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An owl hooting from the kumquat tree

Roger Glover is in a very interesting conversation with Michael Bradford. It is indeed more of a conversation rather than an interview, and Michael is a fabulous host. This was recorded some time towards the end of 2025, while work on Splat! was being finalized, but before the bout of touring in Tbilisi, Dubai, and […]

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For the love of the music

MetalTalk has an illustrated, but otherwise somewhat superficial review of the Deep Purple gig in Toronto on August 18, 2026. Closing out the night were none other than Deep Purple, and they hit the stage at full force, opening their set with Highway Star. The crowd excitedly sang along. It is hard to believe the […]

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Purple Storm

There’s a Deep Purple tribute album in the works. It is called Purple Storm, and is due out on November 13, 2026, via Cleopatra Records. The album will be available on CD, 2LP, and digital. Track listing: Highway Star — Derek Sherinian, Billy Sheehan, Chris Adler, Girish Pradhan, Gus G Smoke On The Water — […]

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Magnum opus of this millennium

Goldmine magazine reviews the latest Deep Purple album: When the album finally debuted, there was a noticeable surprise waiting inside the record for all to hear. SPLAT!, still with slight but noticeable progressive rock elements, it very much weighs heavier than their previous effort, =1, and in many ways mirrors a return to more rudimentary […]

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Still gotta come up with good music

Steve Morse demonstrates his signature DiMarzio pickups. Everything you need to know about electric guitar pickups, and then some.

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It only took 24 years

KNAC.com has an interesting review of the Deep Purple gig in Mansfield, Mass., on August 13, 2026. It is written by a gentleman who is self-admittedly a casual fan, and furthermore, had walked out of the band’s performances twice before: in 2002 and 2017. As I sat in the pit waiting for DEEP PURPLE to […]

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Patience that no ticket buyer would ever see

1883 Magazine has a promo piece on a book called Once A King, Now A Prince by one Ira Blacker. It is a memoir of a talent agent, who at some point in time was representing Deep Purple, among others. The public image of rock and roll was built from photographs: singers under spotlights, guitarists […]

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Still smoking

BraveWords has a review of the Deep Purple gig in Montreal on August 17, 2026: Monday night on August 17, Place Bell in Laval hosted a triple bill of classic-rock royalty as Deep Purple brought their Splat! tour to town behind their new album of the same name: their 24th studio record and one they’ve […]

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He’s good, just taking it easy

Doug Aldrich spoke to BraveWords in an in-depth interview that clears up a lot of confusion about what is going on with the Dead Daisies and Glenn Hughes (TL;DR summary: Corabi wasn’t fired, the reunion with Glenn was supposed to be a one-off that turned to a two-off, and back to one-off). That’s one of […]

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The city got loud with them

Live in Limbo reviews the Deep Purple gig in Toronto on August 18, 2026: There is a particular kind of hush that falls over a crowd just before the house lights drop, not silence but a collective held breath of anticipation. That was the mood at RBC Amphitheatre last night where Deep Purple proved that […]

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The super-cool, nice guy Ritchie

Guitar World has a short interview with Simon McBride on what the Blackmore’s guest appearance at the Deep Purple gig in Jones Beach looked like from his perspective: I got to stand on stage beside the guy who started this whole thing. Ritchie is a legend, a great player, and a great innovator. I think […]

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Deep Purple at the Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa August 19th 2026

A pleasant surprise when I arrived at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada for the Deep Purple show last night. As my assigned seat had been swallowed up by the sound board, I was upgraded to row 7 near the front of the stage. After some fine performances by Jefferson Starship and Kansas, […]

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RBC Amphitheatre – Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Deep Purple Concert Review RBC Amphitheatre – Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 18, 2026 Could they do it again, and do it even better than the last time I saw them two years ago in 2024? Could they pull off absolute magic again? This was the question on my mind tonight as I geared up to […]

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This wasn’t simply another guest appearance

Long Island Sounds empathically reviews the gig on August 12, 2026, at the Jones Beach Theater: There are some concerts you attend. There are others you experience. Deep Purple at Northwell at Jones Beach Theater was very much the latter. At 80 years old, vocalist Ian Gillan is no longer the singer who effortlessly unleashed […]

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Good night had by all

Guitar Player posts Blackmore’s reaction, both given directly to the publication, and collected from social media, in the aftermath of his guest appearance on stage with Deep Purple at the Jones Beach in Long Island on August 12, 2026. It was very moving because I went on very quickly and had to play immediately. I […]

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Rocktogenarians never give up

Here is something a bit different for THS. It’s an article by an actual journalist! Marcelo Soares is a Brazilian journalist and a huge fan of Deep Purple. Some of you probably know him from the comments here at THS and in various forums online. This article was written for a Brazilian magazine so some […]

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It all started with the Punic wars

Classic Rock has a long feature on Deep Purple, the latest album Splat!, and complete with an off-the-beaten-path interview with all five gentlemen. There’s the snatch of a moment tacked on at the close of Diablo, the rolling and tumbling second track on Deep Purple’s new studio album Splat!, that’s as good a summation as […]

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New guests as the tour moves on

The tour moves on through the US and in Mansfield on August 13, the band got some help from two members from support band Jefferson Starship.

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History is Made at Rare Show in Wantagh, NY

Deep Purple live at Jones Beach Theater (Wantagh, USA 2026-08-12) Blackmore Joins Purple for Epic Encore at Jones Beach Theater Reviewed by The Highway Star Reader “Albania” When my younger son greeted me in the morning by asking if I knew where we kept the several sets of glasses that are needed to watch solar […]

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And it finally happened

Just as anticipated, on August 12, 2026, Ritchie Blackmore joined Deep Purple on stage at the Jones Beach Theater for a guest performance of Smoke. As an engineering wisdom goes, with sufficient thrust pigs fly just fine. Here is the evidence.

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