25 h. ago Rock band SpaceAcre to support Skunk Anansie at The Great Escape festival

Unsigned indie-rock duo are preparing to head out on their first UK headline tour

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47 h. ago Wife of Mike Peters of The Alarm says 'my heart is forever broken' as she shares his 'dying wishes'

The frontman of Welsh rock band, 'The Alarm', sadly died on April 25 after a 30-year battle with cancer and tributes have been pouring in

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3 d. ago Mike Peters dead aged 66: Frontman of Welsh band The Alarm who performed with Bob Dylan and U2 dies after blood cancer battle

Mike Peters, frontman of Welsh rock band The Alarm, has died from blood cancer aged 66, a spokesman for the charity he co-founded has announced.

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3 d. ago Man makes appearance as drummer in punk band and jaws drop as people realise who it is

A man turned up to play drums at a gig for a punk rock band - and it turns out even the group's die hard fans were gobsmacked after realising it was an A-list celebrity

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8 d. ago Men of a Certain Age by Kate Mossman review – close encounters with charismatic male rockers

A journalist’s bracingly honest account of interviews with musicians from Brian May to Shaun RyderWhen the journalist Kate Mossman was a child, she developed an obsession with the rock band Queen. Mossman came of age in the 1990s, but the irony and snark of that decade left her cold. Instead, she lived for the “middle-aged musicians from the 80s in jacket and jeans, and for the open-hearted, non-cynical pop times that had come before”. Watching Queen’s posthumous single These Are the Days of Our Lives on Top of the Pops in 1991, she “felt something within myself ignite”. Though she was captivated by the strange longing of a monochrome Freddie Mercury, who had died weeks earlier, it was drummer Roger Taylor who became the focus of her obsession. On the mantelpiece of her childhood home sat a holy relic: a beer glass he had drunk from during a solo gig. Twenty years later, while on her way to interview Taylor and Queen guitarist Brian May for a magazine profile, Mossman confesses...

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1 week ago Nineties anthem from iconic rock band is crowned the best British song of all time

Live Forever by Oasis has topped a new poll of the best British song of all time.

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2 w. ago Rock legends The Who sack drummer Zak Starkey after question marks over Royal Albert Hall bust

The legendary rock band made the decision to part company with him after their two shows at the Royal Albert Hall in March, where they performed their iconic hits

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2 w. ago Rock icons The Who axe drummer Zak Starkey after 29 years in brutal band shake

The Who's Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend have reportedly sacked long-time drummer Zak Starkey who has played in the band since 1996 after the rock icons are said to have wanted a change in their music.

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2 w. ago Iconic rock band will only return to Glastonbury Festival in 'life or death' situation

It comes after the band announced a six-date UK tour including one night at Manchester Co-Op Live

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2 w. ago Judas Priest star Les Binks dies aged 73 as band pays tribute to 'first

Rock legend Les Binks, who was the drummer in metal band Judas Priest, has died at the age of 73, with the band celebrating his "first class" drumming in a tribute online

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2 w. ago Sting praises Adolescence choir for creating ‘beautiful’ cover of Fragile

The 73-year old former frontman of the rock band, The Police, shared the post on Monday with a video from the hit Netflix drama.

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2 w. ago ‘The Citizen Kane of rock movies’: glam rockers Slade and their bid for cinema greatness

Fifty years ago, the Black Country legends made Slade in Flame, about a band screwed by the music business. It tanked and almost finished them. Now, as it’s re-released, the film is being seen as a prescient gemDaryl Easlea was eight years old when he got the 4A bus with his mate Graham down to the Odeon in Southend-on-Sea to see his favourite rock band make the leap from vinyl to celluloid. After 12 consecutive top 10 singles – including six No 1s – Slade had finally made their first movie, Slade in Flame. It has just turned 50.What young Easlea saw in 1975 was not the fun-packed adventures of a happy-go-lucky glam rock foursome, but a dour, downbeat film about being chewed up and spat out by the music industry. Easlea, who would grow up to be Slade’s biographer, didn’t care. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Maverick who scored vs Man City headbutted teammates, smoked after games and formed rock band

Dani Osvaldo was compared to Johnny Depp for his looks and lifestyle, but the former Southampton and Roma striker's off-field antics were even more wild than the Pirates of the Caribbean

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2 w. ago Wild Premier League striker headbutted teammates, smoked after games and quit for rock band

Dani Osvaldo, who has been likened to Johnny Depp, was a talented striker who played for the likes of Roma and Southampton but his career was overshadowed by his off-field antics

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2 w. ago TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe: ‘I remember thinking I never want to do this again’

TV on the Radio’s frontman hit rock bottom at the height of the band’s powers and stopped performing music for good. But with his acting career taking off and a genre-jumping new solo album, one of rock’s great polymaths is backSitting in the belly of north London’s Islington Assembly Hall in the middle of four sold-out nights, TV on the Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe is recalling the precise moment he wanted to quit his band – and music – for ever. It was 2019 and the group, an art-rock four-piece who haven’t made a record that wasn’t adored by critics since emerging from Brooklyn in the early 00s, were opening for Weezer and Pixies at Madison Square Garden in New York.Over the years, they’ve made five studio albums and also lost bass player Gerard Smith, who died suddenly in 2011. They’ve grieved and grown together. Adebimpe is their talisman. A tall, expressive focal point, able to rabble-rouse with songs such as Wolf Like Me, or calm the congregation with low-slung trac...

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3 w. ago Skunk Anansie drummer Mark Richardson shares cancer diagnosis: ‘Please get checked out’

Rock musician urged his followers to take up ‘easy’ checks to see whether they were at risk

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3 w. ago Iconic rock band bassist’s wife shot by police and arrested for attempted murder

Jillian Shriner, wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, has been arrested for attempted murder after she allegedly raised her handgun to police after an alleged hit and run incident

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3 w. ago Skunk Anansie’s Skin announced as keynote speaker at The Great Escape 2025

Exclusive keynote conversation will take place in Brighton this May

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3 w. ago How Blondie drummer Clem Burke stopped taking drugs and drinking in his rock band heyday as he 'detested what substance abuse did to people'

The sad news of Blondie drummer Clem Burke's death at the age of 70 was revealed on Monday - following his 'private battle with cancer'.

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3 w. ago Blondie star dead aged 70 after private battle with cancer as band pay tribute

The rock band shared a tribute on Facebook on Monday which read: 'It is with profound sadness that we relay news of the passing of our beloved friend and bandmate Clem Burke.'

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