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A new start
Mathieu posted this as a comment to Stathis’ review and we thought it deserves to be promoted to a separate post. I was able to hear NOW What?! before the press conference the two Ians gave in Paris two days ago. Let me share my thougts. The first thing that strikes me is I’m unable […]
Read more »Adrenaline Mob — Kill the King
Adrenaline Mob is a project of ex-Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy with Symphony X vocalist Russell Allen. Guitar player Mike Orlando and bassist John Moyer (Disturbed) round up the band. They have released an album of original material last year, followed this March by an EP of covers, with Rainbow’s Kill the King among them:
Read more »Discoverdale
Irish rock band / comedy troupe Dead Cat Bounce has put together a mocumentary project called Discoverdale, which is now doing rounds in the independent movie festival circuit. The lead singer of Irish comedy rock superstars, Dead Cat Bounce, is at a crossroads. His band is about to be history, and he has never known […]
Read more »Purple Night 2013
Perfect Strangers of Finland is celebrating their 15th anniversary by organizing a traditional Purple Night concert. Who Do We Think We Are will be the theme for this Purple Night, which is being held for the fifth year in a row now. What: Solid Faces (Pietarsaari): the band that toured with Doogie White in 2009. […]
Read more »Hell to Pay choir
Nimbus School of Recording Arts is a music production, audio engineering and recording facility in Vancouver, Canada, of which Bob Ezrin is one of the co-founders. In October 2012 students of the school got an opportunity to be on the new Deep Purple album: Bob Ezrin was recording with Deep Purple at his studio in […]
Read more »All The Time In The World is Classic Rock’s Track Of The Week
Well, it’s not really a chart success, but what exactly are sales charts in this day and age? The single from upcoming album Now what?! — All the Time in the World got to #1 place on Classic Rock Magazine’s Track Of The Week poll, which is voted by regular punters. Well done, boys! Thanks […]
Read more »Here come the Gillans
Back in 1990 Gillan toured in Georgia, then a part of the USSR. While in Tbilisi, Big Ian and his wife Bron kept up with their custom of renewing their vows in every country they visited. And let me tell you, back in the day Georgians had a reputation of the people who know how […]
Read more »Location, location
If you’re in Berlin and want to have your own ‘Abbey Road moment’, location of the very atmospheric ‘antique lamppost’ shot from the Now what?! promo shoot has been identified as the corner of Schlesische Straße and Skalitzer Straße. The shot in question appears to have been taken from the upper level of the Schlesisches […]
Read more »Hell to Pay
Edel/earMUSIC has made available a second preview clip from Now What?! — Hell to Pay. Well, sort of “available”. They really screwed the pooch on this one as the video is actually not available in many countries, including such major Purple markets as UK, Germany and Canada. Go try your luck, or if it doesn’t […]
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