Patsy Gamble And Muddy Manninen Join Forces

September 7, 2026

Sometimes it pays to abandon a prominent band and strike out on your own – even if the payment isn’t exactly financial. Ask, for instance, Muddy Manninen, who left WISHBONE ASH a little less than ten years ago to deliver a couple of solo albums, his latest being "River Flows" from 2020, and get involved in a couple of projects, including BLACK PEARL and VOODOO RAMBLE. The guitarist has also been performing with sax player Patsy Gamble, and it’s really surprising that their rapport didn’t take the two to the studio earlier – yet finally the friends went there and emerged with ten pieces.

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Members Of RAINBOW, URIAH HEEP And WHITESNAKE Join DEEP PURPLE Tribute

September 6, 2026

There have been quite a few DEEP PURPLE tribute albums released over the past few decades, but not enough for a band of such enormous influence, and most of those records underperformed anyway. This may change on November 13th with the appearance of “Purple Storm”: a platter with truly appalling cover artwork, yet one featuring a stellar line-up that includes members of RAINBOW, WHITESNAKE and URIAH HEEP, among other prominent musicians.

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HELD BY TREES Delve Into Nostalgia With Eric Bibb And Other Guests

September 5, 2026

While many ensembles with prog intent bank on pseudo-intellectual approach and bombastic expression, HELD BY TREES have been seeking divinity in details from their very beginnings, although minimalism became only a small part of the British collective’s method, as the fittingly titled "Hinterland" proved so brilliantly. One year after that album saw the light of day, its follow-up is set to hit the shelves on October 2nd to mark the band’s further advances into heartbreak and beauty.

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Dónal Gallagher Publishes A Book On Rory

September 4, 2026

There’s been a few tomes about Rory Gallagher over the years, yet all of those told the great late artist’s story from the outside, with a rare insight providing a glimpse of who he really was. That’s why a book written by the musician’s brother Dónal – and co-penned by Jamie Dickson, the editor-in-chief of “Guitarist” magazine – promised to be so special. Not only because the surviving Gallagher brother not only grew up with the flamboyant-in-concert, if shy-off-stage, future performer but stayed with Rory all his life, as a manager.

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Gilbert O’Sullivan Goes On The Record To Defy Mortality

September 3, 2026

Fifty-five years further on up the road from his debut “Himself” that established Gilbert O’Sullivan as one of the eminent singer-songwriters to ever emerge from the Emerald Isle, the Irish veteran’s verve doesn’t seem to be diminishing. Some sceptics may have suggested otherwise after his 2024 offering “Songbook” turned out to feature the revered musician’s classics, cut afresh, but O’Sullivan’s forthcoming album, set for issue on November 6th, should prove that Gilbert is still a creative force to be reckoned with.

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