News - Album News

The original line-up of Biohazard has reformed and play a series of summer festival dates including Bloodstock next year. The band are also planning to record new music.

Buckcherry have completed work on their tenth studio album due for release next year.

The Damned release a new album next spring alongside Uk tour dates.

Dokken release ‘The Elektra Albums 1983-1987′ through BMG on January 27.

Electric Mob release their second album ‘2 Make U Cry & Dance’ via Frontiers on January 27.

Enslaved release a new album entitled ‘Heimdal‘ on Mar 3 via Nuclear Blast.

Enter Shikari have released a new song ‘Bull’ ahead of their European tour next month.

Faster Pussycat release a double A-side single ‘Like A Ghost’ and ‘Pirate Love’ via Golden Robot Records on November 28.

Fear Factory will start recording their next album early next year.

Firewind are working on songs for a planned album release in 2023.

Girish and The Chronicles’ re-recorded debut album ‘Back On Earth’ is released on January 27 via Frontiers.

Heroes And Monsters, who feature bassist/vocalist Todd Kerns (Slash), guitarist Stef Burns (Y&T, Alice Cooper) and drummer Will Hunt (Evanescence), release their self-titled debut album via Frontiers on January 27.

James have announced details of a new album (which will feature reworkings of their past songs) and 40th anniversary tour, both featuring an orchestra and gospel choir. The live dates commence in April with the album to follow later in 2023.

Jethro Tull plan to release their new album in spring next year.

Journey (pictured above) release ‘Live in Concert at Lollapalooza’ on December 9 via Frontiers.

KK Priest’s second album is being mixed and will be released in early 2023.

Lordi have signed with Atomic Fire Records who will release the band’s latest album next spring.

BMG release a limited-edition vinyl & CD ‘Crücial Crüe: The Studio Albums 1981-1989′ box set by Motley Crue on February 27.

Graham Nash will release his new album ‘Now’ next year and has announced US tour dates commencing in April.

Obituary will release a new studio album, ‘Dying Of Everything’, on January 13 via Relapse Records.

Stephen Pearcy will release his latest solo album in March and another Ratt ‘best of’ is due in May.

The Poor will release ‘High Price Deed’, their first full album in over a decade, on February 3.

Iggy Pop releases his new album ‘Every Loser’ on January 6.

The Rolling Stones are set to start work on a new studio album that will feature late drummer Charlie Watts.

Radiohead drummer Philip Selway has announced a new solo album ‘Strange Dance’ which is released on February 24 via Bella Union.

Skindred will release their new album ‘Smile’ via Earache Records next year.

Bruce Springsteen plans to release a box set of five previously unreleased albums next year. Most were recorded in the 1990′s.

Twilight Force release their latest album ‘At The Heart Of Wintervale’ on January 20 via Nuclear Blast.

UFO‘s fifth studio album ‘No Heavy Petting’ will be released as a remastered deluxe edition on January 20.

Uriah Heep will release their 25th studio album, ‘Chaos & Colour’, on January 27 via Silver Lining Music.

Steve Vai has announced the release of ‘Vai/Gash’ through Favored Nations/Mascot Label Group on January 27.

Rick Wakeman with his English Rock Ensemble band, release a new album ‘A Gallery Of The Imagination’ through Madfish/Snapper on February 24.

Wig Wam release their latest album ‘Out of the Dark’ on Frontiers on February 10.

Wingmen release their self-titled debut album on January 27 via Cadiz Music. The band features Baz Warne (The Stranglers), Paul Gray (The Damned), Marty Love (Johnny Moped) and Leigh Heggarty (Ruts DC).

The Winery Dogs are back with their third album ’III’, which is set for release on February 3 on the band’s Three Dog Music label.

Xandria issue their eighth full-length studio album ‘The Wonders Still Awaiting’ on February 3 through Napalm Records.

News - Tours and Gigs

Newly announced UK tours (2023 unless stated):

Blur, British Lion + Coney Hatch, the Damned, Deacon Blue, Dirty Honey, Dream Theater, Peter Gabriel, James, Massive Wagons, Porcupine Tree, Razorlight, Bonnie Raitt, Slipknot, Sparks, Sting, Geoff Tate, Tenacious D, Shania Twain,

Upcoming (Gigs – UK)

Newly announced US & European tours (2023 unless stated):

Anthrax + Black Label Society + Exodus (US), Dream Theater (Eur), Foreigner + Loverboy (US), Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew (US), Morbid Angel (US), Stevie Nicks & Billy Joel (US), Paramore + Bloc Party + Foals (US), Placebo (US), the Screaming Jets (Aus), Slipknot (Eur), Rod Stewart + Cyndi Lauper + Jon Stevens (Aus), Tenacious D (Eur), Theory Of A Deadman + Skillet (US), Mike Tramp (US), Wishbone Ash (US),

Upcoming (USA/ROW)

Rescheduled & cancelled tours:

Lamb Of God have moved their November UK & European tour to spring next year

Stonedead will celebrate their fifth year on 26 August 2023 at the Newark Showground with a line-up headlined by Blue Öyster Cult joined by Therapy? The Answer, King King, Mason Hill, South of Salem and Deraps.

Strawbs mainman Dave Cousins has announced a one-off live show in aid of the Commonwealth Medical Trust at Chiswick’s Boston Room, Chiswick High Road on November 21.

Foreigner have announced their farewell tour. It will start with US dates next summer where they will be supported by Loverboy.

Coney Hatch will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of their debut album by performing it in full at El Mocambo in Toronto, Ontario on December 29.

Iggy Pop headlines ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ at Crystal Palace Park on Saturday 1 July 2023. Supporting are Blondie and Generation Sex, who include Billy Idol & Paul Cook amongst their line-up.

Steve Hillage with System 7, Ozric Tentacles, Rosalie Cunningham, Lindisfarne, Pentangle, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons, Nine Below Zero, Geordie, From The Jam and Thunderstick all appear at A New Day Festival, which will take place at Mount Ephraim Gardens, Faversham in Kent from August 18-20.

Revolution Saints have parted ways with guitarist Doug Aldrich and bassist/vocalist Jack Blades. Their replacements are Whitesnake’s Joel Hoekstra and Foreigner’s Jeff Pilson. The band will release a new single on November 28 with their new album due in spring 2023.

Massive Wagons ‘Triggered’ album debuted at number 6 in the UK album charts.

A movie musical, ‘X Crucior’, written by Ron & Russell Mael of Sparks is currently in development.

Tony Harnell has re-joined TNT with the band currently lining-up live dates for next year.

Tom Webber has signed a publishing deal with Bucks Music Group. He won Best Demo at this year’s Glastonbury.

BMG has acquired the songs catalogue of late singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson.

Thrash metal veterans Nuclear Assault have called it a day.

Neal Schon has filed a lawsuit against fellow Journey band member Jonathan Cain over alleged use of the band’s credit card, with a counter lawsuit coming from Cain’s legal team alleging the same misuse by Schon.

Mark Blake’s ‘Us And Them: The Authorised Story Of Hipgnosis’ will be published on February 2.

One of the original rock ‘n’ roll stars Jerry Lee Lewis

Music journalist Colin Irwin

Dead Kennedys drummer DH Peligro

Former Nazareth vocalist Dan McCafferty

The Clash and PiL guitarist Keith Levene

Nik Turner, Hawkwind co-founder and later of Inner-City Unit & Space Ritual

Boomtown Rats guitarist Garry Roberts

Wilko Johnson, guitarist, songwriter, occasional actor and member of Dr.Feelgood in the 1970s.

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