Rock News 2025-09-24

• Kid Rock is banned from performing in California
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• Buckcherry share lyric video for new single “Hello Goodbye”
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• Rick Wakeman celebrated in new set of six stamps designed by Roger Dean
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• Gyasi to embark on ‘The Good Part Tour’ throughout Europe and the UK in October
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• The Cure announce new festival show for next summer
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• Chez Kane unveils video for title track from upcoming album ‘Reckless’
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• Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with an I Prevail cover and t-shirt you won’t find in the shops
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• Kate Bush to release Best Of The Other Sides on CD and coloured vinyl in October
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• Alcatrazz share re-recorded version of their song “Hiroshima Mon Amour”
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• Stryper to release Christmas album ‘The Greatest Gift of All’ on November 21st
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• “I was familiar with air guitar. I had a giant mirror and a tennis racket. But I’d never conceived that 20,000 humans in a room would be playing air drums!” Ugly Kid Joe’s Whitfield Crane loves Rush
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• Dirtbag Republic announce first ever vinyl reissues of their debut and sophomore albums
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• "He made the show feel like a party. So that's what we try to do": Greta Valenti picks the soundtrack of her life
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• Video: so the new Parkway Drive show looks completely insane
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• "When people watch us, it's like somebody checks a box that says ‘anything is permissible’. We've had limbs thrown on stage, wheelchairs…" Five hilarious minutes with Gwar front-thing, Blöthar The Berserker
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• “Categorically false”: Fleetwood Mac deny reports that they will reunite to play at JK Rowling’s birthday bash
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• Gotthard unleash lyric video for new single “Ride The Wave” from upcoming album ‘More Stereo Crush’
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• "The 80s were our most successful period, but soulless, shallower, and less musically rewarding": How Heart made their rock'n'roll dreams come true and the price they paid
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• My Chemical Romance announce The Black Parade 2026 tour
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• “You could never call us pretentious. We were a rock’n’roll band. A rock’n’roll band that liked to experiment”: The wild story of Family, the British hellraisers that John Lennon loved and Middle America hated
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• US prog rockers Elder unveil 18-minute new work Liminality/Dream State Return
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• V-Twins are back after 24 year hiatus with new single “Hit Me In Overdrive”
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• Gary Hoey and Lita Ford release video for new track “You Know I Would”
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• President King Of Terrors review: Metal's most hyped newcomers show plenty of promise but still have a way to go
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• Iron Maiden announce epic Knebworth show for 2026 - plus two huge festival dates
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• With Altar's delightfully gothic dream-pop, NewDad have hit new heights, but their triumph has come at a price
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• Metal Hammer has teamed with Parkway Drive for an exclusive t-shirt and magazine package
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• "We met somewhere in the crossroads and learned a lot from each other": Rodney Crowell on country royalty, loving Southern rock again and new album Airline Highway
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• Phish release statement after stabbing incident outside show leaves one dead and two injured
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• “We were shocked it went so well! But this music has lived within us for a long time – it makes sense for it to be natural”: Auri have finally come to life with III: Candles & Beginnings
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• "Call us tarts or a bunch of cheap Rolling Stones imitations – we're still together and we still love to rock": Wild and weird weekends with Aerosmith's Toxic Twins
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• "I need one!": Watch Wolfgang Van Halen shred through a fart pedal
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• Video footage from Crashdïet’s ‘Rest In Sleaze 20th Anniversary’ show on September 19th
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• Ghost have put a spooky mariachi band on a boat to promote this week’s Mexico City shows
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• New Rolling Stones podcast launched - first episode includes Andrew Loog Oldham interview
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• The Boston albums you need to hear - and one to avoid
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• "That song is actually the answer to the big question - it's got real power": The story of the post-punk classic that defined a band and inspired a Hollywood movie
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• Thrice announce UK tour dates for 2026
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• End of an era — Hannes Braun stepping down as Kissin’ Dynamite’s lead vocalist
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• “Proof they can go for the heart as well as the head, encouraging thought and emotional commitment”: Marillion’s 20 best songs as chosen by Prog readers (the band can’t believe Number 7)
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• Aerosmith and Yungblud launch visualizer video for new single “My Only Angel”
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• “I know it will pay off in the end”: Stevie Nicks shares letter she wrote to her family whilst recording Buckingham Nicks
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• “I was not expecting how open and honest Sharon Osbourne was”: From Randy Rhoads to Chuck Schuldiner, new docuseries Into The Void is bringing heavy metal’s human stories to the mainstream
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• “Hard rock needed a miracle and it found one in this masterpiece”: The best rock debut album from every year of the 1970s
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• Communication breakdown: Led Zeppelin announce Record Store Day release then delete announcement
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• "This is the last time we’re going to get on a bus and tour all over North America." Shirley Manson blames record industry "thievery" for forcing Garbage to make a drastic decision on touring
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• “David Byron refused to be helped. On one occasion he slapped me round the face, kicked and screamed at me. We couldn’t take it any more”: The stellar rise and chaotic fall of Uriah Heep, the 70s rock giants who tore themselves apart
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• Sainted Sinners unveil video for new single “World’s On Fire” from upcoming album ‘High On Fire’
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• Biffy Clyro Futique review: catchy, weird, often warm and occasionally crushingly sad, it's everything that makes Biffy one of the UK's greatest bands
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• “Huge, tattooed men were crying”: Joey Jordison’s sisters reveal how they helped one of the late Slipknot drummer’s unreleased albums see the light of day
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• Get your exclusive Biffy Clyro Futique t-shirt only via the official Louder store
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• "Nightwish, Him and Lacuna Coil all bow before them." Ranking every Paradise Lost album from worst to best
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• Jay Jay French mum on why Mark Mendoza not part of Twisted Sister’s upcoming reunion shows
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 22, 2025
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• Debate: who are the greatest black metal band of all time?
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• A Freddie Mercury Memorial Garden has opened in West London
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• Right-wing Twitter is up in arms about Gwar “disembowelling” Donald Trump
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• “He’s the only rock star who’s never done anything to be embarrassed about. He’s never put a foot wrong”: Why Peter Gabriel was the ideal inspiration for fictional prog icon Brian Pern
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• “I’d had too much to drink and didn’t consider how inappropriate or hurtful it might be”: Emmy-nominated actor apologises for having picture taken with Marilyn Manson
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• Watch Nancy Wilson join Chappell Roan onstage for a rollicking cover of Heart classic Barracuda
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• "If you already liked Supertramp, Brother Where You Bound has everything you liked about them": Rick Davies takes control on Supertramp's first album without Roger Hodgson
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• Slash launches live video for track “Oh Well” from upcoming album ‘Live At The S.E.R.P.E.N.T Festival’
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• "We started to get imposter syndrome." Burnout. Therapy. A crisis of identity. How Biffy Clyro almost fell apart - but came back stronger
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• Cardiacs announce live dates in support of new album LSD for March 2026
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• Pixies announce new worldwide tour to celebrate their 40th anniversary
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