Deep Purple announce one-off show at London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall Deep Purple are to return to the scene of their Concerto For Group And Orchestra live album
“We have no use for a standalone singer who doesn’t play an instrument, preening themselves like a rock god”: Atomic Rooster guitarist Steve Bolton on reviving the band, changing frontmen, and John Entwistle’s phallic number plate On the back of their first album in 42 years, Atomic Rooster are about to hit the road
“The school would kick everybody out with hair that touched their ears. Someone on the board found out we were wearing short-haired wigs!” Steve Morse endured educational woes, dodgy gear and jazz snobbery, but knew he could make it as a guitarist The ex Deep Purple member recalls how he got started in music, and beginning to write Kansas-style songs – long before he accidentally joined them
“The aspects of America that are really magical to us are the things it seems to reject, like black music or the Beat poets”: The story of the multi-version David Bowie song that captured his revulsion of American corporate dominance With input from Trent Reznor and Ice Cube, I'm Afraid Of Americans was rescued from Showgirls ignominy and given a prescient, unnerving video
“Once you’re comfortable in this space, don’t overthink it, just enjoy it.” A new recording studio at a historic English school has been named after Justin Hawkins The Darkness frontman attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of The Justin Hawkins Recording Studio
NYC Synthpop Duo The Mystic Underground Release New Album “So Close, So Far” At this point in the collapsing American experiment, everything feels overheated and under-explained. Politics has become grotesque and cruel performance art; outrage loops endlessly while...