Rock News 2026-04-28

• "I said to Phil on the side of the stage: 'What are we going to do? I can't distinguish between the songs!'" Brian Robertson played with Thin Lizzy, Motörhead and Wild Horses: Now he finally reveals all
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• “Even when I got pretty good fees, I lost money on everything. I was thinking so idealistically”: Leprous’ Einar Solberg releases Vox Occulta, with hard lessons learned from the past
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• “If he’s having a rough time, if he’s in a bad place, we’re usually in for a good album!”: Marillion’s Steve Hogarth started to write songs that made him cry. He can’t stop now
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• Warrant Announces More 2026 Tour Dates With Fellow '80s Rockers
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• "It's like The Who channelling Cheap Trick, filled with catchy pop songs slathered with hard rock guitars." How the folk songs of Pope John Paul II buried one of rock'n'roll's great lost albums
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• Win Iron Maiden 'Burning Ambition' Movie Tickets
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• Photos - 25 of Rock's Biggest Stars in 1976 Vs. Now
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• "I was grossly overconfident because I was 21 years old: ‘Of course I’m going to get the gig.'" Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson opens up on what it was like joining the metal legends just as they were blowing up
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• "You gotta hit rock bottom to move somewhere else." Earthquakes, power struggles, and 16 songs that "sounded like people fighting": the curious tale of The Black Crowes 'lost' album, Tall
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• 50 Years Ago: Ramones Shape Punk Music With Their Debut Album
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• Every metal album to get to number one in the UK - and the story behind them all
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• “I really wanted to help. But if I’m honest I was just crap. I couldn’t pull it off”: It Bites ex Francis Dunnery abandoned Asia after one show. He’s stopped trying to please everybody
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• “You hear voices in your head or somebody’s messing with your brain. Somebody, your mind’s eye, has some talking to do to you”: The power-pop classic that finally turned four Chicago misfits into 70s rock superstars
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• "We didn’t talk to each other for three months." Haunted houses, fallouts and a drunken singer: inside Slipknot's experimental masterpiece, Vol. 3
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• “I was as surprised as anybody else. I said, ‘Who’s playing the harmonica?’ Dave said, ‘You are!’” What happened when Be-Bop Deluxe founder Bill Nelson formed an improv trio with Soft Machine and Gong members
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• Kiss Kruise '26 Lineup: Night Ranger, Kulick, Slaughter and More
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• Tree Tracks: 40 Songs for Arbor Day
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• Jason Newsted and the Chophouse Band Announce Summer 2026 Tour
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• David Byrne Extends His 'Who Is the Sky?' World Tour
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• "I had to fight for everything I wanted and got treated like a child." How Amy Lee fought to take back control of Evanescence
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Bruce Springsteen Shares 'Prayer of Thanks' for Trump's Safety
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• "I didn't want to be like stage dad." Dave Grohl shares his pride in his daughter Violet's emergence as a star on her own terms
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• George Lynch to Perform 'A Night of Dokken' on New Tour
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• "Look at the bands that are out there now, crap like Radiohead. You can't tell us that we don't deserve to be more than that." On the eve of the release of Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness, Smashing Pumpkins wanted to take on the world
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• "We had a song that was humongous, but we were just dumb and young." How Hoobastank wrote a billion-streaming hit single and entrenched themselves in pop culture forever
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• Traffic Co-Founder and 'We Just Disagree' Singer Dave Mason Dies
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• Hear New Music From Skid Row's Rachel Bolan
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• Watch Queens Of The Stone Age perform Auto Pilot with their former bassist Nick Oliveri
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• “It was cheaper to come here and rent a whole hotel out of season. The bar was open 24/7”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson recalls writing classic albums in empty Jersey hotel
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• Marillion are "cooking with gas" as new album nears completion
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• "I just wanna urge you respect my privacy as I navigate a new chapter in my life." Arnel Pineda posts cryptic message to fans after Journey show at Stagecoach Festival cancelled
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• The Moment Ringo Starr Made His First Country Album
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• “It’s 5 days since they released new music – was starting to think we’d never hear from them again”: King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard’s 24 albums in 11 years? It’s like taking out the trash
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• Slayer to Play 'Reign in Blood' in Full at 2 Upcoming 2026 Shows
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• Bob Dylan Shares Over a Dozen More 2026 Tour Dates
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• The Top 100 Rock Songs in Music History
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• When Will Skid Row Tour Again?
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• "The Ramones rescued rock 'n' roll." How Ramones' first album changed the lives of punk rock icons Henry Rollins, Bob Mould, Ian MacKaye and Steve Albini, in their own words
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• Great new proggy sounds you need to hear from Crown Lands, A.A. Williams, Devin Townsend, Tarja and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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• 24 Things You'd See in Every 1980s Garage
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• Win an Eagles 'One of These Nights' Box Set
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• Ted Nugent Adds a Dozen Shows to His Summer 2026 Schedule
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• "This is the new sound – it's hyper, it's energy, it's urgent.” Nine Van Halen albums to listen to and one to avoid
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• "Did we realise how important it would be? Hell no. We just wanted to make people dance." How an "evil disco" classic channelled Ministry, Prong and Salt 'N' Pepa to crown one of the 90s' last breakout metal bands
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• Bruce Springsteen Takes the High Road in Austin: Review + Photos
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• "One of the songs is the sound of a tree hearing itself for the first time." The forthcoming solo album from former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe sounds like it'll be quite a trip
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• 50 Years Ago: Rolling Stones' 'Black and Blue' Divides Fans
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• "I felt misunderstood by the German music industry. They called me too extreme." From Eminem teaching her about authenticity to the Nirvana song that made her pick up a guitar, this is the soundtrack to Mimi Barks' life
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• Korn return with pounding single Reward The Scars, in collaboration with new Diablo IV expansion Lord Of Hatred
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• See Michael Stipe Perform a New Song, 'The Rest of Ever'
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• "I want to dedicate this next one to a dear friend of mine in the sky tonight!" Watch a tearful Yungblud pay emotional tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with his cover of Black Sabbath's Changes in Birmingham last night
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• Could Oasis Help Peter Hook and New Order Reach Rock Hall Truce?
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• "His music reflects the joy and the pain of his life experiences." Watch the trailer for the upcoming Gregg Allman movie
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• Revisiting Dave Mason's Final Concert
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• Journey's Stagecoach Show Canceled After Emergency Evacuation
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• "We're both of us still curious and in love with music." Nine albums by The Black Crowes you should listen to and one to avoid
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• Think You Know ’80s Movies? Try to ID These From Just One Frame
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• 15 Toys That Could Have Killed Us in the '70s and '80s
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• New Muse single Cryogen recalls classic earlier years with spiralling guitar riffs
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• The Cure Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• "This is the sound of a band finding their spark again amid the wreckage." Foo Fighters bounce back from turbulent few years with punky, at-times surprisingly thrashy new record Your Favorite Toy
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• "One love for the world!" French psychedelic rock mind expanders Slift announce North America, Europe and UK tour dates
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• Wolfgang Van Halen's Mammoth Unveils Summer 2026 Tour Dates
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• “Megadeth sucks!”: This is what it was like being in the van with Slayer on their first ever UK tour
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• “Freddie said, ‘Write me stuff, I know I don’t have very long. I will sing it. And then you do what you like with it afterwards”: The tragedy and triumph of Queen’s final album and Freddie Mercury’s last goodbye
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• Summer 2026 Preview: Rock's 85 Biggest Tours
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• "He's jumping up in the air and breathing really heavily, making these animal noises. I'd never seen anything like it." The story of Andrew W.K. and the strangest TV performance in music history
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• "It's a violent, wild and out-of-control time, especially for women, but for all people." Evanescence's Amy Lee on why she's embracing having a platform in an increasingly troubled and dangerous world
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• "I wasn’t going to smoke angel dust or rob people, so I thought straight edge was a good antidote." The Beatles, Blondie, New York hardcore and those disgusting CBGBs toilets: an interview with Quicksand's Walter Schreifels
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• 55 Years Ago: Rolling Stones' 'Sticky Fingers' Songs Ranked
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• “We were looking for a song along the lines of The Bay City Rollers. Coming home from the grocery store, I just thought of a chant – ‘Hey! Ho! Let’s go!’”: The unlikely teenybop inspiration behind punk rock’s first classic single
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• "There were people that really resented me for having the audacity to keep playing music after Nirvana." Every Foo Fighters album ranked, from the worst to the best
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• Slam Dunk festival director steps down in wake of sexual assault allegation
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• "A perfect example of a band achieving massive radio success without it feeling like a sellout." Aerosmith reclaim their glam crown on the none-more-eighties classic Pump
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• Read the 'Sticky Fingers' Letter Mick Jagger Sent to Andy Warhol
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• Ringo Starr, 'Long Long Road': Review
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• "They blame us as musicians because it's easier than blaming family or society." How Brazilian metal legends Sepultura were demonised in the media following a heartbreaking tragedy
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• “We supported the Sex Pistols and The Clash. Their audiences didn’t know what to make of us, but we had so much energy we’d really stick it to ’em!”: The forgotten 1979 debut album that helped launch the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal
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• "I'm deeply uncomfortable with the amount of old men here." Teenage guitar sensation Grace Bowers quits YouTube, blames "old-ass creeps"
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• Watch Megadeth play Metallica's Ride The Lightning for the first time
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: April 27, 2026
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• “Metallica have tried some crazy things, some which have worked better than others. That’s a part of being an artist”: Twenty thousand people, an 80-piece symphony and the world’s biggest metal band – the epic story behind rock’s greatest orchestral gig
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• “It’s historically important for music lovers of that genre”: The legal dispute over Black Sabbath’s earliest recordings has been settled – and they could finally be released
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• Arnel Pineda Posts Cryptic Message Amid Journey Farewell Tour
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