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Flying Colors have been nominated for the 2015 Progressive Music Awards in the Band of the Year category, as well as their Second Nature album for the Album of the Year. To celebrate this, they have released a live-in-the-studio music video for Fury of My Love: The band is also running a contest through their […]
Read more »Steve Morse will guest on the WVOX Metal Mayhem radio show this Friday, July 17, at 9:30pm EDT. WVOX is a New York City area community radio station that broadcasts locally at 1460 kHz AM and worldwide through their website.
Read more »British tabloid Daily Mail reports that Blackmore is suing HEC Enterprises and Deep Purple (Overseas) for £750,000 in royalties owed to him. Now, bear in mind that the article starts with the claim that he helped to write a song called Black Knight and left the band 40 years ago, so all the usual caveats […]
Read more »Blackmore’s Night will release their new album — All Our Yesterdays — this Fall via Frontiers Records. It will come in a variety of formats: standalone CD digital download CD/DVD Deluxe edition: includes full album on CD, and a DVD with music videos for the title track and Will O’ The Wisp, plus an extensive […]
Read more »Roger Glover’s production work will be honoured during Soundedit’15 — the 7th International Festival of Music Producers and Sound Designers, to be held in Łódź, Poland, this October. He will receive The Man with a Golden Ear award for “entirety of achievements in a domain of music production”. He will share the honours with Sir […]
Read more »German website meinAnzeiger.de has an interview with Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night that concentrates on the fact that they are actually touring over there and have a new album coming out: How can people imagine a day in the studio with Ritchie and Candice? Who is the boss? Ritchie Blackmore – We don’t have a […]
Read more »In anticipation of the Blackmore’s Night visit to Paris Olympia, French newspaper Le Parisien has published an extensive interview with Ritchie and Candice. Bear in mind that everything Ritchie says in an interview has to be taken with a generous pinch of salt. And twice so when it comes from a reverse translation. That being […]
Read more »Our Purple calendar has been updated. A whole bunch of new Whitesnake dates in Connecticut, Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri had been added to this summer US tour. Glenn Hughes has announced a 10-gig UK tour in October. And last, but not least, Ian Paice will make an appearance at a festival in Italy […]
Read more »Two live releases from the Now What! tour has been announced by earMUSIC. In the press release, Roger Glover writes about the albums: One band, two crowds, two countries – a tale of two cities indeed. From Germany’s Wacken Open Air Festival, one of the biggest metal festivals in the world – and a city […]
Read more »Edel will be re-releasing Rapture of the Deep, Now What?! and Live Tapes as a 3CD box set on June 26. This box contains no new material, so perhaps the only redeeming feature is price: under 19 Euros. Yep, you’ll be able to pick up 3 albums on the cheap if you happen to have […]
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