Rock News 2025-06-30

• "Like Gogol Bordello getting pegged by Killing Joke." Missed out on seeing Fat Dog at Glastonbury? Then you messed up
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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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• "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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• How to watch The Prodigy at Glastonbury 2025 from anywhere
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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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• Bangalore Choir to release new album ‘Rapid Fire Succession: On Target Part II’ in late 2025
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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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• “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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• Junkyard frontman David Roach very sick and back in a hospital hoping for a miracle
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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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• Atomik Train unleash video for new single “Supersonik Speedway”
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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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• K.K. Downing releases cover of Judas Priest’s track “Never Satisfied” featuring Tim “Ripper” Owens
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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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• Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp return to action with maniacal Ramones cover
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• Former L.A. Guns guitarist Stacey Blades looking for “established working gig”
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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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• “We never thought of ourselves as pioneers. But we grew up in a parallel universe to our peers”: Voivod weren’t trying to invent prog metal – they were just trying to be like Van der Graaf Generator
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• Premiere of The Midnight Devils’ video for their new single “Shock The World” on Sleaze Roxx
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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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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• "This is a generational, once-in-a-lifetime moment for a heavy band at a festival that has an awkward history with rock, punk and metal." An awestruck Glastonbury discovers Charli XCX was bang on the money when she predicted the coming of Turnstile Summer
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• Founding Black Sabbath members visit Birmingham mural ahead of epic hometown show
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• AC/DC add more dates to Australian PWR⚡️UP tour
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• R.I.P. Bad Company and Mott The Hoople founding member / guitarist Mick Ralphs (1944-2025)
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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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• 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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• “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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• Andi Deris feels the Helloween-ish stuff was eradicated on the album ‘Chameleon’
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• Marilyn Manson UK show cancelled following protests
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• Here’s the line-up of every major festival in 1995… and it actually isn’t very different to how they’ve shaped up 30 years later
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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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• "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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• “We became the pariahs of the Christian community. They hated me. I still get mail going: ‘Come back to Christ’ There’s no way I’m going back to that”: The incredible story of King’s X, the greatest band the world doesn’t know about
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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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• When Sabbath had the blues: Black Sabbath's early recordings as Earth to be released as The Legendary Lost Tapes
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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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• "It’s refreshing to experience music so pure." Legendary 'Godfather of Grunge' Neil Young closes out Saturday night at Glastonbury, still burning, not fading away
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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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• How to watch Deftones at Glastonbury 2025, from anywhere in the world
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• Snake Bite Whisky drop video for new single “Living To Die”
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• Pine Street’s debut album now available
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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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• How to watch Weezer at Glastonbury 2025, from anywhere in the world
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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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• "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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• Femme Fatale launch video for new single “Living Like There’s No Tomorrow”
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• “As great as it undoubtedly was, the bug-eyed insanity of thrash was nowhere to be heard in any of its songs”: How Metallica’s Black Album killed thrash metal
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• The guys are dressed as good ol’ boys and the girls have gone full Cowgirl. What is it about Zach Bryan that has convinced the youth of Britain to lose their cynical minds?
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• How to watch Wolf Alice at Glastonbury 2025 - from anywhere
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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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• “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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• "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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• “Wrapping this era-defining talent and power in a cloak of mystique only supercharges the legacy”: Jimmy Page or Tony Iommi? A heated debate over who is the best guitarist
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• Guitarist Jasmin Pabst decides to step away from All For Metal
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• Alan White's Ramshackled to be reissued in expanded and remastered form
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• "We’re devastated." Deftones cancel Glastonbury festival appearance due to illness
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• “A homecoming for the ages”: Iron Maiden return to London’s East End for a gloriously flamboyant 50th birthday party
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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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• Babylon A.D. recall Arista Records pulling their tour support and then dropping the band in February 1993
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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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• "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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• John Lee's Barclay James Harvest announce first new studio album for 12 years
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• Enuff Z’Nuff release video for new single “Heavy Metal” from upcoming album ‘Xtra Cherries’
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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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