Rock News 2026-04-30

• 20 Chuck Leavell Collaborations You May Not Know About
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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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• Metallica Celebrates 'ReLoad''s Upcoming 30th Anniversary With Deluxe Set
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• Europe Announces 'Come This Madness' Album, Drops First Single
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• "The album careens so quickly between clever and stupid that I'm surprised it hasn't become a cult classic." A story of flick-knives, tyre-irons, and Desmond Child's little-remembered 'gang rock' phase
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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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• Bruce Springsteen Shares 'Prayer of Thanks' for Trump's Safety
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• Watch Megadeth play Metallica's Ride The Lightning for the first time
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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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• Summer 2026 Preview: Rock's 85 Biggest Tours
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• Lynyrd Skynyrd Sets Fall 2026 Tour Plans
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• "I was pissed off. This disrespects the band." Dave Brock slams BBC suggestion that Hawkwind were anti-Beatles and stole Paul McCartney's long-lost bass
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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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• "We were a bunch of Black kids whose parents had passed away and we were feral." From falling out with Manic Street Preachers and writing songs for Ozzy to a number one album, how Skindred's Benji Webbe became a British metal icon
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• Iron Maiden: Exclusive new interviews and 50 years of Burning Ambition - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• 50 Years Ago: Ramones Shape Punk Music With Their Debut Album
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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 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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• Think You Know ’80s Movies? Try to ID These From Just One Frame
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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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• Kiss Kruise '26 Lineup: Night Ranger, Kulick, Slaughter and More
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• See Michael Stipe Perform a New Song, 'The Rest of Ever'
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• "A true fighter with a heavenly voice": A tribute to The Alarm's Mike Peters
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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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• Exodus mainman Gary Holt on his singer situation, cartel violence, and what he listens to in the car
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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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• Journey's Stagecoach Show Canceled After Emergency Evacuation
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• Wolfgang Van Halen's Mammoth Unveils Summer 2026 Tour Dates
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• Tree Tracks: 40 Songs for Arbor Day
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• "When I sing Twisted Sister music, I'm like a steamroller. I'ma beast. I'm out of control." Twisted Sister's Sebastian Bach and Jay Jay French on life after Dee Snider
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• "The industry told us, ‘You will have zero fans. You can't bring Satan into the gospel scene!'" How a Satanic doo-wop duo bewitched metal fans - without playing a single note of metal
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• "God bless America’s judicial system. It proves that even Metallica can get a fair hearing!" How the world's biggest metal band put on a chaotic gig in a car park - and infuriated politicians, a stadium and half a city in the process
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: April 27, 2026
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• Europe announce new album featuring Ghost's Tobias Forge and Opeth's Michael Åkerfeldt
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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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• Warrant Announces More 2026 Tour Dates With Fellow '80s Rockers
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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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• Beach Boys Set More Than 40 World Tour Dates for the Summer
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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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• Read the 'Sticky Fingers' Letter Mick Jagger Sent to Andy Warhol
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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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• Hear New Music From Skid Row's Rachel Bolan
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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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• When Will Skid Row Tour Again?
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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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• "A welcome return to the cranked-up amps, distortion and rawness that first fuelled them." The Black Keys go back to basics on the revitalised, urgent and gloriously unrefined Peaches!
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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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• Photos - 25 of Rock's Biggest Stars in 1976 Vs. Now
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• "Our casting team reached out to fans from all around the world. They provided the emotion, the soul and the humanity." Iron Maiden's creative director Ben Smallwood grew up around the band – and now he's helping tell their story
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• 38 Special Adds Almost 20 Headlining Dates Around Kansas Tour
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• “Time is short and I have things that I need to make before I die”: Kristoffer Rygg won’t discuss the darkness that led Ulver to latest album Neverland and a new positive energy
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• The Moment Ringo Starr Made His First Country Album
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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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• "Mike lived a life of beauty and never gave up right to the very end." Details of the final album by The Alarm confirmed
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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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• George Lynch to Perform 'A Night of Dokken' on New Tour
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• Gene Simmons Announces 2026 Canadian Tour Dates
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• Top 40 'Baby' Songs of All Time
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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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• How Jon Anderson Created His First Solo Album
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• 50 Years Ago: Rolling Stones' 'Black and Blue' Divides Fans
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• Soho Dukes started as a 19th-century drinking club. Now they're bringing fun back to rock'n'roll
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• Ten ’70s Wacky Packages Cards That Hit Very Different Now
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• Metallica announce remastered reissue of 1997 album Reload, featuring never-before-heard demos, live recordings and more
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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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• 55 Years Ago: Rolling Stones' 'Sticky Fingers' Songs Ranked
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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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• Win an Eagles 'One of These Nights' Box Set
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• “It sounded like they were shouting ‘Peter!’ and we thought they wanted Mr Gabriel back. It wasn’t that, but we never got to the bottom of it”: Don’t ask Tony Banks about Genesis’ live album Seconds Out
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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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• 15 Toys That Could Have Killed Us in the '70s and '80s
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• Photos - 20 Rock and Metal Stars in 1986 Vs. Now
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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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• "This album is the absence of God. It’s a futuristic, pre-apocalyptic record." The album that made it clear Ghost were about to become one of the biggest metal bands on Earth
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• Eivør breaks two-year silence with atmospheric new track Healer, and confirms more tour dates for 2026 and 2027
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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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• Win Iron Maiden 'Burning Ambition' Movie Tickets
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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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• Grand Funk Railroad Extends Summer Tour After Lead Singer's Retirement
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• Arnel Pineda Posts Cryptic Message Amid Journey Farewell Tour
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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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• "No one in Panama is doing what we're doing." The awesome Central 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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• “Seeing Maiden live shows is an expression of joy, of pleasure, of commitment with music”: Javier Bardem reveals how Iron Maiden changed his life
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• "Record the show, put it online. There are a lot of people who won't be able to see it, so let’s give them a little joy." John 5 on why he's bucking the anti-phone movement at gigs
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• Bruce Springsteen Takes the High Road in Austin: Review + Photos
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