Rock News 2026-04-23

• "His songwriting, musicianship and distinctive spirit helped create music that has lasted far beyond its era." Steve Winwood pays tribute to fellow Traffic founder Dave Mason
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• Guns N' Roses Cover Rare Sex Pistols Song Live for the First Time
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• "I won't stop until I'm able to actually sit down with Bob Seger, ideally playing darts, hopefully having a beer." Boston man goes viral for certifying bars as Bob Seger-friendly
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• Ringo Starr, 'Long Long Road': Review
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• “With all the stuff surrounding his illness and eventually passing, I had a hard time listening to it”: At The Gates drummer couldn’t listen to new album until “recently”, due to late singer Tomas Lindberg’s cancer battle
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• "It was an embarrassment, but we were desperate for the cash."How Thin Lizzy saved their career by recording an album of Deep Purple covers
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• "It was like a little vacation." The Tool and Failure side project which dissolved before most people knew it had ever existed
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• "Discharge meets GBH and Motörhead at an anti-Nazi demonstration after drinking cider all afternoon in a Hackney squat." Ten obscure and criminally under-rated UK punk albums
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• Slayer to Play 'Reign in Blood' in Full at 2 Upcoming 2026 Shows
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• BBC's 2026 Proms season to feature a Prog Prom for the very first time!
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• 10 Best Prince Songs Released Since His Death
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• "I honestly wondered if this was the end for Metallica." Rehab, prison and the battle for the future of music: The story of the most divisive album in metal
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• Carl Palmer announces An Evening With Emerson, Lake & Palmer shows in England for February 2027
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• Former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg reveals he found out Joey Jordison was leaving the band just 24 hours after his first jam with them
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• Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Paul Weller, Massive Attack, Sigur Rós, Mogwai and more sign open letter asking the European Broadcasting Union to ban Israel from participating in Eurovision 2026
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• "On his final performance, he wields words like a weapon." Following the death of their beloved frontman Tomas Lindberg, death metal legends At The Gates' produce one final triumph with The Ghost Of A Future Dead
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• The Cure Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• "We were just jamming, making stuff up. Our session went totally out of the window." The true story of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin's lost jam
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• Could Oasis Help Peter Hook and New Order Reach Rock Hall Truce?
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• The Day Prince Died
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• Traffic Co-Founder and 'We Just Disagree' Singer Dave Mason Dies
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• "People turned on us. It was as if they resented their big secret band suddenly being the property of the mainstream." After a decade's hard slog, a sublime ballad made stars of REO Speedwagon - and their die-hard fans didn't like it one bit
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• "A masterpiece, and yet not the band's finest hour." Every Smashing Pumpkins album ranked from worst to best
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• “Shannon’s sister and Axl Rose were in school together. Labels jumped all over us cos of his connection with Guns N’ Roses”: Blind Melon were more than just a grunge-era one-hit wonder – but tragedy cut their career short
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• “The lyricists had been left to their own devices. I said, ‘For once, can we all get behind the concepts and the lyrics?’” How TesseracT’s fans helped them make fourth album Sonder
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• Pink Floyd collaborator Polly Samson, wife and creative partner of David Gilmour, has a London photo exhibition featuring her documentation of the creation, recording and live performance of Gilmour's Luck and Strange album
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• The Top 100 Rock Songs in Music History
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• David Byrne Extends His 'Who Is the Sky?' World Tour
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• Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to duet on Macca's new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane
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• “Storm Thorgerson didn’t say the pig on the cover of Animals had been Roger Waters’ idea. Roger was very angry”: Why Pink Floyd didn’t go to their go-to artwork guys for The Wall, and what The Dark Side Of The Moon cover might have looked like
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• “You realise the hard way that it sucks when your passion is your job”: Periphery lost their way then found it again. That’s why they don’t care about how successful they could be
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• "If there’s one thing that we hate, it’s being compared to Korn or Tool. We’re far better than that.” The mystery of the 90s band that almost gave the UK an answer to Limp Bizkit - then vanished without a trace
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• “It became too much. It was like when Yoko came along to The Beatles and Paul said, ‘Oh no’”: The 70s rock classic inspired by a tragedy at sea which tore the band that wrote it apart
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• How Dan Fogelberg Made His Secret Dream Come True
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• "It's been too long since we've been in the UK!" Joan Jett And The Blackhearts announce first UK headline tour in 16 years
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• How Three Dog Night's 'Joy to the World' Made Chart History
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• “The people who I know who’ve been on this journey… we’d never go back”: Ex-Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley opens up about quitting alcohol
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• “Professional pianists are the only ones who say, ‘I understand why he wanted to kill himself. I would think the same thing’”: Keith Emerson’s partner says his health issues were caused by his fear of letting people down
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• Hear Sebastian Bach Sing a Uriah Heep Classic
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• What Are the 'Big 4' of Weed Songs?
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• Bob Dylan Shares Over a Dozen More 2026 Tour Dates
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• Thomas Dolby Headlines Totally Tubular 2026 Touring Festival
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• “She said, ‘Do you know anybody who plays keyboards?’ I lied and said, ‘Yeah – me!’” Hawkwind’s Magnus Martin isn’t actually a member of Hawkwind. He just never stopped turning up
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• Traffic founder Dave Mason dead at 79
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• 40 Years Ago: Ranking Every Song From Journey's 'Raised on Radio'
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• "I've got a couple of ideas I've been working on for quite some time": Fred Durst wants to set up an alternative to Coachella for musicians who aren't invited to Coachella
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• "Your Favorite Toy is a ferocious reaffirmation of Foo Fighters' initial post-grunge power." Troubled times call for torrential measures on hard-rocking new album from Dave Grohl and Co
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• "Turn the lights down, put your feet up, whisky chaser in one hand, beer in the other." A grieving Gregg Allman slows things down on the late-night gospel-country-blues of Laid Back
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• Nashville Session Musician Wayne Moss Dead at 88
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• "A reminder of just how powerful and wonderful music can be in a world where little else makes sense." Frank Turner charms the capital with a celebration of twenty years of punk rock honesty
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• "Only a couple of us saw that it was giving a glimpse of the future." How Aerosmith changed the internet as we know it
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• “Maybe they thought we wanted out of our contract, like when a band does a deliberately bad album”: Opeth gave their label two records for the price of one, and it nearly cost them their career
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• Scorpions' Tour of India Canceled Due to 'Medical Circumstances'
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• Win Iron Maiden 'Burning Ambition' Movie Tickets
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• 10 Years Ago: The World Lights Itself Purple After Prince's Death
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• When Dolly Parton Released Her Debut Single
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• Slayer to play two special US shows celebrating 40 years of Reign In Blood this autumn
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• Jason Newsted and the Chophouse Band Announce Summer 2026 Tour
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• "Basically all their songs are about loss and dying." Emo-loving pop star PinkPantheress on her favourite My Chemical Romance song
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• Hear New Music From Skid Row's Rachel Bolan
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• 24 Things You'd See in Every 1980s Garage
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• "I think he is a genius. He's the master of the middle eight." Big Big Train's Gregory Spawton picks the soundtrack of his life
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• What to Know About Frank Zappa's New 'Zappa 66 Vol. 1' Release
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• Sammy Hagar downsizes Best Of All Worlds UK tour to more "intimate" venues
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• Win a Van Halen '5150' Box Set
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• “Something we never could have imagined when this all began”: Songs by melodic death metal pioneers In Flames, At The Gates and Dark Tranquillity to be performed by Gothenburg orchestra
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• "The toughest thing I've ever done." The trauma behind Otis Redding's tragic classic (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: April 20, 2026
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• "I feel like a robot and I can’t believe a crowd can care about what we’re doing." The genre-smashing underground band who recorded one of the best metal albums of the 21st century - and then disappeared
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• Charity cuts ties with Sharon Osbourne after social media post in which she suggests she will attend Tommy Robinson's anti-immigration rally
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• “The Slipknot guys are totally aware of who were are, and System Of A Down opened for us before they even got signed”: The chaotic birth of Grindcore, the scene that changed metal forever
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• "Jaw-dropping from start to finish, Offering is a once-in-a-lifetime sort of album." A heartfelt salute to Axe's forgotten blue-collar gruntrock party classic
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• How Thomas Dolby Is Updating His ‘80s Past
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• "Veering between sweet and sour, violent metal, disturbing imagery and cutesy melodies." A guide to every Poppy album so far
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• David Lee Roth Brings Back Rare Van Halen Gem on Opening Night
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• Ted Nugent Adds a Dozen Shows to His Summer 2026 Schedule
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• Watch Phish Honor Joe Walsh at the Sphere
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• Paul McCartney Confirms Duet With Ringo Starr, 'Home to Us'
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• “I’d just come offstage at Monsters Of Rock and someone went, ‘I hear you like the Marquis de Sade. It was Bruce Dickinson”: Therapy? were three noise-rock outsiders from Northern Ireland – but they made one of the greatest alt-metal albums of the 90s
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• Foo Fighters, 'Your Favorite Toy': Review
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• Watch former WWE World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk walk out to an AFI song and pay tribute to Harm’s Way’s Bo Lueders during his WrestleMania entrance last weekend
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• Porcupine Tree offshoot Voyage 35 unveil full band line-up
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• Revisiting Dave Mason's Final Concert
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• ZZ Top Expands 2026 Tour With New Concert Dates
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• “I hear, ‘Look who’s preparing to face his public then!’ It was Mick Jagger with Bowie. I said, ‘Well, you’re not doin’ so bad yourself after ten years’”: How Mott The Hoople fell to earth - but left one of rock’s great farewell albums behind them
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