Steve Morse took part in a jam that happened in Annapolis, MD, on May 31, 2025. The occasion was the release of a novel Punk Force by Steve’s friend Ward Carroll. Ward is a retired navy F-14 Tomcat pilot, an author of books about life in an F-14 squadron (Punk series), a military commentator, and […]

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CBC profiles Bob Ezrin with a lengthy interview, published on the occasion of him receiving a Governor General’s Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award today, June 14, 2025. Music-wise, the interview focuses on just the two “genre-defining” albums from his vast portfolio — Pink Floyd The Wall and Kiss Destroyer. He also mentions that he just got […]

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A pretty comprehensive documentary on the life of Cozy Powell, who weaved in and out of the Purple family much of his career, and had played with… Perhaps it would be easier to list whom he hadn’t played with. It is lovingly put together from archival footage, contemporary and posthumous interviews with the people who […]

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There was quite a bit of talk on these pages recently about the production of Rapture of the Deep, and the role of Michael Bradford in particular. Here is an extended interview with him from a couple of years ago, where he talks about working with Deep Purple, among many other things. The interview doesn’t […]

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An acclaimed pioneer of psychedelia, funk, soul, and racial integration in music, Sly Stone (real name Sylvester Stewart) of the Sly and the Family Stone fame has passed away at the age of 82. Louder Sound quotes Glenn Hughes in their obituary: The big turning point for me was when I first went over to […]

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Black Country Communion is on tour in Europe, and on June 7, 2025, they have performed at the Sweden Rock Festival, and Glenn Hughes was interviewed backstage by the Sweden Rock TV podcast.

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A bit of family history here. Cozy Powell’s interview from 1979, where he talks about Rainbow, their new album, and the arrival of Bonnet and Glover into the band. Interesting to note, that neither Cozy nor the interviewer have any qualms describing the music he’s playing (and yeas, that includes Down to Earth) as heavy […]

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In a recent interview the ex-Queensrÿche frontman Geoff Tate told this mildly amusing anecdote how he witnessed David Coverdale’s contribution to the Spinal Tap lore: Well, my ‘Spinal Tap’ moment would be the scene in the movie where — I can’t remember the characters’ names, but the guy’s complaining about backstage in his dressing room […]

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[Updated June 9] Edel is preparing to release a remixed version of Rapture of the Deep for the 20th anniversary of the album. The new mix was done under Roger Glover’s supervision, and mastered at Hamburg’s renowned Chameleon Studios.

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Another week, another classic Gillan video. Trouble from Rock Goes To College, February 23, 1981.

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Smoke on the Water was featured and dissected on the recent episode of BBC Radio 4 show Add to playlist that was on the air on May 30, 2025. The premise of the show is to introduce several pieces of music and find links between them. Composer Gavin Higgins and soprano Claire Booth take us […]

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There’s a new book on Deep Purple being published, and this time it is a scholarly tome in the Studies in Popular Music series, published by Equinox Publishing. It is called after the last classic Mark II album Who Do We Think They Are? and was edited by Dr. Andy R. Brown (which implies that […]

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Glenn Hughes’ new album Chosen is set for release on September 5, 2025, via Frontiers Records. Songwriting is deeply personal to me, and I generally write and record when I have something to say. It’s been nine years since I recorded my last solo album, “Resonate”. While there have been recordings and collaborations with other […]

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BraveWords have published the second part of their interview with Glenn Hughes. For whatever reason, there’s considerable overlap of content with the first part, so if you get a sense of déjà vu reading it, you’re not alone. BraveWords: Okay. So picture you applying for a new job, just fictitiously, and you have a resume. […]

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Guitar Player magazine publishes an online tutorial from Steve Morse My 5 go-to ideas for playing and writing. In this exclusive video lesson, Steve showcases five conceptual and technical approaches that he employs when improvising or arranging guitar parts. These include melodic arpeggios, 16th-note patterns, sextuplet-based picking, melody with ostinato bass and rhythmic variations. To […]

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German site metal1.info has a new interview with Glenn Hughes. He talks about various aspects of his career — joining Purple, working with Iommi, frustration with the scarce touring schedule of Black Country Communion, etc. Here’s his take on leaving Dead Daisies: Let’s move on. Dead Daisies. You left the band in 2023 after having […]

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We’ve reported last month that Glenn Hughes contributed vocals for the new track I Wanna Play My Guitar by the new band started by Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, appropriately called the SatchVai Band. Well, it has occurred to someone that both Black Country Communion and the SatchVai Band are booked to play at the […]

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The members of the latter days Whitesnake Joel Hoekstra, Marco Mendoza, Tommy Aldridge, Michele Luppi, and Dino Jelusić will perform under the Whitesnake Experience moniker at the 58th Zaječar Guitar Festival in Serbia. The festival runs August 28-30, 2025, and the band will be performing on the 29th. And yes, they apparently have Coverdale’s blessing […]

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Don Airey was interviewed by the Classic Rock magazine about his latest solo album Pushed to the Edge. Where did you record it? There’s a studio outside Cambridge in a place called Harston. It’s run by the son of a very old friend of mine. It’s got a big old analogue desk and he’s a […]

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John McCoy was interviewed by the Rock Daydream Nation podcast. It is supposed to be a long form chat, of which an excerpt has been posted. Here John speaks about the demise of Gillan band and the bitterness that it left behind.

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