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Triangulating without Petrucci

Steve Morse Band (or, rather, their label) has posted another video to promote the new album Triangulation. It is for the title track, featuring John Petrucci (who is not in the video).

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Jack the riffer

Candice Night was a guest on the Rock of Nations podcast. It was announced some time ago as a Ritchie Blackmore interview. In reality, it was Candice who sat down first, talking about many things, their children among them — they are very musical, with Autumn singing opera and playing some guitar, and Rory playing […]

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Fare Thee Well

David Coverdale embraces his natural hair colour and announces his retirement. No more, no less.

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Rather get screwed by you

Wendy Dio was a guest on The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan podcast (and Billy is a huge fan of Deep Purple, Rainbow, and Dio himself). Here is their long and interesting conversation. In this powerful and emotional conversation, Wendy Dio joins Billy Corgan to share the brilliance of her late husband, Ronnie James Dio […]

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By popular demand

Blackmore’s Night show in Alexandria, Virginia, on November 9, 2025, morphed into an impromptu “request hour” shortly after it started.

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Ride off into the sunset

An online magazine called eonmusic has an interview with Steve Morse. It was done, like many others these days, on the occasion of Steve’s new solo album Triangulation, but unlike those, it does not shy away from his 28 years with Deep Purple. I wanted to touch on a little bit of your Deep Purple […]

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Very, very brief time

Peter Goalby tells the story of how he was the singer in Rainbow. For all of about five minutes.

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Basically, a groupie

Candice Night talks to INDIEPOWER_TV from the (now familiar) her living room about meeting Ritchie Blackmore, becoming a lyric writer for Rainbow, importance of the creative freedom, having a cancer surgery while on tour with Rainbow, and many other things. Some of these we have already heard, others are new.

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Sound as a pound

Ritchie Blackmore gave one of his rare interviews to the Rock of Nations podcast. The excerpt of the conversation has been published, with the full interview said to be “out soon”. Hint: you may want to turn down the volume for the extremely loud intro.

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The colour of feel

An Austrian label, appropriately called Reissued Sounds, have released three Glenn Hughes’ albums on a variety of coloured vinyl. Addiction and Feel have already seen a vinyl treatment before, albeit not of the splatteringly garish variety, while Live in Australia appears in this format for the first time. Interested parties can find more information and […]

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