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“We knocked out ten songs and that ended up being the bulk of the first record, so that first week was pretty good!”: it’s 35 years since Pearl Jam had their very first rehearsal and a generational rock band was born

Three and a half decades ago, Eddie Vedder and his new bandmates got in a practice room to see what would happen and the rest is history

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"It's pretty amazing that rock lasted for seventy-five years": Todd Rundgren on the demise of rock, fighting hate and why listeners don't like albums

Why you should expect the expected and the unexpected at Todd Rundgren's upcoming shows

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"We’re fortunate that people now appreciate what we do. It hasn’t always been that way. Nothing polarises people quite like we do, for some reason”: The mindset behind Rush’s final album, Clockwork Angels

In 2012 Geddy Lee discussed their 20th studio title – their only end-to-end concept record – from the aspect of a band who’d come to terms with their youthful years and transformed into a pop-culture phenomenon

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"I wish I wrote it - I would’ve made a lot more cash!" The story of the English song that was minor hit in Europe before becoming an all-American classic

Written by Russ Ballard, it was a surprise solo hit for the Space Ace – and it's still paying off

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"I think her name is Anika": Geddy Lee was telling people about Rush's new drummer two years ago

Geddy Lee has also revealed how German drummer Anika Nilles became Rush's choice for their first live shows in more than a decade

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How to watch new Paramount documentary Ozzy: No Escape From Now - no matter where you are

Produced in collaboration with the Osbourne family, new feature-length film is said to take a “brave, unvarnished” look at the rock legend's life

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"Life is full of surprises!" Rush announce first live shows in eleven years, reveal new live drummer

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson will be joined on their first live dates for over a decade by former Jeff Beck drummer Anika Nilles

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"War On Drugs, suck my ****": Six classic indie diss tracks you never knew about

The genre is way behind pop and hip hop when it comes to diss tracks but here's six cuts that prove indie is not immune to a bit of sonic argy-bargy when the need arises

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: October 6, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from A Thousand Horses, Mirador, The Sheepdogs and more

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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds announce new European dates for next summer

In addition to a sold out UK show, the Aussie icon and his band will be heading on tour across Ireland and the Continent

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"Carl McCoy's voice sounds like that of a man who dug himself out of an unmarked grave": Fields Of The Nephilim take 80s goth to its logical extreme on The Nephilim

Fields Of The Nephilim's second album blends mysticism and the occult, referencing Aleister Crowley and HP Lovecraft

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“I strive to get away from the Genesis vibe. But it’s so deeply ingrained… I’ve been doing it longer than Peter Gabriel was in the band!” Nad Sylvan is more himself than ever on solo album Monumentata

Best known for his12 years with Steve Hackett, the US-born Swede explores his own life and times at last. And is that a Pink Floyd reference as sings about being frontman and sideman in someone else’s project?

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“There was one troll who slagged it off, but I think he was a fan from the Fish years!” Marillion’s Steve Rothery and Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning took six years to make Gentō, an album that sounds like neither of their bands

Their Bioscope debut arrived after the pair took advice from Steven Wilson, spent a week every winter exploring sounds and ideas, and borrowed Elbow’s drummer to fulfil their instrumental cinematic vision

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"Taylor Swift said that was the best song ever written": Goo Goo Dolls launch video of Taylor Swift duetting with frontman John Rzeznik

The footage was shot onstage at Madison Square Garden in New York

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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's inaugural Future Ruins film festival cancelled

The Nine Inch Nails duo only announced the Future Ruins film festival in May

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"I want to try your clothes on!" Toyah and Robert Fripp explore uncharted musical territory in new Sunday Lunch video

They're back! Again!

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“If you strip away the images you could put us beside King Crimson. The musicality and ambition would fit. But for us it’s 50 per cent about music, 50 per cent about hair”: Sparks’ commitment to silliness is very prog indeed

Ron Mael (the operatic one) and Russell Mael (the staring one) never discussed being different; but as LA brothers inspired by British prog and glam, they always were. They only rule they made was: “Shake up the universe”

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“Let me just put this record on and clear the room! Or play it to a girlfriend and then wonder why she threw herself out the window”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson on the cult prog rock mavericks who inspired him – but were too out-there to be successful

They played a gig at Bruce Dickinson’s school when he was 15 years old

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Kraftwerk announce their first UK and Ireland tour for eight years

Electronic music pioneers Kraftwerkwill play 15 dates across the Uk and Ireland in May and June

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“He thought: ‘I’m just going to do an over-the-top pop song’ – a heavy metal pop song”: The flop single that became a power-pop classic thanks to one of the greatest live albums of the 70s

It finally launched the career of one of rock’s greatest bands

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“It was a moment to reassess everything we were trying to do as a band”: the song that saved U2 when it looked like they were on a downward spiral

How one of the Irish rockers’ biggest hits got them back on track after a patchy period

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“There was a sense of humour. We were taken very seriously by the world at large, but there was always an edge of fun”: The grimness of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here may have been overstated

1975 album remains a fan favourite – and despite their struggle to make it, the band insist the spirit of love shines through the grief and anger amid the theme of absence and their feelings about Syd Barrett

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"Like a double bill of April Wine and Lynyrd Skynyrd": The Sheepdogs conjure up breezy classic rock vibes on Nobody But You single

Nobody But You is the first single from The Sheepdogs since the departure of founding drummer Sam Corbett

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Megadeth, Lamb Of God and Avatar are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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“Me and Taylor sat down, and she says, ‘I can’t sing that line’, cos it was a bit too risqué”: Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott on duetting with the teenage Taylor Swift on an 80s rock classic - and the raunchy lyric they had to change

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