Rock News 2025-06-29

• Femme Fatale launch video for new single “Living Like There’s No Tomorrow”
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• The Lazys share new single “Hot Under The Collar” in advance of Canada and UK/Europe tours
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• “New sonic depths and dynamics confer an extra gravitas upon a gleaming collection of winsome melodies”: Mike Oldfield’s personal bravery shines throughout Hergest Ridge: 50th Anniversary
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• Enuff Z’Nuff release video for new single “Heavy Metal” from upcoming album ‘Xtra Cherries’
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• "Glastonbury, I'm a free man!" Kneecap draw massive crowd at Glastonbury, as BBC refuse to livestream the festival's most talked-about performance, but insist "the BBC doesn’t ban artists"
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• "We refused to believe we didn't have something special." From triumph to tragedy and triumph again, how Linkin Park became the first true metal breakout of the 21st century
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• R.I.P. Bad Company and Mott The Hoople founding member / guitarist Mick Ralphs (1944-2025)
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• “No government on stolen land should have the power to decide who is 'legal' and who is 'illegal', or who lives and who dies." Rage Against The Machine slam US politicians over "racist terror" caused by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids
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• John Lee's Barclay James Harvest announce first new studio album for 12 years
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• “Lyric-led, with music that may seem in contrast with the King Crimson work he’s best known for”: Jakko M Jakszyk’s Son Of Glen is a companion piece of sorts to his memoir
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• “My uncle would drink, say he was possessed and run after people with knives”: Why heavy metal is turning its back on booze
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• “He was bedrock to the Yes sound; an incredibly creative player who has inspired so many. It’s unlikely that we’ll see his like again”: Chris Squire’s greatest musical moments, by bandmates, friends and fans
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• "Like Gogol Bordello getting pegged by Killing Joke." Missed out on seeing Fat Dog at Glastonbury? Then you messed up
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• Founding Black Sabbath members visit Birmingham mural ahead of epic hometown show
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• “To have Kurt’s beautiful voice over one of my songs would have been amazing”: the story behind every track on Foo Fighters’ monumental debut album
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• Native James just brought grime metal to Glastonbury - and Glasto lapped it up
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• Guitarist Jasmin Pabst decides to step away from All For Metal
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• I have my Glastonbury weekend TV schedule sorted - here's how to plan ahead so you don't miss a thing
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• "You worry for anyone that has to follow them." Biffy Clyro's magnificent Glastonbury set serves notice that they're more than ready to headline Britain's biggest and most beloved festival when the call comes
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• Babylon A.D. recall Arista Records pulling their tour support and then dropping the band in February 1993
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• How to watch The Prodigy at Glastonbury 2025 from anywhere
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• How to watch Biffy Clyro at Glastonbury no matter where you are in the world
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• "It’s so day-glo, coke binge, shell suit wearing, '80s kitsch that you wouldn’t be surprised if Timmy Mallet turned up onstage." The 1975's Glastonbury headline set is as every bit as wild, weird, wired and wonderful as you'd expect
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• When Sabbath had the blues: Black Sabbath's early recordings as Earth to be released as The Legendary Lost Tapes
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• “After King Crimson ended there was a kind of inertia. I’d lost confidence musically, like, ‘Who am I now?’”: Jakko Jakszyk’s return with solo album Son Of Glen
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• “We start stomping in each others’ faces, and getting lower and lower like two sumo wrestlers”: Metallica’s Robert Trujillo reveals the inspiration behind the ‘Crab Walk’ – and it involves Ozzy Osbourne
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• Surprise! Glastonbury's worst-kept secret is revealed as 'Patchwork' aka Pulp remind Worthy Farm exactly why they're one of Britain's best-loved and most brilliant bands
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• "It's beautiful, pensive and immersive, then turns into doolally dynamite": Mike Oldfield's softly spoken follow-up to Tubular Bells now sounds better than the big beast
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• “The pursuit of immortality, I’ll chase that as hard as the next guy”: The epic story of Born In The USA and Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s
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• Get an exclusive Marillion Afraid Of Sunlight t-shirt you can’t buy anywhere else, with Prog!
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• Watch Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong join forces with Frank Carter and the Sex Pistols to perform Anarchy In The UK
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• Invasion launch video for new single “Loaded Gun”
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• How to watch Weezer at Glastonbury 2025, from anywhere in the world
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• "This collection is a breathtaking gift that Springsteen acolytes will cherish": Bruce Springsteen's staggering Tracks II - The Lost Albums makes you wonder why lesser records were released instead
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• Alan White's Ramshackled to be reissued in expanded and remastered form
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• “It’s an invisible bond that can’t be broken”: Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer
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• “The English press used to call us ‘hate metal’. It fit the music”: How Kreator made Pleasure To Kill, the vicious 80s classic that put German thrash on the map
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• “He said, ‘I’ve never seen so many women in my life. We just get men at our gigs”: The night Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris joined Def Leppard to cover Creedence Clearwater Revival
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• "It made me feel empowered!" That time pop superstars Beyoncé, Britney Spears and Pink dressed up as gladiators and covered Queen's anthemic classic We Will Rock You now seems like a weird fever dream
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• Andi Deris feels the Helloween-ish stuff was eradicated on the album ‘Chameleon’
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• AC/DC add more dates to Australian PWR⚡️UP tour
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• "Hooks big enough to snag a kaiju and basslines so irresistible they could land people in rehab." One of the world's hottest edm bands just fcuked Glastonbury festival
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• "We can finally be what I've always wanted to be." Wolfgang Van Halen's Mammoth drop WVH from name after acquiring trademark
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• How to watch Deftones at Glastonbury 2025, from anywhere in the world
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• "Baba Yaga is my spirit animal." How Hollywood star and horror icon Vera Farmiga discovered a love for metal with The Yagas
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• Pine Street’s debut album now available
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• Atomik Train unleash video for new single “Supersonik Speedway”
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• Pelagic Fest share their 2024 After Movie celebrating last year's post-rock and prog metal event
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• How to watch Wolf Alice at Glastonbury 2025 - from anywhere
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• “He was the kind of guy who liked confrontation, and I would always give it to him”: This is what Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore really thought about Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham
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• Great new prog you must hear from Karnivool, Nad Sylvan, Sonechko and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
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• "I knew that if it failed then I would have no one to blame but myself": How Boston were almost pulled apart by turmoil and tragedy
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• "I've actually talked about it a few times." After years of shooting down the idea, Josh Homme now says that a Kyuss reunion is "possible"
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• Bangalore Choir to release new album ‘Rapid Fire Succession: On Target Part II’ in late 2025
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• How to watch Alanis Morissette live at Glastonbury 2025
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• Former L.A. Guns guitarist Stacey Blades looking for “established working gig”
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• "The Melbourne crew have Glasto by the baps and balls." Aussie punks Amyl and the Sniffers just ripped Glastonbury a new one
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• "Brutal, high-velocity, downright mean and no-nonsense hard-rockin'": 1976 Motörhead sound like the real deal on The Manticore Tapes
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• Watch Good Charlotte play new single Rejects on Jimmy Kimmel Live as they announce their first new album in seven years, Motel Du Cap
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• Freaks’ Elite unveil video for track “011”
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• "I told him, 'You saved my life.'" Faith No More's Mike Bordin recalls his words of support to Ozzy Osbourne in 1990
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach very sick and back in a hospital hoping for a miracle
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• Premiere of The Midnight Devils’ video for their new single “Shock The World” on Sleaze Roxx
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• "We’re devastated." Deftones cancel Glastonbury festival appearance due to illness
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