Rock News 2025-06-15

• How to watch Bonnaroo 2025: Megadeth, QOTSA & more set for annual music and arts festival
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• "The astonishing, histrionic Liar that tears the roof off": Queen's debut album gets more intense on Dolby Atmos Blu-ray edition
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• Bruce Dickinson’s solo album ‘Balls To Picasso’ re-invented as ‘More Balls To Picasso’
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• "Rivers Cuomo even looks like he might smile at one point. Truly a momentous occasion." Weezer smash out the hits for a flawless debut at Download Festival
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• Roger Waters shares new trailer for This Is Not A Drill - Live from Prague The Movie
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• Mädhouse unleash video for new single “Midnite Fever” from upcoming album ‘Plead The Fifth’
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• “You deserve more”: Pulp spoil London with two sets, marvellous production and every hit in their catalogue
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• Whether John Lydon likes it or not, Sex Pistols' Download set proves the true spirit of punk still lives large
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• Here's what Sleep Token played at their first ever Download headline set (videos inside)
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• “When are we going to stop with this Pink Floyd stuff and start playing some metal?”: The story of the most ambitious song in death metal history
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• "An oddball genius proffering words of hope as the world burns": Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts take aim at Trump & Co. on Talkin To The Trees
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• "He would have been so perfect in it." Sharon Osbourne says that blocking Ozzy from auditioning for a blockbuster film franchise is the biggest mistake she ever made
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• YouTube instructor claims Slash learned some blues guitar by watching his videos
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• “He was disillusioned by wealth clashing with his principles. His fans thought riches were a good thing. Their reaction was the basis of everything else he did”: Roger Waters as seen via his Pink Floyd lyrics
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• Lars Ulrich has (maybe) seen your Metallica memes
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• Get an exclusive Chris Squire t-shirt you can’t buy anywhere else with Prog!
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• "Trying to work it all out, that's what makes us human": Those Damn Crows and the search for meaning in uncertain times
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Phil X wished for more time to rehearse for Triumph reunion show but happy with how it turned out
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• Todd Rundgren announces live dates for London and Birmingham for October
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• "My mother didn't particularly like the look of me and my dad didn't like the sound of me": Pete Townshend and the lifelong search for answers
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• “A reminder of their singular magic that stemmed from Rick Wakeman-like piano flair along with an agile, crystalline voice”: Renaissance’s Running Hard – The Albums 1974-1976
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• "We understand you've been patiently Counting Out Time..." Genesis shift release of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 50th Anniversary box set back to late Autumn
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• “I saw us in a direct line from big band or modern jazz – but with complex interactive rock rhythms plus improvised solos”: Five Colosseum songs that prove the jazz-rock pioneers’ pedigree
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• The 10 best Sleep Token songs ever
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• Brian Wilson interview: "I don’t like SMiLE any more. I got so tired of it and did it so many times I've forgotten it"
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• Tommy Gun drops new single “Balltearer”
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• Lynch Mob version 2.0? — New shows under name George Lynch & The Mob just announced
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• "It's purely experimental, with zero regard for commercialism": How Brian Wilson recorded Pet Sounds and reinvented music
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• "Edge left. He was feeling that he couldn't serve both god and man. I decided I couldn't either. So we both quit." How Bono and The Edge's faith in Jesus almost destroyed U2
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• Great new music you need to hear from Chimpan A, Whispers Of Granite, Leoni Jane Kennedy in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!
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• “The goal was to die onstage!” Why retirement is a four-letter word for Metallica’s Kirk Hammett
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• Mean Mistreater drop video for title track from new album ‘Do Or Die’
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• Airbourne unleash new track “Gutsy”
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• Arjen Anthony Lucassen shares 15-minute mini-movie as he announces apocalyptic new solo album Songs No One Will Hear
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• "Kids saw the video on MTV and thought, 'This is cool. These guys are kinda ugly and they're tearing up their high school.' It attracted some riff-raff." Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit video has now been viewed more than two billion times on YouTube
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• “There were arguments. But they weren’t personal – they were musical. They helped make it what it is”: How Yes defined themselves with Fragile, before success went to their heads
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• OceanGate CEO wanted Pearl Jam to be in doomed Titanic submersible, according to new documentary
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• "Everybody on the black side of my family was like, What is your problem?" In 1990, Slash broke his silence and shared his true feelings about Guns N' Roses' most controversial song, One In A Million
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• "Obviously, I’m gonna buy him a beer or two or three." Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell thanks stem cell donor after getting cancer all clear
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• “When the hits dried up they made a poignant, multi-layered swansong for the 60s”: The Zombies’ final album Odessey And Oracle is a proto-prog classic
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• "Ladies and gentlemen, we are slipping into fascism. It’s up to us to fight back!” Green Day mark their long-awaited Download debut by calling out Trump and Musk and playing all the bangers
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• "A one-of-a-kind genius from another world": The world of rock reacts to the death of Brian Wilson
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• "Still pumping out bottle-rocket earworms": Buckcherry are rollickingly focused on Roar Like Thunder
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• Judas Priest kick off Painkiller anniversary tour with rarities-stacked setlist – see what they played and watch videos here
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• Watch Muse premiere new single Unravelling on the opening night of their European tour
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• "This is a band reaching the apex of their powers." Within Temptation blow Download away with a theatrical, emotional set
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• Helloween launch video for first single “This is Tokyo” from upcoming album ‘Giants & Monsters’
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• Giuffria’s demos for their shelved third album now available as ‘The Unreleased Remastered Demos’
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• Watch 90s pop crew Vengaboys pull an insane crowd at Download, the UK's biggest rock and metal festival
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• We went to Poland's biggest metal festival Mystic - this is what it was like
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• Deep Purple’s album ‘Rapture of The Deep’ remixed and remastered with bonus CD/LP
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• "It is a wonderful honour for me": The Who's Roger Daltrey reacts to receiving a Knighthood in King Charles III's Birthday Honours list
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• "There was not going to be a Led Zeppelin for me, but this was a parallel": Jimmy Page and Black Crowes discuss Live At The Greek in revealing short film
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• Babylon A.D. recall feeling pressured to record song “Psychedelic Sex Reaction” prior to second album
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• Watch Sex Pistols and Primal Scream form an impromptu supergroup while rehearsing in the same building
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• Notörious launch third single “Into The Night” from upcoming EP
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• Touris’ debut album re-released as ‘Big(ger) Plans’ with seven bonus tracks
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• Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson dead at 82
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• Between The Buried And Me announce new record deal, new album and share new single
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• The world's first Ozzy Osbourne exhibition will open in Black Sabbath's hometown, Birmingham, this summer
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• "Apparently pretending to play guitar on a public path is a criminal offence." British metalcore crew Malevolence are beefing with UK nature charity The National Trust
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• “You wonder if any other drummer could have glued together all the impulses and influences at play”: Alan White’s 10 best performances with Yes
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang share video for new single “Hellbreaker”
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• BlackRain unveil video for new single “Crack The Sky”
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