Rock News 2026-01-30

• “I just want this dementia-riddled sociopath and his cabinet of freaks removed from office”: Lamb Of God, Converge and other leading metal bands speak out following fatal ICE shootings in Minneapolis
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• "We spend a lot of time stabbing babies, fornicating with dogs, bombing churches." The dark, twisted, brilliant but largely forgotten grunge band who could have been bigger than Nirvana
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• "It was the requiem for the kind of life that we all had dreamed would be in the sixties": More than half a century on, a folk-rock anthem about the souring of the American Dream continues to confound and inspire
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• "We left mistakes in, we didn't clean it all up – which is a hard thing to do when you're a musician": How His Lordship hit the rock'n'roll bullseye with one of the best albums of 2025
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• “I wouldn’t say I’m an alcoholic – but then, you know, alcoholics say they’re not alcoholics”: The chaotic and confusing story of Metallica’s abandoned album
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• Slash Says GN'R Have Released Final 'Chinese Democracy'-Era Songs
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• A Photo Journey Through 1970s Family Life
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• "You guys got more money than God, why do you have to take my money?" Dave Mustaine on his conversation with James Hetfield that ended Metallica's plan to release their legendary No Life 'Til Leather demo on vinyl and CD
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• Hear Bruce Springsteen's Anti-ICE Song 'Streets of Minneapolis'
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• The New York pioneers who took pop-rock to new and hugely successful heights: Nine Blondie albums you should listen to and one to avoid
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• Hungry heart for music biopics? Here's how to watch Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere from as little as £3.99 on Disney+ – but you only have 2 days left to grab this deal
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• “Let’s not forget he was still learning how to sing as ‘Bryan Ferry.’ I know I captured a fantastic atmosphere, complete with mistakes”: Some of Roxy Music hated Virginia Plain, but its producer loved it
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• "I said something like: 'It would be really, really dreadful if that got wiped' and I found out later that that's exactly what he did": The story of the UFO classic inspired by a pair of murderous twins
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• "Wander into Alice's Attic, a realm of insanity… if you dare!" Alice Cooper announces Alice's Attic tour
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• The guy who just climbed that skyscraper live on Netflix listened to a lot of Tool on the way up
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• The Black Crowes Share 2026 Summer Tour Dates
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• “I felt a little bit grubby. I knew it hadn’t come from a place of complete integrity”: Steven Wilson tried to forget his shamelessly commercial Porcupine Tree song, but met it again in a strip club
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• "The first song I ever wrote with Ozzy was on that guitar - and then also, the last tribute to him." Ozzy Osbourne's longest-serving guitarist Zakk Wylde opens up on the emotional new song he's written in memory of the Prince Of Darkness
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• Earth, Wind & Fire and Lionel Richie Announce 2026 Tour
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• “Why would I want to play with those guys?” Dave Mustaine doesn’t want to reunite with certain former Megadeth members because they bad-mouthed him in interviews
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• "Going back to our roots, we felt that spark in the studio and how we work together": The Black Crowes announce new single and massive co-headline tour with Whiskey Myers
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• Guns N' Roses Members Lead Grammy Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
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• Bret Michaels Denies Thwarting Poison Tour With Financial Demands
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• “There’s no other explanation for how bad we looked”: Basketball fan goes viral after suggesting their team lost because a Ghost concert cursed the arena
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• “That world just wouldn’t acknowledge our scene. It was either death metal bands or it was Cradle Of Filth everywhere”: The cult US hardcore band who smashed boundaries to make one of the 21st century’s most influential albums
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• “If you see any Pink Floyd tribute act there’s an utter po-facedness to them. That seriousness has become the image of Floyd forever. We wanted a sense of fun”: Why Gary Kemp had to be part of Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets
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• 40 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Challenger Breaks Apart on Live TV
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• "And you know what? I'm just sharing ten years of groupies with ya, frat boy!" Why one of the biggest bands in rock music put a major music service out of business (and made one of the 2000s' strangest comedy sketch videos)
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• Rockers React to 'Insane' Border Patrol Killing of Alex Pretti
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• Dave Matthews Band Announces Spring and Summer US Tour Dates
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• Does the Hall of Fame Have a Prog Rock Problem?
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• The new collector's edition of Aerosmith's debut album comes with unreleased music, a satin tour jacket and a 3D pop-up diorama
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• Spoon Announces 2026 Tour Dates Across The U.S.
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• "It wasn't as big as Guns N' Roses - but it could have been. It just didn't last long enough." A member of one of rock's most celebrated supergroups says things could have got even bigger if the wheels hadn't fallen off
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• “It feels good to have a thousand people flipping you off. Just to see the amount of middle fingers go up when we go into it is amazing”: The alt-rock superstars who trolled their fans with a 70s easy listening cover – and scored a huge hit with it
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• The Best (and Worst) Solo Album by Every Member of the Beatles
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• “I’m taking care of myself for the first time ever”: Metallica, Slayer and Kiss members appear in new trailer for Paul Di’Anno documentary Di’Anno: Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer
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• UPDATED: Parliament-Funkadelic Bassist Billy Bass in Hospice
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• 15 Artists Worthy of Doing the Next 'James Bond' Theme
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• "It's a more sinister sound, because these are sinister times." Kneecap announce new album Fenian, share its politicised, hard-hitting punk-rave single Liars Tale
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• "Mars was forced to admit under oath that his statements were false": Mötley Crüe claim comprehensive victory in legal battle with Mick Mars
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• "There are people who are almost tainted by their knowledge of music. It's almost like they know too much": How we got over ourselves and learned to love The Darkness
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• Why Divinyls' 'I Touch Myself' Was More Than a 'J--- Off Song'
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• "What we're doing is more closely related to Lady Gaga than many rock bands." Ghost frontman Tobias Forge reveals what the Swedish metallers have in common with one of pop's biggest icons
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• “There was a point where My Chemical Romance were opening shows for us. Quite quickly, they weren’t anymore”: The story of the post-hardcore takeover that didn’t quite happen
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• Jeff Buckley finally scores an entry on the US singles chart nearly three decades after his death
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• Inside REO Speedwagon's Harrowing Experience With A Private Plane
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• "New York is an eccentric city. We met a police officer smoking a cigar outside JFK and got in a cab while Africa by Toto blasted out of the radio." How memories of a "surreal" first US trip re-lit a fire under one of Britain's best young bands
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• “The song is about death. It came inside an actual dead person’s skull”: When The Flaming Lips proved they love you with a Halloween track lasting 24 hours
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: January 26, 2026
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• "Sometimes all your fans want is to keep living the same experience over and over again": The story of the love/hate hit that split the Judas Priest fan base
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• The 20 Best Albums of the Half-Decade Ranked: 2020-2025
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• Aerosmith's 1973 Debut Album Gets Expanded Legendary Edition
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• "We were a gang. I'd get into fights in bars defending them. But I had my dream taken away": With Guns N' Roses, Steven Adler went close to the edge more than anyone - but then it all came crashing down
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• Wilco Sets 2026 Tour Dates in U.S. and Europe
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• Yungblud responds to backlash over controversial Till Lindemann photo: “You all know what I stand for, always. I’ll be more for it in the future”
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• Motley Crue 'Fully Vindicated' With Legal Victory Over Mick Mars
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• Alice Cooper's 2026 Spring Tour: Full List of U.S. Cities
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• “He’s always had more to say than can be expressed in just one band”: Every solo album by Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson ranked from worst to best
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• "If you have a sixteen-bar guitar solo, please don't turn into Yngwie Malmsteen or Joe Satriani": Ian Anderson on Jethro Tull, the right kind of guitarist, and forgetting what he's done
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• Lou Gramm Announces New Album 'Released' and Shares New Song
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• "A Russian girl came to my parents’ door with suitcases and said, ‘I have sold everything in my life. I’m going to marry your son and live with you now." How two unknown European bands changed the face of metal in the 90s - and broke up its boys club
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• "I had 20 kids on my doorstep looking in my windows. I couldn’t go to the grocery store." Tom Cruise, Eminem, the Twin Towers and a million sales in a week - the story behind the album that made Limp Bizkit the biggest rock band on the planet
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• Goose Announces 2026 Summer Tour Across North America
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• Sly Dunbar of Sly and Robbie Dead at 73
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• “He wrote, ‘Eat more **** – 100,000 flies can’t be wrong.’ He hated us”: German prog icon was regarded with suspicion by other artists, the target of vegetables at concerts, and witness to a label boss jumping out a window to escape his band
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• “It was something Ozzy was very passionate about: giving young talent a stage in front of a lot of people”: Sharon Osbourne is talking to Live Nation about bringing Ozzfest back
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• "There were bloody footprints where mercy should have stood.And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets, Alex Pretti and Renee Good." Bruce Springsteen releases moving anti-ICE protest song Streets of Minneapolis
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• "Released under a more credible banner, it would have sold millions and been regarded as brilliant": Sweet rock hard and conjure up a cult classic on Give Us A Wink
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• “I think we’re headed to some really ugly terrain”: Ice-T explains why he changed lyrics from Body Count’s Cop Killer to ‘ICE Killer’ last year, as government agency faces heightened backlash for 2026 killings
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• "I hope my music and music films will ease some of the unwarranted stress and threats you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government": Neil Young gifts his entire back catalogue to the residents of Greenland
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• “For five minutes I was thinking I could have ‘guitarist for Genesis and Yes’ on my CV”: Why Steve Hackett didn’t take up the offer to join Chris Squire’s band, and what the late bassist said about his friend’s ego
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• Judge Rules Steven Tyler's Sexual Abuse Trial Can Go Forward
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• Top 5 Rolling Stones Concert-Opening Songs
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• "I knew something was wrong. I went to the bar and my girlfriend was there with another guy." The dagger-through-the-heart memory which inspired the biggest rock song of its generation
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• Joe Walsh Misses First Eagles Show in Over 50 Years
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• 10 Memorable Moments in the History of Madison Square Garden
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• "Being in a band with someone is very intimate. You exchange ideas, you have arguments, it’s exciting." The story behind the Fear City punk rock demo that Madonna recorded before becoming one of the world's biggest pop superstars
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• Will Skid Row Tour This Year With A New Singer?
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• The Best Song Off Every Megadeth Album
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• Thomas Dolby Reveals Innovative 2026 Concert Tour Plans
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• "I preferred the Chili Peppers' cover to what Guns N' Roses did, but I was really happy about the royalty cheques": Stooges guitarist James Williamson looks back at the proto-punk ass-kicker David Bowie didn't understand
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• The Top 25 Albums of 1966
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• Where to See America Live: 2026 Tour Dates Revealed
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• Bonnie Raitt Expands North American Tour With More 2026 Dates
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