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"It's about understanding the imperfection of your life. Imperfections are unbeatable." Queens of the Stone Age return with new single Easy Street

Watch the video for the first new song from QOTSA since 2023

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"It was presented like you can do this or you can just say bye-bye." Heart's Ann Wilson on the "devil's bargains" her band were forced to accept in order to survive the '80s

Ann Wilson on how Heart had to sell a little bit of their souls to survive

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“We had no money, no management, and we’d been dropped by the label. But when we plugged in and played, it was the most magnificent thing”: Midge Ure’s prog moments with Ultravox, Robert Fripp, Kate Bush, Jethro Tull and, indirectly, Steven Wilson

Taking the same attitude to keyboards that he’d first taken to guitar, he regards his best 80s work as “synth prog” – and it’s difficult to disagree

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"I hope Lonely Robot fans find this to be a fitting epilogue." John Mitchell announces final Lonely Robot album, An Ending

John Mitchell will release his sixth and final album under the Lonely Robot banner in September

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"I was screaming inside, very intense, but not saying a word." The defiant story of Creedence Clearwater Revival's most understood song

Fortunate Son was a burning commentary on class and elitism, delivered against the sulphurous backdrop of the Vietnam War

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"People that do this that don’t have huge egos have huge problems." Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger says that a life in rock and roll will "permanently damage" you psychologically

"You always hope that you’re a so-called normal person underneath"

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"We love her, and we want her to feel the full strength of the community that has loved and supported her for so many years." L7 bassist Jennifer Finch has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer

A GoFundMe has been set up to help assist Finch with her medical expenses and home care

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"Did he ask me to write a song with him? I didn’t take that seriously. We’d had a few pints." The night Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder partied 'til dawn with Bob Dylan in an Irish bar

Peal Jam's Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready covered a Bob Dylan classic at one of the most star-studded concerts ever staged, then headed out to party with the folk-rock legend

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"He came into the kitchen, gave me a tape and said, 'Listen to this. It’s not just any tape'." How a mouthy teenage guitarist scored his band a record deal with Britain's coolest indie label, and kickstarted a musical revolution

How the career of one of Britain's most influential bands was launched in a London warehouse

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Strawbs share live video of Benedictus as 1972 classic Grave New World gets new limited edition live release

Grave New World Live was recorded in the US in 2019 and will be released on limited edition vinyl in October, the only ever concert rendition of the album

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 13, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Massive Wagons, Chris Barras Band, Alabama Shakes and more

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"When Peter Grant played me the first Led Zeppelin album I thought he was having a laugh." Jeff Beck: My Life In 11 Songs

In 2008, Jeff Beck looked back on his stellar career, and talked about his solo work and his music with The Yardbirds, Robert Plant, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder and more

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“I remain proud to have worked with a special talent. I’ll even miss the ‘downs,’ but mostly remember the ‘ups’”: Strawbs mastermind Dave Cousins remembered

A six-decade career full of kindness – and occasional volatility – came to an end when the folk-tinged prog icon died aged 85 in 2025

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"I honestly believe it was one of the best things I've ever done." The story of the Marc Bolan classic that inspired Prince twice

T.Rex's Get It On was the band's only US hit, but Prince was certainly listening

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"I probably should have given in and stopped doing this a long time ago. I don't know what drives me to continue." Rock'n'roll has thrown everything at Tuk Smith, but he's got a lot to be grateful for

Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts begin a UK tour this week

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"The last great double album. So great that it should've been released in the 1970s." Billy Corgan unleashes his grand artistic statement on Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

Billy Corgan’s ambitions reached their zenith on Smashing Pumpkins' swollen 1995 double album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

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“I discovered our album by chance when a pub landlord showed me his copy”: They brought steampunk to prog, connected to The Stones and The Who, and didn’t know their only record had been released until 32 years later

In 1970 Bram Stoker looked like the next big thing in prog. Guitarist Pete Ballam explained why it didn’t work out for them.

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“I’ve spent 20 years of my life building a career. I don’t see why I should have to give that up just because one guy says he doesn’t want to do it any more”: The bitter battle for the soul of Pink Floyd

In 1985, Roger Waters split from his Pink Floyd bandmates,causing a titanic struggle that endures to this day

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“There were smears of dried blood around his chin and mouth. His usually perfect clothes and hair were messed up and soaked with gasoline”: The brief life and unsolved death of the cult 60s rocker who inspired The Clash

Bobby Fuller could have been the next Buddy Holly – but he died in mysterious circumstances in 1966 at the age of 23.

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“It was those first two lines. I felt like it was speaking to my life. I knew I could deliver that song with conviction”: One day Sebastian Bach was playing to Jon Bon Jovi’s parents. The next he was singing one of hair metal’s greatest anthems

The story of Skid Row’s classic hair metal anthem Youth Gone Wild

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Shania Twain and Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme have teamed up for the year’s most unlikely collaboration

QOTSA man Josh Homme sings on Twain’s new single Faded Blue Jeans

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Awesome new prog from Asia, Teiger, Aisles and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Top roggy sounds you must hear from Crumbling Ghost, Fallen Letters, Gardenhead, Winter In Eden and more in our all-new Tracks Of The Week

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"Once we realised the guys with guns pointed to our heads were cops, we were relieved." The night that armed police gatecrashed David Bowie's end-of-tour party

"A bunch of guys broke down the door, shouting with handguns drawn"

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“Bono said, Everyone is blowing smoke up our arse, will you come watch a few shows and help us make it better?" Bono's best friend Gavin Friday on how he became U2’s Creative Director

The former Virgin Prune and solo artist has been U2’s official Tell It Like It Is Correspondent since the mid-80s

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"After writing that, I wasn't interested in writing a novel or a play. I wanted to just write songs." The story of the song that saw Bob Dylan pivot from folk to rock

Using three chords nicked from La Bamba, Bob Dylan wrote the song that transformed his career – despite his record label's initial reluctance to release it

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