Rock News 2025-11-20

• “Pavarotti is our hero, he’s more rock’n’roll than anyone we’ve ever met before”: the story of Bono’s favourite U2 song, even though it isn’t by U2 and features an operatic legend on vocals
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• The Top 35 Southern Rock Songs That Shaped the Genre
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• "No question this will be the go-to event of the summer!" Foreigner and Lynyrd Skynyrd announce Double Trouble Double Vision tour
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• 'Weird Al' Yankovic Announces 90 New Tour Dates for 2026
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• "Prepare yourselves for a night of epic music!" Voivod announce UK tour dates in June 2026
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• What to Expect From ZZ Top's 2026 Tour Across America
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• The End is only The Beginning: The Kiss Kruise in Las Vegas kicks off a new chapter in Kisstory
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• “We made bad albums. Two of them should be melted down into flowerpots. But how many great pieces of artwork are you going to create in your career?” What Carl Palmer really thinks of ELP
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• BoDeans Announce 40th Anniversary Tour Dates for 2026
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• Win a Foreigner '4' Box Set
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• “There was no way we were gonna put out the full hour-and-a-half video, because it would have been a rip-off”: The story of the great Iron Maiden live album that was lost for 20 years
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• Graham Nash Announces Tour Dates for 2026
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• Doc McGhee: 'I Don't Believe Bon Jovi Would Have Made It' Today
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• "The way he trusted me gave me the confidence I needed early in my career": Longtime Ozzy Osbourne photographer Mark Weiss remembers the Prince of Darkness
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• “You’re hanging out with Steven Tyler; James Hetfield is there and Tom Morello and Axl Rose, but everybody was the same. No head was higher”: Halestorm describe what it was like backstage at Ozzy Osbourne’s retirement show Back To The Beginning
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• "It sounds very pure and sweet. It's beautiful, like a flower child of an album": Heart's Ann and Nancy Wilson look back on the album that changed their lives
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• "I still have so much music in my heart." The frontman of one of nu metal's coolest bands has been found living on the streets - and fans are desperate to help him
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• Nu metal kids, rejoice! Full videos of classic Deftones and Linkin Park festival sets have just been released online
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• “It was beginning to feel like everyone’s mind wasn’t on the job… a feeling that there should be some hiatus”: Jethro Tull’s saddest, darkest album could have been even darker
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• "The sound of an enduring rock'n'roll firm updating the business": The Rolling Stones' first album without Mick Taylor, now available in super deluxe form
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• Motley Crue Announces 2026 Tour With Extreme and Tesla
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• "I believe it has the potential to be something very special". Steven Wilson's Hand. Cannot. Erase. to be adapted for theatre stage
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• "If I mess that up, I'll never forgive myself." How Billie Eilish's favourite Paramore song went from being one of Hayley Williams' biggest fears to one of their most powerful live moments
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• How Kiss Got Closer to Their Fans
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• UK government confirms it will introduce ban on selling secondary gig tickets for a profit
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• Guns N' Roses Announce First US Concert of 2026
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• “Whether I’ve denied the world a lot of great music, I don’t know. Maybe they’ve done that to me. Maybe they should have”: Steve Hogarth’s first 30 years with Marillion
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• Aerosmith and Yungblud, 'One More Time': EP Review
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• Steve Vai Praises Coverdale and Reflects on Final Whitesnake Show
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• "We are not a political band. Everybody wants to have an opinion, and save the world with their opinions, but it doesn’t change the world." Why Sabaton won't sing about current conflicts
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• Jane Weaver to release 15th Anniversary edition of psych folk album The Fallen By Watch Bird
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• After 20 years of thought, a prog metal band recorded three albums in one go. “I wouldn’t recommend it,” says their singer, who has now realised the challenge is just beginning
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• "The music is perfectly in sync with the visuals!" Noel Fielding opens up on his love for Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here
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• "I went to a party in San Francisco...there were all these freaks shooting up and this girl was real sick." How Metallica wrote their most iconic anthem - and how Stranger Things made it relevant to a whole new generation over three decades later
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• "In 1985 Theatre Of Pain sounded flaccid and 40 years on it's still drooping": Mötley Crüe's third album gets an undeserved anniversary makeover
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• Win a $1200 Steelheart Leather Jacket
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• Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, My Chemical Romance, Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy, Turnstile, Rise Against and more than 150 other rock and metal bands have just been announced for Welcome To Rockville festival 2026
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• “Our connection was so special, I would probably be able to feel him if he weren’t here anymore, and I don’t”: Wolfgang Van Halen details his spiritual struggle following the death of his father Eddie
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• “It’s been three, nearly four months, so it’s still pretty fresh”: Jack Osbourne discusses “shock” of his father Ozzy’s death during latest episode of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
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• "It was pretty surreal. All of our families, friends and haters saw that live on TV!" The surprise smash hit 90s single that saw an underground punk band beat Alanis Morissette, Weezer and Portishead in one of the biggest award upsets ever
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• Mötley Crüe announce mammoth Carnival Of Sins tour with Tesla and Extreme
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• Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta names the essential hardcore bands everyone needs to hear
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• Kiss Turns Back Time With Powerful Vegas Show: Video, Set List
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• "This isn’t just a screening; it’s a full-scale adrenaline rush." Iconic sci-fi action sequel Terminator 2: Judgement Day will be getting a live concert screening - and its premiere will take place in London
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• Santana's 2026 Tour Dates Announced
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• Why Bruce Springsteen Hated His Live Debut in Europe
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• Bruce Kulick Honors Late Kiss Alumni at Scorching Las Vegas Show
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• "It's not hard to see why they got left behind by Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon": Praying Mantis fail to surf the NWOBHM wave on Time Tells No Lies
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• "I saw they sent a bunch of celebrities into space and I thought 'Well, if them, why not me?!'" Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine wants their final show to be in outer space
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• Ritchie Blackmore Postpones 2025 Tour Due to 'Medical Reasons'
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• Tom Morello Has Bad News for Audioslave Fans
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• “I’ve been in bands that really felt like you were creating something new – but you were just another band doing what had already been done”: Blending Tool, Bjork and Black Sabbath helped Swedish psych-proggers stand out from the start
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• Tedeschi Trucks Band Adds More 2026 Concerts
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• Deep PurpIe's Ian Gillan Hints at Retirement Amid Health Troubles
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• "It’s about those times when you’ve got no feeling left or you just don’t care." The song that helped Linkin Park kiss goodbye to the nu metal era - and that got a new lease of life courtesy of one rap megastar
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• 'The Future of Kiss' Revealed in Las Vegas
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• Deep Purple announce UK tour with Mammoth
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• "I came in like, ‘Doc, I know you like Rush. I’m in a metal band, we’re flying out in a week to go do one of our biggest shows in a long time. Any way you can help me out?’" An interview with metal's busiest man, Matt Heafy
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• The Evolution Of Yacht Rock: Music's Smoothest Era Explained
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• ZZ Top Expands 2026 Tour With New Dates
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• Pink Floyd share new stereo mix of Shine On You Crazy Diamond, presented for the first time as a single continuous piece of music
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• Kiss Kick Off First Show in Two Years With Ace Frehley Tribute
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• Revisiting Cher's Debut Performance on 'Saturday Night Live'
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• "Do you know how much fun it is to scream, 'I'm never gonna work another day in my life' really loud? It feels good!" How Monster Magnet came up with metal’s greatest f**k-you anthem
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• "Some kid is driving inside the residence of the president, and you’ve got girls making TikToks in front of burning buildings." Deadly earthquakes, addiction and revolution: the story of Underside, Nepal's biggest metal band
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• Paul Stanley Admits He's Outgrown Some Kiss Lyrics
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• Lynyrd Skynyrd and Foreigner Announce 2026 Summer Tour
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• Pink Floyd's New 25-Minute Tribute to Syd Barrett Unveiled
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• Genesis made long, complex, instrumentally elaborate rock for hirsute proggers: Then they wrote the song that brought women to their shows
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• "Winona Ryder was confused. She wanted to know why we'd write a song about her. I told her: 'It has nothing to do with you.'" How a cult 90s rock band's song about a beaver sparked a surprise encounter with a Hollywood A-lister
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• Win a Trip to See the Trans-Siberian Orchestra in Philadelphia
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• Joe Walsh Wants to Sell You His ‘Barnstorm’ Guitar
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• Warren Haynes Announces 2026 Solo Tour Dates
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• Ghost’s Tobias Forge wants to start scuba diving so that wearing a mask onstage feels less claustrophobic: “In my alternative life, I’m a wreck diver!”
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• "I think that realism is missing from a lot of modern music of any genre, but especially our genre" Legendary hardcore heavyweights Converge have announced their first new album in five years, Love Is Not Enough
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• Iconic Rock Star Hotel Closing After Nearly 40 Years
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• The Legacy of John Lennon's 'Double Fantasy' Album Explained
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• "There’s nothing quite like playing live in the UK!" Marillion announce UK tour dates in September and October
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• Cheap Trick Announces 2026 ‘All Washed Up’ Tour Dates
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• Ozzy's eldest son Louis Osbourne on being stunned by "awe inspiring" turnout at Prince of Darkness' funeral
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• "I don't know if she'd heard of us": Cyndi Lauper, Chrissie Hynde, Aimee Mann and the Rush duets that got away
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: November 17, 2025
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• “Think of it as the metal version of Goodbye by the Spice Girls!” Leading lights of the UK underground Svalbard have just released their final song
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• “Recorded at a time when progressive music was anathema, it deserves recognition alongside some of the more leftfield heroes of the genre”: Why The Only Ones’ Even Serpents Shine is actually a prog album
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• "I felt like Tom Cruise, and I'm nearly eighty": Dave Hill's Slade are hitting the road for the last time, but he isn't finished
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