Rock News 2026-01-31

• What to Expect From Zappa's 'Bongo Fury' 50th Anniversary Box
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• The Top 25 Albums of 1966
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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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• Brian May Says Queen Won't Tour America: 'It's a Dangerous Place'
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• Aerosmith's 1973 Debut Album Gets Expanded Legendary Edition
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• “Every song we came up with was like the greatest thing. Every time we’d write another it was like, ‘Oh my god’”: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax and more remember how thrash metal took over the world 40 years ago
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• How Warren Haynes Shaped His Career With The Allman Brothers Band
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• Dave Matthews Band Announces Spring and Summer US Tour Dates
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• Why Divinyls' 'I Touch Myself' Was More Than a 'J--- Off Song'
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• Motley Crue 'Fully Vindicated' With Legal Victory Over Mick Mars
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• Lou Gramm Announces New Album 'Released' and Shares New Song
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• “Strange people just appeared. We had awful visions of ghosts in the room. There was rustling and scraping at the window. It was happening every full moon”: The creepy tale of Camel’s Moonmadness
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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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• Bruce Springsteen's 10 Strongest Political Songs
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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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• “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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• “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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• Thomas Dolby Reveals Innovative 2026 Concert Tour Plans
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• Bret Michaels Denies Thwarting Poison Tour With Financial Demands
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• Bruce Springsteen Surprises at Tom Morello's Benefit: Video
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• "Some horribly lame moments slip into that horribly twee dad-rock territory that blighted so much of his recent work with Status Quo": Francis Rossi doesn't quite return to the pile-driving sound of his old band on The Accidental
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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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• "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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• "I said, 'Only call me if it’s AC/DC or the Rolling Stones.' A week in, the phone rings, and it’s my agent saying AC/DC called. What?!" From her dad touring with Aerosmith to singing in The Grinch, Taylor Momsen on her life in music and movies
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• Hear Bruce Springsteen's Anti-ICE Song 'Streets of Minneapolis'
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• The 20 Best Albums of the Half-Decade Ranked: 2020-2025
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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’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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• "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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• "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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• “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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• "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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• 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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• ‘The Beatles’ Four-Part Biopics Debut First Look at Cast
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• How to watch the 2026 Grammy Awards: Ghost, Deftones, Sleep Token & Amyl And The Sniffers among this year’s nominees
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• Where to See America Live: 2026 Tour Dates Revealed
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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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• From reggae/metal mash-ups to riff-stacked prog, these are the 11 new metal tracks that everybody needs to hear this week
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• The Black Crowes Share 2026 Summer Tour Dates
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• Remembering The Music Legends We Lost In 2006
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• Guns N' Roses Members Lead Grammy Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
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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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• Bonnie Raitt Expands North American Tour With More 2026 Dates
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• Wilco Sets 2026 Tour Dates in U.S. and Europe
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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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• "Some other very well-known people were at that first jam": Adrian Smith on how Smith/Kotzen got started, bonding over British rock and Iron Maiden's big homecoming
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• Joe Walsh Misses First Eagles Show in Over 50 Years
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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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• The Best Song Off Every Megadeth Album
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• "I sang Smoke On The Water with Deep Purple when they came to our school for a music clinic": This is the soundtrack of H.E.A.T frontman Kenny Leckremo's life
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• 10 Memorable Moments in the History of Madison Square Garden
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• “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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• "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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• Will Skid Row Tour This Year With A New Singer?
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• “It makes you wanna hurt someone real bad. They always have the most violent pits. Their riffs just bring out the aggression in people”: The three iconic metal albums that changed Ice-T’s life
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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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• "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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• A Photo Journey Through 1970s Family Life
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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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• “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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• 15 Artists Worthy of Doing the Next 'James Bond' Theme
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• 40 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Challenger Breaks Apart on Live TV
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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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• Judge Rules Steven Tyler's Sexual Abuse Trial Can Go Forward
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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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• Here are 5 ways to watch the 2026 Grammy Awards for less – find out if Sleep Token, Deftones, Linkin Park, Spiritbox and Ghost scoop any gongs this year
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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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• "He came down with this battered old Telecaster and played the best solo I’ve ever heard in my life": The debauched story of the Britrock classic made perfect by the last guitar solo from a legend
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• Cool new proggy sounds from Arcane Roots, Karnivool, Crippled Black Phoenix and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week
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• “I had the door slammed in my twice. I decided I’d make damn sure it never happened again”: The iconic singer who rose from the ashes twice to make one of metal’s greatest ever debut albums
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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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• "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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• Mick Mars' Attorney Hits Back After Motley Crue's Big Legal Win
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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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• "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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• "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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• "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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• Does the Hall of Fame Have a Prog Rock Problem?
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• What To Expect From Deep Purple's Upcoming Album
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• Zak Starkey Will Never Forget His First Who Performance
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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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• "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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• “We got airplay with that song, and that was remarkable. Unless you were Nirvana or Pearl Jam, radio stations weren’t interested”: How William Shakespeare inspired the song which became a surprise grunge-era hit and saved an entire genre
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• Slash Says GN'R Have Released Final 'Chinese Democracy'-Era Songs
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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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