Tag Archives: Deep Purple

Long Beach, California’s RIVAL SONS have released a 2-Disc Tour Edition of their latest album, ‘Great Western Valkyrie’, in celebration of the band’s upcoming tours with rock legends DEEP PURPLE and BLACK SABBATH. Originally released in 2014, ‘Great Western Valkyrie’ stormed into charts around the world and was rated the …

Long Beach, California’s RIVAL SONS have announced a 2-disc tour edition of their critically-acclaimed 2014 album, ‘Great Western Valkyrie’. The band will be celebrating their upcoming European tour supporting rock legends DEEP PURPLE with a special version of ‘Great Western Valkyrie’, which stormed into charts around the world upon its …

Over the last couple of years, earMUSIC have released several live albums from Deep Purple – “Paris 1975”, “Copenhagen 1972”, “Stockholm 1970” and “Graz 1975”.  Now the band’s show at Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California, on July 30, 1971 is being released.  The concert features the Mk II …

This was a special one-off concert, that was filmed and recorded on 11th July 2014 at the ‘Bang Your Head’ festival in Balingen, Germany to celebrate German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell’s 25 years as a solo artist in the music business. You can get this as a Digipak 3 CD, …

Last year the legendary Wacken festival in Germany welcomed 75,000 fans to watch over 120 bands spread over seven stages.  Unlike 2012, 2013 was notable for the beautiful hot sunshine that lasted almost all weekend with just a couple of short downpours.  If you haven’t been then it’s certainly a …

>The morning after the night before, and there were some very hungover faces walking through the campsite and the odd couple who looked like they hadn’t gone to bed yet. They probably hadn’t either. Still, Day 2 of Hellfest was upon us, the sun was shining again and there were …

I arrived slightly late today as our coach had a oil problem then we hit a few traffic jams as we headed back to the festival so I went straight in to my first interview with the lovely Julien from Mars Red Sky. Click here to hear the interview. I …

The music business is a bit like politics, in that it is incestuous and often works on the basis of “it’s who you know not…” etc.  Take the example of Weathermaker Music, for example:  until now, every release issued by the label has had a direct link to Clutch (the …

I recently had the pleasure of speaking to Glenn Hughes, a man whose career spans several decades and includes Trapeze, Deep Purple, Hughes-Thrall, Black Country Communion.  We spoke about his new band, California Breed whose debut album comes out on May 19th.   Your latest project is called California Breed.  …

This sophomore album from Norwegian quintet Fatal Fusion – their first for the boutique Karisma Records label – draws heavily on the prog influences of the early 1970s, unashamedly referencing the likes of Peter Gabriel-era Genesis, pre-‘Dark Side…’ Floyd, Camel, Colosseum, Focus and Van der Graaf Generator, as well as …

Tonight started with the support act – Rockbox.  My first reaction was certainly one of surprise as the first member of the band came out with a large Sousaphone, and was closely followed by a singer with a megaphone, a guitarist and two drummers carrying their drums.  Apart from the …

Photos of Deep Purple at the NIA in Birmingham

Photos of Rockbox supporting Deep Purple at the NIA in Birmingham.

Channeling the testosterone fuelled, bluesy grooves of Motörhead, with a pinch of James Hetfield vocal snarl and a Guns N’ Roses swagger, Badmotorfinger have impressed greatly with their debut album, It’s Not The End. Founded and built around two brothers, the Italian quintet started out life as a covers band …

The night kicked off with the support band – Revellion, or rather a pair of musicians from the band.  They introduced themselves as wynndebagge (Bagpipes and more) & skynntite (drums and more).  They played various medieval instruments, but were as much of a stand-up comedy routine as they were musicians, …

This fifth studio album from Polish progressive rockers Riverside – their first since 2009’s ‘Anno Domini High Definition’, which charted at number one in their native Poland – is an interesting beast, drawing as it does on a myriad of influences, from underground central European jazz through English folk music …

An exceptional night of superstars packed into the Royal Albert Hall

Sunday night saw a large gathering at the historic Royal Albert Hall for Superjam, presented by The Sunflower Jam (http://www.thesunflowerjam.com/) and what a night this would turn out to be!  Not only for the immensity of the line-up but also for the very cause we were all there to support; …

The latest update regarding 6th Sunflower Jam. It gives us great pleasure to announce that Alice Cooper will be joining the line up of super musicians at the 6th Sunflower Jam, Rock & Roll Music Event on Sunday 16th September 2012 at the Royal Albert Hall, London.  The evening, hosted …

The 24th Wacken Open Air takes place on the 1st to 3rd August 2013.