Rock News 2025-12-05

• Tangerine Dream to release 50 Years Of Phaedra: At The Barbican in January
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• "It’s strange when you’re playing in front of 30 people, lip-syncing. Especially when you’re hanging upside down with a piece of meat behind you." How Nine Inch Nails' anthem of self-loathing and sleaze got twisted into the ultimate horny metal track
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• Chicago And Styx Announce Joint Summer Tour For 2026
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• “There’s already too much music – shrinking ideas is the hardest thing”: Does Between The Buried And Me’s new album prove they don’t need to replace the member they fired?
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• Corey Taylor’s son Griffin remembers the first time he saw his dad in his Slipknot mask: “Who the **** is this guy?!”
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• "He would always say, ‘I don’t care if they are laughing at me or with me, as long as they’re laughing'" When it came to the longevity of his career, Ozzy Osbourne had a typically carefree approach to things, according to son Jack
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• Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea Goes Full Jazz on New 8-Minute Song
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• Legendary Guitarist Steve Cropper Has Died
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• I’ve been left Comfortably Numb thanks to this 19% David Gilmour vinyl box set discount for Cyber Monday
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• Uriah Heep, The Almighty and Doro confirmed for Maid Of Stone festival
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• This has to be the best Cyber Monday deal I've ever seen - save 88% on this portable Bluetooth speaker - down to a ridiculously low $22.99
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• "Bowie was standing there and for a split second you could see the panic in his eyes": The story of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the moments that made him a star
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• How 'December's Children' Captured the Rolling Stones' Early Sound
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• 28 of the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals you can still get right now... if you’re quick
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• Phish Announces 2026 Concert Dates
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• “Mikael Åkerfeldt and I were close for a while. We wound up with the same management and drifted apart”: Devin Townsend discusses his prog world (while he’s hiding from his dogs)
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• All the Songs John McVie Wrote or Cowrote for Fleetwood Mac
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• Nikki Sixx Decries Aging Rockers 'Still Trying to Act 25'
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• "I really wanted to do it justice": The Struts singer Luke Spiller releases mournful version of Slade Christmas classic
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• "There was a period during my teenage years where I felt emotionally abandoned, so to speak." Wolfgang Van Halen has a thing or two to say about living up to expectations
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• "We have our own airport and our own postage stamp!" Rudolf Schenker and Klaus Meine look back at 60 wild years of Scorpions
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• The ultimate review of 2025: The best albums, the biggest events, and the megastars who rocked our world - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• 60 Years Ago: Beatles' 'We Can Work It Out' Becomes Group Triumph
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• What To Expect From the B-52s’ 2026 Concert Tour
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• The 15 Best Diamond-Selling Hard Rock and Metal Albums, Ranked
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• "Wildflowers scared him, because he's not really sure why it's as good as it is": As Tom Petty’s world fell apart, he took refuge in the studio and made his most deeply personal album
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• "It's full of light and love and guitars that rip": The Sheepdogs announce new album Keep Out Of The Storm
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• "We shall finally meet again. See you around Europe...” Gazpacho to play first UK show in four years as they announce UK and European tour
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• Ace Frehley's Final Resting Place Revealed
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• Great quality sound, no-fuss set-up and low cost - we're loving the Technics SL-1500C Direct Drive Turntable this Cyber Monday
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• Aerosmith Becomes Fifth Act to Achieve Rare Billboard Chart Feat
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• Long-delayed Slipknot project Look Outside Your Window will finally drop in 2026, Shawn “Clown” Crahan promises
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• “Crucially it succeeds in nailing the driven personality of a self-starter motivated by a steely self-belief”: Unofficial Peter Hammill biography Rock And Role is perfect companion to recent box set
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• "There's so much material at this point": Guns N' Roses release two new singles but there's still no news about an album
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• Mammoth Announces 'The End' 2026 North American Tour Dates
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• “A caustic David Gilmour guitar attack, with Roger Waters equally venomous in his lyrical delivery”: Pink Floyd’s 10 heaviest songs
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• Aerosmith and Yungblud tease collaboration with country star Lainey Wilson
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• “He sings in French, so you have no idea what he’s on about – but I’ve been told his lyrics are clever”: Snooker icon Steve Davis’ interesting and obscure prog picks
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• Lindsey Buckingham Teases a New Solo Album
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• 2025's Top 20 Rock Albums
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• "An often frenzied eruption of mad ideas and skewed time signatures": 10 Cardiacs albums to listen to and one to avoid
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• Steve Lukather Clears Up 'Bulls—' Regarding Former Toto Singer
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• Roger Waters mocked with official Ozzy Osbourne "Another Prick In The Wall" t-shirt
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• 22 Classic Christmas Movies Returning to Theaters in December
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• "The more we listened to the recordings, we realised how on fire we were": Canadian roots-rockers The Commoners on why the UK is becoming their second home
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• Why Aerosmith Replaced Joe Perry on Some 'Get Your Wings' Tracks
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• Radiohead Breaks Metallica's Attendance Record at London's O2
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• "With the topics I think about and scream about, it’s good to have that fantasy world to escape into." UK genre-mashing 'brat punk' Delilah Bon on dragons, bunking and her weird Sims habits
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• Why Cheap Trick's 'At Budokan' Was Not Recorded at Budokan
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• The Kiss LP That Put Paul Stanley in a 'Very Difficult Position'
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• How AC/DC Remained ‘Gods of Rock and Roll’ in the ‘90s
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• Foo Fighters to Play 2026 Benefit Show in Los Angeles
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• Megadeth Will Play This Country for the First Time on 2026 Tour
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• Def Leppard quiz: How much do you know about Joe Elliott & Co.'s near-half-century career in rock?
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• "I thought it was terrible. I didn’t like it. Honestly, I thought it was stupid." The story of the song that turned a cult alt funk metal band into poster boys for a music scene they absolutely despised
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• “I was in my boxers and my mother caught me in this heightened creative moment. It was pretty embarrassing”: Inspired by Tool, Led Zeppelin and classic sci-fi, Coheed And Cambria turned a tumultuous break-up into a landmark prog metal song
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• "They talk about that album in the same way I talk about Ziggy Stardust...and it was the first time a Slipknot member had unmasked!" How a metal icon embraced horror and glam rock to make one of the most surprising side projects ever
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• 45 Years Ago: Ace Frehley Plays His First 'Last' Kiss Concert
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• “The Alamo incident, bat-biting, dove head-biting, snorting ants”: Ozzy Osbourne was at his “wildest” during early days of solo career, says Black Sabbath bandmate Geezer Butler
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• Previously unheard Scott Weiland song released to mark 10th anniversary of singer's death
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• The Day Roy Orbison Performed His Last Show
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• "Don't miss this chance to hang out with us one final time" One of hardcore's most influential and forward-thinking bands are about to play their last ever show, and you're going to be able to livestream every minute of the chaos
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• "The goal is to make it feel really nostalgic, like people are back in time." Reunited rock legends promise fans "awesome" experience at upcoming Las Vegas residency
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• Hot stuff! Pick up the most underrated Rolling Stones album with 16% off this Cyber Monday
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• "I can't listen to any more of this, this is a f***ing disgrace" An AI song posing as a new Architects release was published under the band's name on streaming services, and it sets a worrying precedent for where things may be heading
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• “It all feels shamanic and otherworldly, and it only gets more so when a pair of horned belly dancers come out”: British-Iranian metal mystics Lowen prove themselves as the next big thing with spellbinding London show
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• Hear Guns N' Roses' New Songs 'Nothin'' and "Atlas"
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• “When he gave the family car back, his father tried to sell it as ‘formerly driven by Frank Zappa’”: The background that gave rise to music’s most eclectic iconoclast, by his wife and son
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• "It sounded as though someone was being murdered. The police were called out for the first time in five years": Chaos in the Caribbean and the story of UFO's No Place To Run
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• "I liked her masculinity. I liked that she wasn’t embarrassed to have that side of her as a woman, and she was also very sexy" Hayley Williams has revealed the first female figure she found herself looking up to when Paramore started touring
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• Phish announce nine-date residency at Las Vegas Sphere
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• Soul guitar legend and Blues Brother Steve Cropper dead at 84
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• From Sleep Token to Ghost, metal is full of gimmicks right now. Is it helping or hindering the culture?
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• George Harrison's 'All Things Must Pass': A Solo Milestone
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• Fairport Convention announce Spring tour dates for 2026
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• What to Expect From Foghat's 2026 Twang and Bang Tour
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• Why John Lennon Threatened a Partygoer at Knifepoint
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• Sharon, Jack + Kelly Osbourne Share Ozzy Birthday Tribute Posts
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• 15 Artists on the Influence of the Beatles' 'Rubber Soul'
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• "Freddie Mercury in flippant, throwaway, disco-jazz cabaret mode could still muster flashes of Olympian pop-rock genius": Mr Bad Guy at 40: Still the great album that might have been
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• Celebrate Rock With These Exclusive Record Store Day Releases
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• Birmingham Airport CEO says name will not be changed in memory of Ozzy Osbourne, despite petition nearing 80,000 signatures
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• The Osbournes Mock Roger Waters With Limited Edition Ozzy Shirt
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• Judas Priest Announces 2026 'Faithkeepers' Tour
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