Rock News 2026-02-11

• Why Don Henley Never Listens to This One Eagles Classic
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• "I was on my own, out in one of the gnarliest neighbourhoods. You’re scared, thinking, 'How do I get out of here?'" How a song about living in a rat-infested squat helped turn Green Day into one of the world's biggest bands
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• Paul McCartney's 'Man on the Run' LP to Include Unheard Songs
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• "All of us are excited to return...with a few surprises in store." One of the biggest bands of the nu metal era just announced their biggest UK shows ever
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• 25 Years Ago: Eagles Fire Don Felder
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• "This is something we've talked about doing for a long time." One of the most exciting bands on Earth has teamed up with one of the most innovative rappers in the game for an explosive new single you need to hear
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• “I was like, ‘I think it’d be cool if I die and spit up blood and yada yada yada’”: You’ve probably seen their larger-than-life sword’n’sorcery concerts on social media, but Castle Rat’s fantasy shows are rooted in very real death anxieties
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• Here's how to watch Green Day's high voltage (and possibly controversial) Super Bowl 2026 opener from anywhere in the world: Times, streaming options, setlist predictions & more
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• Brian May Comments on Trump Using Queen Song in Social Media Post
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• "I'd like to see more of the world before it all gets vaporized." One of the biggest rock bands in history are set to bring the curtain down on their storied career this year
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• Five Famous '90s Acts That Have Been Snubbed by the Hall of Fame
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• Hear Bruce Hornsby’s New Single, ‘Indigo Park’
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• Immigrant Song, a lost cymbal and a suitcase full of cash: Rare footage of Led Zeppelin on tour in 1972 has surfaced online
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• "We have the best fans in the world": Much-loved Brit rockers Little Angels announce first shows in over a decade
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• "What the heck were you thinking, dude? I would fall to my death." Maynard James Keenan has thoughts on Tool soundtracking that terrifying climb up one of the tallest buildings on Earth
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• "Pat Smear left me a voicemail and said, 'I have the weirdest request and it involves Mariah Carey'." How Taylor Momsen and Foo Fighters thrilled Mariah Carey by performing two songs from her secret alt. rock album for the very first time
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• 3 Doors Down Frontman Brad Arnold Dead at 47
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• “I originally picked the guitar because it was the most obnoxious instrument, but after a while I was like, ‘Wow, there’s a lot of power in this thing’”: Steve Vai gave Devin Townsend his big break in the early 1990s. Decades later they got back together
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• Jack White Blasts Trump for Racist Obama Video
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• “It’s no good saying, ‘I’ll be dead by the time this becomes a crisis.’ We are the generation who created the problem. We owe it to the generations to come to clear it up. If it hasn’t gone too far”: Jethro Tull – a warning from history
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• C.O.C. Announce New 'Good God / Baad Man' Double Album
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• UB40 Featuring Ali Campbell Expands 2026 Tour With New Dates
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• "I have decided to take a break." Neil Young cancels upcoming European tour, saying "This is not the time"
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• 40 Influential Black Female Singers of the '60s and '70s
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• Eagles' Final Tour? Don Henley Discusses Retirement Plans
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• Here's How You Could Become Skid Row's New Singer
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• Devo Extends 2026 Mutate, Don't Stagnate Tour Into June
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• “He told me, ‘I bet you don’t remember being escorted out last night in a bulletproof bus, do you?’ And no, I didn’t”: The drunken onstage outburst that nearly sparked a riot – and inspired a thrash metal classic
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• The Black Crowes announce UK and Europe summer shows
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• "This is not their most exhilarating release, nor probably their absolute finest, but creativity is at an all-time high": Scorpions mix hard rock, pop and metal on the pre-stardom classic Taken By Force
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• Where Does Peter Criss' New Record Rank Among Kiss Solo Albums?
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• “I didn’t realise just how prog Genesis were. I’m pleased I got to see them on their last tour”: When Rivers Meet’s Aaron Bond came late to the prog party
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• "I didn't even realise. I was like: 'Why are you doing a big cock-rock move?' But he was getting electrocuted!" Prog-metallers Karnivool are back to reclaim their crown – if they don't die on stage first
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: February 9, 2026
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• “It was amazing to hear keyboards with that kind of power. He really changed my life”: Jordan Rudess would have been a classical pianist if he hadn’t discovered this prog icon
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• "How would anyone feel when one is the principal songwriter in the band and along comes this upstart and spoils everything?" What happens when your bass player accidentally writes your first big hit
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• Why John Mellencamp 'Hated' His 'F---ing Stupid' Smash Hit
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• "They got signed on their talent, on their original material, but also on their looks. They looked like Robert Plant and Jimmy Page." The story of the album that rescued rock'n'roll from the darkness and built a brighter future
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• Rick Wakeman launches new weekly podcast with comedian Griff Rhys Jones
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• “As soon as I heard it, I thought, Yes, that's us, that’s Ozzy's voice." Listen to Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads and Bob Daisley play the blues on a rehearsal tape lost for 46 years
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• Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood wants his music removed from the much-mocked Melania Trump documentary
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• “The real 10 best albums in the world are lying on cassettes in someone’s drawer. They didn’t get released. It’s all luck”: How to beat fate by scrapping an album over a movie, relating to a suicidal joyriding pilot and feeling for flat Earthers
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• The Best (and Worst) Genesis Solo Albums
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• Television Bassist Fred Smith Dead at 77
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• Was Kid Rock Lip-Syncing on Super Bowl Sunday? Watch the Video
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• "It reminded me of the politics of fear, like we're doing today": How the LA club scene in the 1960s shaped American rock then sparked a revolution
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• What Life Was Really Like in the 1980s
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• "We were seen as a band that wouldn't last, so I think they wanted to milk us for everything we were worth." How an off-the-cuff cover of a 60s song became an era-defining hit and an albatross around the neck of the band that recorded it
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• "There are no plans for any physical release of this recording." Steven Wilson announces new live album Impossible Tightrope and launches hi-res audiophile resource
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• Black Keys Set World Tour Dates Ahead of New 'Peaches!' LP
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• “I felt like the John Lennon of Israel – like I could change the government. But this is a ‘failure’ album. We admit we won’t be massive. Not Steven Wilson, not me”: The story of Blackfield V
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• "I just wanna know when Led Zeppelin's gonna be in the Hip-Hop Hall Of Fame." Kiss legend Gene Simmons rants about hip-hop being in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, EDM being "easy" and more
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• “Lars played me the whole song down the phone. He said, ‘What do you think?’ I said, ‘Are you kidding?!’”: The inside story of the greatest Metallica album Metallica didn’t write
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• “I heard that Dylan came to hear us in London. I went, ‘Oh, no. Not now – you’re seeing me at my absolute worst’”: The overlooked blues-boogie icon who hung out with Bonnie Raitt, played with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan and appeared at Live Aid
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• 3 Doors Down frontman Brad Arnold dead at 47
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• What To Expect From Stewart Copeland's 2026 Summer Tour
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• “The idea came from The Beatles’ Tomorrow Never Knows. I just played it in a more violent way”: How Ringo Starr, Isaac Asimov and The Devil inspired one of rock’s greatest ever drum solos
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• Paramount+ review: A well-priced streaming service with a host of huge IPs, but not enough music content
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• “Ronnie Van Zant ruled with an iron hand, but he and I never had a moment of confrontation. He let me take over the mic when a song suited my voice”: The Southern Rock legend who quit Lynyrd Skynyrd before they became famous – then rejoined 25 years later
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• "He thinks so far ahead you can only marvel." Nine Jack White albums you should listen to and one to avoid
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• How Brian May Connected With Guns N' Roses
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• “We honestly thought that it couldn’t harm us. How wrong we were.” One of the biggest albums of the 1970s would have carried a 'thank you' credit for the band's drug dealer if he hadn't been murdered before the record was released
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• Twisted Sister Cancel Reunion Tour Plans Due to Snider's Health
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• When Blind Melon's Shannon Hoon Was Arrested at the AMAs
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• “It’s really eerie and mellow and it has pagan poetry on it. There are a couple of songs on there that are so beautiful in a kinda sad way”: The cult album that Evanescence singer Amy Lee wishes she had made – and the one that broke her heart
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• “Every time it seems their direction is clear, the rug is swiftly pulled away”: Open your mind and embrace Biffy Clyro’s Infinity Land as a prog album
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• Stephen Pearcy Reveals 2026 Undercover Tour Dates
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• Why Isn't 'Shot in the Dark' on Ozzy's Greatest Hits Albums?
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• "I don’t really know what I’m talking about, I’m just doing it. There’s no art to it." How a meaningless French silent movie inspired the surreal alt. rock anthem that helped launch a musical revolution
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• Buddy Guy Shares 2026 Tour Dates Celebrating His 90th Birthday
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• "When you listen to The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Sabbath, Zeppelin...it would have ruined them!" The one thing from today's music that would have screwed up countless classic albums, according to legendary metal guitarist Zakk Wylde
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• "It was an intense place to be for a gay man in that world." Faith No More's Roddy Bottum on hair metal
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• "Everything I've done in my life so far seems to have led up to this moment." Dee Snider details the emotional mushroom ceremony he participated in to resolve health issues
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• 20 Fab Beatles Covers From 1966
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• How Wild Was Beatlemania? These Vintage Photos Capture the Mayhem
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• In Memoriam: 2026 Deaths
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• "She’d be talking about a song with a really good guitar solo and demand we change it, make it heavier." The trailblazing metal singer who saved an influential band's career and inspired a generation of women in the process
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• "How is it possible we've given this evil man so much power?" Jack White calls for US President Donald Trump to be arrested, impeached and jailed
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• "It crushes me not to be able to play guitar": Manowar founder Ross 'The Boss' Friedman diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease
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• The Australian Pink Floyd Show Announces 2026 Summer Tour
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• Disney+ review: An all-singing, all-dancing family streaming service with music docs and more
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• Classic Rock Releases Set for Record Store Day 2026
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• “You have no idea how many walk out of the room every time we do that. Obviously, I’m glad that they leave”: Paleface Swiss vocalist is happy he offends people by kissing his bandmates
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• Neil Young Cancels His 2026 Tour Plans
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• The Beach Boys, 'We Gotta Groove': Album Review
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