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Perfect Strangers of Finland will be hosting a Whoosh pre-release listening party tomorrow, August 4, 2020, at The Riff in Helsinki. The album will be played twice in its entirety, first round starting at 18:00 local time. Caveat: the actual listening is still contingent on the mailman delivering the album in time 😉 What: Whoosh […]
Read more »Several Whoosh reviews from around the web, and they are all very, very positive. Get Ready to Rock: There’s no dip in quality; in fact just when you think there should be, track 9, three belters appears. Storming. The band do not sound like they are going to quit any time soon. Only actual physical […]
Read more »Gotta Hear ’em All blog has a rather technical review of Nothing at All from the new album Whoosh. If you enjoy reading about E – D# – C# – B progressions and dominant tonic motions, you’ll enjoy this. It goes something like this: The key of the piece is predominantly E Major, with a […]
Read more »Italian webzine Truemetal has a lengthy interview with Roger Glover, which was done by an obvious fan. That makes it twice as interesting for us as the usual fare from the mainstream press (even the musical mainstream press). This album is the band’s twenty-first over more than 50 years of career. I guess this is […]
Read more »Paicey is unboxing the Whoosh box set. The album is due for release on August 7, finally!
Read more »Graham Bonnet spoke to the Antihero Magazine, promoting a new Alcatrazz album — their first studio offering since 1986. The conversation also ventured into the Rainbow theme. ANTIHERO: I read quite some time ago that you said hard rock music wasn’t something that came naturally to you as a vocalist. Graham Bonnet: Yeah. ANTIHERO: Here […]
Read more »Roger Glover is doing publicity blitz for the new album, and was a guest on Detroit radio WRIF yesterday, July 27, talking to a slightly clueless, but typically enthusiastic classic rock radio DJ.
Read more »The Dead Daisies digital EP, called The Lockdown Sessions, will be released on July 17 via German label SPV. The Lockdown Sessions contains four acoustic tracks recorded during the global pandemic lockdown: Unspoken Righteous Days 30 Days In The Hole (Humble Pie cover) Fortunate Son (Deen Castronovo on lead vocals) The first three tracks in […]
Read more »Radio Caroline, which started as a pirate radio broadcasting from the international waters in the North Sea back in 1964, and these days is streaming worldwide over the internet, has added the latest Deep Purple single Nothing at all to their playlist. The station has also been recently spotted streaming Ghost Story by the “tremendous” […]
Read more »Cherry Red Records in the UK will be releasing the third installment of Glenn Hughes’ Official Bootleg Box Set on July 31, 2020. It will contain 6 disks. CDs 1 & 2: Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton, November 17, 1995; CD3: Astoria 2, London, November 18, 1995; CD4: Esquires, Bedford, May 3, 2008; CDs 5 & 6: […]
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