News - Album News

The Anchoress will release a covers album ‘Versions’ on October 6 through Drowned In Sound.

Atlantea, the new progressive rock project by Ten’s Darrel Treece-Birch, has signed a record deal with Lion Music.

Ronnie Atkins releases his third solo album, ‘Trinity’, via Frontiers on October 13.

Big Big Train have signed a multi-album deal with InsideOut Music with the band’s next studio album due out in 2024. The band also plan to re-issue their back catalogue through their won label next year.

Black Sabbath’s ‘Reunion’ live album from 1998, will be made available on vinyl for the first time on October 13 on legacy Records.

Blackberry Smoke release their new album, ‘Be Right Here’, on 16 February via 3 Legged Records/Thirty Tigers.

Blacklist Union release their new album, ‘Letters from the Psych Ward’, on September 15.

Bonafide return with a new album ‘Are You Listening?’ out on October 27.

Bring Me The Horizon’s latest album, ‘Post Human: NeX GEn’, was due on September 15 but has now been postponed to a date to be confirmed.

Candlebox releases a special 7LP vinyl box set featuring all three Maverick Records studio albums, plus previously unreleased recordings that are only available in the collection. ‘The Maverick Years’ will be available on September 22.

Dandelion Charm release their new album ‘Scream Inside The Tear’ on October 20 and copies will be available earlier at the album launch gig on September 24 at the Brunswick, Hove.

District 97 release their latest album ‘Stay For The Ending’ through Spirit Of Unicorn Records on October 20.

Dokken release their latest album ‘Heaven Comes Down’ through Silver Lining Music on October 27.

DragonForce have signed with Napalm Records and plan to release their latest album in 2024.

Nick D’Virgilio (Big Big Train, ex-Spock’s Beard), Neal Morse (Transatlantic, NMB), and Ross Jennings (Haken, Novena) have announced that they will release a second D’Virgilio, Morse, Jennings album, ‘Sophomore’, through InsideOut Music on November 10.

Edge Of Forever have announced their sixth studio album, ’Ritual’, will be released on October 13 through Frontiers.

Foghat release their first studio album in seven years ‘Sonic Mojo’ on November 17 via Foghat Records.

Lita Ford aims to release her new album next year.

David Gilmour and the Orb release a remixed and reimagined of their 2010 album ‘Metallic Spheres in Colour’ on September 29.

Jack J Hutchinson has released his first single ‘Constellations’ from his new album, ‘Battles’, which is due on February 9.

Napalm Records, in partnership with Knife Fight Media, will reissue the Kamelot albums ‘Ghost Opera’, ’Poetry For The Poisoned’ and ‘One Cold Winter’s Night’, all due on November 17.

Benji Kirkpatrick (Steeleye Span, Bellowhead) releases his latest album ‘In Phase’ on October 6.

Kontrust release their first album in nine years entitled ‘madworld’ and it is released on November 3 via Napalm Records.

George Lynch releases his new solo instrumental album, ‘Guitars at The End of The World’, via Rat Pak Records on September 8.

Lynyrd Skynyrd release a 4Cd box set ‘Fyfty’ on October 13, which includes two previously unreleased live tracks.

Atomic Fire Records release a twenty fifth anniversary edition of Meshuggah’s ‘Chaosphere’ album on November 10.

Motley Crue release a 40th anniversary of their second album ‘Shout At The Devil’ with the ‘Year of the Devil’ box set, out on October 27.

New Model Army release ‘Sinfonia’ on September 15 through earMusic. It was was recorded in July last year with the Sinfonia Leipzig.

Night Ranger will release a new live album, ’40 Years And A Night With Contemporary Youth Orchestra’, on October 20 via Frontiers.

Nightwish have started recording their tenth album.

Nitrate have released their first single ‘Wild In The City’ from their upcoming album, ‘Feel The Heat’, which will be released via Frontiers on October 13.

Of Mice And Men release their eighth album ‘Tether’ on October 6 via SharpTone.

OMD release their new album ‘Bauhaus Staircase‘ on October 27.

Ozric Tentacles release their new album ‘Lotus Unfolding’ on October 20 via KScope.

Bad Reputation reissue Jeff Paris’s ’Race To Paradise’ on October 31 and it contains four bonus tracks.

Prince‘s 1991 album ‘Diamonds & Pearls’ gets a deluxe release on October 27 from Paisley Park Enterprises.

Eric Sardinas releases his latest studio album, ‘Midnight Junction’, on October 13 on earMUSIC.

The Pineapple Thief frontman Bruce Soord releases his third solo album, ‘Luminescence’, through Kscope Records on September 22.

Prong release their new album ‘State Of Emergency’ on October 6 via Steamhammer/SPV.

Semisonic have announced that they will release their first full length album in more than 20 years, ‘Little Bit Of Sun’, on 3 November.

Sodom release a new EP, ’1982′, on November 10 via SPV/Steamhammer.

Sufjan Stevens releases his new album ‘Javelin’ on October 6 via his own label Asthmatic Kitty

The Struts release their latest album ‘Pretty Vicious’ on November 3.

Fantasy Records releases a 25th anniversary edition of Susan Tedeschi’s ‘Just Won’t Burn’ album on September 22.

This Winter Machine have signed a new record deal with White Knight Records and will release their new album ‘The Clockwork Man’ on October 6.

Sony Music release a 40th anniversary edition of Bonnie Tyler’s ‘Faster Than The Speed Of Night’ album on September 15.

The Sammy Hagar fronted albums of Van Halen are collated in ‘Collection II’ box set out on October 6.

Volbeat aim to work on their next album during 2024 and have no plans to tour next year.

John Wetton’s solo career is celebrated in a new eight-disc box set, ‘An Extraordinary Life’, which will be released through Spirit Of Unicorn Records on November 24. The box set features remastered versions all six of Wetton’s solo albums that he released between 1980-2011, plus two discs featuring a selection rare, live and unreleased material.

Whitesnake release an expanded edition of 2015′s ‘The Purple Album: Special Gold Edition’ on October 13.

Wilco release their new album ‘Cousin’ on September 29.

Yes release, ‘Yessingles’, on vinyl through Rhino Records on October 6.

News - Tours and Gigs

Newly announced UK tours (2023 unless stated):

Buckcherry (2024), Death Cult, The Feeling (2024), the Godfathers, Pendulum (2024), Periphery (London Feb 2 2024), Robert Plant’s Saving Grace, the Raven Age, Simple Plan (2024), Skindred (2024),

Upcoming (Gigs – UK)

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

Deafhaven (US), Dirty Honey (US), DragonForce (US), GWAR (US), Peter Hook & the Light (Aus), John 5 & the Creatures (US 2024), Paul McArtney (Aus), Pendulum (Aus), Periphery (Eur), Queen + Adam Lambert (Jpn 2024), Simple Minds + Icehouse (Aus 2024), Suicidal Tendencies (Aus), Tesseract (Aus 2024), the Union Underground + Soil (US 2024), Vandenburg + Geoff Tate (US 2024), Zebra (US),

Upcoming (USA/ROW)

Massive Wagons (pictured), Those Damn Crows & Stone Broken have been announced as the headliners for next year’s Planet Rock Winter’s End Trecco Bay Holiday Park, South Wales from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th February 2024.

Bruce Mee is currently putting together a Firefest festival for next year, dates and venues TBA. It marks ten years since the last Firefest and bands provisionally involved include Touch, Jamie Kyle, Cats In Space, Midnite City, Eclipse with more to be announced.

Postponed/cancelled gigs & tours

Winger’s Australian tour has been cancelled.

You Me At Six have cancelled their US tour due to “personnel reasons”.

Walled garden Music Festival, which was scheduled to take place at Tonbridge Castle, Kent in September, has been cancelled, citing “difficult trading conditions and unforeseen circumstances”.

Glen Matlock publishes his memoir ‘Triggers: A Life in Music‘ on October 12 in the UK via Nine Eight Books, the specialist music imprint of Bonnier Books UK.

‘Straight From the Heart’, the autobiography of Bonnie Tyler, will be published in the UK on 28 September by Coronet. The same publisher has ‘the first definitive account of Paul McCartney’s time in Wings‘. Entitled ‘Fly Away Paul‘ by biographer Lesley-Ann Jones, it will be published on 19 October.

Greta Van Fleet’s latest album ‘Starcatcher’ debuted at number 8 in the US Billboard charts and topped the US rock & hard rock charts. The album also reached number 2 in Germany, number 8 in the UK and top ten placings in Switzerland, Belgium, Austria and the Netherlands.

Revival Black have announced they have split-up.

Eagles co-founder Randy Meisner

The Kink’s former keyboardist John Gosling

Robbie Robertson, The Band’s guitarist and main songwriter

Jerry Moss, A&M Records co-founder

Chris Overland, original guitarist of FM and Wildlife

Guitarist Bernie Marsden, co-founder of Whitesnake, his own band Alaska and a prolific solo artist from 2000 onwards

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