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It’s official: the upcoming Deep Purple tour of Australia has been cancelled. It is with great disappointment that Deep Purple will not be performing at the Pandemonium Festival shows (or Newcastle side-show) in Australia this month. Deep Purple never wants to disappoint, and so this is a difficult piece of news for us to share […]
Read more »Another single — Red Sun — from the upcoming Black Country Communion album V has been posted for your listening pleasure.
Read more »Publicity blitz on the occasion of Machine Head remix continues with Roger Glover’s interview to Rolling Stone India. What’s coming up for Deep Purple in 2024? Well, a lot of people want to know, ‘When are you going to end? When are you going to finish?’ I know some bands do this, they say, ‘Right, […]
Read more »Meanwhile in the castle… US tour dates have appeared for Blackmore’s Night without much fanfare. The band of minstrels will play neighbouring states over the three weekends in late June and early July 2024. Tickets are already on sale, full details in our calendar.
Read more »Australian tour dates for Glenn Hughes have been announced for October 2024. These are billed as the 50th anniversary of Burn, so expect the purple set. Ticket presales start on April 5th at 10:00 AM local time via Hardline Media. Further details available in our calendar. In other Glenn news, he posted a brief update […]
Read more »Steve Morse spoke to Indie Power TV promoting the upcoming Dixie Dregs / Steve Morse Band tour, and speaking about the prospects of new music from Dixie Dregs.
Read more »Machine Head remix has certainly brought a wave of publicity to the band. We have collected them here instead of a multitude of individual posts. Roger Glover spoke to the Polish radio station Eska Rock: The Telegraph has a feature on the album based upon interviews with Gillan and Paice (caveat: it may or may […]
Read more »Well, the 2024 remix of Machine Head is upon us, and Louder Sound has a brief overview. The print edition of the Classic Rock magazine has announced issue 326, out on March 28, 2024, with the very Purple cover story. In issue 326’s cover feature, band members and other stars talk about their favourite Deep […]
Read more »Louder Sound has republished a contemporary feature on the first Flying Colors album, released in 2012. It originally appeared in the Prog magazine from the Classic Rock stable, and was based on the input from all five members of the band. What’s gone almost unknown until now is that Kerry Livgren almost became a member […]
Read more »Ian Gillan spoke to the Australian podcast Long Way to the Top. The new Deep Purple album was discussed, among other things, and Ian mentioned that it will be coming out in July.
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