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"We don't accept the brutality, the lies, the loss of our simplest pleasures": Joan Jett joins growing list of musicians to voice solidarity with anti-ICE protesters

Jett read a prepared statement during a show in New Zealand

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Cool new proggy sounds from Arcane Roots, Karnivool, Crippled Black Phoenix and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog you must hear from Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns, plantoid, Maebe and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

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"He came down with this battered old Telecaster and played the best solo I’ve ever heard in my life": The debauched story of the Britrock classic made perfect by the last guitar solo from a legend

All the elements of the classic rock'n'roll lifestyle fed into a storming tune about a crazy ex-lover

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"I sang Smoke On The Water with Deep Purple when they came to our school for a music clinic": This is the soundtrack of H.E.A.T frontman Kenny Leckremo's life

H.E.A.T frontman Kenny Leckremo picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and talks a lot about Iron Maiden

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"Some horribly lame moments slip into that horribly twee dad-rock territory that blighted so much of his recent work with Status Quo": Francis Rossi doesn't quite return to the pile-driving sound of his old band on The Accidental

Status Quo frontman surprises himself with unexpected fifth solo album

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"Being in a band with someone is very intimate. You exchange ideas, you have arguments, it’s exciting." The story behind the Fear City punk rock demo that Madonna recorded before becoming one of the world's biggest pop superstars

Madonna has a punk rock past, and we have the receipts

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"Going back to our roots, we felt that spark in the studio and how we work together": The Black Crowes announce new single and massive co-headline tour with Whiskey Myers

It's Like That is the third song to emerge from the Black Crowes upcoming album A Pound Of Feathers

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"There were bloody footprints where mercy should have stood.And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets, Alex Pretti and Renee Good." Bruce Springsteen releases moving anti-ICE protest song Streets of Minneapolis

Bruce Springsteen rush-releases song "in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis"

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"It's a more sinister sound, because these are sinister times." Kneecap announce new album Fenian, share its politicised, hard-hitting punk-rave single Liars Tale

Kneecap announce UK shows around release of new album Fenian, share video for single Liars Tale

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Jeff Buckley finally scores an entry on the US singles chart nearly three decades after his death

TikTok users ensure that Lover, You Should’ve Come Over finally breaches the Billboard Hot 100 chart

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"I knew something was wrong. I went to the bar and my girlfriend was there with another guy." The dagger-through-the-heart memory which inspired the biggest rock song of its generation

The story behind "the UK's alternative national anthem", inspired by heartbreak, David Bowie and Iggy Pop

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“I felt a little bit grubby. I knew it hadn’t come from a place of complete integrity”: Steven Wilson tried to forget his shamelessly commercial Porcupine Tree song, but met it again in a strip club

The band leader learned a valuable lesson about himself after an attempt to do his record label’s bidding

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"If you have a sixteen-bar guitar solo, please don't turn into Yngwie Malmsteen or Joe Satriani": Ian Anderson on Jethro Tull, the right kind of guitarist, and forgetting what he's done

Ian Anderson talks about Jethro Tull’s latest album Curious Ruminant and ponders the itch to make another

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"There are people who are almost tainted by their knowledge of music. It's almost like they know too much": How we got over ourselves and learned to love The Darkness

On October 7, 2003, The Darkness released their debut album Permission To Land. Many were resistant to its obvious charms, including us

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"I preferred the Chili Peppers' cover to what Guns N' Roses did, but I was really happy about the royalty cheques": Stooges guitarist James Williamson looks back at the proto-punk ass-kicker David Bowie didn't understand

Stooges guitarist James Williamson looks back at this proto-punk ass kicker that opened many a show circa ’73

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The new collector's edition of Aerosmith's debut album comes with unreleased music, a satin tour jacket and a 3D pop-up diorama

Dream on and on and on and on

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"It was the requiem for the kind of life that we all had dreamed would be in the sixties": More than half a century on, a folk-rock anthem about the souring of the American Dream continues to confound and inspire

The story of the song about America that's been a global hit for two different musicians

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"I hope my music and music films will ease some of the unwarranted stress and threats you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government": Neil Young gifts his entire back catalogue to the residents of Greenland

Neil Young is providing free access to his digital archive to residents of Greenland in protest at US Goverment threats to annex the nation

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: January 26, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from the Claypool Lennon Delirium, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Elles Bailey and more

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“Let’s not forget he was still learning how to sing as ‘Bryan Ferry.’ I know I captured a fantastic atmosphere, complete with mistakes”: Some of Roxy Music hated Virginia Plain, but its producer loved it

Former King Crimson man Pete Sinfield tried to balance prog and pop sensibilities on the 1972 single, and had answers for the criticisms levelled at it

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"I said something like: 'It would be really, really dreadful if that got wiped' and I found out later that that's exactly what he did": The story of the UFO classic inspired by a pair of murderous twins

For a much-loved ballad on 1981's The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent, UFO turned to the criminal underworld for inspiration

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"We left mistakes in, we didn't clean it all up – which is a hard thing to do when you're a musician": How His Lordship hit the rock'n'roll bullseye with one of the best albums of 2025

Pretenders' sidemen James Walbourne and Kris Sonne's second album as His Lordship is a savage blast of high-octane, garage-rooted R&B

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"Released under a more credible banner, it would have sold millions and been regarded as brilliant": Sweet rock hard and conjure up a cult classic on Give Us A Wink

Could Sweet still produce after dumping Chinn and Chapman? You bet!

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Yungblud responds to backlash over controversial Till Lindemann photo: “You all know what I stand for, always. I’ll be more for it in the future”

Yungblud responds to fans’ disappointment after a photo appeared online of him with Rammstein’s Till Lindemann

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"She understands the history of music, but she’s also pushing it forward. She is the future." Record company execs expect big things of Dave Grohl's daughter Violet

Violet Grohl has signed a record contract with Republic Records/Island EMI who say "she represents the next generation of artists"

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