Rock News 2025-01-15

• “You’re 17, it’s a normal dumb night, then someone’s screaming, ‘Get on the floor!’ I’m gonna die. This is the end of my life”: The armed hold-up that set the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne on the road to music
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• Trixy Tang unveil current 2025 show dates
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• Three days left to cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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• Rikki Rockett feels rock and metal outlets are quickly becoming the “soundtrack of the grumpy”
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• 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
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• Osibisa founding member and singer Teddy Osei dead at 88
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• "It might kill me to be on the road, but it will certainly kill me to not be on the road": Sweet guitarist Andy Scott reveals why he won't stop touring
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• "It's interesting that metalheads resonate with us.” Kalandra mix ethereal prog, Nordic folk and, er, bird songs. So why can't metal fans get enough of them?
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• Skunk Anansie release spiky new single An Artist Is An Artist, and if you hate saxophone Skin has news for you
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• Lady Beast share new single “Inner Alchemist” from upcoming album ‘The Inner Alchemist’
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• Envy Of None detail upcoming second album Stygian Wavz
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• Sabaton to release World War I-themed movie on streaming services this spring
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• "The whole evolution of electric guitar-driven, album-oriented music can be traced directly back to him": The Bob Dylan albums you should definitely listen to
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• Stephan Pearcy reveals when he played guitar in Ratt and whether he enjoyed it or not
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• Feel old yet? These classic metal albums turn 20 in 2025
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• "Haters gonna hate while I live my dream." Seattle R&B/Soul singer Shaina Shepherd responds to hot takes on her one-off performance fronting Soundgarden
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• "We were even rebelling against the people who embraced us": A brief history of cult Paisley Underground psychonauts The Dream Syndicate
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• “I’m too old to be famous.” Paramore's Hayley Williams has discovered an unreleased album her 78-year-old grandfather Rusty recorded almost 50 years ago, and you can hear its first single now
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• "My friend’s mom had connections with the Grateful Dead and could score good acid." Kyuss legend Brant Bjork was destined for a life in rock'n'roll
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• "I did have a multitrack tape of that, but it got mislaid": The secret history of Led Zeppelin’s lost masterpiece
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• Alabama Shakes leader Brittany Howard just played her first gig with her new hardcore band Kumite, and personally offended punk rock gatekeepers are already crying hot salty tears just thinking about it
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• "Fake blood starts pouring from an amateurish-looking skull incorporated into a plank of wood": A night out with Iron Maiden before they were famous
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• "Just as Dave pioneered a genre with Megadeth, we wanted to pioneer something new in the world of wine": Dave Mustaine's wine company is now offering luxury wine-related excursions
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• "Slipknot took care of us!" Knocked Loose's Bryan Garris on rubbing shoulders with metal icons, taking hardcore mainstream and what comes next
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• Nine Inch Nails confirm they’ll announce first dates on long-anticipated world tour soon
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• “I thought it was just going to be a fun little party record, but my grief started leaching into the music”: Devin Townsend is slightly embarrassed by his new album, and that’s a good thing
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• Watch prog metal legend Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) attempt to play along to Taylor Swift's Shake It Off with absolutely no idea what he's listening to
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• Evick drop new single “Your Last One”
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• "We’ve played shows on mushrooms in the past." Blood Incantation made one of 2024's trippiest, most ambitious metal albums, and we're starting to see why
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• Ablaze to bid farewell to band co-founder and guitarist Matty D
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• "I certainly did not imagine that a son of mine would get rich from being obnoxious!" In 1987, the Beastie Boys were portrayed as the world's most outrageous, offensive band, a danger to civilised society. Their parents found it all hugely amusing
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• Wheels of Fire to release new album ‘All In’ on March 21st
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• Now you’re playing with power! Lego level up the retro vibes with the new Lego Nintendo Game Boy
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• "It was an unmitigated disaster." Beatles legend Ringo Starr reveals why he and Elton John's mother walked out of one of her son's most legendary stadium shows
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• English Teacher, Du Blonde, Nadine Shah and more join Iggy Pop, Manic Street Preachers and Sisters of Mercy on Bearded Theory festival bill
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• “I just want to roll into it with an energy like it’s all starting again”: Slipknot’s Clown teases new album (and Look Outside Your Window) coming soon
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• Rachael Yamagata teams up with TESSAN to inspire journeys through music and connection
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• “Something we did do was throw out the rulebook”: Arch Enemy discuss “chaotic” new album Blood Dynasty
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• Mastodon’s new album is “all over the place” musically, teases Brann Dailor
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• "Right now nobody gives a flying **** when your record drops or the next concert is!" Motley Crue's Tommy Lee isn't impressed by tone-deaf musicians self-promoting while Los Angeles is burning, but there's a plot twist
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• "After a lifetime listening to hard rock and heavy metal I discovered Talking Heads and realised how good music could really be": Talking Heads open up new worlds on Remain In Light
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• Last day to cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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• Stryper clarify the “official” dates for their album releases
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• Alt.rock icons Swervedriver release first new music in five years and it's predictably epic
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• “It’s a case of writing something you thought was wryly amusing, then it just won’t leave you”: Horrified by his own mission statement, Public Service Broadcasting’s J. Willgoose Esq. calls himself a pessimist with impostor syndrome
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• "We had turned into grotesque prog creatures": How Rush reinvented themselves
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• Tigertailz’s box set ‘For A Few Dollarz More (The Archives Vol 1: 1984–1991)’ available on January 24th
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• Super Deluxe edition of classic Yes album Close To The Edge on the way
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• “There’s a lot of jeopardy involved for them”: Marilyn Manson: Unmasked director applauds accusers who came forward ahead of series’ UK broadcast
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• "Marriage is f*cking metal." Cradle of Filth members Marek Šmerda and Zoë Federoff married in Arizona
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• "I sometimes struggled to convey what we were just talking about, and not everyone understood it": A story of Ghost's concert movie, logistical complexity and Hollywood finance
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• Former Skid Row lead vocalist Erik Grönwall unveils his plans in 2025 for music releases and livestreams
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• "When you're young you've got all this violence in you, and that music released it for me." U2's Bono on the "genius" musician he considers an "exorcist"
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• "It's chock full of fist pumpers, head bumpers, stinky dumpers, meaty thumpers and toe stumpers." Cult legend John Reis announces new album Time To Let You Down, shares single Fed To The Dogs
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• Listen to thunderous new Architects single Blackhole
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• “Righteous proof that rebel music and irony are alive and well”: Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name amasses one billion Spotify streams
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• Gyasi launches new single “Cheap High” from upcoming album ‘Here Comes The Good Part’
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• Neil Young once threw Bob Dylan off his tour bus because he didn't recognise the legendary singer/songwriter
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• Michael Sweet aiming to finalize and release ‘inspirational / worship’ album
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• “He was wearing a red satin suit and he’d closed his eyes to do existential-style doodles. Then he got ink on his suit and was pissed off”: Why Captain Beefheart is The Primevals frontman Michael Rooney’s prog hero
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• The 50 best metal songs of 2024
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• "We can't quit, we don’t know how, we've come too far": Those Damn Crows release thumping new single No Surrender
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• Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale once dumped a guy for falling asleep during a Tool show
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• Robin McAuley unveils lyric video for new track “Soulbound”
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