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Classic Rock turns to crime

Classic Rock magazine has another Deep Purple cover on issue #295 dated December 2021. The magazine also includes an exclusive 4-track CD containing 7 and 7 is from the upcoming Turning to Crime, Step by Step from Whoosh!, plus Pictures of Home and Bloodsucker recorded live in Rio de Janeiro on December 15, 2017. Both […]

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Namechecks are good!

Paicey was a guest on a podcast run by one Darren Paltrowitz. Not too too long, but a very interesting conversation about the new album, bonus tracks, 9/8 timing, William Shatner, and Netflix, among other things.

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I ain’t pretty and my legs are thin

Another criminal video clip — cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Oh Well premiered on November 5, 2021.

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Terrifying and exciting at the same time

Ian Gillan spoke to The Portugal News on the occasion of a Purple show being confirmed in that part of the world a full year from now, in November 2022. TPN: What was the inspiration behind “Turning to Crime” and producing the upcoming album? IG: We normally sit and write and music just comes to […]

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Nothing’s taken for granted

A new album by The Temperance Movement called Covers & Rarities is a collection of songs both original and covers if the bands that influenced them. It opens with their take on You Fool No One featuring Ian Paice himself.

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Sing not the same old song

We’ve announced earlier this year a cover of Sail Away done by an Austrian trio Restless Bones with Don Airey adding the Hammond magic touch from his home. The video is now available on Youtube.

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Not in Kansas anymore

Steve Morse has been spotted among the musicians on the first solo album of violin player and a fellow Kansas alumnus Robby Steinhardt (albeit they never were in the band at the same time). The album is naturally called Not in Kansas Anymore and is touted as a prog opera. This Steinhardt’s solo outing also […]

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When I was a boy

Video clip for the Deep Purple’s cover of 7 And 7 Is is now out

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Winter Carols, the 2021 edition

German Amazon is lisiting a Blackmore’s Night release Winter Carols. This appears to be a yet another repackaging of the 2006 album, already re-released in 2013 and again in 2017. This new edition is due on November 19, 2021.

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Animals can play chess too

Couple of upcoming release from the family tree people. Bernie Marsden is releasing a solo album called Chess. I will be a second album in his Inspiration Series, which is a collection of tributes to the artists that helped inspire and shape his own style and taste. The first release in the series, Kings, came […]

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