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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

Iron Maiden's much-heralded Burning Ambition film will hit cinemas on May 7

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Europe announce new album featuring Ghost's Tobias Forge and Opeth's Michael Åkerfeldt

Come This Madness is Europe's first album in nine years – new single One On One stars Fargo and The Big Lebowski actor Peter Stormare

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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

Celebrating Canada's phony metal conspiracy

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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

With a number one single under their belt, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel booked their biggest headline show – it did not go according to plan

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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

Backstage boss Stewart Young took one look at the prototype in 1974 and decided to walk away – but the keyboard maestro wouldn’t have it

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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

Journey's Stagecoach set was canned by organisers when the festival site was evacuated due to extreme winds

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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

The prog polymath felt Orchestra Futura’s performances should be left as one-off experiences. But Theo Travis and Dave Sturt persuaded him to release Live At Nelsonica & Clothworkers Hall

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: April 27, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Foo Fighters, Airbourne, All Them Witches and more

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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

Done With Mirrors and Permanent Vacation had put Aerosmith on the comeback trail, but Pump was Aerosmith's ultimate destination

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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

The singer names the track where he and his colleagues matched perfectly – even though it hurt to create it

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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"

Grace Bowers now plans to make music for her own generation

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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

Robert Plant and Santana collaborator reveals complaints about his recent DVDs, the possibility of revisiting his 80s heyday, and why it was time to explore his difficult childhood on new album England’s Tales Of The Council House Kid

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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

1979’s Dream Police was Cheap Trick‘s last truly classic album

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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

"Our studio collapsed. The ceiling dropped ten feet. No-one could get any sleep because of the aftershocks"

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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

Michael Stipe is putting the finishing touches to his debut solo record

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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

Top new prog from VMBRA, Kristoffer Gildenlöw, Lost In Kyiv and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

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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

This California four-piece were once viewed as an Incubus clone, then they discovered how to write a power ballad with strings

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Marillion are "cooking with gas" as new album nears completion

Marillion are expected to release their twenty-first studio album later this year

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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

Dave Grohl reveals the guidance he's offered his daughter Violet as she launches her own career

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New Muse single Cryogen recalls classic earlier years with spiralling guitar riffs

Muse will release their space-themed tenth studio album, The Wow! Signal in June

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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

"Everyone keeps telling us how pretentious this album is without even hearing it"

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"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

Brian Robertson lived it live and dangerous in Thin Lizzy, lived it loud in Motörhead, rode his own band Wild Horses, and has an impressive list of credits as both session musician and producer

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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

He wants to use a large band to tour his boredom-beating second album – and thinks he’s come up with a way to keep it in budget this time

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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

Signed by Heart's management and to the same record label as the head of the Catholic Church, TKO toured with everyone from Cheap Trick and The Kinks to Foreigner and Van Halen: It wasn't enough

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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

Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul will open in US cinemas on June 17

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