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The Dead Daisies have announced their 2021 headlining tour of Europe. It is billed as Get Out Of The House Tour and scheduled for February/March next year. Many of the dates are the ones that have been moved from summer 2020 (the club dates, where Daisies were supposed to be headlining). Some more dates have […]
Read more »David Coverdale has just tweeted the sad news: It is with a very heavy heart I’ve just had verified my very dear friend & producer Martin Birch has passed away…Martin was a huge part of my life…helping me from the first time we met through until Slide It In…Mt thoughts & prayers to his family, […]
Read more »Roger Glover spoke to the Den of Geek, which resulted in a rather interesting album overview and interview about band democracy, extinctions, the evils of producing Barbie Benton, the virtues of singing in the rain, and many other things. Whoosh! is a timeless timepiece. It doesn’t carry the quantized perfection of 2020 music. The songs […]
Read more »Here’s another of Roger Glover’s interviews with classic rock radio stations, and this time it’s actually quite interesting. Roger gives status update on his memoir, talks about jamming in the pandemic, his domestic habits, shoving something up somebody’s arse, icing on the cake, and of course, the new album.
Read more »There’s much to like about the new record from Deep Purple: their familiar brand of mid-tempo rock; prominent keyboards throughout, flurries of guitar scattered here and there, a solid under-pinning of bass and drums, all hallmarks of Bob Ezrin’s competent production. The lyrics are typical of latter-era DP, a mixture of social commentary and sly […]
Read more »Ian & Ian talk about why the new album wasn’t recorded in Timbuktu.
Read more »Alteria of Strange Kind of Women fame interviewed Ian Paice for Virgin Radio Italy. Among many other things, they talk about how the album, which was finished a full year ago, seems to be foreseeing the pandemic that hit us now, Paicey’s formative teenage years, touring prospects for the next year, how the technology is […]
Read more »This article is being continuously updated with the new information. The first chart positions are in and the new Deep Purple album Whoosh! has entered the daily iTunes charts on the day if its release, August 7, in several countries: Germany, France, and Brazil at #1, Italy #2, UK #3, Spain #4, Australia #8, Canada […]
Read more »A few select reviews of Whoosh from the press we haven’t covered before. And if the album seemingly has split the fanbase down the middle, critics’ reaction has been pretty much overwhelmingly positive. Associated Press (and being AP, it’s been reprinted all over the place; no score given): Any ensemble still willing and able to […]
Read more »Don Airey is doing his part in promoting Whoosh. Here he is talking to the Italian Linea Rock (who have a history of producing interesting interviews). Enjoy!
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