Rock News 2026-02-24

• “I spent seven months trying to make it with him. He had lost his voice, he had lost his house and he was pretty much losing his mind”: How following up one of the biggest albums of the 70s nearly broke the legendary singer who made it
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• “People have this image of David Lee Roth as being this rock star with a crazy of personality, and he is that. But he listens”: The second solo album from rock’s greatest entertainer divided fans. Forty years on, it sounds like an underrated masterpiece
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• Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith brought a mega-famous friend to guest on a classic Maiden anthem at a gig in London last night
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• Paul Rodgers Explains Why He Said No to Recording With Van Halen
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• Robert Duvall, Hollywood Legend and ‘The Godfather’ Star, Dies
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• "In the spirit of the Olympics, Team Tomahawk has decided to rise up and go for the gold once again." Mike Patton's alt. rock supergroup Tomahawk announce first tour since 2013
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• "Honestly, I didn’t want it on the record. It was unfinished." The surprising story behind the Deftones song the band hate, the fans weren't sure about and yet became one of their biggest hits
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• "It's the fuse to the powder keg of songs." Foo Fighters announce new album Your Favorite Toy, share explosive title track
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• "There were weapons tests and the windows would shake in school. I wondered, ‘What would happen if that hit here?’” Bombings, depression and Oppenheimer: Sweden's Allt are writing a soundtrack to the end of the world
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• “We were bringing in all kinds of influences that other people in metal were scared of”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson re-releases his debut solo album – and his most controversial one
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• “All of a sudden there were guns under the control board. It was like living in hell’s domain”: How a 60s R&B queen fought through personal darkness to make one of the greatest rock’n’roll singles of the 1970s
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• "He's singing and screaming his guts out in the middle of the field. I can't understand a word he's saying but I feel every syllable of it." This is what it's like at Thailand's biggest metal festival, Rock Alarm
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• How to watch BBC iPlayer from anywhere– stream music documentaries, Glastonbury festival and more
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• AFI, Mannequin Pussy, Ecca Vandal join Deftones, Deafheaven, Amyl and the Sniffers and more on stacked Outbreak / All Points East bill
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• Star Trek actor William Shatner is releasing an all-star heavy metal album featuring Zakk Wylde, Ritchie Blackmore and more, because you try and tell him not to
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• Metal, pop punk, Final Fantasy and Miss World Chile: the list of new bands joining Limp Bizkit, Guns N' Roses, Linkin Park and more at Download this year has a lot going on
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• Tomahawk and Melvins Reveal 2026 Tour Dates
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• “At that one period in time, when something really significant and important happened to the band, we weren’t there to enjoy it”: Martin Barre was as surprised as Metallica when Jethro Tull won a Grammy
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• Jon Anderson Expands 2026 Tour With the Band Geeks
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• "The fans want to hear it, so we still play it every night. For myself, I've had enough of that song." Recorded while intoxicated, lyrics written in the back of a van - the story of one of the all-time heavy rock classics
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• “A search for spiritual redemption”: Hear new President single Angel Wings – the masked band’s first song after signing with major label Atlantic Records
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• One of the most celebrated metal bands of the last decade have just announced their biggest headline shows ever, including a stop-off at London's iconic Wembley Arena
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• Great new prog you need to hear from Neal Morse Band, I Built The Sky, worriedaboutsatan and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week
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• Underrated Music Albums From 1976 You Might Have Missed
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• "It has that outlaw quality, that dangerous quality…they’re incredible songs." Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy on the modern indie greats he loves so much that he's basically "just a groupie" for them at this point
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• "We can’t wait to get back to all these cities we haven’t played in so long." Prog legends Rush announce first European and UK live dates for 13 years
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• The vibrant, violent sounds of youth, rebellion and volume: 10 garage rock albums you absolutely need to hear
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• Rush Adds the Who and Chicago Touring Vet Loren Gold to Lineup
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• U2 Releases 'Days of Ash' EP on Ash Wednesday
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• "This album is his legacy." Following the devastating death of their frontman, friend and beloved figurehead of extreme metal, Tomas Lindberg, At The Gates have released an emotional new video and details of new album The Ghost of a Future Dead
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• "We wake up in the morning and everybody just texts about how much we miss him." As Foo Fighters launch new album Your Favorite Toy, Dave Grohl reflects on life without Taylor Hawkins
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• "It makes me very optimistic for a release at some point this year..." Marilllion update fans on progress on the new album
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• “When Geddy Lee said he’d heard this drummer the other day and her name was Anika, we should have been paying more attention”: One Rush fan’s journey from the last aftershow party of 2015 to the big comeback of 2026
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of '70s New York City Artists?
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• Winger Books 2026 Shows After Supposedly Retiring From Touring
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• Here's Why Hagar and Roth Won't Be on Van Halen’s New Album
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• “He wanted me to introduce him as the biggest rock star on the planet." Comedian Jack Whitehall says Jared Leto tried to alter his Brit Awards script
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• “Instead of confronting him and making an intervention, I thought, ‘I can’t allow this person to control me.’ I wish we’d had the skills to help him”: The tragedy of Spirit prodigy Randy California
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• Foo Fighters Share Title Track Off New Album 'Your Favorite Toy'
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• "Make no mistake - this song is a reckoning." After much anticipation (and some bogus rumours), the new singer for metal veterans Arch Enemy has been revealed - alongside pulverising new single To The Last Breath
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• “When we got back from the pub they presented us with this six-part piece of music. We were like, ‘We can’t record this! Oh, wait a minute…’”: The Stranglers’ Golden Brown started as a prog suite
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• "We had the desire to create something extraordinary. And we did." Queen announce remixed, remastered and expanded Queen II Collector’s Edition
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• "It was just women and bottles of Jack Daniel's everywhere." The story of the Next Big Thing whose career was killed by a soppy power ballad
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• Phish Sets Summer 2026 Tour Dates
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• Why Adam Sandler's Aerosmith Sketch Nearly Sparked an 'SNL' Fight
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• What Does Michael Anthony Think About a New Van Halen Album?
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• “He was just lying there, howling on his guitar with blood pouring down his face. It was a very dramatic moment”: How Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne and half a million insane Brazilians introduced metal to an entire continent
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: February 23, 2026
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• “It’s like our Free Bird – something we always have to do. But Free Bird is thirteen minutes long,and Taillights Fade is just three and a half”: The cult college rock band from Boston behind one of the most emotional anthems of the early 90s
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• “I can’t think of anyone like her. Joni Mitchell was also a one-off, an original, but she is nothing like that”: From David Gilmour to Stranger Things – how Kate Bush became one of the most influential artists of the last 50 years
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• "I am so inspired by Amy Lee’s vocals and we all wanted to channel Scream." Watch Scream star Mckenna Grace go metal in the video for killer new Ice Nine Kills single Twisting The Knife - with a cool bonus cameo
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• “I’m not exaggerating – everybody had it. We felt it would be cheating to make them buy it again”: It’s one of the biggest-selling singles of all time, but this proto-prog band left it off their debut album
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• Bruce Springsteen Announces Surprise 2026 Tour Dates
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of '60s New York City Artists?
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• Why Are Mick Jagger, Bono and Other Rockers in the Epstein Files?
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• 23 Everyday Objects From the '70s That Would Confuse Kids Today
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• “Everyone said we would never get signed if we didn’t drop the witchcraft. But I refused”: They had a song called Black Sabbath and a bassist named Oz Osborne – but this pioneering US occult rock band aren’t who you think they are
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• Dave Grohl Explains Firing of Josh Freese From Foo Fighters
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• "Would Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin have been as cool if the internet was around to expose everything?" Black Stone Cherry's Chris Robertson on social media, the creative inspiration of dogs and battling Darth Vader
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of '60s Los Angeles Bands?
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• Rush Extends Fifty Something Tour to 2027 With New Dates
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• Iron Maiden, My Chemical Romance, Limp Bizkit, Tool, Babymetal, Alice Cooper, Halestorm and almost 200 more bands to play huge Louder Than Life 2026 lineup
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• Steve Perry Is Apparently Considering a Journey Reunion
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• Ozzy Osbourne Was Told He'd 'Probably Die' Weeks Before Last Show
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• How a Secret Eagles Album Became Their Biggest Success
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• "The whole thing was such a shock...everything was shaking and we were crying for two weeks." The inspiring, sad and triumphant story of the 'girl next door' opera singer who'd become a heavy metal icon
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• "He wanted to do it so bad. And he did. He went like a rock star." Sharon Osbourne on dying Ozzy's determination to perform one last time
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• What to Expect From the 'Queen II Collector's Edition' Box Set
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• Oneness 2026 Tour: Santana and Doobie Brothers Summer Concerts
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• 35 Years Ago: R.E.M. Hurtles to Stardom With 'Losing My Religion'
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• “I completely understand why people would hope for that. The music we created together means a great deal to me too”: Journey fans think legendary singer Steve Perry is going to rejoin his former band on their farewell tour – but he’s having none of it
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• Scorpions Announce 2026 Las Vegas Residency
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• Eagles' 'One of These Nights' Songs Ranked Worst to Best
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• “My mantra for this record is, ‘Could AI have come up with it?’ If the answer is yes, then I ditch it”: Why Steven Wilson’s new album is designed to be slightly shambolic
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• “I have an audio recording of a Black Mass from San Francisco. I’ve never played it all the way through”: The legendary album Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt wishes he had made – and the rock band he thinks are a “joke”
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• “He was a titan, a giant. He could have been as famous as any songwriter in the world, but chose not to be”: The doomed singer who played with a world-famous comedian and had one of the most famous hit singles in history - but couldn’t escape his demons
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of ’80s New York City Artists?
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• Gene Simmons Plays Two Ace Frehley Songs Live for the First Time
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• Steve Perry Responds to Journey Reunion Rumors
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• "If it ain’t fun, I ain’t doing it. I’m too old for bulls**t.” Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter announce Anarchy In The UK tour
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• Iron Maiden Will Celebrate 50th Anniversary With EddFest
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• “I think I have 11 counts of breaking and entering on my criminal record": How Nickelback's nostalgic Photograph spawned a flood of memes and the unwanted attention from a soon-to-be-impeached American President
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• Jonathan Cain Opens Up About Leaving Journey and His New EP
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• Alex Van Halen Confirms Work on Album of Unheard Van Halen Songs
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• “I knew it was a hit, but I didn’t really like the song. It was difficult to imagine what kind of touch we could put on it”: How Aerosmith scored their very first No.1 single – with help from a hit songwriter, Bruce Willis and a giant killer asteroid
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