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News: Spirit Adrift announce tour with Corrosion of Conformity
After accompanying Orange Goblin on their 25th anniversary tour in December, Spirit Adrift will support the legendary southern rock band Corrosion Of Conformity. In April and May 2021 they will come to several cities in Europe and the UK. Full dates: 24.04.2021 – Dublin (IE) – Academy25.04.2021 – Belfast (UK) – Limelight 227.04.2021 – Glasgow (UK) – Garage28.04.2021 – Manchester …
NEWS: Classic Creedence set gets half-century deluxe treatment
DELUXE vinyl reissue imprint Craft Recordings are marking the half-century of southern swamp rockers Creedence Clearwater Revival’s classic Cosmo’s Factory with a heavyweight vinyl remaster. The album, set for general re-release on August 14th, features such boogie classics as “Long As I Can See The Light”, an 11-minute jam on “I Heard It Through The …
New: Roger Waters to release Us & Them documentary
Out on the 16th of June on Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is a documentary film following the 2017-2018 tour of legendary Pink Floyd founder member, bassist, singer and songwriter, Roger Waters. The film follows Roger on a worldwide tour that took in 156 concerts and had an audience of 2.3 million people. Directed by Sean Evans and …
News: Rush’s Permanent Waves to be reissued to mark its 40th anniversary
On the 29thMay 2020, UMC/Mercury/Anthem label group continues its extensive Rush 40th anniversary album series with a new, imagination-capturing expanded edition of all the magic music that comprises the band’s remarkable 1980 release, Permanent Waves. Permanent Waves, Rush’s seventh studio album, was originally released in January 1980, and its forward-thinking music signalled a new direction for …
Obituary: Rock and roll legend Little Richard dies at 87
One of the pioneers of Rock and Roll, Liftle Richard, has died at the age of 87, his family have confirmed. He died of bone cancer with his brother, sister and so. beside him, Born Richard Wayne Penniman in 1932, he was one of 12 children children who performed t stand out from his brothers …
News: Iron Maiden To reissue ‘The Live Collection – Remastered’
Parlophone Records will continue their reissues series of the IRON MAIDEN catalogue with a fifth set of Digipak CD titles in The Live Collection – Remastered, to be released on June 19th. The albums included in this release are the seminal live recordings Live After Death and Rock In Rio. Live After Death was recorded at Long Beach Arena, California in March 1985 …
News: Mortiis announces tour with Mayhem
The undisputed inventor of dungeon synth, MORTIIS, unleashed his latest full length album “Spirit Of Rebellion” – which is a re-interpreted expansion and continuation of the 1994 Era I classic “Ånden som Gjorde Opprør” – at the beginning of the year via Omnipresence Productions / Dead Seed Productions. In support of the new album, MORTIIS will hit the road this autumn with none other than black …
News: Swedish rock band Night announce fourth album
Swedish rock band Night will release their fourth album ‘High Tides – Distant Skies’ on September 11. ‘High Tides – Distant Skies’ is the fourth album from Night. The album contains nine new tracks of classic sounding rock music. ’High Tides – Distant Skies’ follows the band’s critical acclaimed album ‘Raft of the World’. If …
News: Relapse to release Death live sets across its digital platforms
In these unsettling times, Relapse records have done something for fans missing live shows. They’ve trawled the archives and are releasing an unreleased live concert onto their socials every week from legendary Florida Death Metal pioneers, Death. The full statement from the record company reads: Relapse Records is proud to present Death: Non Analog – On …
News: Ty Segall & Mikel Cronin to re-release ‘Pop Song’ 7”
Two of the hardest working men in garage rock / psych, Ty Segall and Mikel Cronin, are to have one of their long out of date 7” records – ‘Pop Song’ b/w/ ’So I went to beach, melody’ and ‘Kit Carson’, re-released on Italy’s Goodbye Boozy imprint. All three tracks on the EP are short, …