Rock News 2026-04-29

• Metallica Celebrates 'ReLoad''s Upcoming 30th Anniversary With Deluxe Set
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• Marillion are "cooking with gas" as new album nears completion
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• 24 Things You'd See in Every 1980s Garage
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• "No one in Panama is doing what we're doing." The awesome South American metal duo named after a pastry who are breaking out of their country via big, fat riffs (just don't call them the new White Stripes)
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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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• Photos - 25 of Rock's Biggest Stars in 1976 Vs. Now
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• Ghost’s Tobias Forge, Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Judas Priest’s Rob Halford among 50 guests to appear on new album celebrating 50 years of German metal institution Accept
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• Win Iron Maiden 'Burning Ambition' Movie Tickets
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• Think You Know ’80s Movies? Try to ID These From Just One Frame
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• 55 Years Ago: Rolling Stones' 'Sticky Fingers' Songs Ranked
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• Kiss Kruise '26 Lineup: Night Ranger, Kulick, Slaughter and More
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• Win an Eagles 'One of These Nights' Box Set
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• Warrant Announces More 2026 Tour Dates With Fellow '80s Rockers
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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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• “Megadeth sucks!”: This is what it was like being in the van with Slayer on their first ever UK tour
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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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• “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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• “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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• "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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• "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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• The Top 100 Rock Songs in Music History
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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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• 50 Years Ago: Ramones Shape Punk Music With Their Debut Album
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• 20 Chuck Leavell Collaborations You May Not Know About
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• Ringo Starr, 'Long Long Road': Review
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• 15 Toys That Could Have Killed Us in the '70s and '80s
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• Ted Nugent Adds a Dozen Shows to His Summer 2026 Schedule
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• Watch Queens Of The Stone Age perform Auto Pilot with their former bassist Nick Oliveri
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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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• “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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• Traffic Co-Founder and 'We Just Disagree' Singer Dave Mason Dies
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: April 27, 2026
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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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• “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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• "Every song we came up with was like the greatest thing. Every time we'd write another it was like: 'Oh my god!'" The inside story of Master Of Puppets and the two-year whirlwind that took Metallica to the big time
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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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• 50 Years Ago: Rolling Stones' 'Black and Blue' Divides Fans
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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 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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• "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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• "The album cover and title song video are so sexually potent it almost makes you forget how Canadian the rest of the record is." What happened when Lee Aaron declared herself the Metal Queen
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• “You haven’t truly danced until you’ve thrown shapes to Rational Gaze in a festival field”: Why Meshuggah are my comfort band
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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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• Slipknot become early frontrunner for ‘weirdest collaboration of the year’ award as (sic) pops up in hallucinogenic Gucci advert
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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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• Ten ’70s Wacky Packages Cards That Hit Very Different Now
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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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• "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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• Europe Announces 'Come This Madness' Album, Drops First Single
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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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• Slam Dunk festival director steps down in wake of sexual assault allegation
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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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• Summer 2026 Preview: Rock's 85 Biggest Tours
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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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• Bruce Springsteen Shares 'Prayer of Thanks' for Trump's Safety
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• "I was going to step out into the water and pretend to be the Son of God!" The story of the day Steve Harley's Jesus trip was spoiled by overheated fans
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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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• "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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• "My chin hit this broken bottle on the stage. I pulled it out, there was blood gushing down my face." Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe comes clean on sobriety, UFOs and what he'd have as his final meal
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• "An impressive candle on a monumental birthday cake." Iron Maiden's Burning Ambition movie is a must-see for ardent fans
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• Hear New Music From Skid Row's Rachel Bolan
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• Tree Tracks: 40 Songs for Arbor Day
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• Arnel Pineda Posts Cryptic Message Amid Journey Farewell Tour
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• George Lynch to Perform 'A Night of Dokken' on New Tour
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• New Muse single Cryogen recalls classic earlier years with spiralling guitar riffs
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• When Will Skid Row Tour Again?
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• Bruce Springsteen Takes the High Road in Austin: Review + Photos
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• Wolfgang Van Halen's Mammoth Unveils Summer 2026 Tour Dates
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• See Michael Stipe Perform a New Song, 'The Rest of Ever'
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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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• “He said, ‘The music is one thing, but we’re here to put on a show.’ And that’s what he did”: Keith Emerson’s manager wanted to ditch plans for a flying piano. Emerson proved him wrong
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• Europe announce new album featuring Ghost's Tobias Forge and Opeth's Michael Åkerfeldt
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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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• How Jon Anderson Created His First Solo Album
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• “Genocide still occurs today. We have not learned our lesson of people over profits”: Watch System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian sing heartfelt prayer for genocide victims at Sick New World festival last weekend
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• Celebrate Star Wars Day with a huge streaming saving: This Disney+ £3.99 a month deal is hotter than Tatooine's twin suns
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• Read the 'Sticky Fingers' Letter Mick Jagger Sent to Andy Warhol
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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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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• Could Oasis Help Peter Hook and New Order Reach Rock Hall Truce?
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• The Moment Ringo Starr Made His First Country Album
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• Journey's Stagecoach Show Canceled After Emergency Evacuation
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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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• Revisiting Dave Mason's Final Concert
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