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MYSTERIOUS: 12 - What They Never Told You

Soho Dukes started as a 19th-century drinking club. Now they're bringing fun back to rock'n'roll

Hats off to a band with a questionable past and sword-swallowing, trick-cycling, lion-taming grandparents

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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

Paul McCartney: The Hunt For The Lost Bass tells the story of the former Beatle's long-lost Höfner violin bass

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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

The Alarm's Transformation was originally scheduled for release in 2025, but was put on hold in the wake of frontman Mike Peters' death

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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!

Blues rockers The Black Keys return to their roots in more ways than one

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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

Before he was churning out megahits with Aerosmith, Bon Jovi and Kiss, Desmond Child was the cornball king of streetfighting anthems

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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

Norwegian chameleon rejected the nation’s controversial black metal scene, then rejected his record label, and recently rejected synthpop. Now he’s rejected the tragedy of the band’s past – and partying too – to embrace freedom instead

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Eivør breaks two-year silence with atmospheric new track Healer, and confirms more tour dates for 2026 and 2027

Faroese artist says her first music since 2024 is a conversation with her younger self, who was full of doubt and didn’t know her own strength

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"A true fighter with a heavenly voice": A tribute to The Alarm's Mike Peters

A look back at the life and music of Mikre Peters, the much-loved guitarist, singer and songwriter with Welsh rockers The Alarm, who died a year ago today

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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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