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Update (Mar 26): it appears that the recording has been removed from the radio station’s website. Argentinian radio station Vorterix has broadcasted a 13 minute preview of Now what?! with a lot more music than what we have been exposed before. You have to mentally tune out the DJs babbling all over the music, but […]
Read more »Jens Johansson and Timo Kotipelto of Finnish/Swedish metal band Stratovarius provide us with the first (to our knowledge) public review of Now what?! Que lots of Nordic restraint.
Read more »American cable channel VH1 Classic will feature Deep Purple in one of the upcoming episodes of the Behind The Music Remastered shows. The episode is scheduled for broadcast on April 27th at 9 PM ET/PT. The blurb: Deep Purple were true rock n’ roll: outrageous, bold, daring. Despite their limited success with the American mainstream, […]
Read more »Now what?! promotional campaign is upon us and Big Ian spoke to Noisecreep. He talked about Bob Ezrin, garage bands, Cliff Bennett, Rock’n’Roll HoF, congregational euphoria, and his most memorable show. Bob Ezrin, huh? Not too shabby. Between you and me [laughs], because this is just like us sitting in a bar or something, the […]
Read more »The track list for Now what?! has been released: A Simple Song Weirdistan Out Of Hand Hell To Pay Body Line Above And Beyond Blood From A Stone Uncommon Man Après Vous All The Time In The World Vincent Price The above track list will be featured on regular CD. Additional editions include: Limited edition […]
Read more »For all those who have missed the song on the radio, Deep Purple’s record labe has posted All The Time in The World. Bear in mind that this is the radio edit, i.e. version of the song intentionally made to sound as much commercial as possible by shortening the solos, instrumental breaks, and/or altering the mix.
In case you can’t wait until Monday, audio snippets of the new Deep Purple single have been posted of a French site qobuz.com (click on ‘ecouter’ to listen). Thanks to Martin and everybody else who reported this.
Read more »We who know the band in and out can discuss whether the band is better or worse since the last time we saw them. We can also complain that regular people only want to hear SOTW. From time to time we also complain about clueless reviewers. Well, here’s a guy, a reviewer even, who says […]
Read more »Update (Mar 10): the band’s PR people tweeted this update about radio play of the new single elsewhere: Listen out for “All the time in the world” hits radio Monday BBC2 at 7pm uk time and Virgin Radio (rocket song, every 2 hrs for a week) Deep-Purple.ru reports that Moscow radio Rock FM will be […]
Read more »When Abandon was released, the American record company at the time, CMC International, had some idea of radio promotion for the disc. A couple of singles were released and they also produced a bunch of interview clips. The interviews were made like short sound bites you could edit together with appropriate questions from your own […]
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