Rock News 2026-03-27

• "By writing obsessively in my diary I was admitting, This is madness, you are in danger, be careful." Hole, Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur on surviving the '90s, love, loss, and her brilliant memoir Even The Good Girls Will Cry
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• “I’d never heard of them before I got the request. But my assistant said they were very good, so I agreed”: The ambition behind Nightwish’s collaboration with Richard Dawkins
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• "This is a record about identity, legacy, survival." Suzi Quatro refuses to dim the lights on 18th album Freedom
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• Terry Cox, Drummer With David Bowie and Elton John, Dies at 89
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• The 30 best metal albums of the decade (so far)
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• "They sounded like Hanoi Rocks after somebody hit them in the head with a frying pan." 40 years ago The Babysitters were the best-worst band in the World. Perhaps they still are
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• Paul McCartney Announces New Album, 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane'
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• "Blackwater Park confirmed Opeth as one of the most inventive, indefinable bands in metal." A mesmerisingly brilliant prog-metal album's quarter-century celebration
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• "I don't know what to think. This was never on my bingo card." The Beach Boys replace Bruce Johnston with singer found on social media
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• "Eyes pop, brains explode, jaws smack hard on the venue floor." Mogwai summon a post-rock apocalypse in London's most refined concert hall by invitation of The Cure's Robert Smith
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• George Thorogood Announces ‘The Baddest Show on Earth’ Live Album
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• “Marrying the idea of death to an upbeat, singalong chorus has always been interesting”: This band love sneaking prog into record collections
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• "A portrait of determination, self-destruction and redemption": How to watch new documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Australian Rock Bands?
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• New Ad With Bruce Springsteen Hit Takes on Trump Executive Order
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• “We loved being pretentious, in the best possible sense of the word”: The bloody-minded duo who dared to delete a Robert Fripp solo in front of him
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• Hotel bombings, car crashes, conspiracy theories, towering infernos and more: The A to Z of B.B. King
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• “It's unbelievable we survived.” How a gang of OC punks changed the face of metalcore - and ultimately became one of 21st Century metal's true stadium acts
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• "Guaranteed to turn any club, field or arena into a writhing mass of sweating, crashing bodies." Every Lamb Of God album ranked from worst to best
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• Stray Cats' Brian Setzer Shares Scary New Details About Illness
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• Ranking Every George Harrison Top 40 Song
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• "I felt like an absurd grunge Cinderella, who’d found herself with VIP access to the ball." Melissa Auf der Maur's '90s rock memoir Even The Good Girls Will Cry is frank, fearless and fabulously revelatory
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• “You’re doing all the work, selling your own merch, but they’ll still come at the end of the night and take 25 percent. For what?!” UK metal band on the cusp of breaking up detail the ludicrous costs of touring in the 2020s
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• Ranking Paul McCartney's 'Wings at the Speed of Sound' Songs
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• Todd Rundgren's 2026 Summer Tour Dates and Cities Revealed
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• The Doobie Brothers Announce Fall 2026 Tour Dates Across the U.S.
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• Foreigner Extends 50th Anniversary Tour Into the Fall
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• “I said, ‘It’s more interesting to just hint. We don’t want to give the game away”: The unloved movie script that soundtracked Porcupine Tree’s Deadwing
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• "I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past but then I think how can you write about anything else?" Paul McCartney announces new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane. Listen to first single Days We Left Behind
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• Pentangle drummer Terry Cox, who also played on David Bowie's Space Oddity, has died, aged 89
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• "Queen, Muse, black metal…I want to be able to be eclectic with it." Former Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz reveals her surprising influences, clarifies the situation about the next phase of her career
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• 20 Pinball Machines Rock Fans Wish They Owned
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• “Over the years there have been people claiming I nudged Peter Gabriel out. That’s complete rubbish”: Phil Collins’ first show as Genesis singer, 50 years ago
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• Melissa Etheridge Challenges Gene Simmons on Hip-Hop in Rock Hall
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• Eagles Have Extended the Long Goodbye: Act III Tour Again
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• John Fogerty Expands 'Centerfield' Ahead of MLB's Opening Day
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• Dash Crofts of '70s Soft-Rockers Seals and Crofts Dies
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• "Yo, Jim. This is Sylvester Stallone. Gimme a call. We need to talk." How one of Hollywood's great action heroes turned Survivor from no-hopers to heavyweight champions of AOR
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• Ted Nugent Announces New Live Concert Pay-Per-View and Blu-ray
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• Sepultura founders Max and Iggor Cavalera declined invitation to perform at band’s final show, claims guitarist Andreas Kisser: “They don’t want to be a part of it”
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• "Determined to expand beyond the restrictive confines of goth, they were victims of their own ambition." Nine albums by The Mission to listen and one to ignore
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• 40 Years Ago: Why Rolling Stones Struggled Through 'Dirty Work'
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• Judas Priest Announces ‘Sad Wings of Destiny’ Reissue
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• They were bottled off stage by Alice Cooper's audience, derailed by a death in The Pretenders and made U2's producer cry: How Big Country made one of the biggest albums of the 80s
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• "Notable for not including anything new or previously unreleased." The Expanded Edition of Van Halen's 5150 is bigger but not necessarily better
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• "I think a lot of people in rock culture can smell it." Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix loves how rock is pushing back against A.I.
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• Partial Guns N' Roses Reunion Highlights Troubadour Show: Videos
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• "If it were made today, it would sound like Green Day or a metal band." How a neurotic 19-year-old and a guitarist with a razor created the blueprint for metal and punk
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• Judas Priest have started recording their next album: “I don't know if I’m allowed to say that, but I’ve said it”
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• 9 Rock Stars Who Were Fired and Then Outshined Their Former Bands
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• Lord Of The Rings star Elijah Wood can no longer listen to Metallica’s Enter Sandman, and his infant son is to blame
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• ZZ Top Announces New Concert Dates for 2026
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• "I was like, Get out of this studio right now. And his jaw hit the ground." The day Anthony Kiedis was fired from Red Hot Chili Peppers, and why it was the wake-up call he desperately needed
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• The Top 100 Albums of the 1970s
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• "There's no reason why you can't get better as you get older." Nine Thunder albums to listen to and one to avoid
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• How to watch Prime Video from anywhere: Stream award-winning music documentaries, live performances and more
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• Dave Davies 'Highly Insulted' by Moby's Rebuke of Kinks' 'Lola'
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• Graham Nash Announces Summer Tour Dates
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• April 2026 New Music Releases
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• Bryan Adams Announces New 2026 US Tour Dates With Pat Benatar
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• "I did some crazy s**t, you know!" Remembering Ozzy Osbourne's bizarre '90s collaboration with Miss Piggy
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• "I took my scooter up the lift and rode it through the corridors naked in drag make-up with just a tie on." A brilliant and bonkers interview with Motorhead's late, great Phil Campbell
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• Parkway Drive distance themselves from former employee who pleaded guilty to underage sex offence: “We support the victim 100 percent. She deserves justice.”
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• "In pursuing my own fake band I stumbled upon something that had real potential." The miraculous rise of the modern prog superstars who started out as a joke
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• Ever wanted to hear Blink-182, Creed and Chris Stapleton hail Satan? This guitarist is turning pop-punk, country and classical songs into black metal riffs
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• Bob Dylan Reveals Over a Dozen New Summer Tour Dates
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• Rolling Stones 'Jeopardy!' Questions: Can You Answer All 40?
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• AC/DC Returns to the Stage After Stevie Young's Hospitalization
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• Vote for the Best Album of the '70s: Only the Final Four Remain
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• "The Island record came out the same time as Bob Marley, and the Epic one at the same time as Boston. We were buried, and both became Frisbees." The story of the southern rock legends who took ten years to become an overnight success
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• Flea, 'Honora': Review
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• Bob Dylan Launches 2026 Tour With Acoustic Set and Surprise Cover
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• Billy Joel 'Jeopardy!' Questions: How Many Can You Get Right?
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• “Somebody said I was the ice queen, because I just didn’t move on stage – I was terrified!” The woman who became a prog star after being asked to lead the singing at anti-nuke marches
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• “I had to put dirt and filth in the microphone to make it sound grim enough”: Black metal giants Dimmu Borgir have announced their first album in eight years, and they reunited with their classic producer to make it sound old-school
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• “They chose to make this buck-wild album. If Metallica can do that, then we can do that”: Why Avenged Sevenfold “fell in love” with the ever-controversial St Anger
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• Slamdancing with John Belushi, supporting Guns N' Roses, duetting with Bruce Springsteen, and entertaining Elton John: the fabulous adventures of one of America's greatest and most under-rated cult artists
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• "I've always been drawn to the energy and storytelling of heavy metal." William Shatner announces Rob Halford will guest on his eagerly-awaited all-star heavy metal album
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• How a Lesbian Bar and Monty Python Helped Billy Idol Get His Name
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• "Am I guilty by association, or the innocent receiver of stolen goods?" The surprisingly contentious origins of one of the greatest singles of the 60s
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• I’ve just kitted out my summer festival wardrobe with huge Amazon Spring Sale savings on band tees: Maiden, Korn, Sabbath, Slipknot, Green Day & more
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• One of metal’s biggest bands soundtrack a fist-fight featuring Bruce Campbell as Satan in the new episode of Invincible, and TV doesn’t get much cooler than that
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• "There was no facade, this was genuine." Take a first look inside Oasis Live ‘25 Opus, the official photo book of "the most anticipated reunion of all time"
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