Rock News 2025-01-17

• "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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• "You know, at my age, it hurts my shoulders to do all this": Sammy Hagar says he doesn't want to tour anymore
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• Michael Sweet aiming to finalize and release ‘inspirational / worship’ album
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• Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is an enthralling depiction of the emergence of a singular musical genius and cultural disruptor, with Timothée Chalamet superb as a young Dylan
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• 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
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• Envy Of None detail upcoming second album Stygian Wavz
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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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• Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rod Stewart, Stephen Stills, Stevie Nicks, Green Day, Joni Mitchell and more confirmed for FireAid benefit concerts
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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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• Wheels of Fire to release new album ‘All In’ on March 21st
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• “All you have to do is turn on the TV and you’re inundated by complete lies from people who are supposed to be running this country”: How distortion, chaos and a world gone mad shaped R.E.M.’s game-changing album Document album
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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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• Sabaton to release World War I-themed movie on streaming services this spring
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• "He said, 'The last thing I want is you guys going on David Letterman and the freakin’ drummer’s singing." How Mastodon left sludge metal behind for cosmic prog metal on Oblivion
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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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• "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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• Alt.rock icons Swervedriver release first new music in five years and it's predictably epic
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• Nine Inch Nails confirm they’ll announce first dates on long-anticipated world tour soon
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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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• Dirkschneider launch lyric video for classic track “Balls To The Wall” featuring Joakim Brodén
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• Gyasi launches new single “Cheap High” from upcoming album ‘Here Comes The Good Part’
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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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• “I’d rather be remembered for our legacy than returning as the top Rush tribute band”: Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee are jamming together – but they have no plans to resurrect Rush with a new drummer
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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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• Spread Eagle to release EP ‘The 1989 Demos’ and to hit the road for ’35th Anniversary Tour’
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• "My first concert was The Black Crowes, but my second was ZZ Top. That would've been the cooler answer!" Brat's Liz Selfish: 10 Records That Changed My Life
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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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• "The sound of a man running wild in his own imagination": Frank Black's Teenager Of The Year still sounds brilliant 30 years on
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• Trixy Tang unveil current 2025 show dates
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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 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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• “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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• "Dance, drink, and be merry!" Green Day's "glorified karaoke" side-project The Coverups host a joyously messy party in London
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• “He couldn’t understand amidst the noise that I was the other singer! I almost enjoyed it better that way”: The underwhelming moment when Yes’ Jon Davison met predecessor Jon Anderson
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• “You have to destroy things in order to create things. And I did destroy a really beautiful life.” Lucy Dacus announces new album Forever Is A Feeling, shares two new singles and North American tour dates
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Osibisa founding member and singer Teddy Osei dead at 88
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• “Turn the lights off, put the music on, close your eyes and start to have a waking dream… it might even inspire people to create movies that could be scored with this music”: John Carpenter’s second career in prog
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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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• "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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• Three days left to cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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• Stephan Pearcy reveals when he played guitar in Ratt and whether he enjoyed it or not
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• Desperate to master “the art of growling”? This Dutch university offers degrees in heavy metal music. Seriously.
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• Löanshark unleash video for new single “Another Man In The Trunk”
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• Former 24-7 Spyz vocalist and Black Rock Coalition co-founder Peter 'P. Fluid' Forrest, murdered in New York
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• Lady Beast share new single “Inner Alchemist” from upcoming album ‘The Inner Alchemist’
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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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• Dirty Honey drop live video for track “When I’m Gone” from upcoming album ‘Mayhem & Revelry Live’
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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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• “I borrowed an iPod for a flight and put Moonmadness on it. Flying through the clouds, I was listening to Air Born thinking, ‘This is great!’” Why Baroness ex Peter Adams loves Camel
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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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• Eagles donate $2.5 million to upcoming LA wildfires relief concert
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• “Hendrix took a look at my first album and said: ‘I’ll try it this way’. I don’t appreciate that. But then I can’t play the guitar like him”: The chaotic story of Arthur Lee and Love, the 60s renegades who helped invent the LA scene
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• Last day to cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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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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• “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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• Super Deluxe edition of classic Yes album Close To The Edge on the way
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• New Zealand groove metallers Alien Weaponry announce new album Te Rā, launch epic Mau Moko video
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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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• "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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• Rikki Rockett feels rock and metal outlets are quickly becoming the “soundtrack of the grumpy”
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• "I first heard it when I started taking acid": Devin Townsend picks the soundtrack of his life
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• Watch Dream Theater's prog metal legend Mike Portnoy attempt to play along to Taylor Swift's Shake It Off with absolutely no idea what he's listening to
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• Listen to thunderous new Architects single Blackhole
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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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