Rock News 2025-07-16

• “Is it really a three-bagpipe and mudguard version of a Swedish cycling song?” Anthony Phillips infuses nimble guitar work with surreal intros on Radio Clyde 1978
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• Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst has the sexiest voice of any UK festival performer this year, according to new scientific study
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• "I know there’s gotta be at least another Aerosmith gig." Joe Perry reveals band have been talking about a proper farewell
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• Babylon A.D. to release new album ‘When The World Stops’ via Kivel Records by the end of 2025
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• Say hello to the bright and breezy Gadhouse Brad Retro MKII turntable
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• Drivetrain re-release latest album ‘The Party’ with two bonus tracks
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• Apocalyptic Lovers unveil track list for forthcoming album ‘And The World Tomorrow’
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• Rust N’ Rage launch lyric video for title track of upcoming album ‘Songs of Yesterday’
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• "Lenny has that cool attitude, swagger, and vibe; just not for the entire album": Filler rears its head on Lenny Kravitz's breakthrough collection Are You Gonna Go My Way
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• "They’re clearly the Rage Against The Machine of now." Tom Morello on Kneecap
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• Peter Frampton does it again: More dates added to Let’s Do It Again! tour
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• “We’re starting to turn down gigs, which isn’t something we’ve ever been able to do before." How Mystery came of age with Lies & Butterflies
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• Did David Bowie really have a hand in NINE classic albums in a three year period? Yes, he did.
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• "Thank you for a lifetime of beauty, horror, love, power, happiness, melancholy." Soundgarden salute the "majestic brilliance" of Black Sabbath, and say they were "super bummed" at not being able to play the band's Back To The Beginning show
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• Salty Dog’s post-Geffen second album released as ‘Lost Treasure + 3 Golden Jewels’ via FnA Records
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• The 11 new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• “He told me how hard it is to live up to that innovation, year after year, tour after tour’: Former Live guitarist Chad Taylor has no regrets about meeting his hero Steve Howe
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• All the essential new metal albums coming out in 2025 – and where to buy them
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• “She left music behind – but music kept trying to find her”: What Judy Dyble did for Fairport Convention, Robert Fripp, and me
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• Big Big Train reveal special warm-up show ahead of Cruise To The Edge 2026
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• Asomvel drop new single “Take You To Hell”
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• Ex-Deep Purple legend Glenn Hughes says his new solo album may be his last: “If I’ve got something else to say, then I’ll let you know, but I don’t know if I will have”
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• The book that Axl Rose doesn't want you to read: Alan Niven’s incredible book takes you inside peak Guns N’ Roses like no other
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• Uncompleted song by Jani Lane just finished by Warrant bassist Jerry Dixon & two Frontiers songwriters
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• Halestorm to release new studio album ‘Everest’ on August 8th
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• "It came down like a guillotine!" That time an angry Britpop icon nearly accidentally killed one of heavy metal's most-famous superstars on a live British TV show
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• “A leopard doesn’t change its spots. There’s going to be certain levels of diva‑ness. It might be nice if there wasn’t, but there is”: Why Yes decided, after some doubts, to make Heaven & Earth
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• Stryper guitarist Oz Fox to no longer do “extended or intense touring” based on medical advice
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• No Bull’s new album ‘Rock N Roll Remains Forever’ now available
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• “Hundreds of couples have used The Winter Long as their wedding music. It’s been a wonderful ride”: Strawbs’ Dave Cousins and The Magic Of It All
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• "Adheres largely to the blueprint of its warmly received predecessor." Alan Parsons' From The New World
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• Alter Bridge announce new album and huge European tour
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• 22 of the best Prime Day deals for music fans are still going strong - grab them before they're gone
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• Christian Shields shares video for new track “Fall Like Rain”
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• Fastride release new EP ‘Goes Like Hell’
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• "We are all fifteen-year-old boys. The fart jokes were rampant": Lzzy Hale reflects on touring with Skid Row
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• There's a horn-throwing Rob Halford action figure on the market and only 164 shopping days until Christmas
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• Scorpions to release live album ‘Coming Home Live’ on November 14th
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 14, 2025
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• United States military used Metallica's Enter Sandman without permission in now deleted video promoting war drones
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• “Tender and free-flowing… a potent, spontaneous moment in his career”: Jack Bruce’s Harmony Row, expanded to 4 discs
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• Strawbs founder, singer and guitarist Dave Cousins has died, aged 85
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• The Renaissance Man: Ginger Wildheart albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
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• "Maybe we'll say hi to each other and take selfies a few more times..." Saga singer Michael Sadler reveals terminal cancer status
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• “Solitary confinement marks you. It tortures your soul. You’re living day-by-day in fear and uncertainty”: This is what it’s like to be jailed by a repressive regime for playing in a metal band
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• "I cracked my skull and was in the hospital. And nobody called me": How America's most dysfunctional band grew to hate each other but learned to love again
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• “I understand people who say: ‘There is no Queen without Freddie.’ Because that’s what we felt following his death”: The epic story behind Queen’s triumphant comeback with Adam Lambert
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• “She wanted to go and live in Hackney and be with the common people”: the pub encounter behind Pulp’s timeless classic Common People, the song that changed everything for Jarvis & co.
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• "My ambition is always to try to make the perfect album. I haven’t yet, but I’m still trying!” Jacob Holm-Lupo tells the story of Norwegian proggers White Willow
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• "Appropriate dress is encouraged for this very special evening at the theatre": Queens Of The Stone Age announce UK and European shows
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• "One of those shows that you will be thinking about for the rest of your life": Tedeschi Trucks Band announce live album of historic Mad Dogs & Englishmen show
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• Missing Black Sabbath? Here are 10 bands that will fill the Sabbath-shaped hole in your life
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• “Pink Floyd was bigger than a band. It was more like church. They played A Momentary Lapse Of Reason in its entirety and I thought, ‘I want to be around this all the time’”: Why Billy Howerdel is glad he copied David Gilmour badly
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• “Jeff is heartbroken to report that he will not be able to perform”: Jeff Lynne’s ELO cancel last ever show
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• “Great to have a chance to work with my old friend on something from our youth." Genesis confirm September release date for The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 50th Anniversary box
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• "This is not just a fundraiser. It's a refusal to look away." Paul Weller and members of The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Specials, Madness and more to DJ at special Artists For Gaza event
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• “No debate, no coaxing, no schmoozing, nothing – I put music on the page and they play it. Don’t tell Sting!” Stewart Copeland on making music after The Police, being outdone by Pink Floyd, Curved Air, Neil Peart and life in his 70s
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• Saga singer Michael Sadler offers new update on his health
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• "When he did the four-tom fill that he was famous for, I almost fainted twice": Masters Of Reality's Chris Goss on Ginger Baker, David Bowie and the aggression of Rick Rubin
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• Steven Wilson to release 10th anniversary coloured vinyl double vinyl edition of Hand. Cannot. Erase.
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• Guitar stolen from the Rolling Stones in 1972 finally turns up – at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
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• Southbound Beretta launch video for new single “Motel Miami”
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• 10 brilliant songs from the 90s that bands were barmy to not put on a record
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• All guns blazing! Watch full, pro-shot footage of Judas Priest’s Painkiller anniversary set at Hellfest last month
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• Nikki Foxx’s two demos packaged as album ‘If You Ain’t Been Foxxed…You Ain’t Been F**ked!’
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