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Deep Purple Unleash ‘Diablo’ Featuring Keith Urban Ahead Of New Album ‘Splat!’

by Paul Cashmere

Deep Purple have released Diablo, the latest single from their upcoming album Splat!, with Keith Urban joining the band on guitar for the new track.

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Rainbow Rising

Rainbow Rising Turns 50 As Heavy Metal Landmark Continues To Shape The Genre

by Paul Cashmere

Rainbow’s Rising reaches its 50th anniversary as one of the defining albums in heavy metal history, featuring Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio and the enduring classic “Stargazer”.

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Deep Purple Splat

Deep Purple Release Arrogant Boy Ahead Of SPLAT! Album

by Paul Cashmere

Deep Purple release Arrogant Boy as the lead single from SPLAT!, their forthcoming studio album exploring transformation themes, due July 3 via earMUSIC.

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Deep Purple Splat

Deep Purple Announce New Album Splat!

by Paul Cashmere

Deep Purple will release their 24th studio album ‘Splat!’ on July 3, with Ian Gillan describing the record as the band’s heaviest work in years and a return to the spirit of the classic 1970s era.

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Ritchie Blackmore Guitar Legend Lifetime Achievement Award

Ritchie Blackmore Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From The National Guitar Museum

by Paul Cashmere

Ritchie Blackmore has been named the 2025 recipient of The National GUITAR Museum’s Lifetime Achievement Award, honouring his groundbreaking work with Deep Purple, Rainbow and Blackmore’s Night.

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Glenn Hughes at Hamer Hall Melbourne on Friday 29 September 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Glenn Hughes Cancels 2026 U.S. Tour Due to Health Issue

by Paul Cashmere

Glenn Hughes has canceled his 2026 U.S. tour citing a minor health issue. Refunds for tickets and VIP packages are available at point of purchase.

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Deep Purple: Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Ian Gillan Hints His Time With Deep Purple May Be Nearing An End

by Paul Cashmere

Ian Gillan has revealed that declining eyesight may bring his time with Deep Purple to an end as the band prepares for 2025 shows.

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David Coverdale

David Coverdale Calls Time On 50 Years Of Rock And Roll

by Paul Cashmere

David Coverdale has announced his retirement after fifty years of shaping hard rock through Deep Purple, Whitesnake and more.

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Deep Purple Come Taste The Band 50th anniversary

Deep Purple Mark IV’s Bold Farewell ‘Come Taste The Band’ Turns 50

by Paul Cashmere

Deep Purple’s fearless 1975 studio album Come Taste The Band reaches its 50th anniversary, celebrating the daring Mark IV line-up with Tommy Bolin.

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Deep Purple: Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Legendary Deep Purple Voice Turns 80: Ian Gillan’s Journey Through Sound, Loss, and Legacy

by Paul Cashmere

Ian Gillan, the iconic vocalist of Deep Purple, celebrates his 80th birthday (19 August 2025). Still blessed with a powerful, wide-ranging voice—even into his eighth decade—Gillan has traversed the peaks and troughs of rock history with a rare grace and tenacity.

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Deep Purple Made In Japan 2025

Deep Purple ‘Made in Japan’ — the 50th-Anniversary Edition and Why This Live Album Still Matters

by Labelle Hayes

Few live rock albums have the mythic status of Deep Purple’s Made in Japan. Recorded across three blistering nights in August 1972 and originally released in late 1972/early 1973, it’s the record that crystallised the ferocious power of Deep Purple’s Mk II lineup (Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Roger Glover and Ian Paice) and set a blueprint for stadium-scale hard rock and heavy metal live performance.

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Deep Purple Made In Japan 2025

Deep Purple Live Classic ‘Made In Japan’ Gets The Steven Wilson Treatment

by Paul Cashmere

Deep Purple’s iconic 1972 live album ‘Made In Japan’ has been given the Steven Wilson treatment.

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Deep Purple 2005- photo by Bruce Payne

Deep Purple To Release 20th Anniversary Remix of Underrated ‘Rapture of the Deep’

by Paul Cashmere

Deep Purple will release a 20th anniversary remix of the largely ignored 2005 album ‘Rapture of the Deep’.

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Deep Purple photo from EARMusic

Simon McBride Did Not “Audition” for Deep Purple

by Paul Cashmere

Deep Purple skipped the formalities of an audience when they brought in Simon McBride to replace Steve Morse on lead guitar.

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Deep Purple: Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Deep Purple Sounding Like Classic Deep Purple on ‘Lazy Sod’

by Paul Cashmere

Deep Purple have released another preview of the ‘=1’ album and ‘Lazy Sod’ sounds like classic Deep Purple.

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Deep Purple: Photo By Ros O'Gorman, Photo, Noise11

Deep Purple Release Second New Song for 2024 ‘Pictures of You’

by Paul Cashmere

‘Pictures of You’ is the second new song from Deep Purple for 2024. The track is from the ‘=1’ album due 19 July 2024.

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Deep Purple: Photo By Ros O'Gorman, Photo, Noise11

New Deep Purple Channel Old ‘Pictures of Home’ Vibe For New Song ‘Portable Door’

by Paul Cashmere

Deep Purple are sounding like classic Deep Purple on the new song ‘Portable Door’. In fact, it feels a lot like ‘Pictures of Home’ from the ‘Machine Head’ album of 1972.

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Deep Purple =1

Deep Purple To Release ‘=1’ Album

by Paul Cashmere

Deep Purple have been quietly working on another album titled ‘=1’.

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Alice Cooper at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 20 October 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Pandemonium Times Announced and Local Acts Revealed

by Paul Cashmere

The first Pandemonium Festival shows get underway in Melbourne (Saturday 20 April). The schedule for each city has now been revealed as well as the opening acts.

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Glenn Hughes at Hamer Hall Melbourne on Friday 29 September 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Glenn Hughes To Perform 50th Anniversary Burn Tour For Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Glenn Hughes will return to Australia for the Burn tour in October to mark the 50th anniversary of his classic album induction into Deep Purple.

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Deep Purple: Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Deep Purple Reveal UK Dates For End of 2024

by Music-News.com

Deep Purple are hitting the road this November.

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Deep Purple: Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Ian Paice of Deep Purple Reveals The Two Bands He Would Never Follow

by Paul Cashmere

When Deep Purple tour Australia for the Pandemonium Festival in April, there will go on before Alice Cooper and they are fine with that.

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Deep Purple’s Ian Paice Is The Only Member To Play On Every Album

by Paul Cashmere

Ian Paice of Deep Purple was right there at the very start of the band, from the first album ‘Shades of Deep Purple’ (1968) to the most recent ‘Turning To Crime’ (2021). He formed the band with Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Rod Evans and Nick Simper in 1969.

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Alice Cooper at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 20 October 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Newcastle Scores Two Pandemonium Sideshows

by Paul Cashmere

Newcastle will host Pandemonium Festival bands across two nights of sideshows in April.

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Alice Cooper at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 20 October 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Alice Cooper Has A Brand New Radio Show

by Music-News.com

Alice Cooper has returned to radio with ‘Alice’s Attic’.

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Deep Purple Machine Head 2024

Deep Purple ‘Machine Head’ Has Been Remixed By Dweezil Zappa

by Paul Cashmere

Deep Purple will reissue their classic ‘Machine Head’ album remixed by Dweezil Zappa.

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Alice Cooper at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 20 October 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Pandemonium Sydney Venue Moves To Homebush

by Paul Cashmere

The Pandemonium Festival in Sydney has been moved to Cathy Freeman Park in the Sydney Olympic Park precinct, to avoid conflict with ANZAC Day ceremonies.

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Alice Cooper at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 20 October 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Statement About The Pandemonium Festival Sydney Event on ANZAC Day

by Paul Cashmere

Following is a statement from Apex Entertainment following the New South Wales Government actions regarding the Sydney event scheduled for April 25, 2024 (ANZAC Day).

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Deep Purple: Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Why Deep Purple Stopped Performing ‘Child In Time’

by Paul Cashmere

Deep Purple’s current setlist goes back to 1968 and includes more than half of the classic ‘Machine Head’ album but one song they have not done in years is the epic ‘Child In Time’.

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Brendan B. Brown of Wheatus is a Huge Fan of Vegemite

by Paul Cashmere

With two Australian tours in the next three months, it is a good thing Brendan B. Brown of Wheatus loves Vegemite.

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