Rock News 2026-01-25

• "Dementia? What is? NO! Trump smart, pass brain test, name giraffe!" Jack White mercilessly mocks Donald Trump over "365 wins in 365 days" claims
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• "I've loved it and hated it, loved it and hated it": The story of the breakthrough hit its writer doesn't want to talk about ever again
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• "I felt like I’d fallen into the bowels of the earth." Fears that witches under the spell of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page had targeted him to help birth the Antichrist led a paranoid David Bowie to store his bodily fluids in the fridge
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• “Suddenly I was popular with the record company again – people going, ‘Hello! Where have you been?’” How Mike Oldfield made Maggie Reilly sing in an odd style to make Moonlight Shadow
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• "I just wish that Rage Against The Machine would make a new record!": Buckcherry's Josh Todd on the state of the nation, managing old habits, and going back to school
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• The 40 Best Songs of 1986
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• Former Scorpions / Michael Schenker bassist Francis Buchholz dead at 71
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• "If we manage to survive the tour, go back to Canada and have a rest, who knows what'll happen. I suspect some music will eventually come out." Geddy Lee on the chances of recording new Rush material
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• “I thought, ‘I can’t hear guitar. This isn’t right.’ I pushed that fader up. He turned to me, smiling, and pulled it back down. I haven’t forgotten that”: How Alex Lifeson survived the challenge of Rush’s 80s synth obsession
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• "We all had that feeling that nobody had ever heard anything like this before": How Iron Maiden got their man and made the album that sent them stratospheric
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• "They took a record that I'd made and erased all my songs, all my vocals. I thought, 'I won’t let you get away with this'": From goth glory to bad blood - the Gene Loves Jezebel story
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• How David Bowie's 'Station to Station' Redefined His Music
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• "Like a fantastic beast sprung from Dante's Inferno": Meet the 67-million-year-old Triceratops skull named after Ozzy Osbourne
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• Richie Sambora Thanks Fans for Support Following Mother's Death
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• 10 Years Gone: 15 Legendary Musicians We Lost in 2016
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• "The impact he left on art is truly magical." Dave Grohl's daughter Violet, and Gary Numan's daughter Persia, team up to salute one of America's greatest film-makers on what would have been his 80th birthday
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• What To Expect From Bruce Hornsby's 2026 Concert Tour
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• "It's hard rock for us. It's got a bit more of an 'oomph' than stuff we've been doing for a while": Def Leppard launch new single Rejoice ahead of Las Vegas residency
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• "There was a lot of tension throughout. I’m surprised they didn‘t fire me early on!" Producer Michael Beinhorn reflects on the "difficult" challenges he faced recording Soundgarden masterpiece Superunknown, and how Frank Sinatra helped
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• The Change in California Law That Ensnared Two Rockers Again
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• Talking Heads' New CD Set Features Rare Early Demos
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• "He figured we were gonna get knifed...some guys were swinging pool cues!" From Peaky Blinders bar fights to being Slipknot-endorsed, how four Swedish hillbillies became one of metal's most exciting bands
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• How Dave Mustaine Found His Megadeth Voice: Exclusive Interview
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• Hear Megadeth's Version of Metallica's 'Ride the Lightning'
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• "We’re gonna come back – it’s gonna be bigger than Oasis." Kyle Gass reflects on the "highly inappropriate, dangerous" joke that forced Tenacious D to go on hiatus, and reveals his horror over the "tsunami of s**t" that followed
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• Eagles' 'Greatest Hits' Becomes First Album to Hit 40M US Sales
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• Kevin Cronin Says REO Speedwagon Became an 'Impossible Situation'
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• "They got all these Iron Maiden and Ozzy Osbourne albums and burned them…then ran away because they were scared." Car crashes, Satanism and 28 Years Later: the story behind Iron Maiden's classic anthem The Number Of The Beast
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• Rush to release Super Deluxe box set of 1984's Grace Under Pressure in March
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• "We are monitoring Mick's progress daily": Uriah Heep founder Mick Box to miss dates on farewell tour after falling ill
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• L.A. Guns Announce 2026 World Tour With Support From Tom Keifer
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Inside Rush's New Box Set for 'Grace Under Pressure'
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• Wired headphones are back! Here's my pick of 9 rock-solid companions for your MP3 player, portable CD player or cassette player
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• Midnight Oil Drummer Rob Hirst Dead at 70
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• "We thought we made really good records, but we never envisaged hanging out and playing boules at Elton's house": How Therapy? ram-raided the mainstream with an ode to the soap opera of teenage existence
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• “A taxi knocked KK over. Glenn became an instant medic: ‘He needs hot water!’ He later told me: ‘Worst part is, I was tripping on acid at the time’”: How Judas Priest “danced with death” to make the album that turned them into superstars
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• Color Photos Prove the 1950s Weren’t a Black-and-White World
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• "It sounded like the way ice cream on a hot summer day tastes." How a Marquis de Sade biography, Willy Wonka's Oompa-Loompas and a bum note helped "a metal girl from Ohio" write a rock anthem that wowed Nirvana and changed Olivia Rodrigo's life
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• Debate: Who is the greatest drummer of all time?
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• "I’m scared I’ll get in trouble." How the teenage son of a Canadian punk rocker sampled Beabadoobee without her knowledge on a song about a young man's dying words, and racked up two billion streams without leaving his bedroom
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• "We pulled off the impossible. We wanted to do something fun and screw with people's heads." How Korn, Snoop Dogg, Lil Jon, Xzibit and David Banner teamed up to make one of the funniest music videos ever
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• “There was a wishing well, a three-legged black cat, and the live room overlooked the mist-covered countryside.” Meet Cwfen, the Scottish doom witches giving Macbeth a run for his money
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• February 2026 New Music Releases
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• “It fitted with the nastiness of the human condition and war and stuff. I wanted the words to sound violent and aggressive”: The apocalyptic anthem that sowed the seeds for prog – and became “the first heavy metal song” in the process
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• Phil Collins Hopes to Make New Music Despite Ongoing Health Woes
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• Classic-Era Scorpions Bassist Francis Buchholz Dies at 71
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• "We’re broke. We can't get jobs – and we just did two months in arenas and stadiums." One of the UK's best young bands have revealed the depressing reality of playing rock music in 2026
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• Debate: What was the best prog album of 1976?
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• "It doesn’t feel like anything we’ve done before": Tedeschi Trucks Band announces new studio album and mammoth tour - listen to first single I Got You now
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• "The lift stops. The doors open. And this bloke gets in. And it's Peter ****ing Gabriel!" What happened when Ozzy Osbourne bumped into the prog legend who made the album he was "obsessed" with
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• "We expected a few hundred people to be there and it was several thousand. We were terrified!" Deftones, Sleep Token, Bad Omens...The Pretty Wild? Meet the viral metal duo officially embracing that controversial 'baddiecore' tag
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• George Thorogood’s 2026 Tour: More Cities And Dates Revealed
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• “It might be the most words I’ve ever had to sing, which is why you see me reading them off a cheat sheet”: That time Steven Wilson covered a Taylor Swift song, proving he’ll always do what he likes
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• “He was praying to the sun and making loud noises. I asked, ‘Do you want to sing at our concert tonight? No rehearsal’”: Radiohead and Primal Scream influencers found their new vocalist on the street, after the previous one went mad on stage
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• Best and Worst Solo Album From Every Member of the Rolling Stones
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• The Human League Announces First North American Tour Since 2011
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• See the Black Crowes' New 'Profane Prophecy' Video
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• Def Leppard Releases New Song 'Rejoice'
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• How Frank Zappa Figured Alice Cooper Out
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• Kansas Drummer Phil Ehart Reveals New Memoir, 'I Am Phil'
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• "It was a long year with many rewards. A couple of us developed expensive hobbies involving white powder and noses": The song that turned an English blues outfit into globe-trotting rock stars with high-maintenance habits
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• “I’ve got fame, I’ve got adulation, but I was still in the mental prison." One of heavy metal's most iconic stars reflects on the day he knew that he had to choose between sobriety or annihilation
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• Bob Mould's Reunited Sugar Confirms 2026 World Tour
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• "People worried about their brain should always wear a helmet": Watch Geddy Lee give celebrity tobogganing advice
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• "Ireland's greatest, man-of-the-people guitar hero": Nine Rory Gallagher albums you should definitely listen to and one to avoid
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• “They wanted to get us away from the clubs, bars and dark influences. We were going to be good little boys and write an album. And it was just awful”: How Clutching At Straws broke Marillion and Fish apart
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• "Guns in the house means it becomes a hostage situation." This is what happened when a Los Angeles SWAT team swooped on ex-Queens of the Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri - and the stand-off that followed
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• Geddy Lee Is Open to Making New Rush Music
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• Five Famous '80s Acts That Have Been Snubbed by the Hall of Fame
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• Blues Traveler and Gin Blossoms Set 2026 Tour Dates
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• “When our agent heard the song live for the first time, he called me and said, ‘This is a hit!’ And he was right!”: The 80s metal anthem that turned the band who wrote it into global superstars – and the X-rated title it nearly had
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• What To Expect From Tedeschi Trucks Band's 2026 Tour
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• Men at Work's Summer 2026 Tour Dates Unveiled
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• Rod Stewart Slams 'Draft Dodger' Trump for Insulting NATO Troops
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• "I heard that Metallica needed a bass player and brother, I was writing letters, made a tape of myself playing and sent it. Never heard a word back." The 80s pop culture icon who made an unlikely bid to join the world's biggest metal band
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• "A man was beheaded there and sometimes you can hear his head rolling down": The historic Loch Ness manor once home to Jimmy Page and Aleister Crowley is opening to the public for the first time in 260 years
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• "She understands the history of music, but she’s also pushing it forward. She is the future." Record company execs expect big things of Dave Grohl's daughter Violet
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• FireHouse Sets 2026 Tour Dates
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• "Whoosh! A big flame goes right up under me. My arm, my hand, burnt down to the bone. Hair's gone." Inside the night Metallica's James Hetfield caught fire - and Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose caused a riot
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• Prog's Tracks Of The Week! Awesome new proggy sounds from Opeth, NMB, Myrkur and more...
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• Bret Michaels Reacts to Nixed Poison 40th Anniversary Tour Claims
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• "I went from touring to working behind a bar in Manhattan, busting my butt to pay bills." How one of metal's most beloved bands reunited with an old friend to get a much-needed new lease of life
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• What to Expect From the Beach Boys' New Box Set Release
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• “I said, ‘There are no vocals. It’s an instrumental album.’ The lawyer said, ‘Do you mean we’ve just paid $12,000 for a piano player?’” Rick Wakeman relives the moment he delivered The Six Wives Of Henry VIII to a horrified record label
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