The tour hasn’t even happened yet, but if 2025 is remembered for one thing, it most likely will be Rush announcing they were going back out on the road, with German drummer Anika Nilles, for their R50 shows.

With solo projects, other bands and a massive Creed reunion between them, there were whispers that Alter Bridge might be on the way out. Instead they regrouped, faced the dark side of our times, put their foot on the gas and recorded a brilliant new album.

NO SOONER HAD Oasis begun their Live ’25 reunion tour on July 4 when chatter started about a mystery guitar Noel Gallagher was wielding — a pretty cool-looking black Les Paul. Was it the fabled LP Cus

40 years on from his passing, Scott Gorham, Eric Bell, Mark Stanway, Laurence Archer and more talk about the bandmate and friend – the real Phil – that they knew.

A key figure in 70s pub rock is back with more songs “about politics or idiots with fingers on buttons”.

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