff McKagan on the making of a Guns N’ Roses classic
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• Becoming Led Zeppelin movie finally gets a general release date
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• Masterplan sign with record label Frontiers Music Srl
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• “I’d be lying if I said there weren’t times when we thought: ‘Let’s just abandon the concept, and write some good songs’”: How Queensryche made conspiracy theory-based masterpiece Operation: Mindcrime,
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• "Metal is more of a brotherhood than any kind of music." Slayer's Kerry King hails the inclusivity of heavy metal
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Big Star wrote it, Jamie T sampled it, and it was one of Jeff Buckley’s favourite songs. The story of the sleazy song that was reimagined to capture “the beauty of despair”
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• The Clash and Prince to be honoured with Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards
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• “We drank a lot because of the blow and we got blown a lot because we drank a lot”: The wired story of Aerosmith’s drug-fuelled classic Rocks
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• Helloween drop live video for track “Forever And One (Neverland)” from album ‘Live At Budokan’
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• “I’d say to him, ‘You say words that I would prefer you didn’t say. I think they’re unnecessary!’”: the modern pop superstar that Stevie Nicks thinks should tone down their swearing
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• “I know it sounds like a joke musical but one of my ancestors was a pirate in the Caribbean. He looked a bit like I did when I was 21 in Roxy Music”: The amazing things Phil Manzanera discovered when he looked into his past
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• "It's hard to believe that anybody thought a cover of Patti Smith's Because the Night was a good idea": Keel struggle for greatness on 1986 album The Final Frontier
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• “I go to church every Sunday when I’m home. Especially now I’ve replaced the booze with glue”: From GN’R and Pantera to Ozzy Osbourne and God, Zakk Wylde is the most connected man in rock
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• Lars Ulrich embarrassed Biohazard's Billy Graziadei in front of his friends –but quickly made up for it in style
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• Lady Strange release two EPs in the same year
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• “Punk didn’t ride over the top of Quo, because we rock harder than any of ’em. This band seems invincible somehow”: The epic story of Status Quo, the greatest British boogie band never to break America
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• Tim “Ripper” Owens feels his time in Judas Priest was like his “college”
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• “Those are the threads of a poser shirt!” Exodus used to cut hair metal t-shirts with knives during 80s concerts
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• New Southampton FC manager wants club to play “death metal football”
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• “I had just taken my first acid trip, and I had an African spear and a Chinese Warlord outfit”: Arthur Brown’s wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, David Bowie and more
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• “Lady In Red will have most of us reaching for the sick bucket. But if you dip into his back catalogue at any point from 1974 to 1984 you’ll find worthy listening”: Chris De Burgh… prog star?
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• Amen frontman Casey Chaos has died
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• "Would you rather sell tons of records and have people come at you or sell no records and have everybody love you?" Mark Tremonti isn't losing any sleep over the Creed haters
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• “I can’t say what it will feel like…I’m wise enough to know I’ve got to hear this before judging”: How King Crimson offshoot BEAT moved from an all-star dream to reality
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• “We were shocked: ‘Is this real? What does this mean?’”: Gojira reveal who came up with their fire-spewing, show-stealing Olympic Games performance
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• “We were rebels: ‘Hate us, we don’t care.’ But the more critics hated us, the more kids started showing up at shows”: The tangled tale of X Japan, Japan’s biggest rock band
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• McNulty’s Fire unleash video for new single “Rock My Soul”
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• Cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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• “It wasn’t the notes he was playing, it was the wild abandon”: Jack White on the guitarist he learned the most from
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• Las Vegas honours ZZ Top icon with special ceremony for 'Billy Gibbons Day'
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• Watch Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi and Dave Matthews pay musical tribute to the Grateful Dead
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• “Too big for our boots? We were a bunch of kids destined for factory life. We were not going to screw this up”: The tempestuous story of Def Leppard’s High ’N’ Dry, the album that turned them into US stars
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• "Our label said, ‘You guys will be the next Metallica’, and that bummed me out." Stoner rock legend Brant Bjork on why he didn't want Kyuss to be megastars
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• “People have slammed Bohemian Rhapsody but who can you compare it to? Tell me one group that’s done an operatic single?”: The epic story of A Night At The Opera, the album that turned Queen into superstars
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• David Wanless recalls what led to Sven Gali reuniting and releasing the single “Kill The Lies” in 2018
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• "Early on, there were a lot of people who judged us for our looks, how we wanted to dress." Kittie on their most underrated track - and why its message is still important twenty five years on
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• John Wesley guests on new anthemic O.R.k. single Mask Becomes The Face
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• “He said he reflected the craziness around him – he’d see other people go nuts and write about that”: Frank Zappa’s talent for using popular music to sell unpopular music, by people who helped him
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• "Babymetal were written into the script as a placeholder. I didn’t think we’d actually get them!" Heavier Trip director Juuso Laatio on making 2024's most metal movie
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• There's a new 90-minute documentary about Dread Zeppelin, the Elvis-impersonator-fronted reggae Led Zeppelin tribute act, and it's free to watch
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• Watch Nightwish documentary on the making of latest album Yesterwynde
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• “We wanted to look like something never before seen in heavy metal. What would be wilder than denim and leather? Animal fur!” How Manowar helped invent power metal with Hail To England
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• "The songs will live on with this band and with me under the name Kevin Cronin": REO Speedwagon have played their final ever show but the band formerly known as REO Speedwagon will continue
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• The 10 best death metal albums of 2024
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• "You hear everybody quitting all the time because they just can't afford touring anymore": Von Hertzen Brothers on their new album, masculine music and band economics
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• Wildness launch lyric video for new single “Broken Heart”
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• “I had no control whatsoever. I was about to drown. I saw my life disappearing in front of me”: The epic story of Cat Stevens, the 70s superstar who turned his back on music
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• Black Sabbath’s original drummer Bill Ward applauds how Iron Maiden have treated Nicko McBrain
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• “The seven deadly sins were invented by the church. They weren’t invented by God so I don’t give them too much credence“: How Max Cavalera came through his personal dark ages to make Soulfly’s Omen album
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• L.A. Guns announce US tour dates in support of their upcoming album ‘Leopard Skin’
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• Metal Hammer writers name their top albums of 2024
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• “Success is a label other people put on you… My success is in terms of fulfilment and perfection of my art. That’s something I never will reach. I have to accept that”: Kate Bush’s mid-80s battle for control
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• ‘A Celebration of the Music and Life of Jack Russell’ to take place at the Whisky A Go-Go on January 14th
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• Wicked share video for track “Reptile Roots”
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• It’s Eddie Vedder’s 60th birthday today and there’s no better way to celebrate than listening to this festive selection of Pearl Jam Christmas crackers
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• The official film of King Crimson's legendary 1982 Munich show is now free to watch online
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