Rock News 2026-02-26

• "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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• Eagles' 'One of These Nights' Songs Ranked Worst to Best
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• “I put a twist on it – as if there was a crazed brother who was like Clint Eastwood coming back to murder whoever had defiled his sister”: How an unexpected pregnancy and a cheap video inspired the song that turned a British punk into an MTV superstar
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of ’80s New York City Artists?
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• Eagles to Visit Three New Cities on 2026 Tour
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• Enter to Win Trip to See Metallica at the Sphere in Las Vegas!
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• "We have to do this, it’s completely uncharted territory!" Metallica announce Life Burns Faster residency at Sphere, Las Vegas
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• “My wife says, ‘You write nice songs then you spoil them.’ I’ve always thought they’d have been quite successful if somebody else had done them”: Van der Graaf Generator’s Peter Hammill has calmed down, but not entirely
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• “I have two film projects that I’m working on … I was recording another album with another thing”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge is taking a big break from touring the world, but he’s by no means idle
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• “I rode him so hard he threatened to take me apart piece by piece if I didn’t back off”: How an ex-punk band delivered one of the greatest albums of the late 70s – with a little help from Suzi Quatro’s producer and a prog legend
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• "Ya think it’s all poetry and clovers, when it’s raincoats and police Land Rovers. Salt of the earth, looking over their shoulder." Kneecap share moody and intense new single Smugglers & Scholars
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• Steve Perry Is Apparently Considering a Journey Reunion
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• Tomahawk and Melvins Reveal 2026 Tour Dates
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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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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: February 23, 2026
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• What to Expect From the 'Queen II Collector's Edition' Box Set
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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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• Paul Weller announces 48-track Weller At The BBC Vol. 2 album, adds Irish gigs
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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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• “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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• “I don’t see it as a sad thing”: Last Faith No More tour had “unspoken” sense of closure, says Mike Patton
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• What Does Michael Anthony Think About a New Van Halen Album?
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• 23 Everyday Objects From the '70s That Would Confuse Kids Today
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• "I was very narrow-minded. I thought they were just an annoying pop band!" One of America's greatest punk rock frontmen has come out as a huge fan of Oasis after years of "contempt" for the Gallagher brothers
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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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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of New Orleans Rock?
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• Metallica Announces 2026 Las Vegas Sphere Residency
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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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• “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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• Queens of the Stone Age Announce First Headlining Shows of 2026
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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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• “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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• Rush Extends Fifty Something Tour to 2027 With New Dates
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• Rush Adds the Who and Chicago Touring Vet Loren Gold to Lineup
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• 'Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition' Documentary Coming to Theaters
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• Dave Grohl Explains Firing of Josh Freese From Foo Fighters
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• Steve Perry Responds to Journey Reunion Rumors
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• John Mellencamp Slams the Grammys: 'It's F—ing Nothing'
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• “Being on one of the best live albums of all time gave the song a boost. Then Iron Maiden fell in love with it and made it even bigger”: The flop 70s single inspired by a pair of naughty nurses which became one of rock’s all-time greatest live anthems
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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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• “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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• Iron Maiden have been nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, 22 years after they first became eligible to enter, with Oasis, Wu-Tang Clan, Phil Collins, Billy Idol and more also on the ballot
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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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• Alex Van Halen Confirms Work on Album of Unheard Van Halen Songs
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• Ozzy Osbourne Was Told He'd 'Probably Die' Weeks Before Last Show
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• U2 Releases 'Days of Ash' EP on Ash Wednesday
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• “Paul Simon did it better. It’s the usual thing with me – take a good idea and dilute it”: South African prog hitmaker tried to tackle apartheid, but admits he failed
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• Paul Rodgers Explains Why He Said No to Recording With Van Halen
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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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• "Maybe it’s time." Dave Grohl might finally be ready to let Foo Fighters do something they've never done in their 30 year career
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• Reb Beach Reflects on Whitesnake's 'Terrible' Farewell Tour
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• “Pulp Fiction was something we badly needed. But we wouldn’t have chosen a Neil Diamond cover that was made as an in-joke for our most notable single”: The Quentin Tarantino-approved trio who were set to be huge – until drugs and acrimony derailed them
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• Why Adam Sandler's Aerosmith Sketch Nearly Sparked an 'SNL' Fight
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• “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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• "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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• Foo Fighters Share Title Track Off New Album 'Your Favorite Toy'
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• 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Revealed: See all 17 Names
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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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• Rock Hall 2026 Nominees Roundtable: Snubs, Surprises and More
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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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• “Unmistakably the work of metal’s mouthiest frontman”: Every Megadeth album ranked from worst to best
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• Gene Simmons Plays Two Ace Frehley Songs Live for the First Time
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of '60s Los Angeles Bands?
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• Tom Morello Reschedules Solo Dates to Tour With Bruce Springsteen
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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 was super duper heavy!" The story behind the Dave Grohl song that Ozzy Osbourne rejected, which found a home on one of the most unexpected heavy metal albums ever released
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• 35 Years Ago: R.E.M. Hurtles to Stardom With 'Losing My Religion'
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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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• 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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• “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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• “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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• Wolfgang Van Halen Offers His Support to New Van Halen Album
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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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• “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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• "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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• Phish Sets Summer 2026 Tour Dates
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• Jonathan Cain Opens Up About Leaving Journey and His New EP
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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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• Here's Why Hagar and Roth Won't Be on Van Halen’s New Album
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• Iron Maiden announce cinema release for their career-spanning documentary Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition
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• The guitar Kurt Cobain played in Nirvana's iconic video for Smells Like Teen Spirit is coming up for auction next month
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• Primus announce first UK and European tour in almost a decade
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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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• “I really wanted the first record to be different from what I’d done with Genesis”: How Peter Gabriel made his solo debut with a group of musical misfits
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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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