Rock News 2025-12-07

• Alanis Morissette announces UK and Ireland 2026 outdoor tour with Skunk Anansie
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• Foo Fighters to Play 2026 Benefit Show in Los Angeles
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• Legendary Guitarist Steve Cropper Has Died
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• Mammoth Announces 'The End' 2026 North American Tour Dates
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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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• Swallow The Sun's best-selling official biography to be translated into English
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• 60 Years Ago: Beatles' 'We Can Work It Out' Becomes Group Triumph
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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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• 2025's Top 20 Rock Albums
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• Why Cheap Trick's 'At Budokan' Was Not Recorded at Budokan
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• On This Day in 2015: David Bowie Makes Last Public Appearance
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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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• Soul guitar legend and Blues Brother Steve Cropper dead at 84
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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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• Behaviour of one former Megadeth member means there will be no reunions on upcoming farewell tour
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• Phish Announces 2026 Concert Dates
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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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• "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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• Gene Simmons: 'Bad Decisions' Contributed to Ace Frehley's Death
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• The Kiss LP That Put Paul Stanley in a 'Very Difficult Position'
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• "We were stupid kids, just trying to survive, with this really weird music that we were so stubborn about." How five chaos-addicted Californian misfits helped pave the way for the 90s rock revolution with their fabulously freaky debut record
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• Metallica fans banned for life after "incredibly stupid" speaker tower stunt at show in Australia
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• "I listened to track one and I was like, Ooh, that was nasty!" Hollywood superstar Adam Sandler reveals the iconic '90s rock album that he can't stop listening to
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• Pink Floyd to open Wish You Were Here pop-up stores across Europe and in LA in December
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• "I saw him mosh to a death metal band. I saw what changed my perspective on music" For one of deathcore's pioneering bands, it was a show in Montreal back in 1998 that helped them to kickstart the genre
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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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• 'Double Fantasy' Producer Recalls Wild Court Battle With Yoko Ono
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• One of the greatest 'lost' grunge supergroups of the '90s are returning in 2026 with new music and a worldwide tour
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• Guns N' Roses Post-Reunion Songs Ranked Worst to Best
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• "It's a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential." The story behind the Foo Fighters classic that everyone assumed was about Kurt Cobain - but was actually about something a lot more simple
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• “There were certainly cries of ‘sell-out’ and people wondering how watered down we had become”: After one hit song, this band toured with Foo Fighters and became alt-metal’s next big thing – until record label woes sent them back to the underground
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• "She was like, ‘This is what happens when you die young’. I thought it was this cool gesture, but it wasn’t a fun gift." Courtney Love gave this indie frontman a lock of Kurt Cobain's hair after he punctured a kidney on broken glass at an awards ceremony
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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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• Aerosmith removed from Rock 'n' Roller Coaster at Disney World and will be replaced by the Muppets
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• "Robert Plant talking about juice running down his leg...there shouldn't be a double-standard. Women in this business think about it too!" Halestorm's Lzzy Hale opens up on the "empowering" song that helped launch their career
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• Sharon, Jack + Kelly Osbourne Share Ozzy Birthday Tribute Posts
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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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• Hear Guns N' Roses' New Songs 'Nothin'' and "Atlas"
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• Aerosmith Becomes Fifth Act to Achieve Rare Billboard Chart Feat
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• "I joined a band because I hated the f****** beach." Shirley Manson doubles down after beach ball rant at Garbage show in Australia
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• Tangerine Dream to release 50 Years Of Phaedra: At The Barbican in January
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• Sleep Token have released the official colouring book you never knew you needed
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• What To Expect From the B-52s’ 2026 Concert Tour
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• John Densmore Reflects on the Doors' Lasting Legacy
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• Avenged Sevenfold have just released a brand new song and it's packing riffs, autotune and all kinds of weirdness - listen to Magic now
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• Why Aerosmith Replaced Joe Perry on Some 'Get Your Wings' Tracks
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• Megadeth Will Play This Country for the First Time on 2026 Tour
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• 15 Artists on the Influence of the Beatles' 'Rubber Soul'
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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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• “We heard King Crimson synchronised music with visuals at gigs. I thought we could use that, since we didn’t have Mick Jagger to run around or anything”: Remembering Rick Davies, from tramping around Germany to leading Supertramp around the world
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• Lou Gramm Says Foreigner Nearly Ended After 'Head Games'
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• Six Rockin' Covers of Roy Orbison's 'Pretty Woman'
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• What to Expect From Foghat's 2026 Twang and Bang Tour
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• Mega new prog you must hear from Big Big Train, Karnivool, Textures, Les Penning & Robert Reed and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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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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• “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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• The Sons of Kiss' Stanley and Simmons Release Their Debut Single
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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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• Slipknot-endorsed Mapuche metal champions Mawiza have recorded a live session in Gojira’s studio – and you really need to watch it
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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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• Twisted Sister Announces First 2026 US Reunion Tour Date
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• Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea Goes Full Jazz on New 8-Minute Song
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• The Osbournes Mock Roger Waters With Limited Edition Ozzy Shirt
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• “The hidden gem in their sometimes bewildering catalogue. Had they made it in the 80s it would have given them a credible contemporary footing”: Yes’ Fly From Here – Return Trip glows in reissue
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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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• Foreigner Confirms New Dates With Original Frontman Lou Gramm
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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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• Violet Grohl channels Queens Of The Stone Age on debut single, receives love and praise from offspring of other superstar rockers
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• Previously unheard Scott Weiland song released to mark 10th anniversary of singer's death
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• Hear Aerosmith, Yungblud and Lainey Wilson's New Collaboration
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• The Day Roy Orbison Performed His Last Show
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• “The groove and vibe-based nature of the tracks lend themselves particularly well to deconstruction and reimagining”: Matt Berry’s Heard Noises limited edition box set
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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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• How AC/DC Remained ‘Gods of Rock and Roll’ in the ‘90s
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• "Everyone was talking about the effect that YouTube has had on their life. They were all really fascinated with each other." How a song born out of frustration helped Weezer create a GRAMMY-winning portrait of a pivotal moment in Internet history
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• Neal Morse Band share video for Fully Alive, their first new music for five years
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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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• Why John Lennon Threatened a Partygoer at Knifepoint
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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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• Tom Scholz’s Secret Plan to Save Boston
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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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• How 'December's Children' Captured the Rolling Stones' Early Sound
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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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