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Download Festival lineup revealed with Limp Bizkit and more as headliners

Limp Bizkit will headlined Download Festival for the first time in 2026.

BANG Premier · Nov 4, 2025

Halsey hospitalised for 'minor medical emergency' but still performs second Boston gig

Ego hitmaker Halsey revealed she had been rushed to hospital after the first of two Boston gigs on her Back To Badlands Tour.

BANG Premier · Nov 4, 2025

"We wanted Wayne Kramer from The MC5 to be our guitarist": Founding Motörhead drummer Lucas Fox looks back on the band's earliest days

Lucas Fox looked after Lemmy when he was fired by Hawkwind - they bonded over Monty Python, speed and Special Brew

Metal Hammer · Nov 4, 2025

Paul Rodgers pulls out of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony

Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke will be performing at the ceremony in Los Angeles this week

Louder · Nov 3, 2025

“On a guitar, it's built so weird with that one string in the wrong position, and so everybody plays the same crap all the time”: Phish's Trey Anastasio thinks all guitar music sounds the same – so he radically switched up his songwriting process

Anastasio says that, in an effort to push compositional boundaries, he writes a lot of his guitar parts on piano

Guitar World · Nov 3, 2025

Download Festival 2026: Keanu Reeves and Cypress Hill join Limp Bizkit, Guns N’ Roses and Linkin Park in line-up

The John Wick and Matrix actor will perform with his band Dogstar at the UK’s biggest rock and metal event, joining hip-hop heavyweights Cypress Hill and a trio of blockbuster headliners

Evening Standard · Nov 3, 2025

Limp Bizkit, Guns N' Roses and Linkin Park to headline Download 2026: over 90 bands confirmed for next year's lineup

Next year's Download lineup has officially been revealed and it's packing rock icons, nu metal legends and a lot more

Metal Hammer · Nov 3, 2025

Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay dead at 78

Former Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay - who also performed backing vocals for Elvis Presley - has died at the age of 78.

BANG Premier · Nov 3, 2025

Grateful Dead's Donna Jean Godchaux Dies in Nashville After Cancer Battle

Donna Jean Godchaux, the only woman to perform full-time with the Grateful Dead, has died at 78 after a long battle with cancer. Her career spanned Muscle Shoals soul sessions to psychedelic rock stages.

International Business Times UK · Nov 3, 2025

John Lennon's Killer Mark David Chapman Denied Parole Again After Admitting He 'Wanted Fame'

Mark David Chapman, the man who murdered Beatles legend John Lennon, has been denied parole for the 14th time after admitting he killed Lennon to 'be famous'.

International Business Times UK · Nov 3, 2025