Rock News 2025-10-17

• Jonathan Cain Will Leave Journey After One More Tour
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• PHOTOS: Life in Small-Town America During the '70s
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• "One of the great rock voices of her era in her element": Chrissie Hynde & Pals' Duets Special is a quiet, low-key joy to behold
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• Lou Gramm Is Finally Planning to Retire
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• “It was the most amazing thing. I couldn’t have written it better myself because it was just so perfectly me!" How Ozzy Osbourne produced his most emotional anthem with some inspiration from his wife Sharon - and a stunning assist from Lemmy
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• “People talk to me on the street about it and say, ‘That song was really there for me when I needed it’”: the stirring 90s anthem inspired by Nazareth and featuring strings arranged by a member of Led Zeppelin that made this band absolutely massive
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• “There was a small fish that was aggressively following me and poking me… it freaked me out”: the high-school scuba trip that inspired an all-time alt-rock anthem
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• November 2025 New Music Releases
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• Kiss Members Pay Tribute to Ace Frehley Following His Death
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• "Sabbath will not do it, they won't take a chance": How Ozzy Osbourne predicted the future and saved Motörhead's Heavy Metal Holocaust
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• “Everyone was out of their minds. Alcoholic drug addicts. I just remember all the excess”: In a haze of substance use and record label conflicts, Korn made the defining anthem of nu metal’s heyday
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• "A bond exists now and forevermore among Hard-Ons and their fans": Australian punk legends launch vinyl record containing their actual blood
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• The Strangest Show Devo Ever Played
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• Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows records video message for freed Israeli hostages
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• Kiss' 'Dressed to Kill' Box Set to Include Two Full 1975 Concerts
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• So Poppy has gone and made a metal cover of Wham’s Last Christmas and it sounds pretty crazy
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• Former Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre to release autobiography in November
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• "The guys from the record company were jumping up and down and screaming": The beer-soaked, chart-topping anthem that saved a career and became an all-time classic
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• "The more the value goes up, the more they're gonna hound us." An iconic 90s metal band are in talks about a possible tribute show in honour of their much missed frontman
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• 35 Years Ago: Dave Grohl Plays His First Show With Nirvana
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• Top 10 John Lodge Songs
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• Kiss legend Ace Frehley dead at 74
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• Six Legendary Bands That Have Never Released a Great Live Album
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• Thommy Price, Drummer for Joan Jett and More, Dead at 68
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• Watch Foreigner Play Emotional Final Show With Kelly Hansen
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• Win a Foreigner '4' Box Set
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• “We’re Indigenous people fighting for our culture”: Endorsed by Slipknot, collaborating with Gojira and battling colonialism – how Mawiza became the most important new metal band of 2025
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• How Oasis Captured the World: Photo Gallery
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• Vote for Rock's Spookiest Song: Only the 'Evil Eight' Remain!
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• "Yorkshire lads shouldn’t marry American actresses": How MTV – and David Coverdale's wife –made Whitesnake into megastars
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• How big a Ghost fan are you? Take our devilishly hard Ghost quiz to find out!
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• "The long pause is over...see you in 2026!" One of the best alt rock bands of the 90s have reunited for the first time in 30 years
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• Disturbed say they want their music to “heal” people after their singer signed a bomb and caused their Belgium gig to be cancelled
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• “Our town has been polluted by heavy metal!” Sabaton storm the cover of the new Metal Hammer
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• Robert Plant Didn’t Want to Make a New Album
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• The Legacy of Rock's Most Hated Records
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• Original Kiss Guitarist Ace Frehley Reportedly on Life Support
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• “It’s light-hearted, sexually ambiguous – I love it!” Justin Hawkins chooses the 10 best Queen songs you might have missed
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• Somewhere there's a recording of Ozzy Osbourne duetting with Madonna
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• “It’s such a beautiful album cos she wore her pain.” Yungblud picks his favourite albums ever, including some punk, rock and Britpop classics
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• Unexpected Vocalists in Classic Rock: 35 Essential Tracks
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• "Fear is what motivates ignorant people to put words in my mouth": Carlos Santana refutes viral hoax claiming he opposed Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show
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• The Day John Denver Died
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• Yes guitarist Steve Howe to release limited edition vinyl 10 inch EP of Bob Dylan covers
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• “Robert Fripp is a really diddly-diddly man, all the riff stuff, and that works to an extent. But you need to put that in a context to make it accessible”: The secret to making King Crimson work by Peter Giles, the bassist who helped make it happen
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• Watch Disturbed call for “unity” onstage as David Draiman continues to weather backlash for signing an Israeli bomb
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• "It changed everything. After that it was never the same. I had to adjust my life": The story of the career-defining song with a lyric scribbled on a takeaway bag while stoned
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• "I split my forehead open. He said, 'Can you squeeze it and make it bleed some more? It looks great on the telly.'" Crazed fans, blood, burnout and mummies: the story of Iron Maiden's epic World Slavery tour
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• “It’s heraldic. It’s funny. It’s virtuoso and also really stupid! I wouldn’t change a note”: Simple ideas and happy accidents propelled a Dutch band’s second album to the pinnacle of prog. And yodelling.
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• Marillion/Tangerine Dream offshoot Bioscope cancel December tour plans
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• No Doubt add 6 dates to Las Vegas Sphere residency after "incredible" response from fans
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• Top 20 Post-Kiss Ace Frehley Songs
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• "We went on straight after Chappell Roan." From a platinum-selling Taylor Swift cover to hanging out with Post Malone, I Prevail have quietly become one of metal's hottest bands
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• Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe to broadcast new album, Liminal, into space!
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• How Bryan Adams Almost Gave Away One of His Biggest Songs
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• How to watch the Mercury Prize album of the year 2025... from anywhere
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• Are You Currently Planning to Marry Sheryl Crow? Read This First!
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• "It's my 'I love you' to Joey." The story of Joey Jordison's post-Slipknot bands Vimic and Sinsaenum
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• Foreigner is ‘Excited for the Future of the Band'
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• Watch Gene Simmons officiate at 2025's most rock'n'roll wedding
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• 10 of John Mayer's Best Classic Rock Collaborations
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• The Hilariously Bad First Concerts of Rock's Biggest Bands
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• "We’ve decided not to count drummers anymore, it got depressing when we got to two figures." An audience with Spinal Tap legend David St. Hubbins
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• Original Kiss Lead Guitarist Ace Frehley Dead at 74
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• Former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley reportedly on life support suffering from brain bleed
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• When Buddy Holly Opened for Bill Haley and Landed a Record Deal
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• "We are cooking." New Slipknot music is on the way, according to the band's drummer Eloy Casagrande
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• “We had to pay the families of Charles Manson’s victims royalties from the song. And we’ve been doing that ever since”: With the inadvertent help of a notorious cult leader, one band became the kings of 90s goth metal
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• Top 10 Ace Frehley Kiss Songs
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• “It was just a song that fitted the story. I didn’t choose the singer. Luck was on my side”: A science-fiction concept album has enjoyed nearly 50 years of popularity with help from a song written for a Lego advert
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• "That experience in Vietnam changed him forever. It certainly had an effect on our family, so it was a defining moment in my life, too." How a devastating 90s war song brought its writer and his estranged father closer together
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• Rockers React to Ace Frehley's Death
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• "An alternate reality where Springsteen abandons his mainstream success in favour of a major cult career": Bruce Springsteen strips things back on expanded Nebraska '82
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• “The bassist’s kids were waiting with autograph books because we were pop stars. But some of the fans were pissed off. I would have been too!” This duo were never meant to be a real band, but their hit single had a massive impact on prog
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• Debate: What’s the best live prog album of all time?
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• Watch Nickelback's Chad Kroeger serenade Sammy Hagar with Metallica's Enter Sandman for his birthday
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• "We were by no means an overnight success. It took years of struggle and suffering": After 50 years, 38 Special have learned a thing or two about keeping a band together
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• Sammy Hagar Rocks With Belinda Carlisle + More at Birthday Bash
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• Chrissie Hynde & Pals, 'Duets Special': Review
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• Ace Frehley Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• "I've heard it's responsible for a whole generation being conceived": The epic story of rock's ultimate aphrodisiac anthem
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• Pure Reason Revolution will play Midwinter Prog Festival as part of their The Dark Third 20th anniversary shows
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• A Look Back at Hard Rock's Best Tracks of the '70s
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• "I turned a hockey stick into a scythe": Introducing Castle Rat, your new favourite medieval-themed doom-rocking New Yorkers
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• Eagles Extend Show Schedule With New 2026 Concert Dates
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